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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

This week's newsletter covers two weeks due to the Memorial Day Holiday next weekend. Our best wishes to our extended ECE family for a happy holiday.

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 winners selected by our Awards Committee, with Prof. Plonus as chairman, will be recognized at an awards ceremony on Wednesday, June 1, at 4:00 pm in Room L324. Following the awards ceremony Prof. Robert Dick (the winner of last year's Best Teacher award) will present a lecture on "Engaging Students with Rigorous Material." Everyone is invited to attend. Refreshments will be served. (The winners will be announced in the next ECEnews after the ceremony).

June 3, 2005 is the last day of classes for the current academic year, with final exam week to follow. On June 3, 2005, we also have our Motorola Center graduate research presentations, as well as poster presentations by all our undergraduates involved in research (including Motorola, Ford, and GM supported projects). The poster session is held in the afternoon at the Motorola University site.

The Northwestern University Solar Car Team, under the direction of Professor C.-H. Wu, has received a gift from the Eaton Corporation for $3,000.

Finally, as has been a tradition every Spring, ECE is holding a pot-luck lunch on Wednesday, June 1, 2005. All faculty, staff, and graduate students are invited to participate.

-Abe Haddad
Interim Chairman

SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT

CENTER FOR QUANTUM DEVICES (CQD) Seminar/Colloquium
DATE: Friday, June 3, 2005
TIME: 3:30pm
PLACE: Cook Hall Room 2058
TITLE: "Making Molecular Wires: Mechanisms of Charge and Spin Transport in Organic Materials"
SPEAKER: Dr. Michael R. Wasielewski, Department of Chemistry and Institute for Nanotechnology, Northwestern University

EXAMINATIONS

Wednesday, May 25, 2005: Ph.D. Qualifying Examination - 1:00 p.m.
Room L324
Ting Yu
"Multiple Motion Analysis for Intelligent Video Surveillance"
Committee Members: Y. Wu (chairman), A. Katsaggelos, and T. Pappas

Wednesday, May 25, 2005: Ph.D. Qualifying Examination - 2:00 p.m.
Room L324
Gang Hua
"Graphical Model for Computer Vision"
Committee Members: Y. Wu (chairman), A. Katsaggelos, and T. Pappas

Thursday, May 26, 2005: Ph.D. Qualifying Examination - 2:00 p.m.
Room L324
Chuan Lin
"Timing Optimization Algorithms for Sequential Circuits"
Committee Members: H. Zhou (chairman), Y. Ismail, R. Dick, S. Ogrenci Memik, and J. Nocedal

Friday, May 27, 2005: Ph.D. Qualifying Examination - 2:00 p.m.
Room L324
Debjit Sinha
"Analysis and Optimization for Noise and Variations in Deep Sub-Micron Circuits"
Committee Members: H. Zhou (chairman), Y. Ismail, R. Dick, S. Ogrenci Memik, and P. Banerjee

Friday, June 3, 2005: Ph.D. Qualifying Examination - 2:00 p.m.
Room L324
Rajarshi Mukherjee
"Power and Thermal-Aware Design Optimizations in High-Level Synthesis"
Committee Members: S. Ogrenci Memik (chairperson), R. Dick, G. Memik, and P. Banerjee

TRAVEL

Professor Jorge Nocedal traveled to Stockholm, Sweden, May 15-19, to present a paper entitled, "On the solution of very large optimization problems," at the SIAM Conference on Optimization.

Professor Mary Phillips is attending the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) in Baltimore, Maryland. Her student, Jinye Zhang will be presenting a paper, "Modeling Intensity Noise caused by Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in Optical Fibers," by Jinye Zhang and M. R. Phillips.

Richard Waltz traveled to Montreal, May 9-11 to attend Optimization Days 2005 at the University of Montreal and present a talk entitled, "Adaptive Barrier Procedures for Nonlinear Interior Methods".

Richard Waltz traveled to Stockholm, Sweden, May 14-20 to attend the SIAM Conference on Optimization and present a talk entitled, "Active Set Identification in SLQP Algorithms for Nonlinear Optimization".

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