Information in Matter Symposium

Symposium Scope

We live in an age of complex matter and information. Information processing machines are material systems, governed and limited by the laws of physics. Moreover, natural systems from biochemical networks to brains inspire alternative computing methods and platforms. Finally, complex systems may be understood in terms of information processing.

These distinct threads all straddle the interface between information and matter. In this workshop, we will bring together the dutch community that operate on this interface, to ask the question:

What do we gain by intertwining information and matter?

Final program

09:15-09:45 – Arrival

Session 1 – chair: Said Rodriguez (AMOLF)
09:45-10:00 – Welcome
10:00-10:30 – Patty Stabile (TU/e)
10:30-11:00 – Corentin Coulais (UvA)
Coffee/Tea break

Session 2 – chair: Jorik van de Groep (UvA)
11:20-11:50 – Hans Hilgenkamp (UTwente)
11:50-12:20 – Marc Serra Garcia (AMOLF)
Lunch and posters

Session 3 – chair: Tom Shimizu (AMOLF)
13:00-13:30 – Elisabetta Chicca (RUG)
13:30-14:20 – Posters & hot topic break out session
Can materials learn? – Moderator: Beatriz Noheda (RUG)
Embedded computing – Moderator: Yoeri van de Burgt (TU/e)
Limits to information transmission – Moderator: Pieter Rein ten Wolde (AMOLF)
Coffee/Tea break

Session 4 – chair: Marianne Bauer (TU Delft)
14:40-15:10 – Eliška Greplová (TU Delft)
15:10-15:40 – Greg Stephens (VU)
Coffee/Tea break

Session 5 – chair: Martin van Hecke (AMOLF)
16:00-16:45 – Arvind Murugan (UCHICAGO)
Drinks and posters

Speakers

• Arvind Murugan (University of Chicago)
  Learning without neurons
• Patty Stabile (TU/e, Eindhoven Hendrik Casimir Institute)
  InP Photonic Integrated Neural Networks
• Corentin Coulais (University of Amsterdam)
  Reinventing the wheel
• Hans Hilgenkamp (University of Twente, BRAINS)
  Routes for storing and processing information in matter, towards more energy-efficient information technologies
• Marc Serra Garcia (AMOLF, Information in Matter Department)
  Nanomechanics as an emergent platform for information technologies
• Elisabetta Chicca (University of Groningen, COGNIGRON)
  Spike-based local synaptic plasticity models
• Eliška Greplová (TU Delft, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience)
  Multiverse of Engineered Quantum Topology
• Greg Stephens (VU University Amsterdam)
  From partial observations to long timescales through maximally predictive states