IMG research focuses on micro- and nanosystems for healthcare, energy, security, aerospace, transportation, consumer electronics, and other industries. Efforts include design, fabrication, characterization, and ultimately deployment of micro and nanotechnologies for a wide variety of applications. IMG is playing a leading role in the MIST Center (Multi-functional integrated system technology), an NSF I/UCRC program.
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Viswanath Sankar will defend his dissertation, entitled “Investigation and Mitigation of Abiotic Factors Affecting Reliability of Microelectrode Arrays in Chronic Neural Implants” at 9:30 am on Monday, July 15th in LAR 234. Refreshments will be provided.
This Friday at 11:15 AM, we have an introductory workshop on AutoCAD, Solidworks and UF Apps by the IMG Tech Committee. The primary focus of the workshop will be on UF Apps, while AutoCAD and Solidworks will be used as demo examples.
UF Apps is a software licensing system which provides convenient access to softwares like MS Office, MATLAB, AutoCAD, SolidWorks and a few others. It is free for UF Gators. You can read more about it at http://info.apps.ufl.edu/.
Prospective attendees are encouraged to download and install the Citrix receiver necessary for accessing the available softwares. Remember to bring your laptops to the workshop if possible. The last fifteen minutes will be reserved for questions and laptop specific problems.
N.B.: The regular venue for the IMG Seminar series - LAR234 - is unavailable this Friday. The venue for the workshop is LAR310.
Amit Gupta will defend his dissertation, entitled “Investigation of Electrical Bias, Mechanical Stress, Temperature and Ambient Effect on AlGaN/GaN HEMT Time-Dependent Degradation” at 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, July 3rd in NEB 409. Refreshments will be provided.
Aneesh Koka will defend his dissertation proposal, entitled "Dynamic Response Analysis of Piezoelectric Nanowire base Nanoelectromechanical Systems" at 10:00am on Wednesday, July 3rd in LAR 234. Refreshments will be provided.
This Friday at 11:30 AM, Vishwanath Sankar will give a practice talk for his dissertation defense. The title of his talk is "Investigation and mitigation of abiotic factors affecting the reliability of chronic neural implants". All are encouraged to attend to provide support and give constructive feedback on his presentation. Following this talk, there will be weekly IMG BBQ at the Benton/Larsen lawns at 12pm.
Shancy Augustine will defend her dissertation proposal, entitled "Low Power Fluidic Control Techniques for Lab-on-a-Chip Plastic Devices" at 10:00am on Thursday, June 13th in LAR 234. Refreshments will be provided.
Two talks have been scheduled for tomorrow's seminar. The first talk will be delivered by a guest speaker, Adam Monsalve from 11:00 AM to 11:30 AM. Adam will present his work on the methods of delivering energy to surface-conjugated biomacromolecules via alternating magnetic fields to control bioactivity.
In the second talk, Pitfee Jao will give a follow-up discussion on the use of the IMG wiki from 11:30 AM to 12:00 PM. All are encouraged to attend. The talks will be followed by the IMG BBQ at 12 noon.
Please join us in welcoming Dr. Jack W. Judy to IMG. Dr. Judy joins UF in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. as the Intel/Charles E. Young Endowed Chair in Nanotechnology and will also serve as the Director of the UF Nanoscience Institute of Medical and Engineering Technology (NIMET). Before joining UF, Dr. Judy was a program manager at DARPA and Professor of Electrical Engineering at UCLA.
This Friday at 11:30 am, we will have a presentation by Ololade Oniku on "Magnetic patterning of hard magnetic films for biomagnetic applications." This will be a practice talk for Ololade's upcoming conference and fellow IMGers are invited to provide constructive inputs for the presentation. The talk will be followed by the IMG BBQ at noon.
Pit Fee Jao will defend his dissertation proposal, entitled "Nanofibrous three dimensional microstrucutres for energy storage and bioengineering applications" at 2:00pm on Thursday, May 9th in LAR 234. Refreshments will be provided.
