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During the week of February 14 to 18, students will be meeting with their advisors for their Spring 2000 course registration. In order for students to better prepare for their course selection, we have decided to publish the planned course offerings for next year from the ECE department.
During the last two weeks, we completed the preliminary schedule of all course offerings (list of courses, meeting times, and instructors) from the ECE department for the Fall 2000, Winter 2001, and Spring 2001 quarters. We have placed that information on the ECE Web Page (www.ece.nwu.edu) under the heading of Courses and the subheading of Tentative Course Offerings for 2000-2001. Students and faculty are encouraged to look at the information on the web page and plan individual course schedules for next year. Please note that this information is subject to some small changes. However, we will keep this information as updated as possible.
-Prith Banerjee
Chairman
Photonics Seminar
DATE: Monday, February 7, 2000
TIME: 10:00 - 11:30 a.m.
PLACE: L324
TITLE: Speckle Gaussians, Solitons and Parabolas in Optical Fibers
SPEAKER: Martin E. Fermann, IMRA America, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI
Optimization Seminar
DATE: Tuesday, February 8, 2000
TIME: 11:00-12:00
LOCATION: L324 (ECE conference room)
TITLE: Interior-Point Approaches for Solving Large-scale
Nonlinear Programming Problems
SPEAKER: Jose Luis Morales - ITAM (Mexico) / Northwestern
Parallel and Distributed Computing Seminar
DATE: Tuesday, February 8, 2000
TIME: 4:00-5:00 p.m.
PLACE: L324
TITLE: Design and Evaluation of a Uniform Compilation Framework for
Hybrid Applications
SPEAKER: Dhruva R. Chakrabarti, ECE Department
Faculty Candidate Seminar
DATE: Friday, February 11, 2000
TIME: 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
PLACE: L324
TITLE: FPGA Physical Design Partitioning and Its Applications
SPEAKER: John Lach, Electrical Engineering Dept., UCLA
There are no examinations scheduled this week.
Professor Randy Freeman is traveling to Washington, DC, February 6-8, to serve on the National Science Foundation panel for proposal review for the Controls, Networks, and Computational Intelligence (CNCI) Program.
Chris Bachmann, in recognition of his fine work, has been promoted to IT Software Engineer 4. We wish him great success in his new position with the department.
Sun will be announcing promotional pricing for its hardware on February 8th. But, because the department has a strong relationship with Sun, I was allowed, yesterday, to see some of what is expected to be available during the promotion.
An entry-level workstation, the Sun Ultra 5, with: 360MHz UltraSPARC IIi; 128MB of memory; 8GB IDE disk; CDROM and floppy drives; and 17" color monitor may be purchased for under $1300.
You can look at news from previous weeks in Old News .