You are cordially invited to next week's IIC Colloquium:
Ultra-High-Speed Photonics in Chile: Networks for Supporting Astronomy
and Mining
October 16, 2009, 3:00 pm
Room 119, Maxwell Dworkin, 33 Oxford Street
Eduardo Vera, Executive Manager, Innovation and Development, Center
for Mathematical Modeling, School of Engineering and Science,
University of Chile
(Note that we are moving to Friday to accommodate our speaker's
international travel schedule.)
Abstract
Ultra-high-capacity photonics networks are a type of advanced
communication platform seldom found outside the experimental
laboratories of the high-end information and communication technology
(ICT) industry. However, as a result of the successful photonics trial
performed throughout 2005 by the joint collaboration of Codelco-Chile
(the world’s largest copper producer) and NTT (Nippon Telegraph and
Telephone Corporation), in 2006 the two companies established MICOMO
(Mining Information, COmmunication and MOnitoring), a joint venture
company that aims to adap and develop advanced ICT for the mining
market using ultra-high speed photonics networks. Micomo’s full
implementation of photonics in Codelco-Chile’s corporate network is
having a broad impact, enabling the development of intelligent mining.
Furthermore, the geographical proximity of Chile’s northern copper
mining cluster to world-frontier astronomy facilities allows us to
envision technology synergy in the development of advanced ICT
applications for both astronomy and mining. The lecture will review
and discuss the progress of these developments.
Bio
Eduardo Vera has extensive experience in academic and industrial
applied research in information and communication technologies,
working in the USA, Japan and Chile. In 1983, he joined the technical
staff of Philips Laboratories in Briarcliff, NY, working on power
integrated circuits for lighting applications. In 1990, he joined the
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) Laboratories in
Musashino, Tokyo, Japan, where he worked on the modeling and
simulation of power semiconductor devices for advanced communication
systems. Since his return to Chile in 1995, he has been director of
the AccessNova Program, a collaborative effort of NTT and the
University of Chile focused on the development of high-speed network
applications. This project has nurtured an extensive research
collaboration network between the two countries. Since 2003 he has
been a technical consultant to Codelco-Chile's R&D Division and NTT
R&D Headquarters, supporting Codelco's partnership with NTT for the
establishment of a joint venture company, MICOMO (Mining Information,
Communication and Monitoring), to adapt and apply advanced information
and communication technologies to the mining market.
Vera received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in physics from the
University of Chile and his Ph.D. in physics from Brown University in
1974, 1976 and 1982, respectively. In the past decade, he has been a
frequent visitor at NTT Laboratories in Musashino, Tokyo, and a
visiting professor at the University of Tokyo in 2005 and 2006. At
present he is executive manager for innovation and development at the
Center for Mathematical Modeling (CMM) and he holds a joint
appointment as adjunct professor in the Department of Electrical
Engineering and the Department of Computer Science of the University
of Chile.
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