December 1, 2017

Human Brain Project and Neuroscience Spanish Open Forum

Madrid, Friday 1st of december of 2017

Location: Auditorium, Centro de Apoyo a la Investigación Tecnológica (CAIT),Parque Científico y Tecnológico, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo, s/n, C. P. 28223 Pozuelo de Alarcón

The Human Brain Project (HBP) is organizing a Neuroscience Forum to highlight the research in this field. The one-day event will include an overview about the HBP research, a how-to participate in the HBP through the Open Calls and Partnering Projects, invited talks by renowned experts, research highlights of groups outside and inside the HBP and an industry session. The meeting intends to strengthen relationships between the HBP and the Spanish Neuroscience and ICT community. We aim to discover synergies and foster collaboration among neuroscientist, ICT neuroscience related technologies and industry, achieving a strategic alignment of scientific Spanish research in fundamental neuroscience and advanced simulation.

Please, clik on the next link to download the agenda:

• Agenda for the first HBP and Neuroscience Spanish Open Forum.

Confirmed speakers:

• HBP structure, objectives and achievement: Javier DeFelipe ( CSIC/UPM )
• How to participate in the HBP: Sara García and Watse Castelein from ( Fecyt ) and Pilar Flores-Romero from ( CTB-UPM )
• Parkinson’s disease XXI Century: To move or not to move, this is the question: Dr. Obeso from ( HM Hospitales )
• Technical talks: Pablo Toharia from CCS: (UPM/GMRV-URJC), Javier DeFelipe from CSIC/UPM, Rafael Luján from Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Pau Gorostiza from ICREA-IBEC-CIBERBBN, Jesús Garrido from Universidad de Granada, Gorka Zamora from Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Francisco Clascá from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Raül Sirvent from Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Miguel Dasilva from IDIBAPS, Modesto Orozco from IRB Barcelona, Pedro Larrañaga from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.
• Round table Chair: Gonzalo León ( UPM )
• Round table: Victor González ( Next Limit ), Cristobal Belda ( HM Hospitales ), Juan Antonio Carreira (Grupo ATG) and Cecilia García Cena from (Aura Innovative Robotics-UPM spinoff).