Activities
From NEST
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2008
- November 2008
- NEST Poster and demonstration at the SfN Meeting 2008 in Washington DC.
- September 2008
- NEST Demonstrations at the first 1st INCF Congress of Neuroinformatics in Stockholm, Sweden
- August 2008
- NEST tutorial at the Advanced Course in Computational Neuroscience in Freiburg, Germany. NEST is one of the software packages to be used for the student projects.
- June 2008
- NEST tutorial at the Okinawa Computational Neuroscience Course 2008. NEST is one of the software packages to be used for the student projects.
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2007
- December 2007
- NEST Poster at the INCF booth at the Society for Neuroscience Meeting 2007 in San Diego.
- August 2007
- NEST tutorial at the FIAS Neuroschool 2007 NEST is one of the software packages to be used for the student projects.
- August 2007
- NEST tutorial at the EU Advanced Course in Computational Neuroscience in Arcachon, France. NEST is one of the software packages to be used for the student projects.
- July 2007
- NEST initiative participates in the workshop "Availability of published computational models for testing and attributed reuse" at the Computational Neuroscience, CNS*07 conference.
- June 2007
- NEST is used in the FACETS course "Modelling for beginners" in Stockholm.
- June 2007
- NEST technology is discussed in a tutorial on "Differential equations and numerics for large spiking neural networks" at the Okinawa Computational Neuroscience Course, OCNC 2007.
- May 2007
- Paper on 'Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity in Balanced Random Networks' using NEST published. Neural Computation 2007; 19:1437-1467
- May 2007
- The NEST web-site moves to MediaWiki, the wikipedia platform.
- April 2007
- NEST is discussed in a review on simulators, accepted for publication in JCNS.
- April 2007
- Milestones and bug-tracking moves to trac platform http://trac.edgewall.org/.
- April 2007
- Discussion on meta-simulator at FACETS CodeJam, Heidelberg.
- 02.04.2007 - 05.04.2007
- Python interface for NEST completed at FACETS CodeJam, Heidelberg.
- March 2007
- Scholarpedia article on NEST published.
- February 2007
- Paper on 'Exact Subthreshold Integration with Continuous Spike Times in Discrete-Time Neural Network Simulations' using NEST published. Neural Computation. 2007;19:47-79
- 11.01.2007 - 13.01.2007
- HRI participates in FACETS meeting.
- January 2007
- HRI introduced as an officially partner of FACETS.
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2006
- December 2006
- Paper on "Programmable Logic Construction Kits for Hyper Real-time Neuronal Modeling" Guerrero-Rivera R, Morrison A, Diesmann M, Pearce, T C (2006) Neural Computation 18 : 2651--2679
- 12.12.2006 - 13.12.2006
- NEST represented at 1st INCF workshop on large-scale modeling; resulting report is consistent with many ideas developed in the course of the research on NEST operations.
- September 2006
- Pre-release of NEST 2 available with distributed computing and STDP capabilities.
- September 2006
- Diesmann reseach group moves to RIKEN BSI [1].
- 07.08.2006 - 01.09.2006
- NEST is one of the software packages that has been used in the advanced course in computational neuroscience in Arcachon, France.
- 31.07.2006 - 11.08.2006
- Introduction to NEST in the course "Simulation of biological neuronal networks" held at the BCCN in Freiburg.
- 16.07.2006 - 18.07.2006
- NEST workshop at CNS Conference in Edinburgh.
- 01.06.2006
- Hathor cluster financed by BCCN fund goes into operation. Photos Hathor
- 25.05.2006
- Article describing technology for simulations with precise spike times accepted for publication by Neural Computation.
- February 2006
- The website of the Black Forest Grid becomes operational.
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2005
- November 2005
- A SUN V40z, 4 x Dual Core 2.2Ghz Opteron SMP system with 32GB memory arrives at the BCCN in Freiburg. The system's mission is:
- explore the properties of complex cortical graphs
- explore hybrid algorithms for large scale simulations combining message-passing with multi-threading to exploit modern computer architectures
- Here are some photos of the hardware.
- September 2005
- The EU funded FACETS project (Fast Analog Computing with Emergent Transient States) starts. NEST is one of the simulation tools used in this project.
- 01.08.2005 - 26.08.2005
- NEST is one of the simulation tools used at the Computational Neuroscience Summer School in Arcachon, France.
- 17.07.2005 - 21.07.2005
- Extended tutorial on NEST at the CNS*2005 Meeting in Madison, Wi.
- 15.05.2005
- The Freiburg based researchers of the NEST Initiative are among the founding members of the Black Forest Grid (also available in German ).
- 18.01.2005 - 28.01.2005
- Contribution to the Summer School on Advanced Scientific Computing in Alpine Heath Resort, Drakensberg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
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2004
- August/September 2004
- Introduction of the Neuro Simulation Tool NEST at the Computational Neuroscience Summer School in Obidos, Portugal.
- February 2004
- Course Simulation of Biological Neural Networks at the University of Freiburg
