TNT'09

The Trends in Nanotechnology conference (TNT 2009) will be held in Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain) on September 7-11 2009.

TNT aims to present a broad range of top research in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology worldwide as well as related policies (European Commission, etc.) and initiatives (iNANO, IEEE, GDR-E, FinNano, etc.). TNT events have shown that they are particularly instrumental to disseminate information and establishing contacts among researchers in this field. Graduate students attending TNT have the chance to learn the importance of interdisciplinary skills, thereby becoming more effective in their future research.

TNT conferences provide an ideal venue for industrial, academic and governmental organizations to discuss common objectives and drive the commercialisation of nanotechnology discoveries.

One of the main goals of the Trends in Nanotechnology conference is to provide a platform where young researchers can present their latest work and also interact with high-level scientists. For this purpose, the Organising Committee provides every year travel grants for students. In addition, more than 20 awards are given to young PhD students for their contributions presented at TNT.

This year, TNT2009 organisation will provide around 100 graduate grants for PhD students:

- 10 Basque Country graduate grants (covering student fee) sponsored by NanoBasque / 325 Euros each - on the basis first come / first served
- 10 European graduate grants (travel bursaries) sponsored by GDR-I (topic of research: Nanotubes & Graphene) / 300 Euros each
- 40 nanoaracat graduate grants sponsored by nanoaracat:
-20 graduate grants for Aragon (travel bursaries) / 250 Euros each
-20 graduate grants for Cataluña (reduced fee) / student fee: 175 Euros (instead of 325)**after notification, a specific registration form will be available online to be able to register with the specific reduced fee.
- 20 Canadian PhD students: 1000 Canadian dollars travel-ship grants
- 20 graduate grants (travel bursaries) sponsored by TNT2009 organisation / 150 Euros each

The TNT2009 Organisation will also provide awards to the best posters presented by students

TNT2009 Deadlines:
Abstract Submission (Oral request): May 11,
2009 Student Grant (Travel bursary) Request: May 11, 2009
Submission (Poster request): July 20, 2009

Weather is usually very nice in Barcelona during the first half of September. Warm enough to go to the nice beaches that are at the city, or close to it, and swim on the sea. And not too hot to walk around.

IEEE SCV EDS upcoming meetings

1. EDS Meeting “Power and Variability”- May 12th (Tue)
2. Joint EDS-CPMT meeting “Through-Si vias” – May 13th (Wed)
3. EDS Meeting “NBTI in PMOS”- June 9th (Tue)

Please read details on the IEEE Santa Clara Valley EDS web site

ICECS'09, Dec. 13-16 2009, Hammamet, Tunisia

The 16th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems, ICECS 2009, will be held in Tunisia on the 13th to 16th December 2009.

The IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS) is the flagship conference of the IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) Society in region 8 (Europe, Middle East and Africa). It presents design methodologies, techniques and experimental results in emerging electronics, circuits and systems topics. ICECS 2009 will include tutorials, regular sessions (lecture and poster), Special sessions and exhibitions.

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[EDN] Andy Grove, Gordon Moore, other engineers honored by National Inventors Hall of Fame

Source: EDN

By Suzanne Deffree, Managing Editor, News -- Electronic News, 5/4/2009

Andy Grove and Gordon Moore were among a chosen few honored at the 2009 National Inventors Hall of Fame induction ceremony held on Saturday (May 2, 2009) at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., USA.

The annual induction ceremony was held in Silicon Valley for the first time in celebration of 50 years of the IC and to honor 15 new inductees who have made significant contributions related to or enabled by semiconductors.

As credited by the National Inventors Hall of Fame, this year's 15 new inductees included:

Martin M (John) Atalla and Dawon Kahng, who worked to invent the first practical field-effect transistor;
Alfred Y Cho, who is credited as having achieved molecular beam epitaxy while at Bell Labs;
Ross Freeman, the co-founder of Xilinx who is credited as having invented the FPGA;
Dov Frohman-Bentchkowsky of Intel and founder of Intel Israel, who is credited as having created the EPROM (electrically programmable read-only memory) chip;
George Heilmeier, a liquid crystal display pioneer, former White House fellow, and former Texas Instruments CTO;
Jean Hoerni, co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and one of the Fairchild Eight, who is credited as having invented the planar manufacturing process;
Texas Instruments' Larry Hornbeck, who holds a series of patents that form the foundation for the digital micromirror device;
John Macdougall and Ken Manchester, who worked together to develop a commercially viable method of ion implantation;
Carver Mead, a professor emeritus at Caltech who helped to develop the standards and tools that permitted VLSI (very large-scale integration);
Gordon Moore, co-founder of both Fairchild and Intel and the author of Moore’s Law;
Gordon Teal, who is credited as having created the first functioning silicon transistor while at Texas Instruments;
Frank Wanlass, who is credited as having invented CMOS; and
Robert Widlar, who is credited with having designed the first commercially successful analog IC and who also co-founded Linear Technology Corp.

Andy Grove, who with Moore and Robert Noyce participated in the founding of Intel in 1968, was honored with the National Inventors Hall of Fame's Lifetime Achievement Award during the ceremony. Grove (pictured) was chairman of Intel's board from May 1997 to May 2005. From 1987 to 1998 he served as the company’s CEO and from 1979 to 1997 he served as president. Grove currently acts as a senior advisor to Intel.

The National Inventors Hall of Fame said it chose to honor Grove’s tenure because while at Intel's helm the company "dramatically contributed to the power, utility, and ubiquity of computing devices."

“The world we live in today is scarcely imaginable without the contributions of Andy Grove and all 15 of this year’s inductees,” said James Pooley, chairman of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, in a statement. “So many of the technologies we take for granted nowadays, including everyday consumer electronics like cell phones, computers, and DVD players, rely on semiconductor technologies that only exist thanks to their hard work and spirit of invention.”

Grove reportedly discussed patent laws and their impact on innovation at the event.

The National Inventors Hall of Fame is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to honoring and fostering creativity and invention. Headquartered in Akron, Ohio, it was founded in 1973 by the US Patent and Trademark Office and the National Council of Intellectual Property Law Associations.