2021 Program
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ICRC 2021 Program
| Tue 30-Nov | Theme: Quantum Computing | |||
| Session | 1a | Session Chairs: Robert Wille and Alexandru Paler | ||
| Start | End | Type | Authors/Presenters | Title |
| 12:00 PM ET | 12:15 PM ET | Intro | ||
| 12:15 PM ET | 12:45 PM ET | Keynote | Prof. Fred Chong, U. Chicago | Resource-Efficient Quantum Computing by Breaking Abstractions |
| 12:45 PM ET | 13:10 PM ET | Full | Teague Tomesh, Kaiwen Gui, Pranav Gokhale, Yunong Shi, Martin Suchara, Margaret Martonosi and Fred Chong | Optimized Quantum Program Execution Ordering to Mitigate Errors in Simulations of Quantum Systems |
| 13:10 PM ET | 13:35 PM ET | Full | Austin Adams, Elton Pinto, Jeff Young, Eugene Dumitrescu, Alex McCaskey, Creston Herold and Thomas M. Conte | Enabling a Programming Environment for an Experimental Ion Trap Quantum Testbed |
| 13:35 PM ET | 14:00 PM ET | Full | Patrick Selig, Niall Murphy, Ashwin Sundareswaran R, David Redmond and Simon Caton | A Case for Noisy Shallow Gate-based Circuits in Quantum Machine Learning |
| 14:00 PM ET | 14:30 PM ET | Panel Q&A | ||
| 14:30 PM ET | 15:00 PM ET | Break | ||
| Session | 1b | Session Chairs: Tzvetan S. Metodi and Alexandru Paler | ||
| 15:00 PM ET | 15:25 PM ET | Full | Xin-Chuan Wu, Marc Davis, Frederic T. Chong and Costin Iancu | Reoptimization of Quantum Circuits via Hierarchical Synthesis |
| 15:25 PM ET | 15:50 PM ET | Full | M Saravanan and Rana Pratap Sircar | A Quantum Method for Subchannel allocation in Device-to-Device Communication |
| 15:50 PM ET | 16:15 PM ET | Full | David Quiroga, Prasanna Date and Raphael Pooser | Discriminating Quantum States with Quantum Machine Learning |
| 16:15 PM ET | 16:45 PM ET | Panel Q&A | ||
| 16:45 PM ET | End of Day | |||
| Wed 01-Dec | Theme: AI / ML / Neural Computing | |||
| Session | 2a | Session Chair: Joseph Friedman | ||
| Start | End | Type | Authors/Presenters | Title |
| 12:00 PM ET | 12:15 PM ET | Intro | ||
| 12:15 PM ET | 12:45 PM ET | Keynote | Dr. Catherine Schuman, Oak Ridge National Lab | Neuromorphic Computing for Real-Time Control at the Edge |
| 12:45 PM ET | 12:55 PM ET | Abstract | Suhas Kumar, Thomas Van Vaerenbergh, John Paul Strachan | Hopfield algorithm for constrained optimization of the Knapsack problem |
| 12:55 PM ET | 13:20 PM ET | Full | J. Darby Smith, James Aimone, Rich Lehoucq and William Severa | Assessing a Neuromorphic Platform for use in Scientific Stochastic Sampling |
| 13:20 PM ET | 13:35 PM ET | Short | Nishant Mysore, Bruno Umbria Pedroni, Gopabandhu Hota, Stephen Deiss and Gert Cauwenberghs | Hierarchical Network Partitioning for Reconfigurable Large-Scale Neuromorphic Systems |
| 13:35 PM ET | 13:50 PM ET | Short | James Aimone, Aaron Hill, William Severa and Craig Vineyard | Spiking Neural Streaming Binary Arithmetic |
| 13:50 PM ET | 14:00 PM ET | Abstract | Peng Zhou, Julie Smith, Laura Deremo, Stephen Heinrich-Barna and Joseph Friedman | Synchronous Unsupervised STDP Learning with Stochastic STT-MRAM Switching |
| 14:00 PM ET | 14:30 PM ET | Panel Q&A | ||
| 14:30 PM ET | 15:00 PM ET | Break | ||
| Session | 2b | Session Chairs: Neil Thompson and Hiro Akinaga | ||
| 15:00 PM ET | 15:15 PM ET | Short | Nicki Barari and Edward Kim | Linking Sparse Coding Dictionaries for Representation Learning |
| 15:15 PM ET | 15:40 PM ET | Full | M Saravanan, Satheesh K Perepu, Adhesh Reghu Kumar, Kaushik Dey and Sreeja Gaddamidi | Exploring Spiking Neural Networks in Single and Multi-agent RL Methods |
| 15:40 PM ET | 15:50 PM ET | Abstract | Andres Lombo, Jesus Lares, Matteo Castellani, Chi-Ning Chou, Nancy Lynch and Karl Berggren | Architectures and Algorithms for Superconducting-Nanowire-Based Neuromorphic Computing |
| 15:50 PM ET | 16:00 PM ET | Abstract | Wesley Brigner, Naimul Hassan, Xuan Hu, Christopher Bennett, Alvaro Velasquez, Felipe Garcia-Sanchez, Matthew Marinella, Jean Anne Incorvia and Joseph Friedman | CMOS-Free Multilayer Perceptron Enabled by Four-Terminal MTJ Device |
| 16:00 PM ET | 16:15 PM ET | Short | Alan M. Kadin | Conscious Machines for Autonomous Agents and Cybersecurity |
| 16:15 PM ET | 16:45 PM ET | Panel Q&A | ||
| 16:45 PM ET | End of Day | |||
| Thur 02-Dec | Theme: Adiabatic/Reversible & Other Future Computing | |||
| Session | 3a | Session Chair: Robert Freeman | ||
| Start | End | Type | Authors/Presenters | Title |
| 12:00 PM ET | 12:15 PM ET | Intro | ||
| 12:15 PM ET | 12:45 PM ET | Keynote | John Paul Strachan, FZJ, and RWTH Aachen University, Germany | Analog and in-memory computing for power efficient hardware |
| 12:45 PM ET | 12:55 PM ET | Abstract | Christopher Ayala, Tomoyuki Tanaka, Risako Saito, Ro Saito and Nobuyuki Yoshikawa | Overcoming Integration Challenges in Adiabatic Superconductor Electronics for Energy-Efficient Computing |
| 12:55 PM ET | 13:20 PM ET | Full | Jayson Lynch and Jiaying Sun | An Efficient Reversible Algorithm for Linear Regression |
| 13:20 PM ET | 13:45 PM ET | Invited | Rene Celis-Cordova, Gregory Snider, Alexei O. Orlov, Tian Lu and Jason Kulick | Adiabatic CMOS Design for Adiabatic Reversible Computing |
| 13:45 PM ET | 14:15 PM ET | Panel Q&A | ||
| 14:15 PM ET | 15:00 PM ET | Break | ||
| Session | 3b | Session Chair: Todd Hylton | ||
| 15:00 PM ET | 15:25 PM ET | Full | Benedict Jones, Noura Al Moubayed, Dagou A. Zeze and Chris Groves | Enhanced methods for Evolution in-Materio Processors |
| 15:25 PM ET | 15:35 PM ET | Abstract | Alexander J. Edwards, Dhritiman Bhattacharya, Peng Zhou, Nathan R. McDonald, Lisa Loomis, Clare D. Thiem, Jayasimha Atulasimha and Joseph S. Friedman | Frustrated Arrays of Nanomagnets for Efficient Reservoir Computing |
| 15:35 PM ET | 15:50 PM ET | Short | Akshat Jha, Eliana Stoyanoff, Guga Khundzakishvili, Paul Kairys, Hayato Ushijima-Mwesigwa and Arnab Banerjee | Digital Annealing Route to Complex Magnetic Phase Discovery |
| 15:50 PM ET | 16:05 PM ET | Short | Yuri Ardesi, Giuliana Beretta, Christian Fabiano, Mariagrazia Graziano and Gianluca Piccinini | A Reconfigurable Field-Coupled Nanocomputing Paradigm on Uniform Molecular Monolayers |
| 16:05 PM ET | 16:20 PM ET | Short | Henry Dietz, Paul Eberhart and Ashley Rule | Basic Operations And Structure Of An FPGA Accelerator For Parallel Bit Pattern Computation |
| 16:20 PM ET | 16:50 PM ET | Panel Q&A | ||
| 16:50 PM ET | 17:10 PM ET | Closing | Conference Wrap-up/Summary | |
| 17:10 PM ET | End of Day |