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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

I wish to welcome our students back from Spring break and to the beginning of the Spring quarter. We hope that you all had happy and joyous holidays.

The Spring quarter starts on Tuesday, March 29, but with a twist: THE MONDAY CLASS SCHEDULE WILL BE FOLLOWED THIS FIRST TUESDAY.

I am pleased to announce that a new center has been established by the Dean on "Ultra Scale Computing and Information Security" with Alok Choudhary as Director. More information and a link to the center web site will be available in a future ECEnews.

This week Dr. Daniel Oblinger from IBM will be visiting ECE and CS on Tuesday and Wednesday. Please contact Brooke if you wish to meet with him.

-Abe Haddad
Interim Chairman

EXAMINATIONS

Wednesday, March 30, 2005: Ph.D. Qualifying Examination - 11:00 a.m.
Room L324
Peshala V. Pahalawatta
"Video Transmission to Multiple Users over High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) Networks"
Committee Members: A. Katsaggelos (chairman), T. Pappas, and R. Berry

Wednesday, March 30, 2005: Ph.D. Qualifying Examination - 2:00 p.m.
Room L324
Dejan Depalov
"Semantic Labeling for Image Classification and Retrieval"
Committee Members: T. Pappas (chairman), A. Katsaggelos, and Y. Wu

Thursday, March 31, 2005: Ph.D. Qualifying Examination - 9:30 a.m.
Room L324
Jianwei Huang
"Wireless Resource Allocation: Auctions, Games and Optimization"
Committee Members: M. Honig (chairman), R. Berry, R. Vohra, and R. Agrawal

Thursday, March 31, 2005: Ph.D. Final Examination - 3:00 p.m.
Room L324
Zhigang Chen
"Investigation of Novel Optical Scattering Properties of Micron-Scale Dielectric Particles"
Committee Members: A. Taflove (chairman), V. Backman, and M. Epstein

TRAVEL

Alok Choudhary traveled to Davos, Switzerland, March 20-24. He gave a keynote speech at the SOS conference.

Abe Haddad traveled to New Orleans, March 18-22, and attended the annual meeting of ECE Department Heads Association.

Jorge Nocedal is traveling to Ithaca, NY, March 28-30, to present a seminar at Cornell University entitled, "Interior and Penalty Methods."

Professor Thrasos Pappas traveled to Maui, Hawaii, March 7-9, to attend the National Consortium for MASINT (Measurement and Signature Intelligence) Research semi-annual technology review meeting, and to give a presentation on the project "A Distributed Cognitive Information Processing System" that is supported by the Consortium. (Profs. Aggelos Katsaggelos, Ying Wu, and Sam Musa are co-investigators on the project.)

Frank Splitt, McCormick Faculty Fellow and a member of the ECE Advisory Board, also attended the annual meeting of the ECE Department Heads Association in New Orleans, March 18-22, 2005.

Bruce Wessels traveled to Los Angeles, CA, March 20-24, to attend the American Physical Society meeting. He presented papers entitled: "Kinetics of polarization switching of epitaxial BaTiO3," "In-plane uniaxial anisotropy of InMnAs," and "Electronic states in Mn4+ ions in p-type GaN."

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