Dr. Osher is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Director of Special Projects in the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) and member of the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA. He received his B.S. from Brooklyn College in 1962, M.S. from New York University in 1964 and Ph.D. from New York University in 1966. Prof. Osher was the inventor or co-inventor and developer of many highly successful numerical methods for computational physics, image processing and other fields, including, Level set method (with Sethian) for capturing moving interfaces, which has been phenomenally successful as a key tool in PDE based image processing and computer vision, as well as applications in differential geometry, image segmentation, inverse problems, optimal design, Two-phase flow, crystal growth, deposition and etching. He has founded or co-founded three successful companies: Cognitech (with Rudin), Level Set Systems and Luminescent Technologies (with Yablonovitch). In 2014 Prof. Osher received the Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize, amongst the highest honors in Mathematics.

Dr. Cristoloveanu received the PhD (1976) in Electronics and the French Doctorat ès-Sciences in physics (1981) from the National Polytechnic Institute, Grenoble (INPG), France. He joined the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and became a Senior Scientist in 1982 and a Director of Research in 1989. In 1989, he joined the University of Maryland, College Park, as an Associate Professor for one sabbatical year. He also worked at JPL (Pasadena), Motorola (Phoenix), and the Universities of Florida (Gainesville) and Nashville. From 1993 to 1999, he served as the director of the LPCS Laboratory of INPG. Between 1999-2000, he was in charge of the creation of the Center for Advanced Projects in Microelectronics (CPMA Grenoble). He is the author or co-author of more than 400 technical journal papers and communications at international conferences (including 80 invited contributions). He is the author or the editor of 13 books, and he has organized 9 international conferences. His expertise is in the area of the electrical characterization and modeling of semiconductor materials and devices, with special interest for silicon-on-insulator structures. With his students, he has received 5 Best Paper Awards, an Academy of Science Award (1995), and the Electronics Division Award of the Electrochemical Society (2002). He is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society, and Editor of Solid-State Electronics.

Dr. van Driel did his undergraduate work at the University of Toronto, where he continued as a graduate student, completing his Ph.D in condensed matter physics in 1975. After a period as NRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Optical Science Center, University of Arizona, he began a faculty position at the University of Toronto in 1976. He became a full professor of physics in 1985, served as Associate Chair (Undergraduate) from 1994-97 and Chair of the Department from 2000-2004. He has been a visiting scientist at Harvard University, the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Sciences, the University of Amsterdam, IBM labs (Yorktown Heights), and NRC, Ottawa.

His research interests are in experimental nonlinear optics and ultrafast phenomena in semiconductors. He supervises a research group of graduate and undergraduate students, exchange students and postdocs. He is very interested in undergraduate teaching and currently offers the 1st year physics course in the Engineering Science program at U of T. Professor van Driel is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, American Physical Society and the Royal Society of Canada. He was a Divisional Associate Editor for Physical Review Letters from 2001-2006 and has been Editor of the Journal of the Optical Society of America (B) since 2006.

Dr. van Driel has been a member of the Canadian Association of Physicists for over 30 years and was Chair of the Division of Optics in 1992-93 and Director of Academic Affairs/Chair of the CAP-NSERC Liaison Committee from 2000-2003. He was a member of the NSERC GSC for General Physics from 1989-93 and served as Chair in 1991-2. He has been on numerous advisory boards and conference committees in Canada and abroad, was General Chair of the International Quantum Electronics Conference (San Franciscio) in 2000 and Chair of the Canadian National IUPAP Liaison Committee from 1996-2002.

Dr. Downer received the B.A. degree in Physics from University of Rochester in 1976, the M.A. degree in Physics and Philosophy from Oxford University in 1978 and the Ph.D. degree in Applied Physics from Harvard University in 1983. Dr. Downer completed his postdoc at AT&T Bell Labs in 1985. He is a University Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Physics, UT Austin. Dr. Downer is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America.

Mr. Smith held an FCC First Class Radiotelephone license by age 16 and a General Class amateur radio license at age 12. He received a B.E.E.E. degree from Vanderbilt University in 1969 and an M.S.E.E. degree from the California Institute of Technology in 1970. In 1970, he joined AT&T Bell Laboratories as a Member of Technical Staff. He retired in 1996 as a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff. From February 1996 to April 2000 he was Manager of EMC Development and Test at Auspex Systems in Santa Clara, CA. Mr. Smith currently is an independent consultant specializing in high frequency measurements, circuit/system design and verification, switching power supply noise and specifications, EMC, and immunity to transient noise. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a former member of the IEEE EMC Society Board of Directors.

His technical interests include high frequency effects in electronic circuits, including topics such as Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC), Electrostatic Discharge (ESD), Electrical Fast Transients (EFT), and other forms of pulsed electromagnetic interference. He has been granted over 15 patents, several on measurement apparatus.

Mr. Smith holds the title of University of Oxford Tutor in the Department of Continuing Education at Oxford University in the UK. He has lectured at Oxford University, The University of California Santa Barbara, The University of California Berkeley, Vanderbilt University, AT&T Bell Labs, and internationally at many public and private seminars on high frequency measurements, circuit design, ESD, and EMC. He is author of the book High Frequency Measurements and Noise in Electronic Circuits. His very popular website, http://emcesd.com (www.dsmith.org), draws many thousands of visitors each month to see over 250 technical articles as well as other features.

Dr. Alles received the B.S.E.E., M.S.E.E, and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, in 1997, 2000, and 2002, respectively. He is a Senior Research Engineer with the Institute for Space and Defense Electronics, and Research Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Vanderbilt University. He spent two years with Silvaco International, ten years with Ibis Technology Corporation, and one year with Harris Semiconductor. He has served on the SIA ITRS starting materials working group since 1999, chairing the 2001 SOI materials group. His background includes semiconductor technology, silicon and SOI wafer manufacturing and metrology, computer-aided design tools for semiconductor fabrication processes, devices and integrated circuit design, and expertise in simulation of radiation effects in semiconductor devices and circuits.

Dr. Schrimpf received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, in 1986. He is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of the Institute for Space and Defense Electronics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. He served as a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Arizona from 1986 to 1996. Dr. Schrimpf is Past Chairman of the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society Radiation Effects Steering Group.

Dr. Fleetwood received the Ph.D. degree from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, in 1984. He is a Professor of Electrical Engineering, Professor of Physics, and Chair of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. He was a Member (1984-1990) and Distinguished Member (1990-1999) of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico. He is the author or coauthor of more than 275 papers on radiation effects on microelectronics, defects in microelectronic materials, and low-frequency noise. Dr. Fleetwood is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Dr. Tolk received the A.B. degree from Harvard College, Cambridge, MA, in 1960 and the Ph.D. degree from Columbia University, New York, in 1966. He is a Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Physics at Fisk University, Nashville, TN. He was a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ (1968-1984). He holds seven patents, is the author or coauthor of three edited books and more than 240 papers on nonlinear laser-surface and laser-interface interactions, ultra-fast vibrational and electronic processes at surfaces and interfaces, spin dynamics, desorption induced by electronic process, and atomic collision physics. Dr. Tolk is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He received the Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award in 1987.