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Monday, April 27th: Birck Industry Day

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Location: Burton Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship, Room 121

8:30a.m. – 9:00a.m.Registration/ Light Breakfast MRGN Cafe 
9:00a.m. – 9:10a.m. Opening Remarks – Dan DeLaurentis, Executive Vice President of Research Purdue Office of ResearchMRGN 121 
9:10a.m. – 9:50a.m. Charles Strehlow, Quantum Design-Oxford, “Laboratory Workflow with Quantum Design”MRGN 121
9:50a.m. – 10:30a.m.Debby Lin, Principal Research Scientist, MediaTek and Anjana Dissanayake, Research Scientist, MediaTek Technology USA, “Advancing Horizons: Semiconductor Innovation and Ecosystem Partnerships (MediaTek x Purdue)”MRGN 121
10:30a.m. – 11:10a.m.Mo Shakouri, CEO, Microsanj, “Meeting Emerging Thermal Challenges of 3D Heterogeneously Integrated Circuit Packaging Techniques”MRGN 121
11:10a.m. – 12:00p.m.Jaesik Lee, Vice President of Advanced Packaging, SK Hynix, “Challenges of High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) Packaging”MRGN 121
12:00p.m. – 1:00p.m.Working Lunch: Purdue’s quantum and semiconductor workforce development programs MRGN 121
1:00p.m. – 1:40p.m. Juergen Klier, FormFactor, “Vacuum & Cryogenic Probing with FormFactor: Stable Contact. Clean Data. Faster Debug.”MRGN 121
1:40p.m. – 2:20p.m.Shalini Tripathi, Material Scientist, imec, “From Lab to Chip: The Impact of R&D on Semiconductor Innovation and Interface Analysis of Tantalum Seeded MoS2 for Advanced Transistor Applications”MRGN 121
2:20p.m. – 2:30p.m. Coffee BreakMRGN Cafe
2:30p.m. – 3:10p.m.Michael Alimov, Field Applications Engineer, Keysight, “Recognized and Rectifying Parametric Measurement Artefacts”MRGN 121
3:10p.m. Move to Birck Nanotechnology CenterBirck Atrium
3:10p.m. – 5:30p.m.Poster session/ vendor trade show/ Digital Twins demos Birck Atrium
5:30p.m. – 6:30p.m.heavy hors d’oeuvresBirck Atrium

Tuesday, April 28th: Birck Academia Day

Location: Hall for Discovery and Learning Research, Room 131

8:30a.m. – 9:00a.m.Registration/ Light Breakfast/ Trade Show BeginsDLR 131
9:00a.m. – 9:10a.m.WelcomeDLR 131
9:10a.m. – 9:50a.m.Xiulin Ruan, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, “Multiphysics Simulations of Nanoscale Thermal Transport in Electronics”DLR 131
9:50a.m. – 10:30a.m.Ruichao (Alex) Ma, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, “Analog Quantum Simulation with Superconducting Circuits”DLR 131
10:30a.m. – 11:10a.m.Thomas Beechem, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, “Leveraging Light for Tomorrow’s Electronics: Multi-Modal Spectroscopy for Seeing Stress and Defects in Devices and Their Packages”DLR 131
11:10a.m. –12:00p.m.Alexandra Boltasseva, Ron and Dotty Garvin Tonjes Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, “Emerging Tailorable Materials for Photonic Applications”DLR 131 
12:00p.m. – 1:00p.m.Trade Show & Lunch Talk: “Digital Twins for the Semiconductor Industry”DLR 131
1:00p.m. – 1:40p.m.Michael Manfra, Chief Quantum Officer, Purdue University; Director of Purdue Quantum Science and Engineering Institute, “Experimental Discovery of Anyonic Braiding Statistics”DLR 131
1:40p.m. – 2:20p.m.Liang Pan, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, “Design, Optimization and Experiments of Thermal Management Solution for 3D IC”DLR 131
2:20p.m. – 2:30p.m.Coffee Break DLR 131 
2:30p.m. – 3:10p.m.Can Wu, Birck Scholar of Excellence; Assistant Professor, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, “Think Big! Emerging Large-area Electronics for Large-scale System Integration”DLR 131
3:10p.m. – 3:50p.m.Haitong Li, Assistant Professor, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, “Heterogeneous Compute-in-Memory Fabrics for Efficient and Scalable Edge AI”DLR 131
3:50p.m. – 4:30p.m.Mark J. Kushner, George I. Haddad Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, “Plasma Reactor and Feature Scale Modeling in the Context of the Digital Twin”DLR 131

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