CEMSE Weekly Updates - September 15, 2026 Tue, Sep 15 2026 Newsletter Upcoming Events Stay informed about the upcoming events and the latest news from CEMSE. Ultrawide Bandgap Semiconductors for Future of Moore's Law Xiaohang Li, Program Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering Sep 20, 12:00 - 13:00 B9 R2325 advanced semiconductors ultra-wide bandgap Ultrawide bandgap materials This talk will explore why the ultrawide bandgap semiconductor is called the 4th generation semiconductor? Experimental Demonstration and Performance Analysis of Free Space Optical Communication with Multiple Lenses Jongmin Kim, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering Sep 20, 15:00 - 16:30 B1 R3123; Zoom Meeting 91224858133 FSO systems optical design adaptive control Free Space Optics This dissertation studies experimental demonstration and performance analysis of free space optical (FSO) systems with multiple lenses to develop practical design guidelines for reliable, high-capacity, and adaptive multi-lens FSO systems. The Broximal Point Method and Its Impact on Optimization Theory and Machine Learning Peter Richtarik, Professor, Computer Science Sep 21, 12:00 - 13:00 B9 R2325 Broximal Point Method proximal algorithms machine learning gradient methods This talk introduces the Broximal Point Method (BPM), a condition-number-free alternative to classical proximal methods, that replaces proximal penalties with ball constraints, surveys its theoretical extensions and distributed variants, and explains how approximate non-Euclidean Brox updates underpin practical machine learning optimizers.
