Following the morning plenary talks today, users interacted with the User Executive Committee in a town hall meeting. Below are a few of the suggestions that came up during the discussion.
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“Chips have a lot of memory, but no imagination”
Supriya Jaiswal of Astrileux Corporation gave a refreshing talk today on a start-up’s effort to tackle a ten year industry problem. Jaiswal explained that we live in the era of zettabye computing – we use 10 nm chips (what your fingernail grows in 1 second!) and we’ve manufactured more chips than there are stars in the Milky Way!
Read More »Keynote Address: Abandoning perfection for quantum technologies
David Awschalom, professor of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago, gave a humorous spin on quantum mechanics during his keynote address (no pun intended!).
Read More »Highlights from the Molecular Foundry update
Jeffrey Neaton, Director of the Molecular Foundry and Associate Laboratory Director for Energy Sciences, kicked off the User Meeting with a Molecular Foundry update. In case you missed it, here are some highlights from the update:
Read More »First Day of the AUM!
The Foundry’s Annual User Meeting kicked off today as we welcomed over 300 participants from across academia, industry, and national labs to Berkeley Lab for this two-day event. Check back here throughout the conference to hear from our bloggers about the meeting!
Read More »It’s time for the 2018 Annual User Meeting!
We’re gearing up for the 2018 user meeting, which starts tomorrow. We’ve got an excellent agenda this year, including two outstanding keynote speakers: Carolyn Bertozzi (Stanford; former and much-loved Foundry director) and David Awschalom (U Chicago, leading expert in spintronics and quantum information engineering).
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