JGU Workshop on Computational Brain Science

Feb 09 2018
Senatssaal A3.01, Hochschule Mainz
Lucy-Hillebrand-Str. 2, Mainz

Computation meets Neuroscience

Understanding how the human brain works is one of the great scientific challenges of the 21st cen-tury. At the JGU, a large community of scientists are working on brain-related research. This includes questions of understanding the biological mechanisms, brain-associated medical conditions, the structure of biological neural networks, computer simulations of the latter, predictive models of psychological phenomena and mechanisms, artificial intelligence, and many more related topics.

Understanding the brain and cognitive processes is a highly interdisciplinary research area, involving many different disciplines of empirical sciences (physics, biology, bio-chemistry, medicine, psychology, etc.) and various mathematical and computational tools. In particular, a strong link between neuro science and computational science is essential for many of the open research questions.

To join forces, the JGU research centers CSM (Center for Computational Sciences Mainz) and FTN (Focus Program Translational Neurosciences), and DRZ (German Resilience Center) are starting a new research initiative that brings together researchers from these different areas, and in particular strengthens the use of computational tools (such as: machine learning, multi-scale simulations, pat-tern recognition, big data methods, and high-performance computing) and models (such as: network analysis, statistical physics, molecular dynamics).

The goal is to create a new forum for collaborations among the various researchers working in the general area of neuroscience. Furthermore, we aim to get new people on board, who could provide novel computational tools and approaches for the in silico aspects within our planned initiative, in vivo models (such as mouse or drosophila brain data) for benchmarking, validating and challenging the computational tools, as well as colleagues being interested in contributing with ambitious and prominent new ideas for further research questions and funding-initiatives.

Workshop on Computational Brain Science

The JGU centers for Translational Neuroscience (FTN), Computational Science (CSM) and the German Center for resilience (DRZ) are organizing a (JGU internal) workshop on „Computational Brain Science“.

Logistics

The workshop will be held

On Friday, February 09 2018
From 9:00-16:00h
At Hochschule Mainz, Raum A3.01 (Senatssaal), 3rd floor, Lucy-Hillebrand-Str. 2, 55128 Mainz.

The objective of this meeting is to bring together researchers in neuroscience and computational sciences (mathematical and digital modeling and computation) at JGU Mainz. Researchers working at JGU (and collaborators) will present their research directions and challenges as well as new computational tools or demands for these. The goal is to learn on which topics our colleagues on campus are working, and to establish new cooperations in this exciting new research field.

Workshop Schedule

The current workshop schedule can be found at this link:

https://luna.informatik.uni-mainz.de/compBrain/ComputationalBrainScience2018Schedule.pdf

The original call for participation is provided at this link:

https://luna.informatik.uni-mainz.de/compBrain/ComputationalBrainScience2018.pdf

We are looking forward to an interesting discussion on computational brain science!

Organizers & Contact Info

Workshop organization

Susanne Gerber (CSM)
Susann Schweiger-Seemann (FTN)
Michael Wand (CSM)