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05.02.2013 NEST 2.2.1 is released together with PyNN 0.7.5, fixing some bugs and providing PyNN support for NEST 2.2.

28.01.2013 The European Union funds the Human Brain Project as an ICT Flagship program. Our Computational Neuroscience Group is one of more than 80 partners and one of two Norwegian partners.

21.12.2012 NEST 2.2.0 is released, bringing a host of improvements, including a complete re-implementation of the Topology module by Håkon Enger and me here at Ås; Topology now supports 3D node-placement as well.

26.11.2012 The Research Council of Norway as decided to fund the Norwegian Research School for Neuroscience (NRSN). We are a partner together with NTNU Trondheim, U Oslo and U Bergen.

24.10.2012 NEST 2.0.0 is finally released and is now available under GPL v2 or later.

08.10.2012 An exciting new paper by Moritz Helias, Susanne Kunkel and colleagues on Supercomputers ready for use as discovery machines for neuroscience has appeared in Frontiers in Neuroinformatics.

04.10.2012 As of today, the NEST Initiative is formally established as an association (Verein) under Swiss law with board members Marc-Oliver Gewaltig (President), Markus Diesmann, Abigail Morrison, and myself (Secretary).

24.08.2012 Thanks to Marc-Oliver Gewaltig's efforts, there is now a Wikipedia article on NEST.

17.08.2012 A paper summarizing the results of the Workshop on Network Descriptions in Edinburgh in September 2011,
S. Crook, J. Bednar, S. Berger, R. Cannon, A. Davison, M. Djurfeldt, J. Eppler, B. Kriener, S. Furber, B. Graham, H. E. Plesser, L. Schwabe, L. Smith, V. Steuber, S. van Albada.
Creating, Documenting and Sharing Network Models has been accepted by Network: Computation in Neural Systems.

13.08.2012 Nearly 50 new students started in our section's study programs, a five-year Master in Environmental Physics and Renewable Energy, and a three-year Bachelor in Energy and Environmental Physics.

21.07.2012 You can now learn more about the NEST Simulator from
M.-O. Gewaltig, A. Morrison and H. E. Plesser. NEST by Example: An Introduction to the Neural Simulation Tool NEST
in N. Le Novère (ed), Computational Systems Neurobiology, Springer, 2012, pp. 533-558 (eprint, preprint)

11.07.2012 Thanks to the efforts of Gunnar Grah and Johannes Faber at the Bernstein Coordination Site in Freiburg, we now have a movie about the history and concepts behind the NEST Simulator. You will find them on YouTube

NEST::documented (12 minutes)
NEST - A brain simulator (6 minutes)

15.06.2012 I gave an invited lecture on Taking Neuronal Network Simulation to the Brain Scale at the NOTUR 2012 conference in Tromsø.

21.03.2012 The Computational Neuroscience Group has now joined the European BrainScaleS consortium, and I am attending my first BrainScaleS Plenary Meeting hosted by the Computational and Systems Neuroscience Group at Research Center Jülich.

05.02.2013	NEST 2.2.1 is released together with PyNN 0.7.5, fixing some bugs and providing PyNN support for NEST 2.2.
28.01.2013	The European Union funds the Human Brain Project as an ICT Flagship program. Our Computational Neuroscience Group is one of more than 80 partners and one of two Norwegian partners.
21.12.2012	NEST 2.2.0 is released, bringing a host of improvements, including a complete re-implementation of the Topology module by Håkon Enger and me here at Ås; Topology now supports 3D node-placement as well.
26.11.2012	The Research Council of Norway as decided to fund the Norwegian Research School for Neuroscience (NRSN). We are a partner together with NTNU Trondheim, U Oslo and U Bergen.
24.10.2012	NEST 2.0.0 is finally released and is now available under GPL v2 or later.
08.10.2012	An exciting new paper by Moritz Helias, Susanne Kunkel and colleagues on Supercomputers ready for use as discovery machines for neuroscience has appeared in Frontiers in Neuroinformatics.
04.10.2012	As of today, the NEST Initiative is formally established as an association (Verein) under Swiss law with board members Marc-Oliver Gewaltig (President), Markus Diesmann, Abigail Morrison, and myself (Secretary).
24.08.2012	Thanks to Marc-Oliver Gewaltig's efforts, there is now a Wikipedia article on NEST.
17.08.2012	A paper summarizing the results of the Workshop on Network Descriptions in Edinburgh in September 2011, S. Crook, J. Bednar, S. Berger, R. Cannon, A. Davison, M. Djurfeldt, J. Eppler, B. Kriener, S. Furber, B. Graham, H. E. Plesser, L. Schwabe, L. Smith, V. Steuber, S. van Albada. Creating, Documenting and Sharing Network Models has been accepted by Network: Computation in Neural Systems.
13.08.2012	Nearly 50 new students started in our section's study programs, a five-year Master in Environmental Physics and Renewable Energy, and a three-year Bachelor in Energy and Environmental Physics.
21.07.2012	You can now learn more about the NEST Simulator from M.-O. Gewaltig, A. Morrison and H. E. Plesser. NEST by Example: An Introduction to the Neural Simulation Tool NEST in N. Le Novère (ed), Computational Systems Neurobiology, Springer, 2012, pp. 533-558 (eprint, preprint)
11.07.2012	Thanks to the efforts of Gunnar Grah and Johannes Faber at the Bernstein Coordination Site in Freiburg, we now have a movie about the history and concepts behind the NEST Simulator. You will find them on YouTube NEST::documented (12 minutes) NEST - A brain simulator (6 minutes)
15.06.2012	I gave an invited lecture on Taking Neuronal Network Simulation to the Brain Scale at the NOTUR 2012 conference in Tromsø.
21.03.2012	The Computational Neuroscience Group has now joined the European BrainScaleS consortium, and I am attending my first BrainScaleS Plenary Meeting hosted by the Computational and Systems Neuroscience Group at Research Center Jülich.