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Registration deadline: Wednesday, January 25, 2023 at 4:00 PM Eastern
or when capacity is reached (whichever comes first)

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Program Objective and Description

The NaPSAC program seeks to demonstrate a new modality of scalable, power-efficient, and massively parallel in-memory computing architecture for scientific computing applications. Of particular interest to this program are architectures based on programmable nanophotonic and nanomechanical resonator arrays. The goals of the NaPSAC program are to develop, validate, and benchmark in-memory computing engines that exhibit transformative advances in scalability, programming precision, accuracy, and parallelism to enable accurate modeling and simulation of multi-scale and multi-physics phenomena including highly nonlinear hydrodynamic flows, advanced materials modeling, plasma dynamics, and climate science. To this end, NaPSAC will explore computational modalities that exhibit the following:

  1. novel computational device concepts, materials, and techniques that enable beyond state-of-the-art noise performance, scalability, and power efficiency;
  2. novel techniques to harness intrinsic or driven spectral features of nanoresonator arrays for multi- or hyperspectral encoding, decoding, and massively parallel computation of multiply-accumulate (MAC) operations;
  3. novel algorithms to enable direct computation of higher-order matrix and tensor operations for massively parallel and power-efficient modeling or simulation of multiscale and complex physical systems.

Lastly, the NaPSAC program aims to benchmark these in-memory computing engines against the extant state-of-the-art in terms of power efficiency and speed for the computation of stiff multiscale and nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs); multi-physics modeling; high throughput signal or image analysis; optimization of materials design and fabrication process flows, and related modeling and simulation tasks involving complex physical phenomena. 

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Event Participation

Registration

There is no registration fee for the Proposers Day webcast. The registration deadline is Wednesday, January 25 at 4:00 PM Eastern or when capacity is reached, whichever comes first. Advance registration is required in order to receive access to the webcast and is mandatory for every individual intending to view the webcast either alone or as part of a group.

Registrants in excess of the maximum capacity limitation (350 individuals) may be added to a waitlist. Individuals who are unable to register because the deadline has occurred may request to be added to the waitlist. If slots become available due to cancellations, the slots may be filled on a first come, first served basis from the waitlist.

Eligibility

DARPA hosts Proposers Days to (1) promote teaming arrangements between researchers, (2) provide potential proposers with information on whether and how they might respond to the government's research and development solicitations, and (3) increase efficiency in proposal preparations and evaluation. Therefore, Proposers Days are only open to registered potential proposers, i.e., the events are closed to the general public and media. For this particular program, Proposers Day registration is open to potential proposers who are U.S. Citizens, U.S. permanent residents, and foreign nationals.

All registrants who are not U.S. Citizens must complete and submit either a DARPA Form 60 (U.S. Permanent Resident and Foreign National Visit Request — e.g., industry or academia) or an Official Visit Request (foreign government personnel, only) through the Embassy based in Washington, DC, no later than 4:00 PM Eastern on January 25, 2023. Form 60 submission instructions will be provided in the registration confirmation email. Contact your Embassy staff for assistance in submitting the Official Visit Request.

Lightning Talks

Attendees may be afforded the opportunity to give a brief, 3-minute oral presentation during the webcast outlining their interests and capabilities. The purpose of these presentations is to facilitate teaming discussions among the attendees. Upon registering, attendees may indicate if they would like to give an oral presentation. Due to limited availability, DARPA will accept submissions on a first-come, first-served basis and does not guarantee that these requests to brief will be fulfilled. Submitted briefing materials should use the template provided via the registration website and are limited to a single, PPT-format slide, which should be appropriate for public release, as they will be shared with the session via webcast. The slide must be submitted to NaPSAC@darpa.mil by 4 PM. on January 27, 2023. DARPA will contact submitters upon receipt of their slides with additional guidance for the webcast.

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Sidebars

There will be an opportunity to meet individually with the Program Manager, Dr. Mukund Vengalattore. Eight-minute individual virtual sidebar meetings will be held during Proposers Day between 2:50 PM – 5 PM. Please request an individual/team (limited to four [4] people per team) session via the registration website. Requests must be received no later than the registration cutoff date.  Individual meetings will be scheduled on a first-come, first-served, and space-available basis and limited to two per institution.