Industry Planning Workshop

About the Planning Workshop

The workshop aims to showcase the Center’s research portfolio to our prospective industry and national lab partners who will be joining our Center’s advisory board in Phase I. The completion of the planning workshop will lead to a proposal for the Phase I of the NSF I-UCRC Center for Aggressive Scaling by Advanced Processes (ASAP), which will bring together expertise from materials science, physics, electrical engineering, and computer science. Together with our advisory board, we will develop fundamental solutions to improve the energy efficiency and throughput of data communication fabric at the micro- and macro-scales.

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Thursday, April 21

(All activities are in 1000 Holonyak Micro & Nanotechnology building, 208 N. Wright Street, Urbana, IL, 61801, unless otherwise noted.)

Time	Presentation	Speakers
7:30 am	Registration
7:30-8:15 am	Breakfast & Networking
8:15-8:35 am	Welcome Remarks	Melanie Loots, Executive Associate Vice Chancellor for Research & Innovation Harley Johnson, Associate Dean for Research, Grainger College of Engineering (GCOE) Shaloo Rakheja, Director, ASAP Irfan Ahmad, Innovation Director of ASAP Center and Executive Director of Interdisciplinary Initiatives, GCOE
8:35-9:05 am	Vision, capabilities, and value proposition of the Center	Shaloo Rakheja, ASAP Director, and Qing Cao, ASAP Assoc. Director
9:05-10:00 am	NSF IUCRC Presentation	Prakash Balan, NSF IUCRC Program Manager Todd Abraham, NSF External Evaluator
10:00-10:15 am	IUCRCs on campus	Harley Johnson, Associate Dean for Research, GCOE
10:15-10:30 am	Break
10:30 am-12:35 pm	Project Proposal Presentations Theme 1: Materials Discovery for Next-Generation Electrical and Optical Interconnects Theme 2: Heterogeneous 3D Integration
12:35-1:35 pm	Lunch
1:35-3:30 pm	Project Proposal Presentation Theme 2 (cont.): Heterogeneous 3D Integration Theme 3: Circuits and Architectures for Highly Energy-Efficient Computing
3:30-3:45 pm	Break
3:45-4 pm	Illinois Quantum Information Science and Technology (IQUIST)	Brian DeMarco, Professor, Physics
4-4:45 pm	Industry Workshop Discussion of projects and needs not addressed in the Theme presentations.
4:45-5 pm	Review of Evening and Day 2 Activities	Shaloo Rakheja, Center Director
5-6:30 pm	Technical Forum and Networking Poster presentations by students (3rd floor, HMNTL)
6:30 pm	Dinner

Friday, April 22

Date	Presentation	Speakers
7:30-8:15 am	Arrival and breakfast
8:15-8:30 am	Day 2 Opening Remarks	Bruce Hajek, Head, Electrical and Computer Engineering
8:30-9 am	Presentation by Office of Technology Management (OTM)	Michelle Chitambar, Senior Technology Manager
9-9:15 am	Presentation by Office of Corporate Relations (OCR)	Kent Studer, Senior Director of Corporate Relations
9:15-10:15 am	Project Feedback Review and Discussion	PI facilitated; all participants
10:15-10:30 am	Break
10:30-11:15 am	NSF Closed Session with Industry	NSF and industry participants
11:15-11:45 am	Next Steps, Action Items, and Closing Remarks
11:45 am-Noon	Adjourn (Box lunch provided)
Noon-1:30 pm	Lab Tours (optional): Holonyak Micro & Nanotechnology Laboratory Materials Research Laboratory	Glennys Mensing Mauro Sardela