Hi SD Future Salon-goers - this looks like an amazing event up at UC
Irvine! And it's free :) - Iveta

The End of the Semiconductor Roadmap: The Collision of Physics,
Economics, and Sociology
March 15, 2007 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Dean's Distinguished Lecturer Event
Featuring Dr. Eli Yablonovitch
The Northrop Grumman Opto-Electronics Chair
Professor of Electrical Engineering
University of California, Los Angeles

Location:
McDonnell Douglas Auditorium
UC Irvine Campus

Reception to follow. Complimentary parking located in the engineering
parking structure at the intersection of East Peltason and Anteater Drive

Directions:
http://www.eng.uci.edu/visiting

This event is free to the public, however an RSVP is required. Please
email engineerRSVP@... or call 949.824.3923

Abstract:
The headlong exponential growth of information technology enabled by
Moore's Law -- an observation made in 1965 by Intel's co-founder,
Gordon Moore, that predicts the number of transistors built in
computer chips will double approximately every two years --will soon
reach a crisis stage. However, society is increasingly dependent on a
vigorous information technology industry, which currently represents a
significant portion of the world's intellectual effort. Join Dr. Eli
Yablonovitch, The Northrop Grumman Opto-Electronics Chair, and
professor of electrical engineering at the University of California,
Los Angeles, as he discusses the growth of the industry, and how there
has been a delicate equilibrium between decreasing prices, balanced by
exponentially growing unit volumes. Will the end of Moore's Law mean
stagnation, leading to dropping prices, and a net shrinkage of the
overall effort dedicated to information technology? The answer
depends upon physics, economics, and sociology, and also relies on the
faith of ever-expanding human ingenuity.

About the Speaker:
Dr. Eli Yablonovitch, a member of the National Academy of Engineering
and the National Academy of Sciences, graduated with the Ph.D. degree
in applied physics from Harvard University in 1972. In 1992 he joined
the University of California, Los Angeles, where he is now The
Northrop Grumman Opto-Electronics Chair, professor of electrical
engineering.

Dr. Yablonovitch is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and
Electronic Engineers, the Optical Society of America, and the American
Physical Society. He is a Life Member of Eta Kappa Nu, and been
awarded the Adolf Lomb Medal, the W. Streifer Scientific Achievement
Award, the R.W. Wood Prize, and the Julius Springer Prize.

His work has covered a broad variety of topics including: nonlinear
optics, laser-plasma interaction, infrared laser chemistry,
photovoltaic energy conversion, strained-quantum-well lasers, and
chemical modification of semiconductor surfaces. Currently his main
interests are in optoelectronics, high speed optical communications,
high efficiency light-emitting diodes and nano-cavity lasers, photonic
crystals at optical and microwave frequencies, quantum computing and
quantum communication.