The third talk of the STEP Lecture Series will be given by Dr. Aristeidis Karalis on Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 6:00pm PST. The talk has been organized in collaboration with Air University, FAST-NU Islamabad, LUMS Department of Computer Science, MCS, and NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS), and will be streamed live. A brief Q&A session will follow the talk. Undergraduate and graduate students with non-engineering backgrounds are also encouraged to attend.
Title: Wireless Electricity
Where:
Air University
FAST-NU Islamabad
LUMS Department of Computer Science (Room 10-404 SSE),
MCS
NUST SEECS
When: February 25, 2010, at 6:00 pm Pakistan Standard Time (8:00am EST)
Abstract:
Consider the plethora of modern devices which vitally depend on short-lived, environmentally unfriendly, costly batteries or whose performance and mobility are restricted by their attachment to a cord. Imagine now a world where these apparati can instead receive their power wirelessly. We have developed a technology, based on STRONGLY-COUPLED resonant induction, enabling power (from mW to KW) to be transmitted across medium-range distances (from cm to m) very efficiently (typically from 20% to 95%). The exact achievable distance depends on the size of the device, the targeted efficiency (maximum tolerated wasted power) and, in general, the particular application. Moreover, far-field radiation interference can be employed to further increase the achievable efficiency or reduce the produced radiation. Our power transmission technology utilizes low frequencies and the harmless magnetic field, thus it can comply with international safety regulations. This technology has been implemented into real-world electronic devices by WiTricity Corporation, and relevant pre-recorded demos will be shown.
Bio:
Aristeidis Karalis is a founder of WiTricity Corp. (2007), and was a member of the MIT research team that developed both the theoretical basis and experimental validation of this novel method for wireless energy transfer. Aristeidis is a Post-Doctoral Associate in the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT. He received his Sc.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2008. He received his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT and his B.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. Aristeidis is a co-author of nine scientific articles and six patents. He was awarded the Paris Kanellakis Fellowship and the Ioannis S. Latsis Fellowship as a student at MIT.
Acknowledgments: STEP is very grateful to Dr. Shahab Baqai at LUMS for his continued support and help in organizing the lecture series. Special thanks to Higher Education Commission of Pakistan (HEC) for facilitating the video broadcast of this talk.
May students of other universities other than the mention universities attend the lecture?
If Yes, Then how? Will it be delivered through video conferencing or live stream?
And if No., Then Can we we do any arrangement now or in future to attend STEP lectures, if we have video conferencing facility or the PERN-2 (High Speed Internet given by HEC) available?
The talk will be organized through HEC video conferencing system. If your university will like to participate, please contact us at editors@nextstepforward.net
Thank you sir!
Tomorrow I will talk to the concerned authorities of the video conferencing of my institute. And I hope i will get the approval from my institute. And our IT students can take advantage of it.
Sir if some one want to read or take your research paper related to this topic will you provide???????
I will be thankful if you give me the link of the research paper……
Shahnawaz,
Please check the following link for more information about this work from MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics:
http://www.mit.edu/~soljacic/wireless_power.html
Here you’ll find all the relevant technical material on this project. Hope this helps.
do we have a recording of this tech talk?
najam