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This report summarizes recent technical work of the Applied and Computational Sciences Division of the Information Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Part I (Overview) provides a high-level overview of the Division's activities, including highlights of technical accomplishments during the previous year. Part II (Features) provides further details on projects of particular note this year. This is followed in Part III (Project Summaries) by brief synopses of all technical projects active during the past year. Part IV (Activity Data) provides listings of publications, technical talks, and other professional activities in which Division staff members have participated. The reporting period covered by this document is October 2019 through December 2020.

technical work of the Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division (MCSD) of NIST's Information Technology Laboratory. Part I (Overview) provides a high-level overview of the Division's activities, including highlights of technical accomplishments during the previous year. Part II (Features) provides further details on ten projects of particular note this year. This is followed in Part III (Project Summaries) by brief synopses of all technical projects active during the past year. Part IV (Activity Data) provides listings of publications, technical talks, and other professional activities in which Division staff members have participated. The reporting period covered by this

The disruption to in-person meetings means that ASEG technical nights are now being hosted on Zoom. The ASEG has also transitioned to offering digital talks. These technical talks are, with the pre...

Welcome to the 27th edition of the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI) 2017, held at Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada. GLSVLSI is a premier venue for the dissemination of manuscripts of the highest quality in all areas related to VLSI, devices, and system-level design. The venue of this year's GLSVLSI is Lake Louise in the heart of the Canadian Rockies, which is a glacial lake in Banff National Park. The lake's emerald color and beautiful scenery attracts millions of visitors to the location in the summer. The lake is frozen over in the winter, making it one of the largest natural skating rings in the world. Lake Louise water comes from the Victoria glacier which is visible from the hotel venue. Several hiking trails and ski hills can be accessed from the Lake Louise area. The conference venue, Fairmount Chateaux Lake Louise, is a luxury hotel that was built at the turn of the 20th century by the Canadian Pacific Railway one of their grand railway Hotels. Banff national park is a gem in the Canadian Rockies and has been declared by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. The park was established in 1885 and consists of Alpine trails, numerous glaciers, dense forests and natural hot springs. Banff national park hosts more than three million tourists annually who come to enjoy the natural beauty and the amenities of the parks. The park is located 110 km west of the city of Calgary, Canada's third largest municipality, and the engineering capital of Canada. Calgary has a vibrant economy with many innovators and entrepreneurs who work in the energy sector. We believe that the natural beauty of the area combined with the engineering and the entrepreneurial mindset of Calgary makes Lake Louise a great location for this high-quality symposium on VLSI, and that you will enjoy the beautiful surroundings as well as the symposium program over the three days of this year's GLSVLSI. GLSVLSI 2017 starts on Wednesday May 10th 2017, with an exciting line up of speakers on a broad range of issues including VLSI Design, hardware security, new methods in computer-aided design (CAD) and network-on-chips (NoCs), low-power systems and emerging memory designs, bio chips and biological systems and emerging computing applications. Overall, there are 10 regular sessions, 4 special sessions, and 2 poster sessions in the technical program. Seven outstanding papers have been selected as candidates for the best paper award and will be presented in different technical sessions (as marked in the program). We have four special sessions during the three days of the conference. In the first special session on Wednesday, we will explore Low Power Computing based on Non-Volatile Memories. This is followed by two special sessions on Thursday on the Three-Dimensional Integrated Circuit (3D IC) Security and Logic Obfuscation for IoT Security. On Friday, the fourth special session on Efficient IoT Systems will be held. As for the technical meeting, GLSVLSI 2017 had outstanding statistics: 197 papers were submitted, including authors from 27 different countries, of which 48 papers were accepted as full papers for oral presentation at the symposium (with a 24.4% acceptance rate). Including papers presented as poster, a total of 72 papers will be included in the symposium and published in the symposium proceedings. Special sessions add another 16 exciting papers to the proceedings of the symposium. In addition to great technical talks, we have organized several keynote talks from recognized experts. On Wednesday we will open the conference with a talk from Dr. Leland Chang who will speak about Cognitive Data Centric Systems. Dr. Niraj K. Jha will talk about Internet of Medical Things on Thursday morning. On Thursday at lunch Dr. Andrew Putnam will discuss FPGAs in the Datacenter - Combining the Worlds of Hardware and Software Development. On Friday, Dr. Alex Jones will deliver another keynote talk on Green Computing: New Challenges and Opportunities. In addition, we have organized a session on innovation on Friday afternoon. Dr. Alex Bruton who is a professor of entrepreneurship at the University of Calgary, will give a talk on ideation and the entrepreneurship mindset. This will be followed by an innovation challenge where participants will work on developing ideas using EDA and embedded systems tools. The social events of GLSVLSI 2017 include two special events this year. The first event consists of a reception cocktail on Wednesday evening at the Chateau Lake Louise. Then, on Thursday May 11th, a hiking trip is planned to walk around Lake Louise. The 1-hour hiking trip will be followed by the conference banquet.

More than 1,100 registrants from around the world participated in live presentations on Nov 2-6, and accessed recorded talks on demand through Dec 2020 as part of MS&T20 Virtual, the first all-online installment in the Materials Science &Technology (MS&T20) Conference series MS&T20 Virtual consisted of more than 80 symposia in 13 topic areas, delivering nearly 900 technical presentations in all While the virtual format offered a different experience attendees were participate in the broad selection of technical programming that they've come to expect from MS&T meetings The virtual platform also offered attendees one specific benefit over an in-person meeting: the ability to view concurrent-sessions Because all presentations were recorded in advance and available on demand for nearly two months, participants didn't have to choose between conflicting sessions They could watch them all

The Grace Hopper Celebration featured technical talks, workshops, networking events, and lively discussions about increasing the number of women in computer science .

IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Kolkata Chapter Organizes Technical Talks and Circuit Design Contest [Chapters

It is a great pleasure for me to introduce this Special Issue of IET Optoelectronics, which is focussed on semiconductor optical devices. Once a year, a Special Issue on this topic is published in association with the Semiconductor and Integrated OptoElectronics (SIOE) conference held in Cardiff, UK. In 2016 SIOE celebrated its 30th anniversary and as always, featured an exciting programme with a very high standard of technical talks, some of which feature as extended versions in this issue. Semiconductor optoelectronics is constantly evolving with the emphasis on integration continuing to grow as a key theme, in both materials and device functions, and this is largely to meet the demand of technological trends. The push for photonic integrated systems and ‘smart’ devices is setting the scene for research and such systems are predominately designed with energy efficiency in mind. In the context of this field, so called ‘green photonics’ has a great importance for society and naturally promotes high impact for research proposals, which is particularly beneficial given the competitive nature of funding. In this issue, we showcase some of the key papers featured at SIOE, giving you a flavour of the subject areas of the conference sessions, many of which relate to the trends identified above. On the topic of green photonics, there are two papers concerning the development of solar cells: Wang, Q. et al. make use of a detailed balance model to investigate enhancing the efficiency of intermediate band solar cells by introducing carrier losses and compare this with the effect of using alloying and biaxial strain. Cappelluti, F. et al. present research on open-circuit voltage recovery in quantum dot solar cells. A numerical study is used to investigate the effect of wetting layer states and doping on the photovoltage loss in InAs/GaAs solar cells.This includes quantum mechanical simulations to analyse how the reduction of the wetting layer by overgrowth can influence the quantum dot states. It is an exciting and busy time for researchers in the area of terahertz (THz) technology, this relatively untapped region of the electromagnetic spectrum promises a plethora of applications, in medicine, quality-control and detection of explosives, to name a few. Low-cost, energy efficient ways to emit THz radiation using semiconductor optical devices is fast becoming a realistic prospect for commercial applications and will surely be a ubiquitous technology in the near future. THz research featured prominently at the conference with two papers included in the Special Issue: firstly Gwaro, J. et al. report on the implementation of a cost-effective compact THz source, which features a monolithically integrated dual-wavelength distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) semiconductor laser diode, making use of photo-conductive antennas. Secondly, Wang, Y. et al. describe their research on THz photoconductive antennas using low-temperature grown III-V compounds which incorporated DBRs to enhance the THz peak signal. Characterisation of novel laser devices and materials always forms a large part of the SIOE conference, through both experimentation and modelling. Modulation and tuneability of lasers formed a key topic area, as well as mode-locking and dynamic behaviour. Dugzul, O. et al. investigated the effect of optical-injection-locking on modulation dynamics of tuneable laser diodes and a travelling wave approach, making use of an integrated VPI, and PICS3D commercial software was used to assess the dynamic response of a three-section InGaAsP/InP tuneable laser. Tawfieq, M. et al. discuss the concept of numerical simulations of a widely tuneable 4-section sample-grating laser, emitting at 976 nm, and present data on the accessible wavelength range, the threshold current behaviour and gain characteristics. Experimental results, from monolithic colliding-pulse mode-locked lasers, containing chirped double-quantum-well active regions are reported by Prziwarka T. and co-workers. They discuss factors such as gain current, absorber length/voltage, and compromises made to achieve short (picosecond) pulses with relatively low repetition frequencies. Finally, our invited paper by Kellehur, B. et al. theoretically investigates an experimental phenomenon observed between mutually coupled quantum dot lasers, which exhibit a greatly reduced modal linewidth when mutually phase-locked. I thank the authors who contributed fully expanded papers for the Special Issue and I would also like to thank the referees for their time spent reviewing manuscripts and forming constructive comments. Now I shall leave you to enjoy reading this selection of papers and hope to see you all at future SIOE conferences. Dr. Samuel Shutts is a Research Associate in the School of Physics and Astronomy at Cardiff University. He is involved with the design, fabrication and characterisation of semiconductor light emitting devices. His current research interests include quantum dot lasers structures grown on silicon substrates; InP/AlGaInP quantum dot lasers; dual-wavelength sources; distributed Bragg reflectors and distributed feedback lasers and THz emission via difference frequency generation.