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Meeting / Presentation timetable

Meetings at 4.00 p.m. in Kilburn 2-15 unless otherwise advised.

2010/2011 Academic Year



  • 14 Oct: Prof. Steve Furber:"Biologically-Inspired Massively-Parallel Architectures - Computing Beyond a Million Processors"
  • 21 Oct: No Meeting.
  • 28 Oct: No Meeting
  • 04 Nov: No Meeting
  • 11 Nov: Double Bill:
    Francesco Galluppi: Interfacing PyNN with the SpiNNaker: A General-purpose Model Translation
    System for a Universal Neural Chip

    Sergio Davies: Interfacing Real-Time Spiking I/O with the SpiNNaker neuromimetic architecture
  • 18 Nov: No meeting.
  • 25 Nov: Lilian Janin: Graphical debugging tools using IP-based system design, co-simulation and FPGA prototyping.
  • 02 Dec:
  • 09 Dec:
  • 16 Dec:
  • 23 Dec: No meeting.
  • 2011

  • 27 Jan:
  • 17 Mar: Dr Ernie Hill: "From faster computers to stronger aircraft wings – will it live up to expectations?"
  • 31 Mar: Vijayanand Nagarajan: "Monitoring Parallel Programs on Multicores for Performance and Reliability"
  • 12 May: Daniel Goodman: : "MUTS: Manchester University Transactions for Scala"
  • 19 May:Rishiyur S. Nikhil, CTO, Bluespec Inc. : A Declarative Language and Compiler for Hardware System Modeling and Design
  • 23 June: Sergio Davies: "A forecast-based biologically-plausible STDP learning rule"
  • 08 December: Ben Devlin: (Achronix / University of Tokyo)
    "Asynchronous circuits for High-performance Energy Minimum Operation"
Past APT group presentations