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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

The faculty interview season is in full swing in the ECE department. We are interviewing five more faculty candidates this week. I invite all the faculty and students to attend their seminars at 11AM on those days (except Tuesday when we have two seminars, one at 9:30 and another at 11AM). See details of seminar announcements below. We would like to get your feedback on what you think about these candidates as potential faculty members in our department.

-Prith Banerjee
Chairman

FACULTY CANDIDATE SEMINARS

DATE: Monday, March 1, 2004
TIME: 11:00 a.m.
PLACE: Tech L324
TITLE: A Unified Programming Framework for Multigrain Parallel Architectures
SPEAKER: Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos, Assistant Professor, College of William and Mary

DATE: Tuesday, March 2, 2004
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
PLACE: Tech L324
TITLE: Multi-User Communication Channels: Capacity, Duality, and Cooperation
SPEAKER: Nihar Jindal, Ph.D. Candidate, Stanford University

DATE: Tuesday, March 2, 2004
TIME: 11:00 a.m.
PLACE: Tech L324
TITLE: GaAs MOSFETs with Nanoscale High-k Gate Dielectrics Grown by Atomic Layer Deposition
SPEAKER: Peide (Peter) Ye, Agere Systems

DATE: Wednesday, March 3, 2004
TIME: 11:00 a.m.
PLACE: Tech L324
TITLE: Bounds, Algorithms and Protocols for Information Flow in Wireless Networks
SPEAKER: Elif Uysal, MIT Research Laboratory for Electronics

DATE: Thursday, March 4, 2004
TIME: 11:00 a.m.
PLACE: Tech L324
TITLE: Advanced Photonic Modulators: An Enabling Technology for Future Photonic Systems
SPEAKER: Hooman Mohseni, Technical Staff, Sarnoff Corporation

Special Guest Seminar

DATE: Friday, March 5, 2004
TIME: 10:00 a.m.
PLACE: Tech L324
TITLE: Of Wells and Barriers: The Fascinating World of Semiconductor Superlattices
SPEAKER: Emilio E. Mendez, Professor, State University of New York at Stony Brook

TRAVEL

Prem Kumar traveled to Los Angeles, CA, February 23-26, to attend the Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC) and present the following paper: P. L. Voss and P. Kumar, "Raman-effect induced noise-figure limit for X(3) parametric amplifiers and wavelength converters."

Mary Phillips traveled to Los Angeles, CA, February 23-27, to attend the Optical Fiber Communication Conference in Los Angeles. She co-authored two papers for this conference: "Analysis of clipping distortion in an SCM lightwave transmitter with feed-forward correction" by M. R. Phillips and Jin Zhang; and "RF Measurement and theory of cross-polarization modulation," by S. L. Woodward, Courtney Roby, M. R. Phillips, P. D. Magill, and M. Boroditsky.

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