Vergangene Veranstaltungen

This online workshop aims at giving an overview of how to simulate with EBRAINS, from the infrastructure level to simulations at multiple scales. It covers a large variety of topics, e.g. computing and data services of or related to the Fenix infrastructure, Neuromorphic Computing, and simulations on a scale from molecules via small and large networks of point or structured spiking neurons to simplified whole brain activity and virtual environments Participants can choose from a large number of sessions what is relevant for them.

This online workshop brings together researchers in the fields of computational neuroscience, machine learning, and neuromorphic engineering to present their work and discuss ways of translating these findings into a better understanding of neural circuits. Topics include artificial and biologically plausible learning algorithms and the dissection of trained spiking circuits toward understanding neural processing. We have a manageable number of talks with ample time for discussions.

The international neuroscience symposium is dedicated to research on the processing of information in the brain. Understanding information processing, thinking, remembering or consciousness are some of the toughest riddles for humankind. Solving them will help us to understand ourselves – as well as dysfunctions in brain and mind occurring from birth or during aging.

The symposiums will bring together neuroscientists with experimental and computational expertise. It aims to bridge the gap from synaptic transmission to cognition. Thus, it will cross borders among neuroscientific disciplines to inspire discussions on state-of-the-art findings about information perception, processing, consolidation and transfer for storage.

Participants are invited for vivid discussions to advance the insight of brain dynamics and information processing.
Registration deadline has been prolonged until November 1, 2022.

Keeping line with previous editions of the Brain Criticality conferences series, this conference will present the latest experimental and theoretical advancements in the study of critical phenomena in brain activity and their functional relevance. While preserving emphasis on criticality, this edition will feature as well communications about general collective behavior and dynamic complexity in the brain (and other biological systems).

The EITN Fall School in Computational Neuroscience consists of a 10-day course in theoretical and computational neuroscience, from cellular to whole-brain levels. The course is structured in thematic days with lectures, tutorials, and project work.

The course is typically aimed for PhD students, young postdocs, or master students interested to learn more about techniques of computational neuroscience, and the use of various simulation environments for model building. The students will form thematic groups to work on predefined subjects, with the help of tutors.

Understanding the brain remains a fascinating challenge that requires the exchange across many disciplines – from the molecular to behavioural sciences – and also involves computational and engineering approaches. In this scientific symposium we bring together researchers from diverse neuroscientific backgrounds who will share their latest insights into neural processing and engage into a lively interdisciplinary debate.

Unser Gehirn ist ein faszinierendes Organ. Täglich werden wir Zeuge seiner komplexen Fähigkeiten, aber seine Funktionsweise ist immer noch nicht vollständig verstanden. Selbst die einfach aufgebauten Nervensysteme kleinerer Tiere, wie etwa von Insekten, stellen uns noch vor große Rätsel. Besonders spannend ist dabei die Frage, wie aus der elektrischen Aktivität von Hunderten bis Millionen von Nervenzellen Verhalten entsteht.

The Interdisciplinary Computational Cognitive Science Spring School (IICCSSS) is an annual educational meeting for students and young researchers interested in computational approaches to brain and cognitive sciences.

Die „Nature“-Fachkonferenz „AI, Neuroscience and Hardware“ widmet sich Austausch zwischen Biologie und IT-Technologie Bonn - Fachleute aus dem In- und Ausland sind vom 7. bis 8. September 2022 nach Bonn geladen, um über aktuelle Entwicklungen im Spannungsfeld zwischen Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI), Hirnforschung und Neurowissenschaft zu diskutieren. Gastgeber ist das DZNE. Die englischsprachige Konferenz wird gemeinsam mit den Wissenschaftsjournalen Nature Electronics, Nature Machine Intelligence und Nature Communications präsentiert.

The theme “Understanding Minds” reflects two perspectives: The conference provides a forum for all topics in the study of how minds – both human and artificial – operate. The theme also puts a specific spotlight on how cognitive systems make sense of the world, in particular in language comprehension and communication.

Imbizo is a Xhosa word meaning "a gathering to share knowledge". The IBRO-SIMONS Computational Neuroscience Imbizo, or ISi-CNI is exactly that: an opportunity for African and international students to learn about cutting edge research techniques in computational neuroscience.

Methods in Computational Neuroscience introduces students to the computational and mathematical techniques that are used to address how the brain solves these problems at levels of neural organization ranging from single membrane channels to operations of the entire brain.
Application deadline: March 30, 2022

This three-weeks school teaches the central ideas, methods, and practice of modern computational neuroscience through a combination of lectures and hands-on project work.

This newly established European Summer School will bring together PhD students, early postdocs, and an international list of faculty for an intense training programme in primate cognitive and systems neuroscience. It will provide an outstanding training opportunity for young scientists working with non-human primates.

The Neural Systems and Behavior (NS&B) Course is the premier discovery-driven training opportunity for the next generation of neuroethologists and systems neuroscientists. It is an 8 week intensive lecture and laboratory course held at the Marine Biological Lab in Woods Hole, MA, every summer.
Application deadline: February 1, 2022

Europe’s largest international neuroscience conference, covering all domains in modern brain research from basic to translational research.

Mehr als 420 Programmpunkte an 34 verschiedenen Standorten!
Bei der 5. Nacht des Wissens beweisen die Wissenschaftseinrichtungen am Göttingen Campus erneut, was in ihnen steckt: Entdecken Sie was hinter den Türen von Hörsälen, Bibliotheken, Sammlungen und Laboren vor sich geht.

The main aim of ENCODS is to provide a space for early-career neuroscientists where they can share their research in the form of talks and poster presentations. The ENCODS meeting is organised in partnership with the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS).

The International Conference on Mathematical Neuroscience (ICMNS) is an inter-disciplinary conference series, bringing together theoretical/computational neuroscientists and mathematicians. The conferences are aimed at scientists interested in using or developing mathematical techniques for neuroscience problems.

The course is interdisciplinary and covers modeling at different levels of organization of the brain as well as elements of machine learning. The course combines lectures, tutorials and computer exercises for computational modeling and analysis of brain functions at multiple physiological and anatomical scales.

The FENS satellite symposium “Understanding Neural Circuit Evolution” will present exciting lines of research into neural circuit evolution from paleobiology to computational neuroscience and to the molecular and genetic generation of neuro-behavioral diversity. Organized by the German Research Foundation Priority Program “Evolutionary Optimization of Neuronal Processing”, the symposium is designed to make the full spectrum of progress in neural circuit evolution accessible to a wide neuroscience audience, to build bridges between experimental, computational and paleobiological research approaches, and to foster the emergence of a comprehensive conceptual framework for studies of neural circuit evolution.

Research in Encoding And Decoding of Neural Ensembles

A project-oriented course designed to teach computational neuroscience based on the STEPS, NEURON, Brian, NEST and Python software packages.

The NEST Conference provides an opportunity for the NEST Community to meet, exchange success stories, swap advice, learn about current developments in and around NEST spiking network simulation and its application.

Founded in 2002, the Brain Connectivity Workshop (BCW) is an annual international meeting for in-depth discussions of all aspects of brain connectivity research. By bringing together experts in computational neuroscience, neuroscience methodology and experimental neuroscience, it aims to improve the understanding of the relationship between anatomical connectivity, brain dynamics and cognitive function.

The goal of this EMBO Workshop is to bring together scientific leaders from around the world whose latest work on molecular, biophysical, anatomical, computational and/or functional aspects of dendrites can further our understanding of how these beautiful structures contribute to different brain functions and their abnormalities.

In this workshop experts penetrate these questions in depth and summarize the experimental evidence for stationarities and attractors in central nervous systems dynamics.

Es ist ein weites Forschungsfeld, wie das Riechen über Rezeptoren in der Nasenschleimhaut bis zur Reizsynthese in der Großhirnrinde funktioniert – während die Erforschung des Sehens schon deutlich weiter vorangeschritten ist. Wie funktioniert Riechen? Warum ist der Geruchssinn besonders anfällig für Infektionen mit CoVid? Inwiefern ist der Geruchssinn mit dem Geschmackssinn verknüpft? Weshalb wird der menschliche Geruchssinn häufig unterschätzt?

Zeit: 19:30 - 21:00 Uhr

Kostenbeitrag: frei – Spende erbeten

In Growing Up in Science (GUIS) – Berlin, we would like to present more honest stories about working in academia. In every talk, we feature a scholar’s story focusing on doubts, struggles, detours and failures throughout all career stages. In this series, we aim to examine the hidden human factors of working and succeeding in academia in depth and in the context of a broader narrative.

The annual Cosyne meeting provides an inclusive forum for the exchange of empirical and theoretical approaches to problems in systems neuroscience, in order to understand how neural systems function.

The Interdisciplinary College (IK) is an annual, intense one-week spring school which offers a dense state-of-the-art course program in neurobiology, neural computation, cognitive science/psychology, artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics and philosophy. It is aimed at students, postgraduates and researchers from academia and industry. By combining humanities, science and technology, the IK endeavours to intensify dialogue between the various disciplines. Participants come mainly – but not exclusively – from European countries, lecturers from all over the world.

Die Frage, wodurch sich menschliches Bewusstsein auszeichnet, gewinnt angesichts der Entwicklungen auf dem Feld der Künstlichen Intelligenz besondere Brisanz. Wie lässt sich künstliche Intelligenz von menschlicher Intelligenz abgrenzen? Kann ein selbstlernendes System ein Bewusstsein entwickeln? Lernen wir in der Interaktion mit Maschinen Neues über unser Mensch-Sein und welche ethischen Fragen werden dabei aufgeworfen? Wie verhält es sich mit der Beziehung zwischen Mensch und Künstlicher Intelligenz, wenn Emotionen ins Spiel kommen?
Eine Veranstaltung im Rahmen der Brain Awareness Week.

Moderne technische und digitale Verfahren erweitern die Möglichkeiten der klinischen Neurophysiologie, klinisch relevante Symptomnetzwerke im Gehirn zu analysieren, zu entschlüsseln und im Rahmen neuer Therapien zu modulieren. Die rasanten Entwicklungen gehen weit über die Optimierung neurophysiologischer Methoden hinaus. Sie haben aus Sicht von Fachleuten das Potenzial, die Neuromedizin im 21. Jahrhundert grundlegend zu revolutionieren. Der DGKN Kongress dient der interdisziplinären Vernetzung und soll dazu beitragen, eine wissenschaftliche Allianz zwischen molekularen und systemischen Neurowissenschaften, Ingenieurwissenschaften, Biologie, Informationstechnologie und klinischer Medizin zu schmieden.

organized by the Collaborative Research Centre Retune 295 „Retuning dynamic motor network disorders by neuromodulation“

The 11th Winter School "Ethics of Neuroscience and AI" is taking place on Feb 28 - March 4, 2022. It is organized by the BCCN Berlin/ICCN, the Berlin School of Mind and Brain, and the Excellence Cluster "Science of Intelligence". The event is tailored for MSc and PhD students, but covers a range of topics of potential interest to other researchers, reflecting on the ethical and societal consequences of modern neuroscience.

The 6th HBP Student Conference provides an open forum for the exchange of new ideas among early career researchers working across various scientific fields relevant to the Human Brain Project (HBP).

Im Rahmen des Vorlesungsprogramms sollen die verschiedenen Aspekte der Künstlichen Intelligenz und Data Science vorgestellt und diskutiert werden. Somit wird ein umfassender Einblick in dieses facettenreiche Forschungsfeld gewährt, welches sowohl die Grundlagen und Anwendungen von Künstlicher Intelligenz und Data Science als auch deren Auswirkungen in unserer Gesellschaft umfassen. Zugleich bietet diese Veranstaltung die Möglichkeit die Zusammenhänge zwischen den einzelnen Disziplinen aufzuzeigen und über Grenzen und Möglichkeiten aufzuklären.

Das Bernstein Center Freiburg und die Fakultät für Biologie laden im Wintersemester 2021/2022 wieder zur Ringvorlesung "Wege zur Erforschung des Gehirns" zu vielen spannenden Fragen, kreativen Ansätzen und praxisbezogenen Methoden rund um das Thema Neurowissenschaften ein.

Großer Hörsaal Biologie II/III, Schänzlestraße 1, 79104 Freiburg – Montags 19:00 Uhr

Einlass ab 18:15 Uhr!

The BCCN Berlin will hold an information day regarding the Master- and PhD-Programs in Computational Neuroscience offered by the center.

How to use high performance computing and cloud services to answer your scientific questions

The Bernstein SmartSteps series provides a unique platform for selected Early Career Scientists of the Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience to present their research projects to the scientific community.