Guest speaker: Prof. Bhavin J. Shastri, Engineering Physics Queen’s University Title: Neuromorphic Silicon Photonics Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming our lives in the same way as the advent of the Internet and cellular phones. AI is revolutionizing the healthcare industry with complex medical data analysis, actualizing self-driving cars, and beating humans at strategy games such as Go. However, it takes thousands of CPUs and GPUs, and many weeks to train the neural networks in AI hardware. Over the last six years, this compute power has doubled every 3.5 months.
Title: Introduction to Electromagnetic Metasurfaces & their System Applications Abstract: "Metasurfaces are 2D metamaterials with engineered scattered fields. They have recently emerged as powerful tools to manipulate electromagnetic waves across the spectrum, and thereby enable a myriad of microwave applications in communication, radar, instrumentation and imaging, with superior performance or/and functionality.
As part of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Collaborative Training and Research Experience Program titled "Training in Optoelectronics for Power: From Science and Engineering to Technology" (NSERC CREATE TOP-SET) Seminar Series, Dr. Chris Giebink from Pennsylvania State University, will give a presentation titled "Concentrating sunlight without tracking the Sun". Join us at 2:15 p.m.
As part of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Collaborative Training and Research Experience Program titled "Training in Optoelectronics for Power: From Science and Engineering to Technology" (NSERC CREATE TOP-SET) Seminar Series, Dr. Ghada I. Koleilat from Dalhousie University, will give a presentation titled "Advanced Materials for Energy Conversion and Sensing". Join us at 2:15 p.m.
As part of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Collaborative Training and Research Experience Program titled "Training in Optoelectronics for Power: From Science and Engineering to Technology" (NSERC CREATE TOP-SET) Seminar Series, Dr. Peter Bermel, from Purdue University, will give a presentation titled "Radiative cooling for enhanced performance and reliability of photovoltaics".
As part of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Collaborative Training and Research Experience Program "Training in Optoelectronics for Power: From Science and Engineering to Technology" (NSERC CREATE TOP-SET) Seminar Series, Dr.
As part of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Collaborative Training and Research Experience Program titled "Training in Optoelectronics for Power: From Science and Engineering to Technology" (NSERC CREATE TOP-SET) Seminar Series, Dr. Kodjo Agbossou, from the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, will give a presentation titled "Power grid transformation and energy management trends".
As part of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Collaborative Training and Research Experience Program titled "Training in Optoelectronics for Power: From Science and Engineering to Technology" (NSERC CREATE TOP-SET) Seminar Series, Dr.
