| 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 | |
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? | |
15:10‑15:30
| | Neuromorphic and AI research at BCAI (Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence) | Thomas Pfeil |
15:35‑15:55
| | Mapping Deep Neural Networks on SpiNNaker2 | Florian Kelber et al. |
16:00‑16:30
| | Coffee break |
16:30‑16:50
| | Closed-loop experiments on the BrainScaleS-2 architecture | Korbinian Schreiber et al. |
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 |
10:00‑10:20
| | On the computational power and complexity of Spiking Neural Networks | (Nils Donselaar) |
10:25‑10:45
| | The speed of sequence processing in biological neuronal networks | Younes Bouhadjar et. al |
11:00‑11:30
| | Coffee brek |
11:30‑11:50
| | | Walter Senn |
11:55‑12:15
| | Conductance-based dendrites perform reliability-weighted opinion pooling | Jakob Jordan et al. |
12:20‑12:30
| | Lightning talk: Natural gradient learning for spiking neurons | Elena Kreutzer et al. |
12:35‑12:45
| | Lightning talk: The Computational Capacity of Mem-LRC Reservoirs | Forrest Sheldon et al. |
13:00‑14:00
| | Lunch |
14:00‑14:20
| | Making spiking neurons more succinct with multi-compartment models | Johannes Leugering |
14:25‑14:45
| | Evolutionary Optimization for Neuromorphic Systems | Catherine Schuman et al. |
14:50‑15:00
| | Lightning talk: Implementing Backpropagation for Learning on Neuromorphic Spiking Hardware | Andrew Sornborger et al. |
15:05‑15:15
| | Lightning talk: Spike Latency Reduction generates Efficient Predictive Coding | Pau Vilimelis Aceituno et al. |
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 |
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 |
10:00‑10:20
| | A Neuromorphic Future for Classic Computing Tasks | Brad Aimone |
10:25‑10:35
| | Lightning talk: Benchmarking of Neuromorphic Hardware Systems | Christoph Ostrau et al. |
10:40‑10:50
| | Lightning talk: Evolving Spiking Neural Networks for Robot Sensory-motor Decision Tasks of Varying Difficulty | (J David Schaffer) |
11:00‑11:30
| | Coffee break |
11:30‑11:50
| | Natural density cortical models as benchmarks for universal neuromorphic computers | Markus Diesmann |
11:55‑12:15
| | Platform-Agnostic Neural Algorithm Composition using Fugu | William Severa |
12:20‑12:40
| | Programming neuromorphic computers: PyNN and beyond | Andrew Davison |
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 |
14:25‑14:35
| | Lightning talk: Cognitive Domain Ontologies: HPCs to Ultra Low Power Neuromorphic Platforms | Tarek Taha et al. |
14:40‑14:50
| | Lightning talk: Comparing Neural Accelerators & Neuromorphic Architectures The False Idol of Operations | Craig Vineyard et al. |
14:55‑15:05
| | Lightning talk: Subspace Locally Competitive Algorithms | Dylan Paiton et al. |
15:10‑15:20
| | Lightning talk: Fast and deep neuromorphic learning with first-spike coding | Julian Göltz et al. |
15:25‑15:35
| | Lightning talk: Neuromorphic Graph Algorithms: Extracting Longest ShortestPaths and Minimum Spanning Trees | |
15:40‑15:50
| | Lightning talk: Neuromorphic Computing for Spacecraft’s Terrain Relative Navigation: A Case of Event-Based Crater Classification Task | Kazuki Kariya et al. |
15:55‑16:25
| | Coffee break |
16:25‑16:45
| | Beyond Backprop: Different Approaches to Credit Assignment in Neural Nets | |
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 et al. |
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) |