2025 09 22 Open NEST Developer Video Conference

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Agenda

1. Welcome
2. Review of NEST User Mailing List
3. Project team round
4. In-depth discussion
   • #3582
   • Report from NEST tutorials

Mailing list

• https://nest-simulator.org/mailinglist

Project team round

Here we discuss topics that need broader attention, for example questions that came up but are outside a single project's scope, larger planned changes/PRs that affect all teams or pending work that is blocked by external factors.

Go to the Project boards.

In-depth discussion

• #3582
• Report from NEST tutorials
  • Sebastian Stockholm - tutorial Swedish EBRAINS Node
    • NEST Desktop, NESTML, NEST whole day
    • Really good feedback from users
    • 6 participants (including Prof Jeanette Kotaleski)
    • Using JupyterLab EBRAINS infrastructure which worked well
    • tutorial material:
    • https://wiki.ebrains.eu/bin/view/Collabs/swedish-node-nest-tutorials/
    • https://gitlab.ebrains.eu/spreizer/nest-tutorials-2025.git
    • Idea: Present a regular 'live' tutorial approx 1 month
    • was able to create a guest account for participant who did not have EBRAINS account
• Johanna
  • Summerschool Italian EBRAINS NODE
  • Talk 1 hour introduciton NEST and models (MC, Mesocircuit ...)
  • 3 hour tutorial
  • first showed NEST desktop, up to a Brunel type network
  • went through code in Jupyter notebook
  • simplified mesocircuit model, participant worked
  • Ariel presented NESTML, how to set up one neuron model / one synapse (first time presenter)
  • school had 30 participants, but 2 parallel tutorials and nest attracted 20-25 students
  • infrastructure: wifi not great, students used personal hot spot which worked well
  • used EBRAINS Jupyter notebooks
  • good feedback from students
  • critique of NESTML: synatx error: didnt point to correct location in code and some were generic like EOL
  • https://github.com/jhnnsnk/BRANDY2025_NEST
  • https://brandy.ebrains-italy.eu/
  • after tutorial, discussing models, in the future better align which models should be presented