Cypress to Host Second Annual IEEE SFBA Nanotechnology Symposium; Event will Review the State of Nanotechnology-Enabled Alternate Energy Solutions Including Photovoltaics and Fuel Cells.SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CY), today announced that it is hosting the Second Annual IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. San Francisco Bay Area “Bay Area” redirects here. For other uses, see Bay Area (disambiguation). The San Francisco Bay Area, colloquially known as the Bay Area or The Bay Nanotechnology Symposium on Tuesday, May 16, 2006 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The event will focus on photovoltaics and fuel cells as alternative energy solutions and will feature speakers from the International Solar Energy Research Center, SunPower Corporation, U.C. Berkeley, PARC (Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Palo Alto, CA, www.parc.com) Founded in 1970, PARC is a Xerox subsidiary involved in high-tech research and development. Although Xerox's headquarters are in Stamford, Connecticut, and manufacturing and marketing are in Rochester, New York, PARC is , Clear Edge Power, Arizona State University Arizona State University, at Tempe; coeducational; opened 1886 as a normal school, became 1925 Tempe State Teachers College, renamed 1945 Arizona State College at Tempe. Its present name was adopted in 1958. , Ion America, Ultracell and Oorja Protonics. Dr. Meyya Meyyappan, the director of the Center for Nanotechnology at Nasa Ames Research Center NASA Ames Research Center (ARC) is a NASA facility located at Moffett Federal Airfield, which covers 43 acres at the borders of the cities of Mountain View and Sunnyvale in California. This research center is most commonly called NASA Ames. , will deliver an address titled, "Nanotechnology: Are we there yet?" In addition, there will be a panel discussion featuring representatives from Draper Fisher Jurvetson Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California with affiliate offices in more than 30 cities around the world and over $4.5 billion in capital commitments. , Mohr Davidow Ventures, Nth Power, Strategies Unlimited and Worldview Partners. The symposium will be held in the Building 6 auditorium of the Cypress campus at 198 Champion Court in San Jose, Calif. To register, go to www.ieee.org/nano. For questions, please email nparekh@nanonexus.com or call (408) 546-8431. For directions to the symposium location please visit http://www.cypress.com/aboutus/directions.cfm. About the speakers Meyya Meyyappan, Director, NASA Ames Center for Nanotechnology Peter Fath, Founder, International Solar Energy Research Center Bill Mulligan, Vice President of Research and Technology, SunPower Corporation Eicke Weber, Professor of Materials Science, UC Berkeley; Director, Integrated Materials Lab Scott Elrod, Manager Hardware Systems Lab, PARC Slobodan Petrovic, Associate Professor, ASU; Vice President of Engineering, Clear Edge Power K. R. Sridhar, CEO, Ion America Jim Kaschmitter, Chairman & CEO, Ultracell Corporation Sanjiv Malhotra, CEO & President of Oorja Protonics About the panelists Raj Atluru, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson Steve Eglash, Principal, Worldview Partners Tom Hauskin, Director Components Practice, Strategies Unlimited Rodrigo Prudencio, Principal, Nth Power Erik Straser, General Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures About IEEE SFBA SFBA San Francisco Bay Area SFBA Students for Barrier-Free Access SFBA San Francisco Beekeepers' Association Nanotechnology Council The IEEE, a non-profit organization, is the world's leading professional association for the advancement of technology. The mission of the IEEE San Francisco Bay Area Nanotechnology Council is to build bridges between local industry, academic, and government leaders, and to encourage Bay Area involvement in the National Nanotechnology Initiative The National Nanotechnology Initiative is an American federal nanoscale science, engineering, and technology research and development program. Initiative participants (cited below) state that its four goals are to About Cypress Cypress solutions perform: consumer, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial, and solar. Leveraging proprietary silicon processes, Cypress's product portfolio includes a broad selection of wired and wireless USB devices, CMOS image sensors, timing solutions, specialty memories, high-bandwidth synchronous and micropower memory products, optical solutions and reconfigurable mixed-signal arrays. Cypress trades on the NYSE under the ticker symbol CY. Visit us at www.cypress.com. |
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