EMEA Workshop
EMEA STUDENT RESEARCH WORKSHOP FOR BRAIN INSPIRED COMPUTING & TECHNOLOGIES
6-10 OCT 2018, IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON
Partnering Universities:
Imperial College London (2018 Host);
Tel Aviv University; University College Dublin; Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Sponsored by: Broadcom Foundation
ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP
Four universities from the UK, Israel, Ireland and India are partnering to create this 4- day exciting workshop on brain machine interfaces and brain inspired technologies and computing. The workshop brings together seven top graduate students from each of the universities to explore rapidly advancing cross-disciplinary inquiries into how “to engineer the brain.” The workshop will focus on emerging integrated research between engineering, neuroscience and computer science aiming to build long-term collaborations between the students. Students will work in interdisciplinary teams to design new collaborative projects, projects will be presented in front of a distinguished jury of experts and a winning project will be chosen. The workshop will also include tours around the UK and some social events.
VENUE
Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus
6TH OCT 2018
Arrival
Organised pickup from airport
19:00
Welcome presentation and neural quiz (Hotel)
20:00
Welcome reception: cocktails and ice-breaker activity (Hotel)
7TH OCT 2018
07:00
Breakfast (Hotel)
09:00
Welcome Remarks
Speaker: Dr Pantelis Georgiou and Dr Nick Alexopoulos
09:30
Professor and Student Introductions
11:00
Coffee Break
11:30
Assign teams and defining the scientific challenges, the needs, the technology required for the proposed research
12:30
Lunch (Science Museum)
14:00
Guided Tour in Science Museum
15:30
Team Competition: Treasure Hunt (South Kensington)
17:00
Free time
18:30
Dinner and Presentations – New horizons in brain technologies (170 Queen’s Gate)
Speakers: Dr Timothy Constandinou and Dr Nir Grossman
21:00
Free time
8TH OCT 2018
07:00
Breakfast (Hotel)
09:00
Welcome from Head of Department
09:15
Review of Workshop: Workshop Timetable and Goals
09:30
Working in teams
11:00
Coffee Break
11:30
Working in teams
13:00
Buffet Lunch and Presentations – New horizons in brain technologies
Speakers: Dr Rylie Green and Dr Amanda Foust
14:30
Working in teams
16:00
Presentation
Speaker: Mr Eben Upton
17:00
Return to the Hotel through Hyde Park (Professors lead to dinner at BB)
18:00
Working in teams (Hotel)
19:00
Buffet dinner (Hotel)
20:00
Work on Talent Show (Hotel)
21:00
Work in teams (Optional)
9TH OCT 2018
07:00
Breakfast (Hotel)
09:00
Review of Workshop: Workshop Timetable and Goals
09:15
Working in teams – designing the presentations
11:00
Coffee Break
11:30
Final preparation of presentations – rehearsals with peers & mentors
12:30
Buffet Lunch and Presentation
Speakers: Mr Gordon Lindsay
13:30
Project pitching in front of the jury – 7 min for each project + 5 min for Q&A
15:30
Coffee break & Panel Deliberations
16:00
Announcing the winners, final discussion and feedback from the jury
17:00
Bus to London Eye
18:00
London eye
18:45
Boat to Restaurant
19:30
Dinner at Browns Butlers Wharf + Talent Show
22:30
Transfer back to the hotel
10TH OCT 2018
All-day tour in Windsor, including guided tour through the castle and gardens
19:30
Dinner at Polpo Restaurant
11TH OCT 2018
Free day and departure
Speakers
DR RYLIE A GREEN
Bioengineering department, Imperial College
DR NIR GROSSMAN
Noninvasive Deep Brain Stimulation via Delivery of Temporally Interfering Electric Fields
DR AMANDA FOUST
Recording and manipulating neural activity with holographically sculpted light
DR TIMOTHY CONSTANDINOU
Millimetre-scale implantable brain machine interfaces
GORDON LINDSAY
European Marketing Manager, Automotive Wireless Connectivity at Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
JURY MEMBERS
DR PANTELIS GEORGIOU
Senior Lecturer, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Head of the Bio-inspired Metabolic Technology Laboratory in the Centre for Bio-Inspired Technology
DR NIR GROSSMAN
Noninvasive Deep Brain Stimulation via Delivery of Temporally Interfering Electric Fields
DR TIMOTHY CONSTANDINOU
Millimetre-scale implantable brain machine interfaces
PROF R. BOGDAN STAZEWSKI
Full Professor, School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
PROF GOVINDA RANJARAJAN
Chair, Division of Interdisciplinary Research and Professor, Department of Mathematics
PROF URI ASHERY
Head of the Sagol School of Neuroscience Tel Aviv University, Israel
PAULA GOLDEN
President, Broadcom Foundation
PROF NICOLAOS G ALEXOPOULOS
Vice President for Academic Programs and University Relations Broadcom Foundation
GORDON LINDSAY
European Marketing Manager, Automotive Wireless Connectivity at Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
DR PANTELIS GEORGIOU
Senior Lecturer, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Head of the Bio-inspired Metabolic Technology Laboratory in the Centre for Bio-Inspired Technology
PAULA GOLDEN
President, Broadcom Foundation
PROF NICOLAOS G ALEXOPOULOS
Vice President for Academic Programs and University Relations Broadcom Foundation
PROF URI ASHERY
Head of the Sagol School of Neuroscience Tel Aviv University, Israel
PROF R. BOGDAN STAZEWSKI
Full Professor, School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
PROF GOVINDA RANJARAJAN
Chair, Division of Interdisciplinary Research and Professor, Department of Mathematics
MISS AMPARO GUEMES GONZALEZ
Neuro-Modulated Diabetes Control (NeuMeDiC)
DR DANA BAR-ON
Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University
