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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

Our faculty recently received two gifts from industry:

Hai Zhou received a gift of $40,000 from Cadence Design Systems, Inc., to support his research on data flow driven floorplanning by ACG (Adjacent Constraint Graph).

Robert Dick received a gift of $43,000 from NEC Laboratories America, Inc., for research on content compression mechanisms for mobile devices.

Professor Razeghi was granted a patent on Focal Plane Arrays in Type II-Superlattices.

This is final exam week at Northwestern with Spring Break next week. Best wishes to our students for success on their exams.

There is a McCormick Faculty meeting on Monday, March 14, at 1:30. Please join me in wishing Dean Joe Schofer the best as this is his last faculty meeting as Interim Dean.

-Abe Haddad
Interim Chairman

TRAVEL

Jorge Nocedal is traveling to Berkeley, CA, March 11-15, to present a seminar at the Chemistry Department, University of California-Berkeley, entitled: "Optimization Algorithms for Computational Chemistry."

Mary Phillips attended the Optical Fiber Communication Conference in Anaheim, California. Her student, Jinye Zhang, presented a post-deadline paper at the conference, "Cancellation of Intensity Noise caused by Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in an Optical Fiber Transmission System" co-authored by Jinye Zhang and M. R. Phillips.

Peter Scheuermann traveled to Arlington, VA, to attend a panel meeting of the National Science Foundation on March 7-8.

Bruce Wessels traveled to Arlington, VA, March 7-8, to attend an NSF workshop on Integrative Systems. He also traveled to Anaheim, CA, March 8-9, to attend the Optical Fiber Conference.

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