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Freescale, Mahesh Pahuja of Agilent Technologies, Rajkumar Nagpal, Pratap Narayan, Janit Kumar, and Vigyan Jain of STMicroelectronics, in addition to Rakesh Malik and Dr. Chatterjee.

Prof. Bram Nauta, the featured speaker, is program chair of the

2013 International Solid-State Cir-cuits Conference (ISSCC), and a past editor-in-chief of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. He is also a member of the technical program committees of the European Solid-State Circuit Conference (ESSCIRC), and the Symposium on VLSI circuits.

Prof. Nauta is an IEEE Fellow and a member of the SSCS Administrative Committee (AdCom).

The Web site of SSCS-Delhi is at http://ieeesscsdelhi.org/.

—Rakesh Malik Chapter Chair, SSCS-Delhi

with Katherine Olstein

OMEE Becomes International Technical Conference in 2012SSCS Special Chapter Subsidy Underwrites Seven-Year-Old Workshop in Lviv Sponsored by IEEE MTT/ED/AP/CPMT/SSC West Ukraine

AAbout 120 engineers from more than 60 scientific, educational, and indus-trial institutions in 11 countries—Armenia, Belarus, France, Germany, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Rus-sia, Spain, Turkey, and Ukraine—participated in the International Conference on Oxide Materials for Electronic Engineering (OMEE) 2012 on 3–7 September.

OMEE began in 2007 as a local workshop for researchers and engi-neers engaged in technology at edu-cational and scientific institutions in Lviv, especially the practical development of oxide materials for electronic engineering. In the same year, it was dedicated to the mem-ory of Prof. Andriy O. Matkovskii, who had initiated the meeting as a forum in September 2006. During

the second OMEE workshop in 2009, the expertise and geography of the participants led to an expansion in the format of the meeting, which became an international scientific and technical conference this year.

This year’s OMEE—Fabrication, Properties, and Applications—was organized by the IEEE Microwave

Theory and Techniques (MTT)/IEEE Electron Devices (ED)/IEEE Antennas on Propagation (AP)/IEEE Component Packaging and Manu-facturing Technology (CPMT)/SSC West Ukraine Chapter with the help of an SSCS special-event chapter subsidy and hosted by the Lviv Poly-technic National University (NULP). The meeting was also sponsored by the Scientific Research Company “Carat” in Ukraine and the Institute

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Engineers from 11 countries gathered in front of the NULP main building in Lviv at OMEE 2012.

Dr. A. Malyschew (left), Germany, and Dr. S.K. Nikoghosyan, Armenia, discussing ceramic superconducting oxides at the conference welcome party.

Dr. Bernard Raveau (France) remarking on oxides with triangular metallic sublattices during the OMEE plenary session.

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of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Poland.

Accepted papers were grouped in ten sections:

■ Technology of the Active Media of Electronic Engineering

■ Nanoparticles, Nanoceramics, and Nanocomposites

■ Active Media Fundamentals: Crys-tal Structure, Micro- and Macro-structure, Phase Transitions

■ Simulation of Processes and Phe-nomena in Oxides

■ Defects, Impurities, and Trans-port Phenomena in Oxide Crystals

■ Theory, Design, and Modeling of Electronic Devices

■ Materials for Quantum and Optoelectronics

■ Scintillators and Detectors of Radiation

■ Magnetic and Magnetooptical Transducers and Devices

■ Chemical Sensors, Catalysis, and Solid-State Ionics.The conference program spanned

material science and technology, chemistry, and physics of solid-state circuits, structure peculiarities of different scales, the interconnec-tion of chemical composition, struc-ture, and properties of oxides, their modification under external influ-ence, and the development of new study methods and new applications of oxide materials in a variety of electronic engineering fields.

The most notable papers pre-sented at the conference plenary session were:

■ “Point Defects and Diffraction in Oxides,” by Prof. K.-D. Becker (Germany)

■ “Oxides with a Triangular Metal-lic Sublattices: From Magnetic

Ordering and Frustration to Multif-eroism,” by Prof. B. Raveau (France)

■ “High Temperature Structure and Properties of Lithium Niobate,” by Prof. H. Boysen (Germany)

■ “The Influence of DC Trans-port Current on the Supercon-ducting and Normal Properties of Ceramic High-Temperature Superconducting Bi-Based Oxides after Their Heat Treatment,” by Prof. S.K. Nikogosyan (Armenia).In addition, a report by the

International Centre for Diffraction

Data (ICDD) on the latest advances in powder diffraction data for the identification of crystalline mate-rials spurred a fruitful discussion on how to participate in worldwide efforts by academia, government, and industry for receiving materials with extraordinary properties.

Walking and Bus Tours Highlight Impressive Social ProgramA series of walking and bus tours around the Lviv city center and a bus trip to the Grand Resort Hotel

Prof L. Vasylechko (left) and student O. Kuz (center), both Ukraine, with Dr. S. Kazakov (right), Russia, ICDD representative, at the ICDD exhibition desk.

Prof. H. Boysen (left), Germany; student R. Savyckyi (center), Ukraine; and Dr. J. Shi (right), Germany, at the conference dinner.

Prof. Y. Zorenko (left) and Prof. V. Savchyn, both Ukraine, selecting the Best Young Speaker reports at the Poster Session.

Prof. Sergiy Ubizskii, conference chairman, explaining OMEE history at the opening ceremony.

Prof. Sergiy Ubizskii (left) celebrating with the Young Speaker Award recipients (from left) I. Odynets, N. Slobodyanik, A. Popov, and V. Yatsyna.

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complex near Lviv for the confer-ence dinner gathered participants in a friendly, relaxed, and warm atmosphere that presented the op po-rtunity to take a closer look at each other, to establish closer scienti fic contacts, and to discuss problems of interest for future cooperation.

The OMEE 2012 organizers are very grateful to the sponsoring ins titutions, namely the SSCS, Die-lectrics and Electrical Insulation Society, MTT/ED/AP/CPMT/SSC West Ukraine Chapter for making a great contribution to the success of the conference.

Information about the SSCS extra Chapter subsidy program is at http:// sscs.ieee.org/subsidies.html.

—Dr. Mykhaylo I. AndriychukIEEE MTT/ED/AP/CPMT/SSC

West Ukraine Chapter—Dr. Yaroslav Zhydachevskii

OMEE 2012 Scientific Secretary

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IEEE Central Texas CAS-SSC-CEDA Chapters Host Workshop in October on Data Parallelism for Multicore Chips and GPU

In their fourth joint venture in 2012, CAS-SSCS Central Texas and the Central Texas-IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA) presented an all-day tutorial workshop on soft- and hardware parallelism at Freescale, in Austin, on 27 October, 2012. According to Workshop Chair Dr. Zhuo Li, who is a research staff member at the IBM Austin Research Lab, secretary of the IEEE Central Texas Section, and chair of the IEEE CTS SSC/CAS Joint Chapter and IEEE CTS CEDA Chapter, the aim aim of the event, which fea-tured seven invited speakers, was to provide a useful overview of par-allel software and hardware imple-mentation for newcomers and a tutorial for experienced profession-als at design companies, software companies, and EDA companies, professors, and students interested in the topic.

The morning session focused on several hardware infrastructures that enable parallel programming, followed in the afternoon by a live demo and tutorial on how to pro-gram with OpenCL. The workshop ended with a panel discussion among seven invited speakers about the future of multicore/GPU com-puting and programming.

■ Dr. H. Peter Hofstee started the morning session with a long-term perspective justifying the increas-ing use of heterogeneous hard-ware and an exploration of some of the benefits of shared versus local and private memories.

■ Jason Wong discussed Altera’s efforts at leveraging OpenCL as a method for programming FPGAs with a higher level of abstrac-tion than Verilog or VHDL and showed an accelerated document classification application as an example.

■ Dr. Lee Howes discussed the evolution of the AMD graphics architectures and programming

models for the future of hetero-geneous computing, specifically the role of OpenCL and the Het-erogeneous System Architecture foundation.

■ Mark Bellamy emphasized the necessity of heterogeneous solu-tions for power or energy-con-strained mobile platforms, and discussed the first devices for this mark that will be OpenCL enabled.

■ Dr. Sunil P. Khatri described a variety of fundamental EDA algorithms ranging from Bool-ean sat solvers to fault detec-tion and transient simulation and the speedups that have been achieved by leveraging GPUs.

Speakers invited to the Central Texas CAS-SSCS/CEDA workshop in October on data paral-lelism were Dr. H. Peter Hofstee (IBM), Jason Wong (Altera), Dr. Lee Howes (AMD), Mark Bellamy (MIET – ARM), Dr. Sunil P. Khatri (Texas A&M), Dr. Andreas Gerstlauer (University of Texas, Austin), and Damir Jamsek (IBM).

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