NICE 2023 - Agenda

(Agenda as of 2023/03/27-18:18 CEST)
Tuesday, 11 April 2023
08:00
NICE 2023 -- day 1
08:00
 Registration, coffee
08:30
 Welcome
08:40
 Opening by Dr. Taylor Eighmy, President, University of Texas at San Antonio
08:50
 Organisers round
09:40
 Keynote: Neuroevolution: Beyond human design of neural networksRisto Mikkulainen (UT Austin)
10:30
 Break
11:00
 full: invited (T)Itamar Lerner (University of Texas at San Antonio)
11:30
 AEStream: Accelerated event-based processing with coroutinesJens Egholm Pedersen (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
11:45
 Goemans-Williamson MAXCUT approximation algorithm on LoihiBradley Theilman (Sandia National Laboratories)
12:15
 Work in Progress: A Network of Sigma–Pi Units producing Higher-order Interactions for Reservoir ComputingDenis Kleyko (RISE)
12:30
 lunch
13:30
 Full-stack Co-Design for Neuromorphic SystemsRajit Manohar (Yale University)
14:00
 Modeling Coordinate Transformations in the Dragonfly Nervous SystemClaire Plunkett (Sandia National Laboratories)
14:30
 Beyond Neuromorphics: Non-Cognitive Applications of SpiNNaker2Christian Mayr (TU Dresden)
15:00
 break
15:30
 Online training of quantized weights on neuromorphic hardware with multiplexed gradient descentAdam McCaughan (NIST)
15:45
 NEO: Neuron State Dependent Mechanisms for Efficient Continual LearningAnurag Daram (UTSA)
16:15
 Impact of Noisy Input on Evolved Spiking Neural Networks for Neuromorphic SystemsKaran Patel (University of Tennessee Knoxville)
16:30
 Spotlight: Intel Neuromorphic Deep Noise Suppression Challenge
16:35
 Open mic / discussions
17:30
End of the first day of NICE
17:30
 (self organised travel to San Antonio downtown)
18:00
 Welcome reception in San Antonio downtown

Wednesday, 12 April 2023
08:00
NICE 2023 - day 2
08:00
 Breakfast
08:30
 Keynote: Versatility, Efficiency, and Resilience in Large-Scale Neuromorphic Intelligence at the EdgeGert Cauwenberghs (UC San Diego)
09:20
 full invited (H)Jason K Eshraghian (University of California, Santa Cruz)
09:50
 SupportHDC: Hyperdimensional Computing with Scalable Hypervector SparsityAli Safa (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
10:20
 break
10:50
 Easy and efficient spike-based Machine Learning with mlGeNNJames Knight (University of Sussex)
11:05
 Beyond MVM applications for RRAMs in Spiking Neural Network HardwareMelika Payvand (Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich)
11:35
 Additive manufacture of polymeric organometallic ferroelectric diodes (POMFeDs) for structural neuromorphic hardwareDavin Browner
11:50
 Poster flash talks: 1 min appetizer for posters
12:15
 Poster-Lunch (posters + finger food)
13:45
 hxtorch.snn: Machine-learning-inspired Spiking Neural Network Modeling on BrainScaleS-2Philipp Spilger (Heidelberg University)
14:15
 Exploring Information-Theoretic Criteria to Accelerate the Tuning of Neuromorphic Level-Crossing ADCsAli Safa (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
14:45
 break
15:15
 Accelerating AI with analog in-memory computingStefano Ambrogio (IBM)
15:45
 Configurable Activation Functions based on DW-MTJ LIF NeuronsWesley Brigner (University of Texas Dallas)
16:00
 Shunting Inhibition as a Neural-Inspired Mechanism for Multiplication in Neuromorphic ArchitecturesFrances Chance (Sandia National Lab)
16:30
 Open mic / discussions
19:00
 Conference dinner

Thursday, 13 April 2023
08:00
NICE 2023 - day 3
08:00
 Breakfast
08:30
 Keynote (A)Michael Milford (QUT Robotics Centre)
09:20
 Demonstration of neuromorphic sequence learning on a memristive arraySebastian Siegel (Peter Grünberg Institute, Forschungszentrum Jülich)
09:35
 Funders panel (TBC)
10:35
 Break
11:05
 Speech2Spikes: Efficient Audio Encoding Pipeline for Real-time Neuromorphic SystemsKenneth Stewart (University of California, Irvine)
11:35
 Spiking LCA in a Neural Circuit with Dictionary Learning and Synaptic NormalizationDiego Chavez Arana, (Los Alamos National Lab)
11:50
 Neuromorphic Downsampling of Event-Based Camera OutputCharles Rizzo (University of Tennessee Knoxville)
12:20
 A Neuromorphic System for Real-time Tactile Texture ClassificationGeorge Brayshaw (University of Bristol)
12:35
 Poster-Lunch (posters + finger food)
14:05
 SIFT-ONN: SIFT Feature Detection Algorithm Employing ONNs for Edge DetectionMadeleine Abernot (University of Montpellier)
14:20
 Translation and Scale Invariance for Event-Based Object trackingJens Egholm Pedersen (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
14:50
 full invited (A)invited speaker: Vijay Janapa Reddi (Harvard University)
15:20
 break
15:50
 Sigma-Delta networks for Robot Arm ControlWallace Lawson (U.S Naval Research Lab)
16:20
 full invited (A)invited speaker: Joe Hays (U.S Naval research Lab)
16:50
 Open mic / discussions
17:30
End of day 3 and of the talk-days of NICE 2023

Friday, 14 April 2023
08:00
NICE 2023: hands-on tutorials day
08:00
 Breakfast
08:30
 Tutorial session 1 (tutorials in parallel)
10:30
 Break
11:00
 Tutorial session 2 (tutorials in parallel)
13:00
 Lunch
14:00
 Tutorial session 3 (tutorials in parallel)
16:00
 Farewell coffee
16:30
End of the tutorial day