Program
DAY 1: 25/10/2023
Welcome address: VW-Foundation and conference chairs

8:45 - 9:00

SESSION 1/1: THeory: new concepts and mathematical foundations. Chair: Anna Levina

9:00-10:30

Keynote: Christof Teuscher, Material and physical reservoir computing for beyond-CMOS electronics

9:00-10:00

TH.C1: Johannes Zierenberg, Flexible tuning to task requirements via input statistics, local learning, andhomeostatic plasticity

10:00-10:30

Coffee break

10:30-11:00

SESSION 1/2: THeory: new concepts and mathematical foundations

11:00-12:00

TH.C2: Guillaume Pourcel, Recurrent Neural Networks: from prediction to representation, a dynamicalsystems perspective

11:00-11:30

TH.C3: Gouhei Tanaka, Diverse-timescale echo state networks for multiscale modeling

11:30-12:00

Lunch break

12:00-13:30

SESSION 2: Physical Substrates: materials, devices, micro-architectures. Chair: Thomas Van Vaerenbergh

13:30-16:00

Keynote: Julie Grollier, The power of Equilibrium Propagation for training neuromorphic systems

13:30-14:30

PS.C1: Melika Payvand, Dendritic computation through exploiting resistive memories as both delays and weights

14:30-15:00

PS.C2: Anas Skalli, A high performance fully tunable laser-based neural network

15:00-15:30

PS.C3: Hermann Osterhage, Neuromorphic matter bottom-up constructed from individual atoms

15:30-16:00

Coffee discussion plus Plenary I: John Paul Strachan (17:00-18:00)

16:00-18:00

Dinner

18:00-19:30

Evening lecture: Yes Fregnac, From metaphors of the human mind to the myth of digital consciousness

19:30-20:30

DAY 2: 26/10/2023
SESSION 3/1: Guides from Nature: neuroscience, theoretical biology, complex systems. Chair: Mihai Petrovici

9:00-10:30

Keynote: Walter Senn, A theoretical physics guide to neuroscience and cognition

9:00-10:00

GN.C1: Younes Bouhadjar, Bio-inspired sequence learning mechanisms and their implementation ina memristive neuromorphic hardware

10:00-10:30

Coffee break

10:30-11:00

SESSION 3/2: Guides from Nature: neuroscience, theoretical biology, complex systems.

11:00-12:00

GN.C2: Kevin Max, Learning efficient backprojections cross cortical hierarchies in real time

11:00-11:30

GN.C3: Tanguy Cazalets, New insights on homeostatic activity-dependent structural plasticity in rate
based neural networks

11:30-12:00

Lunch break12:00-13:30

SESSION 4: Scaling Up: modular architectures, complex data structures and processes.
Chair: Christopher Bennett

13:30-16:00

Keynote: Brad Aimone, The Pursuit of the Brain’s Ubiquitous Stochasticity

13:30-14:30

SU.C1: Alpha Renner, Neuromorphic hyperdimensional visual scene factorization

14:30-15:00

SU.C2: Volker Sorger, PhotoFourier: Silicon photonics fourier transformation for JTC neural networks

15:00-15:30

SU.C3: Ria Talukder, Large scalable electro-optical spiking neural network

15:30-16:00

Coffee discussion

16:00-17:00

Poster session I

17:00-19:00

Banquet19:00-21:00

DAY 3: 27/10/2023
SESSION 5/1: APplications: demonstrators, use-cases, user interfacing, hybrid solutions. Chair: Xavier Porte

9:00-10:30

Keynote: Chiara Bartolozzi, Neuromorphic engineering to improve robotic perception

9:00-10:00

AP.C1: Fabian Boehm, Teaching Ising machines new tricks: Accelerating Monte-Carlo samplingand machine learning

10:00-10:30

Coffee break

10:30-11:00

SESSION 5/2: APplications: demonstrators, use-cases, user interfacing, hybrid solutions.

11:00-12:00

AP.C2: Nathan Leroux, Spiking Online Transformer with for Fast Prosthetic Hand Control

11:00-11:30

AP.C3: Mustafa Yildirim, Nonlinear Computing with Lithium Niobate Waveguide

11:30-12:00

Lunch break

12:00-13:30

Plenary II: Harish Bhaskaran, Higher-dimensional processing using a photonic tensor core with
continuous-time data

13:30-14:30

Coffee discussion

14:30-15:30

Poster session II

14:30-17:00

Poster prize and closing remarks

17:30-18:00