IEEE  Central North Carolina ED_MTT_SSC Joint Society Chapter Seminar Series  

Programs
2005 |  2006 | 2007

• Next Meeting: February 27, 2007

Recent Programs

• December 11, 2006 - "Characterization and analysis of nonlinearities of
  RF and HF components - theoretical and practical aspects" Dr Marc Vanden Bossche -
• December 4, 2006  -  "Current View and Future Trends in Silicon Microelectronics" Steven Hillenius PDF
• March 17, 2006 "Global Stability Analysis and Stabilization of Power Amplifiers"  Dr. Suarez Talk PDF
• March 13, 2006 "Achieving High Sampling Rates with Time-Interlaced Analog to Digital Converters"
• Feb 13, 2006: "The life of James Clerk Maxwell"

Unless otherwise advised all seminar series will be held at:

Analog Device's building II, (Forsyth conference room)  7736 McCloud Rd Suite 100 Greensboro, NC 27409

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Contact: Tony Ivanov TIvanov@rfmd.com 336-678-7906

Recent Programs

Date - December 11, 2006
Time - 6:00 PM
Speaker - Dr Marc Vanden Bossche  Marc.Vanden_Bossche@nmdg.de
Talk - "Characterization and analysis of nonlinearities of RF and HF components - theoretical and practical aspects".

Dr Marc Vanden Bossche Bio & Abstract     Presentation in PDF12/13/06

Date - December 4, 2006
Time - 6:00 PM
Speaker - Steven Hillenius
Talk - Current View and Future Trends in Silicon Microelectronics

Steven J. Hillenius Bio   Presentation in PDF

Contact: Tony Ivanov TIvanov@rfmd.com 336-678-7906  Work  336-457-2839 Mobile

Date - March 17, 2006
Time - 10:00-11:00 am
Speaker - Dr. Almuneda Suarez
Talk - Global Stability Analysis and Stabilization of Power Amplifiers

Dr. Almuneda Suarez gave a presentation on PA stabilization at NCSU this week.  She also gave the same presentation for our IEEE Chapter.  Attached are summary of the talk and short bio.  Since a lot of PA designers are concentrated in RFMD, we will have the talk on the RFMD campus. 

   Dr. Almuneda Suarez Bio and Abstract PDF    -    Dr. Suarez Talk PDF

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Date - March 13, 2006
Time - 6:00 - 7:00 pm
Speaker - Dr. David Nairn (Analog Devices, Inc.)
Talk - Achieving High Sampling Rates with Time-Interlaced Analog to Digital Converters
<<Abstract and Bio.doc>>

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Date -  Feb 13, 2006
Time - 6:00 - 7:00 pm
Speaker - Jim Rautio.
Talk - The life of James Clerk Maxwell    Maxwell's Legacy (PDF)

Abstract James Clerk Maxwell stands shoulder to shoulder with Newton and Einstein, yet even those of us who have spent decades working with Maxwell's equations are almost totally unfamiliar with his life and times. This presentation, from the viewpoint of a microwave engineer, draws on many sources in providing an understanding of James Maxwell himself. What was Maxwell like as an infant? What was the tragedy at eight years old that profoundly influenced his life? What unique means of transportation did young Maxwell use to escape a cruel tutor? What memorable event occurred on his first day of school? When did he publish his first papers, and what were they about? What did Maxwell have to do with the rings of Saturn? Why did he lose his job as a professor? Why did he have a hard time getting another job? What was his wife like? What is Maxwell's legacy to us? The answers to these questions provide insight into Maxwell the person and add an extra dimension to those four simple equations we have studied ever since.

James C. Rautio, AJ3K IEEE MTT Distinguished Lecturer James C. Rautio received a BSEE from Cornell in 1978, a MS Systems Engineering from University of Pennsylvania in 1982, and a Ph. D. in electrical engineering from Syracuse University in 1986. From 1978 to 1986, he worked for General Electric, first at the Valley Forge Space Division, then at the Syracuse Electronics Laboratory. At this time he developed microwave design and measurement software, and designed microwave circuits on Alumina and on GaAs. From 1986 to 1988, he was a visiting professor at Syracuse University and at Cornell. In 1988 he went full time with Sonnet Software, a company he had founded in 1983. In 1995, Sonnet was listed on the Inc. 500 list of the fastest growing privately held US companies, the first microwave software company ever to be so listed. Today, Sonnet is the leading vendor of 3-D planar high frequency electromagnetic analysis software. Dr. Rautio was elected a fellow of the IEEE in 2000 and received the IEEE MTT Microwave Application Award in 2001 and is an adjunct professor at Syracuse University.

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