BCCN/ICCN Berlin Alumni Workshop 2022
The BCCN/ICCN Berlin cordially invite alumni, current students and members to join the BCCN/ICCN Berlin Alumni Workshop in June 2022.
Preliminary Program:
| Friday, June 24 | |
| 12:30 | Registration with refreshments/small snack |
| 13:00 | Official Opening, Welcome |
| Michael Brecht, Klaus Obermayer | |
| Session I | Chair: Klaus Obermayer |
| 13:15 | Keynote Lecture: "Uncertainty-modulated prediction errors in cortical microcircuits.”, Katharina Wilmes, Universität Bern |
| 14:00 | Short Talk: „Starting an open source NLP company”, Timo Möller, Deepset |
| 14:20 | SPEED Dating |
| 15:15 | Coffee break |
| Session II | Session "Career inside outside university" |
| 16:00 | Flashlight – Academia; 3 short talks (Marcel Stimberg, Mayar Ali, Felix Biesmann) |
| 16:15 | Flashlight – Industry; 3 short talks (Nikolay Chenkov, Roberta Evangelista, Valentin Hänel) |
| 16:30 | Panel discussion – Careers within and outside university, moderated by Robert Martin |
| 18:00 | Reception/Dinner |
| Saturday, June -25 | |
| Session III | Chair: Natalie Schieferstein |
| 10:00 | Alumni Talk: „Simulation-based inference for Computational Neuroscience and Beyond”, Jan Boelts, Universität Tübingen |
| 10:30 | Alumni Talk: „Flexible integration of sensory evidence in perceptual decision making”, Klaus Wimmer, CRM Barcelona |
| 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:30 | Keynote Lecture: Thalamocortical interactions for cognitive computations, Jorge Jamillo, European Neuroscience Institute, Göttingen |
| 12.15 | Alumni Talk Academia/Business: “From Aerodynamics to metamaterials: How the Swiss Data Science Center creates synergies between domain and data science", Christian Donner, Swiss Data Science |
| 12:45 | Poster Session and Lunch Buffet |
| 14:00 | Workshop “Similarities and differences between art and science” - an open dialogue (in collaboration with EDGE e.V. - blurring the borders between Art and Neuroscience) Moderation: Benjamin Staude |
| Session IV | Chair: tba |
| 15:30 | Current student's talk: “Experiments on CA1 ripples by optogenetic stimulation of PV cells”, Anna Toro, BCCN Berlin |
| 16:00 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 | Alumni Talk: “Another world is possible - The gap between academia & industry & the world to come”, Paola Suárez, Thoughtworks |
| 17:00 | 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 |
This is an BCCN/ICCN Berlin event only for BCCN alumni and for BCCN/ICCN Berlin members. Registration is closed now, we cannot accept further participants.
Location: BCCN Berlin, lecture hall, Philippstr. 13 Haus 6, 10115 Berlin