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HBP Colloquium at Forschungszentrum Jülich
Start
4th October 2018 08:00 AM
End
4th October 2018 16:00 PM
Location
Forschungszentrum Jülich, Lecture Theatre, Central Library (building 04.7)
Overview
The most promising approach to achieve breakthroughs in the understanding of the human brain is through a collaborative effort of the relevant key players in the field of neuroscience and future computing. Following the example of other successfully organized research communities, the European Human Brain Project (HBP) is building such a research infrastructure, the HBP Joint Platform. Germany plays a major role in this endeavor, and contributes with its European partners to many of its activities.
The 10-year project has completed its Ramp-Up Phase and subsequent SGA1 funding period and is now celebrating its halftime. This is a good reason to take a closer look at the successes achieved so far, but also at the challenges that still lie ahead – to tame multi-level brain complexity, to master big data challenges, to create biologically realistic brain models & simulations, to enable new brain-derived technologies, to generate from them a benefit for patients and to actively shape future supercomputing.
The colloquium will present the following highlights:
- Visuo-motor and auditory control mechanisms
- Neuronal networks
- Cognition & brain-inspired cognitive architectures
- Neuromorphic computing
- How ICT can be used to analyze data from patients with brain diseases
- The HBP Human Brain Atlas
- Supercomputing and modelling for the human brain
- The Fenix infrastructure for enabling brain research at large scale
- The SimLab Neuroscience
- Machine Learning panel discussion, with an emphasis on Deep Learning
The Colloquium start time will be 10:00 and the end of the sessions is 18:00, directly followed by a get together.
Programme
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Welcome coffee |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Prof. Wolfgang Marquardt Welcome speech by the Chairman of the Board of Directors |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Minister Prof. Andreas Pinkwart (English translation of the title) Science location NRW: Technology transfer from research to industry as an engine for the economy. |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Prof. Katrin Amunts HBP at a Glance given by the HBP Scientific Director |
| 10:45 - 12:00 | Keynote |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 - 14:20 | Session 1: Jülich Contributions to HBP Session Chair: Prof. Thomas Lippert Mrs. Anna Lührs: Introduction to HPAC — Bringing Neuroscience to HPC (PDF, 14 MB) Dr. Timo Dickscheid: Deep Learning helps building brain atlases at microscopic resolution Prof. Thomas Lippert: Driving Exascale — computing by neuroscience |
| 14:20 - 15:10 | Session 2: Bringing Neuroscience to HPC Session Chair: Markus Diesmann Prof. Michele Migliore: The implementation of brain-inspired cognitive architectures using large-scale realistic computational models Prof. Thomas Schulthess: Modern Supercomputing and extreme-scale data infrastructures explained |
| 15:10 - 16:00 | Coffee break |
| 16:00 - 17:15 | Session 3: Neuro-inspired Innovations Session Chair: Timo Dickscheid Prof. Karlheinz Meier: From biology to your coffee machine? - How neuromorphic computing may affect our future life (PDF, 2 MB) Prof. Markus Diesmann: Overcoming the complexity barrier of brain modeling by digitization and collaboration (PDF, 30 MB) Prof. Paolo Carloni: Innovations in HPC-based molecular neurobiology: from drug design to subcellular modelling |
| 17:15 - 18:00 | Panel Discussion on Machine Learning & Deep Learning Moderator: Prof. Rainer Goebel Panel members: Prof. Wolfgang Maass |
| 18:00 | Get together |
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