SN&N Tech Seminars
Come listen to our seminars, where experts from academia and industry give talks on wide-ranging topics of current interest in biotechnology, space sciences, physics, astronomy, photonics, software engineering, etc. As part of our community outreach, the seminar is open to students of San Jose State University.
To reserve a spot, please email info@snnelectronics.com
Past Seminars
Gravity Probe B (GP-B)
Speaker: Dr. Sasha Buchman
Institution: Stanford University
In 2011, nearly fifty years after its inception, the Gravity Probe B satellite mission delivered the first measurements of how a spinning gyroscope precesses in the gravitational warping of spacetime.
High-dimensional sensing for
autonomous driving
Speaker: Dr. Alberto Stochino
Institution: Perceptive, Inc.
Autonomous perception for driverless vehicles has set extremely high requirements on imaging sensors such as lidars, radars, and cameras. Perception processes like clustering, classification, and tracking for extracting accurate 3-D spatial information has led to an unsustainable escalation of sensor hardware complexity/cost while producing diminishing returns.
GPS
Speaker: Gaylord Green
Institution: NavAstro Company
There was a time before GPS when people would say, "I know where I am. Why do I need satellites to tell me where I am?”. This is the story of the creation, operation, modifications and worldwide acceptance of GPS. With help from the integrated circuit industry, GPS has become essential in many aspects of our daily lives.
Dark Matter, etc.
Speaker: Prof. John Lipa
Institution: Stanford University
For more than 100 years stellar motions in galaxies were known to be anomalous, that is, not easily explained by Newton’s law of gravity. The advent of Einstein’s General Relativity did not appear to change the situation.
Pulsed Field Ablation:
An Overview
Speaker: Dr. Raju Viswanathan
Institution: Cyberon, LLC
This talk presents a review of pulsed field ablation, also known as electroporation. In many clinical applications, the therapy goal is to selectively destroy targeted tissue. A basic overview of this relatively new tissue ablation modality is provided and the technique is compared and contrasted with more conventional thermal approaches.
Ocean Current Measurements
with E&M Waves
Speaker: Dr. Suwen Wang
Institution: Hainan Tropical Ocean University
Ocean science is a fast developing field partly due to increased global trade and environmental effects from climate change caused by global warming. Dr. Wang will briefly discuss the history of ocean science and technologies developed for the studies.
Physics of the Polar Auroras
Speaker: Dr. Shally Saraf
Institution: SN&N Electronics, Inc.
Plasma physics behind the coronal mass ejections and solar wind will be discussed. Bow shock and capture of plasma in the earth's magnetic field will be described to explain the Van Allen radiation belts and spectacular colors of the polar auroras.
