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Blumenthal: Chip-scale Cold Atoms & QS in the Field

Dan Blumenthal & collaborators work to translate various functions of current cold-atom quantum experiments to a more portable and deployable form From The UCSB Current article "Chip-scale cold atom ...
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John – Microcredentials Chip Away at Semicond. Workforce Gap

ECE's Demis John, Process Sci. Mgr Nanofab Facility featured in article about scaling up the workforce by starting short courses at UCSB ...
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Sep 9 (Tues) @ 2:00PM: "Optimization of Emerging Relaying Paradigms in Next-Generation Communication Networks," Winston Hurst, ECE PhD Defense

Zoom Meeting: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/88579819067?pwd=4ajB7I2IC8XscRDssQUU2YdkDSKHPn.1 Next-generation communication systems will leverage emerging paradigms to ...
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ECE Seminar Series – Jun 6 (Fri) @ 2:00 pm: “Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits, John E. Bowers, Dir. of the Inst. for Energy Efficiency and Prof. ECE and Materials, UCSB

Tremendous progress is being made at silicon photonic foundries around the world to improve the performance, yield and capability of photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and that is opening up new ...
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ECE Seminar Series – Mar 3 (Mon) @ 2:00pm: "Can Spintronics Help Make Computing More Efficient?," Mark Stiles, NIST Fellow, National Institute of Standards and Technology

In this talk, I discuss why computer designers are looking to develop novel ways of computing for a variety of common but specialized tasks, why spintronic devices, particularly magnetic tunnel ...
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Feb 18 (Tue) @10am: "Quantum Nanophotonics Using Heterogeneous Materials Integration: From Single Photons to Integrated Lasers,” Richard Mirin, NIST

The Quantum Nanophotonics Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, CO develops new semiconducting and superconducting technologies for advanced metrology needs ...
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Jan 28 (Tue) @ 10am: "Pushing the Boundaries of Modern Application-Aware Computing Stacks,” Christina Giannoula, U. of Toronto

Modern computing systems encounter significant challenges related to data movement data movement in applications, such as data analytics and machine learning. Within a compute node, the physical ...
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Dec 10 (Tue) @ 10:00am: "Photonic Integrated Coil Cavity Ultra-low Linewidth Stabilized Lasers and Applications," Kaikai Liu, ECE PhD Defense

Silicon nitride has become a widely used material platform for photonic integrated circuits (PICs), due to its broad optical transparency window (400 nm – 2.5 μm), relatively high refractive index, ...
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Dec 5 (Thu) @ 4:30pm: "Understanding Overparameterized Neural Networks: Insights into Imbalances and Neural Representations," Ganesh R Kini, ECE PhD Defense

This talk explores the properties of overparameterized deep neural networks, with a particular focus on training with imbalanced data. We propose a theoretically grounded loss function tailored for ...
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Sep 20 (Fri) @ 11:00am: "Development of Advanced DLTS Applied to Next Generation of Materials and Devices," Christopher Clymore, ECE PhD Defense

The demand for improved power conversion, 5G/6G telecom, and other RF applications necessitates the development of devices with, variously, higher frequency of operation, higher output power, greater ...
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Sep 18 (Wed) @ 11:00am: "High Performance Quantum Dot Gain Devices for Heterogeneous Integration on Silicon Photonics," Chongxin (Tyler) Zhang, ECE PhD Defense

In the past decades, most telecom, datacom, and sensor systems have been developed based on discrete optical components. As the demand for data transfer is rapidly rising, the need to reduce cost, ...
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Aug 16th (Fri) @ 10:00 am: “Photonic Architectures for In-Memory Computing Using Nonvolatile Optical Materials,” Nathan Youngblood, Ass’t. Prof., ECE, Pitt

Abstract Photonics information processing strategies offer the unique ability to perform analog computation with ultra-low latency and high efficiency. However, designing compact and reconfigurable ...