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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

This is the middle of the Spring Quarter and it is time for the mid-quarter evaluation of our courses. Martin Plonus will place in the faculty mailboxes the form to be used to get feedback on the courses so changes can be made for the rest of the quarter.

Congratulations to graduate student Preetpaul Devgan (he works for Prem Kumar) who has been selected one of the seven finalists for the New Focus/Bookham Award of the Optical Society of America. We wish him the best in winning the final prize in the competition at the Annual Conference on Lasers and Electro-optics.

Laser Focus World has featured Manijeh Razeghi's development of a 320x256 solar blind detector array.

-Abe Haddad
Interim Chairman

SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT

CPCC Seminar Series
DATE: Monday, April 25
TIME: 11:00 a.m.
PLACE: Tech L324
TITLE: "Few-Cycle Optical Pulse Generation and Its Applications"
SPEAKER: Prof. Franz X. Kartner, Electrical Engineering Dept., MIT

EXAMINATIONS

Tuesday, April 26, 2005: Ph.D.. Final Examination - 12:00 noon
Room E311
Jinye Zhang
"Intensity Noise Induced by Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in Optical Fiber Transmission Systems"
Committee Members: M. Phillips (chairperson), P. Kumar, and S. Shahriar

Tuesday, April 26, 2005: Ph.D. Final Examination - 2:00 p.m.
Room L324
Marisa Ruffolo "The Development of Storage Requirements and the Analysis of Optimal Storage Placement for a Federated Digital Medical Imaging Network"
Committee Members: A. Sahakian (chairman), M. Daskin, and R. Berry

Tuesday, April 26, 2005: M.S. Final Examination
Gang Wang
"Option C"
Committee Members: H. Zhou (chairman), A. Haddad, and A. Taflove

TRAVEL

Professor Gokhan Memik is traveling to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 25-26, to give an invited talk titled "Providing Application-Specific Reliability at the Microarchitecture Level."

Professor Bruce Wessels is presenting a seminar entitled, "Ferromagnetic (InMn)As for Spintronic Applications," at the University of Illinois at Chicago, today, April 25.

OTHER NEWS

Professor Chi-haur Wu recently received a $14,000 cash donation from Exelon ComEd to support the NU Solar-car team for the 2005 ASC race.

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