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2010

August 30 - September 1, 2010: Poster contributions describe the current state of NEST at the INCF congress in Kobe, Japan

July 24 - 30, 2010: At the CNS*2010 conference neuroscientific results obtained with NEST will be presented in one featured oral contribution and one short oral contribution: Chris Trengove, Cees van Leeuwen, Markus Diesmann "High storage capacity of synfire chains in large-scale cortical networks of conductance-based spiking neurons."; Tom Tetzlaff, Moritz Helias, Gaute Einevoll, Markus Diesmann "Decorrelation of low-frequency neural activity by inhibitory feedback."

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).

April 29, 2010: The article "The mechanism of synchronization in feed-forward neuronal networks" by Sven Goedeke and Markus Diesmann (2008) New Journal of Physics doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/10/1/015007 has be downloaded over 720 times. The impact factor of this journal is now 3.44.

April 21, 2010: The Junior Professorship Programme of Baden-Wuerttemberg supports Prof. Abigail Morrison's research on the neuronal basis of movement control. All simulations are carried out with NEST. press release

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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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