Join the MIT.nano Immersion Lab for a half-day symposium focused on applications and approaches to ambient sensing and monitoring. This virtual event will feature MIT faculty talks, student research presentations, and a live demo from inside the Immersion Lab.
Date: Thursday, May 18, 2023
Time: 9:00 AM - 12:15 PM ET
Location: Virtual on Zoom
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Tentative agenda
| Time | Talk title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00AM — 9:10AM | Welcome + opening remarks | Brian Anthony Co-director of MIT’s Medical Electronic Device Realization Center Associate Director of MIT.nano |
| 9:10AM – 9:25AM | Our evolving understanding of the flow, deformation, and fracture of glacier ice | Brent Minchew Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Professor Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences |
| 9:25AM – 9:40AM | Estimate of OH trends over a decade in North American cities | Qindan Zhu Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences |
| 9:40AM – 9:55AM | Autonomous marine sensing systems | Michael Benjamin Principal Research Scientist Center for Ocean Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering |
| 9:55AM – 10:15AM | Question + answer session | |
| 10:50AM – 10:55AM | Zero-power technology for underwater sensing | Sayed Saad Afzal Graduate student Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
| 10:20AM – 10:50AM | Live demo from inside the MIT.nano Immersion Lab | |
| 10:15AM – 10:20AM | Sensing the grounding zone: Where ice meets ocean meets earth in Antarctica | Faye Hendley Elgart Graduate student Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences |
| 10:55AM – 11:00AM | Break | |
| 11:00AM – 11:15AM | Sensing through terahertz-wave semiconductor chips | Ruonan Han Associate Professor Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science |
| 11:15AM – 11:30AM | Ambient sensing and monitoring of the underwater world | Fadel Adib Associate Professor Program in Media Arts & Sciences Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science |
| 11:30AM – 11:45AM | Talk title to be announced | James Kinsey Chief Executive Officer Humatics |
| 11:45AM – 12:05PM | Question + answer session | |
| 12:05PM – 12:10PM | High-precision Sub-THz imaging/sensing system | Xibi Chen PhD candidate Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
| 12:10PM – 12:15PM | Closing remarks | Brian Anthony Co-director of MIT’s Medical Electronic Device Realization Center Associate Director of MIT.nano |
Please note: This event will take the place of this year’s SENSE.nano symposium, with a shorter and fully virtual format for greater accessibility. You may have received a save the date for SENSE.nano on May 18 & 19, 2023 – please join us for Ambient Sensing instead!