Welcome to EITA-YIC 2013

(MIT Dome, Yu-Chih Ko)

"Leadership, Innovation, Growth"

Ray and Maria Stata Center

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The third annual EITA Young Investigator Conference (EITA-YIC 2013) is an international forum, coordinated by the Emerging Information and Technology Association (EITA). It will be held on Thursday-Friday, August 1-2, 2013 at Ray and Maria Stata Center (Building 32), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.. The conference theme of the EITA-YIC 2013 is "Leadership, Innovation, Growth". Please visit the EITA-YIC 2013 website for more conference details.

The main purpose of the EITA YIC Forum is designed to aid the career development and shape the career plans of promising young investigators in emerging technologies and services.

The EITA YIC Forum will provide an opportunity for collegial interaction with senior faculty members and investigators having successful careers across the broad spectrum of emerging technology and services research.

There is a projected future shortage of emerging technology and services researchers, and research funding is difficult to obtain. This retreat is aimed at providing guidance, tactics and strategies to help improve the chances of achieving a successful career in emerging technology and services research. The aims are:

• To provide young investigators with a friendly and constructive atmosphere in order to present their research and learn from each other. 
• To foster the pursuit of research in emerging technologies and services by young investigators.
• To disseminate vital information required for pursuing a career in research.
• To meet, network with senior faculty members and investigators, and to establish extramural research mentorship.
• To enable young investigators to contribute to the development of emerging technologies and services.

Definition of Young Investigator: active basic, applied, theoretical, and experimental research, ideally less than 10 years working in emerging technologies and services.

The EITA-YIC 2013 consists of four parallel workshops:

• Workshop 1 (W1): Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Aerospace and Ocean Engineering (AOEAS)

• Workshop 2 (W2): Medicine Public Health, Biomedical Science and Engineering
  
• Workshop 3 (W3): New Materials Science and Engineering, Nanotechnology and New Green Energy
  
• Workshop 4 (W4): Broadband and Wireless Computing, Web, Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, and Machine Learning

Possible Workshop Topics

The EITA-YIC 2013 is structured around a number of sub-themes that include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

• Click here for the AOEAS possible workshop topics.
• Click here for the biomedical research possible workshop topics.
• Click here for the new materials and new green energy possible workshop topics.
• Click here for the new media possible workshop topics.

as they relate to the research and development aspects of AOEAS, Medicine, Life Sciences, Biomedical Science and Engineering, New Materials, New Media, etc.. The long lists are not meant to be all-inclusive. Rather, they should be used to stimulate and encourage other ideas and possibilities.