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The Valentino Braitenberg Award for Computational Neuroscience will be conferred for the fourth time since 2012. It goes to the neuroscientist Wulfram Gerstner (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), a pioneer in theoretical modelling. Gerstner’s research on synaptic plasticity (spike-timing dependent plasticity (STDP)), is considered groundbreaking in the field of computational neuroscience.
The award is named after Prof. Dr. Valentino Braitenberg (1926, Bozen - 2011, Tübingen), one of the founding directors of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics. With his novel research approach that combined anatomy, physiology and theory, Valentino Braitenberg was a pioneer of the modern research discipline computational neuroscience and has significantly contributed to the development of biological cybernetics, which has in turn inspired robotics and artificial intelligence.
The award is endowed with € 5.000, kindly donated by „Autonome Provinz Bozen Südtirol”. It comes with a special Golden Neuron pin. Following the award ceremony, Wulfram Gerstner will give the Valentino Braitenberg Lecture.
Information on participating / attending:
To participate in this event, registration for the Bernstein Conference is required. Journalists are welcome to the entire conference free of charge, registration obligatory.
Date:
09/26/2018 15:00 - 09/26/2018 16:00
Event venue:
Technische Universität Berlin
Straße des 17. Juni 135
Main lecture hall, H0104
10623 Berlin
Berlin
Germany
Target group:
Journalists, Scientists and scholars
Email address:
Relevance:
local
Subject areas:
Biology, Information technology, Mathematics, Physics / astronomy
Types of events:
Conference / symposium / (annual) conference, Presentation / colloquium / lecture
Entry:
08/29/2018
Sender/author:
Nikola Schwarzer
Department:
Bernstein Koordinationsstelle, Außenstelle des Forschungszentrums Jülich
Event is free:
no
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event61377
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