Workshop “Building on Models: Experiences from a Decade with the Microcircuit model”

Stadtpalais Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, Germany

Organizer: Hans Ekkehard Plesser Computational neuroscience, the field dedicated to understanding brain function through modelling, is dominated by small ad hoc models of neuronal networks designed to explain individual research questions. Such models are frequently implemented in low-level programming languages (e.g. C++, Matlab, Python) and at best shared as collections of source code files. By …

Workshop: Epistemology of Arithmetic: New Philosophy for New Times

Stadtpalais Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, Germany

Celebration workshop of Markus Pantsar’s book Numerical Cognition and the Epistemology of Arithmetic (Cambridge University Press 2024) and Gabriele Gramelsberger’s award of the K. Jon Barwise Prize 2023 for philosophy and computing by the American Philosophical Association. Please find the programme of the workshop here. If you would like to attend, please write a short …