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Kick-off for new SMARTStart students
The kick-off meeting on Monday, September 24, marked the beginning of the new SMARTSTART year 2018/ 2019.

Cluster success puts the Bernstein Conference in Berlin in party mood
Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience involved in six clusters of excellence

Understanding how the brain works - International Bernstein Conference in Berlin
With every thought, every movement, whether conscious or unconscious, networks of neurons in our brain work together. The study of these neural systems is a central component of computational neuroscience, whose largest European conference will take place from September 26 to 28 at Technische Universität Berlin. The workshops and lectures not only deal with individual research results, they also relate to public discourse and questions on artificial intelligence or big data management.
New call: Multilateral Collaboration in Computational Neuroscience: Germany - USA - Israel - France
On August 21, 2018, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF) published the guidelines of the funding scheme "Multilateral Collaborations in Computational Neuroscience: Germany - USA - Israel - France".

Three ERC Starting Grants for projects in Biochemistry and Neuroscience
Julijana Gjorgjieva and two other researchers from the "MaxPlanck@TUM" program will receive funding from the European Research Council (ERC).

New Expertise in Artificial Intelligence
At the University of Tübingen five more professors are investigating Machine Learning from a wide variety of perspectives

Susanne Schreiber and Jakob Macke elected as FENS-KAVLI Scholars
A new group of 15 FENS-Kavli Scholars representing 12 different European countries have been selected and announced at the FENS Forum in Berlin.

Art and Science at the Bernstein Conference 2018
Experience the new work of Yutaka Makino from September 25 - 28 at TU Berlin.

Wulfram Gerstner receives Valentino Braitenberg Award 2018
The neuroscientist Wulfram Gerstner from the EPFL Lausannne receives this year's Valentino Braitenberg Award for Computational Neuroscience. The award ceremony will take place on September 26 at the Bernstein Conference in Berlin.

Young scientists of BCCN Göttingen excel
Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society (MPG). goes to two young scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPIDS) Göttingen and Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (BCCN) Göttingen.