Nanodevices and Networks for Brain-Inspired Computing

Wednesday 3rd of July 2024 - from 14:45 to 18:00
Energy Center Auditorium Politecnico di Torino
Via Paolo Borsellino 38/16 10138 Torino, ITALY

While being unable to store information, certain solid-state memristive nanodevices are blessed with the capability to act as sources of infinitesimal or local energy under appropriate bias conditions, similarly as the sodium and potassium ion channels in neuronal axon membranes. Memristors of this kind stand out as ideal candidates to build energy-efficient brain-inspired computing machines in the years to come. Very recently memristive devices of this kind have been employed to design simple circuits, which capture bifurcation phenomena occurring in physical systems, including reaction-diffusion systems from cellular biology and neuronal axon membranes, through half the number of dynamical states. Moreover, several scientists have recently revealed how certain electronic circuits and systems, they recently designed, achieve peak performance, while operating at the Edge of Chaos. These studies clearly motivate further theoretical and experimental research on the principles of
Local Activity and Edge of Chaos.

This workshop, taking place at the Energy Center Auditorium (see map), sponsored by the Italian Society for Chaos and Complexity (SICC), and organized within the Long-Term Visiting Professor Programme, established by Politecnico di Torino, and providing us with the privilege to host Prof. R.S. Williams at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, intends to highlight the major role, which locally-active nanodevices shall play in bio-inspired electronics in the years to come.

Program:
14:45-15:00 Rector Prof. Stefano Paolo Corgnati, Welcome address
15:00-16:00 R. Stanley Williams, “Brain-Inspired Computing with Nonlinear Dynamical Materials” Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, USA
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-17:00 Gianluca Milano, “Unconventional computing with nanowire networks” Advanced Materials Metrology and Life Sciences Division, INRiM (Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica), Torino, Italy
17:00-17:30 Alon Ascoli, “The Simplest Ever Reported Bio-Inspired Circuit Supporting the Same Three-Bifurcation Cascade Emerging in the Hodgkin-Huxley Neuron” Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
17:30-17:50 Fernando Corinto, “Computing with Resistive Networks” Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
17:50-18:00 Closing

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