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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

The prestige of any department comes from its faculty. I am pleased to announce that last week, two faculty members in our ECE department were recognized with honors from their societies for their significant research contributions.

Professor Manijeh Razeghi has been elected a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA) for "pioneering work on optoelectronic quantum devices."

Professor Bruce Wessels has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) for "seminal contributions to understanding of defect structure and dopant behavior in epitaxial semiconductor and ferroelectric oxide thin films and heterostructures."

Please join me in congratulating our colleagues.

-Prith Banerjee
Chairman

EXAMINATIONS

Tuesday, November 25, 2003: Ph.D. Final Examination - 1:00 p.m.
Room B211
Junqing Chen
"Perceptually-Based Texture and Color Features for Image Segmentation and Retrieval"
Committee Members: T. Pappas (chairman), A. Katsaggelos, and Y. Wu

Tuesday, November 25, 2003: Ph.D. Final Examination - 2:00 p.m.
Room L324
Paul L. Voss
"Raman-Induced Performance Limits on Applications of Fiber Parametric Amplifiers"
Committee Members: P. Kumar (chairman), H. Yuen, S. Shahriar, and H. Cao

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES/AWARDS/HONORS

Prem Kumar has been appointed a member of the Science and Engineering Council of the Optical Society of America. He will serve his first year as Vice Chair of the Quantum Optics Technical Group of the Quantum Electronics Division of the Science and Engineering Council.

TRAVEL

Prem Kumar traveled to the physics department, University of Illinois at Champaign, and presented a seminar entitled, "Fiber-optic quantum communication," in the Quantum Information Science Seminar (QISS) series on November 19.

Thrasos Pappas traveled to Pacific Grove, CA to attend the Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Nov. 10-12, 2003. He was accompanied by Junqing Chen who presented an invited paper on "Perceptual Tuning of Low-Level Texture and Color Features for Image Segmentation."

On November 17, Prof. Thrasos Pappas traveled to Ann Arbor, MI, where he visited the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Michigan and gave a presentation on "Adaptive Perceptual Color-Texture Image Segmentation."

Alan Sahakian, traveled to MIT to attend the meeting of VaNTH NSF ERC, and present reports on DSP and MRI projects, November 19-21.

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