From: Muncy, Lisa A. On Behalf Of Diaz de la Rubia, Tomas J Sent: Monday, November 26, 2018 10:50 AM Subject: Discovery Park Distinguished Lecture Series Seminar - Thirumalai Venky Venkatesan - Monday, December 3 Dear Colleagues, On behalf of Discovery Park and the Birck Nanotechnology Center, please join us Monday, December 3 at 1:30 pm at the Burton D. Morgan Center, room 121 to hear Discovery Park Distinguished Lecture Series seminar speaker, Dr. Thirumalai Venky Venkatesan present the talk entitled, "Road to Ultra-low Switching Energy Memories to Artificial Neurons." Venky Venkatesan is the Director at NUS Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Initiative (NUSNNI) and a Professor in the Departments of ECE, Physics and MSE at the National University of Singapore. He wore various hats at Bell labs and Bellcore before becoming a Professor at the University of Maryland. As the inventor of the pulsed laser deposition (PLD) process, he has more than 750 papers and 30 patents and is globally among the top one hundred physicists (ranked at 66 in 2000) in terms of his citations (over 43,000 with a Hirsch Index of 106-Google Scholar). We hope to see you there. Cheers, Tomás Díaz de la Rubia [cid:image002.jpg@01D48575.D11E78D0]