Tamás Roska Memorial Conference

2024. Oct 16. 14:30

To mark the 10th anniversary of the passing of our esteemed Founding Dean, we are organizing a memorial conference in English to honour and remember Professor Tamás Roska and his legacy.

 

DATE:

Wednesday 16 October 2024, 13:30-19:30

 

VENUE:

Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, Pope Saint John Paul II. Hall,
(address: 1088 Budapest, Szentkirályi u. 28.)

At the conference, both in-person and online presentations will commemorate Professor Roska's life and contributions.

 

PROGRAM:

13:30-14:00         Welcome Coffee break: coffee, tea, soft drinks, salty and sweet biscuits

 

Block No.1.: Presentations with on-site presence

14:00-14:05          Opening words from the president of PPKE: Ft. Dr. Kuminetz Géza

14:05-14:15          Prof. György Cserey, Dean of PPKE ITK

14:15-14:30          Prof. Árpád Csurgay: Human Centered Nature Inspired Information Technology

14:30-14:45          Dr. Ildikó Csurgay: 25 Years at PPKE ITK, Raising Students’ Cultural Awareness

14:45-15:00          Prof. Josef Nossek (TU München): Tamas Roska and Circuit Theory

15:00-15:15          Dr. Judit Nyékyné Gaizler: The Birth and Growth of a New Faculty-In Memory of Tamás Roska

15:15-15:30          Prof. András Falus: From face recognition to cytotoxic T- lymphocites

15:30-15:45          Prof. Franciska Vidáné Erdő: Biomedicinal Research at Pázmány ITK

15:45-16:00          Prof. Gábor Szederkényi: Systems and Control Theory Inspired by Molecular Processes

16:00-16:15          Dr. András Horváth: Leveraging Insights of Tamás Roska in Modern Machine Learning

16:15-16:30          Dr. Zoltán Nagy, Prof. Péter Szolgay: From Cellular Neural Networks to many-core digital architectures

16:30-16:45          Prof. Ákos Zarándy: CNS Then and Now

 

16:45-17:00          Coffee Break

 

Block No.2.: Presentations with online presence

17:00-17:15          Professor Joos Vandewalle (KU Leuven): Tribute to Tamas Roska: his vision, contributions, impact and recognitions and above all, his strong personality

17:15-17:30          Professor Maciej Ogorzalek (Jagiellonian University)

17:30-17:45          Professor Wolfgang Porod (University of Notre Dame)

17:45-18:00          Professor Ronald Tetzlaff (TU Dresden)

18:00-18:15          Dr. Alon Ascoli (TU Dresden): How a Memristor on Edge of Chaos Induces the All-to-None Effect of the Fourth-Order Hodgkin- Huxley Neuron Model in a Curcuit with Half the Numbers of States

18:15-18:30          Professor Mustak Yalcin (TU Istanbul): As a Research Question: Mimicking the Computational Capability of a Physical System

18:30-18:45          Professor Marco Gilli (Politecnico di Torino)

18:45-19:00          Professor Péter Závodszky: In Memoriam Tamás Roska

 

19:00-19:30          Standing reception: sandwich, salad, fruit, dessert