2020 Program
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2020 Workshop calendar overview
Session time
11 Sept. 2020: Challenge Results
The challenges presented their final results.
Agenda
Workshop summary
2020 Telluride Challenge Projects:
Insights into the early motion pathway (VISION)
Guided reinforcement learning and imitation learning (GRILL)
Learning to control race car (L2RACE)
Benchmarking event-based meta-learning (METAL)
Thank you and goodbye
Monday Aug. 3: Tutorials and General Talks
Host: Guido Zarrella
(15m) Cornelia Fermuller & Guido Zarrella: Introduction to the Telluride Neuromorphic Cognition Engineering Workshop
(30m) Shih-Chii Liu (UZH and ETH Zürich): Neuromorphic electronics: A historical perspective and outlook
(40m) Terry Sejnowski (Salk): The once and future Telluride Neuromorphic Workshops
(15m) Award of 2019 Misha Mahowald Prize for Neuromorphic Engineering: Tobi Delbruck and Rodney Douglas.
(5m each) Release for pre-recorded tutorials. Q&A for each tutorial later in week:
Terry Stewart (NRC): Nengo, cognitive models and neuromorphic hardware
Emre Neftci (UC Irvine): Event-based learning and surrogate gradients
Cornelia Fermuller (U. Maryland): Early motion pathway
Tobi Delbruck (UZH-ETH Zürich): Silicon retina event cameras
Tuesday Aug. 4: Learning to Control
Host: Tobi Delbruck, speaker introductions: John Doyle (Caltech)
(30m) Rodolphe Sepulchre (Cambridge, UK): Learning to control artificial neurons with neuromodulation.
(30m) Martina Poletti (U Rochester): The synergy between oculomotor behavior and visual perception.
(30m) Yorie Nakahira (Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pittsburgh): Diversity-enabled sweet spots in layered architectures and speed-accuracy trade-offs in sensorimotor control. Joint work with Quanying Liu, Terry Sejnowski, and John Doyle
Tutorial Q & A: Cornelia Fermuller: Early motion pathway
Wednesday Aug. 5: Cognition and Reinforcement Learning
Host: Emre Neftci
(30m) Andrea Stocco (U. Washington): Reinforcement learning in brains
(30m) Terry Stewart (NRC): Representing space and time in neurons
(30m) Benjamin Scellier (MILA, Montréal): Training nonlinear resistive networks with equilibrium propagation. Joint work with Yoshua Bengio.
Tutorial Q & A: : Terry Stewart: Nengo, cognitive models and neuromorphic hardware
Thursday Aug. 6: Neuroscience and Machine Learning
Host: Shih-Chii Liu
(30m) Fritz Sommer (UC Berkeley): Computing with rhythms and spikes
(30m) Wolfgang Maass and Anand Subramoney ,TUG): New learning methods for recurrent networks of spiking neurons
(30m) Claire Pelofi (NYU): Electrophysiological markers of timely cognitive processes: when to use EEG signals
Tutorial Q & A: Emre Neftci: Event-based learning and surrogate gradients
Friday Aug. 7: Technology and Challenges
Host: Cornelia Fermuller & Andreas Andreou
(30m) Xin Wang (Cerebras): Wafer-scale neural computation
(30m) Mike Davies (Intel): Advancing neuromorphic computing from lab to mainstream applications
(15m) Greg Cohen (Western Sydney U): The Astrosite event camera observatory
(40m) Overview of the Telluride 2020 Challenge Projects and collaboration via Slack channels (Emre & Terry)
Tutorial Q & A: Tobi Delbruck: Silicon retina event cameras