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MIT will host its virtual Commencement Celebration on Friday, May 29, 2020 beginning at 12 p.m. EST. Join us to congratulate all the graduates!

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The Microsystems Technology Laboratories 2020 celebration of graduates will be held Thursday, May 28 at 2:00 p.m. Join via Zoom.

Oxford Instruments Asylum Research is sponsoring a virtual symposium on applications of atomic force microscopy in virology research. The symposium will feature a panel of four leading researchers who will each describe the role of atomic force microscopy in their research projects into virus structure and function.

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Today’s technology landscape is dominated by the inescapable excitement of applications and possibilities enabled by artificial intelligence (AI). The timing could not be riper given the availability of big data, sufficient computing capability, and new machine learning techniques. Hear from two professors on how they see circuits applied to the AI realm.

May 26, 2020 at 11 a.m. EST

Vivienne Sze, associate professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
Boris Murmann, professor of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

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Tuesday, May 26—Engineering myelination in vitro by Daniela Espinosa-Hoyos, PhD candidate, Chemical Engineering

Thursday, May 28—Perovskite quantum dots as potentially scalable quantum light emitters by Hendrik Utzat, Postdoctoral Associate, Chemistry

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This talk presents two high-performance THz chips based on 2D coherently-coupled active antenna arrays: a high-power 1-THz radiator array on SiGe and a sensitive 240-GHz heterodyne receiver array on CMOS, for high-spatial-resolution high-SNR sensing applications.

Delivered by Dr. Zhi Hu.
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
12 p.m. – 1 p.m.

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Tuesday, May 19—External field effects on defects in functional oxides: Experiments and simulations by Yen-Ting Chi, PhD candidate, Materials Science & Engineering

Thursday, May 21—Pushing the efficiency limit of lead halide perovskite solar cells by Jason Yoo, PhD candidate, Chemistry

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Tuesday, May 12—Hybridized magnons in van der Waals antiferromagnets and circuit quantum electrodynamics by Justin Tony Hou, PhD candidate, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Thursday, May 14—Nanoscale phenomena during evaporation of saline drops: Salt patterns & crystal ejection by Samantha McBride, Mechanical Engineering PhD '19

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Join us for a virtual tool talk with Attolight to learn about advancements in time-resolved quantitative cathodoluminescence spectroscopy.

Thursday, May 7, 2020
1 pm – 2 pm EST

Attendees can join and participate via Zoom.
Meeting ID# 860986455. 

Tuesday, May 5—Development of an artificial spiking neuron using superconducting nanowires by Emily Toomey, PhD candidate, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Thursday, May 7—2D-material-enabled multifunctional mid-IR optoelectronics by Skylar Deckoff-Jones, PhD candidate, Materials Science & Engineering

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