BFBC 2022 - The 10th RIEC Int. Symp. on Brain Functions and Brain Computer2022

The 10th RIEC International Symposium on Brain Functions and Brain Computer

DATE:February 18-19, 2022

VENUE:Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

BFBC

Program

Technical Program (All times listed in JST [GMT +09:00])

Feb. 18

9:30 - 9:35 Opening Remarks
A. Hirano-Iwata (Tohoku Univ., Japan)
---- Special Session 1 (Chairs: Y. Katori, H. Yamamoto) ----
"The 1st Symposium on Multicellular Neurobiocomputing (1)"
9:35 - 9:55 [SS1-1] The launch of "Multicellular Neurobiocomputing"
H. Yamamoto, Y. Katori, T. Matsui, Y. Masamizu (Tohoku Univ., Japan)
9:55 - 10:25 [SS1-2 (Invited)] Modeling mean-field neuronal responses of the visual cortex
T. Netoff, A. Kiani, G. Ghose (Univ. Minnesota, U.S.A.)
10:25 - 10:55 [SS1-3 (Invited)] Perceptron-like learning rules mediate a plastic response to stressors in corticotropin-releasing hormone neurons of the hypothalamus
W. Nicola, T. Fuzesi, J. Bains (Univ. Calgary, Canada)
10:55 - 11:05 Break (10 min)
11:05 - 11:25 [SS1-4] Reservoir based sensory and motor processing models for multicellular neurobiocomputing
Y. Katori (Future Univ. Hakodate, Japan)
11:25 - 11:45 [SS1-5] Spatiotemporal activity in the biological neural network: properties, functions, and potential applications
T. Matsui (Okayama Univ., Japan)
11:45 - 12:05 [SS1-6] Development of techniques to construct novel brain's neural circuits
Y. Masamizu, T. Ebina, Y. Tanaka, M. Negishi-Kato, H. Onoe, S. Takeuchi, M. Matsuzaki (Doshisha Univ., Japan)
12:05 - 13:30 Lunch Break
--- Special Session 2 (Chair: M. Kimura) ---
"Brain-like Integrated System: Device, Circuit, System, etc."
13:30 - 13:50 [SS2-1 (Session Invited)] Demonstrations on synaptic operations of ferroelectric-gate field-effect transistors
S.-M. Yoon (Kyung Hee Univ., Korea)
13:50 - 14:10 [SS2-2 (Session Invited)] IMAX2: A CGRA with interface to neuromorphic and stochastic computing
Y. Nakashima (NAIST, Japan)
14:10 - 14:25 [SS2-3] Multi-domain spiking neural network on analog neuromorphic hardware
R. Oshio, A. Sawada, M. Kimura, R. Zhang, Y. Nakashima (NAIST, Japan)
14:25 - 14:45 [SS2-4] Neuromorphic systems using thin-film memcapacitors
M. Kimura (Ryukoku Univ., Japan)
14:45 - 15:00 [SS2-5] Analog memristor using amorphous metal-oxide thin-film devices
D. Makioka, S. Shiomi, E. Iwagi, Y. Ishisaki, T. Katagiri, M. Kimura (Ryukoku Univ., Japan)
15:00 - 15:30 Break (30 min)
---- Special Session 3 (Chairs: Y. Masamizu, T. Matsui) ----
"The 1st Symposium on Multicellular Neurobiocomputing (2)"
15:30 - 15:50 [SS3-1 (Invited)] High-resolution intravital imaging based on novel two-photon microscopic technologies
K. Otomo, T. Nemoto (Juntendo Univ., Japan)
15:50 - 16:10 [SS3-2] Nonlinear integration of synaptic inputs revealed by large-scale synapse imaging without backpropagating action potentials
S. Kondo, K. Kikuta, K. Ohki (Univ. Tokyo, Japan)
16:10 - 16:30 [SS3-3] Modeling subthreshold voltage signaling along axon in the hippocampus
H. Kamiya (Hokkaido Univ., Japan)
16:30 - 16:50 [SS3-4] Glial assembly for the fine tuning of synaptic transmission
S. Katsurabayashi, K. Oyabu, K. Takeda, K. Kubota, T. Watanabe, K. Iwasaki (Fukuoka Univ., Japan)
16:50 - 17:00 Break (10 min)
17:00 - 17:20 [SS3-5] A new lipid bilayer platform for analyzing ion channel functions
A. Hirano-Iwata (Tohoku Univ., Japan)
17:20 - 17:50 [SS3-6 (Invited)] Spiking Neural Network for bio-hybrid systems
T. Levi, R. Beaubois, F. Khoyratee (Univ. Bordeaux, France)
17:50 - 18:20 [SS3-7 (Invited)] Rich dynamics and functional organization on topographically designed neuronal networks in vitro
M. Montalà-Flaquer, C. F. López-León, D. Tornero, T. Fardet, P. Monceau, S. Bottani, J. Soriano (Univ. Barcelona, Spain)

Feb. 19

--- Special Session 4 (Chair: S. Sato) ---
"Spintronics-based edge computing hardware fundamentals"
10:00 - 10:30 [SS4-1 (Invited)] Massively parallel probabilistic computing through MRAM
K. Camsari, J. Kaiser, S. Datta, W. A. Borders, H. Ohno, S. Fukami (UC Santa Barbara, U.S.A.)
10:30 - 10:50 [SS4-2] Spiking neuron circuit and efficient CMOS reservoir computing
S. Sato, S. Moriya, S. Ono, Y. Kanke, H. Yamamoto, Y. Horio, Y. Yuminaka, J. Madrenas (Tohoku Univ., Japan)
10:50 - 11:05 [SS4-3] Design of an energy-efficient binarized CNN accelerator using an appropriate schedule of intra-data life time
T. Oka, D. Suzuki, T. Hanyu (Tohoku Univ., Japan)
11:05 - 14:00 Lunch Break
--- General Session 1 (Chairs: Y. Horio, S. Moriya) ---
14:00 - 14:15 [GS1-1] Feasibility of neuromorphic wetware using configurable polymer networks
N. Hagiwara, Y. Amemiya, J. E. Ali, T. Asai, M. Akai-Kasaya (Hokkaido Univ., Japan)
14:15 - 14:30 [GS1-2] A co-design environment for computational models and circuits using PyLTSpice and its application to circuit design for reinforcement learning using reservoir computing
Y. Shishido, K. Kawazoe, K. Tamai, Y. Katori, H. Tamukoh, O. Nomura, T. Morie (Kyushu Inst. Technol., Japan)
14:30 - 14:45 [GS1-3] Numerical simulation for VLSI implementation of reinforcement learning using reservoir computing
K. Tamai, K. Kawazoe, Y. Shishido, Y. Katori, H. Tamukoh, O. Nomura, T. Morie (Kyushu Inst. Technol., Japan)
14:45 - 15:00 [GS1-4] A situation-dependent navigation system by brain-inspired neural networks with hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, and amygdala functions
A. Mizutani, Y. Tanaka, H. Tamukoh, Y. Katori, K. Tateno, T. Morie (Kyushu Inst. Technol., Japan)
15:00 - 15:15 [GS1-5] Artificial cerebellum implemented on an FPGA for real-time adaptive motor control
Y. Shinji, O.Hirotsugu, Y. Hirata (Chubu Univ., Japan)
15:15 - 15:30 [GS1-6] Development of a robot control system mimicking biological nervous system functions
K. Morishita, Y. Takei, K. Saito (Nihon Univ., Japan)
15:30 - 15:45 [GS1-7] Controlling chaotic bipolar-disorder system by reduced-region-of-orbit feedback method
H. Doho, S. Nobukawa, H. Nishimura, N. Wagatsuma (Kochi Univ., Japan)
15:45 - 16:00 [GS1-8] Extracting nonlinear latent dynamics of neurons using replica exchange particle Markov chain Monte Carlo method
H. Inoue, T. Omori (Kobe Univ., Japan)
16:00 - 16:15 [GS1-9] Temporal modulations of neural sequential patterns in a multiple-timescale network
T. Kurikawa (Kansai Medical Univ., Japan)
16:15 - 16:35 Break (20 min)
--- General Session 2 (Chair: S. Sato) ---
16:35 - 16:55 [GS2-1 (Invited)] Physical reservoir computing frameworks utilizing optical or spin-wave dynamics
A. Hirose, H. Numata, J. B. Héroux, T. Yamane, D. Nakano, G. Tanaka, R. Nakane (Univ. Tokyo, Japan)
16:55 - 17:15 [GS2-2 (Invited)] Flexible real-time display of SNN hardware architecture execution
B. Vallejo, C. Nader, J. Madrenas, M. Zapata, S. Moriya, S. Sato (Polytechn. Univ. Catalonia, Spain)
17:15 - 17:45 [GS2-3 (Invited)] Unsupervised representation learning in brain-like neural networks with Bayesian-Hebbian synaptic mechanisms
P. Herman, N. B. Ravichandran, A. Lansner (KTH Royal Inst. Technol., Sweden)
17:45 - 17:50 Closing Remarks
Y. Horio, S. Sato (Tohoku Univ., Japan)

Social Program

No social events are scheduled this year as a preventive measure to minimize the risks related to COVID-19.