Three plenary presentations will be given by experts in optical devices, carbon-based electronics and VLSI systems.

Dr. Jerry Woodall, Purdue University "40 Years of Heterojunctions: No End in Sight"

Dr. Jerry M. Woodall is a National Medal of Technology Laureate and a Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. He was previously the C. Baldwin Sawyer Professor of Electrical Engineering at Yale University. Dr. Woodall has conducted pioneering research in compound semiconductor materials and devices over a career spanning four decades. He spent most of the early and mid parts of his career at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center where he rose to the rank of IBM Corporate Fellow. He built the first high purity single crystals of gallium arsenide there, enabling the first definitive measurements of carrier velocity versus electric field relationships, as well as GaAs crystals used for the first non-supercooled injection laser. He and Hans Ruprecht pioneered the liquid-phase epitaxial growth of both Si doped GaAs used for high efficiency IR LEDs, and gallium aluminum arsenide (GaAlAs), which led to his most important research contribution so far: the first working heterojunction. He then invented and patented many important commercial high-speed electronic and photonic devices that depend on the heterojunction, including bright red LEDs and the two classes of ultra-fast transistors, called the hetero- junction bipolar transistor (HBT) and pseudomorphic high-electron-mobility transistor (pHEMT). Dr. Woodall was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989 and is a fellow of the APS, IEEE, ECS, and AVS. He has served as president of the ECS and AVS, and on the board and executive committee of the AIP. He has published 350 publications in the open literature and been issued 75 U.S. patents. Other recognition includes a 1988 Heinrich Welker Gold Medal and International GaAs Symposium Award; the 1990 American Vacuum Society's (AVS) Medard Welch Award, and the 1998 ECS Edward Goodrich Acheson Award. In 2002, President Bush awarded Woodall the National Medal of Technology, the nation's highest technical honor. Dr. Woodall co-founded LightSpin Technologies, Inc., a high technology startup company, and serves as its Chief Science Officer. He earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Cornell University and a B.S. in metallurgy from MIT.

Dr. Mark Horowitz, Stanford University "Scaling, Power, and the Future of CMOS Technology"

Dr. Mark Horowitz is the Yahoo Founders Professor of the School of Engineering at Stanford University. He received his BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1978, and his Ph.D from Stanford in 1984. Dr. Horowitz is the recipient of a 1985 Presidential Young Investigator Award, the 1993 ISSCC Best Paper Award, and the ISCA 2004 Most Influential Paper of 1989. In 2006 he was the winner of the IEEE Donald Pederson Award in Solid State Circuits. He is a fellow of IEEE and ACM and a member of the NAE. In 1990, he took leave from Stanford to help start Rambus Inc, a company designing high-bandwidth memory interface technology. His current research includes multiprocessor design, low power circuits, high-speed links and new graphical interfaces.

Dr. Philip Kim, Columbia University "Toward Carbon Based Electronics"

Dr. Philip Kim received his Ph. D. in Applied Physics from Harvard University in 1999. He then worked in the Physics Department at the University of California, Berkeley as a Miller Postdoctoral Fellow. In 2002, he joined the faculty at Columbia University where he is now Associate Professor in the Department of Physics. Dr. Kim received numerous honors and awards including Scientific American 50 (2007), Columbia University Distinguished Faculty Award (2007) and National Science Foundation Faculty Career Award (2004). He has been a fellow of the American Physical Society since 2007. Dr. Kim's research focus is the study of electric, thermal and thermoelectric transport phenomena in nanoscaled systems, and notably in recent years, he has demonstrated novel transport phenomena in carbon nanotubes and graphene. Dr. Kim has over 50 well-cited scientific publications.