Wednesday, November 30, 2016 — 12:00 PM EST
Candidate
Mahdi Elghazali
Title
Low-Leakage ESD Power Supply Clamps in General Purpose 65 nm CMOS Technology
Supervisors
Manoj Sachdev and Ajoy Opal
Monday, November 28, 2016 — 11:00 AM EST
Candidate
Maziar Moradi
Title
MEMS Strain Sensor for Structural Health Monitoring of Wind Turbines
Supervisor
Siva Sivoththaman
Friday, November 25, 2016 — 2:00 PM EST
Candidate
Jeff Yucong Luo
Topic
Program Synthesis of Pluggable Type Systems
Supervisors
Werner Dietl and Patrick Mitran
Background subjects
- Program Synthesis
- Type Systems
- Domain Specific Languages
Friday, November 25, 2016 — 11:00 AM EST
Candidate
Mahdi Elghazali
Title
Low-Leakage ESD Power Supply Clamps in General Purpose 65 nm CMOS Technology
Supervisor
Manoj Sachdev and Ajoy Opal
Thursday, November 24, 2016 — 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM EST
ECE Seminar
Julien Eynard
Title
A Full RNS Variant of FV like Somewhat Homomorphic Encryption Schemes
Invited by Professor Anwar Hasan
All are welcome!
Wednesday, November 23, 2016 — 10:00 AM EST
Candidate
Danlu Guo
Title
A Comprehensive Study of DRAM Controllers in Real-Time Systems
Supervisor
Rodolfo Pellizzoni
Wednesday, November 23, 2016 — 9:30 AM EST
Candidate
Mostafa Azizi
Title
CMOS-MEMS Scanning Microwave Microscopy
Supervisor
Raafat Mansour
Wednesday, November 23, 2016 — 9:00 AM EST
Candidate
Yigit Ozcan
Topic
Towards D2D Communications in 5G Cellular Networks
Supervisor
Catherine Rosenberg
Background subjects
- Fundamentals of Optimization
- Stochastic Processes
- Digital Communications
Tuesday, November 22, 2016 — 10:00 AM EST
Candidate
Thirupathaiah Vasantam
Topic
Randomized Routing in Large Systems with General Service Time Distributions
Supervisor
Ravi Mazumdar
Background subjects
- Stochastic processes
- Applied functional analysis
- Queuing systems
Monday, November 21, 2016 — 9:00 AM EST
Candidate
Subhajit Majhi
Topic
Wireless Networks in Dual Millimeter and Microwave Bands
Supervisor
Patrick Mitran
Background subjects
- Information Theory
- Optimization
- Stochastic Process
Friday, November 18, 2016 — 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM EST
“Scientists are very often consciously or unconsciously driven by agendas well outside science, even if they do not acknowledge them.”
—Neil Turok, Director, Perimeter Institute, 2012 CBC Massey Lectures
Seminar - Professor Emeritus John Bandler
Friday, November 18, 2016 — 1:00 PM EST
Candidate
Nigar Sultana
Topic
Quantum Sources and Detectors for Long Distance Quantum Communications
Supervisor
Guo-Xing Miao and Thomas Jennewein (IQC)
Background subjects
- QKD sources
- QKD detectors for space
- QKD protocols
Friday, November 18, 2016 — 10:00 AM EST
Candidate
Navneet Dhindsa
Title
Top-Down Fabrication of Semiconductor Nanowires and their Nanophotonics Applications
Supervisor
Simarjeet Saini
Wednesday, November 16, 2016 — 4:30 PM EST
Candidate
Navneet Dhindsa
Title
Top-Down Fabrication of Semiconductor Nanowires and their Nanophotonics Applications
Supervisor
Simarjeet Saini
Thursday, November 10, 2016 — 9:00 AM EST
Candidate
Amr Abdelnaeem Ismail Said
Title
Toward the Integration of DC Microgrids into a Hybrid AC/DC Paradigm
Supervisor
Ehab El-Saadany
Wednesday, November 9, 2016 — 6:00 PM to 8:20 PM EST
Did you know that Canada turns 150 years old soon? To celebrate #Innovation150, the Government of Canada supported a Quantum Exhibition that starts in Waterloo, Ontario, at THEMUSEUM. Come join us for an amazing field trip!
Monday, November 7, 2016 — 2:00 PM EST
Candidate
Nathan Daniel Pozniak Buchanan
Title
A Fault Tolerant Core for Parallel Execution of Ultra Reduced Instruction Set (URISC) and MIPS Instructions
Supervisor
Hiren Patel
