This page contains news related to the ECE department of the current week. Specifically it includes current information about seminars, exams, travel, research grants, professional news, personal news scheduled for this week.
This newsletter is also emailed by Friday afternoon of previous week to: {faculty,staff,gradstudents,ee-undergrads,co-undergrads}@ece.nwu.edu.
If you are not receiving this email, please contact root@ece.nwu.edu and we will get you on that email list, mention which category you belong to.
In this issue I want to update you on our plans to reach all our students through electronic mail. In the past we have had email aliases that were called ee-undergrad@ece.nwu.edu and co-undergrad@ece.nwu.edu to send email to the EE undergrads and CompE undergrads based on the students that had accounts on the ECE machines. When students graduated from the university, their records were not necessarily updated. Also not all students had accounts on the ECE machines, hence they were not receiving their email. For example, freshmen students did not have ECE accounts in the past. In fact, many students complained that they were NOT getting the emails that we sent, e.g., this newsletter.
Starting this week, we have now created the following email aliases for our students:
{ee-freshmen, co-freshmen, ee-sophomores, co-sophomores, ee-juniors, co-juniors, ee-seniors, co-seniors}@ece.nwu.edu
This email list has been created by the Chairman's Assistant Nancy Singer (nancy@ece.nwu.edu) and is based on the OFFICIAL university records of enrollment as of Fall 1998. The email addresses are set as the official email addresses as registered by the university (e.g., when you do a "ph name" of the student).
The list will be updated every year based on the Fall registrations. It will be managed by the Chairman's Assistant Nancy Singer (nancy@ece.nwu.edu); please send her email if there are any updates.
This will allow faculty, students, and staff in the department to contact students in a certain manner. For example, this is the email list I am using to contact the EE and CE seniors with respect to getting their resumes ready for the ECE Resume Booklets and to inform them of job openings. We will send news about CO-OP opportunities to all sophomore or junior students.
Have a nice week.
Prith Banerjee
Chairman
Optimization & Distributed Environments Seminar
DATE: Wednesday, November 4
TIME: 4-5PM
TITLE: Solving Large-Scale Set Partitioning Problems
on Distributed Memory Computer Architectures.
Speaker: Jeff Linderoth. Argonne National Lab.
Location: M228
Database seminar
DATE: Wednesday, November 4
TIME: 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Topic: Database Integration
Speakers: Tania Neild and Chetna Putta
Location: L324, ECE conference room
VLSI CAD/Adaptive Computing Seminar
DATE: Wednesday, November 4
TIME: 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Topic: To be announced
Speaker: Zhiyuan Li, ECE graduate student
(Prof. Hauck, advisor)
Location: L324
Parallel and Distributed Computing Seminar
DATE: Friday, November 6
TIME: 11:00 a.m.
Topic: The Esprit Project HPF+
Speaker: Prof. Hans Zima, University of Vienna
Location: A230
Thursday, November 5: M.S. Final Examination - 4:00 p.m.
Room G247
Michael Chudzik
"Fabrication and Characterization of Heterostructures for
Superconducting Applications"
Committee Members: Prof. C. Kannewurf (Chairman), Prof. J. Diaz,
Prof. T. Marks, Dr. M. Lanagan
Friday, November 6: Ph.D. Final Examination - 3:00 p.m.
Room L324
Chun-Jen Tsai
"Disparity and Motion Fields Estimation in Bi-Channel Video Sequences"
Committee Members: Prof. A. Katsaggelos (Chairman), Prof. W. Lin,
Prof. C. Wu, Prof. I. Horswill
Professor Scott Hauck traveled to Santa Fe NM, 9/28- 10/1, to attend the DARPA PI meeting. He also traveled to Pittsburgh, PA, 10/12 - 10/14, to attend talks at CMU.
Professor Michael Honig is traveling to Pacific Beach, CA, and Washington, DC, November 1-8, to attend the Asilomar Conference on Signals and Systems and an NSF/ONR Workshop on Future Directions in Systems and Control Research in Communications Networks.
Professor Aggelos Katsaggelos attended the Signal and Image Processing Conference in Las Vegas (10/28-10/31), where he gave a plenary talk and presented a short course; he attended the Asilomar Conference (11/1-11/4) at Monterey, CA, where he presented an invited paper.
Professor Alan Sahakian visited Hong Kong from 10/24 - 11/1 for the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) Annual Conference, attending as Vice President for Publications and Technical Activities and chairing the Publications Committee meeting.
MIT Lincoln Labs will be on campus for recruiting on Nov. 3, 1998. An informational session is scheduled for 5 p.m. in Room #2C of Norris Center. You can also stop by the Career Services Office located on campus or contact: hackett@ll.mit.edu [Tel: 781-981-7056] for more information.
A formal presentation will be made on Saturday, November 21, at 12:30 p.m. by class Representative Donald Kotek. All are invited to attend.
You can look at news from previous weeks in Old News .