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This week we continue to have a number of M.S. and Ph.D. final examinations to make the deadline for June graduation. Details are listed below.
Speaking of graduation, the university now has a website for commencement activities:
-Abe Haddad
Interim Chairman
CENTER FOR QUANTUM DEVICES (CQD) Seminar/Colloquium
DATE: Friday, May 10, 2002
TIME: 4:00 pm
PLACE: MLSB/Cook Hall Room 4051
TITLE: "Phonons in Quantum Confined Geometries and Device Applications"
SPEAKERS: Dr. Michael Stroscio and Dr. Mitra Dutta
Departments of Bioengineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Illinois at Chicago
Monday, May 6, 2002: Ph.D. Final Examination - 11:00 a.m.
Room L324
Chi Zhou
"Utility-Based Forward-Link Resource Allocation for Wireless Voice and
Data Networks"
Committee Members: M. Honig (chairman), R. Berry, and C.-C. Lee
Tuesday, May 7, 2002: Ph.D. Final Examination - 9:00 a.m.
Room L324
Geoff Waldschmidt
"Locally Conformal Three-Dimensional FDTD Mesh Generator with
Application to Modeling a Novel Linear Accelerator"
Committee Members: A. Taflove (chairman), A. Sahakian, and A. Bayliss
Wednesday, May 8, 2002: Ph.D. Final Examination - 1:00 p.m.
Room L324
Carlos Luna
"Video Quality and Network Efficiency Trade Offs in Video Streaming
Applications"
Committee Members: A. Katsaggelos (chairman), R. Berry, and T. Pappas
Friday, May 10, 2002: M.S. Final Examination - 9:00 a.m.
Room L324
Yingyan Huang
"Simulation of Semiconductor Material Using FDTD Method"
Committee Members: S.-T. Ho (chairman), M. Phillips, and H. Cao
Friday, May 10, 2002: M.S. Final Examination - 2:00 p.m.
Room L324
Xiaohuan Li
"Error Concealment Techniques for Shape Decoding of MPEG-4 Video Streams"
Committee Members: A. Katsaggelos (chairman), T. Pappas, and A. Sahakian
Professor Prith Banerjee is traveling to San Jose, CA, May 5-7, for consulting for AccelChip.
Professor Abe Haddad is traveling to Anchorage, Alaska, May 3-13,to:
Attend and present (with co-authors) 2 papers at the 2002 American
Control Conference (ACC);
Attend meetings of the Transactions Editorial Board and Board of Governors
of the IEEE Control Systems Society;
Attend meetings of the 2003 and 2004 ACC Operating Committees;
Attend meetings of the ACC Steering Committee and American Automatic
Control Council (AACC) Board of Directors; and
Participate in an NSF sponsored workshop on control.
Professor Prem Kumar traveled to Washington, DC, April 30-May 2, to attend a program review at the Office of Naval Research and visit the Lab of Telecommunication Science in the Army Research Lab in Adelthi, MD.
Professor Jorge Nocedal traveled to Minneapolis MN, April 28-30, to attend the IMA Workshop on Data Assimilation in the Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences.
"Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine."
--Robert C. Gallagher
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