Nils Bertschinger
Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften
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04103 Leipzig
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Nils Bertschinger
Short Curriculum Vitae
- 1996-2002 Study of Computer Science at the RWTH Aachen
- 2002 Diploma in Computer Science at the RWTH Aachen
- 2003-2004 PhD-student at the Institute for Theoretical Computer Science at the Technical University Graz
- since 2004 PhD-student at the Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
- since 2009 Post-doc at the Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
Research interests
- Information theory of complex dynamical systems
- Systems theory for cognitive and social systems
- Learning theory: learnability and modularity
Publications
- N. Bertschinger and T. Natschläger.
Real-time computation at the edge of chaos in recurrent neural networks.
Neural Computation, 16(7):1413-1436, 2004 - T. Natschläger, N. Bertschinger, and R. Legenstein.
At the edge of chaos: Real-time computations and self-organized criticality in recurrent neural networks.
In Lawrence K. Saul, Yair Weiss, and Léon Bottou, editors, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 17, pages 145-152. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2005 - Alexander Kaske, Nils Bertschinger.
Travelling wave patterns in a model of the spinal pattern generator using spiking neurons.
Biological Cybernetics 92(3): 206-218, 2005 - N. Bertschinger, E. Olbrich, N. Ay and J. Jost.
Information and Closure in Systems Theory.
In S. Artmann and P. Dittrich, editors, Explorations in the Complexity of Possible Life. Proceedings of the 7th German Workshop on Artificial Life. IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2006 - N. Bertschinger, E. Olbrich, N. Ay and J. Jost.
Autonomy: an information theoretic perspective.
In Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo and Xabier Barandiaran, editors, Artificial Autonomy Workshop, Alife X, 2006
