Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Brown School of Engineering Hosts Eastman Conference

The Brown University School of Engineering is hosting the 2012 Lester Eastman Conference on High Performance Devices from August 7-9, 2012. The conference will include sessions on green technology; high speed devices; infrared photonics; terahertz technology; power conversion, switching, and transmission; and next generation devices.

The conference will have three plenary speakers: Professor Umesh Mishra (USCB) on Recent Advances in High Frequency Semiconductor Devices; Professor Hideo Ohno (Tohoku Univ., Japan) on Spintronic Devices for VLSI; and Dr. Kamiar Karimi (Boeing Corporation) on High Power Semiconductor Devices.

Larry Larson, Dean of the School of Engineering at Brown, will give a talk on the “Internet of Things”.

The conference is being organized locally by Domenico Pacifici, assistant professor of engineering at Brown. The general chair of the conference is Professor Paul Chow of RPI.

For more information, please go to: http://www.leconf.com/