An unconventional schedule, for an unconventional workshop... (why is it so?)
Room reservation sheet
Use this page if you need to reserve the lecture room in the afternoons for your workgroup.
See [time slots for initial notion of workgroup scheduling].
Mon, April 26 - Workshop introduction and preparation: themes and projects that will be addressed
Click link for notes on the discussion
7:30-8:30 Breakfast
9:00-9:15 Welcome and introduction (Giacomo Indiveri)
Morning session chairs: Giacomo Indiveri, Rodney Douglas, Tobi Delbruck
9:15-10:00 Background and open issues (3 to 4 short presentations)
10:00-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-12:00 Open Discussion: Point of view from each participant
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:45 Open Discussion: Project descriptions...
15:45-16:15 Coffee break
16:15-18:00 Workgroup Advertisements - Hands-on projects (Organizational meeting)
19:00-19:30 Tour of the lab-space (Disco)
19:30-21:15 Dinner
Tue, April 27 - Problem of the day: Non conventional/non-von Neumann computing
7:30-8:30 Breakfast
Morning session chair: Karlheinz Meier
9:00-10:00 Brief presentations of and open discussion of various neuromorphic non-von Neumann approaches to computation
- Is there any use for a generic neuromorphic device? Karlheinz Meier
- Computing with artificial evolving gene regulatory networks Borys Wrobel
- Computing with Memristive Devices Mika Laiho
10:00-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-12:00 Open discussion of various neuromorphic non-von Neumann approaches to computation
12:30-14:00 Lunch
Afternoon session chairs: Daniel B. Fasnacht, Tobi Delbruck
14:00-15:45 Intros to:
- the Python programming language (Daniel B. Fasnacht),
- PyNN (Daniel Bruederle),
- Python Traits and Chaco (Sadique Sheik),
- to [ jAER] for fast algorithmic processing of sensory AER data (Tobi Delbruck), and
- an overview of Factor Graphs and Graphical Models (Christoph Krautz, Florian Jug, Matthew Cook)
15:45-16:15 Coffee break
16:15-18:00 Hands-on projects and discussion meetings
- 16:30-17:00 Intro meeting, Perception-Cognition-Action Loops in Spike-Based Robotic Systems, location: entrance area of "Disco"
- 16:30-17:00 Intro meeting, WTA / Cortical computation workgroup: Lecture room
- 17:00-17:30 Intro meeting, Factor Maps - an Event Based Vision Project: Lecture Room
- 17:30-18:00 Intro meeting, Computation with synchrony in cortex
- 18:00-18:30 Kick-off meeting (Neuromorphic) Attention; location: outside, in front of the dining room
- 18:00-19:00 Flaghsip Initiative discussion group (lecture room)
- 19:00-19:30 State Dependent Processing workgroup; location: disco, INI setup table
- 19:00-19:30 AER 2010 workgroup; aer10 & eMorph kickoff meeting @ disco
19:30-21:15 Dinner
- 21:00-21:30 VLSISTDPINI: Learning with spikes (sounds and gestures) workgroup : Globe
- 21:30-22:00 Intro meeting, Cochlear Spikes processing for word extraction : Globe room
21:30 Hands-on projects: wiki:2010/dvsvision10 initial meeting in lecture room - with beamer.
Wed, April 28 - Problem of the day: Modeling neural systems with asynchronous VLSI
7:30-8:30 Breakfast
Morning session chairs: Alexander Rast, Tobi Delbruck, Johannes Schemmel, Karlheinz Meier
9:00-10:00 Background and open issues (3 to 4 short presentations)
- Neuromimetic devices: bio-inspired configurable computing Alexander Rast
- Beyond Neural Applications: Creative uses of neural hardware David Lester
10:00-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-12:00 Open Discussion: What aspects of the problem are crucial and possible solutions?
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:45 Workgroup meetings
- 14:00 WTA / Cortical computation workgroup meeting (Lecture room)
- 15:00 wiki:2010/dvsvision10 meet in lecture for intro to jAER programming and use (moved from previous evening which conflicted with soccer).
- 15:45-16:15 Perception-Cognition-Action Loops in Spike-Based Robotic Systems;
- go to jAER introduction and talk to Tobi, Dennis or me during the following coffee break if you are interested in projects; we will be somewhere next to the robot arm.
15:45-16:15 Coffee break
16:15-18:00 Hands-on projects and discussion meetings
- 16:15-18:00 Intro meeting, Using SpiNNaker for Real-World Neural Applications, location: Lecture Room
- 18:00 Exploring Network architectures with the FACETS Hardware and PyNN: First meeting with PyNN + Hardware tutorials (disco)
19:30-21:15 Dinner
21:00 lecture room busy showing Champion's league game...
21:00 - Hands-on projects and discussion meetings
- 21:00 Discussion group meeting: Memristive synapses and computing schemes Location: Globe room
- 21:00 Workgroup meeting: VLSISTDPINI (Sounds/Gestures/MNIST) Location: disco
Thu, April 29 - Problem of the day: AER circuits and interfaces
7:30-8:30 Breakfast
Morning session chairs: Tobi Delbruck, 'Rafa Paz', Daniel B. Fasnacht, Christoph Posch
9:00-10:00 Background and open issues (3 to 4 short presentations)
- Delay-insensitive asynchronous interfaces for AER transmitters (e.g. sensors) - introduction Tobi Delbruck
- Neurocore/neurogrid architecture challanges Shauki Elassaad
- AER-to computer interfaces Tobi Delbruck, Daniel B. Fasnacht
- Stacking FPGAs for AER processing Paco Gómez, 'Rafa Paz', Anton Civit
10:00-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-12:00 Open Discussion: What aspects of the problem are crucial?
- Open source IP for silicon, e.g. AER/biasgen Tobi Delbruck, Shauki Elassaad
- Teaching principles of delay-insensitive asynchronous design (e.g. Martin's CHP, HSE, PR flow or other flows) Shauki Elassaad, 'alex rust'
- Using COTS asynchronous FGPAs
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:45 Workgroup meetings
- 14:00 2010/transsynchtheory10, Computation with synchrony workgroup meeting (Lecture room)
15:45-16:15 Coffee break
16:15-19:30 Hands-on projects and discussion meetings
- 16:15 :17 Cochlear Spikes processing for word extraction? (Globe room)
- 16:15-18:00 VLSISTDPINI (Sounds/Gestures/MNIST) Location: disco
- 16:15-18:00 Exploring Network architectures with the FACETS Hardware and PyNN (disco)
- 17:00-18:00 Factor Maps - an Event Based Vision Project: Globe room
- 18:00: (Neuromorphic) Attention, location: outside, in front of the dining room
19:30-21:15 Dinner
21:30- Hands-on projects and discussion meetings
- 21:30 2010/dvsvision10 in disco.
- 21:30 2010/bindsynch10 in Globe Room
- 21:30 UK General Election 2010 group in the lecture room: We will try to follow the 3rd and final televised debate between Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg
Fri, April 30 - Problem of the day: Learning, Attention, and WTA networks in neuromorphic systems
7:30-8:30 Breakfast
Morning session chairs: Chiara Bartolozzi, Ernst Niebur, Ryad Benosman, Timmer Horiuchi, Massimiliano Versace
9:00-10:00 Background and open issues (3 to 4 short presentations)
10:00-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-12:00 Open Discussion: What aspects of the problem are crucial?
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:45 Workgroup meetings
- 14:00 Computation in cortex workgroup meeting (Lecture Room)
15:45-16:15 Coffee break
16:15-19:30 Hands-on projects and discussion meetings
- 16:15 (Neuromorphic) Attention; location: outside, in front of the dining room
- 16:15 VLSISTDPINI: tempotron/gestures/mnist meeting; location: disco
- 18:00-19:30 Exploring Network architectures with the FACETS Hardware and PyNN (disco)
19:30-21:15 Dinner
21:30 Hands-on projects
- 21:00 AER 2010 - Discussion Meeting about common interfaces and protocols
- 21:30 USB-AER Board Tutorial in disco
Sat, May 1 - Problem of the day: Event-driven real-time behaving systems
7:30-8:30 Breakfast
Morning session chairs: Paul Verschure, Giorgio Metta, Eros Pasero, Jorg Conradt, Tobi Delbruck
9:00-10:00 Background and open issues (3 to 4 short presentations)
10:00-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-12:00 Open Discussion: What aspects of the problem are crucial?
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:45 Workgroup meetings
- 14:00 (Neuromorphic) Attention; location: outside, in front of the dining room
- 14:00 VLSISTDPINI tempotron/Gestures/MNIST/Cpg Hands-on meeting; location: disco
15:00 Discover SCUBA Diving - Everybody interested in sticking his head under water for the first time meets at 15:00 at the beach / scuba shop
15:45-16:15 Coffee break
16:15-18:00 Hands-on projects and discussion meetings
- 16:15 2010/transsynchtheory10 Computation with synchrony workgroup meetings (Lecture Room)
- 18:00 Using SpiNNaker for Real-World Neural Applications, location: Lecture Room
19:30-21:15 Dinner
21:30 Hands-on projects
- 21:15 - Talk about Temporal Population Code - Globe room
Mon, May 3 - Problem of the day: Graphical models, daisies, dynamics and contraction
7:30-8:30 Breakfast
Morning session chairs: Matthew Cook, Christoph von der Malsburg, Jean-Jacques Slotine, Ueli Rutishauser
9:00-10:00 Background and open issues (3 to 4 short presentations)
10:00-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-12:00 Open Discussion: What aspects of the problem are crucial?
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:45 Workgroup meetings
- 14:00 ...
15:45-16:15 Coffee break
16:15-19:30 Hands-on projects and discussion meetings
- 16:15 WTA / Computation in cortex discussion group (Lecture room)
- 17:00-18:00 Development & evolution of cognitive systems (Lecture room)
- 18:00-19:30 Exploring Network architectures with the FACETS Hardware and PyNN (disco)
19:30-21:15 Dinner
- 21:00 Discussion group meeting: Memristive synapses and computing schemes Location: Globe room
21:30 Hands-on projects
Tue, May 4 - Problem of the day: Cortical hierarchies, networks, and daisies
7:30-8:30 Breakfast
Morning session chairs: Henry Kennedy, Rodney Douglas, Yves Fregnac, Peter König, Ken Knoblauch
9:00-10:00 Background and open issues (3 to 4 short presentations)
10:00-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-12:00 Open Discussion: What aspects of the problem are crucial?
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:45 Workgroup meetings
- 14:00 2010/transsynchhardware10 Computation with synchrony workgroup meeting (disco)
- 14:00-15:30 Development & evolution of cognitive systems (Lecture room)
15:45-16:15 Coffee break
16:15-19:30 Hands-on projects and discussion meetings
- 16:15-18:00 WTA / Computation in cortex workgroup meeting (globe room)
- 18:00-19:30 Exploring Network architectures with the FACETS Hardware and PyNN (disco)
19:30-21:15 Dinner
21:30 Hands-on projects
Wed, May 5 - Problem of the day: Daisies for auditory scene analysis
DAISY REVIEW - today there will be a parallel meeting in Porto Conte Ricerche
7:30-8:30 Breakfast
Morning session chairs: Shihab Shamma, Heather Ames, Patrick Kanold
9:00-10:00 Background and open issues (3 to 4 short presentations)
10:00-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-12:00 Open Discussion: What aspects of the problem are crucial?
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:45 Workgroup meetings...
- 14:00 - wiki:2010/dvsvision10 & wiki:2010/spikingrobots10 in disco
15:45-16:15 Coffee break
16:15-19:30 Hands-on projects and discussion meetings
- 16:00-18:00 Development & evolution of cognitive systems (Lecture room)
- 18:00-19:30 Exploring Network architectures with the FACETS Hardware and PyNN (disco)
19:30-21:15 Dinner
21:00 Joint meeting of the discussion groups Development & evolution of cognitive systems and Cortical Hierarchies (lecture room).
21:30 Hands-on projects
DAISY REVIEW - today there will be a parallel meeting in Porto Conte Ricerche
7:30-8:30 Breakfast
Morning session chairs: Michael Pfeiffer, Thomas Wennekers, Alessandro Villa, paolo del giudice, Yves Fregnac
9:00-10:00 Background and open issues (3 to 4 short presentations)
10:00-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-12:00 Open Discussion: What aspects of the problem are crucial?
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:45 Workgroup and discussion group meetings
- 14:00-15:00 spiking cochlea system? demo and applications
- 14:30-15:30 Discussion group: Cortical Hierarchies (lecture room).
- 15:30-16:15 Discussion group: Analog circuits for neurons and synapses
15:45-16:15 Coffee break
16:15-19:30 Hands-on projects and discussion meetings
- 16:00-17:00 Using SpiNNaker for Real-World Neural Applications, location: Lecture Room
- 16:15-18:00 wiki:2010/dvsvision10 & wiki:2010/spikingrobots10 in disco
- 17:00-18:00 Development & evolution of cognitive systems (Lecture room)
- 17:00-18:00 Cognition -- How would we know it if we saw it?
- 18:00-19:30 Exploring Network architectures with the FACETS Hardware and PyNN (disco)
- 18:00-19:00 FET Flagship discussion group. Locarion: lecture room.
- 18:00-19:00 SSA and Novelty detection discussion group - Disco.
19:30-21:15 Dinner
- 20:00 The UK General Election 2010 group will be following coverage of the election results in the lecture room.
- 21:00 Discussion group meeting: Memristive synapses and computing schemes Location: Globe room
21:30 Hands-on projects
Fri, May 7 - Problem of the day: Integrated development of inter-areal pathways
7:30-8:30 Breakfast
Morning session chairs: Henry Kennedy, Kevan Martin, Colette Dehay
9:00-10:00 Background and open issues (3 to 4 short presentations)
10:00-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-12:00 Open Discussion: What aspects of the problem are crucial?
12:30-14:00 Lunch
- 13:30-17:00 Climbing? (meet in the bar)
14:00-15:45 Workgroup meetings
- 14:00-15:30 Cortical Hierarchies & Evolution & development of cognitive systems (lecture room).
- 14:30: (Neuromorphic) Attention, location: Disco
15:45-16:15 Coffee break
16:15-19:30 Hands-on projects and discussion meetings
- 16:00-18:00 WTA / Cortical computation workgroup (Globe room).
- 16:15 - Discussion group: Analog circuits for neurons and synapses (lecture room).
- 16:15 - wiki:2010/dvsvision10 & wiki:2010/spikingrobots10 in disco
- 18:00-19:30 Exploring Network architectures with the FACETS Hardware and PyNN (disco)
19:30-21:15 Dinner
- 21:00 Recreational group meeting: Chocolate Tasting? Location: Globe room
21:30 Hands-on projects
Sat, May 8 - Gran Finale: hands-on projects results
SECO REVIEW - today there will be a parallel meeting in Porto Conte Ricerche
7:30-8:30 Breakfast
Morning session chairs: Giacomo Indiveri, Tobi Delbruck
9:00-10:00 Hands-on projects live demos in lecture room
Each project gets 10 minutes (hard limit), and either a live demo or one results figure or movie.
10:00-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-11:15 Discussion group reports
11:15-12:00 Hands-on projects previews (live demo will be in disco, in the afternoon)
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:45 Hands-on projects live demos in disco
15:45-16:15 Coffee break
16:15-18:00 Project and workshop write-up (in the wiki)
19:30-21:15 Dinner
Sun, May 9 Checkout and departure day
SECO REVIEW - today there will be a parallel meeting in Porto Conte Ricerche
