During this week, I have worked on the follows:

1) working with Yiyu on the experiments for 3D via allocation:
1.1) generating the figure to show the hotspot cooling;
1.2) generating the via distribution;
1.3) designing scalability experiments to show runtime and 
the corresponding cooling result.
1.4) discussing with Joanna and Prof.Jing about how to extend it in routing;

2) revised and submitted the TCAD version for BVOR;
2.1) added the part about how to stamp in the VNA and NA matrices with active
devices;

3) reading papers on nonlinear MOR and opt:
3.1) bilinear MOR by Phillips is a nice form 
to reduce nonlinear system. the resulted state equation shows 
triangular structure; and the moment matching can be proved;
however, the problem is that the size of state matrices grows exponentially 
with model order; it needs a iterative procedure to obtain projection vector 
using the matrix structure;
3.2) peng li's paper directly use the Volterra expansion in an iterative
fashion; it avoids using the large state matrices but the moment matching 
is awkward in this scheme;
3.3) needs some discussion with some expert in math who know much of bilinear
formed nonlinear system.

4) checked status of chip from MOSIS website, no further news yet.