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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

The first week of Winter Quarter went smoothly with almost no major problems: we are still looking for a smart classroom for one of our courses. Even the 24-hour snow fall did not disrupt classes too much.

Our thoughts are with the ECE family members who are from South Asia or who have friends and loved ones still there during the last two weeks of the recovery from the destructive Tsunami. Please do not hesitate to call on us if we can be of any help during this trying period.

-Abe Haddad
Interim Chairman

SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENTS

CPCC Seminar Series
DATE: Monday, January 10
TIME: 11:00 a.m.
PLACE: Tech L324
TITLE: "Nanophotonic Devices and Applications"
SPEAKER: Seng-Tiong Ho

Homeland Security Seminar Series
DATE: Thursday, January 13
TIME: 4:00 p.m.
PLACE: Tech L324
TITLE: "Safeguarding Nation's Fiber-Optic Infrastucture Against Unauthorized Hacking"
SPEAKER: Prem Kumar

EXAMINATIONS

Thursday, January 13, 2005: Ph.D. Qualifying Examination - 1:30 p.m.
Room L324
Ranjith Nair
"Quantum Detection and Coding with Applications to Quantum Cryptography"
Committee Members: H. Yuen (chairman), P. Kumar, and D. Guo

Friday, January 14, 2005: Ph.D. Qualifying Examination - 10:00 a.m.
Room 2058 Cook Hall
Ryan McClintock
"Deep UV Photodetectors and Focal Plane Arrays"
Committee Members: M. Razeghi (chairperson), A. Sahakian, M. Ulmer, and H. Mohseni

TRAVEL

Dongning Guo is traveling to Santa Fe to attend a workshop organized by Los Alamos National Laboratory on the "Applications of statistical physics on coding theory," January 10-12. The topic is tightly related to the NSF grant proposal he just submitted.

Bruce Wessels traveled to Nashville, TN, January 5-7, for a University Senate Coalition Meeting at Vanderbilt University.

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