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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

This is the last week of classes for the Winter Quarter. I wish all the students the best of luck in preparing for their final exams, and a relaxing and enjoyable Spring Break.

This is also the final week of faculty interviewing. We will be interviewing two candidates this week: Gokhan Memik from UCLA on Wednesday and Seda Memik from UCLA on Thursday. We also have a computer engineering seminar given by Mahmut Kandemir from Penn State on Tuesday. I encourage all faculty and graduate students to attend their seminars. See seminar announcements below.

-Prith Banerjee
Chairman

FACULTY CANDIDATE SEMINARS

DATE: Tuesday, March 11, 2003
TIME: 11:00 a.m.
PLACE: Tech L324
TITLE: "Power and Reliability Optimizations for On-Chip Memories"
SPEAKER: Mahmut Kandemir, Assistant Professor, The Pennsylvania State University

DATE: Wednesday, March 12
TIME: 11:00 a.m.
PLACE: Tech L324
TITLE: "Just Say No: Benefits of Early Cache Miss Determination"
SPEAKER: Gokhan Memik, Ph.D. Candidate, UCLA

DATE: Thursday, March 13
TIME: 11:00 a.m.
PLACE: Tech L324
TITLE: "Design Planning for Synthesis"
SPEAKER: Seda Ogrenci Memik, Ph.D. Candidate, UCLA

EXAMINATIONS

Monday, March 10, 2003: Ph.D. Qualifying Examination - 2:00 p.m.
Room L324
Shizhong Mei
"Frequency Dependent VLSI Circuit Modeling and Design"
Committee Members: Y. Ismail (chairman), P. Banerjee, R. Dick, H. Zhou, and A. Sahakian

Tuesday, March 11, 2003: Ph.D. Qualifying Examination - 10:30 a.m.
Room ESAM M416
Haohong Wang
"Optimal Object-Based Video Communications"
Committee Members: A. Katsaggelos (chairman), T. Pappas, and R. Berry

Tuesday, March 11, 2003: Ph.D. Qualifying Examination - 3:00 p.m.
Room L324
Fan Zhai
"Resource-Distortion Optimized Unequal Error Protection for Video Streaming Over Packet Lossy Network"
Committee Members: T. Pappas (chairman), A. Katsaggelos, and R. Berry

Wednesday, March 12, 2003: Ph.D. Qualifying Examination - 1:00 p.m.
Room L324
Zhu Li
"Video Summary Generation, Coding and Transmission"
Committee Members: A. Katsaggelos (chairman), T. Pappas, R. Berry, Y. Wu, and B. R. Gandhi

Thursday, March 13, 2003: Ph.D. Qualifying Examination - 2:00 p.m.
Room B211
Junqing Chen
"Perceptually Based Color and Texture Features for Image Segmentation and Retrieval"
Committee Members: T. Pappas (chairman), A. Katsaggelos, and Y. Wu

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