Munushian Visiting Seminar Series
The Munushian Visiting Seminar Series is supported by an endowment of the late Jack Munushian to the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering – Electrophysics to have internationally renowned individuals with visionary perspective on the fields that impact Electrical Engineering present their latest research developments at USC. The Munushian Visiting Seminar Series are targeted towards all USC students and faculty -- as such all are welcome and invited to participate.
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Seminar Archives
Ferenc Krausz
Max Planck Institute of Quantum Physics (Garching, Germany); Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich; Center for Molecular Fingerprinting (Budapest, Hungary)
"Sub-Atomic Motions: From capturing electrons to probing human health"
Kwabena Boahen
Stanford University
"Scaling Knowledge Processing: 2D Chips versus 3D Brains"
George Malliaras
University of Cambridge
“Technology for Bioelectronic Medicine”
Eli Yablonovitch
University of California, Berkeley
"Physics does Optimization (for Free); A New Approach Toward Computation"
Jelena Vuckovic
Stanford University
"Unlocking the power of photonics through inverse design and heterogeneous integration"
John Rogers
Northwestern University
“Transient Bioelectronic Medicines”
Jun Ye
JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology
and University of Colorado Boulder
“Coherence, entanglement, and clock: from emergent phenomena to fundamental physics”
Dr. Raymond Beausoleil
Hewlett Packard Labs
"Large Scale Integrated Photonics for Accelerated Communication and Computing."
Dr. Franco Nori
RIKEN, Saitama, Japan
University of Michigan
"Parity-Time-symmetric optics, extraordinary momentum and spin in evanescent waves, optical analog of topological insulators, and the quantum spin Hall effect of light."
Keynote Lecture: Dr. F. Duncan Haldane
Nobel Laureate, Physics, 2016
Princeton University
"Topological Quantum Matter, Entanglement, and the Second Quantum Revolution"
Dr. Chennupati Jagadish
Professor of Electronic Materials Engineering
Australian National University
"Semiconductor Nanowires for Optoelectronics Applications"
Dr. Claudia Arias
Professor of EECS
UC Berkeley
Paul McEuen
Professor, Cornell University
"Cell-sized Sensors and Robots"
Dr. Demetrios Christodoulides
University of Central Florida
“Optical Thermodynamics of Nonlinear Highly Multimode Systems”
Dr. Ali Hajimiri
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Cal Tech
"1, 2, 3, infinity: The Power of Groups"
Keynote Lecture: Dr. William Phillips
Nobel Laureate, Physics, 1997
Joint Quantum Institute, National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Maryland
"Quantum Information: a scientific and technological revolution for the 21st century"
Dr. Chennupati Jagadish
Professor of Electronic Materials Engineering
Australian National University
"Semiconductor Nanowires for Optoelectronics Applications"
Dr. Claudia Arias
Professor of EECS
UC Berkeley
Dr. Debdeep Jena
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Cornell University
“The Wide-Bandgap Semiconductor Revolution in Electronic, Photonic, and Energy Systems”
Dr. Mike Mayberry
Managing Director of Intel Labs
Intel Corporation
“Future of Computing”
Dr. Ming C. Wu
University of California, Berkeley
“Silicon Photonic MEMS”
Dr. Julia R. Greer
Professor of Materials Science, Med. Engr., Mechanics
California Institute of Technology
“Materials by Design: 3-Dimensional Nano-Architected Meta-Materials”
Dr. Grant Willson
Rashid Engineering Regent Chair
University of Texas at Austin
"Polymers for High Resolution Imaging Applications
Dr. Philip H. Wong
Willard R. and Inez Kerr Bell Professor
Stanford University
Seminar Title TBD
Dr. Mark Hersam
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Materials Science and Engineerings
Northwestern University
Seminar Title TBD>
Dr. Willian E. Moerner
Nobel laureate, Chemistry, 2014
Stanford University
"The Story of Photonics and Single Molecules, from Early Spectroscopy in Solids, to Super-Resolution Nanoscopy in Cells and Beyond"
Dr. Mark Horowitz
Yahoo! Founders Professor
Stanford University
"Innovation in a Post-Moore's Law World"
Dr. Jelena Vuckovic
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Stanford University
"Quantum Nanophotonics"
Dr. Dan Goebel - Senior Research Scientist
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
“The Asteroid Retrieval Robotic Mission using High Power Electric Propulsion"
Dr. Hui Cao
Professor of Applied Physics
“Harnessing Disorder for Photonics"
Dr. Shuji Nakamura - Keynote Lecture
UC Santa Barbara
Nobel Laureate, Physics 2014
Dr. Asad Abidi - Distinguished Chancellor's Professor
University of California, Los Angeles
“Single-Chip Radios: The Next Generation"
Dr. Rahul Sarpeshkar - Thomas E. Kurtz Professor
Dartmouth College
“Analog and Stochastic Computation in Living Cells and Supercomputing Chips"
Dr. Mark Lundstrom - Purdue University
Don and Carol Scifres Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
“Electrons and Phonons in Nanodevices"
Dr. Tatsuo Itoh
UCLA
"Microwave Applications of Metamaterials Structures"
Dr. Frederico Capasso
Harvard University
"Harnessing Vacuum Fluctuations: exotic physics and micromechanics of the Casimir effect"
Dr. Steven Chu
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Nobel Laureate, Physics 1997
"The World's Energy Problem and What We Can do About It"
Dr. Mildred Dresselhaus
MIT
"Photophysics of Carbon Nanotubes"
Dr. David J. Wineland
NIST Time and Frequency Division, Boulder, CO
Nobel Laureate, Physics 2012
"Quantum Computers and Raising Schrödinger’s Cat"
Dr. Stephen Y. Chou
Princeton University
“Nanostructure Engineering - A Unique Path to Discovery and Innovation"
Dr. Michael Roukes
Robert M. Abbey Professor of Physics,
Applied Physics, & Bioengineering
“Integrated Neurophotonics: Toward Massively-Parallel Mapping of Brian Activity"
Jing Guo
Department of ECE, University of Florida
“Monolayer Materials for Electronics”
Dr. Charles G. Sodini
LeBel Professor of Electrical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Revolutionizing Medical Device Design"
Dr. Umesh K. Mishra
Professor, UC Santa Barbara
"Gallium Nitride; the next semiconductor after Silicon"
Dr. Zhores Alferov
President, St. Petersburg University
Nobel Laureate, Physics 2000
“Breakthrough Technologies of the 20th Century and Their Importance Today"
Co-sponsored by: Ming Hsieh Institute
Dr. Bob Brodersen
UC Berkeley
"Low Power CMOS Design Past and Future"
Dr. Tsu-Jae King Liu
UC Berkeley
"Moore's Law - What's Next?"
Dr. Peidong Yang
UC Berkeley
"Nanowire Technology and Terawatt Challenge"
Dr. Karl K. Berggren
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Smarter Self-Assembly: Top-Down Direction of Nano-Scale Patterning"
Dr. R. Stanley Willaims
Hewlett-Packard Labs
"Mott Memristors, Spiking Neuristors and Touring Complete Computing with an Electronic Action Potential"
Dr. Connie J. Chang-Hasnain
University of California, Berkeley
"Flat Photonics Using High Contrast Metastructures"
Dr. Claire Gmachl
Princeton University
"Mid-Infrared Quantum Cascade Lasers"
Dr. Konrad Lehnert
University of Colorado and NIST
"Micro-electromechanics: A New Quantum Technology"
Dr. Julie Brown
Universal Display Corporation
"Lighting the way with Organic Lighting Emitting Devices"
Dr. Andre Geim
The University of Manchester
Nobel Laureate, Physics 2010
“Random Walk to Graphene
Dr. John D. Joannopoulos
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Nanotechnologies for Enhanced Survivablilty"
Dr. Barrie Gilbert
Analog Devices Inc.
"The Penny Analog Computer"
Dr. John L. Hall
University of Colorado
Nobel Laureate, Physics 2005
“The Optical Frequency Comb - a new tool with remarkable applications in Science, Metrology, and Medical Diagnostics"
Dr. Julie Brown
Universal Display Corporation
“Lighting the way with Organic Lighting Emitting Devices"
Dr. Carver Mead
California Institute of Technology
"The Next Revolution in Physical Law"
Dr. Werner Goetz
Philips Lumileds Lighting Company
"High-power LED Technology and Solid State Lighting"
Prof. Charles Lieber
Harvard University
"Nanowires: A Platform for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology"
Dr. Robert B. Laughlin
Stanford University
Nobel Laureate, Physics 1998
“The Crime of Reason: And the Closing of the Scientific Mind”
Dr. Naomi Halas
Rice University
“Nanoshells: From Electromagnetics to Cancer Therapy”
Dr. Kaigham J. Gabriel
Deputy Director, Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA)
“Breaking Rules, Making Rules”
Dr. James Meindl
Georgia Institute of Technology
“Nanoelectronics in Retrospect, Prospect and Principle"
Dr. Joe Charles Campbell
University of Virginia
“Single Photon Counting Diodes”
Dr. Jan M. Rabaey
University of California, Berkeley
“Future Directions in Wireless”
Dr. Myriam P. Sarachik
City College of New York
“Molecular Nanomagnets”
Dr. Charles H. Townes
University of California, Berkeley
Nobel Laureate, Physics 1964
“How the Laser Happened: Interaction of Physics and Electrical Engineering”
Dr. Friedrich B. Prinz
Stanford University
“Micro- and Nanoscale Fuel Cells and Bioreactors”
Dr. Kensall Wise
University of Michigan
"Wireless Integrated MicroSystems (WIMS): Coming Revolution in the Gathering of Information"
Dr. Amnon Yariv
California Institue of Technology
"Slow Light and Dark Modes"
Dr. Herschel Rabitz
Princeton University
"Control in the MicroWorld: From Quantum Systems to Bio-Systems"
Dr. Herbert Kroemer
University of California, Santa Barbara
Nobel Laureate, Physics 2000
"Heterostructures: From Physics to Devices and Back (A Personal Perspective)"
Dr. Margaret Murnane
JILA, University of Colorado
"Harnessing Attosecond Science for Coherent X-RAy Generation and Applications"
Published on February 15th, 2017
Last updated on March 29th, 2024