Events

Day 1 (Friday, July 26) (Thimann Lecture Hall 3, UCSC)

9 -9:30 AM: Arriving and greetings

9:30 -10:45 AM: Tutorial Lectures 1&2* (Nobby Kobayashi & Wei Chen)

10:45 - 11:00 AM: Coffee Break

11:00 AM - 12:15 PM:  Tutorial Lectures 3&4*(Jairo Velasco Jr. & Jason Eshraghian)

12:15 PM - 1: 30 PM: Group lunch

1:30 - 2:00 PM- Scientific presentation by Dr. Himadri Basu from Electrical Engineering at UCSC

2:00 – 3:00 PM- Workshop/presentation on “Career success” at UCSC

3:00 – 3:15 PM- Coffee Break

3:15 - 3:45 PM- Scientific presentations by undergraduate students (2 talks).

3:45 – 4:30 PM- Panel discussion (transfer and life in graduate school)

4:30 PM- group activities: beach walk by Westside Research Park

Day 2 (Saturday, July 27) (Jack Baskin Engineering 2 Simularium 180, UCSC)

9 -9:30 AM: Arriving and mingling

9:30-10:45 AM: Tutorial Lectures 5&6*(Aiming Yan & Huizhong Xu) 

10:45 -11:00 AM: Coffee break 

11: 00 AM - 12:15 PM: Scientific presentations by postdoc and graduate student researchers (4 talks).

12:15 - 1:30 PM: Group lunch

1:30- 2:30 PM: Presentation by Dr. Luisa Bozano from Applied Materials.

2:30- 2:45 PM- Coffee break

2:45- 3:30 PM- Panel discussion (cancelled)

3:30- group activities: Art museum tour by westside

*Please refer to the lecture list below for specific topics. 

Featured lectures:

• Deciphering resistive switches (by Professor Nobby Kobayashi, Electrical Engineering Department at UCSC)

• Discovery and design new materials with computers (by Professor Wei Chen, Materials Design and Innovation Department, University at Buffalo)

• Atomically thin two-dimensional materials for brain-inspired computing (by Professor Aiming Yan, Physics Department at UCSC)

• Imaging and manipulating two-dimensional material based memristors at the atomic scale (by Professor Jairo Velasco Jr., Physics Department at UCSC)

• Nano-optical techniques for characterizing materials and devices for memristor applications (by Professor Huizhong Xu, Physics and Astronomy Department at San Francisco State University)

• How can we make artificial intelligence as efficient as the human brain? (by Professor Jason Eshraghian, Electrical Engineering Department at UCSC)