On August 23rd, 2012, MIT will host a review of the DOE-sponsored GaN Initiative for Grid Applications (GIGA) program. The members of the GIGA program and DOE National Laboratories are invited to attend the meeting.

Date: Thursday, August 23, 2012

Venue

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
50 Vassar Street, Building 34, Room 401 B (for directions, please click here)

Registration

The registration is now closed.

Hotel Information

This hotel is near the MIT campus and less than 10 minutes walk from the Meeting venue. Please use the following hotel link to make your room reservation: Kendall Hotel at the Engine 7 Firehouse. For reservations, go to www.kendallhotel.com – book a room – reservation wizard – type in dates –  Space is limited so reserve a room today.

To make a reservation by telephone call 1(866)556-1300 or 1(617)577-1300 and use the reservation code: MIT (for government employees only).

You can find additional options for hotel accommodation in the Boston/Cambridge area here

Map

The best way to get from Boston Logan International Airport (BOS) to MIT and the Kendall Hotel is by taxi. The ride takes approximately 20 min. and costs ~$25-40.
Parking in Boston and Cambridge is very limited and expensive.

Link to campus map with location of Building 34

How to walk from Kendall hotel to meeting location.

Agenda

GaN Initiative for Grid Applications Agenda

(The following presentations below are password protected,  please contact Joseph Baylon at jbaylon@mit.edu regarding access.)

GIGA program and DOE National Laboratories will host a dinner on Wednesday night, August 22nd 2012 starting at 6 pm at Legal Seafoods- Kendall Square in Cambridge, MA.  Please click here for exact location. **Please note:  The dinner is restricted to the DOE National Laboratories and GIGA program members.

Presentations

After the meeting, you will be able to find all presentations here.

Questions?

For any questions regarding this review, please contact Mr. Joseph Baylon (jbaylon@mit.edu).

Starting in July 2012, the MIT GaN Energy Initiative will host a seminar series to highlight the GaN research going on at MIT. The tentative schedule for the seminars is shown below:

• July 20th, 2012 at 12pm (EST)… Tomas Palacios: Recent Progress on GaN Transistor Technology
• August 17th, 2012 at 12pm (EST)… David Perreault: Load Modulation and Outphasing in Switched-Mode Inverters and Power Amplifiers
• September 21st, 2012 at 12pm (EST) … Xiang Zhou; Jordan Paul Chesin (Gradecak’s group): GaN nanowires for Solid State Lighting
• October 26th, 2012 at 12pm (EST)… Kevin R. Bagnall (Wang’s group): Physical insights into thermal management for GaN electronics
• November 16th, 2012 at 12pm (EST) … Ujwal Radhakrishna (Antoniadis’s Group): MIT Unified VS GaNFET (MVSG) Model: A Current and Charge Model for GaN HEMTs
• December 21st, 2012 at 12pm (EST)… Saurav Bandyopadhyay (Chandrakasan’s group): Solid State Lighting Using GaN FETs
• January 31st, 2013 at 12pm (EST)… Jesus del Alamo: Characterization of Breakdown Voltage in GaN FETs
  

The seminars will be broadcasted through webex and posted in the password-protected section of this website.

If you would like more information about the seminar series or you would like to propose new topics, please contact us here.