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Certainties and Uncertainties in Our Energy and Climate Futures
Online Presentations | 06 Jun 2019 | Contributor(s):: Steven E. Koonin
I’ll first discuss the certainties and uncertainties in our understanding of the earth’s changing climate and its response to human influences. The historical record, climate models, and projections through the next century will be reviewed in ways not usually covered in...
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Big Data in Reliability and Security: Some Basics
Online Presentations | 30 May 2019 | Contributor(s):: Saurabh Bagchi
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Big Data in Reliability and Security: Applications
Online Presentations | 30 May 2019 | Contributor(s):: Saurabh Bagchi
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Quantum Channel Capacities
Online Presentations | 24 May 2019 | Contributor(s):: Peter Shor
The lecture discusses the capacities of a quantum channel, focussing on the basics, but also mentions some recent developments.
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Soft Electronic and Microfluidic Systems for the Skin
Online Presentations | 23 May 2019 | Contributor(s):: John A. Rogers
This talk describes the key ideas, and presents some of the most recent device examples, including wireless, skin-like electronic 'tattoos' for continuous monitoring of vital signs in neonatal intensive care, microfluidic/electronic platforms that can capture, store and perform...
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The Interfacial Chemistry of Organic Aerosols and Cloud Droplets
Online Presentations | 10 May 2019 | Contributor(s):: Kevin R. Wilson
I will highlight our efforts to use nanoparticles and droplets in the laboratory to understand heterogeneous reaction mechanisms and the underlying physical chemistry of cloud droplet formation.
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Fractal Views on Quantum Materials
Online Presentations | 08 May 2019 | Contributor(s):: Erica W. Carlson
Carlson will discuss how understanding the formation of these patterns is vital to our understanding of electronic properties and to our eventual technological control of quantum matter.
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Wearable Sweat Sensors - Towards Big Data for Human Health
Online Presentations | 04 Apr 2019 | Contributor(s):: Ali Javey
In this talk, I will present our recent advancements on fully-integrated perspiration analysis system that can simultaneously measure sweat rate, metabolites, electrolytes and heavy metals, as well as the skin temperature to calibrate the sensors' response.
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Droplet Microfluidics for High-Throughput Chemical Analysis and Experimentation
Online Presentations | 04 Apr 2019 | Contributor(s):: Robert Kennedy
Manipulating samples as droplets within microfluidic devices has emerged as an interesting approach for chemical analysis and screening. In segmented flow, one embodiment of this technology, nanoliter samples are manipulated in microfluidic channels as plugs separated by an immiscible fluid, such...
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A Gate-Level Approach To Compiling for Quantum Computers
Online Presentations | 20 Mar 2019 | Contributor(s):: Henry G. Dietz
This talk will briefly present a computer engineer's view of quantum computing, overview our approach, describe the current state of the prototype compiler, and suggest some ways in which compiler automatic parallelization technology might be extended to allow ordinary programs to take...
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Energy Assurance with Renewable Generation
Online Presentations | 13 Mar 2019 | Contributor(s):: Joydeep Mitra
This talk will discuss the most significant factors affecting energy assurance in the presence of renewable generation. It will investigate the use of energy storage to mitigate some of the challenges. It will discuss reliability metrics and targets, and a method for quantifying the notion of...
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Bandstructure Effects in Nano Devices With NEMO: from Basic Physics to Real Devices and to Global Impact on nanoHUB.org
Online Presentations | 08 Mar 2019 | Contributor(s):: Gerhard Klimeck
This presentation will intuitively describe how bandstructure is modified at the nanometer scale and what some of the consequences are on the device performance.
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Building Molecules for Function: New Materials & Inks Will Be Needed If Additive Manufacturing Will Change Medicine
Online Presentations | 27 Feb 2019 | Contributor(s):: Matthew L. Becker
This presentation will describe the use of several translationally relevant chemistries and post-printing functionalization strategies that are impacting the practice of medicine and how physicians are planning for future therapies that were not possible previously.
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Organic Photonics and Electronics: The Endless Frontier
Online Presentations | 21 Feb 2019 | Contributor(s):: Bernard Kippelen
In this talk, we will discuss how printable organic conjugated semiconducting molecules and polymers are creating new disruptive technologies that are impacting all industries. We will present recent advances in various solid-state device platforms including, organic light-emitting diodes...
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The Life and Death of Turbulence
Online Presentations | 21 Feb 2019 | Contributor(s):: Nigel Goldenfeld
In this presentation, I propose that turbulence is most fruitfully regarded as a problem in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, and will show that this perspective explains turbulent drag behavior measured over 80 years, and makes predictions that have been experimentally tested in 2D...
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The Development and Use of Dopants to Modulate the Electrical Properties of Conjugated Polymers
Online Presentations | 05 Feb 2019 | Contributor(s):: Seth R. Marder
In this talk we will report on recent developments pertaining to surface modifiers and both n‐ and p‐dopants that could impact the charge injection/collection processes in organic light emitting diodes, organic field effect transistors, and organic photovoltaic and hybrid organic/inorganic...
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Networked Dynamical Systems for Function and Learning: Paradigms for Data-Driven Control and Learning in Neurosensory Systems
Online Presentations | 16 Jan 2019 | Contributor(s):: J. Nathan Kutz
Our objective is to use emerging data-driven methods to extract the underlying engineering principles of cognitive capability, namely those that allow complex networks to learn and enact control and functionality in the robust manner observed in neurosensory systems. Mathematically, the...
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Data-Driven Discovery of Governing Equations of Physical Systems
Online Presentations | 16 Jan 2019 | Contributor(s):: J. Nathan Kutz
We introduce a number of data-driven strategies for discovering nonlinear multiscale dynamical systems and their embeddings from data. We consider two canonical cases: (i) systems for which we have full measurements of the governing variables, and (ii) systems for which we have incomplete...
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Garment-Integrated Technologies Created Using Reactive Vapor Deposition
Online Presentations | 10 Jan 2019 | Contributor(s):: Trisha Andrew
Off-the-shelf garments, textiles and threads/yarns, can be nondestructively transformed into electronic circuit components using reactive vapor deposition. Selected technologies created using vapor-coated fibers and textiles will be described...
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Creating Inflections: DARPA’s Electronics Resurgence Initiative
Online Presentations | 09 Jan 2019 | Contributor(s):: William Chappell