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NanoTechnolgy- The New Enabler

Presenter: Arokia Nathan (Sumitomo/STS Chair of Nanotechnology, London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London, London WC1H 0AH United Kingdom)

Abstract: Nanotechnology refers to the precise control of the structure of matter at the atomic/molecular level for the creation of new functional materials, devices, and systems. It is multi-disciplinary, simultaneously drawing from and benefiting areas such as materials science and engineering, chemistry, physics, biology and medicine. Indeed nanotechnology is all about generating new solutions based on atomic- and molecular-scale manipulations. This talk will review these new and exciting research opportunities, and the wide variety of benefits to society that nanotechnology can deliver, addressing applications ranging from information technology and healthcare to energy and the environment.

Biography:
Prof. Arokia Nathan holds the Sumitomo/STS Chair of Nanotechnology at the London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London. His research interests relate to materials processing and device integration using disordered inorganic and organic semiconductors on rigid and flexible substrates. He received the Michael B. Merickel Award at Medical Imaging 2001 for his work on digital x-ray imaging and more recently, the Wolfson-Royal Society Research Merit Award. His results on TFT integration on plastic was transferred to Ignis Innovation Inc., a company he founded to commercialize technology on active matrix organic displays. Following his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alberta, Canada, he was with LSI Logic Corp., CA, and the Institute of Quantum Electronics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, before joining faculty at the University of Waterloo.
He has held visiting professorship positions at ETH Zürich and University of Cambridge. He has published extensively in sensor technology and CAD, and thin film transistor electronics, and holds numerous patents, and is a co-author of two books. He serves on technical committees and editorial boards at various capacities.

Intelligent Health Monitoring of Critical Infrastructure Systems

Presenter: Marios M. Polycarpou (Director of the KIOS Research Center for Intelligent Systems and Networks, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cyprus, Cyprus)

Abstract: Modern societies have reached a point where everyday life relies heavily on the reliable operation and intelligent management of critical infrastructures, such as electric power systems, telecommunication networks, water systems, and transportation systems. The design, control and fault monitoring of such systems is becoming increasingly more challenging as their size, complexity and interactions are steadily growing. Moreover, these critical infrastructures are susceptible to natural disasters, frequent failures, as well as malicious attacks. There is an urgent need to develop a common system-theoretic framework for modeling the behavior of critical infrastructure systems and for designing algorithms for intelligent monitoring, control and security of such systems. The goal of this presentation is to motivate the need for health monitoring, fault diagnosis and security of critical infrastructure systems and to provide a methodology for detecting, isolating and accommodating both abrupt and incipient faults in a class of complex nonlinear dynamic systems. A detection and approximation estimator based on computational intelligence techniques is used for online health monitoring. Once a fault is detected, a bank of isolation estimators is activated for the purpose of fault isolation. A key design issue is the adaptive residual threshold associated with each isolation estimator. Various adaptive approximation techniques and learning algorithms will be presented and illustrated, and directions for future research will be discussed.

Biography:

Marios M. Polycarpou is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the KIOS Research Center for Intelligent Systems and Networks at the University of Cyprus. He received the B.A. degree in Computer Science and the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering both from Rice University, Houston, TX, USA in 1987, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, in 1989 and 1992 respectively. In 1992, he joined the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, where he reached the rank of Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science. In 2001, he was the first faculty and the founding department Chair of the newly established of Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept at the University of Cyprus. His teaching and research interests are in intelligent systems and control, adaptive and cooperative control systems, computational intelligence, fault diagnosis and distributed agents.

Dr. Polycarpou has published more than 185 articles in refereed journals, edited books and refereed conference proceedings, and co-authored the book Adaptive Approximation Based Control, published by Wiley in 2006. He is also the holder of 3 patents.

Prof. Polycarpou is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks. He serves as an Associate Editor of two international journals and past Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks (1998-2003) and of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (1999-2002). He served as the Chair of the Technical Committee on Intelligent Control, IEEE Control Systems Society (2003-05) and as Vice President, Conferences, of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2002-03). He is currently an elected member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society and an elected AdCom member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. Dr. Polycarpou was the recipient of the William H. Middendorf Research Excellence Award at the University of Cincinnati (1997) and was nominated by students for the Professor of the Year award (1996). His research has been funded by several agencies in the United States, the European Commission and the Research Promotion Foundation of Cyprus. Dr. Polycarpou is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Trends in RF Integrated Transceivers

Presenter: Yann Deval (Université de Bordeaux, France)

Abstract: Wireless communication is a worldwide market in which the overall cost of any product is therefore of dramatic importance. On the other hand users are looking for increasingly powerful handset terminals, mostly because of the emergence of several wireless standards such as cellular mobile communication systems (GSM, DCS, PCS, UMTS…) or local area networks (WiFi, WiMAX… ) and others (GPS…). Thus developing low cost multi-standards terminals is now mandatory, and cost reduction imply the terminal to be as simple and small as possible. To do so the industry has to rely on the combined integration of heterogeneous technologies (System in Package – SiP). In this talk the experimental implementation of a multi-standard cellular transceiver will be presented as an illustration of the new opportunities offered for wireless system architectures by heterogeneous integration.

Biography:
Yann Deval received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Bordeaux, France, in 1994. From 1990 to 1994 he was with ADERA, Pessac, France, in charge of designing analog and radio-frequency ASICs for Small and Medium size Industries. He joined the University of Bordeaux in 1994 as an Assistant Professor, and became a Full Professor at ENSEIRB, the School of Electrical Engineers of Bordeaux, France, in 2004. Since 2007, he is in charge of the IC Design Group of IMS, the research laboratory of Integration from Materials to Systems of the University of Bordeaux. He has published more than 100 papers in international journals and conference proceedings. Dr. Deval is currently a Senior Member of the IEEE, a member of the IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC) Steering Committee, and a member of the IEEE European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC) Technical Program Committee.
He has been involved in the organization of several international conferences in the domain of circuit and system design. In 2002, Dr. Deval received as a co-author the IEEE Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC) Best Paper Award, in Kyoto, Japan.
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