Perugia (Italy) – July 17 – 20, 2018

The Noise in Physical System Laboratory is glad to announce the ninth edition of NiPS Summer School devoted to the topics of Energy harvesting, micro energy, non-equilibrium thermodynamics, low power ICT, autonomouse devices, IoT.

The school is open to graduate students, post-docs, young researchers, and in general to all scientists interested in the physical foundations and practical applications of energy transformations at micro and nanoscales.

This year the school will be organized in two parallel tracks:

Powering the Internet of Things

in collaboration with the E.C. funded project EnaBLES – Lectures program

Scientific program:

Fundamentals on energy:

– Fundamentals on energy (Luca Gammaitoni – University of Perugia, Italy). Slides

Energy harvesting:

– Linear vibration energy harvesting (Bahareh Zaghari – University of Southampton, United Kingdom). Slides

– Nonlinear miniature systems for vibration energy harvesting (Francesco Cottone – University of Perugia, Italy)

– Thermoelectrics: from materials to applications (Guillaume Savelli – CEA-Liten, France)

– Radio Frequency EH and wireless power transfer (Luca Roselli, University of Perugia, Italy)

Energy Storage:

– Development of cross-linked polymer electrolytes for lithium batteries: an overview (Jijeesh R. Naird – Helmholtz Institute Münster (HI MS) Ionics in Energy Storage, Germany). Slides

– Energy Storage 2 (Qingsong Wang – Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Germany) slides

– Solid state microbatteries and flexible batteries (Frédéric Le Cras – CEA-LETI, France)

Micro Power Management:

– An introduction to micro-power management for energy harvesting applications (Aldo Romani – University of Bologna, Italy)

– Micro-Power Management for energy harvesting power sources and storage devices (Peter Spies – Fraunhofer, Germany) slides

System Integration

– Design flow for energy harvesting enabled devices (Francesco Orfei – University of Perugia, Italy) slides

– Considerations for energy harvesting powered WSN real life system integration and target applications (Filippo Ambroglini – Wisepower srl, Italy)

Hands-on:

– From the energy harvester to the application (Elisabetta Boco – Wisepower s.r.l, Italy)

Enables presentation (L. Gammaitoni) slides

Energy aware transprecision computing

in collaboration with the E.C. funded project OPRECOMP – Lectures program
Scientific program:

Fundamentals on energy:

– Fundamentals on energy (Luca Gammaitoni – University of Perugia, Italy). Slides

– Physics of Information (Igor Neri – University of Perugia, Italy). Slides

Algorithms:

– Transprecision algorithms as a disruptive technology for challenging the Exascale energy barrier (Andrew Emerson – CINECA, Italy). Slides

– Adaptive-precision algorithms for sparse linear systems (Enrique Quintana – Universitat Jaume I De Castellon, Spain). Slides

SW and TOOLS:

– Advanced compilation techniques (Andrea Marongiu – University of Bologna, Italy). Slides

– Transprecision Floating-Point Library (Giuseppe Tagliavini – University of Bologna, Italy). Slides|Code

Applications:

– Integrating reduced precision concepts into applications and real code (Florian Scheidegger – IBM Research GmbH, Zurich, Switzerland). Slides

– Transprecision techniques for linear solvers and non-linear regressions (JunKyu Lee – The Queen’s University of Belfast, UK). Slides

Architecture and Circuits:

– RISC-V ISA/ Microarchitecture (Frank K. Gürkaynak – ETHZ, Zurich, Switzerland). Slides

– Parallel Ultra Low-Power Processing ,PULP, systems (Davide Rossi – University of Bologna, Italy). Slides

– FPGA programming using arbitrary precision data-types (Dionysios Diamantopoulos – IBM Research GmbH, Zurich, Switzerland). Slides

– Approximate DRAM and memory controllers (Norbert Wehn – University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)

Hands on session:

– GAPUINO board/Mr. Wolf based board (Francesco Paci – GreenWaves Technologies, Grenoble, France)

– PULP (Fabian Schuiki – ETHZ, Zurich, Switzerland). Slides

Scientific Director: Luca Gammaitoni, NiPS Laboratory, Dipartimento di Fisica e Geologia, Università di Perugia

Poster session

We expect all participants to present your work or research plans during a poster session. Participants will have the oportunity to present their work with a “1 Minute Pitch” on Wednesday, from 14:00 to 15:30, before the planned excurion. Posters will be displayed during all days of the school.

Posters should be A0 in size and preferably of portrait orientation.

Venue

NiPS Summer School 2018 is held at the Hotel Giò in Perugia, in central Italy.

The Summer school is scheduled to start on July 16th with a welcome cocktail at 18:00. Lectures will start on July 17th at 9:00 and end on July 20th at 18:00.
Lectures will run on mornings and afternoons from 9:00 to 18:00. On July 18th at 14:30 it is foreseen a touristic guided excursion through the Trasimeno lake and, following, the social dinner in a special location.
Accompanying persons are welcome to the summer school. Touristic attractions and cultural events, including the world reknown Jazz festival “Umbria Jazz” will be running in Perugia during the summer school days.

Lodging

Please dowload the Booking Form for discounted hotel rates.

All hotels are within an easy walk from the Summer School venue.

All reservations must be booked through the Booking Form in order to receive these discounted rates.

How to reach Perugia

By Air
The closest airport to Perugia is the San Francesco airport located at 15 min drive.
Central Italy’s closest major airports are in Rome, Pisa, and Florence. These can be easily reached by train, bus or car.
The major international gateway is Rome’s Aeroporto Leonardo da Vinci, known as Fiumicino (FCO) (30 km/19 mi southwest of Rome).
Pisa’s Aeroporto Galileo Galilei (PSA) (12 km/7 mi south of Pisa and 80 km (50 mi) west of Florence) has flights from London, Amsterdam, Brussels, and Paris)
Florence’s Aeroporto A. Vespucci, known as Peretola (FLR) (10 km/6 mi northwest of Florence), has connections to Brussels, Paris, London, Rome, and Milan.

By train
Arrival at Perugia Fontivegge Railways Station.Information on train schedule are available here: Trenitalia.

Registration

Registration are closed.

Contacts

NiPS Laboratory, Dipartimento di Fisica e Geologia, Università di Perugia

via Pascoli 1 – I-06123 – Perugia (Italy)

Email: school@nipslab.org

Supported by E.C. funded project EnaBLES; E.C. funded project OPRECOMP; Wisepower srl;

Previous editions of NiPS Summer School have seen in seven years the participation of around 300 students and young researchers from all over the world.

Click here for some pictures of NiPS Summer School 2016!

Please visit the following links for information on previous editions, together with the slides of the lectures and photos of the events: