Programme

Monday, June 3

08.30

Registration & welcome coffee

09:45

SESSION 1 

(Europa-Saal)

Session Chair: Max Lemme

09.45

Greetings

Sibylle Keupen, Lord Mayor of Aachen

Peter Jansens, Board of Directors, Div. II & III, FZJ

Ulrich Rüdiger, Rector of the RWTH Aachen

10.20

Welcome & Overview

Rainer Waser, RWTH & FZJ

10.40

1-1 PT

Bridging Natural Intelligence and Artificial intelligence (AI) with neuromorphic technologies

Giacomo Indiveri, Univ. Zurich & ETHZ

11.30

1-2 PT

How dendrites can help advance machine learning and neuromorphic engineering

Panayiota Poirazi, IMBB-FORTH Heraklion

12.20

Lunch

13.20

SESSION 2 

(Europa-Saal)

Session Chair: Julia Mann

13.20

2-1 KN

How and why AI will shape the future of science and engineering

Holger Hoos, RWTH

14.00

2-2 KN

Finding the pathway: neuromorphic navigation and obstacle avoidance

Elisabetta Chicca, Univ. Groningen

14.40

2-3 KN

Timescales: their inference, diversity, and importance for computations

Anna Levina, Univ. Tübingen

15.20

Coffee Break

15.50

2-4 OC

Training SNNs with fully event-based exact gradients in GeNN

T. Nowotny and J.C. Knight, Univ. of Sussex

16.10

2-5 OC

Invention Disclosures relating to improved Signal Linearity and Signal to Noise Ratio enhancing Memristor Crossbar Capabilities

C. Grewing et al., ZEA-2 + PGI-14, FZJ

16.30

2-6 OC

Backpropagation through space, time and the brain

Haider et al., Univ. of Bern

16.50

2-7 OC

Concepts for Scalable Training on Analog Event-based Neuromorphic Hardware

E. Arnold et al., KIP, Univ. Heidelberg

13.20

SESSION 3 

(Brüssel-Saal)

Session Chair: Julia Floehr

13.20

3-1 KN

Compute-in-memory architectures for neuromorphic computing and AI acceleration

Wei Lu, Univ. Michigan

14.00

3-2 KN

Probabilistic Circuits: From distributions,over time series predictions, to causality

Kristian Kersting, TU Darmstadt

14.40

3-3 OC

Event-triggered Learning and Similarity of Dynamical Systems

F. Solowjow and S. Trimpe, DSME, RWTH

15.00

3-4 OC

Artificial Intelligence in Information Technology (AI in IT)

B. Folgmann and L.B. Romdhane, T-Systems Internat.

15.20

Coffee Break

15.50

3-5 KN

Waves in artificial brains: the next wave in neuromorphic computing

Max Welling, Univ. Amsterdam

16.30

3-6 KN

How biological heterogeneity enhances cortical code

Brent Doiron, Univ. Chicago

17.10

Coffee Break

17.45

PANEL DISCUSSION 

(Europa-Saal)

A. Reuning, G. Indiveri, P. Poirazi, M. Welling, S. Williams

Breaking Silos, Crossing Borders, Making Waves: Interdisciplinary Challenges and Opportunities

Tuesday, June 4

9:00

SESSION 4 

(Europa-Saal)

Session Chair: A. Morrison

9.00

4-1 PT

Extending the capabilities of Spiking Neural Network

Robert Legenstein, TU Graz

9.50

4-2 PT

Explaining neural networks - deep and shallow

Barbara Hammer, Univ. Bielefeld

10.40

Coffee Break

11.10

4-3 KN

Towards next generation AI with neuro-inspired computing

Angeliki Pantazi, IBM Research Zurich

11.50

4-4 KN

AI at Microsoft – From Research to Microsoft Copilot

Holger Kenn, Microsoft Deutschland

11:10

SESSION 5 

(Brüssel-Saal)

Session Chair: Stephan Menzel

11.10

5-1 KN

Integrated Circuit: The Foundation of Modern Society

Ming Liu, IMECAS, Shanghai

11.50

5-2 KN

Scaling knowledge processing: 2D chips versus 3D brains

Kwabena Boahen, Stanford Univ.

12.30

Lunch

13:30

SESSION 6 

(Europa-Saal)

Session Chair: J.P.Strachan

13.30

6-1 KN

Accelerated Simulation of Biological Neuronal Processing

Tobias Gemmeke, RWTH Aachen

14.10

6-2 KN

Experimental Emulation of Artificial Neurons for Computing and Engineering

Stanley Williams, Texas A & M Univ.

14.50

6-3 KN

Memristive crossbar arrays for brain-inspired computing

Qiangfei Xia, UMass Amherst

13:30

SESSION 7 

(Brüssel-Saal)

Session Chair: Regina Dittmann

13.30

7-1 KN

Leveraging Foundational Models for Multimodal Perception and Situation Awareness

Paul Lukowicz, DFKI & Univ. Kaiserslautern KZRP

14.10

7-2 KN

Bio-Inspired Information Pathways

Martin Ziegler, TU Ilmenau

14.50

7-3 OC

How the Negative Differential Resistance of a NbOx Threshold Switch Enables to Induce the Fundamental Bifurcations of a High-Order Neuron in a Low-Dimensional Circuit

A. Ascoli et al., PoliTO, TUD, NaMLab & UC Berkeley

15.10

7-4 OC

Detailed investigation of resistive-switching device fabrication process based on MOCVD 2D-MoS2

H. Fiadziushkin et al., RWTH, AMO, FZJ & AIXTRON SE

15.30

Coffee Break & Poster-Show

18.00

End of Poster-Show

for participants with Dinner/Concert tickets:

18.30

Aachen Cathedral Admission

18.45

Organ concert

19.15

End of Organ concert

19.30

Admission Aachen Town Hall

19.45

Conference Dinner (Aachen Coronation Hall)

Wednesday, June 5

9:00

for NEUROTEC members: NEUROTEC Midterm Meeting 

(K1 & K2)

9:00

SESSION 8 

(Europa-Saal)

Session Chair: Markus Diesmann

9.00

8-1 KN

Silicon and Memristive Integrated Neuromorphic Systems for Engineered Natural Intelligence

Gert Cauwenberghs, UC San Diego

9.40

8-2 KN

Self-organization in brain development

Peter Robin Hiesinger, FU Berlin

10.20

8-3 KN

Neuromorphic computing with volatile memristors and memtransistors

Daniele Ielmini, Politecnico Milano

11.00

Coffee Break

11.30

8-4 KN

Neural mechanisms underlying predictive processing in uncertainty

Katharina Wilmes, Univ. Bern

12.10

8-5 KN

Exploiting electronic device physics for building neuromorphic computing elements

Robin Degraeve, IMEC Leuven

12.50

Lunch

13:50

SESSION 9 

(Europa-Saal)

Session Chair: Bastian Leibe

13.50

9-1 KN

Developing a Trust Label for AI

Katharina von Knop, VDE Verband der Elektrotechnik Elektronik Informationstechnik e.V., Berlin

14.30

9-2 OC

Device-enhanced Analog In-Memory substrates for Multi Time-scale processing

F. Moro et al., UZH & ETHZ, IMEC & CEA-LETI

14.50

9-3 OC

Critical feature learning in deep neural networks

K. Fischer et al., IAS-6 + INM10, FZJ, RWTH & Hebrew Univ.

15.10

9-4 OC

Biology-Inspired Oscillator Networks and the Functional Role of Oscillatory Dynamics in Neocortical Circuits

F. Effenberger et al., ESI, FIAS & MPI Brain Research

15.30

9-5 OC

Competitive plasticity to reduce the energetic costs of learning

M.C.W. van Rossum, Univ. Nottingham

15.50

Coffee Break

16.20

9-6 KN

Compute with Memory

Philip Wong, Stanford Univ.

17.00

9-7 OC

In-Memory Optimization Accelerator for Quadratic Assignment Problems: A Hardware Implementation Proposal

I. Rozada et al., 1Qbit, HP-Labs, UCSB, FZJ, RWTH & Sabancı Univ.

17.20

9-8 OC

Benchmarking stochasticity behind reproducibility: denoising strategies in Ta2O5 memristors

A. Halbritter et al., Budapest Univ., HUN-REN-BME & ETHZ

Thursday, June 6

9:00

SESSION 10 

(Europa-Saal)

Session Chair: Rainer Waser

9.00

10-1 PT

Semiconductor trends and in particular the significance of artificial intelligence

Jochen Hanebeck, CEO Infineon, Munich

9.50

10-2 KN

Revolutionizing Deep Learning through In-Memory Computing: An Overview and Future Prospects

Abu Sebastian, IBM Research Zurich

10.30

Coffee Break

11.00

10-3 KN

Memristive technologies for a future neuromorphic Edge

Adrian Ionescu, EPFL

11.40

10-4 PT

Building Brain Inspired Multiscale Model Toward Artificial General Intelligence

Sen Song, Tsinghua University Peking

12.30

Farewell & Poster Awards

Max Lemme

13.00

End