Why does the brain maintain such precise excitatory-inhibitory balance? Our new preprint led by Julian Rossbroich explores a provocative idea: Small, targeted deviations from this balance may serve a purpose: to encode local error signalsContinue reading
Congratulations Manu
Congratulations, Dr Srinath Halvagal. Another doctor from the lab. We had fun and he left his mark. We are sad to see him go, but happy to see him head off for a post-doc withContinue reading
SNN Workshop in Munich
Gitta Kutyniok, the Bavarian AI Chair for Mathematical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence and her team at the LMU organized an inspiring workshop on spiking neural networks with a fantastic lineup of speakers including Wolfgang Maass,Continue reading
Congratulations Julian
Congratulations, Dr Rossbroich! We had an awesome time with great science and it is bitter sweet to see him fledge. And what a nice hat (thanks to all the lab members)!
Paper: Geometry and dynamics of representations in a precisely balanced memory network
Claire’s article “Geometry and dynamics of representations in a precisely balanced memory network related to olfactory cortex” was published. We built a spiking network model of the telencephalic area Dp in adult zebrafish, which isContinue reading
SNUFA 2024
We are excited about another year of SNUFA our friendly focus meeting on spiking neural networks that solve real-world problems. Check out our work on SNNs in biologically plausible olfactory memory networks, decoding BMI data,Continue reading
Tengjun, Julia, and Julian score first prize at the BiOCAS neural decoding challenge
We are proud of our team’s achievement of winning the first prize at the BiOCAS grand neural decoding challenge for their work of decoding cortical spike trains with artificial spiking neural networks. Congratulations! Liu, T.,Continue reading
Tengjun, Julia, and Julian win the Ruth Chiquet prize
Congratulations to Tengjun, Julia, and Julian for being awarded the Ruth Chiquet Prize! The award recognizes their work on using spiking neural networks to decode brain signals. “The committee was impressed by the elegance ofContinue reading
Hiring: Exploring the circuit mechanisms for learning and simulating a world model
Understanding how the brain constructs and simulates world models is a fundamental challenge in neuroscience. We are looking for someone to join our crew to explore the neuronal circuit mechanisms for learning and simulating worldContinue reading
Discussing science at les Rasses
Julia gave a nice talk on spiking nets at a focus meeting at Les Rasses with the obligatory walk up the Chasseron. Thanks to Christian Lüscher and Andreas Lüthi for organizing the meeting. Photo byContinue reading