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Call for applications: Ready for a SMARTSTART into Computational Neuroscience?
Application for SMART START - a joint training program in Computational Neuroscience for young researchers - possible from January, 2017, on.
New CRC in Tübingen
From January 2017 onwards, the new Collaborative Research Center (CRC) "Robust Vision" will start in Tübingen (December 2016).
A life for physics and music
Theo Geisel, Director at the MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, founder of the Bernstein Center Göttingen and Professor for Theoretical Physics at the University of Göttingen, retired after 20 years of working in Göttingen.
Jens Kremkow and Richard Naud are Next Generation Leaders 2016 at Allen Institute for Brain Science
Distinguished early-career scientists invited to participate in Allen Institute advisory council (November 2016).
Benedikt Grothe new member of Leopoldina
Benedikt Grothe (BCCN and LMU Munich, BFNL plasticity of neural dynamics) was elected new member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (November 2016).
12th International Neural Coding Workshop held in Cologne
The workshop took place at the University of Cologne from August 29 till September 2, 2016 (October 2016).
Brains for Brains Awardee 2016
For the seventh time, the Bernstein Association for Computational Neuroscience awarded the "Brains for Brains Young Researchers' Computational Neuroscience Award". The prize was presented during the Bernstein Conference in Berlin (October 2016).
New call: Multilateral Collaboration in Computational Neuroscience: Germany - USA - Israel - France
On August 22, 2016, 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" (August 2016).
Markus Helmer receives Otto Hahn Medal
Markus Helmer receives the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society for his dissertation at the Max Planck Institute of Dynamics and Self-Organization and at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Göttingen (July 2016).
New Research Training Group in Munich
The German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) funds a new Research Training Group on "Perception in Context and its Neural Basis" in Munich (May 2016).