31. May - 2. June 2010 at Quality Hotel Klubben in Tønsberg

The workshop is arranged by the Norwegian PhD Network on “Nanotechnology for Microsystems” (Nasjonal forskerskole innen “nanoteknologi for mikrosystem”) open to all PhD candidates, thesis advisors, researchers, and industrial partners from the nanotechnology/ microsystems field. This will be a great opportunity to present your research, meet with colleagues, get to know new people in your field, and exchange information and ideas with other researchers from the nanotechnology and microsystems research community in Norway.

Call for abstracts!
Deadline 12. March 2010

We especially encourage PhD candidates to submit abstracts for presentation at the workshop. Notice of acceptance can be expected within two weeks of the deadline.
There will be a prize for the best student presentation.

For additional information, abstract submission and registration, go to:
www.nano-network.net/workshop.html

The paper "Robust spherical microphone array beamforming with multi-beam-multi-null steering, and sidelobe control" by Haohai Sun (IET), Prof. Shefeng Yan (formerly at IET, now at Institute of acoustics, Chinese academy of science, Beijing, China), and Prof. U. Peter Svensson (IET) was selected as the best paper at the biennial IEEE WASPAA conference at Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz, NY, USA, 18-21 October 2009 (http://www.waspaa2009.com/). There were 181 paper submissions, 89 of which were selected for the conference after a peer-review process.

Carsten Wulff will defend his thesis for the PhD degree at NTNU, Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering, Department of Electronics and Telecommunication. The thesis title is:

“Efficient ADCs for Nano-Scale CMOS Technology”.

For the defense, the following committee has been appointed:
Professor Erik Bruun, Technocal University of Denmark, Lyngby
Førsteamanuensis Dag T. Wisland, Universitetet I Oslo
Professor Einar J. Aas, Inst.for elektronikk og telekommunikasjon

Professor Einar J. Aas, Department of Electronics and Telecommunication has been appointed as administrator for the trial lecture and PhD defense.

Trial lecture will be held in Rådsalen, Hovedbygningen, Gløshaugen Wednesday 10th of December 2008, at 10.15. The title of the trial lecture is:

"Implementation of D/A Converters in nano-scale CMOS Technology".

The defense will take place in Rådsalen, Hovedbygningen, Gløshaugen
Wednesday 10th of December 2008, at 13.15

The thesis work has been carried out at the department of Electronics and Telecommunication under the supervision of Professor Trond Ytterdal

Dr. Anders Gjendemsjø (formerly IET, currently PricewaterhouseCoopers Advisory), Dr. Sébastien de la Kethulle de Ryhove (formerly IET, currently EMGS) and prof. Geir E. Øien (IET) were recently awarded the Best Paper Award at the conference European Wireless 2008, held in Prague, Czech Republic, June 22 - 25, 2008 (cf. http://www.ew2008.org). Their joint paper "Spectral Efficiency vs. Feedback Load in Discrete-Rate Link Adaptation: Is a Zero Information Outage Constraint Optimal or Not?" was selected for this honor among 90 peer-reviewed papers, which in turn had been chosen from among 150 submissions for publication in the conference proceedings.

We congratulate Dr. Shefeng Yan, currently Post.Doc. at our department, who recently was honored the 2008 National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award from China.

This award each year honored China's top 100 out of about 30,000 doctors who recently received their doctor's degree in all fields from China

We congratulate Adjunct Professor Ilangko Balasingham and Professor Tor Ramstad with their new project: Medical Sensing, Localization, and Communication using Ultra Wideband Technology (MELODY)

Principle investigators: Ilangko Balasingham (Rikshospitalet/NTNU), Tor Ramstad (NTNU), Svein-Erik Hamran (FFI) and Tor Sverre Lande (University of Oslo)

The project will develop ultra wideband (UWB) technology for improved wireless health technology, for both improved network communication and improved and possibly novel medical applications. Three major research directions are pursued, namely short range sensing and imaging of human body, improved sensitivity for short range localization and tracking, and distributed signal and communications for dynamic autonomous resilient networks for both in-vivo and ex-vivo medical applications.

Duration: 7 years
Funding: NOK 49 mil