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The 2017 EU-US Frontiers of Engineering symposium was held November 16-18 at the University of California in Davis, California. About 60 outstanding engineers under the age of 45 met for an intensive 2-1/2 day symposium to discuss cutting-edge developments in four areas: Technologies for Space Exploration, Next-Generation Solar Cells, Neuroengineering, and Computational Imaging. The event was intended to facilitate international and cross-disciplinary research collaboration, promote the transfer of new techniques and approaches across disparate engineering fields, and encourage the creation of a transatlantic network of world-class engineers.
The symposium was hosted in partnership with the European Council of Academies of Applied Sciences, Technologies, and Engineering.
The National Academy of Engineering would like to express its gratitude to the University of California, Davis, The Grainger Foundation, and the National Science Foundation for their support of the 2017 EU-US FOE Symposium.
LIST OF SESSIONS
Symposium co-chairs: Michael Tsapatsis, University of Minnesota, and Harri Kulmala, DiMECC Ltd.
TECHNOLOGIES FOR SPACE EXPLORATION Session co-chairs: Ian Clark, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Minna Palmroth, University of Helsinki
Introduction
The Electric Solar Wind Sail - New Propulsion Innovation for Solar System Travels Sini Merikallio, Finnish Meterological Institute
Infusion of Vision Systems into Planetary Landers Andrew Johnson, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Democratizing Access to Space Will Pomerantz, Virgin Orbit
NEXT-GENERATION SOLAR CELLS Session co-chairs: Hugh Hillhouse, University of Washington, and Marko Topič, University of Ljubljana
Second and Third-Generation Photovoltaics Dirk Weiss, First Solar
Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cells and Modules Bernd Rech, Helmholtz Zentrum, Germany
Perovskite Quantum Dots: A New Absorber Technology with Unique Phase Stability for High Voltage Solar Cells Joseph Luther, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Insights to High-Efficiency CIGS Thin-Film Solar Cells and Tandem Devices with Perovskites Stephan Buecheler, EMPA, Switzerland
NEUROENGINEERING Session co-chairs: Sanjay Joshi, University of California, Davis, and Benoit Larrat, Neurospin
How We Image, Measure, and Understand the Brain: A Computational Perspective Alexandre Gramfort, Inria, University Paris-Saclay
Interface Between Modern Microelectronics and the Human Brain Adam Williamson, Aix-Marseille University
Clinical Neuromodulation Technology Cameron McIntyre, Case Western Reserve University
Platform Research Tools and Deployment Strategies to Accelerate Translational Discovery Tim Denison, Medtronic
COMPUTATIONAL IMAGING Session co-chairs: Anders Bjorholm Dahl, Technical University of Denmark, and Laura Waller, University of California, Berkeley
Computer Vision and 3D Reconstruction George Vogiatzis, Aston University
Light Propagation in Complex Media Meets Signal Processing: From Imaging to Compressive Imaging and Machine Learning Sylvain Gigan, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel
Computational MRI Michael Lustig, University of California, Berkeley