Date: Thu, April 27, 16:00-18:00 Venue: Room An301, A Block, IIS, The University of Tokyo Invited Speaker: Prof. Sudeshna Sinha (Institute of Mathematical Sciences) Title: Exploiting Chaos to Design Flexible Hardware Abstract: We describe simple mechanisms that can effectively extract a wide variety of stable spatiotemporal patterns from a chaotic system. Further we indicate how this controllable richness of chaotic dynamics may be exploited to constitute a flexible and versatile computing medium. We verify some of these concepts in experiments on chaotic circuits.