Infomatter Symposium 2025: Fundamentals of Computing in Matter
Thursday, May 22, 2025 | 9:30-17:30 | AMOLF
Symposium Overview
The power cost of computing is growing much more rapidly than that of energy production. For this reason, entirely new computing paradigms are being developed. The beauty of this rapidly growing field is that similar questions, using related concepts and ideas, are studied in widely different systems, via different approaches. The aim of our one-day symposium is to bring together prime examples of exciting activities in these different systems, from biochemical, to mechanical and optical systems, all focused on alternative forms of computing. We hope that our workshop will foster new interdisciplinary interactions in our field.
Registration open: 17 February, 2025 – Deadline: April 15, 2025, 23:59h CET
Program
- 09.00 – Registration desk opens (Congress Centre, Science Park 125)
- 09.30 – Opening
- 09:45 – Dr. Zorana Zeravcic, ESPCI, France – Self-Organizing Active Chains: From Environmental Interactions to Adaptive Learning
- 10:30 – Prof.dr.ir. Wilfred G. van der Wiel, University of Twente, The Netherlands – In-materia speech recognition
- 11:00 – Coffee break
- 11:30 – Prof. Wilhelm T. S. Huck, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands – Neuromorphic computing in chemical reaction networks – towards intelligent molecular systems
- 12:00 – Dr. Marianne Bauer, TU Delft, The Netherlands – Optimizing computations during gene regulation
- 12:30 – Lunch and poster session @ AMOLF
- 14:00 – Prof.dr. Liesbeth M. C. Janssen, TU Eindhoven The Netherlands – How glassy are neural networks?
- 14:30 – Prof. Menachem (Nachi) Stern, AMOLF Amsterdam, The Netherlands – Learning without neurons in physical systems
- 15:00 – Tea break
- 15:30 – Prof. Sylvain Gigan, ENS Paris, France – Optical machine learning exploiting disorder
- 16:15 – Closing
- 16:30 – Drinks @ AMOLF
Turing room, Amsterdam Science Park Congress Centre
Science Park 125, Amsterdam
Confirmed speakers
- Prof. Sylvain Gigan, ENS Paris, France
- Dr. Zorana Zeravcic, ESPCI, France
- Dr. Marianne Bauer, TU Delft, The Netherlands
- Prof.dr. Liesbeth M.C. Janssen, TU Eindhoven The Netherlands
- Prof. Menachem (Nachi) Stern, AMOLF Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Prof.dr.ir. Wilfred G. van der Wiel, University of Twente, The Netherlands
- Prof. Wilhelm T.S. Huck, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands