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Groningen will host "Brainspiration 2024"

14 October 2022

Brainspiration is an international meeting on brain-inspired concepts and materials for information processing. The first edition of this meeting took place from 12-14 October 2022 at the University of Twente. Groningen will host the next edition which will take place in 2024.


Brainspiration 2022
This years edition - Brainspiration 2022 - covered recent progress and future perspectives on brain-inspired concepts and materials for information processing and sensing, including:

  • intelligent matter for information processing and sensing
  • analog in-memory computing
  • oscillating neural networks
  • novel computational devices and architectures in unconventional physical substrates
  • theoretical concepts of computing in non-digital, physical substrates
  • neural interfacing
Participants Brainspiration 2022
Participants Brainspiration 2022

The meeting was highly interdisciplinary as the aim was bringing together researchers from physics, chemistry, electrical engineering, materials science, machine learning, computer engineering, nonlinear dynamics etc.

The invited speakers were:

  • Elisabetta Chicca (CogniGron)
  • Catherine Graves (HP)
  • Julie Grollier (Thales)
  • Martin van Hecke (AMOLF)
  • Wilhelm Huck (Nijmegen)
  • Bert Kappen (Nijmegen)
  • Christian Nijhuis (BRAINS)
  • Wolfram Pernice (WWU/Heidelberg)
  • Abu Sebastian (IBM)
  • Patty Stabile (TU/e)
  • Alec Talin (Sandia)
  • John Paul Strachan (FZJ)
  • Andrea Liu (UPenn)

Co-chairs of the meeting were

  • Yoeri van de Burgt, Eindhoven University of Technology
  • Alexander Khajetoorians, Radboud University Nijmegen
  • Beatriz Noheda, CogniGron - University of Groningen
  • Wilfred van der Wiel, BRAINS – University of Twente

https://www.brainspiration2022.com

Last modified:17 October 2022 3.26 p.m.

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