BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:US/Pacific BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20190310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20181104T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181207T002848Z UID:AB4EAD44-4369-42A2-9F65-0EE6579F34CC DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20181206T090000 DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20181206T103000 DESCRIPTION:On July 4\, 2012\, the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN’s La rge Hadron Collider (LHC) announced the discovery of the long sought-after Higgs boson. This was the culmination of a huge scientific endeavor invol ving theorists\, detector\, and machine physics and an army of engineers a nd technicians. ASICs played a significant role in the design and construc tion of the experiments and were one of the key enabling technologies perm itting efficient particle detection in an extremely hostile environment. T he presentation will start with a lay-person’s description of a large hi gh-energy physics experiment and review some of the challenges presented f or ASIC designers by the LHC environment. The talk will then focus on inne r tracking detectors based on hybrid pixels. Such detectors provide the po ssibility of unambiguous (noise hit free) particle detection\, an essentia l feature for disentangling complicated particle collisions taking place 4 0 million times per second. The same technology has been adapted for appli cations beyond high-energy physics in various generations of the Medipix a nd Timepix chips. That work has led to numerous novel applications stretch ing from particle detection in classrooms to recent ground-breaking result s in spectroscopic medical X-ray imaging. Particle detection in real time will be demonstrated and a number of related applications described.\n\nSp eaker(s): Michael Campbell Head of the Microelectronics Section\, CERN (G eneva\, Switzerland)\, \n\nAgenda: \n9:00 - 9:10am Sign-in and networking\ n\n9:10 - 10:30am Seminar and Q&A\n\nQualcomm AZ-Auditorium (10155 Pacific Heights Blvd\, San Diego\, CA 92121)\, san diego\, California\, United St ates LOCATION:Qualcomm AZ-Auditorium (10155 Pacific Heights Blvd\, San Diego\, C A 92121)\, san diego\, California\, United States ORGANIZER:aloke@qti.qulcomm.com SEQUENCE:1 SUMMARY:How Pixel Detector ASICs Helped Find the Higgs Boson at CERN and No w Enable Spectroscopic X-ray Medical Imaging URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/182920 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p>On July 4\, 2012\, the ATLAS and CMS exper iments at CERN&rsquo\;s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) announced the discover y of the long sought-after Higgs boson. This was the culmination of a huge scientific endeavor involving theorists\, detector\, and machine physics and an army of engineers and technicians. ASICs played a significant role in the design and construction of the experiments and were one of the key enabling technologies permitting efficient particle detection in an extrem ely hostile environment.&nbsp\;The presentation will start with a lay-pers on&rsquo\;s description of a large high-energy physics experiment and revi ew some of the challenges presented for ASIC designers by the LHC environm ent. The talk will then focus on inner tracking detectors based on hybrid pixels. Such detectors provide the possibility of unambiguous (noise hit f ree) particle detection\, an essential feature for disentangling complicat ed particle collisions taking place 40 million times per second.&nbsp\;The same technology has been adapted for applications beyond high-energy phys ics in various generations of the Medipix and Timepix chips. That work has led to numerous novel applications stretching from particle detection in classrooms to recent ground-breaking results in spectroscopic medical X-ra y imaging. Particle detection in real time will be demonstrated and a numb er of related applications described.</p><br /><br />Agenda: <br /><p clas s="yiv4576543650MsoNormal">9:00 - 9:10am&nbsp\; Sign-in and networking</p> \n<p class="yiv4576543650MsoNormal">9:10 - 10:30am&nbsp\; Seminar and Q&am p\;A</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR