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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

Even though this is a short week due to the Thanksgiving Holiday, we've managed to squeeze in two distinguished visitors on Tuesday, November 23, 2004. Sani Nasif of IBM will be presenting an ECE Distinguished Seminar at 11:00 a.m. and Rick Stevens of Argonne will present a Motorola Distinguished Lecture at 4:00 p.m.

Congratulations to Pauline Wairimu on her recent marriage to Thom Kenly. They were married on November 5 in New York.

My best wishes to the ECE family for a happy and filling Thanksgiving Holiday.

-Abe Haddad
Interim Chairman

SEMINARS

ECE Distinguished Seminar
DATE: Tuesday, November 23
TIME: 11:00 a.m.
PLACE: Tech L324
TITLE: "Model to Hardware Closure For nm Technologies"
SPEAKER: Prof. Sani R. Nassif, Senior Researcher, IBM

Motorola Distinguished Seminar
DATE: Tuesday, November 23
TIME: 4:00 p.m.
PLACE: Tech L324
TITLE: "Systems Biology and Grids: A Natural Pairing"
SPEAKER: Rick Stevens, Director, Mathematics and Computer Science Professor, Computer Science Director, Computation Institute, Argonne National Laboratory and The University of Chicago

EXAMINATION

Monday, November 22, 2004: Ph.D. Qualifying Examination - 10:00 a.m.
Room L324
Jun Chen
"Quantum Communication and Quantum Computation using Fiber-Based Entangled Sources"
Committee Members: P. Kumar (chairman), S. Shahriar, and S.-T. Ho

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES/AWARDS/HONORS

Please join me in congratulating Alok Choudhary for his election to Fellow of IEEE for contributions to high performance computing systems.

Congratulations, Alok, for this well-deserved honor.

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