Basic on the physics of energy transformations at micro and nanoscales

Prof. L. Gammaitoni, NiPS Lab, Univ of Perugia

• Introduction to energy
• Energy transformations at micro scales
• The physics of computing: fundamental limits on energy
• Energy dissipation in present ICT devices 

Introduction to energy harvesting and distributed autonomous mobile devices

Prof. S. Roundy, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah

• Introduction to Energy harvesting and linear oscillator based harvesters
• Energy harvesting transducers (i.e. piezoeletric, electromagnetic, electrostatic)
• Wideband, Nonlinear, and non-resonant energy harvesting
• Devices and applications 

Software and energy aware computing

Prof. K. Eder and Dr. S. Kerrison, Univ. of Bristol; J. Gallagher, Roskilde Univ. and IMDEA Software Institute

• Foundations of measuring the energy consumption of software - Demo
• Energy modelling
• Fundamentals of static analysis of software
• Static analysis and optimization

High performance computing and systems

Prof. V. Heuveline, Univ. of Heidelberg

• High Performance Computing: Quid?
• Parallel programming
• Energy aware numerics
• Multicore and Manycore Technology: chances  and challenges