DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING NEWSLETTER
Week of December 4 - 8, 2000

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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

This is the last newsletter of the quarter and the year. Students will be busy preparing for their final exams and faculty will be busy grading the exams. I wish all the students the best of luck on their exams.

On Friday, Dec. 8, we will have an ECE Department Faculty and Staff Holiday Luncheon to celebrate the end of the year and show our appreciation to the outstanding staff members in our department for the fine job they do throughout the year.

I wish everyone Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year.

-Prith Banerjee
Chairman

SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENTS

DATE: Thursday, December 7, 2000
TIME: 4:00 p.m.
PLACE: Technological Institute - Room L324
TITLE: An Interconnect-Centric Design Flow for Nanometer Technologies
SPEAKER: Professor Jason Cong, Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles

EXAMINATIONS

Monday, December 4, 2000: M.S. Final Examination
Christopher P. Swider
"Option C"
Committee Members: A. Taflove (chairman), P. Banerjee, and L. Henschen

Thursday, December 7, 2000: M.S. Final Examination
Ozair Usmani
"Option C"
Committee Members: M. Honig (chairman), L. Henschen, and P. Banerjee

Thursday, December 7, 2000: M.S. Final Examination - 3:00 p.m.
Room B211
Steven J. Ross
"8-Band Kronig-Penney Simulation Program for Super Lattices and Multiple Quantum Wells"
Committee Members: C. Kannewurf (chairman), A. Sahakian, and L. Henschen

Friday, December 8, 2000: M.S. Final Examination - 2:00 p.m.
Room L324
Jason Ng
"Sensing and Documentation of Body Position During Ambulatory ECG Monitoring"
Committee Members: A. Sahakian (chairman), P. Kumar, L. Henschen, and S. Swiryn

TRAVEL

Prem Kumar is traveling to San Francisco and Los Angeles, December 9-13. He is consulting for Santel Networks, Newark, CA, and will give an invited talk at the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, CA. Title: Quantum Communication with Fiber-optic Devices.

OLD NEWS

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