Preliminary Program - Spintronics meets Neuromorphics

Monday, October 8th

Morning Session Session Topic: Artificial Neural Networks

08:30 - 9:00 Registration
09:00 – 09:10 Opening remarks
09:10 – 10:10 Teodora PETRISOR, Thales Group
Tutorial: The Landscape of Deep Learning: a Quick Overview
10:20 – 11:20 Eleni VASILAKI, University of Sheffield
Tutorial: Reinforcement Learning
11:20– 11:40 Coffee Break
11:40 – 12:10 Tetsuo ENDOH, CIES Tohoku University
Hardware ANNs using MTJ-based memories
12:10 – 14:00 Lunch Break & Poster Session

Afternoon Session Session Topic: Novelties in Magnetism-based Computing

14:00 – 14:30 Theo RASING, Radboud University
All-optical switching and brain-inspired concepts for low energy information processing
14:30– 15:00 Coffee Break & Poster Session
15:00 – 16:00 Wolfgang POROD, University of Notre Dame
Tutorial: Computing with magnetic dots and spintronic dynamical systems

Tuesday, October 9th

Morning Session Session Topic: Magnetic Solitons & Applications

09:00 – 10:00 Axel HOFFMANN, Argonne National Laboratory
Tutorial: Manipulating magnetic Skyrmions
10:10 – 10:40 Johan AKERMAN, Gothenburg University
Mutually synchronized spin Hall nano-oscillator arrays
10:40 – 11:00 Coffee Break & Poster Session
11:00 – 11:30 Ferran MACIA, Universita de Barcelona
Computing with Spin-Wave Solitons
11:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break & Poster Session

Afternoon Session Session Topic: Spin-Wave Logic and Memcomputing

14:00 – 14:30 Weisheng ZHAO, Beihang University
Skyrmions based Neuromorphic Computing
14:30 – 15:00 Coffee Break & Poster Session
15:00 – 15:30 Massimiliano DI VENTRA, UCSD
MemComputing: leveraging physics to compute efficiently

Wednesday, October 10th

Morning Session Session Topic: Criticality and Non-Linearity as Fundamental Neuromorphic Elements

09:00 – 10:00 Dante CHIALVO, CEMSC3-UNSAM
Tutorial: Critical brain dynamics, a brief overview
10:10 – 10:40 Damien QUERLIOZ, Integnano – C2N
Bioinspired Computing Leveraging the Non-Linearity of Magnetic Nano-Oscillators
10:40 – 11:10 Coffee Break & Poster Session
11:10 – 11:40 Shunsuke FUKAMI, Tohoku University
Associative memory operation using analog spin-orbit torque device
11:40 – 14:00 Lunch Break & Poster Session

Afternoon Session Session Topic: Spin Logic

14:00 – 15:00 Laura HEYDERMAN, ETH Zurich
Tutorial: Artificial Spin Ice and Elements of Control for Computation
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break & Poster Session
15:30 – 16:30 Philipp PIRRO, TU Kaiserslautern
Tutorial: Spin-wave logic: from Boolean to neuromorphic computing
18:00 – 20:00 Conference Dinner
Restaurant Schwayer Göttelmannstraße 40 | 55131 Mainz
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Thursday, October 11th

Morning Session Session Topic: Reservoir Computing

09:00 – 10:00 Daniel BRUNNER, Femto-ST
Tutorial: Reservoir Computing
10:10 – 10:40 Mark STILES, NIST
Reservoir Computing with Spin-Torque nano-oscillators
10:40 – 11:10 Coffee Break & Poster Session
11:10 – 11:40 George BOURIANOFF, Intel Corporation – retired
Reservoir computing implemented with skyrmion fabrics
11:40 – 14:00 Lunch Break & Poster Session

Afternoon Session Session Topic: Stochastic computing

14:00 – 15:00 Tara HAMILTON, Western Sydney University
Tutorial: Stochastic Computing Hardware
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break & Poster Session
15:30 – 16:00 Alice MIZRAHI, NIST
Unconventional computing with stochastic magnetic tunnel junctions

Friday, October 12th

Morning Session Session Topic: Perspectives on Spintronic Computing

09:00 – 10:00 Kerem CAMSARI, Purdue University
Tutorial: p-bits for Probabilistic Spin Logic
10:10 – 10:40 Amalio FERNANDEZ-PACHECO, University of Cambridge
Perspectives on 3D Spintronics
10:40 – 11:00 Coffee Break and announcement of winners of the Poster Prize
11:00 – 11:30 Alexander Ako KHAJETOORIANS, Radboud University
Realization of the Hopfield model in finite size Ising systems with RKKY type interactions
11:40 – 12:10 Giovanni FINOCCHIO, UNIME
Spintronic devices for unconventional computing
12:10 – 12:40 Closing remarks
12:40 – 14:00 Lunch Break