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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

I am pleased to distribute the CTEC course evaluation results for the Winter 2004 quarter. As in the past, I am recognizing all the faculty who have scored 5.0 or higher with a personal letter of thanks (marked with an asterisk).

I do realize that it is almost impossible to get CTEC scores of 5.0 in many of our large enrollment undergraduate courses. Hence this recognition should be viewed carefully. We appreciate some of the faculty's service in those difficult courses.

Course #    Professor       Enrollment     CTEC Score
IDEA 106    Henschen          16              5.0 *
IDEA 106    Lin               14              5.0 *
202         Taflove/Butz      31              3.5
203         C. Wu             63              4.1
221         Plonus            16              4.3
222         Butz              34              2.6
225         C. Wu             35              3.0
230         Henschen          66              4.8 *
308         Yuen               8              3.4
332         Y. Wu             30              4.7
360         Freeman           33              5.7 *
361         G. Memik          17              4.0
362         Choudhary         18              4.8
378         Lee               19              4.9
382         Kumar              5              5.0 *
388         Razeghi           23              5.3 *
391         Ismail            36              5.3 *
402         Khosravani         6              4.0
403         Khosravani         8              3.0
404         Shahriar           8              5.0 *
420         Pappas            13              3.9
422         Haddad            10              5.2 *
425         Ho                 4              4.0
427         Yuen               4              3.4
454         Berry              5              5.5 *
459         S. Memik           8              5.1 *
467         Scheuermann        8              4.7

Please join me in congratulating the best teachers in our department.

-Prith Banerjee
Chairman

SEMINARS

Communications and Networking Seminar
DATE: Wednesday, June 2, 2004
TIME: 4:00 p.m.
PLACE: Room E311 Tech
TITLE: Convergence and Optimality of Channel Aware Scheduling and Resource Allocation Algorithms
SPEAKER: Rajeev Agrawal, Network Advanced Technology Group, Motorola

EXAMINATIONS

Tuesday, June 1, 2004: Ph.D. Final Examination - 3:00 p.m.
Room L324
Zhu Li
"Rate-Distortion Optimal Video Summarization and Video Retrieval Based on Principal Component Space Geometry"
Committee Members: A. Katsaggelos (chairman), T. Pappas, R. Berry, Y. Wu, and B. Gandhi

TRAVEL

Professor Martin Plonus was in Washington, D.C., May 17-18, to participate in a NSF proposal review panel in the area of electromagnetic fields and waves.

Regarding Professor Razeghi's travel:
Invited Talk, "High Power Quantum Cascade Lasers";
Optical Society of America (OSA) Fellow Award presentation; and
Postdeadline Paper, "Quantum Dot Infrared Photodetectors (QDIPs) by MOCVD and QDIP Focal Plane Array," all at the CLEO/IQEC Conference, San Francisco, CA, May 16-21, 2004.

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