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15.06.2010 Workshop at UMB on Computational Systems Biology: Models, Methods, Meaning.
For more information, please see the workshop website.

30.05.2010 H.E. Plesser and Anders Grønvik Jahnsen.
Re-seeding invalidates tests of random number generators
is now published as uncorrected proof in Applied Mathematics and Computation 2010, doi: 10.1016/j.amc.2010.05.066. Preprint.

28.05.2010 H.E. Plesser and Klas Pettersen.
Multilevel Models of Brain Activity: Integration Computational Models with Experimental Evidence
is now published in Meta 1:6-11, 2010. You can download the full Meta issue here.

27.05.2010 UMB Research Prize for 2010 awarded to Prof Gaute Einevoll, Head of the Computational Neuroscience Group at IMT.

03.02.2010 Letter to the editor in Klassekampen on security and privacy issues with the Norwegian e-Voting project for the 2011 local elections (reprint, in Norwegian).

01.02.2010 As of today, I am the head of the basic science section (physics, mathematics, computer science) at the Department of Mathematical Science and Technology.

25.01.2010 After a fine sabbatical at the Simula Research Center on the western side of Oslo, I am now back at UMB.

16.12.2009 Eilen Nordlie, my first PhD student, successfully defended her doctoral thesis Contributions to neuronal network modeling and the investigation of rate-based models of the visual system.

16.12.2009 E. Nordlie and H.E. Plesser.
Visualizing neuronal network connectivity with connectivity pattern tables
is now published in Frontiers in Neuroinformatics 3:39, 2009. Read it here!
You can download the ConnPlotter Python package described in the paper.

10.12.2009 Is Computational Biology a Reliable Science?, my first talk to a philosophy of science audience at the Philosophy of Systems Biology 2009 conference a University of Oslo.

16.09.2009 CBC Workshop on Computational Biology: Bringing together the computational biology groups at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (Computational Neuroscience, Cigene) and Simula Research Laboratory (Center for Biomedical Computing).

15.09.2009 Interviewed in Dagbladet, a large Norwegian daily, about camera surveillance in Oslo.

01.09.2009 Hans Ekkehard Plesser.
Kartlegging av kameraovervåking i Oslo (Mapping Camera Surveillance in Oslo)
is now published in Lov & Data (in Norwegian) 99:26-27, 2009. Reprint.

07.08.2009 E. Nordlie, M.-O. Gewaltig, and H.E. Plesser.
Towards reproducible models of neuronal network models
is now published in PLoS Computational Biology 5:e1000456, 2009. Read it here!

15.06.2010	Workshop at UMB on Computational Systems Biology: Models, Methods, Meaning. For more information, please see the workshop website.
30.05.2010	H.E. Plesser and Anders Grønvik Jahnsen. Re-seeding invalidates tests of random number generators is now published as uncorrected proof in Applied Mathematics and Computation 2010, doi: 10.1016/j.amc.2010.05.066. Preprint.
28.05.2010	H.E. Plesser and Klas Pettersen. Multilevel Models of Brain Activity: Integration Computational Models with Experimental Evidence is now published in Meta 1:6-11, 2010. You can download the full Meta issue here.
27.05.2010	UMB Research Prize for 2010 awarded to Prof Gaute Einevoll, Head of the Computational Neuroscience Group at IMT.
03.02.2010	Letter to the editor in Klassekampen on security and privacy issues with the Norwegian e-Voting project for the 2011 local elections (reprint, in Norwegian).
01.02.2010	As of today, I am the head of the basic science section (physics, mathematics, computer science) at the Department of Mathematical Science and Technology.
25.01.2010	After a fine sabbatical at the Simula Research Center on the western side of Oslo, I am now back at UMB.
16.12.2009	Eilen Nordlie, my first PhD student, successfully defended her doctoral thesis Contributions to neuronal network modeling and the investigation of rate-based models of the visual system.
16.12.2009	E. Nordlie and H.E. Plesser. Visualizing neuronal network connectivity with connectivity pattern tables is now published in Frontiers in Neuroinformatics 3:39, 2009. Read it here! You can download the ConnPlotter Python package described in the paper.
10.12.2009	Is Computational Biology a Reliable Science?, my first talk to a philosophy of science audience at the Philosophy of Systems Biology 2009 conference a University of Oslo.
16.09.2009	CBC Workshop on Computational Biology: Bringing together the computational biology groups at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (Computational Neuroscience, Cigene) and Simula Research Laboratory (Center for Biomedical Computing).
15.09.2009	Interviewed in Dagbladet, a large Norwegian daily, about camera surveillance in Oslo.
01.09.2009	Hans Ekkehard Plesser. Kartlegging av kameraovervåking i Oslo (Mapping Camera Surveillance in Oslo) is now published in Lov & Data (in Norwegian) 99:26-27, 2009. Reprint.
07.08.2009	E. Nordlie, M.-O. Gewaltig, and H.E. Plesser. Towards reproducible models of neuronal network models is now published in PLoS Computational Biology 5:e1000456, 2009. Read it here!