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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

Last Friday and Saturday we had a successful Graduate Student Recruiting Weekend, where five of our admitted students visited the department and met with faculty and graduate students before making their decision to accept our offer.

Every year the ECE department publishes an Annual Research Report that describes in detail the research that our ECE faculty and their graduate students have done during the previous year. The ECE department has completed the Annual Report for the 2003-04 academic year which covers the period Sep. 1, 2003 to Aug. 31, 2004. This is the last report completed by our previous Chairman, Prith Banerjee, who I hope is enjoying an excellent time as Dean at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

I thank Prof. Seng Ho, Director of Publicity, Alumni, and Industrial Relations for doing an excellent and difficult job of compiling this report based on input from various faculty. The report is being sent out to to various ECE department chairs, Engineering Deans, and industrial labs. If you wish a hard copy, please write Brooke Hildebrand at brooke@ece.northwestern.edu

The report will be available as a PDF file from our ECE web page.

-Abe Haddad
Interim Chairman

SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT

CPCC Seminar Series
DATE: Monday, April 4, 2005
TIME: 11:00 a.m.
PLACE: Tech Room F211
TITLE: "Managing Entanglement in Ultrafast Quantum Optics"
SPEAKER: Dr. Warren Grice, Research Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Communications and Networking Seminar
DATE: Thursday, April 7, 2005
TIME: 11:00 a.m.
PLACE: Tech Room L324
TITLE: "Capacity-Approaching Low-Density Parity-Check Codes for Binary Symmetric and Non-symmetric Channels"
SPEAKER: Chih-Chun Wang, Princeton University

Special Distinguished Lecture by the 2005 Alumni Merit Award Recipient
DATE: Friday, April 8, 2005
TIME: 1:00 p.m.
PLACE: Tech Room M345
TITLE: "Beyond the Smartphone: What's next for the mobile computing device formerly known as a cell phone?"
SPEAKER: James Brailean, PhD, PacketVideo Corporation

EXAMINATIONS

Wednesday, April 6, 2005: Ph.D. Qualifying Examination - 10:30 a.m.
Room B211
Jianwei Li
"Computational Data Space Model for High-Performance Data Intensive Applications"
Committee Members: A. Choudhary (chairman), W.-K. Liao, and P. Scheuermann

TRAVEL

Professor Thrasos Pappas traveled to Philadelphia, March 21-25, to attend meetings of the Board of Governors and the Bio Imaging and Signal Processing Technical Committee of the Signal Processing Society of IEEE. He also visited the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center at Hawthorn and Yorktown Heights, NY, as well as New York University, where he gave a talk on "Adaptive Perceptual Color-Texture Segmentation."

Professor Chi-haur Wu traveled to NSF for a SBIR proposal review panel on March 31.

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