UK Design Forum (UKDF)

UKDF 2008: Programme

Day 1: 23rd April 2008

17.00-18.00 Registration at Chancellors
19.30-20.30 Dinner
20.30 Graphene - Life after Silicon?
  Ernie Hill, University of Manchester
21.15 Networking (bar)

Day 2: 24th April 2008

9.00 Introduction Andrew Brown (morning chair)
  Ian Phillips Morning Keynote: No Man's Land: Where Academia meets Industry
9.45 Nigel Rix EKTN
10.00 Roger Woods and Leslie Smith uGC status including uGC2
10.20 Dhiraj Pradhan Challenges of Future: Robust Design against Soft Errors with Low Power
10.45 Coffee and Posters
11.15 Liam J McDaid Building brains
11.30 David Mulvaney Accelerating Silicon design
15.45 Mark Zwolinski Device variability roadmap
12.10 Lunch and Posters
13.45 Introduction Roger Wood (afternoon chair)
  Satnam Singh Afternoon keynote: Parallel languages and the need for new high level techniques
14.30 Simon Moore Communication the next resource war
14.45 David Pedder The SiP concept
15.00 Tea and Posters
15.30 Asen Asenov Statistical aspects of reliability in modern CMOS technologies
11.45 John Morris The RAL MSC Service to UK Universities
16.10 Silicon futures panel Chris McArdle, Jim Heaton, Julie Stockwin, Graham Curren and Satnam Singh
17.00 Workshop ends