Welcome to Computing Beyond Silicon Summer School!

There are revolutions at hand in the way we understand and implement computation, driven by an awareness of impending barriers to VLSI scaling and new understandings of the physical world. This fundamental shift in perspective allows us to contemplate engineering computational substrates at the molecular and atomic levels. To develop and exploit these new substrates will require an intimate understanding of both the physical substrates and the nature of computation, as well as the relation between them.

Research and researchers whose competency spans across the disciplines will be necessary to drive progress in this area of novel computational substrates. In this summer program we assemble a unique collection of materials intended to start identifying the fundamental background knowledge necessary to work in this area and the fundamental challenges this area presents.

We invite promising, motivated students with an interest in novel computation to join researchers from Caltech and institutions across the country for an intensive introduction to this exciting area.

Undergraduate students with backgrounds in computer science, biology, chemistry, or physics are encouraged to apply. Preference will be given to juniors.