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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

Each year, the ECE Department recognizes our best graduating seniors in electrical engineering and computer engineering, our best Ph.D. student thesis, our best TAs, and our best Teachers. The Teaching and Awards Committee consisting of Professors Martin Plonus (Chair), Randy Freeman, Wei-Chung Lin, and Hai Zhou selected the following award winners for the 2004-05 academic year. These awards were presented at the ECE Awards reception held on Wednesday, June 1, 2005 at 4:00 pm:

Best Graduating Seniors in Electrical Engineering: Thomas D. O'Sullivan and Lindsay Wickers

Best Graduating Senior in Computer Engineering: Brian Wedel

Best Teaching Assistant: (Alex) Yujun Xie

Best Teacher in the ECE department: Prof. Mary Phillips

Best Ph.D. Thesis in the ECE Department: Chirayu S. Amin for his Thesis on "Timing analysis of high-performance integrated circuits;" Prof. Ismail, adviser.

Two honorable mentions for Best PhD Thesis: Zhigang Chen, "Investigation of Noval Optical Scattering Properties of Micro-Scale Dielectric Particles," Prof. Taflove, advisor; and Eric Corndorf,"Quantum Cryptography using Coherent States: Randomized Encrytion and Key Generation," Prof. Kumar, advisor.

I wish to thank the committee members for their hard work in selecting the winners, and Deneen Bryce for preparing the award plaques that were given to the students and faculty.

In addition, two graduating seniors were selected by the International Engineering Consortium to receive the William L. Everitt Student Awards of Exellence: Thomas D. O'Sullivan and Frank Huebbers

Speaking of awards, congratulations to Allen Taflove who has been selected by the Northwestern University Associated Student Government for the 2004-05 Faculty/Administrator Honor Roll.

This is final exams week and our best wishes for success to our undegraduate and graduate students.

-Abe Haddad
Interim Chairman

EXAMINATIONS

Wednesday, June 8, 2005: M.S. Final Examination - 11:00 a.m.
Room L324
Alexander Jevtic
"Real Time Machine Simulator 2.0"
Committee Members: L. Henschen (chairman), R. Dick, and S. Iravani

Thursday, June 9, 2005: Ph.D. Qualifying Examination - 2:00 p.m.
Room L324
Arindam Mallik
"Application Specific Reliable Architecture"
Committee Members: G.Memik (chairman), A. Choudhary, S. Memik, Y. Ismail, and R. Joseph

Friday, June 10, 2005: M.S. Final Examination - 10:00 a.m.
Room L324
Roger Biffiger
"Audio-Visual Automatic Isolated Digits Recognition"
Committee Members: A. Katsaggelos (chairman), T. Pappas, and Y. Wu

TRAVEL

Professor Abe Haddad is traveling to Portland, Oregon, to attend the 2005 American Control Conference and the Board meeting of the American Automatic Control Council, from June 7-11.

Professor Prem Kumar traveled to Baltimore, MD, May 23-26, to attend CLEO/QELS - (Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Quantum Electronics and Laser Science). He chaired the Squeezing and Quantum Control session.

List of papers presented:

* Frequency Up-Conversion at the Single-Photon Level in a Periodically-Poled Lithium Niobate Waveguide,
Presenter: Sarah W. Dugan
Authors : Sarah W. Dugan, Xiaoying Li, Paul L. Voss, Prem Kumar
* Multichannel Wavelength Conversion of DPSK Signals Using Four-Wave Mixing in Highly-Nonlinear Fiber without Cross-Gain-Modulation Penalty,
Presenter: Preetpaul Devgan
Authors: Preetpaul Devgan, Renyong Tang, Vladimir S. Grigoryan, Prem Kumar;
* Quantum Imaging of Nonlocal Spatial Correlations in Parametric Down-Conversion Induced by the Pump-Beam Profile,
Presenter: Kahraman G. Koprulu
Authors: Kahraman G. Koprulu, Geraldo A. Barbosa, Prem Kumar
* Measurement of Co- and Cross-Polarized Raman Spectra in Silica Fiber for Small Detunings,
Presenter: Dr. Xiaoying Li,
Authors: Dr.Xiaoying Li, Dr.Paul L. Voss, Jun Chen, Dr. Kim Fook Lee, Prem Kumar;
* Quantum Information Processing with Optical Fibers,
Presenter: Prem Kumar

Professor Kumar also traveled to Boulder, CO, June 1-2, to attend NISY/ARDA 2005 Quantum Communications Research Conference (QCRC) conference and present a paper entitled, "Fiber Pump laser Development for SPDC."

Seda Ogrenci Memik and Gokhan Memik traveled to Kobe, Japan between May 21-24 to attend the International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS). Seda presented a paper co-authored with her student Somsubhra Mondal titled: "A Low Power FPGA Routing Architecture" at the conference.

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