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In the last newsletter, I had mentioned that the ECE department will be interviewing several candidates for faculty positions starting Fall 1999. The first set of candidates will be visiting us this week.
Dr. Scott Acton (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, currently Associate Professor, Oklahoma State University) is a candidate in the area of digital signal processing and will visit us Wednesday, Feb. 17. He will present a seminar entitled, "Diffusion-Based Image and Video Processing" (see details in Seminar Announcements below).
Dr. Nabeel Riza (Ph.D. Caltech, currently Associate Professor, University of Central Florida) is a candidate in the area of photonics and optics, and will visit us Thursday, Feb. 18. He will present a seminar entitled, "Photonic Innovations: A High Impact Multidisciplinary Approach for Advanced Sensing, Testing, Computing, and Communication Systems" (see details in Seminar Announcements below).
I would like to invite all students and faculty to attend these seminars on state-of-the-art research results in these fields. They will be meeting with our department's graduate students in these fields. Please contact Nancy Singer for more information regarding their meeting schedule.
-Prith Banerjee
Chairman
PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SEMINAR
DATE: Tuesday, Feb 16
TIME/PLACE: 4-5PM, L324 (Tech)
TITLE: Efficiently Exploiting Ownership Sets in HPF
SPEAKER: Pramod Joisha, ECE Graduate Student (Advisor: P. Banerjee)
FACULTY CANDIDATE SEMINAR
DATE: Wednesday, Feb 17
TIME: 10:00-11:00 a.m.
PLACE: A230
TITLE: Diffusion-Based Image and Video Processing
SPEAKER: Scott T. Acton, Oklahoma State University
FACULTY CANDIDATE SEMINAR
DATE: Thursday, Feb 18
TIME: 10:30-11:30 a.m.
PLACE: B211
TITLE: Photonic Innovations: A High Impact Multidisciplinary Approach
for Advanced Sensing, Testing, Computing, and Communication Systems
SPEAKER: Nabeel A. Riza, University of Central Florida
VLSI CAD/ADAPTIVE COMPUTING SEMINAR
DATE: Thursday, Feb 18
TIME: 4-5PM
PLACE: L324
TITLE: Towards the Capability of Providing Power-area-delay
Tradeoff at Register Transfer Level
SPEAKER: Chunhong Chen, ECE post-doc (Advisor: Prof. Sarrafzadeh)
OPTIMIZATION & DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENTS SEMINAR
DATE: Friday, February 19
TIME: 10:30-11:30
PLACE: M228
TITLE: Global & Stochastic Optimization on metacomputing platform
SPEAKER: Golbon Zakeri, Argonne National Laboratory.
Tuesday, February 16: Ph.D. Final Examination - 11:00 a.m.
Room MLSB 2058
Di Wu
"MOCVD Growth and Characterization of InAsSb/InAs(SbP) on InAs
Substrate for the Mid-Infrared Laser Applications"
Committee Members: M. Razeghi (chairman), C. Kannewurf, N. Newman, J. Walsh
Prof. Seng-Tiong Ho traveled to Washington, D.C., on February 12, to
present a technical talk at a DARPA Meeting on Photonics
You can look at news from previous weeks in Old News .