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President Vailas to speak at Research Symposium
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Melinda Christensen
Issue date: 10/24/07 Section: News
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Jon Stoner, AMI Semiconductor's chief technology officer, and Arthur C. Vailas, Ph.D., president of Idaho State University, will underscore the value and potential for collaboration between higher education and private industry when they speak at the Third Annual ISU/AMI Semiconductor Research Symposium on Friday, Oct. 26.
AMIS and ISU, respectively, are the largest private and public employers in Bannock County. Stoner and Vailas will be keynote speakers at the ISU Rendezvous Complex's conference suite, where the symposium will run from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. This year's theme is "Forging Innovative Academic/Industrial Partnerships." The executives will make their presentations at the beginning of the symposium.
"It's an honor that leaders of AMIS and ISU will make presentations at the symposium," said Robert Holman, Ph.D., event organizer and ISU chemistry department chairman. "It shows how important both CTO Stoner and President Vailas think the potential for more collaboration is between these two entities."
AMIS designs and fabricates customized microchips for the automotive, medical, industrial, defense and aerospace industries. Its world headquarters is in Pocatello.
Following comments by Stoner and Vailas, two scientists from AMIS and two from ISU will make presentations. The event also will feature about 30 research poster sessions by AMIS scientists and engineers and ISU chemistry, physics, Idaho Accelerator Center and engineering faculty and students.
Holman said he originally helped organize the symposium for two major reasons:
• To help establish a venue for students to display their research results.
• To provide a forum of idea interchange between scientists and engineers at ISU and AMIS.
The symposium has helped create greater dialog between AMIS and ISU.
"AMIS now knows what we're doing at ISU and where we overlap in intellectual pursuit," Holman said. "Particularly in engineering, physics and chemistry there have been opportunities for collaboration. There has been a lot more dissemination of information."
AMIS and ISU, respectively, are the largest private and public employers in Bannock County. Stoner and Vailas will be keynote speakers at the ISU Rendezvous Complex's conference suite, where the symposium will run from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. This year's theme is "Forging Innovative Academic/Industrial Partnerships." The executives will make their presentations at the beginning of the symposium.
"It's an honor that leaders of AMIS and ISU will make presentations at the symposium," said Robert Holman, Ph.D., event organizer and ISU chemistry department chairman. "It shows how important both CTO Stoner and President Vailas think the potential for more collaboration is between these two entities."
AMIS designs and fabricates customized microchips for the automotive, medical, industrial, defense and aerospace industries. Its world headquarters is in Pocatello.
Following comments by Stoner and Vailas, two scientists from AMIS and two from ISU will make presentations. The event also will feature about 30 research poster sessions by AMIS scientists and engineers and ISU chemistry, physics, Idaho Accelerator Center and engineering faculty and students.
Holman said he originally helped organize the symposium for two major reasons:
• To help establish a venue for students to display their research results.
• To provide a forum of idea interchange between scientists and engineers at ISU and AMIS.
The symposium has helped create greater dialog between AMIS and ISU.
"AMIS now knows what we're doing at ISU and where we overlap in intellectual pursuit," Holman said. "Particularly in engineering, physics and chemistry there have been opportunities for collaboration. There has been a lot more dissemination of information."
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