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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

I am delighted to inform everyone that we had an excellent meeting of our ECE Department Advisory Board on Friday, May 14, from 8:30AM to 6PM. During this meeting, the Advisory Board (consisting of members from various companies and universities) learned about the progress made in our department this past year. The Board met with our faculty, graduate students, undergraduates students, department chairman, and the Dean to get an idea of where the department is headed and to suggest ways to improve the department.

I wish to thank the various faculty members and students for meeting with the Advisory Board that day. I also wish to recognize Deneen Bryce and Nancy Singer for their tireless help in organizing the entire event.

As part of this event, we organized a Graduate Student Poster Session. I want to thank all the graduate students for participating in the Poster Session. I am pleased to announce three Best Poster Awards, which were judged by six judges picked from the Advisory Board.

BEST POSTER IN SOLID-STATE/PHOTONICS (Judges were Frank Splitt and Vivek Ragavan)
A-5: "High-Power Quantum Cascade Lasers" by Allan Evans

BEST POSTER IN SYSTEMS (Judges were Ken Zdunek and Ron Schafer)
B-1: " Traffic Shaping and Congestion Control in Access Networks" by Yishen Sun

BEST POSTER IN COMPUTER ENGINEERING (Judges were Norm Jouppi and Martin Schray)
C-4: "FREEDOM: Fabrication of Reconfigurable Hardware Environments from DSP Optimized Machine Codes" by Gaurav Mittal and David Zaretsky

The best poster award recipients will each receive $200 and a certificate during an ECE Awards Event on Friday, May 21.

-Prith Banerjee
Chairman

SEMINARS

Motorola Distinguished Lecture Series
DATE: Monday, May 17, 2004
TIME: 4:00 p.m.
PLACE: L324 Tech
TITLE: Sequential Synthesis
SPEAKER: Robert K. Brayton, Cadence Distinguished Professor EECS, University of California, Berkeley

ECE Distinguished Lecture
DATE: Tuesday, May 18, 2004
TIME: 11:00 a.m.
PLACE: L324 Tech
TITLE: In Search of Textons
SPEAKER: Harry Shum, Microsoft Research Asia

EXAMINATIONS

Friday, May 21, 2004: Ph.D. Qualifying Examination - 9:00 a.m.
Room L324
Maged Ghoneima
"Improving the Bit-Rate, Noise-Performance and Power Dissipation of On-Chip Bases"
Committee Members: Y. Ismail (chairman), P. Banerjee, A. Sahakian, R. Dick, and H. Zhou

Friday, May 21, 2004: M.S. Final Examination - 1:00 p.m.
Room L324
Simona D. Petrutiu
"Efficient Parallel Hierarchical Clustering Algorithms" Committee Members: P. Scheuermann (chairman), L. Henschen, and A. Sahakian

TRAVEL

Prith Banerjee is traveling to San Francisco, CA, May 19-20, to attend meetings at various companies (Altera, Xilinx and Intel).

Jorge Nocedal traveled to Waterloo, Canada, May 12-15, and presented a plenary talk at the meeting on Large Scale Semi Definite Programming.

Professor Manijeh Razeghi gave an invited talk entitled, "Recent Advances in Quantum Cascade Lasers at CQD/NU," at the U.S.-Korea Workshop on Nanoelectronics, Seoul, Korea, May 10-11, 2004.

Allen Taflove is in Washington, D.C., May 17-18, for an NSF proposal review panel in the area of electromagnetic fields and waves.

OTHER NEWS

I am pleased to announce that Anne Hubbard has joined our department as the new part-time User Services Rep. Anne joined us Thursday and is already very much involved with her new duties servicing the Computer Engineering Faculty. Anne's office is located in room L454, her number is 1-7132 and her email is anne@ece.northwestern.edu. We look forward to working with Anne and wish her much success in her new role. Welcome to ECE, Anne!

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