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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

The ECE Department is pleased to announce the compilation of its Annual Research Report for the academic year Sep. 1, 2002 to Aug. 31, 2003. This has been published initially for internal reporting within Northwestern University. The report will be published for external publication in the next couple of months. I am pleased to outline some of the summary findings.

Our research expenditures during 2002-03 were $7.9 million, which increased from $7.5 million during 2001-02, and $6.9 million during 2000-01. This funding level of $7.9 million among 29 faculty members works out to an average of $272,000 per professor. Our faculty members continue to participate in collaborative research projects, which explains in part the large amount of funding. In addition, our faculty wrote a large number of collaborative research proposals last year.

Our faculty members continued to publish a large number of papers in prestigious journals and conference proceedings. During 2002-03, our 29 faculty members published four books, nine book chapters, 171 journal papers, and 176 conference papers. The number of publications has nearly doubled this year compared to 2001-02 when our faculty had written two books, nine book chapters, 89 journal papers, and 98 conference papers.

-Prith Banerjee
Chairman

SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENTS

CPCC Fall 2003 Seminar Series
DATE: Monday, November 17, 2003
TIME: a11:00 a.m.
PLACE: L324 Tech
TITLE: "Nonlinear and Quantum Optics in Photonic Band Gap Structures"
SPEAKER: Prof. Joseph W. Haus, University of Dayton

EXAMINATIONS

Tuesday, November 18, 2003: Ph.D. Qualifying Examination - 1:00 p.m.
Room L324
Eric Corndorf
"Quantum Key-Expansion Using N-Mode Coherent States"
Committee Members: P. Kumar (chairman), H. Yuen, and S. Shahriar

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES/AWARDS/HONORS

Professor Manijeh Razeghi received a notification letter from G. Michael Morris, President of the Optical Society of America (OSA), informing her of her election at the October 5, 2003 OSA meeting in Tucson, AZ as a Fellow of OSA for "pioneering work on optoelectronic quantum devices."

TRAVEL

Prem Kumar traveled to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, November 11-15, to present (along with Eric Corndorf and Chuang Liang) the following paper: "AlphaEta: Ultra-Secure and Ultra-Efficient Quantum Cryptographic Schemes for Optical Systems, Networks, and the Internet" at the DARPA QuIST Fall Program Review.

Jorge Nocedal traveled to Napa City, California, Oct 26-29, to present a plenary lecture entitled: "Preconditioners for Large Scale Optimization," at the Third Conference on Preconditioning for Industrial and Scientific Applications, organized by the Department of Energy.

Regarding Manijeh Razeghi's travel: IEC Fellow Award Presentation, International Engineering Consortium (IEC) Executive ComForum, Palm Beach, FL, November 6-8, 2003.

Horace Yuen traveled to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, November 11-14, to present a paper entitled, "KCQ: A New Approach to Quantum Cryptography," at the DARPA QuIST Fall Program Review.

Hai Zhou traveled to ICCAD on October 10-12 to chair a session on "routing" and have a paper presented by his student Chuan Lin.

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