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NICE 2020 in Heidelberg - POSTPONED from March 2020 to 16-18 + 19 March 2021 - Agenda

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

show a map of the venue + some hotel locations
Please register here for the meeting

Pre-NICE events on ~~Monday, 16 March 2020~~ (both POSTPONED as well)

Satellite workshop 'Vector-symbolic architectures': 9-18h. Please see the independent organizers webpages for details
NEUROTECH event: Future Application Directions for Neuromorphic Computing Technologies: agenda and registration (free, but mandatory). A half-day event with special focus on potential application of neuromorphic computing.

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
- Via train to Heidelberg main station: online timetable by German Railway (tickets are sold online)
- Via air
  - the most convenient airport is Frankfurt Main International Airport (FRA). Some travel options from FRA airport to Heidelberg:
    - via Railway from the train station directly attached to the airport "Frankfurt Flughafen Fernbahnhof": online timetable by German Railway (tickets are also sold online via this website)
    - via airport shuttle service directly to the hotel. We have good experience with TLS Heidelberg. A single, shared ride costs about 40 Euro / person / ride
  - also close is Stuttgart international airport (STR), also with a railway station directly attached to the airport online timetable by German Railway (tickets are also sold online via this website)

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)

Heidelberg Marriott Hotel, Vangerowstraße 16, D-69115 Heidelberg -- this hotel is in about 15 min walking distance to the meeting site (online journey planner)
nh Heidelberg, Bergheimer Str. 91, D-69115 Heidelberg (online journey planner)
Star Inn Hotel, Speyerer Straße 7 – 9, D-69115 Heidelberg (online journey planner)

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 I	Mike 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 machines show 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 system show abstract	Sebastian Schmitt (Heidelberg University)
12:35‑13:00 (25 min)		Poster Lightning Talks 1 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 SpiNNaker2 show 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 architecture show 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 learning show abstract	Thomas Passer Jensen (Technical University of Denmark)
17:10‑17:55 (45 min)		Open mic / discussions
19:00‑21:30 (150 min)		Poster dinner The 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)		Keynote	Wolfgang Maass
10:00‑10:20 (20+5 min)		On the computational power and complexity of Spiking Neural Networks show abstract	(Nils Donselaar)
10:25‑10:45 (20+5 min)		The speed of sequence processing in biological neuronal networks show 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 pooling show abstract	Jakob Jordan et al.
12:20‑12:30 (10+5 min)		Lightning talk: Natural gradient learning for spiking neurons show abstract	Elena Kreutzer et al.
12:35‑12:45 (10+5 min)		Lightning talk: The Computational Capacity of Mem-LRC Reservoirs show 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 models show abstract	Johannes Leugering
14:25‑14:45 (20+5 min)		Evolutionary Optimization for Neuromorphic Systems show abstract	Catherine Schuman et al.
14:50‑15:00 (10+5 min)		Lightning talk: Implementing Backpropagation for Learning on Neuromorphic Spiking Hardware show abstract	Andrew Sornborger et al.
15:05‑15:15 (10+5 min)		Lightning talk: Spike Latency Reduction generates Efficient Predictive Coding show 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 Processor show abstract	(Konstantinos Michmizos )
16:35‑16:55 (20+5 min)		Inductive bias transfer between brains and machines show 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 cognition show abstract	Charlotte Frenkel
10:00‑10:20 (20+5 min)		A Neuromorphic Future for Classic Computing Tasks show abstract	Brad Aimone
10:25‑10:35 (10+5 min)		Lightning talk: Benchmarking of Neuromorphic Hardware Systems show 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 Difficulty show 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 computers	Markus Diesmann
11:55‑12:15 (20+5 min)		Platform-Agnostic Neural Algorithm Composition using Fugu show abstract	William Severa
12:20‑12:40 (20+5 min)		Programming neuromorphic computers: PyNN and beyond show abstract	Andrew Davison
12:45‑12:55 (10+5 min)		Lightning talk: Caspian: A Neuromorphic Development Platform show abstract	(John (Parker) Mitchell)
13:00‑14:00 (60 min)		Lunch
14:00‑14:20 (20+5 min)		BrainScaleS: Development Methodologies and Operating System The BrainScaleS (BSS) neuromorphic architectures are based on the analog emulation of neuro-synaptic behavior. Neuronal membrane voltages are represented as voltages, model dynamics evolve in a time-continuous manner. Compared to biology the systems run at a typical speedup factor of 1000–10000. This enables the evaluation of effects on long timescales and experiments with many trials. Simultaneously, BSS focuses model configurability and flexibility in plasticity, experiment control and data handling. On BSS-2, this flexibility is facilitated by an embedded SIMD microprocessor located next to the analog neural network core. The extended configurability, the inclusion of embedded programmability as well as the horizontal scalability of the systems induces additional complexity. Challenges arise in areas such as initial experiment configuration and runtime control, reproducibility and robustness. We present operation and development methodologies implemented for the BSS neuromorphic architectures and walk through the individual components constituting the software stack for BSS platform operation.	Eric Müller
14:25‑14:35 (10+5 min)		Lightning talk: Cognitive Domain Ontologies: HPCs to Ultra Low Power Neuromorphic Platforms show abstract	Tarek Taha et al.
14:40‑14:50 (10+5 min)		Lightning talk: Comparing Neural Accelerators & Neuromorphic Architectures The False Idol of Operations show abstract	Craig Vineyard et al.
14:55‑15:05 (10+5 min)		Lightning talk: Subspace Locally Competitive Algorithms show abstract	Dylan Paiton et al.
15:10‑15:20 (10+5 min)		Lightning talk: Fast and deep neuromorphic learning with first-spike coding show abstract	Julian Göltz et al.
15:25‑15:35 (10+5 min)		Lightning talk: Neuromorphic Graph Algorithms: Extracting Longest ShortestPaths and Minimum Spanning Trees show 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 Task show 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 Nets show 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 Agents show 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)

Friday, 20 March 2020
09:00	NICE 2020, Tutorials day: NOTE: NICE will be POSTPONED! The tutorial day can be booked as one of the registration options. On the tutorial day hands-on interactive tutorials with several different neuromorphic compute systems will be offered: SpiNNaker tutorial (the SpiNNaker system in Manchester is available remotely via the HBP Collaboratoy) Intel Loihi platform tutorial (Lecture style. To follow along from your own laptop your need to engage with Intel’s Intel’s Neuromorphic Research Community beforehand (email inrc_interest@intel.com for more information). BrainScaleS tutorial (the large scale BrainScaleS-1 system, available remotely via the HBP Collaboratoy, is physically located 50m from the tutorial site) show abstract
09:00‑11:30 (150 min)		Tutorial (and coffee) In parallel ("choose one"): BrainScaleS SpiNNaker Loihi: an overview of the Loihi hardware architecture and SDK basics
11:30‑12:30 (60 min)		Lunch (only for tutorial participants)
12:30‑15:00 (150 min)		Tutorial (and coffee) In parallel ("choose one"): BrainScaleS SpiNNaker Loihi: live examples and step-by-step iPhython-based tutorials of a wide variety of algorithmic examples
15:00	End of the NICE 2020 tutorial day

Contact: bjoern.kindler@kip.uni-heidelberg.de