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This is the last week of the Fall Quarter. I am sure everyone is busy with final exams, projects, and grading. I want to wish all the students the best of luck in their courses.
I also want to inform you all of a new faculty member who will join our faculty on Dec. 14, 1998. He is Andreas Moshovos, who completed his Ph.D. degree from the Computer Science Department of the University of Wisconsin today (Friday Dec. 4). His research interests are in Computer Architecture (within the field of Computer Engineering). He will teach the ECE B01 course in Winter '99 and the ECE D52 course in Spring '99. Both undergraduate and graduate students will be able to see him in action next year. Please join me in welcoming Andreas to the department.
As the holiday season approaches, the faculty and staff will celebrate the occasion with two holiday luncheons at the Allen Center, one on Dec. 15 in honor of the ECE staff, and one on Dec. 18 in honor of the McCormick staff. During these luncheons, we will show our appreciation to all the staff in the department who are the real people that make the department work. Thank you.
This will be the last newsletter of the quarter. I hope this weekly newsletter has been useful to all of you who receive it. We will resume the weekly newsletters during the first week of the Winter quarter, Jan. 4, 1999.
Wish you all Happy Holidays.
-Prith Banerjee
Chairman
There are no seminars scheduled this week.
Thursday, December 3: Ph.D. Final Examination
Sang-Kyung Choi, Physics Department
"Traveling-Wave Optical Parametric Amplifier: Quantum Noise Reduction
and Application to Optical Imaging"
Committee Members: P. Kumar (chairman), H. Yuen, and J. Ketterson
Monday, December 7: M.S. Final Examination - 10:00 a.m.
Room E133
Pramod G. Joisha
"Compilation of Regular HPF Programs using a Linear Algebra Framework"
Committee Members: P. Banerjee (chairman), A. Choudhary, V. Taylor, and
N. Shenoy
Tuesday, December 8: M.S. Final Examination - 2:00 p.m.
Room L324
Jiongyao Chen
"Generalized Snell's Law"
Committee Members: S.-T. Ho (chairman), M. Plonus, and A. Taflove
Thursday, December 10: M.S. Final Examination - 10:00 a.m.
Room L324
Jonathan Geisler
"Performance Coupling: A Methodology for Predicting Application
Performance Using Kernel Performance"
Committee Members: V. Taylor (chairman), P. Banerjee, J. Nocedal,
I. Foster
Thursday, December 10: Ph.D. Oral Qualifying Examination - 10:00 a.m.
Room E133
Amy Csizmar Dalal
"Characterization of User and Server Behavior in Web-based Networks"
Committee Members: S. Jordan (chairman), C.-C. Lee, M. Honig, and
M. VanOyen
Thursday, December 10: Ph.D. Oral Qualifying Examination - 2:00 p.m.
Room A230
Milica Popovic
"Two aspects of bioelectromagnetics in heterogeneous tissues: Part I:
Short-pulse imaging of breast tumors, Part II: Conduction in muscle
fibers"
Committee Members: A. Taflove (chairman), M. Epstein, A. Sahakian, and
T. Kuiken
We have just been informed that Prof. Scott Hauck has been awarded the National Science Foundation's CAREER award for 1999. The CAREER award is given to outstanding young faculty in all fields of science and engineering and is one of the most competitive and prestigious awards for junior faculty. The award is worth $200,000 over four years and will be given from the CCR division of the CISE directorate. Please join me in congratulating Prof. Hauck on this achievement.
Professor Alok Choudhary is traveling to Chennai and New Delhi, India, Dec. 8-27.
Professor Scott Hauck is traveling to Toronto, Ontario, Dec. 10-11, to serve as an external examiner for a Ph.D. defense and to give a talk.
Professor D. T. Lee is traveling to Seoul, Korea, Dec. 12-17, to chair a session at the Int'l Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC'98).
Professor Aggelos Katsaggelos was the Distinguished Speaker at the Integrated Media Systems Center at the University of Southern California, on Monday 11/23/98. He gave a lecture on "Recent Advances and Challenges in Multimedia Signal Processing".
You can look at news from previous weeks in Old News .