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VLSI Design and CAD Seminar
DATE: Thursday, April 27, 2000
TIME: 4:00-5:00 p.m.
PLACE: L324
TITLE: Recent Advances in Verification
SPEAKER: Dr. Dhiraj K. Pradhan, Vice President, Digital Research, Inc.,
College Station, Texas
Monday, April 24, 2000: Ph.D. Final Examination - 10:00 a.m.
Room L324
Gerry Melnikov
"Operationally Optimal Shape Coding"
Committee Members: A. Katsaggelos (chairman), A. Sahakian,
M. Sarrafzadeh, and G. Schuster
Wednesday, April 26, 2000: M.S. Final Examination - 4:30 p.m.
Room A230
Paul Voss
"Measurement of Single-Mode Photon Statistics of Zeros and Ones from
an Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier"
Committee Members: P. Kumar (chairman), H. Yuen, and A. Taflove
Friday, April 28, 2000: M.S. Final Examination - 1:30 p.m.
Room A230
Ankur Srivastava
"Gate Duplication for Performance Optimization"
Committee Members: M. Sarrafzadeh (chairman), P. Banerjee, and
A. Choudhary
Friday, April 28, 2000: Ph.D. Final Examination - 2:30 p.m.
Room L324
Vincent L. Rawls
"Adaptive Methods for Cost Reduction in Nonlinear Lyapunov Design"
Committee Members: R. Freeman (chairman), A. Haddad, J. Nocedal, and
E. Colgate
ECE students Michael Englert and Edward Wang were honored at the IEEE Chicago Section Awards Banquet Saturday, April 15. Michael received a Scholarship Award and Edward received a Leadership Award.
Prof. Prith Banerjee visited the Illinois Institute of Technology on Friday, April 21, and gave a Distinguished Lecture.
Prof. Carl Kannewurf is traveling to San Francisco, CA, April 19 - May 1, to attend the Materials Research Society Spring meeting. Session Title: Thermoelectric Materials 2000 -- The Next Generation Materials.
Prof. Valerie Taylor traveled to Pittsburgh, PA, April 19-20, to give an Invited Talk to the College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.
Prof. Bruce Wessels is traveling to San Francisco, CA, April 24-26, to present the paper, "Metal-organic molecular beam epitaxy of MgO on Si" at the Materials Research Society Spring meeting.
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