Congratulations, Axel (woot woot), for being awarded an SNSF Swiss Postdoctoral Fellowship, the interim Swiss equivalent of a Marie Curie European Fellowship, to work on fundamental questions pertaining to neuronal circuit architectures and learning. WeContinue reading
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Spektrum der Wissenschaft story on self-calibration in neuromorphic systems
We are very happy that in their current issue Spektrum der Wissenschaft picked up our collaboration story with Uni Heidelberg on self-calibration through surrogate gradient learning in analog neuromorphic systems.
High school students visiting the FMI
Lab members organized a station for a recent outreach event during which more than 200 high school students from Basel and surroundings visited the FMI to learn more about genetics and neuroscience research. At theContinue reading
Quantamagazine covers our work on learning on analog neuromorphic hardware
Allison Whitten wrote a nice article for Quantamagazine about our recent collaboration with Heidelberg on the BrainScaleS-2 neuromorphic chip. Analog hardware faces similar obstacles as the brain when learning: Neuronal heterogeneity means that you won’tContinue reading
Story on Spiking Neural Networks
Here is a quick shout-out to this nice news story on spiking nets and surrogate gradients by Anil Ananthaswamy, the Science Communicator in Residence at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing in Berkeley.Continue reading
Online workshop: Spiking neural networks as universal function approximators
Dan Goodman and myself are organizing an online workshop on new approaches to training spiking neural networks, Aug 31st / Sep 1st 2020. Invited speakers: Sander Bohte (CWI), Iulia M. Comsa (Google), Franz Scherr (TUG), Emre Neftci (UC Irvine),Continue reading
Talk at “Functional network dynamics: Recent mathematical perspectives” workshop CNS 2019, Barcelona
Thanks to the organizers for inviting me to the “Functional network dynamics: Recent mathematical perspectives” workshop at CNS this year. I am very much looking forward to our discussions. https://matthieugilson.eu/events/workshop_CNS2019.html Update: Apologies again that myContinue reading
Talk at “Neuroscience meets Deep Learning” Symposium at EPF Lausanne
I am stoked for the EPFL Neurosymposium “Neuroscience meets Deep Learning” next week. July 8th to July 9th 2019 in Lausanne, Switzerland https://neurosymposiumsummer2019.epfl.ch/ I will talk about: “Credit assignment in space and time — TrainingContinue reading
zenkelab.org online
My lab’s website zenkelab.org is online! Moreover, I am looking for PhD students. If you are interested apply for the May 1st 2019 deadline.
Auryn 0.8.2 released
I am happy to announce a long overdue maintenance release of Auryn v0.8.2m with plenty of fixes and improvements. Most notable improvement are the added support for non x86 architectures such as Arm and PowerPC.Continue reading