Dear colleagues,

we would like to draw your attention to the hands-on tutorial entitled "T11: Simulation of spiking and BOLD signals using the ANNarchy simulator” of the upcoming CNS conference held in Leipzig (https://www.cnsorg.org/cns-2023). The tutorial will take place on Saturday, July 15th in the afternoon session.

The ANNarchy neuro-simulator targets the efficient simulation of rate-coded and spiking models on shared memory systems (multi-core, GPU). This tutorial will first introduce the definition of spiking neural networks in ANNarchy through its equation-oriented interface. The tutorial can be done on your laptops using the provided Jupyter notebooks or remotely on colab. The second part will demonstrate how to record BOLD signals from a spiking simulation using various balloon models and optimize the underlying hyperparameters.

Registration for the tutorials at CNS 2023 is required and can be done at: https://ocns.memberclicks.net/cns-2023-registration

The tutorial description can be found here: https://cns2023.sched.com/event/1NDRl

Useful links:

Source code: https://github.com/ANNarchy/ANNarchy
Documentation: https://annarchy.github.io/
White paper of the ANNarchy neural simulator: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fninf.2015.00019/full
BOLD monitoring in ANNarchy: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fninf.2022.790966/full

Best regards

Fred Hamker, Helge Ülo Dinkelbach, Julien Vitay

Professur Künstliche Intelligenz

Fakultät für Informatik

Technische Universität Chemnitz

Straße der Nationen 62

09111 Chemnitz Germany