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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

Last Friday we had a very informative and enjoyable visit of Dr. Claire Tomlin of Stanford University. Her seminar generated a great deal of interest by faculty in several McCormick departments.

Last week we also had a very productive visit by Dan Oblinger of IBM Research who met with faculty and graduate students over several days.

I take pleasure in announcing two recent grants awarded to our faculty:

Dr. Razeghi was awarded a grant by DARPA in the amount of $1.1 million on "High Power Quantum Cascade Laser Based Photoacoustic Spectroscopy."

Drs. Choudhary, G. Memik, and S. Memik were awarded a grant of $259k by NSF for research in "Ultra-scalable system software and tools for data-intensive computing."

This is a reminder that this Friday (Oct. 15) is the deadline for the Motorola Undergraduate Research proposals.

-Abe Haddad
Interim Chairman

SEMINARS

Distinguished Systems Lecture
DATE: Thursday, October 14, 2004
TIME: 2:00 p.m.
PLACE: Tech L324
TITLE: Training-Based Methods for Developing Optimal Rendering Algorithms
SPEAKER: Jan Allebach, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University

TRAVEL

Bruce Wessels will travel to Oaxaca, Mexico, October 15-21, for an ONR Workshop on Multifunctional Materials. He will present a paper entitled, "Ferromagnetic InMnAs/InAs heterojunctions and their magnetic properties."

Hai Zhou will travel to San Jose, CA, from Oct. 11 to 13 to attend IEEE International Conference on Computer Design. He will chair a session on Network -on-Chip and give a talk on floorplanning to Cadence during his stay. His students, Ruiming Chen and Jia Wang will give two talks on the conference.

OTHER NEWS

The Optimization Technology Center's Seminar Series presented Eric de Sturler from UIUC's CS department, on Wednesday, October 6th on the Access Grid, room L350. Prof. de Sturler's seminar was titled "Probing for Schur Complements and Preconditioning Generalized Saddle-Point Problems", and the abstract can be read here: http://www.ece.northwestern.edu/OTC/otc/schedule.html

Stop by this site to join the mailing list and receive announcements for future OTC Seminars: http://www.ece.northwestern.edu/OTC/otc/index.html

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