The 2nd Bernstein Sparks Workshop "Neuroengineering the Brain: from Neuroscience to Robotics ... and back" brings together leading researchers in the border areas between computational neuroscience and systems engineering with a focus on robotics, to discuss currently available neuromorphic computing approaches applicable in future technical systems.

Confirmed Speakers:
Angelo Arleo, UPMC Paris, France
Matthew Cook, ETH/University of Zürich, Switzerland
Tobi Delbruck, ETH/University of Zürich, Switzerland
Marc-Oliver Gewaltig, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Jeffrey L. Krichmar, UC Irvine, California, USA
Thomas Mergner, University of Freiburg, Germany
Jun Morimoto, ATR, Kyoto, Japan
Johannes Schemmel, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Terry Stewart, University of Toronto, Canada
Steve Temple, University of Manchester, UK

Local Organizers:

Jörg Conradt, Institute for Automatic Control Engineering, Technische Universität München
Susanne Schneider, Institute for Automatic Control Engineering, Technische Universität München
Gordon Cheng, Institute for Cognitive Systems, Technische Universität München
Stefan Ehrlich, Institute for Cognitive Systems, Technische Universität München

Co-Organizers:
Bernstein Coordination Site (BCOS)
Center of Competence Neural Engineering, Technische Universität München

The workshop is the second workshop of the “Bernstein Sparks Workshops” series within the Bernstein Network for Computational Neuroscience (www.nncn.de), aimed at taking up new exciting topics that may pave the way for major breakthroughs in brain research, and providing a forum for intense discussions of these issues.