IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine - Q3 2018 - 3

CAS Society News

CAS Seasonal School on "Power Management
for Internet of Everything"
The IEEE Circuits and Systems Society has supported
some Seasonal Schools in Circuits and Systems (SSCAS)
for the 2016 and 2017 calendar years. The purpose of this
initiative was to target students, early-stage researchers,
and practitioners with backgrounds on the selected topics
of the SSCAS to share their work and collaborate within the
CAS community. In this perspective, a seasonal school on
Power Management for the Internet of Everything" was organized in Lausanne in November 27th and 28th 2017 at the
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne. The seasonal school was a successful event in the eyes of the local
student Branch serving as local arrangement committee.
A balanced selection between academia and industry of 11
was attractive to a group of 22 post-graduate students and
design engineers coming from 10 different countries, some
non-registered. Some Ph.D. and master student managed
to attend specific talks on their agenda as the workshop
ran during the semester. This article discusses the environment in which the seasonal school is realized, the steps
to it, some more information on the Panel and poster session and how it benefits the community.
Organizing an IEEE event following the vision to
achieve the scientific goal, offer a networking opportunity to people who would have not in other circumstances
and may open some new collaborations keeping in mind
to advance technology for the society. Finally, make it
socially joyful to the participants. It is a highly challenging task. IEEE student branch at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne found it as a lovely opportunity and took-up the challenge proposed by Professor
Maloberti to organize a seasonal school. The theme of
"Power Management for the Internet of Everything" had
enabled to elaborate a program with competences from
the devices to the cloud. Overall the lecturer was asked
to discuss their activity from the power perspective.
Over the two days of seasonal school, 11 lecturers
were selected to provide their insights at powering the
Internet of Everything.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MCAS.2018.2849278
Date of publication: 15 August 2018

THIRD QUARTER 2018

1) 'Application in Bio-sensing of power delivery'-
Prof. Sandro Carrara, Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology, Lausanne.
2) 'Optimization of the transfer of power and of the
data communication in the case of remotely powered sensor networks.'-Prof. Catherine Dehollain,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne.
3) 'A System on Chip for Energy Harvesting and Wireless Power Transfer'-Dr. Roberto La Rosa, Design
Manager ST Microelectronics, Catania
4) 'Measuring and Analyzing Dynamic Current Profiles in Low Power Applications'-Dr. Christoph
Zysset, Application Manager, Computer Controls,
Zurich.
5) 'Digital Low Power VLSI'-Prof. Andreas Burg,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne.
6) 'Low power Hall effect sensor. From design optimization to CMOS integration'-Dr. Maria-Alexandra Paun, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology,
Lausanne.
7) 'Low Power System on Chip from Bulk to FD-SOI'-
Pascal Urard Technical Fellow, ST Microelectronics Grenoble.
8) 'It's all about time'-Mathieu Coustans Ph.D.
Student, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology,
Lausanne.
9) 'Low Power Wireless Embedded Systems'-Prof.
Marcel Meli, Head of the Wireless System Group
at the Institute of Embedded Systems, ZHAW,
Winterthur.
10) 'Microsoft's Approach to IoT Real-life examples of
IoT as a platform service' Dr. Sherryl Manalo
11) 'Vertical co-design and integration in Energy Harvesting: from device, circuit and system levels to
IoT applications' Prof. Eduard Alarcón
The balance between academic perspective circuits
and systems was balanced with a few contributions
from industry in the diversity of topics addressed.
The panel session is always an excellent opportunity
to debate openly, the preparation of the panel was such
that it was asked by the speakers to provide a provocative statement. With such a vertical topic it leads to the
various reports. Interestingly as a community back in
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