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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

This is graduation week. Congratulations to all our graduating students and best wishes for the future. Here is a short list of events:

Friday, June 17, 2005

• 9:00 Ph.D. Hooding and M.S. Graduation Ceremony
• 10:30 Co-Op Recognition
• 12:00 Professional Master's Program Graduation Ceremony
• 2:15 Order of the Engineer Ceremony
• 6:00 University Commencement

Saturday, June 18, 2005

• 8:30 McCormick School Convocation

Congratulations to our graduate student Jamesina Simpson (a student of Prof. Taflove) on having been awarded the highly selective $2,500 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Graduate Fellowship.

Speaking of Professor Taflove, the third edition of his book "Computational Electrodynamics: The Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method," co-authored with our alumna Prof. Susan Hagness, has just been published.

This is the last ECEnews for the 2004-05 academic year. Best wishes for an enjoyable and productive summer.

-Abe Haddad
Interim Chairman

SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT

Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science Seminar
DATE: Thursday, June 16, 2005
TIME: 1:30 PM
PLACE: L324 Technological Institute
TITLE: "Voronoi Diagrams and applications in VLSI Layout and Manufacturing"
SPEAKER: Professor D.T. Lee, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

EXAMINATIONS

Thursday, June 16, 2005: Ph.D. Final Examination - 2:00 p.m.
Room L324
Ying Liu
"High Performance Data Mining Techniques for Very Large Databases"
Committee Members: A. Choudhary (chairman), P. Scheuermann, W.-K. Liao, and G. Memik

Monday, June 20, 2005: Ph.D. Qualifying Examination - 2:00 p.m.
Room E311
John Shen
"Architecture Optimization and Components Development for a Super Parallel Holographic Random Access Memory"
Committee Members: S. Shahriar (chairman), A. Taflove, and A. Sahakian

Tuesday, June 21, 2005: Ph.D. Qualifying Examination - 1:00 p.m.
Room L324
Jong-Kwon Lee
"Polarization Imaging System using a Holographic Stokesmeter"
Committee Members: S. Shahriar (chairman), A. Taflove, and T. Pappas

Thursday, June 23, 2005: Ph.D. Qualifying Examination - 2:00 p.m.
Room 2058 Cook Hall
Ho-Chul Lim
"Quantum Dot Infrared Photodetectors: Experiments, Modeling and Analysis"
Committee Members: M. Razeghi (chairperson), A. Sahakian, H. Mohseni, B. Movaghar, and A. Quivy

Wednesday, July 6, 2005: Ph.D. Final Examination - 4:00 p.m.
Room L324
Xiangping Qin
"Distributed Approaches for Exploiting Multiuser Diversity"
Committee Members: R. Berry (chairman), M. Honig, C.-C. Lee, and R. Agrawal

TRAVEL

Robert Dick is traveling to the Design Automation Conference in Anaheim, California, from 13-17 June. Prof. Dick's advisee, Zhenyu Gu, will present his method of automatically designing low-power, low-area integrated circuits by considering placement information during synthesis. Collaborators: Jia Wang and Hai Zhou.

Aggelos Katsaggelos traveled to the IEEE headquarters in Piscataway NJ, on June 6 to attend the annual Editorial Board Meeting of the Proceedings of the IEEE.

Aggelos Katsaggelos is traveling to Orlando, FL, to attend the First International Conference on Multimedia Services Access Networks (MSAN 2005), June 13-15, 2005. He is serving as the general co-chair of the conference.

Prof. Katsaggelos will travel to Maui, Hawaii, to deliver a plenary talk at the WirelessComm 2005 conference on June 16, 2005.

Prem Kumar traveled to Rochester, NY, June 9-10, to attend a meeting for the MURI in Quantum Optics on the University of Rochester River Campus.

Professor Gokhan Memik traveled to Madison, WI, to attend the 32nd International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) from June 4-8. He is co-organizing a workshop titled Advanced Networking and Communications Hardware (ANCHOR).

Professor Razeghi's travel:
Invited Talk, "Recent Advances in 3-5 micron InGaAs/InAlAs/InP Quantum Cascade Lasers," and Session Chair, "Quantum Cascade and Long Wavelength Lasers I," CLEO/EUROPE-EQEC Conference, Munich, Germany, June 12-17, 2005

Alan Sahakian is traveling to the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) conference in Portland, Oregon, June 11-14. He is attending an ABET Training Workshop on June 12 and presenting the paper: "An Inexpensive Laboratory Module to Teach Principles of NMR/MRI" on June 14.

Bruce Wessels is traveling to Seoul, Korea, June 13-17, to attend the International Conference on Electroceramics and present a paper entitled, "Ferroelectric thin film waveguide devices for nanophotonics."

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