Past Events

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March 6, 2026

Controlling Thermal Radiation for Power Generation and Climate Mitigation

Prof. Jeremy N. Munday

Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Davis

February 27, 2026

Solving Global Scale Problems with Basic Science

Prof. Ramamoorthy Ramesh

Purnendu Chatterjee Chair Professor of Materials Science & Engineering and Physics, UC Berkeley

February 13, 2026

Combining Experiments, Large Language Models, and Theory to Discover Quantum Materials

Dr. Dogus Cubuk

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Periodic Labs

January 30, 2026

Understanding Resonances in Metasurfaces and Nanoresonators

Dr. Philippe Lalanne

Physicist and Research Director at CNRS, Laboratoire Photonique, Numérique et Nanosciences (LP2N)

December 5, 2025

Spintronic Devices and Oscillator Networks for Energy-Based Analog Computing

Dr. Louis Hutin

Research Scientist, Silicon Components Division, CEA-Leti

November 21, 2025

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

November 7, 2025

MIDDAS: Memory Integration and Data Dis-Aggregation

Shuhan Liu

Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

November 3, 2025

Shaping the Future of Semiconductor Scaling Through Breakthrough Interconnect Technologies

Dr. Gaurav Thareja

Semiconductor Products Group, Applied Materials

October 31, 2025

Gate-All-Around NanoSheet CMOS Technology

Dr. Julien Frougier

Senior Technology Development Engineer, IBM Research

October 24, 2025

Highly Resonant Optical Materials for Ultrafast All-Optical Light Manipulation

Prof. Claudio U. Hail

Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley

October 17, 2025

Hybrid Superconducting Photonic Circuits

Prof. Hong Tang

Electrical Engineering, Physics and Applied Physics, Yale University

October 10, 2025

Inverse Lithography Technology for Mask Synthesis

Dr. Tom Cecil

Senior Director, EDA Group, Siemens

October 3, 2025

Hybrid Emitter-Photon Interfaces for Entanglement Generation and Distribution

Prof. Ravitej Uppu

Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa

September 26, 2025

Engineering Heterogeneous Materials and Devices for 3D-Integrated Energy-Efficient Electronics

Dr. Asir Khan

Assistant Professor (incoming), Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley

September 19, 2025

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

September 12, 2025

What I Wish I Had Known, as I Searched for the First 3d Photonic Bandgap

Prof. Eli Yablonovitch

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, UC Berkeley

September 5, 2025

Silicon Photonics for AI Interconnects and Processing

Prof. Yuan Yuan

Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University

August 14, 2025

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

May 28, 2025

2025 BETR Symposium: Hardware for AI

UC Berkeley

Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall

May 9, 2025

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

May 2, 2025

Harnessing non-Abelian Fractional Quantum Hall States for Topological Quantum Computing

Dr. Michael Eggleston

AI Research Lab, Nokia Bell Labs