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The month of March has been very busy for us while interviewing prospective faculty candidates. We are looking for two new faculty members to join our department starting Fall 1999 in the areas of signal and image processing, optics, and networks. We received more than 200 applications for these positions and have invited nine candidates for interviews.
All students and faculty are encouraged to attend the faculty candidate seminars on the days of their visits. See the seminar announcements below for the exact times and places of the seminars. The candidates that are visiting, and their general area of expertise are given below. Three of the candidates will be visiting us this week.
-Prith Banerjee
Chairman
FACULTY CANDIDATE SEMINAR
DATE: Tuesday, Mar 9
TIME: 10:30-11:30 a.m.
PLACE: A230
TITLE: A Bayesian Formulation for Content-Based Retrieval from Visual
Libraries
SPEAKER: Nuno Vasconcelos, MIT
FACULTY CANDIDATE SEMINAR
DATE: Wednesday, Mar 10
TIME: 10:30-11:30 a.m.
PLACE: A230
TITLE: A Cohesive Approach to Traffic Management in
Computer-Communication Networks
SPEAKER: Anthony Burrell, University of Alabama
FACULTY CANDIDATE SEMINAR
DATE: Thursday, Mar 11
TIME: 10:30-11:30 a.m.
PLACE: B211
TITLE: Adaptive SISO Algorithms and Iterative Detection for Systems
with Parametric Uncertainty
SPEAKER: Achilleas Anastapoulos, University of Southern California
VLSI CAD/ADAPTIVE COMPUTING SEMINAR
DATE: Thursday, Mar 11
TIME: 4:00-5:00 p.m.
PLACE: L324
TITLE: Synthesis of Power-Optimized and Area-Optimized Circuits from
Hierarchical Behavioral Descriptions
SPEAKER: Vivian Guzman, ECE graduate student (Advisor: Prof. Sarrafzadeh)
DATE: Friday, Mar 12
TIME: 3:30-4:30 p.m.
PLACE: A230
TITLE: Time-Varying Channels with Side Information
SPEAKER: Muriel Medard, University of Illinois
There are no examinations scheduled this week.
Professors Prith Banerjee, Alok Choudhary, Scott Hauck, Majid Sarrafzadeh, and Nagaraj Shenoy traveled to Washington, DC, March 4-5, to attend two DARPA Reviews on the MATCH Project and the CHIMAERA Project.
Prof. Valerie Taylor is traveling to Albuquerque, NM, March 8-11, to serve on the X Division Review Committee for LANL.
Prof. Jorge Nocedal is traveling to Paris, Toulouse, France, March 13-21, to initiate new research collaboration with J.C. Gilbert of INRIA, Paris, and continue research collaboration with Meteo France and Dr. Sartenear, Toulouse.
You can look at news from previous weeks in Old News .