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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

Each quarter the McCormick School recognizes a staff member within the School as a recipient of the McCormick Staff-Team Appreciation and Recognition (STAR) Leadership Award. I am pleased to inform you that one of our ECE staff members, Jill Wright, was nominated and selected as the STAR award winner for the Fall 2003 quarter. The award was give to Jill on Thursday, Jan. 29, by Dean John Birge. I wish to thank Jill for all her contributions to the ECE department. Please join me in congratulating Jill on this recognition.

-Prith Banerjee
Chairman

EXAMINATIONS

Wednesday, February 4, 2004: Ph.D. Qualifying Examination - 9:00 a.m.
Room Cook 2058
Alireza Yasan
"Ultra Violet (UV) Light Emitters Based on GaxAl1-xN-AlN Quantum Structures"
Committee Members: M. Razeghi (chairperson), S. Shahriar, and A. Sahakian

Wednesday, February 4, 2004: Ph.D. Qualifying Examination - 10:30 a.m.
Room Cook 2058
Aaron Gin
"Electron Beam Lithography for the Fabrication of Nanopillars in Type II InAs/GaSb Superlattices for Multicolor Infrared Focal Plane Arrays"
Committee Members: M. Razeghi (chairperson), A. Sahakian, A. Haddad, and S. Shahriar

TRAVEL

Professor Prem Kumar traveled to Washington, DC, January 27-30, to attend a DARPA Focused Quantum Systems (FoQuS) Workshop. Paper Title: Telecom-Band Entanglement Generation, Storage, and Long-Distance Distribution.

Professor Thrasos Pappas traveled to San Jose, CA, January 19-22, where he co-chaired (with Bernice Rogowitz) the conference on Human Vision and Electronic Imaging, which is part of the IS&T/SPIE Annual Symposium on Electronic Imaging. He was accompanied by Fan Zhai and Yiftach Eisenberg who presented papers at the symposium. Prof. Pappas will be symposium co-chair (with Andrew Woods) for Electronic Imaging in 2005.

Regarding Professor Razeghi and her students (Allan Evans, Aaron Gin, Ryan McClintock, Yajun Wei, and Alireza Yasan) Travel, all at the SPIE International Photonics West Symposium, San Jose, CA, January 24-29, 2004:
1. Chair, Conference on "Quantum Sensing and Nanophotonic Devices,"
2. Program Committee, Conference on "Quantum Dots, Nanoparticles, and Nanoclusters,"
3. Program Committee, Conference on "Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits VIII,"
4. "High Quantum Efficiency Solar-Blind Photodetectors," Conference on "Quantum Sensing and Nanophotonics Devices,"
5. "High Power and Reliable Semiconductor Laser Diodes for WDM Application," Conference on "Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits VIII,"
6. "Nanopillars for Bandgap-Engineering in III-V Optoelectronic Devices," Conference on "Quantum Dots, Nanoparticles, and Nanoclusters,"
7. "Modeling Type II InAs/GaSb Superlattices Using Empirical Tight-Binding Method: Interface Engineering," Conference on "Quantum Sensing and Nanophotonic Devices,"
8. "High Power Room Temperature Continuous-Wave Operation of Quantum Cascade Lasers GasMBE," Conference on "Quantum Sensing and Nanophotonic Devices,"
9. "Growth of Deep UV Light Emitting Diodes by Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition," Conference on "Quantum Sensing and Nanophotonic Devices,"
10. "Nanophotonics and Quantum Sensing at the Center for Quantum Devices at ECE/NU," Nano Technical Group Meeting.

Professor Horace Yuen traveled to Washington, DC, January 27-29, to attend a DARPA Focused Quantum Systems (FoQuS) Workshop.

CFS NEWS

Old Mail Domains Retirement Reminder

I would like to remind everyone that on June 20, 2004, the old Northwestern (nwu.edu) and old department (eecs) domains will cease to route mail. That is, any mail sent to an address that ends in "nwu.edu", such as , or to an address containing "eecs.nwu.edu" or "eecs.northwestern.edu" will bounce back to the sender. In order to prevent such problems and inconveniences, the CFS urges all of its constituents to check their signatures and aliases and to update all references from these deprecated names. The CFS continues to see the old domain names in regular use and in email signatures. Take a little time now to save a lot of time and problems in the future.

-Pred Bundalo
Computing Facilities Manager

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