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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

I want to inform everyone that we are having our next ECE Department Advisory Board Meeting on Friday, May 16, from 8:30AM to 6PM. During this meeting the Advisory Board (consisting of members from various companies and universities) will give us feedback on the directions of the department. A list of the Advisory Board members appears on the department web page. The Board will meet with our faculty, our graduate students, undergraduate students, the department chairman, and the Dean to get an idea of where the department is headed, and suggest ways to improve the department.

As part of this event, we are organizing a Graduate Student Poster Session from 10AM-11AM that day in the 3rd floor corridor near the ECE conference room. We will have coffee, cold drinks, and cookies served during this session where you can interact with the visitors in an informal manner. Students can also distribute papers and resumes to the visitors.

Let us make this a great event and show off our excellent research to our external visitors. I invite all faculty, staff, and students to attend the poster session in order to acquaint themselves with the research that is going on in the department.

-Prith Banerjee
Chairman

SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENTS

Center for Photonic Communication and Computing Seminar
DATE: Monday, May 5, 2003
TIME: 11:00 a.m.
PLACE: Tech L324
TITLE: "The DARPA Quantum Network"
SPEAKER: Chip Elliott, BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA

Center for Photonic Communication and Computing Seminar
DATE: Thursday, May 8, 2003
TIME: 11:00 a.m.
PLACE: Tech L324
TITLE: "Demonstration of DWDM Long-Haul Fiber Communications Systems Using Binary and Quadrature Phase Shift-Keying Modulation Formats"
SPEAKER: Dr. V. S. Grigoryan

Joint CS/ECE Distinguished Lecture Series in Systems and Architecture
DATE: Thursday, May 8, 2003
TIME: 4:00 p.m.
PLACE: LR3 Tech; Reception following in L324
TITLE: Extracting Thread-Level Parallelism on Simultaneous Multithreaded Processors
SPEAKER: Susan Eggers, University of Washington

EXAMINATIONS

Monday, May 5, 2003: Ph.D. Final Examination - 4:00 p.m.
Room L324
Charles Schwartz
"Control of Semi-Markov Jump Linear Systems with Application to the Bunch-Train Cavity Interaction"
Committee Members: A. Haddad (chairman), R. Freeman, A. Katsaggelos, C. Lee, and A. Nassiri

Friday, May 9, 2003: M.S. Final Examination - 11:00 a.m.
Room L324
Andrea C. Heusser
"Context-Aware Information System for Mobile Users"
Committee Members: P. Scheuermann (chairman), L. Henschen, and A. Pashtan

Friday, May 9, 2003: M.S. Final Examination - 3:30 p.m.
Room B211
Jianwei Huang
"Utility-based Downlink Scheduling of Wireless Networks with Hybrid ARQ"
Committee Members: M. Honig (chairman), R. Berry, and A. Haddad

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES/AWARDS/HONORS

The Chicago Section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) serves engineering and computer professionals in the Chicago Metropolitan Area. On May 1, the IEEE will be recognizing Dr. Prem Kumar as the 2003 Fellow Award Recipient. For more information on IEEE see this link http://ewh.ieee.org/r4/chicago/index.html

TRAVEL

Prem Kumar traveled to Baltimore, MD, April 27-28, to make a presentation at the Army Research Laboratory in Adelphi, MD, on the cryptography work.

Prof. Thrassos Pappas traveled to Palo Alto, CA, to attend the 2nd Int'l Workshop on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2003), where he presented a paper on "Detection, Classification, and Collaborative Tracking of Multiple Targets Using Video Sensors," and chaired a session on "Target Localization and Array Processing." On April 24, Prof. Pappas visited Stanford University, where he gave a presentation on "Adaptive Image Segmentation Based on Perceptual Color and Texture Features," and HP Labs, where he gave a presentation on "Efficient Video Communication over Lossy Channels: Dynamic Source/Channel Adaptation and Distortion Evaluation."

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