[4eyes] FW: [faculty] Reminder: MAT candidate talk today at 12:00

[Matthew Turk]

Here is information on today's MAT candidate talk at noon. Unfortunately, we
don't have a title or abstract:


MAT Candidate: Rehmi Post
Date: Monday, April 4
Time and Place: 12:00 in 1601 Elings Hall

Rehmi Post

Rehmi Post is a Visiting Scientist at the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms, 
where he develops novel inertial sensors and applications exploiting the 
electronic properties of materials.  In 1996 he earned a B.Sc. in 
Physics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he worked in 
the Tuominen Nanostructures Lab building superconducting single-electron 
transistors and wearable computers.  As an Interval Research Fellow at 
the MIT Media Lab, he earned an M.Sc. in 1998 for his pioneering work 
demonstrating multi-layer electronic circuits in textiles. In 2000 he 
co-founded ThingMagic, an RFID industry leader acquired in 2010 by 
Trimble Navigation Ltd.  Under a Motorola Fellowship he earned a Ph.D. 
in 2003 for the development of a novel inertial sensor based on the 
dynamics of levitated particles. His early work on interactive 
multi-touch surfaces appeared at MoMA (NY) in 1999, winning a Silver 
Medal in I.D. Magazine's Interactive Media Design Review (2000) for "its 
social dynamic and its capacity to integrate technology into a domestic 
space."   Most recently he has been interested in methods to harvest 
power and information from "static" electricity arising in textiles and 
other media.