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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

I hope you all survived the heavy snow during the weekend. It was very gratifying that very few students in the MITP program missed classes on Saturday because of the weather.

Congratulations are in order to Prem Kumar for his election as Program Chair for the 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science (QELS'06) conference sponsored by the Optical Society of America, the Laser Science Division of the American Physical Society, and the Lasers and Electro-optics Society of IEEE. He will also serve as General Chair for the meeting in 2008.

-Abe Haddad
Interim Chairman

TRAVEL

Abe Haddad is traveling to Washington, DC, to attend a panel meeting of the National Science Foundation on January 24 and 25.

Seng-Tiong Ho traveled to Atlanta, Georgia, January 18-21. Prof. Ho will make a technical presentation at DARPA MACRO-MOLECULAR PHOTONICS conference on his most recent works in the area of organic electro-optic modulator.

Prem Kumar traveled to Alexandria, VA, January 16-18, to attend the CLEO/QELS Technical Program Committee Meeting.

Jorge Nocedal traveled to Santa Clara, CA, January 19-23, and visited Intel to start research collaboration on parallel algorithms. He also visited Sandia National lab to discuss research topics in optimization.

Professor Thrasos Pappas traveled to San Jose, CA, January 17-21, where he co-chaired the SPIE/IS&T Annual Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Science and Technology. Prof. Pappas also co-chaired the conference on Human Vision and Electronic Imaging, which is part of the symposium. Prof. Pappas presented two papers at the symposium, and was co-author of a paper that was presented by his former student Junqing Chen, who is now at Unilever Research.

Bruce Wessels is traveling to Bozeman, MT, January 21-26, to attend the Physics and Chemistry of Interfaces Conference and present a paper entitled, "Electronic and magnetoresistance properties of ferromagnetic InMnAs/InAs heterojunctions."

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