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BSAC Faculty Exhibition & Showcase (light refreshments) 09 March 2011 Tamalpias Room, David Brower Center Time Speaker, Event / Topic Information 12:30  BSAC Faculty Exhibition and Showcase BSAC FACULTY Poster Session! Don't miss this. 14:00  Adjourn to Goldman Theater for Thrust Session   ↑ Miniconference: MicroEnergy Harvesting and Storage 09 March 2011 David Brower Center, Goldman Theater, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley CA David Brower Center (LEED Platinum Energy Efficiency Rating Candidate) Time Speaker, Event / Topic Information 12:30  BSAC Faculty Faculty Poster Session 14:00  Liwei Lin Open Thrust Session: Overview 14:15  Kris Pister Energy Consumption in Wireless Sensor Networks 14:45  Al Pisano Advanced Sensing Technology for Geothermal Power Plants 15:45  Ali Javey Towards Roll-2-Roll Compatible Nanopillar Photovoltaics 16:15  Richard White/ Paul Wright Energy Harvesting and Sensing for the Smart Grid 16:15  Break 17:00  Alexander Frey, Siemens Corporate Research Challenges and Perspectives for Commercialization of Energy Harvesting Technologies 17:30  Liwei Lin Micro Energy Storage 18:00  Michel Maharbiz A Brief Look at Two Biologically-Inspired Scavenging Technologies 18:30  All Panel Discussion/ Conclusions 19:00  Mixing Reception   20:30  Adjourn   ↑

Research Review & Poster Sessions 10 March 2011 David Brower Center, Goldman Theater, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley CA Time Speaker, Event / Topic Information 08:30  John Huggins Open Session 08:40  Session I: Ming Wu Session I Chair 08:45  Plenary 1: Fabian Goericke HEaTS: Aluminum Nitride Inertial Sensors for Harsh Environments 09:00  Plenary 2: Dr. Andre Guedes MEMS-enhanced Magnetoresistive Sensors 09:15  Plenary 3: Sun Choi Fast, High-Throughput Micro, Nanoparticle Printing with Tunable Resolution & Size 09:30  Researchers Morning Poster Preview 10:25  Researchers MORNING POSTERS Tamalpais Room & Kinzie Room 11:55  Session II: Luke Lee 12:00  Plenary 4: Dr. Cary Pint New Architectures for Efficient Photoelectrochemical Solar-to-fuel Conversion 12:15  Plenary 5: Dr. Daniel Huang Turing Pattern Formation and Synthetic Biology 12:30  Plenary 6: Adrienne Higa Mechanical Regulation of Collective Cell Behavior via Microtopographic Substrates 12:45  SANDWICH LUNCH Tamalpais Terrace & DARPA: Lunch for current MiNaSIP participanting companies view description 13:55  Session III: Bernhard Boser 14:00  Plenary 7: Richard Su A Process-Portable Ultra-Small Radio Built with Standard Cells and Synthesis Tools 14:15  Plenary 8: Rehan Kapadia XOI - Materials and Devices for Green Electronics 14:30  Invited Faculty Talk: Prof. Elad Alon Integrated Circuit Design with Nano-Electro-Mechanical Relays 15:00  60 Researchers Afternoon Poster Preview 15:55  Researchers AFTERNOON POSTERS Tamalpais Room & Kinzie Room 17:10  Session IV: Clark Nguyen 17:15  Plenary 9: Byung-Wook Yoo SWEEPER: Fast Optical Phased Array for 10MHz Beamforming 17:30  Plenary 10: Mehmet Akgul Micromechanical RF Channelizer 17:45  Plenary 11: Yang Lin Micromechanical Power Amplfier 18:00  Plenary 12: Igor Izyumin Differential Readout of Resonant MEMS Sensors 18:15  All END SESSION: Transit to Pre-Dinner Networking Reception 19:00  All Awards Banquet ↑

BSAC Industrial Advisory Board   view description 11 March 2011 David Brower Center, Tamalpais Room, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley CA Time Speaker, Event / Topic Information 07:45  Light Breakfast 08:25  John Huggins Open IAB 08:30  Michael Cohen, IP & Industry Alliance Office Skydeck: Tenant or Collaboration Opportunity for BSAC Industrial Members 08:40  Mark Banister CTO Medipacs New Member Medipacs Profile 08:50  Shin Takano Murata (Tentative) New Member Murata Technology Interests 09:00  John Huggins State of Center Report 09:30  David Horsley Update: BSAC at UC Davis 09:45  Members and Facilitators Closed Session 10:45  Callback of co-Directors Review of Center Status, Direction, and Operations. 11:30  Adjourn BOX LUNCH