Short Courses Short Courses will be offered on Sunday, June 8th from 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Each course will consist of 8 hours of lecture and will have an enrollment fee of $375 on or before April 15, 2003 and $425 after April 15, 2003. Fee includes entrance to one short course, course handouts, box lunch and coffee breaks. Seating is limited and registration is on a first-come, first-served basis. Early registration is encouraged. On-site registration is very limited. Short Course Organizer: Leland "Chip" Spangler, Aspen Technologies, USA Short Course 1 Introduction to Packaging of Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) Instructor: Victor M. Bright, University of Colorado, USA Short Course 2 Introduction to MEMS and Micromachining Technology Instructors: Carol Livermore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA and Reza Ghodssi from the University of Maryland, USA Short Course 3 Analog Circuit Design for Sensor Interfaces Instructor: Willy Sansen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BELGIUM Short Course 4 MEMS for RF/Wireless Communications Instructor: Hector De Los Santos, NanoMEMS Research LLC, USA Short Course 5 Optical MEMS In Communication and Sensing: Fabrication, Design and Scaling of Optical Microsystems Instructor: Olav Solgaard, Stanford University, USA Short Course 6 BioMEMS (Biomedical Microelectromechanical Systems) Instructor: Dorian Liepmann, University of California at Berkeley, USA Short Course 7 Simulation of Micro and Nanosystems: Foundations, Emerging Techniques and Challenges Instructor: Narayana R. Aluru, University of Illinois, USA