Recent invited conference talks

T. Nowotny, PheroSys Project: Olfactory coding in the insect pheromone pathway: models and experiments, ANR-BBSRC SYSBIO2007 final dissemination event, Bath (2011)

T. Nowotny, The Feature Selection Problem for Artificial Noses, invited Keynote, 2nd Australasian workshop on computation in cyber-physical systems, Sydney (2011).

T. Nowotny, Winnerless competition in a network of Hodgkin-Huxley neurons, ``Living Nonlinear Dynamics'' birthday symposium for Mikhail I. Rabinovich, San Diego (2011)

T. Nowotny, Flexible neuronal network simulation framework using code generation for NVidia CUDA, CARMEN consortium workshop, Newcastle (2011)

T. Nowotny, Ratio Coding and Dynamic Range: Lessons from the Moth Pheromone System. Workshop on Bioinspired computation for chemical sensing, Barcelona (2011)

A. Zavada, C. L. Buckley, T. Nowotny, Neural coding in the olfactory system of insects, Neural Coding, Limassol, Cyprus (2010)

T. Nowotny , The different roles of sparse activity and sparse connectivity for pattern recognition in the olfactory system of insects, Computational Neuroscience Conference (CNS) workshop on insect olfaction , Berlin (2009)

T. Nowotny , A. Szucs, R. Levi and A. I. Selverston, Homeostasis versus neuronal variability: Models and experiments in crustaceans, Comp Biochem Physiol A 153A(2), S154-S155, SEB Conference , Glasgow (2009)

T. Nowotny, Learning pattern classification from the olfactory system of insects, International Workshop on Biotechnology , Skokloster, Sweden (2008)

T. Nowotny, D. Martinez, J.-P. Rospars, Sensitivity, specificity and ratio coding: Riddles of the pheromone system in moths, BBSRC ISB Grantholder workshop, Nottingham (2008)

T. Nowotny, How do we model nervous systems? Lessons from the lobster lateral pyloric (LP) cell, CCNR Workshop, University of Sussex (2007)

T. Nowotny, R. Levi, A. I. Selverston, Can we build dynamically accurate conductance based models to investigate the origin of bursting? Conference on "The Dynamical Origin of Bursting", Georgia State University, Atlanta (2006)

T. Nowotny, Self-organization in the olfactory system? Fast odor recognition in insects, Exploratory ESF Workshop on Insect Mushroom Bodies, Seix (2004)

T. Nowotny, Representation, transformation, and storage of temporal information in neuronal systems, International Symposium on Topical Problems of Nonlinear Wave Physics, Wolga River (2003)

T. Nowotny, V. P. Zhigulin, M. I. Rabinovich, Enhancement of Neural Synchronization by Activity Dependent Coupling, 50th Annual SIAM Conference, Philadelphia (2002)

Recent invited talks

T. Nowotny, Learning in animals and machines: Lessons from the olfactory system of insects. University of Lübeck (2012).

T. Nowotny, General purpose GPU computing: Transforming your desktop into a personal super-computer, University of Birmingham (2012).

T. Nowotny, Heteroclinic orbits and Displaced Fixed Points: Dynamical Systems Views on Sequential Neuronal Activity, Institute for Neural Engineering, University of Melbourne (2011).

T. Nowotny, Models of Insect Olfaction, Sheffield University (2011).

T. Nowotny, Dynamic Clamp with StdpC2010, University of Köln, Germany (2010).

T.~Nowotny, Models of insect olfaction, INRA Versailles, Paris (2010).

T. Nowotny, Feasibility of biomimetic algorithms on modern highly parallel GPU hardware, University of California, Riverside (2009)

T. Nowotny, Feasibility of biomimetic algorithms on modern highly parallel GPU hardware, Bio-Circuits Institute, University of California San Diego (2009)

T. Nowotny, Models of information processing in the olfactory system of insects, Arizona State University, Tempe (2009)

T. Nowotny, Heteroclinic structures in circuits of Hodgkin-Huxley neurons: The origin of independent spiking and bursting in neural microcircuits? IUPUI Indianapolis (2009)

T. Nowotny, The olfactory system of insects suggests a random kernel method for classification, IBEC Seminar, Barcelona (2009)

T. Nowotny, Parallel implementation of large (neural) networks on NVidia CUDA, CRG Barcelona (2009)

T. Nowotny, Modelling Insect Olfaction, Universidad Aut 4onoma de Madrid (2009)

T. Nowotny, Pattern classification in the olfactory system of insects, University of Hertfordshire (2009)

T. Nowotny, Heteroclinic structures in small motifs of Hodgkin-Huxley neurons? Indications from a numerical study, University of Exeter (2008)

T. Nowotny, Pattern recognition in the insect olfactory pathway, The Neurosciences Institute, La Jolla, California (2008)

T. Nowotny, Learning pattern classification from the olfactory system of insects, Alergic seminar series, University of Sussex (2008)

T. Nowotny, Learning pattern classification from the olfactory system of insects, University of Surrey (2008)

T. Nowotny, Synchronization mediated by Spike-Timing dependent Plasticity, Neuroscience seminar series, University of Sussex (2007)

T. Nowotny, Information processing in olfactory networks, University of Warwick (2007)

T. Nowotny, From olfactory networks to single cell entrainment: What algorithms determine neuronal network function? University of California, San Diego (2006)

T. Nowotny, From olfactory networks to single cell entrainment: What algorithms determine neuronal network function? University of Sussex (2006)

T. Nowotny, From olfactory networks to single cell entrainment: What algorithms determine neuronal network function? Shanghai (2006)

T. Nowotny, From olfactory networks to single cell entrainment: What algorithms determine neuronal network function? Technical University of Munich (2006)

T. Nowotny, From olfactory networks to single cell entrainment: What determines large scale network function? Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich (2006)

Editing and Reviewing

Associate editor for Frontiers in Neuroengineering (Research Topic: "Biomimetic approaches to the challenges of chemical sensing")

Associate editor for PLoS Computational Biology

Member of the editorial board of the Journal of Ion Channels

Reviewer for Biological Cybernetics, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review E, Journal of Neurophysiology, Chemical Senses, IEEE Transaction in Circuits & Systems, Europhysics Letters, Advances in Complex Systems, European Journal of Applied Physiology, Journal of Theoretical Biology, PLoS Computational Biology, Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience

Reviewer for BBSRC, EPSRC, Wellcome Trust and Leverhulme Trust

Examination

External examiner: Michael Forrest (University of Warwick, 2009), Malin Sandström (KTH Stockholm, 2010), Fabiano Baroni (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, 2010), Ioana Sporea (University of Surrey, 2012)

Internal examiner: Daniel Bush (2009), Paul Horton (2009), Peter Passaro (2010), Nathaniel Virgo (2011), Paul Chorley (2011)

Thesis committee:
External: Hana Belmabrouk (INRIA, Nancy), Alexandre Gremiaux (INRA, Versailles), Angela Rouyar (INRA Versailles)
Internal: Saqib Khan, Lorenzo Grespan, Thomas "Greg" Corcoran, Nick Ward

Academic activities

Academic lead for Widening Participation, Department of Informatics

Named contact in Informatics for the IngenioUS Outreach programme

Participant of the Member of Parliament (MP) - Scientist pairing programme of the Royal Society

Member of the Aimhigher Science, Technology and Maths outreach network

Science and Engineering Ambassador

Memberships

Member of the steering committee of the UK node of the INCF.

Champion of the special interest group "Modelling and Simulation Environments" of the UK node of the INCF.

Member of the CNS programme committee.

Member of Society for Neuroscience

Member of the German Physical Society (Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft)