NICE 2024 - Agenda

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Tuesday, 23 April 2024
08:00
NICE 2024-- day 1

NICE 2024

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NICE 2024 agenda

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08:00‑08:30
(30 min)		 Registration and breakfast
08:30‑08:45
(15+5 min)		Welcome and opening

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Gert Cauwenberghs, Duygu Kuzum, Tajana Rosing (Institute for Neural Computation and Jacobs School of Engineering, UC San Diego)
Miroslav Krstić (Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, UC San Diego)
08:50‑09:35
(45+5 min)		Organisers round

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Members of the organising committees
09:40‑10:25
(45+5 min)		Keynote: Brains and AI
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Terry Sejnowski (Salk Institute for Biological Studies)
10:30‑11:00
(30 min)		Break
11:00‑11:25
(25+5 min)		Biological Dynamics Enabling Training of Binary Recurrent Networks
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Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE61972.2024.10549632

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William Chapman (Sandia National Laboratories)
11:30‑11:40
(10+5 min)		Towards Convergence Intelligence – neuromorphic engineering and engineered organoids for neurotechnology
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Dr. Grace Hwang (Program Director, National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)/ U.S. BRAIN Initiative)
11:45‑12:10
(25+5 min)		Invited talk: Learning algorithms for spiking and physical neural networks
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 Friedemann Zenke (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research & University of Basel)
12:15‑12:30
(15 min)		Poster teasers

1-min "this is my poster content" teasers

  • Shelah O. Ameli
  • Alaaddin Goktug Ayar
  • Kanha Batra/ Jiaqi Zhang
  • Younes Bouhadjar
  • Mario De Florio and Adar Kahana
  • Michael Furlong
  • David Mascarenas
  • Sonia Mazelet
  • Roy Moyal
  • Shaan Shah
  • Simon Thorpe and Aditya Kar
  • Zoran Utkovski
  • Margot Wagner and Kameron Gano
  • Jason Yik

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12:30‑14:00
(90 min)		Poster-lunch (posters + finger food)



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Posters

  • Shelah O. Ameli: Leveraging Programmable Plasticity on Neuromorphic Hardware
  • Roy Moyal: A Neuromorphic Algorithm for Dynamic Contrast Optimization
  • David Mascarenas: Beating 2 Sides of the Exposure Triangle in Post Processing with Neuromorphic Imager Arrays
  • Mario De Florio and Adar Kahana: Analysis of biologically plausible neuron models for regression with spiking neural networks
  • Zoran Utkovski: Neuromorphic Wireless Device-Edge Co-Inference via the Directed Information Bottleneck
  • Michael Furlong: Sparse fractional power encoding for fixed-point neuromorphic hardware.
  • Shaan Shah: Implementation of Matrix Vector Multiplication Operations Using Hydrogenated Perovskite Nickelate Synaptic Networks
  • Margot Wagner and Kameron Gano: Stochastic Markov Diffusion using Eigenmode Decomposition for Scalable Neuromorphic Synapses
  • Younes Bouhadjar: Exploring methods for training Spiking Neural Networks for optimal accuracy and efficiency
  • Simon Thorpe and Aditya Kar: The Terabrain Project: Simulating billions of spiking neurons on standard computer hardware (Poster and Demo)

Talk-Posters

  • William Chapman: "Biological Dynamics Enabling Training of Binary Recurrent Networks"
  • Alaaddin Goktug Ayar: "Brain-Inspired Hypervector Processing at the Edge of Large Language Models"
  • Jason Yik: NeuroBench: A Framework for Benchmarking Neuromorphic Computing Algorithms and Systems
  • Kanha Batra/ Jiaqi Zhang: "Neuromodulated Mixture of Experts: A prefrontal cortex inspired architecture for lifelong learning"
  • Sonia Mazelet: "Compositional Factorization of Visual Scenes with Convolutional Sparse Coding and Resonator Networks"
14:00‑14:25
(25+5 min)		SQUAT: Stateful Quantization-Aware Training in Recurrent Spiking Neural Networks
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Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE61972.2024.10549198

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 Sreyes Venkatesh (UC Santa Cruz)
14:30‑14:40
(10+5 min)		Expressive Dendrites in Spiking Networks
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Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE61972.2024.10548485

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Mark Plagge (Sandia National Laboratories)
14:45‑15:10
(25+5 min)		Text-to-Events: Synthetic Event Camera Streams from Conditional Text Input
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Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE61972.2024.10549580

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 Shih-Chii Liu (Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich)
15:15‑15:45
(30 min)		Break
15:45‑16:10
(25+5 min)		Embracing the Hairball: An Investigation of Recurrence in Spiking Neural Networks for Control
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Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE61972.2024.10548512

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Katie Schuman (University of Tennessee)
16:15‑17:00
(45 min)		Open mic / discussion -- day I speakers

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17:00‑17:30
(30 min)		Misha Mahowald Prizes
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  • 2023 Misha Mahowald Prize:
    James Bradley Aimone, Brian C. Franke, Richard B. Lehoucq, Michael C. Krygier, Aaron J. Hill, Ojas Parekh, Leah E. Reeder, William Severa, and J. Darby Smith, Sandia National Laboratory

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 Tobi Delbruck (Inst. for Neuroinformatics, UZH-ETH Zurich)
17:30‑18:00
(30 min)		Misha Mahowald Prizes
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  • Misha Mahowald Recognition of Lifetime Contribution to Neuromorphic Engineering:
    Carver Mead, Gordon and Betty Moore Professor Emeritus of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology

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Carver Mead (California Institute of Technology)
18:00‑19:00
(60 min)		Reception and celebration of 35+ years of neuromorphic engineering

Wednesday, 24 April 2024
08:00
NICE 2024 - Day II
08:00‑08:30
(30 min)		Breakfast
08:30‑09:15
(45+5 min)		Keynote: Hearing with Silicon Cochleas

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 Shih-Chii Liu (Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich)
09:20‑09:30
(10+5 min)		Explaining Neural Spike Activity for Simulated Bio-plausible Network through Deep Sequence Learning
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Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE61972.2024.10549689

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Shruti R Kulkarni (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
09:35‑10:00
(25+5 min)		Invited talk: Hardware Accelerators for Brain-Inspired Computing
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John Arthur (IBM Research)
10:05‑10:30
(25+5 min)		Hardware-aware Few-shot Learning on a Memristor-based Small-world Architecture
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Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE61972.2024.10548824

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Karthik Charan Raghunathan (Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH and UZH Zurich)
10:35‑11:05
(30 min)		Break
11:05‑11:30
(25+5 min)		Spiking Physics-Informed Neural Networks on Loihi-2
Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE61972.2024.10548180

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Brad Theilman (Sandia National Laboratories)
11:35‑11:45
(10+5 min)		jaxsnn: Event-driven Gradient Estimation for Analog Neuromorphic Hardware
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Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE61972.2024.10548709

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'jaxsnn' is a novel library based on JAX. It facilitates the simulation and machine learning inspired training of spiking neural networks with a focus on event-driven computation. The library provides flexible data structures and time handling, while preserving Autograd functionality. The approach enables efficient training and compatibility with time-continuous neuromorphic backends such as BrainScaleS-2, thus shrinking the gap between traditional neuromorphic architectures and modern machine learning frameworks.

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Eric Müller (BrainScaleS, Heidelberg University)
11:50‑12:00
(10+5 min)		Late-breaking-news: Distributed Neural State Machines on Loihi 2
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Alpha Renner (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany)
12:05‑12:20
(15 min)		Poster teasers 1-min "this is my poster content" teasers
  • Patrick Abbs
  • Sai Sukruth Bezugam
  • Gwenevere Frank
  • Alessandro Galloni
  • Min Suk Lee and Abhinav Uppal
  • Srideep Musuvathy
  • Lars Niedermeier:
  • Joey Randich
  • Nancy Ronquillo
  • Yusuke Sakemi:
  • Bernard Vogginger
  • Felix Wang
  • Katy Warr
  • Yucheng Zhou

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12:20‑12:30
(10 min)		Group photo

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12:30‑14:00
(90 min)		Poster-lunch (posters + finger food)



Maximum possible poster size: landscape, 48 inch x 70 inch.

Posters

  • Bernard Vogginger: Neuromorphic hardware for sustainable AI data centers
  • Gwenevere Frank: HiAER-Spike: Hardware-Software Co-Design for Large-Scale Reconfigurable Event-Driven Neuromorphic Computing
  • Alessandro Galloni: Neuroscience-inspired one-shot learning in VO2-based analog hardware
  • Lars Niedermeier: An Integrated Toolbox for Creating Neuromorphic Edge Applications
  • Srideep Musuvathy: A Spiking Neural Algorithm for Markov RewardProcesses
  • Joey Randich: Leaky Integrate-and-Fire Neuron as an Analog-to-Digital Converter
  • Nancy Ronquillo: Exploiting Cognitive State EEG Datasets with Transfer Learning
  • Katy Warr: Optimising Sparse Associative Memory with Neurogenesis for Accuracy and Deployment
  • Yucheng Zhou: Understanding Conduction Mechanism of Filament-free Bulk RRAM for Neuromorphic Computing Applications
  • Min Suk Lee and Abhinav Uppal: In-Ear Physiology for Brain-Body Health Monitoring (Poster and Live Demo)
  • Yusuke Sakemi: Learning upon Drain-Voltage Dependence of Synaptic Currents in In-Memory Computing: A Circuit Simulation Study Using Open PDK

Talk-Posters

  • Alpha Renner: "Neuromorphic Hyperdimensional Computing"
  • Patrick Abbs: "One-Shot Auditory Blind Source Separation via Local Learning in a Neuromorphic Network"
  • Sai Sukruth Bezugam: "Quantized Context Based LIF Neurons for Recurrent Spiking Neural Networks in 45nm"
  • Felix Wang: "STACS: "Simulation Tool for Asynchronous Cortical Streams"
  • Shruti R. Kulkarni: "Explaining Neural Spike Activity for Simulated Bio-plausible Network through Deep Sequence Learning"

14:00‑14:10
(10+5 min)		Quantized Context Based LIF Neurons for Recurrent Spiking Neural Networks in 45nm
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Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE61972.2024.10548306

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Sai Sukruth Bezugam (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara)
14:15‑14:40
(25+5 min)		Compositional Factorization of Visual Scenes with Convolutional Sparse Coding and Resonator Networks
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Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE61972.2024.10549719

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Chris Kymn (UC Berkeley), Sonia Mazelet (UC Berkeley)
14:45‑14:55
(10+5 min)		Towards Chip-in-the-loop Spiking Neural Network Training via Metropolis-Hastings Sampling
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Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE61972.2024.10548355

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Ali Safa (imec and KU Leuven)
15:00‑15:10
(10+5 min)		Leveraging Sparsity of SRNNs for Reconfigurable and Resource-Efficient Network-on-Chip
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Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE61972.2024.10548940

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Manu Rathore (TENNLab - Neuromorphic Architectures, Learning, Applications (The University of Tennessee, Knoxville))
15:15‑15:45
(30 min)		Break
15:45‑16:10
(25+5 min)		Invited talk: Towards fractional order dynamics neuromorphic elements
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Fidel Santamaria (Department of Neuroscience, Developmental and Regenerative Biology, University of Texas at San Antonio)
16:15‑16:25
(10+5 min)		Compute-in-Memory with 6T-RRAM Memristive Circuit for Next-Gen Neuromorphic Hardware
Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE61972.2024.10548860

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Kang Jun Bai (Air Force Research Laboratory)
16:30‑17:30
(60 min)		Open mic / discussion - day II speakers

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17:30
End of the second day

Thursday, 25 April 2024
08:00
Day III
08:00‑08:30
(30 min)		Breakfast
08:30‑09:15
(45+5 min)		Keynote: NeuroBench: A Framework for Benchmarking Neuromorphic Computing Algorithms and Systems
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Jason Yik (School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard)
09:20
IEEE EMBS Forum on Intelligent Healthcare

09:20‑09:25
(5 min)		 Introduction to the IEEE EMBS Forum on Intelligent Healthcare
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Gert Cauwenberghs (UC San Diego)
09:25‑09:35
(10 min)		 AI for healthcare
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 Margot Wagner (Salk Institute)
09:35‑09:45
(10 min)		 Boxes are pre-digital -- Discovering physiological diversity with AI
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 Benjamin Smarr (UC San Diego)
09:45‑09:55
(10 min)		 Organoid intelligence
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 Francesca Puppo (UC San Diego)
09:55‑10:05
(10 min)		 Health & AI: Flexible Engineered Learning Systems
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Dr. Grace Hwang (NIH / NINDS)
10:05‑10:15
(10 min)		 EMBS Strategic Plan: from Vision to Implementation
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 Metin Akay (IEEE EMBS)
10:20‑10:50
(30 min)		Break
10:50‑11:00
(10+5 min)		One-Shot Auditory Blind Source Separation via Local Learning in a Neuromorphic Network
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Patrick Abbs (Cambrya, LLC)
11:05‑11:30
(25+5 min)		Invited talk: TENN: A highly efficient transformer replacement for edge and event processing.
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 M Anthony Lewis (BrainChip)
11:35‑11:45
(10+5 min)		A Recurrent Dynamic Model for Efficient Bayesian Optimization
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Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE61972.2024.10548051

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P. Michael Furlong (Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience/Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo)
11:50‑12:15
(25+5 min)		Invited talk: Strategic & Large-Scale Considerations of Neuromorphic Computing
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Craig Vineyard (Sandia National Laboratory)
12:20‑12:30
(10+5 min)		GPU-RANC: A CUDA Accelerated Simulation Framework for Neuromorphic Architectures
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Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE61972.2024.10548776

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Joshua Mack (Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Arizona)
12:35‑13:35
(60 min)		Lunch
13:35‑13:45
(10+5 min)		Late-breaking-news: Neuromodulated mixture of experts: A prefrontal cortex inspired architecture for lifelong learning
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Clara N Yi (Salk Institute for Biological Studies)
13:50‑14:15
(25+5 min)		Energy Efficient Implementation of MVM Operations Using Filament-free Bulk RRAM Arrays
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Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE61972.2024.10549369

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Dr. Ashwani Kumar (Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC San Diego)
14:20‑14:30
(10+5 min)		TickTockTokens: a minimal building block for event-driven systems
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Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE61972.2024.10549408

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Johannes Leugering (Institute for Neural Computation, Bioengineering Dept., UC San Diego)
14:35‑14:45
(10+5 min)		Late-breaking-news: Brain-Inspired Hypervector Processing at the Edge of Large Language Models
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Goktug Ayar (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
14:50‑15:00
(10+5 min)		Spiking Neural Network-based Flight Controller
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Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE61972.2024.10548609

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Diego Chavez Arana (New Mexico State University)
15:05‑15:35
(30 min)		Coffee break
15:35‑16:00
(25+5 min)		PETNet– Coincident Particle Event Detection using Spiking Neural Networks
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Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE61972.2024.10549584

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Jan Debus (ETH Zurich)
16:05‑16:15
(10+5 min)		NeRTCAM: CAM-Based CMOS Implementation of Reference Frames for Neuromorphic Processors
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Publication DOI: 10.1109/NICE61972.2024.10548603

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Harideep Nair (Carnegie Mellon University.)
16:20‑17:20
(60 min)		Open mic / discussion - day III speakers

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17:20‑17:30
(10 min)		Final words -- invitation to NICE 2025

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17:30
End of day 3 and of the talk-days of NICE 2024

Friday, 26 April 2024
08:30
Tutorial day

Venue

The tutorial day takes place at the San Diego Supercomputer Center SDSC (SDSC visitor information page)

There is no reserved parking available for the Friday tutorial.

  • Visitor Parking (needs to be paid) is available at the Hopkins Parking Structure (UC San Diego, Supercomputer Center - Hopkins Parking Structure, 10100 Hopkins Dr, La Jolla San Diego, CA 92093) https://g.co/kgs/bLBwWfB
  • Visitor Parking Information: https://transportation.ucsd.edu/visit/visitor/index.html
  • There is free parking, based on availability at the Torrey Pines Gliderport. There may be parking either on the street, or more likely in the dirt parking lot. It is a 20 - 30-minute walk to the San Diego Supercomputer Center based on your individual speed: https://g.co/kgs/Ps7VFX8

Tutorials are in three different rooms, all located at San Diego Supercomputer Center, East Expansion; Level B1

  • INC central foyer
  • Synthesis Center
  • INC conference room

Tutorials

These 9 tutorial suggestions have been selected.

  • Hands-on tutorial: BrainScaleS neuromorphic compute system (via the EBRAINS Research Infrastructure )
  • An Introduction to Design and Simulation using SNS-Toolbox and SNSTorch
  • Simulation Tool for Asynchronous Cortical Streams (STACS)
  • N2A – neural programming language and workbench
  • SANA-FE: Simulating Advanced Neuromorphic Architectures for Fast Exploration
  • An Integrated Toolbox for Creating Neuromorphic Edge Applications
  • CrossSim: A Hardware/Software Co-Design Tool for Analog In-Memory Computing
  • Neuromorphic Intermediate Representation
  • Building Scalable, Composable Spiking Neural Algorithms with Fugu (An Introduction)
08:30‑10:30
(120 min)		Tutorial slot I

Three tutorials in parallel

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Hands-on tutorial: BrainScaleS neuromorphic compute system An Integrated Toolbox for Creating Neuromorphic Edge ApplicationsSimulation Tool for Asynchronous Cortical Streams (STACS)
Eric Müller (Heidelberg University)

Room: INC central foyer

(via the EBRAINS Research Infrastructure. Please ideally create your EBRAINS account before the tutorial)

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 Lars Niedermeier (Niedermeier Consulting), Jeff Krichmar (UC Irvine)

Room: Synthesis Center

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Felix Wang (Sandia National Laboratories)

Room: INC conference room

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10:30‑11:00
(30 min)		Coffee break
11:00‑13:00
(120 min)		Tutorial slot II

Three tutorials in parallel

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Neuromorphic Intermediate RepresentationBuilding Scalable, Composable Spiking Neural Algorithms with Fugu (An Introduction)An Introduction to Design and Simulation using SNS-Toolbox and SNSTorch
Bernhard Vogginger (TU Dresden), Jason Eshraghian (UC Santa Cruz)

Room: INC central foyer

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Srideep Musuvathy (Sandia National Laboratories)

Room: Synthesis Center

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Will Nourse (Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH)

Room: INC conference room

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13:00‑14:00
(60 min)		Lunch



UCSD INC is pleased to offer the following live demonstration, free of charge, to all NICE 2024 attendees during the lunch hour at the UCSD INC Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience (SCCN, https://sccn.ucsd.edu)
EEG Virtual and Augmented Reality Live Demonstrations
Mobile Brain Imaging (MoBI) Laboratory, SDSC East Expansion Level B2 (adjacent to tutorials and lunch venue):

  • Edgar Mitchell Experience in Virtual Reality
    This is a 360-degree virtual reality simulation following the journey of Edgar Mitchell, an astronaut on the Apollo 14 mission, as he returns from the moon and makes his way back to Earth.
  • Supporting Self-transcendence and Compassion through EEG-guided Virtual Reality
    We utilize an adaptive, closed-loop BCI system that modulates the intensity and content of a virtual psychedelic experience based on EEG-derived Default-Mode-Network activity.
14:00‑16:00
(120 min)		Tutorial slot III

Three tutorials in parallel

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SANA-FE: Simulating Advanced Neuromorphic Architectures for Fast ExplorationN2A – neural programming language and workbenchCrossSim: A Hardware/Software Co-Design Tool for Analog In-Memory Computing
James Boyle (The University of Texas at Austin)

Room: INC central foyer

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Fred Rothganger (Sandia National Labs)

Room: Synthesis Center

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William Chapman (Sandia National Labs)

Room: INC conference room

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16:00
End of NICE 2024
Contact: bjoern.kindler@kip.uni-heidelberg.de