This page contains news related to the ECE department for the current week. Specifically, it includes information about seminars, exams, travel, research grants, professional news, and personal news.
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The past week has gone by quickly with classes starting last Wednesday. Our ECE department and the McCormick school held numerous introductory programs for our new undergraduate and graduate students. I hope all the new students have settled in. We begin classes in real earnest this week.
Our department has published our annual newsletter for the year. I wish to thank Prof. Allen Taflove for doing a marvelous job in putting it together. The newsletter is being mailed this week to all other ECE department heads, engineering deans, parents of students, and various industrial and government labs. A copy of the latest newsletter appears on our ECE bulletin board and also on our web site.
We are scheduled to have the first ECE faculty meeting of the year on Monday at 12 noon. During this meeting the faculty will discuss the priorities for the ECE department for the coming year in terms of faculty recruiting, improved research, graduate and undergraduate teaching, and administration.
-Prith Banerjee
Chairman
Geraldo Barbosa presented "Secure Communication using Coherent States," in The Sixth International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing, Cambridge, MA, July 24, 2002.
Abe Haddad attended various functions (as member of the IFAC Executive Board) of the IFAC World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, July 18-28. On July 30, he visited ETH-Zurich.
Martin Plonus gave an invited talk entitled, "Teaching Introductory Electronics to Non-EE Students," in the session, "Teaching the Electronics Course," at the 125th American Association of Physics Teachers National Meeting on the Boise State University campus, August 3-7, 2002.
Alan Sahakian traveled to Memphis, TN, September 21-24,
to attend IEEE Computers in Cardiology Conference.
Two papers were presented by his students:
"The Influence Of QRS Cancellation On Signal Characteristics Of Atrial
Fibrillation In The Surface Electrocardiogram," Q. Xi, A.V. Sahakian,
S. Swiryn, and "Vector Analysis Of Atrial Activity From Surface ECGs
Recorded During Atrial Fibrillation," J. Ng, A.V. Sahakian, S. Swiryn.
Peter Scheuermann visited Purdue University on September 23 and gave a colloquium in the Computer Science Department on "Data Reduction Techniques for On-line Processing of Association Rules."
You can look at news from previous weeks in Old News .