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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

Now that the faculty recruiting season is almost over, our faculty are busy with graduate student recruiting. This year, we have received 407 applications from prospective students for our M.S. and Ph.D. programs. The ECE Graduate Committee has been reviewing these applications and making recommendations for admission of these students. This year we plan to admit about 15 new graduate students to our department through a combination of fellowships, teaching assistantships, and research assistantships. We started sending out offer letters to our admitted students last week.

This year, we are planning to have an ECE Graduate Student Recruiting Day on Friday, April 2, when we will invite all our admitted students to visit our department. The morning will include presentations by the Chairman, the Graduate Director, and three graduate area coordinators. The afternoon will be spent in visiting various labs and meeting with faculty and graduate students. An evening dinner is planned for the prospective students and some current graduate students. We will end our recruiting session Saturday morning with a sight-seeing trip to downtown Chicago.

I would like to thank Judy Stein and Kathie Heidenfelder for their tireless work in the Graduate office in support of these activities. I would also like to recognize Prof. Peter Scheuermann, Associate Chairman and the ECE Graduate Program Director, in working with the ECE Graduate Committee for processing the applications of these 400+ graduate applicants. We hope to be very successful in recruiting our new group of students.

-Prith Banerjee
Chairman

FACULTY CANDIDATE SEMINAR

DATE: Wednesday, March 10, 2004
TIME: 11:00 a.m.
PLACE: Tech L324
TITLE: Conditional Access and Digital Rights Management: State-of-the-Art and Future Challenges
SPEAKER: Erwan Bigan, Viaccess SA

TRAVEL

Manijeh Razeghi gave an invited Talk, "High Sensitivity Quantum-Dot Infrared Photodetectors and Focal Plane Arrays Developed at the Center for Quantum Devices," at the 2nd Annual U.S. Air Force Research Lab Nano Materials for Defense Applications Symposium, Sensor Materials Session, February 23-26, 2004, Wailea, Hawaii.

Alan Sahakian traveled with his graduate student Haitham M. Al-Angari to Medtronic, Inc. in Minneapolis, Thursday, March 4, to present research results.

Allen Taflove visited Optiwave Corporation, Ottawa, Canada, on March 4 to give the talk, "Prospects for FDTD Computational Electrodynamics," and to discuss potential collaboration in commercial FDTD software development.

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