DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING NEWSLETTER
Week of April 23 - 27, 2001

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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

As I had mentioned earlier, the ECE Department is undergoing its Program Review this year. All departments in the university are reviewed every seven years. This week the three internal Northwestern reviewers will meet with all ECE faculty members individually as well as with groups of undergraduate and graduate students. This will take place on Wednesday, April 25 and Friday, April 27.

I would also like to direct your attention to the announcement in this newsletter of the first seminar in the Motorola Distinguished Lecture Series. Jose B. Cruz from Ohio State University will present a lecture entitled, "Game Theory for Engineering Systems."

-Prith Banerjee
Chairman

SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENTS

Motorola Distinguished Lecture Series
DATE: Wednesday, April 25, 2001
TIME: 4:00 p.m. (Reception following)
PLACE: Tech L324
TITLE: "Game Theory for Engineering Systems"
SPEAKER: Jose B. Cruz, The Ohio State University

EXAMINATIONS

Monday, April 23, 2001: M.S. Final Examination - 4:15 p.m.
Room M228
Joerg Furrer
"QOS Control in Multimedia Networks"
Committee Members: C.-C. Lee (chairman), A. Haddad, and R. Berry

Monday, April 23, 2001: M.S. Final Examination
Fei Yeh
"Option C"
Committee Members: A. Katsaggelos (chairman), P. Banerjee, and L. Henschen

Thursday, April 26, 2001: Ph.D. Final Examination - 3:30 p.m.
Room B211
Veeraraghavan Anantha
"FDTD-Computed Diffraction Coefficients of Generic Wedges for Predicting RF Propagation in Wireless Communication Systems"
Committee Members: A. Taflove (chairman), A. Sahakian, M. Plonus, and M. Epstein

TRAVEL

Professor Seng-Tiong Ho traveled to Elmira, New York, April 18-20, to attend and make a presentation at the "Electro-Optic Polymer Workshop" organized by Corning, Inc.

Professor Alan Sahakian traveled to St. Petersburg, FL, April 19-20, to attend a DARPA PI meeting for the SensIT research program.

Professor Peter Scheuermann is visiting The Rutgers Distributed Laboratory for Digital Libraries on April 20. He is giving a seminar on "A New Sampling-Based Algorithm for Discovering Association Rules."

Professor Valerie Taylor is traveling to Berkeley, CA, April 24-26, to attend IPDPS, and she will give the Distinguished Lecture entitled: "Prophesy: An Infrastructure for Performance Modeling and Analysis of Parallel and Distributed Applications," at the University of California, Berkeley.

CSRL NEWS

SOLARIS PATCHES/SYSTEM REBOOTS

Early Thursday morning (say 2am), April 26th, all non-Wilkinson Solaris hosts will be rebooted after the latest Solaris patches have been applied.

-Pred Bundalo
Computing Facilities Manager

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