DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING NEWSLETTER
June 2000

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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

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

EXAMINATIONS

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

TRAVEL

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.

OLD NEWS

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