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Electrical Engineering Department/ PPD

> April 28, 2003

**Vth INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON FRONT END ELECTRONICS**

**for High Energy, Nuclear, Medical, and Space Applications**

**June 30th to July 3rd, 2003**

**Snowmass Village, Colorado**

**Second Bulletin and Program**

**http://www-ppd.fnal.gov/EEDOffice-w/Conferences/FEE_2003/FEE2003.html**

Dear Colleague,

The response from our fellow colleagues to present talks at the 5th
International Meeting on Front End Electronics has been outstanding. We
have 41 talks scheduled over four days. The talks have been grouped into
8 very interesting sessions. The agenda is attached to this email as an
Excel spreadsheet or it can be found on the conference web site at
**http://www-ppd.fnal.gov/EEDOffice-w/conferences/FEE_2003/Agenda.html**.
The meeting agenda on the web site is being updated with abstracts of
the talks as they become available.

We are fortunate this year to have three highly respected speakers from
industry and academia that will give extended presentations. Dr. David
Frank from the IBM Watson Research Center will speak on \"CMOS
Technology for the next 10 Years\". His talk will touch upon new
developments such as strained silicon substrates, high-k dielectrics,
FinFETs, and ultra-thin fully depleted SOI MOSFETs. He will show the
importance of power dissipation in the development of new devices.
Another speaker will be Dr. Timothy Oldham, currently with the Radiation
Effects and Analysis Group at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. He
will present a talk on \"Scaling and Single Event Effects\". Dr. Oldham
is a well-known authority who has served as an advisor to various
agencies on radiation effects and reliability physics in semiconductor
electronics. Our third speaker will be Professor John D. Cressler from
the Georgia Institute of Technology. While at IBM, Dr. Cressler was
instrumental in the development of SiGe HBT technology. He has over 250
technical papers related to his research and has recently authored a
book entitled [Silicon-Germanium Heterojunction Bipolar
Transistors]{.underline}. He will be speaking on \"Assessing SiGe HBT
BiCMOS Technology for Front-End Electronics Applications.\" Abstracts
for each of these talks can be found at the following websites:

**http://www-ppd.fnal.gov/EEDOffice-w/conferences/FEE_2003/A1.html**

**http://www-ppd.fnal.gov/EEDOffice-w/conferences/FEE_2003/A2.html**

**http://www-ppd.fnal.gov/EEDOffice-w/conferences/FEE_2003/A3.html**.

**Registration**

***Although the program schedule is full at this time, space is still
available at the lodge in Snowmass for those that would like to attend
the meeting without presenting a talk.*** If you have not submitted a
talk and would like to attend this exciting meeting, you are welcome to
fill out a registration form and/or to suggest other colleagues of yours
that would be interested in the program. You may refer others to our web
page,

**http://www-ppd.fnal.gov/EEDOffice-w/Conferences/FEE_2003/FEE2003.html**,
for more information and ask them to fill out the registration form.
Registrations will be accepted as long as there is meeting room space
and available hotel rooms. ***However, since space is limited, it is
recommended that registrations be submitted as soon as possible.***

The registration fee for the meeting is \$175 and should be paid in
advance. The fee may be paid in several different ways. A check may be
made out to **Fermilab** and sent to the conference secretary at the
following address:

Jody Federwitz

FEE2003

Fermilab, MS 222

P. O. Box 500

Batavia, IL 60510

The registration fee may be paid using a VISA or MasterCard. The credit
card number can be sent by FAX to Jody Federwitz at 630-840-2950.

The fee may also be paid by sending a wire transfer to the following
address:

THE OAK BROOK BANK\
1400 WEST 16TH STREET\
OAK BROOK, IL 60521\
ABA# 071923310\
ACCOUNT# 107114400

The wire transfer must include the participant\'s name and reference to
FEE2003. In all cases, an email confirmation will be sent to the
participant acknowledging receipt of the registration fee.

**Accommodations**

All attendees must make their own hotel reservations unless other
arrangements have been made with the Conference Secretary. A block of
rooms has been reserved at the Stonebridge Inn, a lodge in a quiet part
of Snowmass, and at the neighboring Tamarack Townhouses,
**http://destinationsnowmass.com**. At the Stonebridge Inn, most of the
accommodations are hotel rooms; there are also a few suites. The rates
are:

Hotel room (single or double occupancy) - \$89,

Standard suite - \$115,

Superior suite- \$130.

The Tamarack Townhouses are 2 bedroom, 2 bath condos for \$126/night
with a four night minimum. The condominiums are very attractive and are
ideal for 2 parties wanting to share accommodations to reduce housing
costs or simply to have more space for a family. In all accommodations,
children are free. Housing reservations are to be made directly with
Stonebridge and Tamarack through e-mail,
**stonebridgeinn@destinationhotels.com**, or by calling 1-800-922-7242.
(Ask for the FEE2003 rate.) Note that arrangements have been made with
the hotels for participants to arrive early or stay late and still
receive the conference rate. A number of participants will be bringing
family members to take advantage of this opportunity to see Colorado.

**Speaker Information:**

Speakers should submit their talks electronically ahead of time so they
may be loaded onto the program computer. The simplest way is to send an
email to the Conference Secretary, **jody@fnal.gov**, and include the
talk as an attachment. If the talk is a large document, it should be
zipped before sending. The speaker will receive an acknowledgement that
the file was received and is stored for presentation. No talks should be
sent after June 23. After June 23rd, the electronic copy that is brought
to the meeting will be loaded onto the program computer.

A 50-100 word summary should have been submitted to the Conference
Secretary when submitting the registration form. If the abstract was not
submitted at that time, please send it to **jody@fnal.gov** as soon as
possible.

Speakers should bring both a hard copy and an electronic copy of their
talk to the meeting. These copies should be given to the Conference
secretary when checking in. These copies will be used to update the
program computer if necessary and allow for copies of individual talks
to be made for others at the meeting.

An overhead transparency projector and a computer with an LCD projector
will be available for presentations.  The computer will have Adobe
Acrobat 5.0 and Office XP Software Suite with Microsoft Word 2002
and Microsoft PowerPoint 2002.  It is strongly suggested that speakers
use one of these software programs for their presentation. If speakers
have other software needs, they can bring their own laptop and connect
to the LCD projector. 

A CD with all the talks will be sent to participants after the meeting.

**Travel:**

Participants should plan to arrive by Sunday night, June 29 in order to
attend the early presentations on Monday morning. Most people will
probably fly to Denver, Colorado and then take a connecting flight to
Aspen, Colorado. Free shuttle service from the airport is provided by
the Stonebridge Inn for both the Stonebridge Inn and the Tamarack
Townhomes. Just call the Stonebridge at 923-2420 when you arrive at the
airport to arrange for a pickup.

Alternately, some may want to rent a car in Denver and enjoy the
spectacular drive to Snowmass, which is about 3 1/2 hours away. For
reference, maps are provided on the Conference website for those
driving.

We thank all the speakers who are taking the time to present their work.
And, we invite other interested parties to attend the meeting as well.
This will be a wonderful opportunity in a relaxed setting to meet new
people and discuss some of the latest developments in our fields of
interest.

With best regards,

Ray Yarema for the Organizing Committee

The Organizing Committee:

Peter Weilhammer

Roberto Battiston

Pierre Jarron

Marcus French

Paul O\'Connor

Kevin Einsweiler

Brig Williams

Ray Yarema, Chairman