From The Royal Institution.
Explore a brand new paradigm in computing, and how it might offer faster solutions that can support scientific breakthroughs.
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This lecture was recorded at the Ri on 24 January 2025, in partnership with the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Our brains consume around 20 Watts of power, a negligible amount in comparison to the multi-million Watts consumed by supercomputers. The emerging paradigm of Neuromorphic Computing draws inspiration from the structure and functioning of the human brain, particularly this small power consumption and extremely fast response times.
Join theoretical and computational physicist Johan Mentink as he presents evidence of why the neuromorphic computing paradigms offer not only much more energy-efficient but also much faster solutions to widely used computational science problems, with the potential to break existing computational barriers.
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Johan Mentink is an expert in theoretical and computational physics, focused on controlling magnetism at the shortest length and time scale. He is recipient of the prestigous Rubicon, VENI and VIDI grants of the Dutch Research Council (NWO). In 2021 he initiated interdisciplinary research to explore the potential of neuromorphic hardware for computational science use cases with SURF and researchers from Radboud University, University of Twente and IBM. He is also chair of the Computational Science NL platform.
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