May 8, 2009

OSC'09

The 2008 Organic Semiconductor Conference (OSC-09) will take place in London (UK), from September 28 to 30 2009. The conference will be held at the London Heathrow Marriott Hotel. The hotel is conveniently located less than half a mile from Heathrow airport and has excellent road and public transport links to London and the rest of the UK.

OSC-09 includes sessions with presentations by invited speakers plus sessions with peer review papers, a poster session, and also an exhibition of leading organic semiconductor technology companies.

In addition, eight new pre-conference seminars covering a selection of popular topics will be held on Monday 28 September 2009. One seminar stream will be aimed at industry professionals to help them update and extend their knowledge, while a second stream will enable those new to the industry get up to speed. The invited speakers come from both academia and industry.

The Call for Papers will be published very soon. Topics include all aspects related to development, manufacturing and investment in organic semiconductor technologies and organic electronics. Besides, this year the conference will also explore the new opportunities offered by advances in carbon-based electronics.

OSC is not only attended by researchers in organic semiconductors, or organic electronics, but also by chief technology officers, senior technical staff, business leaders, investors, and manufacturers working in this promising field. Therefore, attending OSC there are great opportunities of business in all respects!

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

May 7, 2009

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.

May 6, 2009

MIT OpenCourseWare

MIT OpenCourseWare: Free Online Course Materials including lectures on the mosfet devices and CMOS technologies as well as other not only the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science topics. All together more than 1800 courses.

visit: MIT OpenCourseWare