Future eFutures Academic Community Meeting 4 th December 2013

1. Future eFuturesAcademic Community Meeting 4th December 2013 Professor Anthony O’Neill, Newcastle University

2. Welcome & Preliminary Notices • Welcome to our 3rdeFutures Community event • Fire Escape & meeting points • Fire alarm testing • Mobile phones (… thank you) Enjoy today & be involved ..….

3. Steering Group - who we are Academic members: • Anthony O'Neill (Newcastle) • Andrew Brown (Southampton) • David Cummings (Glasgow) • Steve Furber (Manchester) • Steve Hall (Liverpool) • Roger Woods (Queens, Belfast) eFutures administrator : Julie Bohill (eFutures@ncl.ac.uk) Along with: Ian Phillips (ARM) Alastair McGibbon (NMI) Ivor Evans (CSR) Nigel Rix (ESP, KTN) Derek Gillespie (EPSRC) Myriddin Jones (TSB)

4. Agenda for the day • Bringing electronics research community together • networking; information (technical and policy); opportunities • eFutures network • highlights; our future plans • ESCO: Electronic Systems Community • closer cooperation between government, industry and academia • EPSRC view • Industry view • eFuturesXD • cross-disciplinary talks: feedback on portfolio • Break-out sessions • have your say and listen to others in the electronics community

5. Highlights • eFutures – 358 members across 55 institutions • Academic community events • #1 Herman Hauser; Enrico Sangiorgi; break-outs: links to industry / Europe; future grand challenges • #2 EPSRC shaping electronics capability; ESCO; eFuturesXD; breakouts: future research/ engagement with industry /infrastructure; Leon Chua • Building Bridges to Build Brains • Computer Science Grand Challenge "Architecture of Brain and Mind" group, • Microelectronics Design Grand Challenge "Building Brains" group, and • INCF - International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility

6. Highlights • eFutures Beyond Moore’s Law – Royal Society (Carlton House Tce) • 14 international speakers, including D Miller (Stanford), D Ham (Harvard), M Lipson (Cornell) and R Sarpeshkar (MIT) brought together with experts from the UK to discuss the diverse opportunities and methodologies that will define future electronics • The Long Arm of Microelectronics – Royal Society (Chicheley Hall) • Less formal discussion meeting with London speakers + UK academics + M Muller (ARM) and J Penders (IMEC) as well as a poster session • eFuturesXD £600k account • awarded from EPSRC for cross-disciplinary research with electronics • 32 applications received, 11 awarded • Web site: http://www.eFutures.ac.uk • 12000 hits; user directory; news; upload own member and institution profiles

7. Future eFutures • Building Bridges • introduce sets of people to each other who would not, in the normal course of professional events, have an opportunity to interact • security; sensors to systems; high voltage systems; healthcare etc.. • Supporting Early Careers • talented researchers are essential to our future and they need to build success through sustainable research activities • ECR Crucible (with project funding); PhD student events

8. Future eFutures • Working with Industry • Activities to stimulate stronger links with industry with NMI & ESP-KTN (Electronics, Sensors and Photonics Knowledge Transfer Network) • eFutures network as a ‘one stop shop’ for research enquiries from industry • Working with New Academic Communities • Power electronics; energy harvesting; EU academic communities & beyond • Consolidating eFutures • Annual community meetings • Web pages

9. Morning Schedule

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