Program - Friday, November 21, 2008

This is a full day program, and there is no fee for the event.

Lunch is included with the registration.

8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Registration
9:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.

Opening Remarks

Sung Mo “Steve” Kang
Chancellor, UC Merced

Pinaki Mazumder
Program Director, National Science Foundation

Stuart Russell
Chair of Electrically Engineering and Computer Sciences Department, College of Engineering, UC Berkeley

9:15 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

Memristors

Leon O. Chua
Professor, Electrically Engineering and Computer
Sciences Department, College of Engineering, UC Berkeley

10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

Stan Williams
HP Senior Fellow and Director of Information & Quantum Systems Lab,
Hewlett-Packard

10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

Phil Keukes
Quantum Structures Research Initiative Department
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. Break
11:15 a.m – 11:45 a.m.

Memristors as Synapses in a Neural Computing Architecture

Greg Snider
Senior Architect, Information and Quantum Systems Laboratory, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

Neuromorphic hardware has long been hindered by the difficulty of implementing “synapses” efficiently—they simply require too much area. Dynamical nanodevices, each no larger than 30 nm X 30 nm, can supply a multiplicative transfer function and implement correlational learning laws. Using conventional CMOS for neurons, nanowires for axons and dendrites, and memristive nanodevices for synapses, I'll present architecture for implementing fundamental cortical circuits.

11:45 a.m. – 12:15 a.m. Prospects and Challenges of Redox-based Memristive RRAM Concepts

Rainer Waser
RWTH Aachen University at Research Center, Juelich, Germany
12:15 p.m. – 1:30 p.m Lunch/Poster Session
1:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Wolfgang Porod
Frank M. Freiman Professor of Electrical Engineering,
Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Notre Dame

2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Memristive Systems: From Spintronics to Amoeba's Learning

Massimiliano Di Ventra
Professor, Department of Physics
University of California, San Diego

2:30 p.m.– 3:00 p.m. Blaise Mouttet
Graduate Student, George Mason University
3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Break/Poster Session
3:30 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. Panel Discussion

Pushkar Apte (Moderator)
Vice President of Technology Programs, Semiconductor Industry Association

Jeff Welser
Director, Nanoelectronics Research Initiative (NRI), Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC)

Stan Williams
HP Senior Fellow and Director of Information & Quantum Systems Lab, Hewlett-Packard
4:45 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Closing Remarks