SMHB General Assembly 2016
The Helmholtz Portfolio Theme “Supercomputing and Modeling for the Human Brain” (SMHB) aims for a realistic model of the human brain as a fundamental tool for basic research and (pre-)clinical studies of the brain and of large cell populations. Key elements are the analysis of the organisation of the human brain across multiple scales as well as its modelling and simulation. The complexity of the human brain poses great challenges on data management, processing and on-line visualisation, thus demanding the integration of neuroscience, cell biology and high performance computing. The SMHB project with its innovations in multi-scale modelling and simulation will benefit from new developments in exa-scale supercomputing, but will also inspire new hardware and software solutions.
The SMHB project speakers Prof. Dr. med. Katrin Amunts (INM-1) and Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Lippert (JSC) invite scientists of the project partners Forschungszentrum Jülich (INM-1, INM-6, JSC), Helmholtz Zentrum München, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, RWTH Aachen, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland), McGill University (Canada), Institut de Neuroscience Cognitives de la Mediterranée (France) to meet at Jülich Supercomputing Centre for the project’s annual General Assembly to present the research highlights of the project’s last year and for discussions in smaller focus groups.
The annual meeting of the Helmholtz Portfolio Theme 'Supercomputing and Modeling for the Human Brain (SMHB)’ will be held on 20 - 21 April 2016 at Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany.
It will also be an SMHB-internal all-hands meeting, therefore all SMHB partners are invited.
We also invite all researchers and students of the participating laboratories who are or will be involved in the SMHB.
Agenda
Tuesday, 19 April 2016
Travel day |
Pre-Meeting Dinner: Scientific Advisory Board, WP & Task Leaders (by invitation) |
Wednesday, 20 April 2016
09:00–09:30 | Welcome by the Speakers of SMHB | K. Amunts |
09:30–10:15 | Keynote Talk “Function of neuronal microcircuits in the human neocortex: Insights from experiments and modelling“ | Huib Mansvelder |
10:15–10:30 | Status of the Human Brain Project | B. Orth |
10:30–11:00 | Coffee Break | |
Work Packages: Highlights of 2015 | ||
11:00–12:00 | WP5: Hardware development (50+10) | Th. Lippert |
12:00–12:30 | Spotlight Talks | Young scientists |
12:30–14:00 | Lunch break with poster session | |
Work Packages: Highlights of 2015 (cont.) | ||
14:00– 5:00 | WP2: Brain modelling and simulation (50+10) | M. Diesmann |
15:00–16:00 | WP3: Simulation technology (50+10) | A. Morrison |
16:00–16:30 | Coffee Break | |
16:30–17:30 | WP4: Supporting software (50+10) | T. Kuhlen |
17:30–18:30 | WP1: Brain structure, function and connectivity (50+10) | K. Amunts |
19:00 | Dinner at Seecasino |
Thursday, 21 April 2016
08:30–08:45 | Short welcoming speech by the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Forschungszentrum Jülich | W. Marquardt | |
08:45–09:00 | Changing rooms for the next session | ||
09:00–09:45 | Internal Meeting of Scientific Advisory Board | Workshop Sessions* Meeting room 2, JSC | Spontaneous meetings & discussions |
09:40–10:00 | Coffee Break | ||
10:00–11:30 | Internal Meeting of Scientific Advisory Board (cont.) | Workshop Sessions* (cont.) Meeting room 2, JSC | Spontaneous meetings & discussions |
11:30–11:45 | Work Packages: Highlights of 2015 (cont.) | A. Lührs/B. Orth | |
11:45–12:15 | Conclusions and Next Steps | K. Amunts | |
12:15–12:30 | Closing remarks and farewell speech | ||
12:30–13:30 | Lunch Break | ||
13:30–15:30 | Meeting of the Scientific Advisory Board with all SMHB PIs | SAB members, PIs | |
Official end of the SMHB General Assembly | |||
15:30–17:30 | Workshop Sessions* (cont.) Seminar room, INM-6 |
Workshop sessions on 21 April
*Workshop Sessions | Potential participants | |
09:00–09:45 | Exploiting future technologies: Neuroscience on the HBP PCP Pilots (Dirk Pleiter) Meeting room 2, JSC | Scientists from all SMHB Work Packages |
09:45–10:00 | Coffee break | |
10:00–10:45 | Visual Analytics (Benjamin Weyers) Meeting room 2, JSC | Timo Dickscheid, Markus Axer, Hartmut Mohlberg; |
10:45–11:30 | Registration meeting (Markus Axer) Meeting room 2, JSC | Hartmut Mohlberg, Timo Dickscheid, Stefan Wörz, Karl Rohr; |
Other sessions | ||
15:30–17:30 | Brain atlases as a tool to support simulation and activity data acquisition (Timo Dickscheid) Seminar room, INM-6 | All scientists interested in the topic |