BEYOND! von Neumann Computing

The workshop “BEYOND! von Neumann Computing" addresses essential challenges and aims at identifying key questions towards the establishment of Neuromorphic hardware. Paying tribute to the topic’s nature, the workshop targets a highly interdisciplinary audience. Participants will be selected from multiple scientific disciplines spanning physics, computation, neuroscience and biology. The list of invited speakers follows the international and interdisciplinary approach of the BEYOND! workshop concept.

Topics to be covered

Brain inspired computing concepts | Beyond von Neumann hardware |Spatio-temporal networks as neuromorphic hardware | Delay networks as neuromorphic hardware |Novel devices for hardware neurons

Invited speakers of the workshop

• Bhavin J. Shastri, Princeton University, USA
• Daniel Brunner, Femto-st, Besancon, France
• Damien Querlioz, University of Paris-Sud, France
• Guy Van der Sande, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
• Herbert Jaeger, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany
• Ingo Fischer, IFISC (UIB-CSIC), Palma de Mallorca, Spain
• Jacob Torrejon, CNRS (Thales Lab), Université de Paris Sud, France
• Julien Sylvestre, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
• Laurent Larger, Femto-st, Besancon, France
• Leslie Valiant, Harvard University, USA
• Marc Timme, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Germany
• Serge Massar, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
• Peter Bienstman, Ghent University, Belgium
• Robert Legenstein, Graz University of Technology, Austria
• Simon Thorpe, Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier, France
• Steve Oh, A*STAR, Bioprocessing Technology Institute, Singapore

Venue

The workshop will take place from May 18-21^st, 2016 at the Harnack-Haus, a conference center and hotel of the Max Planck Society, that is located in a beautiful part of Berlin.