Programme

15th January 2020 Program

TimeDay 1
9:00am

On-site Registration

9:30am

Introductory movie of the SYNAPSE project

9:35am

Welcome by the Chair of the Organizing Committee

9:40am

Guest of Honor speech

Chairman, Biomedical Research Council, A*STAR, Singapore – Barry HALLIWELL

9:50am

SYNAPSE in a nutshell (Yeukuang HWU)

10:00am

Honorary speech

Reflections on the SYNAPSE Project (Kurt WÜTHRICH, Nobel laureate, ETH Zürich)

10:30am

MOUs signing ceremony

— led by Adriano AGUZZI, Giorgio MARGARITONDO, Barry HALLIWELL, Kurt WÜTHRICH, Ada YONATH, Tsuhan CHEN, Yap Seng CHONG, Yeukuang HWU and Chian-Ming LOW:


(1) High Performance Computing (HPC): This MOU formalizes the commitment of member nations to develop the HPC network required to process, store, mobilize and access brain imaging data generated by SYNAPSE. This officially initiates the development of interna- tional HPC within SYNAPSE.


(2) Coordinated imaging: synchrotron facilities in participating research institutions and govern- ment agencies will pledge to support the SYNAPSE initiative to map an entire human brain. This MOU formalizes the commitment of member facilities to allocate the required synchrotron resources to the realization of the initiative.

10:45am

Tea break and group photo taking

11:00am

Honorary speech

Next generation antibiotics (Ada YONATH, Nobel laureate, Weizmann Institute)

11:30am

Honorary speech

Adriano AGUZZI (Chairman of the SYNAPSE International Advisory Board)

12:00pm

Break for lunch (Della & Seng Gee Guild Hall, Level 1, Kent Ridge Guild House)

1:45pm

Synchrotrons and Brain Imaging (Giorgio MARGARITONDO, EPFL)

2:10pm

Visualizing Memory: The Next Generation Connectomics (Ann-Shyn CHIANG, NTHU)

2:35pm

Non-Human Primate Brains and Neuroscience (Chian-Ming LOW, NUS)

3:00pm

Whole-body/organ Imaging with Single-cell Resolution by CUBIC (Hiroki R. UEDA, RIKEN)

3:25pm

Bio-sensing and Bio-imaging in SSRF (Jun HU, SINAP)

3:50pm

Tea break

4:10pm

The Singapore HPC landscape (Tin Wee TAN, NSCC)

4:35pm

Computation of the behavior repertoire from synapse network (Iksoo CHANG, DGIST)

5:00pm

Convergence of AI/BD and HPC - Data compression and DL4Fugaku (Kento SATO, RIKEN)

5:25pm

Closing by SYNAPSE IAB Chair (Adriano AGUZZI, U of Zürich)

7:30pm

Dinner Banquet/Social (by invitation only)

16th January 2020 – SYNAPSE High-Performance Computing Workshop

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