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Monday Mar.7, 5:30 in room B310 on Dalhousie's Sexton Campus Open to ALL, FREE Hello, I'm very pleased to announce that as part of the IEEE Distinguished Lecturer program, Dr.Mohamad Sawan, of Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, is coming to Halifax on March 7th to speak about his groundbreaking and fascinating work in biomedical electronics. The IEEE Distinguished Lecturer program was established in order for all IEEE members to have the chance to hear from and talk to truly cutting-edge, established leaders in their respective fields. Dr.Sawan's work bridges the gap between man and machine, dealing with wirelessly-powered and fully-controlled smart medical microsystems. In essence, human-implantable electronics that neurally interface and communicate with systems such as the visual cortex and bladder! This kind of technology holds great promise for huge advancements in medical technology and quality of life. Interfacing to a PC via a brain implant has already been proven out so given time I think the possibilities for implantable electronics will be limitless. There's a lot of exciting ground covered in the talk: biomedical issues, circuits, sensors, controls, wireless, and neural interfaces; definitely a lot of opportunities to be exposed to fascinating new technologies. Dr.Sawan's talk will cover circuit techniques and design methods employed to build high reliability microsystems dedicated to implement implantable and wirelessly controlled smart medical devices such as sensors and microstimulators. A global view of typical microdevices, such as the monitoring and electrical stimulation of multi-channel neural signals monitoring is given. Case studies related to visual cortical interfaces and to bladder controllers are reported. Also, power and bidirectional data link issues will be discussed. Finally, in all these wirelessly controlled microdevices, special attention is being paid to the power management and to the assembly of such implants. The speech will start at 5:30, March 7th, on the Sexton Campus (engineering) of Dalhousie University in room B310. Refreshments and snacks will be served. And at your option, you're more than welcome to come out afterwards for dinner and drinks (unofficial). Sincerely,
Marc Murphy This event is sponsored by Dalhousie University, the IEEE Circuits & Systems/Solid-State Circuits Society, and the IEEE Canadian Atlantic Section. |