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Last Friday we had a very productive meeting of the ECE advisory board. A report on the results will be provided at a later time.
We have an ECE faculty meeting on Thursday, May 23, at noon with lunch to follow at 1:00 pm. Please plan to attend.
Congratulations to Professor Allen Taflove who was selected by the Associated Student Government (ASG) for the Faculty Honor Roll.
Randy Freeman was selected by the IEEE Control Systems Society to serve as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control starting in January 2003.
-Abe Haddad
Interim Chairman
Special Seminar
DATE: Monday May 20, 2002
TIME: 4:00 p.m.
PLACE: L324
TITLE: "Halftone image watermarking"
SPEAKER: Professor Oscar Au, Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology (HKUST), Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong SAR, China
Wednesday, May 22, 2002: Ph.D. Qualifying Examination - 1:00 p.m.
Room L324
Emin Argun Oral
"A Computational Study of Reconstruction Algorithms for Ultra-Wideband
Electromagnetic Pulse"
Committee Members: A. Sahakian (chairman), A. Taflove, and M. Epstein
Professor Prem Kumar traveled to Washington DC, May 13-14, to serve on the NSF Review board to review unsolicited proposals.
Professor Kumar is traveling to Los Angeles, CA, May 21-23, to attend CLEO/QELS 2002 Conference. He is presenting the following papers: 1.) "All-fiber photon-pair source for quantum communications," 2) "Quantum cryptography with coherent-state light: Demonstration of a secure data encryption scheme operating at 100kb/s," and 3) "A microstructure-fiber based optical parametric oscillator."
"Swallow your pride occasionally, it's non-fattening!"
--Anon.
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