BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:REQUEST PRODID:Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:16010101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:16010101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT ORGANIZER;CN="Gupta, Sumeet Kumar":mailto:guptask@purdue.edu ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;RSVP=FALSE;CN="Shukla, N ikhil (ns6pf)":mailto:ns6pf@virginia.edu ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;RSVP=FALSE;CN=ecefacult y@ecn.purdue.edu:mailto:ecefaculty@ecn.purdue.edu ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;RSVP=FALSE;CN=ecegradst udent-list@ecn.purdue.edu:mailto:ecegradstudent-list@ecn.purdue.edu ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;RSVP=FALSE;CN=ecepostdo cs-list@ecn.purdue.edu:mailto:ecepostdocs-list@ecn.purdue.edu ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;RSVP=FALSE;CN=Bnc-facul ty-all-list@ecn.purdue.edu:mailto:Bnc-faculty-all-list@ecn.purdue.edu ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;RSVP=FALSE;CN=BNC-EngSt aff:mailto:BNC-EngStaff@groups.purdue.edu ATTACH:CID:D827A542934F88408722BF36EA6C1EDB@namprd22.prod.outlook.com DESCRIPTION;LANGUAGE=en-US:Hello\n\nIt is my great pleasure to host Prof. N ikhil Shukla (University of Virginia) for his talk in the ECE Seminar Seri es. The details are below and attached. Hope to see you in the seminar.\n \nThanks\n\nSumeet\n\nWhen: February 18\, 2021 (Thursday)\, 10:00 AM – 1 1:00 AM (ET)\n\n\nWhere: https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/3164232249\n\n\nTitl e: Solving combinatorial optimization using oscillator-based dynamical sy stems\n\n\nAbstract: Modern information processing relies largely on digit al computers. However\, a large class of combinatorial optimization proble ms\, with extensive practical applications\, are still considered intracta ble to solve on a traditional digital platform. Solving such problems typi cally entails exponentially increasing computing resources (time\, memory etc.) as the problem sizes increase\, and practical problems become unmana geable without the use of enormous\, energy-guzzling computing resources. Consequently\, overcoming this limitation has motivated the quest to find efficient beyond-digital computing fabrics. In this talk\, I will describe one such potentially promising paradigm based on analog dynamical systems of electronic oscillators.\n\nThe talk will first explore how oscillator systems and their dynamics can be engineered to solve different computatio nal models\, relevant to computing various flavors of combinatorial optimi zation problems. Along this direction\, I will describe some of our recent results on solving problems such as Maximum Cut\, Maximum Independent Set \, and Satisfiability using oscillator networks. Subsequently\, I will exp lore CMOS and beyond-CMOS hardware fabrics that can facilitate the energy- and area-efficient implementation of the oscillator hardware platform. Fi nally\, I will address some of the current challenges and performance trad e-offs of this paradigm\, and describe possible pathways to overcoming the m.\n\n\nSpeaker Bio: Nikhil Shukla is currently an assistant professor at the University of Virginia with a joint appointment in the department of E lectrical & Computer Engineering\, and the department of Materials Science and Engineering. He received his PhD from the University of Notre Dame in 2017. Nikhil’s research interests lie in co-designing new devices\, cir cuits\, and computational models to make computing more efficient. He has authored/co-authored over 50 journal and conference papers and has receive d the best paper award from IEEE TMSCS in 2017. 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