Conference Program of WCICA 2012

WCICA 2012
Plenary Lectures
Plenary Lecture V
9:50-11:50, Saturday, July 7, 2012
Room 305, Third Floor, Beijing International Convention Center
Memristor: Past, Present, and Future
Professor Leon O. Chua
University of California at Berkeley, USA
TUM Distinguished Affiliated Professor Techniche Universitat Munchen
Chair: Prof. Tzyh Jong Tarn (Washington University, USA)
Abstract
Although the memristor was first postulated axiomatically in 1971, and although a proof of principle
had been published via a bulky circuit using operational amplifiers, it was the hp publication of a nano
memristor in the 1 May 2008 issue of Nature that had triggered worldwide attention, with the number
of publications on memristor applications exploding at an exponential rate. This 2-hour lecture presents
the circuit and system theoretic concept of the memristor and shows why it had generated so much unprecedented
interest in both academia and industry. Among other things, it will illustrate why memristors
will replace flash memories and DRAMs in the near future, and why brains are made of memristors. It
will also show how action potentials (spikes) from the Hodgkin-Huxley axon model are generated by the
sub-critical Hopf bifurcation nonlinear dynamics of the sodium and potassium memristor Hodgkin-Huxley
neuron model operating near the edge of chaos.
Short Biography
Prof. Leon O. Chua, received the MSEE from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1961, and
the Ph.D. from University of Illinois, Urban-Champaign in 1964. After that he was Assistant and Associate
Professor at Purdue University until 1970. He became a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Sciences at University of California at Berkeley since 1971.
Dr. Chua is known as a pioneer in 3 major research areas, namely, nonlinear circuits, chaos, and
cellular neural networks. His work in these areas has been recognized internationally through numerous
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