Events Listing

Join SASE (Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers) on September 24 at Taste of SASE. You will be paired with a SASE mentor who will give you professional, academic, and life advice, meet other mentees, and the Society's board members. 

IEEE will be hosting a study night in Tate Hall with free snacks and drinks provided to help fuel your work. Whether you have a big test coming up or just want to hang out with others in your major, we encourage you to join us!

Computing with Randomness: The Stochastic Circuit Approach

Almost all modern computers are deterministic and exact; randomness plays no role in their operation. Yet randomness has advantages, as suggested by its widespread occurrence in nature, ranging from quantum mechanical systems to the human brain. Stochastic computing (SC) is an unconventional computing technique that processes data defined by pseudo-random bit-streams. It mimics aspects of the nervous system and enables complex numerical operations to be performed using extremely small, low-power, and error-tolerant circuitry. SC has applications in several areas such as image processing, complex coding techniques, and the design of artificial neural networks. However, achieving results of acceptable quality is difficult and SC tends to require very long bit-streams and run-times. This talk reviews the underlying concepts of SC and its applications and discusses some of our recent research results that focus on accuracy and latency.

Bio of professor John P. Hayes

John P. Hayes is professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he holds the Claude E. Shannon Chair of Engineering Science. He has a B.E. degree in electrical engineering from the National University of Ireland, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois. Prior to joining Michigan, he was a faculty member at the University of Southern California. His research interests include computer-aided design and testing, computer architecture, and unconventional computing techniques. Hayes has authored seven books, including Computer Architecture and Organization (3rd ed., 1998), Quantum Circuit Simulation (2009), and Design, Analysis and Test of Logic Circuits under Uncertainty (2012). He has served as editor of various technical journals, including the Communications of the ACM and the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. He is a Fellow of IEEE and ACM.

The fall 2021 College of Science and Engineering Virtual Career Fair takes place over 2 days:

Tuesday, Sept. 21 and Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021 from noon to 6 p.m. each day.

For questions regarding the Career Fair, contact the CSE Career Center.

IEEE UMN holds its weekly board meetings on Sundays at 9:30am via Zoom. All are welcome to join as the committee plans, discusses, and organizes events and networking opportunities. This is a great way to become involved in the decisions that IEEE makes! 

Link for the Zoom meeting: https://umn.zoom.us/j/94707068539

Free event recommended for all ages

Join us for our fall observing season kickoff! We’ll be streaming live telescope views to you from the Bell Museum’s observation deck. Our expert planetarium team will guide you through what to look out for this fall, from seasonal deep space objects to upcoming meteor showers and eclipses.

Registration is requested through Eventbrite in order to receive a secure Zoom Webinar link.

Minnesota’s Astronomy Classroom is generously supported by Ruth and John Huss.

Join SASE as it hosts its first professional event of the academic year. Volunteers from Accenture (a Fortune Global 500 company) will review your résumé. Plan on getting a professional headshot taken along with some career advice from SASE board members. Make the most of the event and prepare for the Fall Career Fair.
(There will be free food too)

IEEE UMN will host Burns & McDonnell for an information session and résumé review. Electrical engineering representatives will share their experience working at the company, and review your résumé in time for the CSE Career Fair! There will be free food (sandwiches/subs) so be sure to join us! 

You can pre-register for the event here, but this is not required to attend.

Magnetic Nanowires in Bandaids, Barcodes, and Nanowarmers

Magnetic nanowires can be engineered using composition and shape. Applications of both single nanowires and arrays of vertically aligned nanowires in biomedical fields include nano-barcodes and biolabels for cells and exosomes, nano-heaters for hyperthermia therapy and organ preservation, and biocomposites. For most of these applications, the reversal mechanism of magnetization can play a critical role. For example, magnetic coercivity and remanence have been used for contact-free readout of nano-barcode signatures, and the motion of domain walls can limit heating. A novel approach to decoding specific reversal signatures will be described via a fast modification of the first order reversal curve (FORC) technique, called the projection method. In addition to decoding, the method elucidates the mechanisms of reversal which is of interest to the fundamental understanding of nanomagnets, and can lead to improved future devices such as decoding using ferromagnetic resonance (FMR).

Bio of professor Bethanie Stadler

Bethanie Stadler is a professor and associate head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota where she also holds the CS&E Distinguished Professorship. She has a PhD from MIT and a BS from Case Western Reserve University. She is a Fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS) and a Senior Member of IEEE. Stadler works on magnetic nanowires for applications in RF design and biomedicine, and magneto-optical garnets for integrated photonics. Stadler has been a visiting professor at IMEC and KU Leuven in Belgium, and at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton Ohio. In 2015, Stadler was an IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturer. She has taught at the IEEE Magnetic Summer School in India and Italy, and hosted the school in Minnesota in 2015. Stadler has been a meeting chair, director and secretary of MRS, and will be the General Co-Chair of Intermag 2023 in Sendai, Japan.