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Join CMC as we Co-Chair the 2020 Photonics North Conference taking place at the Scotiabank Convention Centre, Niagara Falls, Canada on May 26-28, 2020.  This conference will be an excellent opportunity to network and exchange with researchers, government representatives and industry professionals.

Optics and photonics technologies are strategic to the overall growth of many industry sectors in Canada; the pervasive nature of these enabling technologies results in novel applications covering numerous fields. To respond to the increasing needs of the industry and population, researchers in optics and photonics from all over the world are developing new capabilities, knowledge and products by transforming research outcomes into innovation with socio-economic impact.

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CMC offers a two-day training course that will show you how to develop, debug, and profile new or existing C/C++ and RTL applications in the Xilinx Vitis™ unified software environment targeting both data center (DC) and embedded applications. This course will be held in Toronto (February 19 and 20) and repeated in Montréal (March 4 and 5). This course will be delivered by Hardent, a Xilinx Authorized Training Partner (ATP).

The emphasis of this course is on:

• Building a software application using the OpenCL™ API to run hardware kernels on Alveo accelerator cards
• Building a software application using the OpenCL API and the Linux-based Xilinx runtime (XRT) to schedule the hardware kernels and control data movement on an embedded processor platform
• Demonstrating the Vitis environment GUI flow and makefile flow for both DC and embedded applications
• Describing the Vitis platform execution model and XRT
• Describing kernel development using C/C++ and RTL
• Utilizing the Vitis analyzer tool to analyze reports
• Explaining the design methodology to optimize a design

For more information, see the detailed course description.

Target Attendees

The prime target attendees are those who will provide training and support for the Xilinx FPGA and SOC programmable devices and tools to other users in their research groups. To be eligible as a trainer:

• You agree to be identified and act as the designated trainer for your research group;
• You are a faculty, student, or research staff from a Canadian Academic Institution;
• Limit 1 per research group; and
• You have (or have a supervisor with) a CMC Subscription.

The course is also available to other Academic Registrants (non-Trainers).

Pricing and Registration

Attendee Group	Price	Registration
Trainer: See the Trainer Requirements.	$100
Academic with Subscription	$200

Advancing light-based science, engineering, and technology

SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, was founded in 1955 to advance light-based technologies.

Serving more than 264,000 constituents from approximately 166 countries, the not-for-profit society advances emerging technologies through interdisciplinary information exchange, continuing education, publications, patent precedent, and career and professional growth.

SPIE annually organizes and sponsors approximately 25 major technical forums, exhibitions, and education programs in North America, Europe, Asia, and the South Pacific.

In 2018, SPIE provided $4 million in support of education and outreach programs.

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33rd IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems

Reflecting the rapid growth of the MEMS field and the commitment and success of its research community, the IEEE MEMS Conference series has evolved into a premier annual event in the MEMS area. In recent years it has attracted over 600 participants and has presented more than 200 select papers in non-overlapping oral and poster sessions. The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (IEEE MEMS 2020) is one of the premier annual events reporting research results on every aspect of Microsystems technology. This Conference reflects from the rapid proliferation of the commitment and success of the Microsystems research community. In recent years, the IEEE MEMS Conference has attracted more than 700 participants, 800+ abstract submissions and has created the forum to present over 200 select papers in podium and poster/oral sessions. Its single-session format provides ample opportunity for interaction between attendees, presenters and exhibitors. IEEE MEMS 2020 will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, from January 18 – 22, 2020. The major areas of activity in the development of MEMS solicited and expected at this conference include but are not limited to:

• Design, simulation and analysis tools with experimental verification
• Fabrication technologies and processes
• Silicon and non-silicon materials
• Electro-mechanical integration techniques
• Assembly and packaging approaches
• Metrology and operational evaluation techniques
• System architecture

The major areas of activity in the application of MEMS solicited and expected at this conference include but are not limited to:

• Mechanical, thermal, and magnetic sensors and actuators, and system
• Opto-mechanical microdevices and microsystems
• Fluidic microcomponents and microsystems
• Microdevices for data storage
• Microdevices for biomedical engineering
• Micro chemical analysis systems
• Microdevices and systems for wireless communication
• Microdevices for power supply and energy harvesting
• Nano-electro-mechanical devices and systems
• Scientific microinstruments

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The FPGA/GPU cluster is a cloud-based compute infrastructure specifically designed to accelerate compute-intensive applications, such as machine learning training and inference, video and image processing, security, data analytics, bioinformatics, and financial computing. Latest state of the art acceleration technologies including Xilinx Alveo 200 FPGA and NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPU, closely coupled with server processors constitute the backbone of this cluster. The software stack consists of a complete ecosystem of machine learning frameworks, libraries as well as runtime targeting heterogeneous computing accelerators.

In this webinar, you will get a detailed walk-through of the hardware as well as the software architecture of the FPGA/GPU cluster, with instructions on how to reserve, access and develop applications targetting the different categories of nodes, namely Cerebro (2 FPGAs), Genisys (2 GPUs) and Synergy (1 FPGA and one GPU). A practical use case and a demo will be introduced, consisting of a complete machine learning training/inference flow of a convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture including:

• Training and validation on the GPU V100.
• Inference on the FPGA Alveo 200.

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If you want to learn more about using the COMSOL^® software to model heat transfer, join us for this interactive hands-on web workshop where you can build a model from scratch with guidance from a COMSOL engineer.

During this web workshop, we will discuss:

Modeling Heat Transfer

• Conduction, the diffusive transfer of heat through solids and fluids
• Convection, the transport of heat by moving fluids
• Radiation, the transfer of heat via infrared light
• How to couple these analyses together and to other physics such as structural mechanics, electromagnetics, and chemical reactions

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