Events

  • May 25, 2020 - Prof. Solé-Pareta and Dr. Abadal, together with Dr. Lemic of University of Antwerpen, are co-editing a special issue on "Nanonetworking Communications: Latest Advances and Prospects" in MDPI Electronics [+info]

  • June 01, 2020 - Dr. Filip Lemic (University of Antwerpen) is joining N3Cat with a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship grant.

  • September 25, 2019 - Sergi Abadal receives the Young Investigator Award of Nano Communication Networks Journal. [+info]

  • September 15, 2019 - N3Cat contributes to the editing of a new Special Issue of the IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS) on Programmable Metamaterials. [+info]

  • September 06, 2019 - Sergi Abadal gives an invited talk at the University of Catania entitled "Graphene THz Wireless Communications for Networks-on-Chip and Programmable Metasurfaces".

  • September 01, 2019 - N3Cat contributes to the editing of a new Special Issue of the Elevier's Nano Communication Networks journal on chip-scale nanonetworks. [+info]

  • April 30, 2019 - Eduard Alarcón is awarded with the prestigious scholarship ICREA Acadèmia. [+info]

  • October 11, 2018 - N3Cat alumni Sergi Abadal and Raül Gómez Cid-Fuentes have been awarded with the "Outstanding Thesis Award" given to a selection of PhD thesis from the 2016 academic year.

  • June 28-29, 2018 - N3Cat contributes to the team of lecturers of the Doctoral School "Tunable and Software-Driven Functional Metasurfaces", held in Helsinki, Finland.

  • June 25, 2018 - Sergi Abadal gives an invited talk entitled "Graphene-based Terahertz Antennas: Advanced Designs and Emerging Applications”, at Technical University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland.

  • May 27-30, 2018 - N3Cat leads the special session entitled "Circuits and Systems for Fully Programmable Metamaterials" at the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits & Systems, in Florence, Italy.

  • April 9, 2018 - N3Cat welcomes our colleague Dr. Anna Vizziello, from the Università degli studi di Pavia who has been here performing a short research/teaching stay.

  • April 5, 2018 - N3Cat participates actively in the 3rd Workshop on Molecular Communications thanks to the FET CIRCLE project. Dr. Alarcón will lead two panels on bio-inspired wireless solutions and a roadmap for molecular communications, whereas our PhD student Simon Assaf will present a paper on molecular communication applied to treating Alzheimer's disease.

  • April 3, 2018 - Dr. Hosseininejad from University of Teheran visits N3Cat and gives an invited talk on graphene terahertz antennas and metasurfaces.

  • February 15, 2018 - We welcome new students Santiago Rodrigo (PhD), Hamidreza Taghvaee (PhD), Carlos Manso (MSc), and Álex Barcia (BSc) to the N3Cat group.

  • February 7, 2018 - Àlex Martinavarro defens his bachelor's degree thesis, entitled "Graphene Fractal Antennas".

  • February 6, 2018 - Sergi Abadal is appointed as Area Editor of the Nano Communication Networks Journal (Elsevier).

  • January 31, 2018 - N3Cat hosts the 3rd General Assembly meeting of the VISORSURF project.

  • Octover 20, 2017 - Xavier Timoneda defens his final project degree, entitled "Electromagnetic Propagation in a Computing Package"

  • August 19, 2017 - Josep Solé-Pareta and Sergi Abadal participate in a series of divulgative talks about science at the Universitat Catalana d'Estiu, Prada de Conflent, France, with a seminar called "El grafè aplicat a les nanocomunicacions sense fils: des de xarxes dins un xip fins a metamaterials reconfigurables"

  • August 15, 2017 - Sergi Abadal discusses the Visorsurf project in an invited talk entitled "Wireless Communications within and between Chips, Metasurfaces, and Nanodevices", given at the Georgia Institute of Technology, GA, USA.

  • August 14, 2017 - Sergi Abadal gives an invited talk entitled “Wireless Communications within and between Chips, Metasurfaces, and other small devices”, at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (SUNNY), NY, USA.

  • August 10, 2017 - Sergi Abadal gives an invited talk called “Graphene-based Wireless Communications for Area-Constrained Applications: from Network-on-Chip to Reconfigurable Metasurfaces”, at the Rochester Institute of Technology, NY, USA.

  • July 24, 2017 - One of our scientific directors, Albert Cabellos, receives the ICREA Acadèmia award. ICREA Acadèmia recognizes the outstanding research track of professors that hold a permanent position in Catalan Universities and further promotes the awardees' research.

  • July 10, 2017 - Eduard Alarcón, Albert Cabellos, and Sergi Abadal are featured in several online news articles referring to the Visorsurf project. More details here, here, and here.

  • January 10-11, 2017 - VisorSurf kick-off meeting takes place at FORTH, Heraklion, Crete, Greec

  • September 23, 2016 - Ignacio Llatser receives a UPC Outstanding Dissertation Award for its thesis "On the scalability limits of communication networks to the nanoscale"

  • Juliol 15, 2016 - Sergi Abadal defends his PhD Thesis entitled "Broadcast-Oriented Wireless Network-on-Chip: Fundamentals and Feasibility" , in Barcelona, Spain

  • April 6, 2016 - Sergi Abadal gives the invited lecture "Wireless Network-on-chip: Let it Broadcast" at the Interconnection Networks course, ECE/CS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA.

  • Octover 12, 2015 - The N3Cat article "Time-Domain Analysis of Graphene-Based Miniaturized Antennas for Ultra-Short-Range Impulse Radio Communications" has been highlighted in the IEEEXplore spotlight blog. The post includes Sergi Abadal's impressions on graphene wireless communications.

  • September 29, 2015 - N3Cat leads the special session entitled "Advanced Wireless Networks-on-Chip for Future Manycore Architectures" at the ACM/IEEE 9th International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip.

  • January 17, 2014 - Ignacio Llatser defends his PhD Thesis entitled "On the Scalability Limits on Communication Networks to the Nanoscale", in Barcelona, Spain.

  • October 22, 2013 - Sergi Abadal-Cavallé is awarded with the INTEL Doctoral Student Honor Programme at the INTEL European Research & Innovation Conference (ERIC).

  • October 15, 2013 - Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech on "Rocking the World Nano Scale: Future Internet Research for Communication Networks in Medicine, Health and Beyond" at the Research Council of Norway, Trondheim, Norway.

  • August 18, 2013 - Josep Solé-Pareta gives a speech entitled "El grafè i les seves aplicacions en l'àmbit de les Tecnologies de la Informació i les Telecomunicacions (TIC)", at the Universitat Catalana d'Estiu

  • August, 2013 - Massimiliano Pierobon joins the University of Nebraska at Lincoln>, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, as an Assistant Professor.

  • August, 2013 - Josep Miquel Jornet joins the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo, Department of Electrical Engineering, as an Assistant Professor.

  • August 7, 2013 - Massimiliano Pierobon defends his Ph.D. thesis entitled Fundamentals of Diffusion-based Molecular Communication in Nanonetworks

  • August 6, 2013 - Josep Miquel Jornet defends his Ph.D. thesis entitled Fundamentals of Electromagnetic Nanonetworks in the Terahertz Band.

  • June 23, 2013 - Sergi Abadal gives a presentation on "Graphene-based Wireless Network-on-chip: Enabling next-generation scalable manycore architectures" in 1st Int'l Workshop on Emerging Topics in NoC-Aware Computer Architecture, held within the 40th International Symposium in Computer Architecture (ISCA), Tel Aviv, Israel.

  • June 21-22, 2012 - The NaNoNetworking Summit 2012 is held at UPC, Barcelona

  • February 10, 2012 - Albert Mestres defends her Master's Thesis, titled "Capacity and Delay of Bacteria-Based Communication in Nanonetworks", in Barcelona, Spain.

  • October 28th, 2011 - Dr. Kaushik Chowdhury gives an invited talk on "Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks: From Device Design to Deployment", in Barcelona, Spain.

  • August 30-September 2, 2011 - Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech on "The Internet Of Nano-Things" at the 8th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance in Klagenfurt, Austria

  • September 1, 2011 - Josep Miquel Jornet gives a talk on "Wireless Nanosensor Networks," in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, New Jersey, USA

  • August 29-September 1, 2011 - Josep Miquel Jornet gives a presentation on "Graphene-based Nano-antennas for Electromagnetic Communication among Nano-Devices," in the Nanoelectronic Devices for Defense & Security Conference, NANO-DDS, in Polytechnic Institute of New York University, Brooklyn, NY, USA

  • August 29, 2011 - Josep Miquel Jornet gives a seminar entitled "The Internet Of Nano-Things," in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA

  • July 19, 2011 - Anastasia Pantazopoulou presents her work on "Simulation of Graphene-based Nano-Antennas", which she has conducted during her Erasmus Mundus research stay at N3Cat, Barcelona, Spain

  • July 19, 2011 - Dr. Marcello Caleffi gives an invited seminar on "Unexpected Cleverness in Unicellular, Organisms: The Slime Mold Case", in Barcelona, Spain.

  • July 13, 2011 - Raül Gómez Cid-Fuentes defends his Telecommunication Engineering Degree Final Project, entitled "Wake-Up Transceiver Architectures with Symbol Time Estimation Schemesfor ElectroMagneticNanoNetworks," in Barcelona, Spain

  • June 22-23, 2011 - The Third NaNoNetworking Summit was held at UPC, Barcelona

  • June 20-22, 2011 - Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech on "Nanonetworks: A New Frontier in Information Theory" at the 2011 IEEE Communication Theory Workshop (CTW 2011), Sitges (Barcelona)

  • June 15, 2011 - Iñaki Pascual defends his Telecommunication Engineering Degree Final Project, entitled "N3Sim: Simulator for diffusion-based molecular communicationsin nanonetworks," in Barcelona, Spain

  • May 26, 2011 - Josep Solé-Pareta and Ignacio Llatser present the research activities of N3Cat at the kick-off meeting of the Spanish Graphene Network in Madrid, Spain

  • May 25, 2011 - Dr. Akyildiz has been awarded with the IEEE Computer Society W. Wallace McDowell Award with the citation "for pioneering contributions in wireless sensor network architectures and communication protocols". He will receive this award in a ceremony in Albuquerque, New Mexico (http://www.computer.org/portal/web/awards/wallace )

  • May 18, 2011 - Josep Solé-Pareta and Ignacio Llatser present the research activities of N3Cat at the first meeting of the Catalan Graphene Network (CATGRAPHNET) in Castelldefels, Spain

  • May 5, 2011 - Ignacio Llatser gives an Ignite talk titled 'Graphene-enabled Wireless Communication Networks at the Nanoscale' at the fet11 conference, Budapest

  • May 5, 2011 - Ozgur Akan gives an Ignite talk titled 'There is a Plenty of Room for Communication Networks at the Bottom!' at the fet11 conference, Budapest

  • April 27, 2011 - Nora Garralda defends her Master's Thesis, titled "Diffusion-based Physical Channel Identification for Molecular Nanonetworks", in Barcelona, Spain.

  • April 18, 2011 - Massimiliano Pierobon gives an invited seminar entitled "Diffusion-based Molecular Communication in Nanonetworks," at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

  • April 15, 2011 - Massimiliano Pierobon gives an invited seminar entitled "Diffusion-based Molecular Communication in Nanonetworks," at the UM-SJTU Joint Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

  • March 24, 2011 - Ignacio Llatser gives the invited talk 'Nanonetworks: A novel communication paradigm' at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm.

  • February 8, 2011 - Ignacio Llatser defends his Master's Thesis, titled "Exploring the Scalability Limits of Communication Networks at the Nanoscale", in Barcelona, Spain

  • February 7-8, 2011 - Dr. Akyildiz gives a distinguished lecture on "Nanonetworks: A New Communication Paradigm" at the Triangle CS Distinguished Lecturer Series (TCSDLS) at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina

  • January 18th, 2011- Maria Gregori and Ignacio Llatser are interviewed at the radio show "Peer Review Radio" about their work on bacteria-based nanonetworks

  • December 6-10, 2010 - Dr. Akyildiz receives the IEEE Communications Society Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Technical Committee (AHSN TC) Technical Recognition Award with the citation /for pioneering contributions to wireless sensor networks and wireless mesh networks/. He receives this award at the IEEE Globecom 2010 Conference, in Miami, Florida

  • December 6-10, 2010 - Dr. Akyildiz gives a plenary talk on "Nanonetworks: A New Frontier in Communications" at the IEEE Globecom Conference, Miami, Florida

  • December 6-10, 2010 - Dr. Akan gives the tutorial* "Bio-inspired and Nano-scale Communication and Networking," IEEE Globecom 2010 Conference, in Miami, Florida

  • November 10, 2010 - Josep Miquel Jornet gives a seminar entitled "Enabling Electromagnetic Communication in Wireless Nanosensor Networks," at the Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas, Texas

  • November 7-12, 2010 - Josep Miquel Jornet participates with the talk entitled "Terahertz Communications for Graphene-based Devices," at the IEEE 802.15 WPAN Terahertz Interest Group, IEEE 802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee Meeting, in Dallas, Texas
  • November, 2010 - Magazine New Scientist publishes an article about the research on bacteria-based nanonetworks done at N3Cat

  • October 26, 2010 - Albert Cabellos-Aparicio gives the invited talk 'Nanonetworking - A new communication frontier' at Cisco Systems, San Jose

  • July 26, 2010 - Ignacio Llatser gives the talk 'Nanonetworking - A new communication paradigm' during the International Graduate School on Mobile Communications, at the Ilmenau University of Technology

  • July 8, 2010 - Sergi Abadal Cavallé will defend his Master thesis entitled "Automata Modeling of Quorum Sensing for Nanocommunication Networks", in Barcelona, Spain

  • June 23, 2010 - The Second NaNoNetworking Day was held at UPC, Barcelona

  • May 8-11, 2010 - Dr. Akyildiz gives the keynote speech on "Nanonetworks: A New Frontier in Communications" at the 18th International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT 2011), Ayia Napa, Cyprus

  • October 30, 2009 - Lluís Parcerisa Giné defends his Master thesis entitled "Molecular Communication Options for Long Range NaNoNetworks", in Barcelona, Spain

  • September 2009 - Dr. Akan gives the **tutorial*, "Bio-inspired and Nano-scale Communication and Networking," IEEE ISWCS 2009, Siena, Italy

  • July 29, 2009 - Maria Gregori Casas defends her Master thesis entitled "A New NanoNetwork Architecture using Flagellated Bacteria and Catalytic Nanomotors", in Barcelona, Spain

  • July 2009 - Dr. Akan gives the Keynote Speech, "Bio-inspired and Nano-scale Molecular Communications: From Evolution to Evaluation," SPECTS 2009, Istanbul, Turkey

  • July 22, 2009 - The First NaNoNetworking Day was held at UPC, Barcelona, Spain, aimed at pointing out open challenges involving communication at the nano-scale as well as helping creating community to address this new paradigm

  • July 2009 - Dr. Akyildiz is interviewed at Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), regarding his pioneering research on nanonetworks and his recently founded NaNoNetworking Center in Catalunya at UPC.