Online Grid for the week of October 13, 2008
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News and Meetings
SCV-Mag - 10/14 | Turbulent Transitions and Frustrated States: Some Issues in Reversal - useful physical properties governed by surfaces and interfaces at nano-level precision ... [more]

SCV-EDS - 10/14 | Soft Errors - No Way To Escape - cosmic ray induced soft errors becoming a major threat ... [more]

SCV-EMC - 10/14 | Studying Embedded Capacitance in a Practical High-speed PCB Design - performance and cost analysis ... [more]

SCV-EMB - 10/15 | Advances and Future Directions in Radiation Medicine - progress towards making cancer a manageable chronic disease ... [more]

SCV-PES+IAS - 10/15 | New California Seismic Design Requirements for Buildings & Electrical Equipment - major changes in seismic requirements ... [more]

IEEE-SPECTRUM - 10/16 | Career Opportunities In Consumer Electronics — What Technical Skills Are Most In Demand Today? - 1-hour free webinar: spectacular growth, shorter development cycles ... [more]

SCV-SSC - 10/16 | High Performance Digital Fractional-N Frequency Synthesizers - low jitter, high PLL bandwidth, high resolution time-to-digital conversion ... [more]

OEB-IAS - 10/16 | Transformer & Rotating Machines Field Diagnostics Methods - established methods, new techniques ... [more]

SCV-PELS - 10/16 | Simulation-Driven Design: Overview of Tesla Motors Advanced Electric Powertrain - an electric vehicle perspective, trade-off studies ... [more]

SCV-LEOS - 10/17 | Planetarium Show and Observing Party at the College of San Mateo - night sky show, black holes ... [more]

SCV-CAS+CPMT - 10/20 | Multichip Module Packaging and its Impact on Server Architecture and Operating Systems - Distinguished Speaker Lecture ... [more]

SCV-Nano - 10/21 | 32nm Node Optical Wafer Inspection: Perspectives and Challenges - metrology, special challenges, opportunities ... [more]

SCV-CNSV - 10/21 | Effective Communication Tools for Consultants, Engineers and Technical Professionals - influencing a client or colleague ... [more]

SF-EMB - 10/21 | Quantifying Brain Anatomy Using Deformation Morphometry - shape analysis of structural MRI data ... [more]

TheTech- 10/22 | Leonardo: 500 Years into the Future - private showing, da Vinci evening for engineers -- no-cost admissions (first 500) ... [more]

IT History Soc. - 10/22 | Leveraging Yesterday: Using History to Create Value Today and Tomorrow in the High-Tech Company - help high-tech companies in their everyday business ... [more]

SCV-CPMT - 10/23 | The Evolution of MEMS Packaging - Chicken or Egg - history, product case studies, recent trends ... [more]

SCV-CIS+RAS - 10/24 | Intelligent Control of Teams of Autonomous Robots - team formations, interactions, communication needs, distributed resources ... [more]

SF-IAS - 10/28 | Photovoltaic Power Plant Design - panel and inverter selection, array and field design issues ... [more]

SCV-CE - 10/28 | System on a Chip (SoC) for Consumer Electronics - IC family for internet, graphics, security apps ... [more]

SCV-PES - 10/28 | Managing & Controlling Transmission Grids using Advanced Technology - thermal capacity, power flow control, reactive power management ... [more]

SCV-Rel - 10/29 | Photovoltaic Systems Reliability - high reliability, low maintenance costs, long lifetime ... [more]

SF-PES - 11/3 | Smart Power Grids - a one day course ... [more]

SCV-CAS - 11/3 | Design Techniques and CMOS Implementation of a Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) - added noise, SNR, low power - and elections ... [more]

SCV-RAS - 11/5 | Learning for Autonomous Helicopter Control - flying aerobatic maneuvers at the level of an expert human pilot ... [more]

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OEB-Mag - 11/6 | iNEMI Mass Data Storage Roadmap - data access for business, government, academic, military, consumer applications ... [more]

SCV-SSC - 11/10 | Architecture and Circuit Design for High-Speed Pipelined A/D Converters - top-down approach, architecture analysis, transistor-level implementation ... [more]

SCV-EMC - 11/11 | Lightning Testing for Aircraft Electronics - additional problems posed by composite materials ... [more]

SCV-LEOS - 11/13 | New-Age Photonic Crystal Fibers - hollow channel microstructure, optical barriers, scatterers, photonic bandgap ... [more]

SCV-MTT - 11/13 | Recent Advances in Microwave Frequency Synthesizers: Will YIG Survive? - faster, smaller and cheaper ... [more]

SCV-Nano - 11/18 | Nanotechnology: Fueling Our Transportation Future - half-day: nanotech enabled solutions for future transportation fuel, batteries ... [more]

SCV-CPMT - 11/20 | Electro-Optical Microscopy: Evolution in Component and Package-Level Inspection - image analysis capabilities, post-processing ... [more]

SCV-PELS - 11/20 | Linear Technology Ltspice SPICE: Modeling Tool for Designing SMPS's - highlights of Ltspice, free SPICE modeling tool ... [more]

SCV-CPMT+PSES - 12/10 | Halogen Free Electronics - their functions, removal, basic legislation, trade-offs ... [more]


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