{"id":9839,"date":"2019-03-29T14:36:50","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T05:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ircn.jp\/?p=9839"},"modified":"2025-03-05T14:22:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T05:22:42","slug":"032124-19-neuro-inspired-computation-course-university-of-tokyo-japan-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ircn.jp\/en\/workshops\/032124-19-neuro-inspired-computation-course-university-of-tokyo-japan-2","title":{"rendered":"March 21-24, 2019\uff1aFirst IRCN Neuro-Inspired Computation Course Breaks New Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
International Exchange of Ideas at Boundary of Computer Science and Neuroscience<\/font><\/strong><\/center>\r\n\r\n\"\"\r\n\r\nIn a verdant setting in the University of Tokyo Hongo campus, overlooking a forested pond and with the meditative intensity of a neighboring Zen archery studio, scientists from 16 countries gathered to learn from global experts how to create synergy between two of the hottest research fields in the last decade, computer science and neuroscience.<\/br><\/br>\r\n\r\nWith 29 international students, 69 UTokyo students and researchers, and 18 teaching faculty, the inaugural IRCN Neuro-inspired Computation Course transpired in 4 days from March 21-24, 2019 at Sanjo Kaikan Hall and nearby IRCN meeting spaces. The course consisted of lectures interleaved with posters and breakout discussion sessions.<\/br><\/br>\r\n\r\nThe students heard from a broad expanse of frontier fields including brain and computer architecture, dynamical neural networks, machine and deep learning, brain development and disorders, and reinforcement learning. Many lecturers covered multiple areas giving an interdisciplinary focus to the proceedings and enabling bridging between disciplines.<\/br><\/br>\r\n\r\n
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\u201cThere are people who work on everything here. It's not only that you have speakers in different fields but they work across different fields. They are used to switching\u201d. <\/i><\/br>\r\nPau Vilimelis Aceituno, PhD student, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n

<\/div><\/br>\r\n\r\nThe course was the brainchild of IRCN Director Takao Hensch, who has long pursued his landmark research on the developmental physiology of visual cortex in collaboration with computational neuroscientists. Hensch attributes his approach to science and computing to his mentor at The University of Tokyo and RIKEN, the late Professor Masao Ito.<\/br>\r\n\r\n

Takao Hensch opening @IRCN_UTokyo<\/a>'s Neuro-Inspired course! #IRCN_NeuroInspired19<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/VNIg1dKVpI<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/BjPk9A23ta<\/a><\/p>— Nima Dehghani (@neurovium) March 21, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote>