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Date: Tuesday, December 6th, 2005 Time: Networking and Pizza Social at 7:00 pm, Presentation at 8:00 pm Topic: 2005 Holiday Lecture: "Put some Spark in your Holidays" Speaker: Prof. Ken Pedrotti, UC Santa Cruz Baskin School of Engineering Location: National Semiconductor Credit Union 955 Kifer Road, Sunnyvale, CA, 94086 RSVP: Please RSVP with your name in the body of the message to |
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ABSTRACT In 2003 it was proposed by Dr. Tony Siegman to hold a series of "Christmas Lectures" humbly modeled after the popular Faraday Lectures of the Royal Society of London. It is in this spirit that we invite you and your families to this wonderful annual tradition. The early and fascinating history of radio spawned what we know today as the electronics industry. This story will be told via live working demonstrations of early spark-gap apparatus inspired by Tesla, Oliver Lodge's important but forgotten syntonic spark system, numerous radio relics. The story then leads us full circle to the ultra wide band radio systems proposed for the future, throwbacks to the distant past, and on to a glimpse of what the future might hold. BIOGRAPHY Ken Pedrotti Ph.D. EE, Stanford University, 1985. MS EE and BS, University of California Berkeley, 1979. Currently he is a professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz where his interests include devices and circuits for optical communication networks, imaging, RF and VLSI clocking applications. From 1998 to 2000 he was with the Rockwell Science Center in Thousand Oaks, CA working on mixed signal VLSI for visible and IR imaging. Prior to that he worked from 1997-1998 for Conexant Systems in Newbury Park, CA on commercialization of integrated circuits for optical communications. From 1985 to 1997 he was with the Rockwell Science Center, his research activities there included the development of integrated optoelectronic devices and circuits, high speed circuit development using HBTs, systems research for WDM optical networks, optical modulators, and MOCVD crystal growth. Dr. Pedrotti has served on the board of governors of the IEEE Solid State Circuit Society and has authored over 50 papers and holds 8 patents. In his spare time he has been known to collect old radios, is a lapsed member of the Southern California Antique Radio Society and teaches, among other topics, a survey of electrical engineering course for non-majors at UCSC. |
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