The International Workshop on Ising Machines (IISM) will be held in Evanston (Chicago), Illinois, from May 13 to 15, 2025. This workshop is co-sponsored by the Petaspin Association, Northwestern University and Tohoku University Born out of the growing interest in the application of Ising machines for combinatorial optimization, the IISM aims to provide a dedicated platform for discussion and collaboration in this burgeoning field.
Ising machines have attracted considerable interest in a wide range of scientific fields, including fundamental physics, quantum physics, magnetism, computer science, electrical engineering, and mathematics. They hold the potential for significant impact on a range of industrial and societal challenges, including logistics, breakthrough drug discovery, cryptography, traffic control, and many others. The conference aims to serve as a fertile ground where researchers from diverse fields can come together to exchange ideas, spark inspiration, deepen their collective knowledge, and harness the power of interdisciplinary collaboration.
The conference will be co-chaired by renowned experts in the field, Pedram Khalili from Northwestern University and Kerem Camsari from the University of California, Santa Barbara. IISM is planned to become a major annual event in the dissemination activities related to Ising machines.
IISM 2025 will cover a wide range of topics, including theoretical perspectives on Ising machines, digital applications, simulations of innovative computing paradigms, and hardware advances related to Ising machines. The program of the IISM 2025 will feature an impressive line-up of invited speakers.
Topics
The International Workshop on Ising Machines is conceived as the ideal place to share new ideas and perspectives on both theoretical and experimental applications of Ising machines.
The main topics covered by the conference will include:
- Theory of Ising machines.
- Ising encoding techniques and algorithms.
- Combinatorial optimization with Ising machines.
- Advanced energy minimization strategies.
- Hardware implementations of Ising machines.
- Probabilistic computing.
- Coherent Ising machines.
- Oscillatory Ising machines.
- Spintronic Ising machines.
- CMOS Ising machines.
- High-order Ising machines.
- Simulated bifurcation.
- Benchmarking performance of Ising machines for applications.
- Other promising unconventional computing paradigms.
- Quantum annealers.
