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WCM'07

post from Sedemos News on 08 May 2007 11:38:00 PM. © Sedemos News

The 2007 Workshop on Compact Modeling (WCM) will take place in Santa Clara (Silicon Valley, California) from May 20 to 24 2007.

WCM'07 is part of the NSTI Nanotech 2007 Conference, and is held in association with the Tenth International Conference on Modeling and Simulation of Microsystems (MSM 2007).

WCM is the main symposium devoted to the field of compact modeling of semiconductor devices. The WCM Workshop was created in 2002, thanks, especially, to Professor Xing Zhou, from Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), who has always been the WCM Chair.

The technical program of WCM is especially interesting this year. Some of the invited speakers are really big authorities in the field of semiconductor device modelling: Jerry Fossum, Chenming Hu, Narain Arora, Mark Lundstrom, Jamal Deen, Tor Fjeldly, Yuan Taur, Colin McAndrew, Mitiko Miura-Mattausch, Dirk Klaassen,...

There will be sessions devoted to different types of devices. Multiple Gate MOSFET modeling is certainly a very hot topic: there will be two sessions adressing these devices, and another session will also include papers on single and double gate SOI MOSFETs.

Among the papers to be presented regarding the modeling of Multiple Gate MOSFET modeling, we can highlight the presentation of a PSP-based scalable model for FinFETs, a work made by the PSP team.

On the other hand, WCM will include one interesting session focusing on statistical/process-based models.

I truly recommend all compact modeling developers to attend WCM'07. It is the workshop where the new ideas on compact modeling are first presented.

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Letter from Henry Waxman to Mike Griffin re:
White House influence

post from Bad Astronomy Blog on 08 May 2007 11:31:12 PM. © Bad Astronomy Blog

When the Democrats took back the House in 2006, Henry Waxman (D CA) took over as chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform committee (actually, when he took it over, the word "Oversight" was not in the committee’s title, as his predecessor had removed it — I mean, hey, after all, why should the [...]

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Healthy reefs hit hardest by warmer temperatures

post from Science Blog - on 08 May 2007 11:25:11 PM. © Science Blog -

Coral disease outbreaks hit hardest in the healthiest sections of the Great Barrier Reef, where close living quarters among coral may make it easy for infection to spread, researchers have found.

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Are you a scientist in Kentucky, Ohio, or Indiana

post from Pharyngula on 08 May 2007 10:28:00 PM. © Pharyngula

Then you should sign this letter protesting the bogus creationist propaganda on display at Ken Ham's Creation "Science" museum.

(via Greg Laden)

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Hep C ups lymphoma risk

post from Science Blog - on 08 May 2007 10:03:32 PM. © Science Blog -

People infected with the hepatitis C virus are at an increased risk of developing certain lymphomas (cancers of the lymphatic system), according to a study published in the May 8, 2007, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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Potential Energy Converter

post from CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries on 08 May 2007 09:23:37 PM. © CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries

It is my belief that there is a simple source of energy that is universal. It's a simple matter of extracting the energy to make it Kinetic....

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Biosensor sniffs out explosives

post from Science Blog - on 08 May 2007 09:19:30 PM. © Science Blog -

Researchers have developed a new biosensor that sniffs out explosives and could one day be used to detect landmines and deadly agents, such as sarin gas, according to a paper in the June issue of Nature Chemical Biology.

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Synchronize old IBM clock

post from CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries on 08 May 2007 07:57:38 PM. © CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries

I have several old IBM school clocks I would like to synchronize. From what I have gathered I need a 3510 cps (Hz) signal applied to the AC line at a...

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Roy Zimmerman keeps writing those songs

As a fan of Roy Zimmerman — I've mentioned his Creation Science 101 before, among other lovely songs about the modern world — I have two revelations for you. If you're a guitar player, he has released a short clip that is a tutorial on how to play Creation Science 101. There are fingerings and keys and chords and things that lost me. If you aren't a guitar player (like me!) you can still enjoy the wisecracks.

Secondly, he has a new YouTube video titled "Ted Haggard is Completely Heterosexual". Watch out, it's a little bit risque — he rhymes "schism" with … well, it's obvious from the subject matter, isn't it?

video details and more

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Massachusetts Proposes hESC Funding

Tags: Bioethics, Ethics, Stem Cells

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick unveiled plans, today, for a $1 billion investment in biotechnology and stem cell research, directly attempting to challenge California as the place to be for stem cell research. Like California, Patrick's plan is a 10-year plan that will fund, among other things, a stem cell bank and the nation's first centralized repository of new public and private stem cell lines, which will be overseen by the University of Massachusetts. It will be the world's largest of its kind (according to Patrick's office, anyhow), with Harvard, MIT, Massachusetts General and other hospitals contributing their lines.

Massachusetts might actually be able to give California a run for its money (or talent) here; in addition to being able to learn from CIRM's mistakes, Massachusetts has over 500 life science companies, several major universities, two dozen teaching hospitals, and four medical schools. This is just one of a list of things Patrick has done to undo Republican presidential hopeful and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney's time in office; Patrick's proposal requires legislative approval that he is very likely to get. In 2005, both the Senate and House supported a bill to encourage stem cell research that Romney promptly killed.

And continuing to deviate from party line, California Governor Schwarzenegger says he welcomes the competition; the more research being done, the better.
-Kelly Hills

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