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TYPE: NICTA WHEN: 5:00 PM - 16 Nov 09 VENUE: Brown Theatre Level 1 EEE building	ICT for Life Sciences Forum - "Brain modelling and brain-inspired computing." by: Professor Anders Lansner of Director of the Computational and Modelling platform
ABSTRACT: The synergies between the fields of information science and technology and that of brain and neuroscience go both ways. Advanced software tools as well as equipment heavy in informatics are employed extensively in brain research. One set of tools allow us to model the brain and perform multi-scale simulations on high performance computers. Such simulations enable understanding of psychological phenomena in terms of mechanisms at the neuronal level which will be useful e.g. in the design of new drugs. But also, with massively parallel processing as the current route to higher performance, our computer architectures are becoming more similar to the brain. As we learn more about the mechanisms underlying its parallel and distributed information processing we may find new ways to design IT systems and tools with more intelligence built into them. Such technology has many important applications with a potential to increase quality of life in our society. In my presentation I will describe neuroinformatics tools for computer modelling of the brain. This will be illustrated with examples from our own modelling work using supercomputers, thus allowing detailed simulations of networks with millions of neurons and billions of synapses. I will also describe how our knowledge about the brain has inspired the design of special purpose computer hardware for brain simulation and brain-like computation. The European Research Project FACETS brings together neuroscientists, computer scientists, and hardware designers to construct a wafer-scale analogue VLSI system capable of high speed emulation of very large neural networks. The prospects and applications for future developments of this technology will be discussed.
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY: Professor Anders Lansner PhD. Anders Lansner received his MSc (Engineering Chemistry) degree from Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm in 1974 and his PhD degree in Computer Science from KTH in 1986. He was appointed Professor in Computer Science at KTH in 2000 and elected Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in 2008. Dr Lansner has worked for more than 30 years in the fields of computational neuroscience and brain-like computation in particular with modelling of locomotor rhythm generation in the spinal cord and associative memory mechanisms in the neocortex. Dr Lansner is active in European research on Neuro-IT and is presently involved in four large projects in the field funded by the European Commission, among them the FACETS project. Dr Lansner has been building up the computational neuroscience and biology activities at the School of Computer Science and Communication at KTH and was founding director of its Department of Computational Biology formed in 2006. This is currently the fastest growing unit of the school. He has also been a major force in promoting the collaboration with Karolinska Institutet in the field of neuroinformatics and brain modelling. This collaboration is now established as the Stockholm Brain Institute (SBI) and Dr Lansner is director of the Computational and Modelling platform of SBI. Dr Lansner is further Swedish representative in the board of the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF) which is located Stockholm hosted by Karolinska Institutet and KTH.

TYPE: NICTA
WHEN: 12:00 PM - 19 Nov 09
VENUE: ICT Building. 111 Barry St, Carlton

NICTA VRL Open Day
by: project leaders

ABSTRACT: In June, NICTA's Victoria Research Laboratory celebrated its fifth birthday. The 2009 Open Day provides the public with an opportunity to view the range of exciting Information CRLeventsCommunication Technologies (ICT) research developed over that time and the impact our research will have on Health, Infrastructure, Sustainability and the Digital Economy.

The Open Day will, among other things, showcase the electronics behind an advanced bionic eye, software used in detecting cancers, technology that is saving Australias scarce water supplies and making our agriculture more productive, the next generation indoor wireless technology and software tools that will assist government authorities plan complex infrastructure decisions - and there is much more to see and learn about!

The Open Day is an opportunity to meet with NICTA researchers and PhD students, and find out what impact they are making through their innovative technology.

A series of project presentations will be held in Theatre 1 just opposite the showcase displays from 2pm - 5pm. Come and learn more about our approach to addressing some of Australias problems that will impact many of us in the future.

Time Project Name

2.00 - 2.15 Diagnostic Genomics Genomics for better health and agriculture 2.20 - 2.35 BioTALA - Better information delivery to drive a healthy future 2.40 - 2.55 MIDAS Cell data to develop effective medication and drugs 3.00 - 3.15 MAMI/mdi Real time diagnostics for communication networks 3.20 - 3.35 WIN Water Information Networks, greater farm productivity and efficiency 3.40 - 3.55 G12 - Delivering efficient infrastructure investment 4.00 - 4.15 P2P Scalable technology for collaborative applications 4.20 - 4.35 GiFi Unwiring the home and office of the future 4.40 - 4.55 Bionic Eye Restoring vision loss

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY: NICTA researchers presenting on their projects

Past Seminars

Date	Title	Type	Speaker	Slides
19/10	ICT for Life Sciences Forum - "Systems Engineering: What can it contribute to Neural Engineering?"	NICTA	Professor Jonathan Manton	--
15/10	Big Picture Seminar - ""The Square Kilometre Array: An International Radio Telescope for the 21st Century"	VRL	Professor Bryan Gaensler	--
15/10	Big Picture Seminar - "The Square Kilometre Array: An International Radio Telescope for the 21st Century."	NICTA	Professor Brian Gaensler	--
11/09	Learning time-intensity profiles and event detection in sensor data	NICTA	Alex Ihler	--
10/09	Electromagnetic Modelling of Carbon Nanotube Interconnects	NICTA	Professor Marcello DAmore	--
27/08	A fully flexible stimulator using 65 nm CMOS process for high resolution epiretinal prosthesis	NICTA	Nhan Tran	--
24/08	Wireless Power Supply for High Resolution Epi-retinal Implant	NICTA	Shun Bai	--
20/08	Eye Closure Penalty Based Signal Quality Metric for Intelligent All-Optical Networks	NICTA	Jonathan Li	--
17/08	Big Picture Seminar - "How and Why Google Changes the World"	NICTA	Prof. Emeritus Jeffrey Ullman	--
6/08	Briefing to NICTA students	NICTA	Rob Evans	--
5/08	ICT for Life Sciences Forum - The Allen Brain Atlas: Neurogenomics Meets Neuroinformatics by Prof. Mike Hawrylcz	NICTA	Prof. Mike Hawrylcz	--
5/08	Investigation of Electrooptic Sampling Systems for Sensitive Measurement of Electric Field	NICTA	Huma Ismail	--
30/07	Electronic CDMA and its applications in optical networks	NICTA	Nishaanthan Nadarajah	--
9/07	OECC Practice Talks	NICTA	Bipin Sankar and Chien Aun Chan	--
7/07	OECC Practice Talks	NICTA	Yan Tang and Lenin Mehedy	--
6/07	ICT for Life Sciences Forum - presentation by Professor Stan Skafidas of NICTA on Artificial Silicon Retina: the role of microelectronics in restoring vision loss.	NICTA	Professor Stan Skafidas	--
2/07	Water Information Networks - The role of ICT in the improved management of Australia's water fresh resources	NICTA	Khusro Saleem	--
30/06	OECC Practice Talks	NICTA	Yiran Ma and Simin Chen	--
25/06	Estimating GCD via L2 and L1 optimization for Evapotranspiration Image fusion	NICTA	Wanzhi Qiu	--
18/06	Chipless Radio Frequency Identification System - A Paradigm RFID	NICTA	Dr Nemai Karmakar	--
11/06	Ultrafast nonlinear optics on a chip: Breaking the terabit per-second barrier	NICTA	Professor Benjamin Eggleton	--
9/06	Real-time Coherent Optical OFDM Reception	NICTA	Simin Chen	--
4/06	Support Vector Machines with Applications to Evapotranspiration Estimation	NICTA	Minh Pham	--
26/05	NICTA - Meet the Founder Interview Series - Alan Finkel, founder Axon Instruments	NICTA	Alan Finkel	--
25/05	ICT for Life Sciences Forum Professor Stan Skafidas of NICTA on Artificial Silicon Retina: the role of microelectronics in restoring vision loss.	NICTA	Professor Stan Skafidas	--
22/05	Micro-structured guided-wave devices for applications in optical communication and sensing	NICTA	Professor Graham Town	--
13/05	Biological learning mechanisms in spiking neuronal networks	NICTA	Matthieu Gilson	--
7/05	Analysis and Design of CMOS Mixers for Millimeter-Wave Direct-Conversion Transceivers	NICTA	Frank Zhang	--
30/04	Design and analysis of millimeter-wave CMOS frequency dividers and phase-locked loop for 60-GHz wireless applications	NICTA	Yuan (Mobil) Mo	--
22/04	Big Picture Seminar - "Green Internet"	NICTA	Dr Rod Tucker	--
22/04	Big Picture Seminar "A Green Internet"	VRL	Prof Rod Tucker	--
20/04	Meet the Founder Interview Series	VRL	Bill Wood - President, Daintree Networks	--
16/04	Restricted neural excitation with electrical stimulation	NICTA	Dr. James Fallon	--
9/04	60 GHz Bandpass Filter and Passive Designs on CMOS	NICTA	Wave (Bo) Yang	--
2/04	Spatial Resolution of a Retinal Prosthesis	NICTA	Emily OBrien	--
23/03	ICT for Life Sciences Forum	VRL	Professor Robert Shepherd	--
19/03	OFC practice talks	NICTA	Yan Tang and Simin Chen	--
12/03	Quantum Field Theory and Noise in Optical Communications	NICTA	Kerry Hinton	--
5/03	Architectures for Energy-efficient IPTV Networks	NICTA	Jayant Baliga	--

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