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TWS Announces Speakers, Special Events for 2016 Summit

Sept. 6, 2016
Texas Wireless Summit (TWS) 2016: Reshaping Wireless Through Automated Vehicles, recently announced their speaker line-up and other exciting special reveals for this year’s event. On October 18, 2016, TWS will explore how automated vehicles will reshape wireless over the next 10 years with their demands for coordinated sensing and decision-making. The event will look at the benefits and requirements of connectivity, the key challenges of vehicle sensing and shared data analytics, including lightly processed radar, lidar and camera data.
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Prof. Andrea Alù awarded the 2016 Simons Investigators in Physics award

June 20, 2016
Prof. Andrea Alù, Associate Professor at Texas ECE was awarded the prestigious 2016 Simons Investigators award by the Simons Foundation to honor his achievements in research and academia. Prof. Alù received the Mathematics and Physical Sciences-Simons Investigators in Physics award. His work on the manipulation of light in artificial materials and metamaterials has shown how clever designs may surpass what had previously been thought to be limitations on wave propagation in materials.