The MWSCAS 2005 Organizing Committee congratulates the 10 finalists in the 2005 Student Paper Contest.

Finalists were chosen from a total of 120 contest submissions, on the basis of

--significance of results

--originality of results

--thoroughness of research

--clarity of exposition

We would like to thank all the students who entered the contest. The large number of excellent submissions made the judges' task a difficult one.

Finalists will present their papers Monday morning, August 8, in the Radisson Hotel's Commonwealth Room. Information about the finalists' papers and presentation times is listed here. From the ten finalists, three winning students will be chosen. Judges will consider both the written papers and the oral presentations in selecting the winners. Each finalist will have 20 minutes for their presentation and any questions. Winners will receive cash prizes. Winners will be announced at lunch on Tuesday.

CONTEST SCHEDULE (Commonwealth Room):

9:10--A CONTINUOUS-TIME DELTA-SIGMA MODULATOR WITH 63-DB DYNAMIC RANGE AND 500KHZ BANDWIDTH IN 0.35UM SOI CMOS TECHNOLOGY--Jinhu Sun, Yi Zhang, Adrian Leuciuc, Yi Tian (State University of New York at Stony Brook)

9:30--A 2 GHZ VARIABLE GAIN LOW NOISE AMPLIFIER IN 0.18 MICRON CMOS--Shaikh Khairul Alam, Joanne Degroat (The Ohio State University)

9:50--A 2.7-UW/MHZ TRANSMISSION-GATE-BASED 16-BIT MULTIPLIER FOR DIGITAL HEARING AIDS--Flavio Carbognani, Felix Buergin, Norbert Felber, Hubert Kaeslin, Wolfgang Fichtner (ETH Zurich)

10:10--SINH FILTERS IN WEAK INVERSION CMOS TECHNOLOGY--Andreas Katsiamis, Emmanuel Drakakis (Imperial College London)

10:30-10:45--COFFEE BREAK

10:45--A HIGH DYNAMIC-RANGE CMOS IMAGE SENSOR WITH LOCALLY ADJUSTING CHARGE SUPPLY MECHANISM-- Wei Jean Liu, Hsiu Fen Yeh, Oscal T.C. Chen (National Chung Cheng University)

11:05--NOVEL USAGE OF WAVELETS AS BASIS IN RDNN FOR TELECOMMUNICATION APPLICATIONS--Hemal Shah, Hoda Abdel-Aty-Zohdy, M. Hashem Sherif (Oakland University)

11:25--DYNAMIC-EFFECT COMPENSATING TECHNIQUE FOR STABLE A-SI:H AMOLED DISPLAYS--Gholamreza Chaji, Nader Safavian, Arokia Nathan (University of Waterloo)

11:45--A LOW-RATE IDENTIFICATION METHOD FOR DIGITAL PREDISTORTERS BASED ON VOLTERRA KERNEL INTERPOLATION--Peter Singerl, Heinz Koeppl (Technical University Graz)

12:05--EXTRAPOLATING ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER--Zheng Yang, Jan Van der Spiegel (University of Pennsylvania)

12:45--ADAPTIVE SEARCH WINDOW SIZE ALGORITHM FOR FAST MOTION ESTIMATION IN H.264/AVC STANDARD--Sumeer Goel, Yasser Ismail, Magdy Bayoumi (Louisiana State University Lafayette)