Agenda for 2021 ASCENT Annual Review
The Year 4 ASCENT Annual Review will be held August 10-12, via WebEx. All presentations and posters will be recorded, with time for live discussion following. We look forward to your participation!
Agenda updated Aug 9, 2021
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Day 1: Tuesday, Aug 10 |
All times Eastern |
| Time | Topic | Speaker(s) |
| 11:25 am | Welcome (10 min) | Robert Dunn (Notre Dame) / Robert J. Bernhard, VP Notre Dame Research |
| 11:35 am | Updates from SRC (5 min + 5 min Q&A) | Tim Green (SRC) |
| 11:45 am | JUMP impact on DARPA programs (5 min + 5 min Q&A) | Young-Kai (YK) Chen / Jason Woo (DARPA) |
| 11:55 pm | ASCENT Center Overview (30 min + 5 min Q&A) | Suman Datta (Notre Dame) |
Session 1: Vertical CMOS |
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| 12:30 pm | BEOL n-channel FETs (20 min + 5 min Q&A) | Eric Pop (Stanford) / Suman Datta (Notre Dame) |
| 12:55 pm | BEOL p-channel FETs (20 min + 5 min Q&A) | Darrell Schlom (Cornell) / KJ Cho (UT Dallas) / Peide Ye (Purdue) |
| 1:20 pm | 10-MIN BREAK | |
| 1:30 pm | Hyperselective cobalt metal precursors and processes for packaging and new Ti ALD precursors for TiSix and barriers (15 min + 5 min Q&A) | Charles Winter (Wayne State) |
| 1:50 pm | Selective metal ALD (20 min + 5 min Q&A) | Andrew Kummel (UCSD) / Steve George (U of Colorado) |
| 2:15 pm | Computational approach to semiconductor processing (15 min + 5 min Q&A) | KJ Cho (UT Dallas) / Yaoqiao Hu, PhD Student (UT Dallas) |
| 2:35 pm | Phase transition in correlated oxides (20 min + 5 min Q&A) | Suman Datta (Notre Dame) / Jeff Bokor (UC Berkeley) |
| 3:00 pm | Heat spreaders for monolithic 3D (20 min + 5 min Q&A) | Eric Pop (Stanford) / Aaron McLeod, PhD Student (UCSD) |
| 3:25 pm | 10-MIN BREAK | |
| 3:35 pm | Ultra-dense polylithic 3D IC technologies (15 min + 5 min Q&A) | Muhannad Bakir (Georgia Tech) |
| 3:55 pm | The Need for Accelerated Materials and Chemistry Discovery (20 min + 5 min Q&A) | Harsono Simka (Samsung Electronics) / Live Presentation |
| 4:20 pm | Theme 1 - Student Lightning Pitches | Theme 1 Students & Postdocs |
| 4:40 pm | Poster Session in WebEx Breakout Sessions | Featuring Theme 1 posters |
Session 2: Beyond CMOS |
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| 5:40 pm | Modeling, Design, and Benchmarking for Magnetic Memories (15 min + 5 min Q&A) |
Azad Naeemi (Georgia Tech) / Piyush Kumar, PhD Student (Georgia Tech) |
| 6:00 pm | MRAM with assist mechanisms (15 min + 5 min Q&A) | Jian-Ping Wang (U of Minnesota) / Brandon Zink, PhD Student (U of Minnesota) |
| 6:20 pm | Exploring new topological materials and interfaces for advanced SOT-MRAM (15 min + 5 min Q&A) | Shan X. Wang (Stanford) |
| 6:40 pm | Adjourn | |
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Day 2: Wednesday, Aug 11 |
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Session 2: Beyond CMOS (continued) |
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| 11:30 am | Ultrafast SOT switching (20 min + 5 min Q&A) | Sayeef Salahuddin / Jeffrey Bokor (UC Berkeley) |
| 11:55 am | Voltage & Current Controlled Nanomagnetism for Memory and Logic (15 min + 5 min Q&A) | R. Ramesh (UC Berkeley) |
| 12:15 pm | Novel SOT materials and their characterization (15 min + 5 min Q&A) | Dan Ralph (Cornell) |
| 12:35 pm | Energy-efficient integrated circuits for the 3rd wave of computing (20 min + 5 min Q&A) | Ian Young (Intel) |
| 1:00 pm | Theme 2 - Student Lightning Pitches | Theme 2 Students & Postdocs |
| 1:15 pm | Poster Session in WebEx Breakout Rooms | Featuring Theme 2 posters |
| 2:15 pm | 10-MIN BREAK | |
Session 3: Heterogeneous Integration Fabric |
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| 2:25 pm | Heterogenous integration using glass interposer (20 min + 5 min Q&A) | Madhavan Swaminathan (Georgia Tech) |
| 2:50 pm | mmWave antennas, beamformers and switches (20 min + 5 min Q&A) | Madhavan Swaminathan (Georgia Tech) / Patrick Fay (Notre Dame) / Kai-Qi Huang, PhD Student (Georgia Tech) |
| 3:15 pm | mmWave filters (15 min + 5 min Q&A) | Debdeep Jena (Cornell) / Wenwen Zhao, PhD Student (Cornell) |
| 3:35 pm | Power delivery architectures (20 min + 5 min Q&A) | Minxiang Gong (PhD Student Georgia Tech) / Madhavan Swaminathan (Georgia Tech) |
| 4:00 pm | Complementary GaN (15 min + 5 min Q&A) | Umesh Mishra (UCSB) |
| 4:20 pm | 10-MIN BREAK | |
| 4:30 pm | Än on-chip ESD sensor for use in advanced packaging (15 min + 5 min Q&A) | Subramanian S. Iyer (UCLA) / Kannan KT, PhD Student (UCLA) |
| 4:50 pm | Package integrated micro-coolers (15 min + 5 min Q&A) | Kenneth Goodson (Stanford) / Qianying Wu, PhD Student (Stanford) |
| 5:10 pm | Theme 3 - Student Lightning Pitches | Theme 3 Students & Postdocs |
| 5:30 pm | Poster Session in WebEx Breakout Rooms | Featuring Theme 3 posters |
| 6:30 pm | Adjourn | |
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Day 3: Thursday, Aug 12 |
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| 11:30 am | Future of heterogenous integration driven by AI (20 min + 5 min Q&A) | Arvind Kumar (IBM) / Live Presentation |
Session 4: Merged Logic Memory |
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| 11:55 am | FEOL ferroFETs (10 min + 5 min Q&A) | Peide Ye (Purdue) |
| 12:10 pm | Reliability of ferroFETs (25 min + 5 min Q&A) | Asif Kahn (Georgia Tech) / Kisung Chae, Post doc, UCSD) |
| 12:40 pm | BEOL analog ferroFETs (20 min + 5 min Q&A) | Suman Datta (Notre Dame / Shimeng Yu (Georgia Tech) |
| 1:05 pm | System integration of logic-memory for energy-efficient and versatile edge AI neurocomputing (15 min + 5 min Q&A) | H.-S. Philip Wong (Stanford) / Weier Wan, PhD Student (Stanford) |
| 1:25 pm | 10-MIN BREAK | |
| 1:35 pm | In-memory compute – RRAM accelerators (15 min + 5 min Q&A) | Shimeng Yu (Georgia Tech) / Wantong Li, PhD Student (Georgia Tech) |
| 1:55 pm | In-memory compute – Reinforcement learning (15 min + 5 min Q&A) | Arijit Raychowdhury (Georgia Tech) |
| 2:15 pm | In-memory computing with binary, multi-bit, and analog TCAMs (20 min + 5 min Q&A) | Haitong Li (PhD Student, Stanford) / Arman Kazemi & Mohammad Mehdi Sharifi, PhD Students (Notre Dame) |
| 2:40 pm | Device, architecture, and application-based cross-layer explorations for in-memory computing solutions (20 min + 5 min Q&A) | Michael Niemier / X. Sharon Hu (Notre Dame) |
| 3:05 pm | 10-MIN BREAK | |
| 3:15 pm | Probabilistic computing (15 min + 5 min Q&A) | Supriyo Datta (Purdue) / Jan Kaiser, PhD Student (Purdue) |
| 3:35 pm | Physical computing (20 min + 5 min Q&A) | Suman Datta & Sourav Dutta (Notre Dame) / Sayeef Salahuddin (UC Berkeley) |
| 4:00 pm | Trends and challenges of computation-in-memory (20 min + 5 min Q&A) | Meng-Fan (Marvin) Chang (TSMC) |
| 4:25 pm | Theme 4 - Student Lightning Pitches | Theme 4 Students & Postdocs |
| 4:45 pm | Poster Session in WebEx Breakout Rooms | Featuring Theme 4 posters |
| 5:45 pm | 10-MIN BREAK | |
| 5:55 pm | Wrap up (KPIs) and Where the Future Is | Suman Datta / Sayeef Salahuddin |
| 6:30 pm | Adjourn |