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2010

June 14 - July 1
NEST is one of the software packages to be used for the student projects at the Okinawa Computational Neuroscience Course 2010. This year two NEST experts will serve as tutors: Wiebke Potjans (plasticity and neuromodulators) and Tobias Potjans (structured networks).
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2009

November 16, 2009
NEST release 1.9.8401-2 contains an implementation of the award winning MAT2 neuron model by Kobayashi R, Tsubo Y, and Shinomoto S (2009) Front. Comput. Neurosci. 3:9 doi:10.3389/neuro.10.009.2009. Using this model, Dr. Kobayashi (Ritsumeikan University) won the 1st prizes for Challenges A and B of the INCF Quantitative Single-Neuron Modeling Competition 2009 awarded at the 2nd INCF Congress in Pilsen, Czech Republic.
November 13, 2009
A manuscript reporting the first neuroscientific discovery with NEST only possible with the technology to simulate spike interactions in continuous time has been uploaded to ArXiv. The authors observe a previously overlooked instantaneous non-linear response of the integrate-and-fire neuron.
October 7-9, 2009
FACETS CodeJam Workshop #3
organized by Abigail Morrison abd Bernd Wiebelt with Eilif Muller and Andrew Davison
September 6 - 8, 2009
Dr. Markus Diesmann is an invited speaker at the workshop "High performance computing and grid infrastructure for neuroinformatics applications" at the 2nd INCF Congress of Neuroinformatics
August 3 - 28, 2009
NEST is one of the software packages to be used for the student projects at the 14th Advanced Course in Computational Neuroscience
Tutoring by Moritz Helias
July 22 - 23, 2009
Jochen Martin Eppler presents the NEST-Python integration in a workshop on "Python in Neuroscience" at the 18th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting CNS*2009
July 18, 2009
"Large-Scale Neuronal Network Models: Principles and Practice," a Bernstein-Tutorial at the CNS*2009 meeting by Dr. Hans Ekkehard Plesser
June 18, 2009
Dr. Marc-Oliver Gewaltig gives a NEST tutorial at the Okinawa Computational Neuroscience Course 2009
June 15 - July 2, 2009
NEST is one of the software packages to be used for the student projects at the Okinawa Computational Neuroscience Course 2009
Tutoring by Birgit Kriener
May 25 - 28, 2009
Dr. Marc-Oliver Gewaltig is an invited speaker at the 3rd Workshop on Detailed Modelling and Simulation of Signal Processing in Neurons
April 6, 2009
Dr. Hans Ekkehard Plesser gives an invited talk entitled "Simulating Neuronal Networks: It is easy to do---but do we know what we are doing?" at the University of Oldenburg, Germany
March 27 - 28, 2009
NEST related poster contributions to the 8th Göttingen Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society: T25-10A, T26-2B, -5B, -6B, -7B, -13B, -1C, -3C, -4C, -7C
March 19 - 21, 2009
Members of the NEST Initiative actively particpate in the INCF activity on Standards and Guidelines for Large-Scale Modeling
1st meeting of the task force held in Tokyo, Japan
March 17, 2009
Dr. Hans Ekkehard Plesser gives an invited talk on "Simulating Layered Neuronal Networks with PyNEST" at the University of Tsukuba, Japan
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2008

November 15 - 19, 2008
NEST poster and demo at the INCF booth at the 38th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience
Some conference contributions using the NEST simulator: 16.1, 326.16/C7, 220.1, 694.1/UU62
September 7 - 9, 2008
Live demonstration of NEST at the 1st INCF Congress of Neuroinformatics
NEST related poster contributions: 14, 46, 83, 87
August 5, 2008
NEST tutorial by Dr. Marc-Oliver Gewaltig at the 13th Advanced Course in Computational Neuroscience
August 4 - 29, 2008
NEST is one of the software packages to be used for the student projects at the 13th Advanced Course in Computational Neuroscience
Tutoring by Moritz Helias
July 19 - 24, 2008
NEST related poster contributions to the 17th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting CNS*2008: P60, P69, P131
NEST developers, Alexander Hanuschkin and Susanne Kunkel, receive an award for one of the best poster contributions
June 19, 2009
"Simulating large neural networks with the Neural Simulation Tool NEST", a lecture by Dr. Marc-Oliver Gewaltig at the Okinawa Computational Neuroscience Course 2008
June 16 - July 3, 2008
NEST is one of the software packages to be used for the student projects at the Okinawa Computational Neuroscience Course 2008
Tutoring by Birgit Kriener and Tom Tetzlaff
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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
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