CEMSE Weekly Updates - August 26, 2025 Tue, Aug 26 2025 Newsletter Upcoming Events Stay informed about the upcoming events and the latest news from CEMSE. (Ultra)wide Bandgap Semiconductors for Future of Moore’s Law Xiaohang Li, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Aug 31, 12:00 - 13:00 B9 L3 R2325 (Ultra)wide bandgap compound semiconductors including AlN, GaN, Ga2O3 and In2O3 have attracted enormous interests. They offer markedly larger figures of merits for power and RF applications than other known semiconductors. Additionally, they can be applied for vastly impactful quantum information technologies and deep UV-visible optoelectronics. Moreover, they could be promising for More Moore, More than Moore, and Beyond Moore applications. This seminar will cover the latest material, device and IC research based on (ultra)wide bandgap semiconductors for the future of Moore’s Law. Revolutionizing Datacenter Networks via Reconfigurable Topologies Stefan Schmid, Professor, Computer Science, Technische Universität Berlin Sep 1, 12:00 - 13:00 B9 L2 R2325 This talk presents an overview of reconfigurable datacenter networks. In particular, we discuss the motivation for such reconfigurable architectures, review the technological enablers, and present a taxonomy that classifies the design space into two dimensions: static vs. dynamic and demand-oblivious vs. demand-aware. From the Ball-Proximal (Broximal) Point Method to Efficient Training of LLMs Peter Richtarik, Professor, Computer Science Sep 4, 12:00 - 13:00 B9 L2 R2325 AI machine learning optimization algorithms LLM This talk introduces the Ball-Proximal Point Method, a new foundational algorithm for non-smooth optimization with surprisingly fast convergence, and Gluon, a new theoretical framework that closes the gap between theory and practice for modern LMO-based deep learning optimizers.
