BCCN/ICCN Berlin Alumni Workshop 2022
We are looking forward to this second meeting with former students, PhDs, postdocs and professors. As participants of the last alumni workshop in 2019 desired, we chose a Friday-Saturday format. Registration form can be found below the program.
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Program:
Friday, June 24 |
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12.30 |
Registration with refreshments/small snack |
13.00 |
Official Opening, Welcome: Michael Brecht, Klaus Obermayer |
Session I |
Chair: Klaus Obermayer |
13.15-14.00 |
Keynote Lecture: “Uncertainty-modulated prediction errors in cortical microcircuits.”, Katharina Wilmes”, Katharina Wilmes, Universität Bern |
14.00-14.20 |
Short Talk: „Starting an open source NLP company“, Timo Möller, Deepset |
14.20 |
SPEED Dating |
15.15 |
Coffee Break |
Session II "Career inside outside university", Chair: Robert Martin |
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16.00-16.15 |
Flashlight Academia: Marcel Stimberg, Mayar Ali, Felix Biessmann |
16.15-16.30 |
Flashlight Free Economy: Nikolay Chenkov, Valentin Hänel, Roberta Evangelista |
16.30-17.45 |
Panel Discussion – Careers within and outside university with Flashlight participants. |
18.00 |
Reception/Dinner |
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Saturday, June 25 |
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Session III |
Chair: Natalie Schieferstein |
10:00-10.30 |
Alumni Talk: "Simulation-based inference for Computational Neuroscience and Beyond", Jan Boelts, Universität Tübingen |
10.30-11.00 |
Alumni Talk: „Flexible integration of sensory evidence in perceptual decision making”, Klaus Wimmer, CRM Barcelona |
11.00-11.30 |
Coffee Break |
11.30-12.15 |
Keynote Lecture: "Thalamocortical interactions for cognitive computations", Jorge Jamillo, Universität Göttingen |
12.15-12.45 |
Alumni Talk: “From Aerodynamics to metamaterials: How the Swiss Data Science Center creates synergies between domain and data science”, Christian Donner, Swiss Data Science |
12.45-14.00 |
Poster Session and Lunch Buffet |
14.00-15.30 |
Workshop "Similarities and differences between art and science - an open dialogue", *Abstract below. |
Session IV |
Chair: Jiameng Wu |
15.30-16.00 |
Current Student's Talk: “Experiments on CA1 ripples by optogenetic stimulation of PV cells” Anna Toro, BCCN Berlin |
16.00-16.30 |
Coffee Break |
16.30-17.00 |
Alumni Talk: “Another world is possible - The gap between academia & industry & the world to come”, Paola Suárez, Thoughtworks |
17.00-17.30 |
Alumni Talk: “A philosophical approach to explainable AI”, Céline Budding, Eindhoven University |
17.30 |
Short Feedback and Closing |
20.00 |
Dinner and/or Night out for those who are interested (self organized) |
This is an BCCN/ICCN Berlin event only for BCCN alumni and for BCCN/ICCN Berlin members and current students. Registration is closed now.
Workshop abstract:
The notion of artists being dependent on sudden outbursts of inspiration is still widespread today. But just like the scientific process, everyday contemporary artistic work involves extended periods of research, preparation, trials and errors. Furthermore, both disciplines strive to create meaningful insights in areas of extreme complexity.
To explore similarities and differences in the working practice and quality criteria and, most importantly, to find out how the two disciplines can mutually benefit from each other, we invite you to an open discussion with three international, Berlin-based artists that share the same object of interest: the (human) brain.
The workshop is performed in collaboration with EDGE e.V. - blurring the borders between Art and Neuroscience.
Participating artists: Eli Ara, Mindaugas Gapševičius, Paula Muhr
Organization: Benjamin Staude
Location: BCCN Berlin, lecture hall, Philippstr. 13 Haus 6, 10115 Berlin