The first CORENET General Assembly

The CORENET consortium met for the first time in person on May 9 in Zurich, to mark the launch of the project. The meeting divided between morning and afternoon sessions focused on the project’s aim, science and synergies between the interdisciplinary topics involved in this reservoir computing project.

The event took place in the novel IBM Research centre in Zurich and was highlighted by a tour of its laboratory facilities. Taking advantage of a warm and clear-skied evening, after the meeting the participants enjoyed a ghost walk in the eerie Swiss city.

CORENET team participants at the General Assembly in front of the IBM Research centre

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Understanding complex chemical systems is a major goal of current science, which will bring technological advances in chemistry and materials science. CORENET will face this grand challenge with an extraordinary group of academic and industry scientists working on systems chemistry, microfluidics, metabolomics and AI

CORENET is an exciting multidisciplinary consortium bringing together experts in analytical chemistry, complex molecular systems, fluidics engineering and computer science. Together, we have a great opportunity to make powerful molecular reservoir computers a reality.

Processing information via complex chemical reaction networks bears the potential for novel, energy-efficient and scalable computing. In CORENET, we will jointly establish a chemical computing platform by combining unique hardware, enhanced analytics and cutting-edge artificial intelligence algorithms to tackle real-world applications.