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Talk 2: Impedance Discontinuity and Design Optimization for High-speed IOs

This talk will present some find-ings on channel impedance opti-mization including buffer and interconnect to achieve optimal Signal Integrity performance by considering specification compli-ance and cost.

Talk 3: Crosstalk Control, Mitiga-tion and Management in High-speed Differential IOs

This talk addresses the key chal-lenges in Signal Integrity, i.e. crosstalk, by shielding, separa-tion, inductive/capacitive coupling adjustment, crosstalk cancella-tion, pin-out arrangement, PCB via management, etc. for design optimization. EMC

The Distinguished Lecturer Program – How it Works

The EMC Society's Distinguished Lecturer Program provides speakers for Society chapter meetings and similar functions. Each Distinguished Lecturer (DL) can offer one of several pre-prepared presen-tations on various EMC topics. DLs are appointed by the EMC Society Board of Directors for a two-year term. In 2016 the Society will have seven Distinguished Lecturers serving on alternating terms.

Distinguished Lecturers may give up to six talks per year under the program, which reimburses the DL for their approved traveling expenses up to a recommended limit of $1,500 per US engagement, or $2,000 for international engagements. To provide as many opportunities to as many members as possible, the Society encourages hosting chapters whenever possible to absorb some part of the speaker's costs, such as by providing or paying for local transportation, meals, and lodging.

For more information about the EMC Society's Distinguished Lecturer Program, visit our web site at http://www.emcs.org/dl-main.html. You can also contact Vignesh Rajamani via email at vignesh@ieee.org.

Please also note the Respected Speaker Bureau (RSB) which is comprised of past DLs and other notable speakers. Information on the RSB can be found on the DL web site.

Also, remember to take a look at the Video DL program information. These DVDs can be used at chapter meetings.

2015 Distinguished Reviewers of the IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic CompatibilityAntonio Orlandi, IEEE Transactions on EMC, Editor-in-Chief

2015 Distinguished Reviewers (in alphabetical order)

Yoshihiro Baba (S'95-M'99-SM’13) received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 1994, 1996 and 1999, respectively. In 1999, he joined Dosh-isha University, Kyoto, Japan, where since 2012 he has been a Professor. From April 2003 to August 2004, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Univer-sity of Florida. He was a 2013 Distin-

guished Reviewer of the IEEE Transactions on EMC. He received the Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE EMC Society in 2014. He was a Co-chairperson of the Technical Pro-gram Committee (TPC) of the 2013 Asia-Pacific International Conference on Lightning (APL 2013), and is the APL 2015 TPC chairperson. He is the Convener of C4.37 Working Group of the International Council of Large Electric Systems. He has been an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery since 2009.

Johan Catrysse (M'78 - SM'05 - LSM'12) was born in Brugge, Belgium. He received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Ghent (Belgium) in 1971, and the Ph.D. degree from the KULeuven in 2005. He was a full professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Technology Cam-pus Oostende (formerly Catholic Univer-sity College KHBO in Oostende). He

became involved in EMC research in 1984, in the domain of char-acterizing conductive plastics on their shielding effectiveness behaviour. A few years later, research resulted in the development of two types of measuring cells, also suited for the characteriza-tion of conductive gaskets. In 1991, a full EMC research laboratory was established, with the main focus on shielding issues and the testing of large machinery. In 2002, the focus of the laboratory was expanded into the global reliability of electronic systems, ranging from EMC to HALT testing at the Flanders Mechatronics Engineering Centre (FMEC). Prof. Catrysse is co-founder and mem-

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ber of the Steering Committee of the EMC Europe Symposia since 1994 and was chairman/organiser of these symposia in 2000 and 2013 in Brugge, Belgium. He serves also as secretary of the "Stitching EMC Europe Symposia", which addresses the adminis-trative and financial backing of the symposia. He was involved in several European research projects in the EMC domain, such as COST 261 and COST 286, TEMCA2 on the EMC characterisation of large machinery in situ and HIRF SE. Prof. Catrysse served as an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on EMC, and is still a reviewer of these Transactions. He was from 2008 upto 2014 an associate professor at MICAS/ESAT/KULeuven. Although now retired, he is still involved in working groups on standardisation of IEC 47A (EMC and integrated circuits), IEC TC 77 and CENELEC TC210 and SAE ARP 6248. He is also a member of the working groups of IEEE STD 299 and IEEE STD 1302. Together with Prof. Pissoort, who is actually heading the FMEC laboratory, he is still involved in research topics about the characterisation of shielding materials up to 80 GHz and EMC related problems in electric vehi-cles. Prof. Catrysse received in 2014 the "Hall of Fame" award from the EMC Society for his "research activities on the characterisa-tion of high-frequency shielding effectiveness of materials and gaskets".

Sam Connor (M'04 - SM'07) received his Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engi-neering from the University of Notre Dame in 1994. Sam is currently a Senior Technical Staff Member in the IBM Sys-tems Group, where he leads the EMC Design Center of Competency. Sam is a past-chair for both TC-9 and the Eastern North Carolina Chapter of the IEEE EMC Society, has served on numerous EMC

Symposium Committees, and was a Distinguished Lecturer for 2012-2013.

Flavia Grassi (M’07–SM’13) received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electri-cal engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, in 2002 and 2006, respectively, where she is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electronics, Informa-tion and Bioengineering. From 2008 to 2009, she was with the Electromagnet-ics and Space Environment Division of

ESA’s European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), Noordwijk, the Netherlands. Her research interests include distributed-parameter circuit modeling for interference prediction, characterization of measurement setups for EMC testing (mainly for the aerospace and automotive sectors), sta-tistical techniques, and application of the powerline communi-cations technology on ac and dc lines. In 2008, she was award-ed the URSI Young Scientist Award by the XXIXth URSI General Assembly. In 2015, she was recipient of the Best Symposium Paper Award at the 2015 Asia-Pacific International Symposium on EMC (APEMC).

David A. Hill (M’72-SM’76-F’87-LF’08) was born in Cleveland, OH, on April 21, 1942. He received the B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. degrees from Ohio University, Athens, in 1964 and 1966, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engi-neering from Ohio State University, Columbus, in 1970. From 1970 to 1971, he was a Visiting Fellow with the Coopera-tive Institute for Research in Environ-

mental Sciences, Boulder, CO, where he worked on pulse propa-gation. From 1971 to 1982 he was with the Institute for Telecommu-nications Sciences, Boulder, CO, where he worked on antennas and propagation. Since 1982 he has been with the National Insti-tute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO, where he works on electromagnetic theory. He is also a Professor Adjoint in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Univer-sity of Colorado, Boulder. Dr. Hill is a member of URSI Commis-sions A, B, E, and F and a Life Fellow of the IEEE. He was the recipient of the IEEE EMC 2011 Richard R. Stoddart Award. He has served as a technical editor for the IEEE Transactions on Geosci-ence and Remote Sensing and the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.

Nicolas Mora Parra (M ‘07) was born in Bogota, Colombia in 1985. He received the B. S. degree in Electronics Engi-neering in 2007 and the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering with a major in High Voltage Engineering in 2009, from the National University of Colombia. He joined the Electromagnetic Compatibility Research Group of the National Univer-sity of Colombia under the tuition of

Prof. F. Roman in early 2007. In September 2009 he joined the EMC Lab at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) under the direction of Prof. F. Rachidi. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree from EPFL and works for the R & D department of Montena Technology. In 2011, he received the Frank Gunther Award of the Radio Club of America and the Young Scientist Award from URSI (International Union of Radio Science). In 2015 Mr. Mora was appointed as a Distinguished Reviewer of the IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility and received the Young Scientist Award from the Summa Foundation. Since 2013, Mr. Mora is the president of the Colombian Association of Researchers in Switzerland.

William A. Radasky (S’68–M’73–SM’92–F’09–LF’12) received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering and engineering science from the U.S. Air Force Acade-my, CO, USA, in 1968, and the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of New Mexico, Albu-querque, USA, in 1971, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California at Santa

Barbara, Santa Barbara, USA, in 1981. He has worked on high-

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power electromagnetics applications for more than 44 years. He has published more than 400 reports, papers, and articles dealing with electromagnetic environments, effects, protection and stan-dards during his career. In recent years, he has worked extensive-ly in performing assessments for critical infrastructures to the threats of HEMP, IEMI, and severe geomagnetic storms. He found-ed Metatech Corporation in 1984 in California and is the President and Managing Engineer. He is also very active in the field of EMC standardization in the IEC, Cigré, and the IEEE. Dr. Radasky is a Registered Professional Engineer in electric engineering. He received the Lord Kelvin Award from the IEC in 2004 for outstand-ing contributions to international standardization. He is currently the Chairman of IEC SC 77C (EMC: High Power Transient Phenom-ena), the Chairman of IEEE EMC Society TC-5 (High Power EM), and a Working Group Convener for Cigré C4. He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi, and is an EMP Fellow of the Summa Foundation.

Giordano Spadacini received the Lau-rea (M.Sc.) and Ph.D. degrees in elec-trical engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, in 2001 and 2005, respectively. Since 2007, he has been an Assistant Professor in the Depart-ment of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering (DEIB) of Politecnico di Milano. His research interests are

in the field of EMC and include distributed-parameter circuit modeling, statistical models for the characterization of interfer-ence effects, and EMC in aerospace, automotive and railway systems. He received the 2005 IEEE EMC Transactions Prize Paper Award, and the Best Symposium Paper Award at APEMC 2015 in Taiwan.

Akiyoshi Tatematsu (M’04) received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan in 1999, 2001, and 2004, respectively. He has been with Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI), Yokosuka, Japan, since 2004. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Electro-magnetic Compatibility Laboratory at

the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzer-land, from 2012 to 2013. He has been engaged in the study of numerical electromagnetic field analysis and surge analysis. Dr. Tatematsu is a 2014 and 2015 Distinguished Reviewer of the IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility. He is currently the Secretary of CIGRE WG C4.37 Electromagnetic Computation Methods for Lightning Surge Studies with Emphasis on the FDTD Method. EMC

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