LPHYS'25.    Program:

Seminar 12: Optical Computing and Neural Networks

Co-chairs:

Schedule:

  1. Tuesday, 1 July, 2025
  2. S12.1 (14:30 – 16:30)Chair: Peter McMahon (USA)
    1. 14:30 – 15:10 F Aflatouni (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, USA)Integrated Photonic Deep Neural Networks for Sub-Nanosecond Image Classification Abstract 
    2. 15:10 – 15:40 L G Wright (Department of Applied Physics, Yale University, New Haven CT, USA) Scaling Up Photonic Computing with Progammable Multimode Waves Abstract 
    3. 15:40 – 16:10 P Bienstman (Department of Information Technology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium) Reservoir Computing with Silicon Integrated Photonics for Time Series Processing Abstract 
    4. 16:10 – 16:40 M-G Suh (PHI Lab, NTT Research, Sunnyvale, CA, USA) Hyperspectral Information Processing and Dimensionality Reduction Abstract 
  3. Wednesday, 2 July, 2025
  4. S12.2 (14:30 – 16:30)Chair: Andrea Liu (USA)
    1. 14:30 – 15:00 C Conti (Department of Physics, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy), S Gentilini (CNR-ISC, Rome, Italy), M Calvanese Strinati (Research Center Enrico Fermi, Rome, Italy), D Veraldi, D Pierangeli (Department of Physics, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy)Spatial Ising Machines Abstract 
    2. 15:00 – 15:45 S Vintskevich (Quantum Sensing Group, TII, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), I Roth (Quantum Research Center, Quantum Algorithms, TII, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), D Grigoriev (Quantum Sensing Group, TII, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), Y Kurochkin (Quantum communications, TII, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) Optical Low-Power Image Recognition with Effective Two Layer Neural Network Abstract 
    3. 15:45 – 16:10 A Skalli (Optics, Université Marie et Louis Pasteur, CNRS, institut FEMTO-ST, Besançon, France), S Sunada (Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Science and Engineering, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan), M Goldmann (Akhetonics GmbH, Berlin, Germany), M Gebski (Institute of Physics, Lodz University of Technology, Łódź, Poland), N Haghighi, S Reitzenstein, J A Lott (Institut für Festkörperphysik, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany), T Czyszanowski (Institute of Physics, Lodz University of Technology, Łódź, Poland), D Brunner (Optics, Université Marie et Louis Pasteur, CNRS, institut FEMTO-ST, Besançon, France) Model-Free Optimization Algorithms for Physical Neural Networks Abstract 
    4. 16:10 – 16:30 C Roques-Carmes, A Karnieli, D A B Miller, S Fan (Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford CA, USA) Variational Optical Processors Abstract 
  5. S12.3 (17:00 – 19:00) Chair: Claudio Conti (Italy)
    1. 17:00 – 17:20 F Gottlieb, A Sinha, K Wang (Department of Physics, McGill University, Montréal, Canada)Optical Neural Network and In Situ Training in Synthetic Frequency Dimensions Abstract 
    2. 17:20 – 17:50 S A Fldzhyan (Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia; Russian Quantum Center, Moscow, Russia), M Y Saygin (Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia; Sber Quantum Technology Center, Moscow, Russia), N A Nemkov (Sber Quantum Technology Center, Moscow, Russia), I V Kondratyev (Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia), N N Skryabin, I V Dyakonov (Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia; Russian Quantum Center, Moscow, Russia), S S Straupe (Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia; Russian Quantum Center, Moscow, Russia; Sber Quantum Technology Center, Moscow, Russia) Programmable Optical Interferometers for Matrix Multiplication Abstract 
    3. 17:50 – 18:10 A Duplinskii, M Filipovich, K Bearne, A I Lvovsky (Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK) Diffractive Neural Networks for Computer Vision Applications Abstract 
    4. 18:10 – 18:30 A S Song, S N M K Kottapalli, R G Goyal (Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany; Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany), B S Schölkopf (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen, Germany), P F Fischer (Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany; Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany) Multilayer Optoelectronic Neural Networks Enabled with Incoherent Light Abstract 
    5. 18:30 – 18:50 A Momeni, R Fleury (Electrical engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland) Training of Analog Neural Networks Abstract 
    6. 18:50 – 19:10 Z X Xu, Z X Xue, L F Fang (Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China) Large-Scale Photonic Computing Empowers Artificial General Intelligence Abstract 
  6. Thursday, 3 July, 2025
  7. S12.4 (14:30 – 16:30)Chair: Douglas Durian (USA)
    1. 14:30 – 15:00 A Marandi (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena CA, USA)Nonlinear Resonator Networks: From Complex Optics to Advanced Computing and Sensing Abstract 
    2. 15:00 – 15:30 H Takesue (NTT Basic Research Labs, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Kanagawa, Japan) Solving Maximum Independent Set Problems with a Coherent Ising Machine Abstract 
    3. 15:30 – 16:00 N Berloff (University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK) Gain-Based Computing Using Light and Matter Abstract 
    4. 16:00 – 16:25 Z G Cheng (Microelectronics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China) Photonic In-Memory Computing Abstract 
  8. S12.5 (17:00 – 19:00) Chair: Natalia Berloff (UK)
    1. 17:00 – 17:30 D J Durian, S Dillavou, L Altman, N Stern (Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, USA), M Miskin (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, USA), A J Liu (Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, USA)Contrastive Local Learning Networks in the Lab Abstract 
    2. 17:30 – 18:00 M Guzman (Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, USA), S Ciarella (École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France), A J Liu (Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, USA) Restricted Kirchhoff Machine Abstract 
    3. 18:00 – 18:25 R Hamerly (PHI Lab, NTT Research, Sunnyvale, CA, USA), C Luan, D Englund (Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA, USA) Tools and Techniques for Wavelength-Multiplexed Optical Neural Networks Abstract 

Accepted Talks:

The following talks have been accepted. They will be scheduled for presentation at LPHYS'25.

  1. N Davidson (Department of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel)Laser Simulators and Annealers Abstract 
  2. J Dong (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China) Training for Optical Diffractive Neural Network Chips Abstract