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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

For the past three years, the ECE Department has held a Motorola Sponsored Distinguished Lectureship Series made possible through a gift from Motorola. The purpose of these lectures is to invite internationally renowned researchers to give seminars on some exciting research topics in their respective fields in Electrical and Computer Engineering. This gives the faculty and students in our department an opportunity to meet these distinguished visitors in person, and also for these visitors to learn about the exciting research being done at Northwestern.

We are pleased to have our first Motorola Distinguished Lecture of the Winter Quarter on Monday, January 13, at 4:00 p.m. Professor Eric Ippen from MIT will speak on "Femtosecond Optics." Dr. Ippen is Elihu Thompson Professor of Electrical Engineering, and Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Instititute of Technology. I invite all faculty and students to join us for his seminar that day. See official announcement below.

-Prith Banerjee
Chairman

SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT

Motorola Distinguished Lecture Series
DATE: Monday, January 13, 2003
TIME: 4:00 p.m.
PLACE: Tech Room M345
TITLE: "Femtosecond Optics"
SPEAKER: Erich P. Ippen, EECS and Physics Department, MIT

EXAMINATIONS

Wednesday, January 15, 2003: Ph.D. Final Examination - 11:00 a.m.
Room L324
Swee M. Mok
"A Structured Product Coding System (SPCS) for Intelligent Product Data Management"
Committee Members: C. Wu (chairman), L. Henschen, W. Lin, and G. Krulee

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES/AWARDS/HONORS

An interview with Professor Prem Kumar on "Securing Internet Communication with Light" appeared on Northwestern University Newsfeed website on 12/9/02. Northwestern University Newsfeed features Northwestern's faculty addressing top news stories. Reports can be listened to with RealPlayer or downloaded to your computer as MP3 sound files. Newsfeed can also be accessed at (800)942-1145 or (847)491-5555. Newsfeed is a free service designed primarily for radio stations. Stations may air reports in their entirety or select cuts that fit their needs. Three new reports are available every week.

Here's a direct link to the audio:
http://www.northwestern.edu/univ-relations/broadcast/dec_2002/kumar.ram.

The text is at:
http://www.northwestern.edu/univ-relations/broadcast/dec_2002/kumar.html.

-Prem Kumar

OTHER NEWS

Renu Tripathi joined Professor Selim Shahriar's group on December 16, 2002.

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