Past Events
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- BETR Seminar
Controlling Thermal Radiation for Power Generation and Climate Mitigation
Prof. Jeremy N. Munday
Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Davis
- BETR Seminar
Solving Global Scale Problems with Basic Science
Prof. Ramamoorthy Ramesh
Purnendu Chatterjee Chair Professor of Materials Science & Engineering and Physics, UC Berkeley
- BETR Seminar
Combining Experiments, Large Language Models, and Theory to Discover Quantum Materials
Dr. Dogus Cubuk
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Periodic Labs
- BETR Seminar
Understanding Resonances in Metasurfaces and Nanoresonators
Dr. Philippe Lalanne
Physicist and Research Director at CNRS, Laboratoire Photonique, Numérique et Nanosciences (LP2N)
- BETR Seminar
Spintronic Devices and Oscillator Networks for Energy-Based Analog Computing
Dr. Louis Hutin
Research Scientist, Silicon Components Division, CEA-Leti
- BETR Seminar
Lawless Progress on Wicked Problems: New Design Opportunities at the Intersection of AI, Visual Computing, and User Interaction
Prof. Abe Davis
Department of Computer Science, Cornell University
- BETR Seminar
MIDDAS: Memory Integration and Data Dis-Aggregation
Shuhan Liu
Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
- BETR Seminar
Shaping the Future of Semiconductor Scaling Through Breakthrough Interconnect Technologies
Dr. Gaurav Thareja
Semiconductor Products Group, Applied Materials
- BETR Seminar
Gate-All-Around NanoSheet CMOS Technology
Dr. Julien Frougier
Senior Technology Development Engineer, IBM Research
- BETR Seminar
Highly Resonant Optical Materials for Ultrafast All-Optical Light Manipulation
Prof. Claudio U. Hail
Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley
- BETR Seminar
Hybrid Superconducting Photonic Circuits
Prof. Hong Tang
Electrical Engineering, Physics and Applied Physics, Yale University
- BETR Seminar
Inverse Lithography Technology for Mask Synthesis
Dr. Tom Cecil
Senior Director, EDA Group, Siemens
- BETR Seminar
Hybrid Emitter-Photon Interfaces for Entanglement Generation and Distribution
Prof. Ravitej Uppu
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa
- BETR Seminar
Engineering Heterogeneous Materials and Devices for 3D-Integrated Energy-Efficient Electronics
Dr. Asir Khan
Assistant Professor (incoming), Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley
- BETR Seminar
The Path from Electrons to Photons: Shining a Light on the Fabrication Challenges of Silicon Photonics
Michelle Bourke & Dr. David Haynes
Michelle Bourke, Managing Director, Specialty Technologies & Strategic Marketing, Lam Research Corporation
Dr. David Haynes, Vice President, Specialty Technologies, Lam Research Corporation
- BETR Seminar
What I Wish I Had Known, as I Searched for the First 3d Photonic Bandgap
Prof. Eli Yablonovitch
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, UC Berkeley
- BETR Seminar
Silicon Photonics for AI Interconnects and Processing
Prof. Yuan Yuan
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University
- BETR Seminar
Scale-Robust Surface Conduction in ALD-Grown Amorphous Topological Semimetals on Amorphous Substrates
Prof. Il-Kwon Oh
Electrical and Computer Engineering & Intelligence Semiconductor Engineering
Ajou University, Republic of Korea
- BETR Symposium
2025 BETR Symposium: Hardware for AI
UC Berkeley
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall
- BETR Seminar
Next-Generation Intelligent Machines: The Quest for AI-Enabled and Neuromorphic Devices in the Post-Moore Era of Energy-Efficient Computing
Dr. Dilip Vasudevan
Career Research Scientist
Applied Mathematics and Computational Research (AMCR) Division
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- BETR Seminar
Harnessing non-Abelian Fractional Quantum Hall States for Topological Quantum Computing
Dr. Michael Eggleston
AI Research Lab, Nokia Bell Labs