| "Global Search for Technology Leaders" - Wuxi 530 Initiative Presentation Do you have innovative ideas but find it is hard to make the dreams coming true in the current economic downturn? Would you be interested in how China is prepared with a view from the corner of a local government's stimulus package? Are you the top talent they are searching for to contribute to the fast development in China? A delegation from Wuxi municipal government and Wuxi K-Park will visit US to promote their newly developed initiative "530 Plan" (Please see http://www.wuxi530.org/go530detail.aspx?id=64 for more details in Chinese). During their trip, we are honored to have this opportunity to invite them to stop by Boston and bring this event to the local community by NECINA Global Exchange Center and NECINA Sponsor iSoftStone. Throughout the event, you will have the chance to hear what they have planned to implement the Wuxi 530 Initiative, how you can approach to them to present your ideas and business plans so that you can get their support and enjoy the great benefits of this program. In the delegation, there will be officials who are directly in charge of this program and they will be able to answer your questions and initiate your contact. Please join us along with innovators, entrepreneurs, and business people from China and US for a great networking event. Time: 5pm to 7pm, Sunday, April 19th, 2009 Venue: TBD (Double Tree or Westin Hotel in Waltham, MA) RSVP: http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=181301 Fee: Free if register by April 15th; Afterwards $10 for members and $15 for general public. (Sponsored dinner event: 7:30pm to 9:30pm, by invitation only.) Conference Schedules: 5:00 - 5:20pm Registration & Networking 5:20 - 5:30pm Welcome Speech by NECINA 5:30 - 5:50pm Keynote: "Innovation, Across Borders", TW Liu, CEO of iSoftStone 5:50 - 6:10pm Keynote: "Global Search: Wuxi 530 Initiative" Wuxi Municipal Government Official 6:10 - 6:30pm Keynote: "Wuxi K-Park and You", Head of Wuxi K-Park 6:30 - 7:00am Q&A Discussion NECINA Career Development Center Seminar Emotional Intelligence at Work and at Home Time: 6: 00 pm - 9:00 pm, Friday, April 24th, 2009 Venue: Deloitte, 1000 Winter Street, North Entrance, Suite 2000, Waltham, MA 02451 Cost: Free for NECINA members and $15.00 for general public Seats are limited, online registration required. RSVP: http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=181133 Emotional Intelligence affects every aspect of our lives, and it is more viewed as the differentiation and competitive advantage in the job market today. The bar has been raised, and employers are looking for high Emotional Quality (i.e. EQ) employees. It is a learned skill set involving managing the emotions of ourselves and others. Emotional competency is important at work and at home. The work place is a unique community. The way we work with employers, colleagues, clients, and subordinates is an art of emotional intelligence. How do we be assertive at work? How do we ask for a raise? Home is the foundation of our society. Maintaining a strong and healthy relationship at home is vital to our well beings. How do we have difficult conversation with family members? How do we handle emotions that arise at home? Brown University professor, Jin Li, will provide practical solutions on successful strategies at work places, help us understand every stage of human development, and help parents raise emotional healthy children. Dr. Jin Li is also an expert in Asian American child development. She devoted her knowledge and time studying the leaning beliefs of American Chinese under the impact of two cultures. Dr. Jin Li will share many solutions including how to take care of pre-school children and how to communicate with teenage young adults. Be ready and bring all your questions. Agenda: 6:00pm - 7:00 pm Pizza and Networking 7:00pm - 7:05pm Opening Remarks 7:05pm - 8:30pm Speech: "Emotional Competency at Work and at Home" 8:30pm - 9:00pm More Networking Speakers Bio: Jin Li, Professor of Brown University Dr. Jin Li is an associate professor of education and human development at Brown University. She originally came from China. She received her undergraduate degree in German from the Guangzhou Institute of Foreign Languages in 1982 and taught German language and literature there. After immigrating to the United States in 1985, she studied first at the University of Vermont, and then earned her Master's degree in foreign language education from the University of Pittsburgh, 1988. She received her second Master's degree in administrative planning and social policy in 1991 and her PhD degree in human development and psychology from Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1997. Dr. Li participated in education reform in the United States at Harvard Project Zero under the leadership of Howard Gardner. She teaches courses in human development. Her research focuses on children's beliefs in learning, motivation, self-concepts, and self-conscious emotions across cultures and ethnic groups in the United States. Contact information: Please contact Miss Kitty Huang by e-mail Kitty.Huang@... or call 617-983-0209. NECINA SemiTech SIG Seminar (April 16) Time: 6:30pm to 9:00pm, Thursday, April 16, 2009 Venue: Foley Hoag LLP, 1000 Winter St, North Entrance, Suite 4000, Waltham, MA To register, please go to http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=180095 Topics: Technologies for Analog, Mixed Signal, RF and mmWave ICs Analog and RF ICs are key enablers for advanced communications which have dramatically changed our daily life in many ways. This talk will first review the semiconductor IC market and the evolving applications. It will then cover different technology options and technology roadmap from leading foundry for analog/RF/mmWave IC designs. Device menus for advanced RFCMOS, SiGe BiCMOS, and high performance RF passives will be presented. It will provide insightful guidance in choosing proper technologies for appropriate applications with considerations of device performance scaling impact, system requirement, and cost. CMOS Silicon on Insulator: Enabling changes in RF designs Silicon on insulator (SOI) refers to the use of an insulator substrate instead of conventional silicon substrates in semiconductor manufacturing to reduce device parasitic and improve performance. After a journey of more than 20 years and leveraging with low currents consumption and high speed, SOI triumphantly shows off its successes in digital and mixed signal IC, from processors to game consoles. Benefiting from low cost and high integration, it is also quietly reaching into high performance RF/MW field which traditionally is dominated by III-V compound. The purpose of this talk is to give an overview of SOI from RF circuit designers' perspective, and to share with you what SOI has substituted, and what kind of innovations may be enabled in multi-mode multi-band front end module as well as in millimeter wave fields. Agenda 6:30pm-7:00pm Networking (Pizza will be served) 7:00pm-7:40pm RF/Analog Technology (Dawn Wang ) 7:40pm-7:55pm Questions and Answers 7:55pm-8:15pm RF CMOS SOI (Dr. Yang Li ) 8:15pm-8:30pm Questions and Answers Speakers Dawn Wang is a senior foundry application engineer in IBM Microelectronics. She had also held various senior technical positions in Texas Instruments and TriQuint Semiconductors in technology and product development for RF, Analog/Mixed Signal (AMS) integrated circuits. Dawn has published technical papers and holds US patents in RF/AMS designs. She is a member in wireless working group of International Technology Roadmap of Semiconductor (ITRS). Dawn Wang received her BSEE and MSEE from Tsinghua University in China. She also received her M. S. in Solid State Physics from Arizona State University. Dr. Yang Li is a principal engineer in Skyworks developing 3G/LTE power amplifier and front-end module. Before joining Skyworks, he was with Peregrine Semiconductor working on RF front-end designs on SOI. He also co-founded XEL focusing on short-range wireless communication technologies. Yang Li received his B.S. and Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1996 and 2001, respectively. Registration: This event is open to all public. To register, please go to http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=180095 Organizers: Bo Zhang , Dawn Wang and Yang Li For more information, please visit the following sites NECINA Semi SIG: http://www.yahoogroups.com/groups/necina_sig_semiconductor NECINA: http://www.necina.org/ Event Sponsor: Foley Hoag LLC http://www.foleyhoag.com/ NECINA Optical SIG Seminar (April 11) Time: 2:00pm to 5:00pm, Saturday, April 11, 2009 Location: Finisar Corporation, 36 Jonspin Road, Wilmington, MA 01887 Topic: Optical Imaging Agenda: 2:00pm-2:30pm Networking Time 2:30pm-2:45pm Introduction 2:45pm-3:45pm Computational Photography: From Epsilon to Coded Photography, Professor Ramesh Raskar, Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3:45pm-4:00pm Break 4:00pm-5:00pm aNIRS: towards ambulatory monitoring of cerebral vascular diseases, Prof. Quan Zhang, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School Organizers: Xifeng Qian, Hongzhi Zhao, Qingwu Wang, Yong Qiao, Xueyan Zheng, Frank Fan, and Yi Qian Abstract: Computational Photography is an emerging multi-disciplinary field that is at the intersection of optics, signal processing, computer graphics+vision, electronics, art, and online sharing in social networks. The field is evolving through three phases. The first phase was about building a super-camera that has enhanced performance in terms of the traditional parameters, such as dynamic range, field of view or depth of field. I call this Epsilon Photography. Due to limited capabilities of a camera, the scene is sampled via multiple photos, each captured by epsilon variation of the camera parameters. It corresponds to the low-level vision: estimating pixels and pixel features. The second phase is building tools that go beyond capabilities of this super-camera. I call this Coded Photography. The goal here is to reversibly encode information about the scene in a single photograph (or a very few photographs) so that the corresponding decoding allows powerful decomposition of the image into light fields, motion deblurred images, global/direct illumination components or distinction between geometric versus material discontinuities. This corresponds to the mid-level vision: segmentation, organization, inferring shapes, materials and edges. The third phase will be about going beyond the radiometric quantities and challenging the notion that a camera should mimic a single-chambered human eye. Instead of recovering physical parameters, the goal will be to capture the visual essence of the scene and analyze the perceptually critical components. I call this Essence Photography and it may loosely resemble depiction of the world after high level vision processing. It will spawn new forms of visual artistic expression and communication. In this talk, I will focus on Coded Photography. 'Less is more' in Coded Photography. By blocking light over time or space, we can preserve more details about the scene in the recorded single photograph. I will show several applications and describe emerging techniques to recover scene parameters from coded photographs. Prof. Ramesh Raskar joined the MIT Media Lab in spring 2008 as head of the Camera Culture research group. The group focuses on developing tools to help us better capture and share the visual experience. This research involves developing novel cameras with unusual optical elements, programmable illumination, digital wavelength control, and femtosecond analysis of light transport, as well as tools to decompose pixels into perceptually meaningful components. Prof. Raskar's research also involves creating a universal platform for the sharing and consumption of visual media. Prof. Raskar received his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he introduced "Shader Lamps," a novel method for seamlessly merging synthetic elements into the real world using projector-camera based spatial augmented reality. In 2004, he received the TR100 Award from Technology Review, which recognizes top young innovators under the age of 35, and in 2003, the Global Indus Technovator Award, instituted at MIT to recognize the top 20 Indian technology innovators worldwide. He holds 35 US patents and has received four Mitsubishi Electric Invention Awards. He is currently co-authoring a book on computational photography. http://raskar.info Abstract: Near-infrared spectroscopy and diffuse optical imaging (NIRS-DOI) is a new technology. Because of its noninvasive nature, it arouses more and more scientists' interest to see if NIRS-DOI can be used to diagnose cerebral vascular diseases and women's breast cancer. More and more papers has been published in this area. Dr. Zhang has been engaged in scientific research of NIRS-DOI since 1998 and published more than 20 papers in this topic. Today, his talk will focus on the following issues: · Basic principle of Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) and Diffuse Optical Imaging (DOI); · aNIRS: ambulatory Near Infrared Spectroscopy; · Current related projects and results; Towards ambulatory monitoring of cerebral vascular diseases; Dr. Quan Zhang joined Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Harvard Medical School as an assistant professor in 2007. Since 2004, he has been the director of two laboratories, i.e. Biomedical Optics Laboratory, the Center for Engineering in Medicine and Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, Neural System Group. He has also been the consultant in photon migration modeling in Intelligent Medical Devices, LLC, Cambridge, MA, and the consultant in Near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy and imaging the director Advanced Research Technologies Inc, Montreal, Canada. Currently, his group focuses on two areas: 1) Non-invasive fast optical imaging of visual and motor processing, which aims to non-invasively monitor neural activity using methods that may be suitable for functional brain imaging in populations with developmental disorders; (2) Diffusion optical tomography (DOT) and fMRI studies of visual perception and imagery, which conducts a systematic validation of the true potential and limitations of DOT as a cognitive neuroscience tool in adults by recording simultaneously DOT and fMRI data during established visual stimulation paradigms Prof. Zhang received his PhD from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 1998. He holds at least 5 US patents. http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/martinos/people/showPerson.php?people_id=193 For more information, please visit the following sites: NECINA Optics SIG: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NECINA_SIG_Optics/ NECINA: http://www.necina.org/ |
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