Conference Program

Monday, July 23, 2018

  • 9:00 - 10:00 AM - Registration
  • 10:00 AM - 5:30 PM - Intel Loihi Workshop (Break for lunch on your own 12:00-1:30). Loihi workshop participation is limited. Please register your interest here, and we will let you know if there is room in the workshop.
    • 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM - Loihi Overview and the INRC Program -- Mike Davies
    • 12:00 - 1:30 PM - Lunch on your own
    • 1:30 - 4:00 PM - Nx SDK (Presentation and Live Demonstration) -- David Florey and Andreas Wild
    • 4:00 - 5:30 PM - Q&A and Open Discussion
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM - Reservoir Computing Tutorial
  • 1:30 PM - 5:30 PM - Special Session on Memristors, organized by Ronald Tetzlaff (Chua Memristor Center)
    • 1:30 - 2:00 PM - "Experimental demonstrations of unconventional computing with memristive devices" -- J. Joshua Yang
    • 2:00 - 2:30 PM - "Neuromorphic spiking networks with resistive switching memory (RRAM) synapses" -- Daniele Ielmini
    • 2:30 - 3:00 PM - "Ge2Se3-Doped Devices: Towards Optically-Gated Transistors and Memristors for Neuromorphic Computing" -- Kristy A. Campbell
    • 3:00 - 3:30 PM - "Feature extraction and information processing using memristor networks" -- Wei Lu
    • 3:30 - 4:00 PM - Break
    • 4:00 - 4:30 PM - "Real Processing-in-Memory with Memristive Memory Processing Unit" -- Shahar Kvatinsky
    • 4:30 - 5:00 PM - "Computing with Bio–inspired Memristor Networks: Complexity and Nonlinear Dynamics via the Flux–Charge Analysis Method" -- Fernando Corinto
    • 5:00 - 5:30 PM - "Unveiling the nonlinear dynamics of a TaO resistance switching memory" - Alon Ascoli

Tuesday, July 24, 2018

  • 8:00 - 9:00 AM - Registration/Coffee
  • 9:00 - 9:15 AM - Welcome/Introduction
  • 9:15 - 10:15 AM - Keynote Presentation: Tom Potok
  • 10:15 - 10:45 AM - Break
  • 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM - Presentations
    • 10:45 - 11:10 AM - “Saccadic Predictive Vision Model with a Fovea” -- Michael Hazoglou and Todd Hylton
    • 11:10 - 11:35 AM - “A Comparison of Neuromorphic Classification Tasks” -- John J. M. Reynolds, James S. Plank, Catherine D. Schuman, Grant Bruer, Adam Disney, Mark E. Dean and Garret S. Rose
    • 11:35 AM - 12:00 PM - “Sparse Coding Enables the Reconstruction of High-Fidelity Images and Video from Retinal Spike Trains” -- Yijing Watkins, Austin Thresher, David Mascarenas and Garrett Kenyon
  • 12:00 - 1:30 PM - Lunch and Lunch Talk: “Bio-inspired computing with memristive neural networks” -- Zhongrui Wang, Can Li, Saumil Joshi, Rivu Midya, Qiangfei Xia, J. Joshua Yang
  • 1:30 - 3:10 PM - Presentations
    • 1:30 - 1:55 PM - “Gridbot: An autonomous robot controlled by a Spiking Neural Network mimicking the brain's navigational system” -- Guangzhi Tang and Konstantinos Michmizos
    • 1:55 - 2:20 PM - “A Neural-Astrocytic Network Architecture: Astrocytic calcium waves modulate synchronous neuronal activity” -- Ioannis Polykretis, Vladimir Ivanov and Konstantinos Michmizos
    • 2:20 - 2:45 PM - “Neuromorphic hardware implementation of spiking algorithms for Markov random walks” -- James Aimone, Aaron Hill, Rich Lehoucq, Ojas Parekh and William Severa
    • 2:45 - 3:10 PM - “A Summary of Neuromorphic Computing Research at Duke Center for Evolutionary Intelligence" - Yiran Chen
  • 3:10 - 3:40 PM - Break
  • 3:40 - 4:55 PM - Lightning Talks
    • 3:40 - 3:55 PM - “Design of superconducting optoelectronic networks for neuromorphic computing” -- Sonia Buckley, Adam McCaughan, Jeffrey Chiles, Richard Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Jeffrey Shainline, Catherine Schuman and James Plank
    • 3:55 - 4:10 PM - “Harnessing network dynamics in self-assembled atomic-switch networks for brain-inspired computation” -- Saurabh Bose, Shota Shirai, Josh Mallinson, Susant Acharya, Edoardo Galli and Simon Brown
    • 4:10 - 4:25 PM - “Nano/Micro-Electro-Mechanical System Neuromorphic Computers” -- Mostafa Rafaie, Mohammad Hasan and Fadi Alsaleem
    • 4:25 - 4:40 PM - “DANNA 2: Dynamic Adaptive Neural Network Arrays” -- J. Parker Mitchell, Mark Dean, Grant Bruer, James Plank and Garrett Rose
    • 4:40 - 4:55 PM - “Electrostriction, capacitive susceptibility, and neuromorphic computing with biomembrane” -- Joseph Najem, Graham Taylor, Ryan Weiss, Md-Sakib Hasan, Garrett Rose, Catherine Schuman, A. Belianinov, Stephen Sarles and Charles Collier
  • 4:55 - 5:10 PM - First day wrap-up and instructions for dinner
  • 6:00 - 8:00 PM - Dinner at Lonesome Dove, sponsored by Knowm and Duke University

Wednesday, July 25, 2018

  • 8:00 - 9:00 AM - Registration/Coffee
  • 9:00 - 9:15 AM - Welcome/Introduction
  • 9:15 - 10:15 AM - Keynote Presentation: Elisabetta Chicca
  • 10:15 - 10:45 AM - Break
  • 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM - Presentations
    • 10:45 - 11:10 AM - “Modeling Memristor Radiation Interaction Events and the Effect on Neuromorphic Learning Circuits” -- Sumedha Dahl, Robert Ivans and Kurtis Cantley
    • 11:10 - 11:35 AM - “Relative Efficiency of Memristive and Digital Neuromorphic Crossbars” -- Christopher Krieger, David Mountain and Mark McLean
    • 11:35 AM - 12:00 PM - “Learning Accuracy Analysis of Memristor-based Nonlinear Computing Module on Long Short-term Memory” -- Hongyu An, Mohammad Al-Mamun, Zhen Zhou, Marius Orlowski and Yang Yi
  • 12:00 - 1:30 PM - Lunch and Lunch Talk: "DOE Programmatic Activities in Advanced Computing Technologies: Beyond Moore’s Law Computing" -- Robinson Pino
  • 1:30 - 3:05 PM - Presentation and Lightning Talk
    • 1:30 - 1:55 PM - “Four Simulators of the DANNA Neuromorphic Computing Architecture” -- Adam Disney, James Plank and Mark Dean
    • 1:55 - 2:20 PM - “Towards adaptive spiking label propagation” -- Kathleen Hamilton and Catherine Schuman
    • 2:20 - 2:35 PM - “Whetstone: An accessible, platform-independent method for training spiking deep neural networks for neuromorphic processors” -- William Severa, Craig Vineyard, Ryan Dellana and James Aimone
    • 2:35 - 2:50 PM - “Radiographic Inference Based on a Model of V1 Simple Cells Implemented on the D-Wave 2X Quantum Annealing Computer” -- Nga Nguyen and Garrett Kenyon
    • 2:50 - 3:05 PM - “Efficient Classification of Supercomputer Failures Using Neuromorphic Computing” -- Prasanna Date, Christopher Carothers, Malik Magdon-Ismail and James Hendler
  • 3:05 - 3:30 PM - Break
  • 3:30 - 4:00 PM - Lightning Talks
  • 4:00 - 4:30 PM - Poster Introductions
  • 4:30 - 6:00 PM - Poster Session and Student Poster Competition, sponsored by Intel

Thursday, July 26, 2018

  • 8:00 - 9:00 AM - Registration/Coffee
  • 9:00 - 9:30 AM - Welcome/Introduction
  • 9:30 -10:00 AM - Invited Talk: "Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Issues and Opportunities" -- David Womble
  • 10:00 - 10:30 AM - Break
  • Lightning Talks
  • 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM - Concluding Remarks

Contact: Thomas Potok, potokte "at" ornl.gov

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