Monday, 16 March 2020
NICE 2020 in Heidelberg 6th March 2020: We are sorry to announce that NICE 2020, scheduled to be held on March 17-20 2020, will be postponed to a later date. Please see here for the new date in March 2021
Meeting venue: Kirchhoff-Institute for Physics , Im Neuenheimer Feld 227, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
Pre-NICE events on Monday, 16 March 2020 (both POSTPONED as well)
Travel info:
Getting to the venue:
the nearest tram stop to the meeting venue is "Heidelberg Bunsengymnasium" (marked in the map linked above) [online timetable]https://reiseauskunft.bahn.de//bin/query.exe/en?Z=Neuenheim+Bunsengymnasium,+Heidelberg), provided by German Railway. Here you can also buy tickets online
Getting to Heidelberg
Hotels:
These hotels are relatively close to the meeting venue (Kirchhoff-Institute for Physics, see the map above ). A lot more hotels are listed in online hotel booking sites (e.g. on booking.com )
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19:30‑21:30 (120 min) NICE 2020 Welcome reception
at the meeting venue.
The reception is also open for the participants of the NEUROTECH event Future Application Directions for Neuromorphic Computing Technologies
Tuesday, 17 March 2020
08:45 NICE 2020, workshop day I -- NOTE: NICE will be POSTPONED! (Registration booth opens at 8:30h)
09:00‑09:10 (10+5 min) Welcome to NICE 2020
09:15‑09:45 (30 min) Organizer Round
09:45‑10:25 (40+5 min) Keynote IMike Davies (Intel)
10:30‑10:50 (20+5 min) Luping Shi (Tsinghua University)
11:00‑11:30 (30 min) Coffee break
11:30‑11:50 (20+5 min) Evaluating complexity and resilience trade-offs in emerging memory inference machinesshow abstract
11:55‑12:15 (20+5 min) Johannes Schemmel (Heidelberg University)
12:20‑12:30 (10+5 min) Lightning talk: From clean room to machine room: towards accelerated cortical simulations on the BrainScaleS wafer-scale systemshow abstract
Sebastian Schmitt (Heidelberg University)
12:35‑13:00 (25 min) Poster Lightning Talks1 min - 1 slide poster appetizers
all Poster Presenters
13:00‑14:30 (90 min) Lunch, poster setup, demonstrators setup
14:30‑14:40 (10+5 min) Group photo at NICE(The group photo will be placed on the internet. By showing up for the photo you grant your permission for the publication of the photo)
14:45‑15:05 (20+5 min) Why is Neuromorphic Event-based Engineering the future of AI?show abstract
15:10‑15:30 (20+5 min) Neuromorphic and AI research at BCAI (Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence)show abstract
Thomas Pfeil
15:35‑15:55 (20+5 min) Mapping Deep Neural Networks on SpiNNaker2show abstract
Florian Kelber et al.
16:00‑16:30 (30 min) Coffee break
16:30‑16:50 (20+5 min) Closed-loop experiments on the BrainScaleS-2 architectureshow abstract
Korbinian Schreiber et al.
16:55‑17:05 (10+5 min) Lightning talk: Adaptive control for hindlimb locomotion in a simulated mouse through temporal cerebellar learningshow abstract
Thomas Passer Jensen (Technical University of Denmark)
17:10‑17:55 (45 min) Open mic / discussions
19:00‑21:30 (150 min) Poster dinnerThe max. poster size is A0, orientation PORTRAIT (841 mm wide x 1189 mm high)
Wednesday, 18 March 2020
08:45 NICE 2020, workshpo day II -- NOTE: NICE will be postponed!
09:00‑09:15 (15 min) Welcome / overview
09:15‑09:55 (40+5 min) KeynoteWolfgang Maass
10:00‑10:20 (20+5 min) On the computational power and complexity of Spiking Neural Networksshow abstract
(Nils Donselaar)
10:25‑10:45 (20+5 min) The speed of sequence processing in biological neuronal networksshow abstract
Younes Bouhadjar et. al
11:00‑11:30 (30 min) Coffee brek
11:30‑11:50 (20+5 min) Walter Senn
11:55‑12:15 (20+5 min) Conductance-based dendrites perform reliability-weighted opinion poolingshow abstract
Jakob Jordan et al.
12:20‑12:30 (10+5 min) Lightning talk: Natural gradient learning for spiking neuronsshow abstract
Elena Kreutzer et al.
12:35‑12:45 (10+5 min) Lightning talk: The Computational Capacity of Mem-LRC Reservoirsshow abstract
Forrest Sheldon et al.
13:00‑14:00 (60 min) Lunch
14:00‑14:20 (20+5 min) Making spiking neurons more succinct with multi-compartment modelsshow abstract
Johannes Leugering
14:25‑14:45 (20+5 min) Evolutionary Optimization for Neuromorphic Systemsshow abstract
Catherine Schuman et al.
14:50‑15:00 (10+5 min) Lightning talk: Implementing Backpropagation for Learning on Neuromorphic Spiking Hardwareshow abstract
Andrew Sornborger et al.
15:05‑15:15 (10+5 min) Lightning talk: Spike Latency Reduction generates Efficient Predictive Codingshow abstract
Pau Vilimelis Aceituno et al.
15:20‑16:10 (50 min) Special coffee break: EINC & BrainScaleS 1
16:10‑16:30 (20+5 min) Real-time Mapping on a Neuromorphic Processorshow abstract
(Konstantinos Michmizos )
16:35‑16:55 (20+5 min) Inductive bias transfer between brains and machinesshow abstract
Fabian Sinz
17:00‑17:45 (45 min) Open mic / discussion
18:00‑21:00 (180 min) Conference dinner
Thursday, 19 March 2020
08:45 NICE 2020, workshop day III -- NOTE: NICE will be postponed!
09:00‑09:15 (15 min) Welcome / overview
09:15‑09:55 (40+5 min) Keynote: Bottom-up and top-down neuromorphic processor design: Unveiling roads to embedded cognitionshow abstract
Charlotte Frenkel
10:00‑10:20 (20+5 min) A Neuromorphic Future for Classic Computing Tasksshow abstract
Brad Aimone
10:25‑10:35 (10+5 min) Lightning talk: Benchmarking of Neuromorphic Hardware Systemsshow abstract
Christoph Ostrau et al.
10:40‑10:50 (10+5 min) Lightning talk: Evolving Spiking Neural Networks for Robot Sensory-motor Decision Tasks of Varying Difficultyshow abstract
(J David Schaffer)
11:00‑11:30 (30 min) Coffee break
11:30‑11:50 (20+5 min) Natural density cortical models as benchmarks for universal neuromorphic computersMarkus Diesmann
11:55‑12:15 (20+5 min) Platform-Agnostic Neural Algorithm Composition using Fugushow abstract
William Severa
12:20‑12:40 (20+5 min) Programming neuromorphic computers: PyNN and beyondshow abstract
Andrew Davison
12:45‑12:55 (10+5 min) Lightning talk: Caspian: A Neuromorphic Development Platformshow abstract
(John (Parker) Mitchell)
13:00‑14:00 (60 min) Lunch
14:00‑14:20 (20+5 min) BrainScaleS: Development Methodologies and Operating Systemshow abstract
Eric Müller
14:25‑14:35 (10+5 min) Lightning talk: Cognitive Domain Ontologies: HPCs to Ultra Low Power Neuromorphic Platformsshow abstract
Tarek Taha et al.
14:40‑14:50 (10+5 min) Lightning talk: Comparing Neural Accelerators & Neuromorphic Architectures The False Idol of Operationsshow abstract
Craig Vineyard et al.
14:55‑15:05 (10+5 min) Lightning talk: Subspace Locally Competitive Algorithmsshow abstract
Dylan Paiton et al.
15:10‑15:20 (10+5 min) Lightning talk: Fast and deep neuromorphic learning with first-spike codingshow abstract
Julian Göltz et al.
15:25‑15:35 (10+5 min) Lightning talk: Neuromorphic Graph Algorithms: Extracting Longest ShortestPaths and Minimum Spanning Treesshow abstract
15:40‑15:50 (10+5 min) Lightning talk: Neuromorphic Computing for Spacecraft’s Terrain Relative Navigation: A Case of Event-Based Crater Classification Taskshow abstract
Kazuki Kariya et al.
15:55‑16:25 (30 min) Coffee break
16:25‑16:45 (20+5 min) Beyond Backprop: Different Approaches to Credit Assignment in Neural Netsshow abstract
16:50‑17:10 (20+5 min) Batch << 1: Why Neuromorphic Computing Architectures Suit Real-Time Workloads show abstract
Jonathan Tapson (GrAI Matter Labs)
17:15‑17:35 (20+5 min) Relational Neurogenesis for Lifelong Learning Agentsshow abstract
Tej Pandit et al.
17:40‑18:10 (30 min) open mic / discussions
18:20‑18:30 (10 min) Wrap-up / adjourn
18:30 End of NICE 2020 for non-tutorial attendants
19:00‑20:30 (90 min) Dinner (only for tutorial attendants)