| Tuesday, 17 March 2020 |
08:45
| NICE 2020, workshop day I -- NOTE: NICE will be POSTPONED! |
09:00-09:10
| | Welcome to NICE 2020 | |
09:15-09:45
| | Organizer Round | |
09:45-10:25
| | Keynote I | Mike Davies (Intel) |
10:30-10:50
| | | Luping Shi (Tsinghua University) |
11:00-11:30
| | Coffee break |
11:30-11:50
| | Evaluating complexity and resilience trade-offs in emerging memory inference machines | Christopher Bennett (Sandia National Labs) |
11:55-12:15
| | | Johannes Schemmel (Heidelberg University) |
12:20-12:30
| | Lightning talk: From clean room to machine room: towards accelerated cortical simulations on the BrainScaleS wafer-scale system | Sebastian Schmitt (Heidelberg University) |
12:35-13:00
| | Poster Lightning Talks | all Poster Presenters |
13:00-14:30
| | Lunch, poster setup, demonstrators setup |
14:30-14:40
| | Group photo at NICE | |
14:45-15:05
| | Why is Neuromorphic Event-based Engineering the future of AI? | Ryad Benjamin Benosman (UPITT/CMU/SORBONNE) |
15:10-15:30
| | Neuromorphic and AI research at BCAI (Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence) | Thomas Pfeil (Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence) |
15:35-15:55
| | Mapping Deep Neural Networks on SpiNNaker2 | Florian Kelber (TU Dresden) |
16:00-16:30
| | Coffee break |
16:30-16:50
| | Closed-loop experiments on the BrainScaleS-2 architecture | Korbinian Schreiber (Heidelberg University) |
16:55-17:05
| | Lightning talk: Adaptive control for hindlimb locomotion in a simulated mouse through temporal cerebellar learning | Thomas Passer Jensen (Technical University of Denmark) |
17:10-17:55
| | Open mic / discussions | |
19:00-21:30
| | Poster dinner |
| Wednesday, 18 March 2020 |
08:45
| NICE 2020, workshpo day II -- NOTE: NICE will be postponed! |
09:00-09:15
| | Welcome / overview | |
09:15-09:55
| | Keynote | Wolfgang Maass (Graz University of Technology) |
10:00-10:20
| | On the computational power and complexity of Spiking Neural Networks | Nils Donselaar (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) |
10:25-10:45
| | The speed of sequence processing in biological neuronal networks | Younes Bouhadjar (Forschungszentrum Juelich) |
11:00-11:30
| | Coffee brek |
11:30-11:50
| | | Walter Senn (Universität Bern) |
11:55-12:15
| | Conductance-based dendrites perform reliability-weighted opinion pooling | Jakob Jordan (Institute of Physiology, University of Bern) |
12:20-12:30
| | Lightning talk: Natural gradient learning for spiking neurons | Elena Kreutzer (University of Bern) |
12:35-12:45
| | Lightning talk: The Computational Capacity of Mem-LRC Reservoirs | Forrest Sheldon (Los Alamos National Lab - T-4/CNLS) |
13:00-14:00
| | Lunch |
14:00-14:20
| | Making spiking neurons more succinct with multi-compartment models | Johannes Leugering (Fraunhofer IIS) |
14:25-14:45
| | Evolutionary Optimization for Neuromorphic Systems | Catherine Schuman (Oak Ridge ) |
14:50-15:00
| | Lightning talk: Implementing Backpropagation for Learning on Neuromorphic Spiking Hardware | Andrew Sornborger (Los Alamos National Laboratory) |
15:05-15:15
| | Lightning talk: Spike Latency Reduction generates Efficient Predictive Coding | Pau Vilimelis Aceituno (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences) |
15:20-16:10
| | Special coffee break: EINC & BrainScaleS 1 |
16:10-16:30
| | Real-time Mapping on a Neuromorphic Processor | (Konstantinos Michmizos ) |
16:35-16:55
| | Inductive bias transfer between brains and machines | Fabian Sinz (University Tübingen) |
17:00-17:45
| | Open mic / discussion | |
18:00-21:00
| | Conference dinner |
| Thursday, 19 March 2020 |
08:45
| NICE 2020, workshop day III -- NOTE: NICE will be postponed! |
09:00-09:15
| | Welcome / overview | |
09:15-09:55
| | Keynote: Bottom-up and top-down neuromorphic processor design: Unveiling roads to embedded cognition | Charlotte Frenkel (Institute of Neuroinformatics, Zürich, Switzerland) |
10:00-10:20
| | A Neuromorphic Future for Classic Computing Tasks | Brad Aimone (Sandia National Laboratories) |
10:25-10:35
| | Lightning talk: Benchmarking of Neuromorphic Hardware Systems | Christoph Ostrau (Bielefeld University) |
10:40-10:50
| | Lightning talk: Evolving Spiking Neural Networks for Robot Sensory-motor Decision Tasks of Varying Difficulty | J. David Schaffer (Binghamton University) |
11:00-11:30
| | Coffee break |
11:30-11:50
| | Natural density cortical models as benchmarks for universal neuromorphic computers | Markus Diesmann (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH) |
11:55-12:15
| | Platform-Agnostic Neural Algorithm Composition using Fugu | William Severa (Sandia National Laboratories) |
12:20-12:40
| | Programming neuromorphic computers: PyNN and beyond | Andrew Davison (CNRS) |
12:45-12:55
| | Lightning talk: Caspian: A Neuromorphic Development Platform | (John (Parker) Mitchell) |
13:00-14:00
| | Lunch |
14:00-14:20
| | BrainScaleS: Development Methodologies and Operating System | Eric Müller (Heidelberg University) |
14:25-14:35
| | Lightning talk: Cognitive Domain Ontologies: HPCs to Ultra Low Power Neuromorphic Platforms | Chris Yakopcic (University of Dayton) |
14:40-14:50
| | Lightning talk: Comparing Neural Accelerators & Neuromorphic Architectures The False Idol of Operations | Craig Vineyard (Sandia National Laboratories ) |
14:55-15:05
| | Lightning talk: Subspace Locally Competitive Algorithms | Dylan Paiton (University of Tübingen) |
15:10-15:20
| | Lightning talk: Fast and deep neuromorphic learning with first-spike coding | Julian Goeltz (Kirchhoff Institut fuer Physik, Universitaet Heidelberg) |
15:25-15:35
| | Lightning talk: Neuromorphic Graph Algorithms: Extracting Longest ShortestPaths and Minimum Spanning Trees | (Bill Kay) |
15:40-15:50
| | Lightning talk: Neuromorphic Computing for Spacecraft’s Terrain Relative Navigation: A Case of Event-Based Crater Classification Task | Kazuki Kariya (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI) |
15:55-16:25
| | Coffee break |
16:25-16:45
| | Beyond Backprop: Different Approaches to Credit Assignment in Neural Nets | Irina Rish (MILA / Université de Montréal ) |
16:50-17:10
| | Batch << 1: Why Neuromorphic Computing Architectures Suit Real-Time Workloads | Jonathan Tapson (GrAI Matter Labs) |
17:15-17:35
| | Relational Neurogenesis for Lifelong Learning Agents | Tej Pandit (University of Texas at San Antonio) |
17:40-18:10
| | open mic / discussions | |
18:20-18:30
| | Wrap-up / adjourn | |
18:30
| End of NICE 2020 for non-tutorial attendants |
19:00-20:30
| | Dinner (only for tutorial attendants) |