IMAPS - Topical Workshop on Portable/Wireless Devices 2010

Topical Workshop on
Portable/Wireless Devices (PWD 2010)
June 17, 2010
Atlantic City, New Jersey USA

Technical Co-Chairs:
Dr. Ephraim Suhir
University of California
Santa Cruz, CA , 650-969-1530
suhire@aol.com

Mr. Patrick Carberry
Investment Pays Inc.
610-502-1126
patrickcarberry@verizon.net

Organizing Committe:
Danko Antolovic, Avram Bar-Cohen, Ilker Bayer, Tim Buennemeyer, Phil Chan, Danilo DeRossi, Mario El-Khoury, John Emerson, Carlo Fischione, Reza Ghaffarian, Claire Gu, Timo Hamalainen, Ramesh Harjani, Avishay Helbitz, Vida Ilderem, Hideo Ito, Sundaresan Jayaraman, Jyrki Joutsensal , Kipp Jones, Jorma Kivilahti, Helge Kristiansen, Petri Mähönen, Toni Mattila, Wataru Nakayama, Johann Nicolics, Yoshifumi Nishida, Kanji Otsuka, Rohit Prasad, Petri Savolainen, Fortunato Santucci, Tong-Yan Tee, Ralph Wyndrum, Kishio Yokouchi, Qiang Yu

THIS WORKSHOP HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Workshop Focus:
The objective of the 2010 Portable/Wireless Device (PWD) Workshop is to bring together electrical, materials, mechanical, optical, reliability, packaging and manufacturing, as well as business leaders involved or interested in various types of portable and wireless devices, to address and discuss the state-of-the-art, challenges, attributes and pitfalls in theses areas of electronics and packaging engineering. This workshop has been specifically organized to allow for the presentation and debate of some of the latest and hottest technologies out there related to design, fabrication, reliability and cultural-and-business aspects of the devices. Abstracts are being requested on, but are not limited to, the following topics:

Functional (electrical, thermal, optical) and “physical” (mechanical) design-for-reliability
Home entertainment devices & systems • Predictive modeling
Probabilistic approaches
Experimental evaluations and testing
Cellular phones
Wireless devices
Wearable computers
Hardware/software interaction
Power generation, supply, conversion
Role of human factor
Man-machine communication
Access to information
Audio and video recognition and processing
Implantable and imaging devices
Biosensors
MEMS
Outsourcing issues
Impact on society

Nanomaterials and nanotechnology
Hearing/vision Aids
Neurological devices
Blood diagnostics
Disposable electronics
Biometric identification
Wireless/RF telemetry
Microfluidics
Environmental aspects/constraints
Biocompatible materials
Reliability assessments
Environmental durability
Accelerated testing
Qualification approaches
RoHS compliance & regulations
Economics and business issues
Government/regulatory issues
Homeland security related issues