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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

I want to thank all the faculty, staff, students, and visitors for making our first ever ECE EXPO event a success on Friday, Oct. 24.

I want to thank the faculty members who presented talks that day:

Session 1: Solid-state and Photonics
Prem Kumar, Mary Phillips, Martin Plonus, Manijeh Razeghi, Selim Shahriar, Allen Taflove

Session 2: Systems
Randy Berry, Randy Freeman, Mike Honig, Aggelos Katsaggelos, C.C. Lee, Thrasos Pappas, Alan Sahakian, Ying Wu

Session 3: Computer Engineering
Prith Banerjee, Robert Dick, Larry Henschen, Gokhan Memik, Seda Memik, Jorge Nocedal, Peter Scheuermann, Hai Zhou

I was delighted to see such a nice participation in the various sessions. We had standing-room-only audiences in all three sessions. We all learned a lot during the talks about each other's research areas. I hope that this will lead to some joint research projects among the faculty. I was very happy that all the faculty kept their talks to the allotted five minutes so we could keep the day's program on schedule.

The talk by our ECE Advisory Board member on "IP Stratagies for Startup Companies" was also very well received by the audience.

I want to express my appreciation to the graduate students for doing an outstanding job in the poster sessions. All the posters looked very professional. We will announce winners of the best posters in each of three sessions sometime next week, once I collect the results from the three sets of judges.

In addition to our own faculty and students, we had lots of visitors from companies, other McCormick departments, and various other units from Northwestern such as the ITEC office, Tech Transfer Office, and McCormick.

I want to thank Nancy Singer and Deneen Marie Bryce for organizing the entire event--specifically, the program schedule, the poster sessions, arranging the food, drinks and refreshments, and the photographer.

Thank you all for making the ECE EXPO a success.

-Prith Banerjee
Chairman

SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENTS

Center for Photonic Communication and Computing Seminar
DATE: October 27, 2003
TIME: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
PLACE: Tech L324
TITLE: "Collective Quantum Variables: New Tools for Frequency Standards, Measurement and Quantum Information"
SPEAKER: Prof. Nick Bigelow, University of Rochester

TRAVEL

Yehea Ismail traveled to an NSF Panel in Washington, DC, from Wednesday October 22 to Friday October 24.

C. C. Lee traveled to NSF from October 8-10 to serve as panelist for SBIR Phase II in Information Technology. This is the fourth time in a year he served as NSF panelist covering two different directorates.

Richard Waltz traveled to Atlanta, GA, October 18-21, to attend the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) 2003 Annual Meeting and present a paper entitled "KNITRO: An Integrated Approach for Nonlinear Optimization."

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