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ECE Department Weekly Newsletter January 6-10, 2003 |
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I would like to wish everyone a very Happy New Year and welcome all of you to the Winter Quarter which starts Monday, January 6, 2003. In this newsletter, I would like to bring your attention to the new ECE web page at http://www.ece.northwestern.edu. I invite everyone to check it out. We have developed this new web page to market our ECE department better in the future for new undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty. I am hopeful that this new web page will improve our success rate with attracting new students and hiring new faculty next year. The most important new feature is a nice picture of Northwestern University on the shore of Lake Michigan to show visitors our beautiful campus. Also we now have a listing of current news and the current seminar calendar on the top page. Hence the front page of the ECE home page will change every week. I wish to thank David Zaretsky, a graduate student in our ECE department, who developed the new web page. I am grateful to Jill Wright for taking pictures of all the faculty for the faculty web pages. Finally, I wish to express my thanks to Carol Surma for updating the faculty web pages. In the future, Carol and David will be our web masters and will be responsible for updating content regularly. Please send email to Carol (carol@ece.northwestern.edu) or David (dcz@northwestern.edu) if you have any comments about content. Regards,
SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT DATE: Thursday, January 9, 2003
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES/AWARDS/HONORS Thrasos Pappas and Aggelos Katsaggelos were the organizers of an NSF workshop that was held at the Allen Center on December 2-4. The goal of the workshop was to identify directions for near and long term research in the area of distributed communications and signal processing for sensor networks. The participants (about 30) included leading experts in the fields of signal processing, communications, networking, and sensor technologies, as well as representatives from the CISE and Engineering directorates of NSF. Among the participants were Randy Berry, Mike Honig, and Prith Banerjee from Northwestern and Roger Peterson and Bhavan Gandhi from Motorola. The workshop report will used to clarify the "Sensors and Sensor Networks" program solicitation that was released on December 6.
TRAVEL Prith Banerjee traveled to India, December 23-January 2, to attend the International Workshop on Distributed Computing and presented an invited paper. Dr. Banerjee is traveling to Orlando, FL, January 6-7, to attending a DARPA PI Meeting on the PACT Project. Professor Manijeh Razeghi traveled to Fortaleza, Brazil, December 8-13, 2002, for the 4th International Conference on Low Dimensional Structures and Devices (LDSD?02) and was involved in the following ways: International Steering Committee, Session Chair, "Quantum Dots Lasers Applications," Late News Talk, "High Performance Quantum Cascade Lasers at l = 6?m,?" and Invited Talk, "Quantum Sensing Using Type II InAs/GaSb Superlattices for Infrared Detection."
OTHER NEWS Congratulations to Lana (Kiperman) and Sam Mudrik on the birth of their daughter, Mariel Genny Mudrik. Mariel was born on Thursday, December 19, 2002. She weighed 6 lbs 8 oz. Mother and daughter are doing fine. -Deneen Bryce |
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