Science & Engineering
OEMServices and D-SIMLAB Technologies in Long-Term Partnership for Optimization of Airbus A380 Spare Parts Support
D-SIMLAB Technologies Pte Ltd, a spin-off from Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech), provides simulation-based decision support solutions to asset intensive industries. D-SIMLAB's current flagship product D-SIMSPAIR is targeted at the aerospace sector. It enables and ongoing business paradigm shift in spare spares management and multimillion dollar, maintainable savings for MRO companies, component service providers and airlines. Its high-performance computing infrastructure also enables it to perform optimization tasks with high fidelity and is more than 100 times faster than any conventional solution. One of the first commercial applications has been secured with OEMServices, a joint venture of four major Airbus suppliers, for the optimisation of spare part support services for airlines operating Airbus A380 such as Singapore Airlines and Emirates.
Efforts to launch the technology into other domains such as semiconductor manufacturing and seaport container terminal operations are under way.
For more information, please visit www.d-simlab.com
IME honoured with the 2007 George E. Smith Award for its Ground Breaking Work on Si-Based Nanowire Technology
The IME’s Nanoelectronics team has won the prestigious 2007 IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) George E. Smith Award for its ground breaking work on "Vertically Stacked SiGe Nanowire Array Channel CMOS Transistors" published in the IEEE Electron Device Letters (EDL) on March 2007. This annual award recognizes the best paper published in IEEE EDL in 2007.
IME and Unisantis (Japan) captured the world’s attention with the announcement in last November to co-develop next generation high performance vertical transistors which could revolutionize the semiconductor industry and overcome the predicted end of Moore’s Law scaling using state-of-the-art CMOS technology. This accolade echoes the pioneering work at IME and impact to both the research community and industry. Prof. Cor Claeys, President of IEEE EDS, congratulated the authors, highlighting that “about 278 articles were published in EDL in 2007, [and] the selection of [the] paper for the award is a strong endorsement of the quality of the work”.
A*STAR PAPER RECEIVES WIDESPREAD INTEREST AND VISIBILITY
The “Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics” recently informed A*STAR authors that their paper “Peculiarities of light scattering by nanoparticles and nanowires near plasmon resonance frequencies in weakly dissipating materials” has been downloaded over 250 times since it was published online on August 22, 2007. The paper is thus receiving wide interest and is the result of collaboration between researchers from DSI and their colleagues in UK, Japan and Russian Universities.
The paper discusses a new optical effect - anomalous light scattering, which replaces classical Rayleigh scattering for small particles near plasmon resonance frequencies. Instead of usual dipole-type scattering the nanoparticle works as a light mill-wheel, milling the incident plane wave into quite a complicated near-field energy flux. This opens new prospects for optical manipulation in the field structure in the nanoscale region with many possible attractive applications including, nanotechnology, medicine and quantum computing.
A*STAR-EADS Master Research Collaboration Agreement Signing Ceremony
A*STAR and European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) signed a Master Research Collaboration Agreement on 20 Feb 2008 at the EADS chalet, Singapore Airshow 2008. The agreement between EADS and A*STAR will involve collaborative R&D in EADS strategic areas ranging from Sensors, Electronics & Systems Integration to InfoComm and Cryptography. Dr Jean Botti, CTO, EADS and MD, A*STAR officiated at the signing ceremony.
Local researchers make it into Computational Linguistics
A journal paper entitled "A twin-candidate model for learning based conference resolution" has been accepted for publishing in Computational Linguistics. This paper is the result of the research collaboration between researchers from I2R and NUS, and is the first time in the past decade that a local research team has managed to publish their research findings as a formal paper in Computational Linguistics.
Computational Linguistics is the leading publication devoted exclusively to the design and analysis of natural language processing systems. From this unique quarterly, university and industry linguists, computational linguists, artificial intelligence (AI) investigators, cognitive scientists, speech specialists, and philosophers get information about computational aspects of research on language, linguistics, and the psychology of language processing and performance.
The inaugural UK-Singapore Workshop on Energy Technology held on 26 Nov 07
Funded by the British High Commission in Singapore, the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) organised this energy workshop in collaboration with the UK Energy Research Centre and the Sterling Group on 26 November 2007. The Guest of Honour (GOH) for the workshop was Minister of State for Trade and Industry, Mr. Lee Yi Shyan. The workshop included presentations made by 6 UK speakers, 5 Singapore speakers and 1 industry speaker from Rolls-Royce Fuel Cell Systems.
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Slides of the presentations delivered at the workshop
A*STAR Investigatorships - Scientific Symposium was held on the 30th August 2007
The A*STAR Investigatorships is a prestigious award for young scientific talent, to support their research to be undertaken at the A*STAR SERC research institutes. The A*STAR Investigatorships 2007 - Scientific Symposium, was held on the 30th August, 2007, with scientific presentations by the following 6 candidates shortlisted for the awards, in the fields of Organic Electronics & Nanoscience and Quantum-Based Systems :
Dr Muthalagu Vetrichelvan, University of Houston, USA
Dr Zhang Xuehua, University of Melbourne, Australia
Dr Gajendra S Shekhawat, University of Albany, USA
Dr Eric Lee Tong Yih, Kyoto University, Japan
Dr Zhang Zhaoyu, Caltech, USA
Dr Leonid A Krivitsky, National Institute of Metrological Research, Italy
For information on A*STAR Investigatorships, please click here.
X-Lab Workshop held from 14th to 16th August 2007
The X-Lab workshop held from 14th to 16th August 2007 is centered on the development of new ideas and the formulation of project plans to try out at the X-Lab. 28 participants including SERC scholars and interested RI participants attended the workshop. The workshop also served to expose students and younger researchers to methodologies on ideation and innovation. The novel ideas generated includes renewable energy, virtual workspaces, device for seeking items, fabric suited for the tropical environment and aid for the visually impaired.
A*STAR - Noyori Forum Joint Symposium, 14 & 15 May 2007
A*STAR is excited to present one of its biggest bilateral industry-academia symposiums, the A*STAR-Noyori Forum Joint Symposium on Organic Chemistry from 14th to 15th May 2007 at Biopolis, Singapore.
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Fusionopolis Phase I Topping Out Ceremony
A symbolic Topping Out ceremony was held at Fusionopolis Phase 1 on 27 March 2007. Chairman A*STAR Mr Philip Yeo marked the event by signing on a commemorative plaque, and also toured and inspected the building construction site. The commemorative plaque was attached to a beam, which was later bolted in place at the highest point in the steel structure.
Loh Huanqian, A*STAR Scholar receives prestigious Undergraduate Physics Achievement Award
Ms Loh Huanqian, an A*STAR National Science Scholar (NSS), has received the 2006 LeRoy Apker Award that recognizes outstanding achievements in physics by undergraduate students. Huanqian, who is currently employed by Data Storage Institute (DSI) and working with the Quantum Information Technology Group received her Bachelor of Science from MIT in 2006 and intends to pursue an experimental atomic physics PhD in the US, starting in Fall 2007. Her undergraduate thesis work focused on the realization of a high-brightness photon pair source, which is particularly important for quantum information storage. She collected the first sets of data demonstrating the generation of photons as pairs, strongly correlated in a non-classical way. Her work has led to a Science paper, of which she was a co-author. Upon graduation from MIT, Huanqian received the Malcolm Brown Cotton Award, given to a physics major for outstanding scholastic achievement. She was also inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Pi Sigma. Huanqian will be receiving her LeRoy Apker Award at the American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting, the largest and most prestigious meeting of physicists in the world, from 5-9 March 2007, during which she will present her paper entitled "Applications of Correlated Photon Pairs : Sub-Shot Noise Interferometry and Entanglement".
A*STAR and the Republic of Poland’s Ministry of Science and Higher Education Joint Forum on Materials, Chemicals and Intelligent Systems at the Warsaw University of Technology, Poland on 26 Feb 07
The Joint Forum, which saw some 72 participants from the Polish research community, was the first milestone event co-organised by A*STAR and MSHE since the signing of an Memorandum of Understanding in January 2005 by the Executive Director of A*STAR's Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC), Prof Chong Tow Chong and Poland's Ambassador to Singapore, His Excellency Boguslaw Majewski. Under the terms of the MOU, Singapore and Poland have each committed approximately 3 million Euros to support collaboration projects over a 3-year period.
Read more about the Joint Forum in the press release.
Prof Charles Zukoski, SERC Chairman, has been Elected to the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
Prof Charles Zukoski, SERC Chairman, has been elected to the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE). For research on the manipulation of particle interactions to alter their suspension properties, and for leadership in education.
Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. Academy membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to "engineering research, practice, or education, including, where appropriate, significant contributions to the engineering literature," and to the "pioneering of new and developing fields of technology, making major advancements in traditional fields of engineering, or developing/implementing innovative approaches to engineering education."
Message from Chairman, Singapore Bioimaging Consortium (SBIC),
Professor Sir George Radda
"Dear Colleagues,
I would like to give you the latest update of our activities, following the 18th Meeting of the SBIC Steering Committee on the 27 June 2008...."
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Fusionopolis
Fusionopolis is a uniquely designed concept featuring a work-live-learn-play environment that serves as a vibrant hub for research, technology, media and business. The co-location of A*STAR research institutes, companies and corporate innovation and R&D labs will foster public and private sector partnership and R&D collaborations that will create the next generation of technologies, products, applications and services.
Fusionopolis will create an ideal test-bedding environment for novel concepts, prototypes and business models. Shared facilities, direct satellite access, state-of-the-art IT infrastructure to support intensive computing needs and broadband connectivity will also be provided.
Who will be there in Phase 1
Public research institutes under Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
- Science & Engineering Research Council (SERC)
- Institute For Infocomm Research (I2R)
- Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC)
- Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech), Industrial Informatics Group
- Data Storage Institute (DSI), Network Storage Group
For more information on Fusionopolis, please click here .
The National RFID Centre
Endorsed by the Ministry of Trade and Industry, the National RFID Centre, located at the Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech), will serve as the focal point for Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) in Singapore.
The primary objective of the Centre is to drive the development and adoption of RFID technology to help Singapore industries achieve economic benefits and growth.
A*STAR Researchers' Database
The database provides a listing of Singapore's biomedical and science & engineering research talents in an easily-searchable form. It aims to promote collaborations and networking opportunities and inform students interested in biomedical and engineering sciences of ongoing research opportunities.
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