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In this newsletter, I wish all the students the best of luck in their exams during the final exam week, June 5-9. Faculty will be busy grading the exams next week as well.
Many of our students will be graduating this year. I hope to see many of you during the commencement ceremonies during June 16-17. I wish all the graduates the best of luck in their future careers.
Some of the other students will be going away for summer jobs or going home. The remaining students will be staying on campus during the summer working on research.
I wish you all a great summer and look forward to working with you all in the Fall 2000-2001 quarter.
This is the last newsletter of the Spring 2000 quarter and the 1999-2000 academic year. We will resume the newsletter again in Fall 2000-2001.
-Prith Banerjee
Chairman
Thursday, June 8, 2000: M.S. Final Examination - 9:00 a.m.
Room L132
Elaheh Bozorgzadeh
"Fast and Effective Routing Techniques for FPGAs"
Committee Members: M. Sarrafzadeh (chairman), V. Taylor, and L. Henschen
Thursday, June 8, 2000: Ph.D. Final Examination - 10:00 a.m.
Room M152
Hugh J. Devlin
"A Meta-Level Controller for an Automated Theorem Prover"
Committee Members: L. Henschen (chairman), G. Krulee, C. Riesbeck, and
P. Scheuermann
Thursday, June 8, 2000: Ph.D. Oral Qualifying Examination - 11:00 a.m.
Room L324
Pramod G. Joisha
"Type/Shape Inferencing in MATLAB with Applications to Efficient
Scalarization and Parallelization"
Committee Members: P. Banerjee (chairman), D. Padua, A. Choudhary, and
A. Moshovos
Friday, June 9, 2000: Ph.D. Final Examination - 10:00 a.m.
Room G247
Michael Patrick Chudzik
"Crystalline Orientation Engineering and Charge Transport In Thin Film
YBa(2)Cu(3)O(7-x) Superconducting Surface-Coated Conductors"
Committee Members: C. Kannewurf (chairman), A. Sahakian, J. Diaz,
T. Marks, U. Balachandran, and M. Lanagan
Friday, June 9, 2000: Ph.D. Oral Qualifying Examination - 2:00 p.m.
Room L324
Swee M. Mok
"An Integrated System for Product Assembly and Disassembly Operations"
Committee Members: C.-H. Wu (chairman), L. Henschen, G. Krulee, and
W.-C. Lin
Monday, June 19, 2000: Ph.D. Oral Qualifying Examination - 3:00 p.m.
Room MLSB 2058
Brett A. Lane
"Low-Pressure Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition Growth of
InASSbP based Materials for Infrared Laser Applications"
Committee Members: M. Razeghi (chairperson), C. Kannewurf,
A. Sahakian, C. Jelen, and J. Diaz
Friday, June 23, 2000: Ph.D. Final Examination - 9:00 a.m.
Room L324
Sachin S. More
"High Performance I/O Techniques for Parallel Object-Relational
Databases"
Committee Members: A. Choudhary (chairman), P. Banerjee, V. Taylor,
L. Henschen, and R. Thakur
Monday, June 26, 2000: Ph.D. Final Examination - 2:00 p.m.
Room L324
Dhruva R. Chakrabarty
"Design and Evaluation of a Uniform Compilation Framework for Hybrid
Applications"
Committee Members: P. Banerjee (chairman), A. Choudhary, V. Taylor,
and A. Moshovos
Tuesday, June 27, 2000: Ph.D. Final Examination - 10:00 a.m.
Room L324
Yanhong Yuan
"Novel Algorithms for 3-D Capacitance Extraction and the Parallel
Implementations"
Committee Members: P. Banerjee (chairman), M. Sarrafzadeh,
A. Choudhary, and V. Taylor
Prith Banerjee will travel to Irvine, CA, June 28-July 3, to present an invited seminar and visit faculty in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of California, Irvine, on Thursday, June 29.
Bruce Wessels is traveling to Breckenridge, CO, June 7-10, to attend a contractors workshop sponsored by DARPA. He will also be traveling to Denver, June 20-23, to attend the Electronic Materials Conference.
You can look at news from previous weeks in Old News .