Program

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Day 1. June 15th.

..-9:15 Welcome coffee

9:15 -9:30 Welcome note - Evgeny Osipov

9:30-10:30  Keynote 1. Thinking about Vector Symbolic Architectures (Dr. Ross Gayler). Abstract.

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00 - 12:00 Keynote 2. Hierarchies in hyperdimensional spaces (Prof. Dmitri Rachkovskij). Abstract.

12:00 - 12:30: Presentations of the workshop challenges. See challenge descriptions here.

12:30-13:30 LUNCH

13:30-15:30: Lightning talks session 1  Abstract (up to 20 minutes each)

15:30 Coffee break

15:30-18:00 Workshop challenge activities

18:00-20:00 CONFERENCE DINNER

20:00-22:00 FREE TIME

22:00-23:00 MIDNIGHTVSA SESSION (HYBRID ONLINE AND PHYSICAL)

Day 2. June 16th.

9:30-10:30  Keynote 3. What can transformers and VSA learn from each other? (Dr. Tony Plate). Abstract.

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00 - 12:00 Keynote 4. Spikes for Cognition: Hyperdimensional Computing with Spiking Phasors (Prof. Jeff Orchard). Abstract.

12:00-13:30 LUNCH

13:30-15:30 Ligtening  talks 2 (up to 20 minutes each) and Work-in-progress talks (up to 10 minutes each)  Abstract 

15:30-15:45 Coffee break

15:45-16:30 General assembly: reports on workshop challenges, concludinbg remarks.

16:30 WORKSHOP ENDS