Thomas Lippert - Böcker

This open access book constitutes revised selected papers from the 4th International Workshop on Brain-Inspired Computing, BrainComp 2019, held in Cetraro, Italy, in July 2019. The 11 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this book.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the International Workshop on Brain-inspired Computing, BrainComp 2013, held in Cetraro, Italy, in July 2013.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the Second International Workshop on Brain-Inspired Computing, BrainComp 2015, held in Cetraro, Italy, in July 2015. computational models and brain-inspired computing methods with practical applications;

S. Georgiou: Laser Cleaning Methodologies of Polymer Substrates; T. Lippert: Laser Application of Polymers; J. Krueger, W. Kautek: Ultrashort Pulse Laser Interactions with Polymers and Dielectrics; Y. Zhang: Synchrotron Radiation Direct Photo-Etching of Polymers.

The book with contributions from the joint interdisciplinary workshop covers important numerical bottleneck problems from lattice quantum chromodynamics: 1) The computation of Green's functions from huge sparse linear systems and the determination of flavor-singlet observables by stochastic estimates of matrix traces can both profit from novel preconditioning techniques and algebraic multi-level algorithms. 2) The exciting overlap fermion formulation requires the solution of linear systems including a matrix sign function, an extremely demanding numerical task that is tackled by Lanczos/projection methods. 3) Realistic simulations of QCD must include three light dynamical quark flavors with non-degenerate masses. Algorithms using polynomial approximations of the matrix determinant can deal with this situation. The volume aims at stimulating synergism and creating new links between lattice quantum and numerical analysis.