BASICS Conference 2005

conference reports 2005 USENIX Annual Technical Conference

Dyson’s past produced the access to information that made this story possible. Dyson grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, where his father, Freeman Dyson, had an office in Fuld Hall, along with Einstein, Gödel, von Neumann, and other well-known scientists. Dyson was granted access to archival information stored in the basement of Fuld Hall that pertains to the development of one of the earliest co...

ISMB 2005 Conference Report

The ISCB held its 13th annual Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology Conference (ISMB) in Detroit, Michigan, June 25– 29, 2005. Considering this conference has moved to many points on the globe in its 13 years, this location was not so far away geographically from the first ISMB held in Bethesda, Maryland, in 1993, but the increase in numbers in all categories—attendance, presentations, and ...

2005 International Conference on Thermoelectrics

The structure of the thermoelectric Zn4Sb3 is refined using synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction data collected at wavelengths both near to and relatively far from the Zn adsorption edge. In agreement with earlier studies, the compound crystallized in a trigonal structure, space group R3c with a = 12.2406(3)Å, c = 12.4361(3)Å at room temperature, and there are three primary sites in the asymmet...

VLSI Design 2005 Conference Awards

2005 International Conference on Thermoelectrics

SiGe is one of the best thermoelectric materials for high temperature applications. Superlattice structures can further enhance the thermoelectric properties by reducing the thermal conductivity and by increasing the Seebeck coefficient via selective emission of hot electrons through thermionic emission. SiGe/Si superlattice structures were grown on a silicon wafer using molecular beam epitaxy....