| Time | Tuesday May 20th | Wednesday May 21st | Thursday May 22nd | Friday May 23rd |
| 9:00 – 10:30 am | IWW 1 | Phonons I Invited: Laura de Sousa Oliveira | 2D Materials and Devices Keynote: Eric Pop | Quantum Transport I Invited: William Frensley |
| 10:30 – 11:00 am | Coffee Break | Coffee Break and pastries (atrium) | ||
| 11:00 am – 12:30 pm | IWW 2 | Phonons II Invited: Keivan Esfarjani | Emerging Devices Invited: Joshua Yang and Wenhao Song | Quantum Transport II |
| 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm | Lunch | Lunch (Ballroom) | Conference Adjourn | |
| 2 pm – 3:30 pm | IWW 3 | Numerical Simulation Invited: Giuseppe Romano | Device Simulation Invited: Blanka Magyari-Kope | (optional: excursion to Antelope Island, no cost) |
| 3:30 pm – 4:00 pm | Coffee Break and cookies (atrium) | |||
| 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm | IWW 4 | Molecular, Organic, and Optical | Monte Carlo | |
| 5:30 – 6:00 pm | Break | Set up posters | Conference Photo | |
| 6:00 – 8:00 pm | Tutorial: Gerhard Klimeck (amphitheater) Welcome Reception hors d’oeuvres (atrium) | Poster Session Taco bar (atrium) | Conference Dinner Entertainment: Flamingo Jazz Plated dinner (ballroom) | |
For a detailed program with author names, talk times, and paper titles click below:
Talk Information:
Invited talks are 25 minutes + 5 minutes for questions
Contributed Talks are 12 minutes + 3 minutes for questions
Speakers can use their own laptops (HDMI output required) or email the slides to the conference chair 24 hours prior to the talk.
Poster Information: posters can be up to 48 x 36 inches in either landscape (horizontal) or portrait (vertical) orientation. There will be easels and poster boards provided to mount the posters. We recommend landscape orientation (48 wide by 36 tall).
Invited Speakers
Monday 9:00-9:30 am Phonons I
Laura de Sousa Oliveira
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Wyoming
Title: Super-suppression of Long Mean-free-path Phonons in Nanoporous Silicon
Wed. 11:00-12:30 Phonons 2
Keivan Esfarjani
Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of Virginia
Title: Predicting Thermal Conductivity and Classifying Chemical Bonds using DFT and Machine Learning
Wednesday 2:00-3:30 pm Simulation Methods
Giuseppe Romano
Research Scientist, Institute for Soldier Nanotechnology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: Differentiable Hydrodynamics Simulations: From Inverse Design to Automatic Material Properties Extraction
Keynote Talk
Thursday 9-10:30 2D Materials
Eric Pop
Pease-Ye Professor, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy and Professor, by courtesy, of Materials Science and Engineering and of Applied Physics
Stanford University
Title: Electro-Thermal Transport in 2D Materials, Devices, and Applications
Thursday 11:00-12:30 Emerging Devices
Joshua Yang
Arthur B. Freeman Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
and Wenhao Song
University of Southern California
Title: Diffusive and drift memristors for neuromorphic and analog computing
Thursday 2:00-3:30 pm Device Simulation
Blanka Magyari-Kope
Technical Manager in R&D, TCAD Division, TSMC, San Jose
Title: Innovating Tomorrow’s Semiconductor Technology: Computational Strategies for Material Optimization
Friday 9-10:30 Quantum Transport
William Frensley
Professor Emeritus, Electrical Engineering
University of Texas, Dallas
Title: Design Principles for Discrete Models of Nanoelectronic Systems
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