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Opening Lecture

Memristor: 38 Years Later

Leon O. Chua

University of California, Berkeley

On the May 1 2008 issue of Nature, scientists from the Hewlett-Packard Company unveils a nano-scale device called the memristor, a hypothetical circuit element postulated in 1971. This Nature paper has generated unprecedented worldwide interests because, among many applications, memristors can be used as super-dense non-volatile memories for building instant turn-on computers. Even more exciting is the recent suggestions from many brain-research scientists that the memristor's continuous (analog) memory can be used to build ultra-small brain-like learning machines with nano-scale memristive synapses having a density of more than 50,000 synapses per neuron on a single chip. This lecture will provide an introduction to memristors and its potential applications, along with some historical and philosophical perspectives.

Plenary Lectures

Name	Lecture Name	Affiliation
Georges Gielen	Innovations in mixed-signal circuit design for advanced CMOS technologies	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Manfred Glesner	Organic Electronic Circuit Design	Technische Universität Darmstadt
Yusuf Leblebici	Computing With Leakage Currents: Subthreshold Source-Coupled Logic Circuits	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Franco Maloberti	Ultra Low-Power Data Converters: Challenges and Design Solutions	University of Pavia, Italy

Technical Program Chairs

Günhan Dündar

Shahram Minaei

Bogazici University, Turkey

Dogus University, Turkey

dundar@boun.edu.tr

sminaei@dogus.edu.tr

Track Chairs
Track ID	Track Name	Track Chair(s)	Track Chair(s) Affiliation
1	Analog Circuit Design and Signal Processing	Hakan Kuntman Ali Zeki Gaetano Palumbo	Istanbul Technical University University of Catania
2	Mixed Signal Circuits and Systems	Devrim Aksin	Istanbul Technical University
3	RF and Microwave Circuits	Jussi Ryynänen Nil Tarım	Helsinki University of Technology Istanbul Technical University
4	Digital VLSI Design and Signal Procesing	Chua Chin Wang Majid A. Ahmadi	National Sun Yat-Sen University University of Windsor
5	CAD Tools and VLSI Modeling	Yusuf Leblebici F. Fernandez	Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne IMSE-CNM, Spain
6	Circuit Theory and Analysis	Martin Hasler Maciej Ogorzalek	Ecole Polytecnique Federale Lausanne Hong Kong Polytechnic University
7	Nonlinear Circuits: Theory, Design and Applications	Orla Feely	University College Dublin
8	Gigascale Systems: Neural Networks, CNNs and Fuzzy Systems	Marco Gilli	Polytechnic of Turin
9	Communication and Wireless Systems	Gerald Sobelman	University of Minnesota
10	Quantum and Nanoscale Circuits	Mircea Stan Garrett Rose	University of Virginia Polytechnic Institute of NYU
11	Sensory Systems, Sensor Interfaces, Optical Systems	Franco Maloberti	University of Pavia
12	Biomedical Circuits and Systems	Yong Lian Yasemin Kahya	National University of Singapore Bogazici University
13	Power Circuits and Systems	Eduard Alarcon	Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya
14	Computational Methods: Tools, Algorithms, Graphs, Cryptography	Berna Örs Yalçın	Istanbul Technical University
15	Multimedia Systems and Applications	Ari Paasio	University of Turku
16	Visual Signal Processing	Feng Wu	Microsoft Research Asia

Special Sessions
Track No	Title of the Special Session	The Session Organizer	The Organizer(s) Affiliation
17.1	Focal-Plane Sensor-Processor Chip Implementation	Akos Zarandy	Hungarian Academy of Sciences
17.2	Emulated Digital CNN Based Computing on Different Array Processors	Péter Szolgay	Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest
17.3	Side-Channel & Fault Attacks on Implementations of Cryptographic Algorithms	Berna Ors Elisabeth Oswald	Istanbul Technical University University of Bristol
17.4	Advances in AMS/RF Design Methods	Günhan Dündar Francisco V. Fernández	Bogazici University IMSE, CSIC and Univ. Sevilla
17.5	New trends in A/D Converters Design and Testing	Jose L. Huertas	IMSE, CNM, Spain

Under the Patronage of European Circuit Society (ECS)