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The upcoming week is exam week. I wish you all the very best of luck on your exams and an enjoyable break the following week.
Please keep up the good attendance at the faculty candidate seminars this week.
-Prith Banerjee
Chairman
DATE: Tuesday, March 13, 2001
TIME: 11:00 - 12:30
PLACE: Room L324
TITLE: Scalable Parallel Systems: 1990 - 2000 Contributions
SPEAKER: Marc Snir, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
DATE: Tuesday, March 13, 2001
TIME: 1:00
PLACE: Tech M345
TITLE: Electrical Microcontact Printing to Pattern Electrons and Hole
with 150 nm Resolution
SPEAKER: Heiko O. Jacobs, Harvard University
DATE: Wednesday, March 14, 2001
TIME: 11:00 - 12:30
PLACE: Room L324
TITLE: Capturing and Recognizing Human Motion in Video Sequences
SPEAKER: Ying Wu, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
DATE: Thursday, March 15, 2001
TIME: 11:00 - 12:00
PLACE: Room L324
TITLE: High-Level Adaptive Program Optimization with ADAPT
SPEAKER: Michael Voss, Ph.D. Candidate, Purdue University
Wednesday, March 14, 2001: Ph.D. Final Examination - 2:00 p.m.
Room L324
Penny P. Chen
"Multi-Resolution Self-Organizing Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition"
Committee Members: W.-C. Lin (chairman), L. Henschen, C.-H. Wu, and
G. Krulee
Prof. Carl Kannewurf is traveling to Vancouver, B.C. and Seattle, WA, March 8-19, to attend the American Physical Society March meeting, where he is involved in the presentation of two papers.
Prof. Jorge Nocedal is traveling to Oxford and Dundee, UK, March 11-22, to give an invited lecture, "Improved minimization techniques for data assimilation" at the European Center for Weather Forecasting, and to visit the University of Dundee, Scotland, for research collaboration with Prof. R. Fletcher.
Prof. Valerie E. Taylor is traveling to Portsmouth, VA, March 12-13, to present the paper, "Design and Development of the Prophesy Performance Database for Distributed Scientific Applications," at the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) conference.
Prof. Bruce Wessels is traveling to Anaheim, CA, March 17-21, to attend the Optical Fiber Conference
-Pred Bundalo
Computing Facilities Manager
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