1st Barcelona Forum on Ph.D. Research in Electronic Engineering

NEW: Photos from the forum.

Agenda:

Morning session (open to the public)
Sala d'Acted, edifici Vèrtex
9.30 Welcome speech.
9:45 Panel: “The role of the Ph.D. graduated students and the international R+D priorities”.
11:00 Coffee break.
11:15 Students’ research work presentations.
13:00 Conclusions and wrap-up.
13:15 Lunch (only for students of the Doctoral program in Electronic Engineering)

Afternoon session (for students)
Classrooms in Vertex building
14:30-15:30 Coffee table meetings with industry and research center representatives.

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Panel:

(9:30h Sala d'Actes, Edifici Vèrtex)
The meeting is opened with a panel discussion about "The role of the Ph.D. graduated students and the international R+D priorities"

• Panel Introduction and panelists biographies.
• NEW: Panel discussion and conclusions

Pere Losantos, Parc UPC, Barcelona, Spain (pere.losantos@upc.edu)
Moderator




Patrick Cogez, Director, University & External Relations, ST Microelectronics, Grenoble, France (patrick.cogez@st.com)





Chirstian Gamrat, Senior expert in advanced computer architectures and nanocomputing, AETHER and NABAB projects coordinator, CEA-LIST, Paris, France (christian.gamrat@cea.fr)





Jordi Aubert, Electronics Development Director, FICOSA International, Mollet del Valles, Spain (ftr.jaubert@ficosa.com)






Jorgen Christiansen, CERN-MP/MIC, Geneve, Switzerland (Jorgen.Christiansen@cern.ch)

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Student's research work presentations:
(11:30h Sala d'Actes, Edifici Vèrtex)

11:30: Providing an UWB-IR BAN wireless communications networks and its application to design a very low power transceiver on CMOS technology
Author: Enrique Barajas, Thesis Advisors: Diego Mateo, José Luis González

11:45: Contribution to Advanced hot wire wind sensing
Author: Lukasz Kowalski, Thesis Advisor: Vicente Jiménez Serres

12:00: Fast Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy measurements techniques for dynamic impedance characterization
Author: Sánchez, B., Thesis Advisor: Bragós, R.

12:15: Non-destructive evaluation of civil structures using electromagnetic waves
Author: Pablo Juan-García, Thesis Advisor: Josep M. Torrents

12:30: High efficiency RF power amplification for 3G mobile communications
Author: Lázaro Marco, Thesis Advisor: Eduard Alarcón

12:45: Variations-aware circuits designs for microprocessors
Author: Marc Pons, Thesis Advisors: Jordi Abella, Francesc Moll

Click here to download the proceedings (pdf, 7.6Mb) containing a total of 22 papers from students in the last years of the Ph.D. program in Electronic Engineering of the UPC.

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Coffee table meetings:
(14:30h SV206a,b and SV207 Classrooms, Edifici Vèrtex)

Room SV206a:
14:30 Patrick Cogez, ST Microelectronics
15:00 Chistian Gamrat, CEA-List: Presentation slides & Informative report

Room SV206b:
14:45 Jorgen Chirstiansen, CERN: Presentation slides
  15:15 Jordi Aubert, FICOSA International: Presentation slides

Room SV207:
15:00 Xavier Estaran, Pere Losantos, Parc UPC: Presentation slides.

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More information: download the pdf brochure.