Events

WATERLOO / ENGINEERING

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

SEMINAR

Dr. Paolo Rech
Associate Professor
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

Reliability Issues in Current and Future Supercomputers

Invited by Associate Professor Sebastian Fischmeister

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

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Candidate

Amr Abdelnaeem Ismail Said

Title

Toward the Integration of DC Microgrids into a Hybrid AC/DC Paradigm

Supervisor

Ehab El-Saadany

Candidate

Navneet Dhindsa

Title

Top-Down Fabrication of Semiconductor Nanowires and their Nanophotonics Applications

Supervisor

Simarjeet Saini

Candidate

Navneet Dhindsa

Title

Top-Down Fabrication of Semiconductor Nanowires and their Nanophotonics Applications

Supervisor

Simarjeet Saini

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

“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

Candidate

Subhajit Majhi

Topic

Wireless Networks in Dual Millimeter and Microwave Bands

Supervisor

Patrick Mitran

Background subjects

• Information Theory
• Optimization
• Stochastic Process

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