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I am pleased to announce the Motorola Distinguished Lectureship Series for the ECE Department. Using a portion of the $100,000 cash gift from Motorola to our department, we will invite six top level researchers per year in each of the six areas of departmental research. Since the Winter quarter is typically very busy with faculty candidate interviews, we will have these Distinguished Lectures during the Spring and Fall quarters, about one a month (three per quarter).
We have appointed an ECE Distinguished Seminar Committee consisting of the following persons:
Prof. Chris Jelen (Solid State Engineering)
Prof. Seng Ho (Photonic Systems and Technology)
Prof. Randy Freeman (Networks, Communication, and Control), Chairman
Prof. Thrasos Pappas (Signal Processing)
Prof. Alok Choudhary (Parallel and Distributed Computing)
Prof. Andreas Moshovos (VLSI and Architecture).
We encourage all faculty and students to suggest to the committee members names of people in each of the above six areas from universities or industry at the level of Chaired Professors, Deans of Colleges, Department Heads, and Directors or Vice Presidents of Industrial Labs. The idea is to bring these people in and have our faculty and students talk with them, and try to impress upon them the excellent quality of our department. These are people that we may ask for letters on our junior faculty. This will be an opportunity to showcase our junior faculty to these senior people.
We will arrange to bring them for an entire day visit, with a seminar around 4-5PM followed by a reception from 5-6PM with faculty and graduate students, and then dinner. The visitor will meet with faculty in the specific area, the Chairman of the ECE department, and the Dean of the McCormick School.
We encourage all faculty and students to attend these seminars so that we'll have a good turnout, irrespective of the field of the talk. We will arrange for some photographs of the seminars to be included in the ECE Newsletters.
We will be able to pay all travel expenses for the Distinguished Lecturers and a $1000 honorarium. We will also present the Visitors with a certificate stating that they are a Motorola Sponsored Distinguished Lecturer in the ECE Department at Northwestern.
Once we identify the Distinguished Lecturers and the dates of their visits, we will prepare a flyer which will be distributed to various universities and companies. We will invite Motorola engineers to attend the talks as well.
If you have any ideas for how to make this Distinguished Seminar Series more successful, please contact the above committee members.
-Prith Banerjee
Chairman
VLSI Design and CAD Seminar
DATE: Thursday, May 4, 2000
TIME: 4:00-5:00 p.m.
PLACE: L324, ECE Seminar Room
TITLE: Predictable Routing
SPEAKER: Ryan Kastner, ECE Graduate Student
Thursday, May 4, 2000: Ph.D. Final Examination - 10:00 a.m.
Room L324
Jay J. Williams
"Speech-to-Video Conversion for Individuals with Impaired Hearing"
Committee Members: A. Katsaggelos (chairman), L. Henschen,
M. Randolph, G. Schuster, D. Garstecki, and J. Rutledge
Friday, May 5, 2000: Ph.D. Final Examination - 11:00 a.m.
Room L324
Laura Drake
"Sound Source Separation via Computational Auditory Scene Analysis
(CASA) - Enhanced Beamforming"
Committee Members: A. Katsaggelos (chairman), J. Rutledge,
M. Randolph, G. Kendall, and L. Henschen
Friday, May 5, 2000: M.S. Final Examination - 3:30 p.m.
Room B211
Xiangheng Liu
"Differentiated QoS in Wireless Networks"
Committee Members: C. Lee (chairman), M. Honig, and A. Haddad
Our sympathies to Prof. Wei-Chung Lin, who is traveling to Taipei, Taiwan, April 27 - May 7 to prepare and attend his mother's funeral.
Prof. Alan Sahakian is traveling to Yosemite, CA, April 29 - May 4 to attend the International Society for Computerized Electrocardiography Conference and present the invited paper: "Multi-site monophasic action potential mapping of atrial repolarization in-vivo: is atrial repolarization a two or three dimensional process?"
Nagaraj Shenoy, Research Associate Professor of the Electrical and Computer Engineering department, is leaving our department effective May 1, and will return to his home state in India. Prof. Shenoy was with our department for three years, and contributed significantly to the MATCH compiler project. We wish him the best of luck in his future research career in India.
Susan Slattery will be transferring from Matlab support to the PC support group effective Monday, May 1. She'll be taking on the duties of the assistant network administrator, where she'll handle support issues both for ECE and for McCormick in general.
You can look at news from previous weeks in Old News .