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ECE Department Weekly Newsletter
April 18, 2005
 

CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

Two of our Ph.D. students have been awarded prestigious NSF Graduate Fellowships:

Jamesina Simpson, who is working with Professor Taflove. She has also been named a Session Chairperson at the July 2005 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium.

Grace Nijm, who is working with Professor Sahakian.

Please join me in congratulating Jamesina and Grace for these significant awards. We hope that both Allen Taflove and Alan Sahakian will continue to advise and mentor such wonderful graduate students, as they have done consistently in the past.

-Abe Haddad
Interim Chairman

EXAMINATIONS

Wednesday, April 20, 2005: Ph.D. Final Examination - 12:00 noon
Room L324
Snow Tseng
"Rigorously Solving Maxwell's Equations for the Problem of Light Scattering by Macroscopic Biological Random Media"
Committee Members: A. Taflove (chairman), V. Backman, M. Epstein, and J. Walsh

TRAVEL

The following three professors traveled to St. Augustine, FL, April 4-7, to attend the DARPA Quantum Information Science and Technology (QuIST) Program Review:

  • Prem Kumar presented posters entitled, "AlphaEta: Ultra-Secure and Ultra-Efficient Quantum Cryptographic Schemes for Optical Systems, Networks, and the Internet" and "KCQ K generation: quantum key generation using keyed coherent state and structured receivers, by Prem Kumar, Horace P. Yuen, Eric Corndorf;

  • Selim Shahriar presented a poster entitled, "Integrated Quantum Communication and Computing with Ensemble-Based Quantum Bits"; and

  • Horace P. Yuen presented a poster entitled, "Security criteria, error correction, and privacy amplification in quantum key generation," by Prem Kumar, Horace P. Yuen, Eric Corndorf.

Prem Kumar traveled to Santa Barbara, CA, April 12-13, to attend an NSF Workshop: "The Future of Optical Communications: Understanding the Choices" at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB).

Professor Hooman Mohseni gave an invited talk about novel Stepped Quantum Well Modulators at the SPIE Defense and Security Symposium in Orlando, on April 1st . He also attended the Government Microcircuit Applications and Critical Technology Conference in Los Vegas, and presented a paper regarding "high-performance surface-normal modulators" on April 6th.

 

 

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