Ph.D. student, Zeyu Sun's paper on the EM saturatiom volume estmation for general interconnect wires has been accpeted by TVLSI:

Z. Sun, S. Sadiqbatcha,H. Zhao, and S. X.-D. Tan, “Saturation volume estimation for  multi-segment copper interconnect wire”,  IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integrated Systems  (TVLSI), (in press).