Seminars & Talks 

Year  2011  |  2010

Year  2011

Past Events

Title : Current and Future RF & Millimetre-wave Research Work in VIRTUS (registration is foc)
Date : 25th October 2011 , Tuesday, 9.00AM - 12.25PM
Speaker : Asst Prof Boon Chirn Chye, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University
Venue : A*STAR National Metrology Center
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Title : Trends in High Performance Computing
Date : 21st October 2011 , Friday, 1.30PM - 4.30PM
Speaker : Mr John Calvin, Tektronix Inc
Venue : LT 24 @ South Spine, NTU
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Title : Joint Industry Road Show
Date : 24th August 2011 , Wednesday, 12.30PM - 3.30PM
Venue : LT 22 @ South Spine, NTU
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Title : Thermal Modelling, Estimation and Prediction for Package Design and On-Chip Temperature Regulation
Date : 16th August 2011 , Tuesday, 1.00PM - 2.00PM
Speaker : Prof Sheldon X.-D. Tan, University of California, Riverside
Venue : Executive Seminar Room (S2.2-B2-53) @ South Spine, NTU
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Title : Agilent N4903B J-BERT - Briefing and Knowledge Sharing Session
Date : 18th July 2011 , Monday, 2.00PM - 3.30PM
Speaker : Product Manager, Michael Reser, Agilent Technologies
Venue : LT 26 @ South Spine, NTU

Title : Design of 3D Specific Systems
Date : 30th June 2011 , Thursday, 2.00PM - 3.30PM
Speaker : Prof Paul D. Franzon, North Carolina State University
Venue : Executive Seminar Room (S2.2-B2-53) @ South Spine, NTU
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Title : International Legal Protection for Engineering R&D Efforts, Focusing Primarily on the Use of Patents
Date : 30th May 2011 , Monday, 1.00PM - 2.30PM
Speaker : Mr Scott Hover-Smoot, Xilinx Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
Venue : LT 24 @ South Spine, NTU
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Title : Circuits for Cubic Millimeter Computing
Date : 9th May 2011 , Monday, 10.30AM - 12.00 Noon
Speaker : Prof Dennis Sylvester, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Venue : LT 23 @ South Spine, NTU
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Title : Power Minimization in Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits
Date : 3rd May 2011 , Monday, 4.00PM - 5.00PM
Speaker : Prof Willy Sansen, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
Venue : LT 23 @ South Spine, NTU
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Title : Current Research in Analog EDA at TUM
Date : 8th April 2011, Friday , 3.00PM - 4.00PM
Speaker : PD Dr Helmut Graeb, Institute of Electronic Design Automation, Technische Universitaet Muenchen
Venue : LT 24 @ South Spine, NTU
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Title : VIRTUS Postgraduate Research Workshop
Date : 5th April 2011 (Tuesday, 8.30AM- 5.30PM) and 6th April 2011 (Wednesday, 8.30AM- 3.30PM)
Venue : LT 24 @ South Spine, NTU (Day 1) and LT 22 & LT 28 @ South Spine (Day 2)
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More than 130 participants including our industry partners attended the workshop. Participants were able to gain valuable insights into various research projects undertaken by our academic staff and research students. The presentations given by five research program directors are now available to view or download.


Year  2010

Title : Future IC Design Challenges and Opportunities
Date : 28th December 2010, Tuesday, 3.00PM - 4.30PM
Speaker : Prof Atila Alvandpour, Head of Division, Electronic Devices, Linköping University, Sweden; Visiting Professor and Director of VIRTUS, IC Design Centre of Excellence, NTU, Singapore
Venue : LT 29 @ South Spine, NTU
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Title : Neuromorphic Engineering: Modeling Neural Systems in Silicon
Date : 14th December 2010, Tuesday, 2.00PM - 3.00PM
Speaker : Dr Tara Julia Hamilton, The University of New South Wales, Australia
Venue : Executive Seminar Room (S2.2-B2-53), NTU
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Title : Hardware Emulation and FPGA Prototyping for Embedded Systems Design
Date : 13th December 2010, Monday, 10.00AM - 11.00AM
Speaker : Dr Lauro Rizzatti, GM and Marketing Vice President, EVE-USA, Inc.
Venue : LT 29 @ South Spine, NTU
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Title : Cochlear and Vestibular Prostheses: A MEMS-Based Approach to Overcoming Sensory Loss in the Auditory and Balance Systems
Date : 3rd December 2010, Friday, 11.00AM - 12.00 Noon
Speaker : Prof Pamela Bhatti, Georgia Institute of Technology
Venue : LT 24 @ South Spine, NTU
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Official Opening of VIRTUS

Date : 20 October 2010, Wednesday
Venue* : Tan Chin Tuan Lecture Theatre (TCT-LT), Level 2, opposite Administration Building
Time : 8.15am - 5.00pm

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In conjunction with the official opening of VIRTUS, we have invited 6 distinguished speakers to deliver keynotes on the same day. There are also NTU Library Books Exhibition and upcoming activities held from 20 - 27 October 2010.

List of upcoming activities (click on the links for registration requirements):-

21 Oct : SSIA Summit 2010 (organized by Singapore Semiconductor Industry Association)
22 Oct : Industrial Technical Talks (Free Admission, co-organized by NTU and Agilent Technologies, Photos of the event can be viewed here.
25 - 27 Oct : 3-Day Workshop (organized by Centre for Continuing Education, NTU)
Green Electronics and the Nano-Scale Era: Challenges and Perspectives

Title : Analog IC Market Trends: The OLD becomes NEW again
Date : 6th August 2010, Friday, 11.00AM - 12.00 Noon
Speaker : Mr Paul Emerson, General Manager New Business Proving Grounds, HVAL, Texas Instruments
Venue : LT 24 @ South Spine, NTU
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