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Monday September 15, 2008
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
The Graduate School Orientation for all New Graduate Students
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[EECS General]  
Tuesday September 16, 2008
8:00 a.m. - 12: 00 noon
Tech L324
New Graduate Student Orientation
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[EECS General]  
Friday September 19, 2008
All day

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[EECS General]  
Tuesday September 23, 2008
8:00 a.m.

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Tuesday September 30, 2008
3:00 p.m. - 5: 00 p.m.
Tech L324
Welcome Reception for All EECS Students
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June 18, 2008
Nikita Borisov, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Network Flow Watermarking"

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[EECS General]  
June 11, 2008
Graduate Student Yao Zhao will present "Load balanced and Efficient Hierarchical Data-Centric Storage in Sensor Networks"
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[Graduate Research Seminars]  
June 9, 2008
Dr. Hugo Cable, Postdoctoral Researcher, Louisiana State University

"Managing Photonic Loss"

Due to inclement weather and flight delays, this event has been cancelled.

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[CPCC Seminar]  
June 6, 2008
EECS Faculty and Student Awards Ceremony
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[EECS General]  
June 5, 2008
Goce Trajcevski, Ph.D., Research Associate Professor
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Department, Northwestern University

"The Geometries of Mobile Data"

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[EECS General]  
June 4, 2008
Alex Shye
"Learning and Leveraging the Relationship between Architecture-Level Measurements and Individual User Satisfaction"

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[Graduate Research Seminars]  
June 3, 2008
Female Researchers in EECS (FREECS) present: Valerie E. Taylor, Texas A&M University
"Performance Analysis and Optimization of Large-Scale Scientific Applications on Cluster Systems with Chip Multiprocessors"

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[EECS General]  
June 2, 2008
Anjali Agarwal, Telcordia Technologies
"Advances in Optical Code Division Multiplexing"

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[CPCC Seminar]  
May 28, 2008
Jack Lange
"Experiences with Speculative Remote Display"
To be presented at USENIX 08, Boston MA, in June 2008.

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[Graduate Research Seminars]  
May 27, 2008
Zhuowen Tu, Lab of Neuro Imaging (LONI), Department of Neurology, UCLA
"Auto-context Model"

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[EECS General]  
May 22, 2008
Ao-Jan Su
"Relative Network Positioning via CDN Redirections" To be presented at IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) Beijing, China, June 2008.

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[Graduate Research Seminars]  
May 22, 2008
Dan Schonfeld, Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept., University of Illinois at Chicago
"Evolution and Genomic Structure: A Signal Processing Perspective"

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[EECS General]  
May 19, 2008
Dr. Renu Tripathi, Palomar Observatory at Caltech
"Development of a High Power Sum-Frequency Sodium Laser for 'Laser Guide Star' Application"

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[EECS General]  
May 15, 2008
Technology and Social Behavior Speaker Series presents Wendy Kellogg, IBM
"Ten Years of Social Computing at IBM"

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[EECS General]  
May 14, 2008
Ramanathan Narayanan
"Mining Protein Interactions from Text using Convolution Kernels"

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[Graduate Research Seminars]  
May 12, 2008
The Female Researchers in EECS -- FREECS -- are hosting a visit from Jane Margolis (UCLA) and Allan Fisher (CMU)
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[EECS General]  
May 12, 2008
Ph.D. Candidate John Giacomoni, University of Colorado at Boulder
"FastForward for Efficient Pipeline Parallelism: A Cache- Optimized Concurrent Lock-Free Queue"

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[EECS General]  
May 9, 2008
Seda Ogrenci Memik,
"Thermal-Aware Design"

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[Meet the Faculty Seminar Series]  
May 7, 2008
Jinyu Yan, "Speeding melody search with vantage point trees"
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[Graduate Research Seminars]  
May 7, 2008
Professor Carl A. Gunter University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"DoS Models and Counter-Measures"

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[EECS General]  
May 5, 2008
Aditi Majumder, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine
"Unconstrained Multi-Projector Displays"

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[EECS General]  
May 2, 2008
Dr. Debra Rolison, Naval Research Laboratory
"Creating S&T Professional and Institutional Change through Subversion, Revolution, and Meteorology"

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[Center for Quantum Devices Seminars]  
May 2, 2008
Song Ci, Assistant Professor, Computer Engineering Department, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
"Cross-Layer as Optimization Unification: a Theoretical Framework for Quality-Driven Multimedia Communications"

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[EECS General]  
April 30, 2008
Rohit Kate, Ph.D., University of Texas - Austin
"Learning for Semantic Parsing with Kernels Under Various Forms of Supervision"

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[EECS General]  
April 25, 2008
John Laird, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, University of Michigan
"The Future of Cognitive Architecture: Down, Up, and Sideways"

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[EECS Distinguished Lectures Series]  
April 24, 2008
David Little
"Learning musical instruments from polyphonic audio with weak labels"

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[Graduate Research Seminars]  
April 23, 2008
The Graduate Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (GEECS) Society invites you to attend a Cookie/Coffee Hour.
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[EECS General]  
April 22, 2008
Robby Findler, Computer Science Department, University of Chicago
"Interoperability: calculi for multi-language programs"

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[EECS General]  
April 17, 2008
Jiahui Liu
"LocalSavvy: Aggregating Local Points of View about News Issues"

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[Graduate Research Seminars]  
April 17, 2008
Rosalind Picard, MIT
"Emotional Intelligence Technology and Autism"
Technology and Social Behavior Speaker Series

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[EECS General]  
April 17, 2008
Vasiliki N. Ikonomidou, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NIH)
"Applying Tissue Specific Imaging to Brain Imaging in Multiple Sclerosis"

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[EECS General]  
April 16, 2008
Lloyd "Nick" Trefethen, Professor of Numerical Analysis, Head of the Numerical Analysis Group, Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of Balliol College
"Computing Numerically with Functions instead of Numbers"

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[EECS Distinguished Lectures Series]  
April 11, 2008
Gokhan Memik, Assistant Professor, EECS Department
"Learning and Leveraging the Relationship between Architectural Properties and User Satisfaction"

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[Meet the Faculty Seminar Series]  
April 9, 2008
Jieyi Long
"An O(nlogn) Edge-Based Algorithm for Obstacle-Avoiding Rectilinear Steiner Tree Construction"
To be presented at International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD) on Apr. 15, 2008, in Portland, OR.

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[Graduate Research Seminars]  
April 8, 2008
Faculty Candidate Jacob Beal, MIT
"Learning by Learning to Communicate"

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[EECS General]  
April 4, 2008
Dr. Almadena Chtchelkanova, Program Director, National Science Fountation
"Current Programs and Opportunities in CISE at NSF"

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[EECS General]  
April 4, 2008
Nihar Jindal, Assistant Professor, Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota
"Multiuser MIMO Downlink Made Practical: Achievable Rates with Simple Channel State Estimation and Feedback Schemes"

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[EECS General]  
April 3, 2008
Dr. Chi-Keung (CK) Luk, Software Pathfinding and Innovation Group, Intel Corporation
"Exploiting Multicore Parallelism with Dynamic Instrumentation and Compilation"

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[EECS General]  
March 28, 2008
Prof. Kohzo Hakuta, University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Tokyo, Japan
"Manipulating Single Atoms and Single Photons Using Optical Nanofibers"

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[CPCC Seminar]  
March 21, 2008
Dr. Xiaotong Zhuang, Advanced Compilation Technology Group, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
"Compiler Optimizations in the Heterogeneous Multicore Era"

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[EECS General]  
March 20, 2008
Jonathan Bachrach, Research Scientist, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab
"Spatial Computing in Proto"

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[EECS General]  
March 18, 2008
Douglas Downey, University of Washington
"Autonomous Web-scale Information Extraction"

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[EECS General]  
March 14, 2008
Northwestern Female Researchers in EECS present
Tracy Camp
ACM Distinguished Speaker and Professor, Colorado School of Mines, "The Incredible Shrinking Pipeline"

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[EECS General]  
March 12, 2008
Meet the Faculty: Jason Hartline: "Auctions in the Unknown"
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[Meet the Faculty Seminar Series]  
March 12, 2008
Kevin Gold, Ph.D. Candidate, Yale University
"Robotic Models of Self-Recognition and Word Learning"

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[EECS General]  
March 10, 2008
Lan Bai will present a talk entitled "Adaptive Filesystem Compression for Embedded Systems" in advance of the conference Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE), Munich, Germany, March 2008.
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[Graduate Research Seminars]  
March 10, 2008
Dr. Matthew Might, Chief Research Officer - Diagis, LLC, and Chief Technology Officer - Yaplet, LLC
"Static analysis of higher-order programs"

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[EECS General]  
March 10, 2008
Toshikazu Nishida, Interdisciplinary Microsystems Group, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida
"Noise Floor of MEMS-based Piezoresistive Microphones"

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[EECS General]  
March 7, 2008
Todd Coleman, Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Information Theoretic Approaches for Utilizing Packet Timings in Networks"

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[EECS General]  
March 7, 2008
Dr. Shaun Gittens
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Human-Centered Computing Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Auburn University
"Optimal Treemap Visualization Techniques for Complex Predictive Models"

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[EECS General]  
March 6, 2008
Meet the Faculty: Peter Dinda, "The User in Experimental Computer Systems Research"
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[Meet the Faculty Seminar Series]  
March 4, 2008
Aron Culotta, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Massachusetts, "Learning to Extract Knowledge from Text"
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[EECS General]  
March 3, 2008
Xi Chen
Title: Design and Implementation of a High-Performance Microprocessor Cache Compression Algorithm To be presented in Data Compression Conference (DCC), March 2008.

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[Graduate Research Seminars]  
February 29, 2008
Meet the Faculty: Lance Fortnow
"Computational Awareness"

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[Meet the Faculty Seminar Series]  
February 27, 2008
Computer Engineering InfoSession, for engineering undergraduates deciding on a major. Catering by Pita Inn!
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[EECS General]  
February 26, 2008
Neil Vachharajani, Ph.D. Candidate, Princeton University
“Intelligent Pipelined Multithreading Speculation”

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[EECS General]  
February 26, 2008
Vijay Subramanian, Hamilton Institute, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
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[EECS General]  
February 25, 2008
Abishek Das
Title: An Efficient FPGA Implementation of Principal Component Analysis based Network Intrusion Detection System To be presented in Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE), Munich, Germany, March 2008.

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[Graduate Research Seminars]  
February 25, 2008
Bor-Yuh Evan Chang, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Berkeley
“Precise Program Analysis with Data Structures”

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[EECS General]  
February 22, 2008
Jiebo Luo, Kodak Research Labs
"Multimedia Mining Based on Content Recognition and Contextual Inference"

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[EECS General]  
February 21, 2008
EECS Distinguished Speaker Series presents Shree Nayar
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[EECS Distinguished Lectures Series]  
February 19, 2008
Dean’s Seminar Series and the Segal Design Institute present designer Bruce Mau: "It's about the design of the world."
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[EECS General]  
February 18, 2008
Xi Chen
Title: Operating System Controlled Processor-Memory Bus Encryption To be presented in Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE), Munich, Germany, March 2008.

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[Graduate Research Seminars]  
February 15, 2008
Umut Acar, Toyota Technological Institute
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[EECS General]  
February 15, 2008
Xu Li, "Optical Sensing of Cellular Changes"
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[Meet the Faculty Seminar Series]  
February 11, 2008
Jack Cosgrove
"PICSEL: Measuring User-Perceived Performance to Control Dynamic Frequency Scaling"
To be presented at ASPLOS 2008 conference on March 3 in Seattle.

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[Graduate Research Seminars]  
February 11, 2008
Abhishek Das will present "An Efficient FPGA Implementation of Principal Component Analysis based Network Intrusion Detection System"
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[Graduate Research Seminars]  
February 8, 2008
Huzefa Rangwala, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Minnesota
"Machine-Learning Based Methods for Protein Structure Prediction"

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[EECS General]  
February 4, 2008
Arbee Chen, Computer Science, National Changhchi University, Taipei Taiwan
"Continuous Evaluation of Fastest Path Queries on Road Networks"

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[EECS General]  
January 30, 2008
Capital One recruiting on campus.
Capital One is seeking applicants for Business Analyst positions. Log onto the Career Center website to submit your resume. Details at the Job Opportunities page

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[EECS General]  
January 21, 2008
Sergio Verdú, Princeton University
"Information Theory Today"

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[EECS Distinguished Lectures Series]  
January 18, 2008
Robby Findler,Computer Science Department, University of Chicago,
"Why Programming Matters"

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[EECS General]  
December 10, 2007
EVENT IS CANCELED DUE TO WEATHER
John H. Weber CEO, Remy International
"Intellectual Property and Green Technology in the Automotive Industry"
Sponsored by the MS in Information Technology program.

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[EECS General]  
December 7, 2007
Dr. Christoph Bartneck, Eindhoven University of Technology
Embodied Intelligence: A Multidisciplinary Challenge

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[EECS General]  
December 6, 2007
Andreas Moshovos, Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept., University of Toronto
"Predictor Virtualization and RegionTracker: Two Ways of Exploiting Multi-Megabyte Caches"

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[EECS General]  
November 30, 2007
Randy Freeman
"Abstract Dissipativity and Robot Swarms"

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[Meet the Faculty Seminar Series]  
November 28, 2007
GRS: Kate Lockwood
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[Graduate Research Seminars]  
November 27, 2007
Xinyu Feng, Research Assistant Professor, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTI-C)
"Building Certified System Software"

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[EECS General]  
November 26, 2007
Féréchteh Hosseini Teherani, Eshbach Scholar, Northwestern University
Founder, CEO, Nanovation SARL, Orsay FRANCE, http://www.nanovation.biz
"From Research to Market: How to Build a High Tech Start-Up"

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[EECS General]  
November 20, 2007
Sekhar C. Tatikonda, Yale University
"The Value of Information in Information Theory"
EECS Communications and Networking Seminar

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[EECS General]  
November 16, 2007
Dongning Guo
"The Wireless Challenge: An Information-Theoretic View"

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[Meet the Faculty Seminar Series]  
November 12, 2007
Wayne Phoel, of Lincoln Laboratories
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[EECS General]  
November 8, 2007
Chang Liu
Micro Nanotechnology for Bioinspired Sensing"

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[Meet the Faculty Seminar Series]  
November 7, 2007
Prof. Bin Liu, Eshbach Scholar
Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing China
"Towards a Powerful Mini-Parser for Internet Protocol Identification"

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[EECS General]  
November 1, 2007
Matthew Grayson
"Luttinger Liquids and the Exotic World of One-Dimensional Conductors"

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[Meet the Faculty Seminar Series]  
October 26, 2007
Shree Nayar, T.C. Chang Professor, Computer Science Department at Columbia University, New York, New York

"Computational Cameras: Redefining the Image"

Event has been rescheduled to February 21.

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[EECS Distinguished Lectures Series]  
October 25, 2007
Dr. Boris Zibitsker, BEZ Systems
"The role of Performance Prediction for Planning and Management of Multi-tier distributed Environments"

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[EECS General]  
October 24, 2007
Jieyi Long
ACTA: A Self-Adjusting Clock Tree Architecture to Cope with Temperature Variation"
To be presented in IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), Nov, 2007.

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[Graduate Research Seminars]  
October 19, 2007
Margo Seltzer, Professor, Harvard School of Engineering and Applies Sciences

“Provenance-Aware Storage Systems”

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[EECS Distinguished Lectures Series]  
October 18, 2007
Dr. Hans Zogg
Thin Film Physics Group, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
"Epitaxial lead-chalcogenides on Si for mid-IR detectors and emitters including cavities"

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[Center for Quantum Devices Seminars]  
October 17, 2007
Jia Wang
Graduate Research Seminar in Computer Science and Engineering
Funded by Symantec Corporation for 2007
"Gate Sizing by Lagrangian Relaxation Revisited"
To be presented in IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), Nov. 2007.

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[Graduate Research Seminars]  
October 12, 2007
Marlan O. Scully, Texas A&M University and Princeton University
"Quantum Erasure and the Foundations and Applications of Quantum Mechanics"

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[CPCC Seminar]  
October 9, 2007
Srini Devadas
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"A Search for an Efficient Reconfigurable Computing Substrate"

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[EECS Distinguished Lectures Series]  
October 5, 2007
Patrick J. Wolfe
Statistics and Information Sciences Laboratory, Harvard University (joint work with the Harvard Biorobotics Laboratory)
“Bayesian Changepoint Detection Through Switching Regressions: Contact Point Determination in Material Indentation Experiments”

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[EECS General]  
October 4, 2007
Harold H. Kung, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University

Northwestern's CEET: "Center for Energy Efficient Transportation"

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[EECS General]  
October 3, 2007
Gabriel H. Loh, Assistant Professor
School of Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology

3D Integration: The Next (R)evolution in the Design of Microprocessors

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[EECS General]  
September 28, 2007
Krishnendu Chakrabarty,
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University

"Automated Design of Microfluidics-Based Biochips: Connecting Biochemistry to Electronics CAD"

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[EECS General]  
September 27, 2007
Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
Purdue University

"Mitigating Attacks Against Measurement-Based Adaptation Mechanisms in Unstructured Multicast Overlay Networks"

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[EECS General]  
September 27, 2007
Robert Nowak
McFarland-Bascom Professor of Engineering, University of Wisconsin Madison

"Genomic Network Tomography"

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[EECS General]  
September 26, 2007
Image Processing Seminar
Nikolaos Galatsanos, Professor, Department of Computer Science
University of Ioannina, Greece

Bayesian Inference with Student-t Models for Image Processing Applications

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[EECS General]  
September 25, 2007
All returning and new EECS students, professors, and staff are invited! All the pizza and 'go-withs' you can imagine! Come, join us and have a good time.
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[EECS General]  
September 25, 2007
Professor David Tse, Wireless Foundations, University of California at Berkeley

"Breaking the Interference Barrier"

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[EECS Distinguished Lectures Series]  
September 24, 2007
Matthias Holick, Mobile Networking Group and Ubiquitous Communications Group Multimedia Communications Lab, Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany

Vaccinating Ad hoc and Mesh Networks against Misbehaving Nodes
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[EECS General]  
September 18, 2007
New Student Orientation for EECS students.

Lunch with Dean Ottino in Cohen Commons at 12:30.
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[EECS General]  
August 24, 2007
Huaiyu Dai
Assistant Professor, EECS Department, North Carolina State University
"Location-Aided Distributed Consensus"

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[EECS General]  
August 24, 2007
Sanjay Shakkottai
Professor, University of Texas at Austin
“Looking at Large Networks: Coding vs. Queueing”

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[EECS General]  
June 16, 2007
Undergraduate Convocation – McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Admission by ticket only. 847-491-7379
Welsh-Ryan Arena/McGaw Memorial Hall 2705 Ashland Avenue

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[EECS General]  
June 15, 2007
MS Recognition and PhD Hooding Ceremony – Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, 847-491-3553
No tickets required
Ryan Family Auditorium
Technological Institute
2145 Sheridan Road
Preceded by 7:45 AM reception in Grand Foyer, Technological Institute

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[EECS General]  
June 15, 2007
Undergraduate Reception – McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
847-491-7379
2145 Sheridan Road

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[EECS General]  
June 15, 2007
21 students will be graduating as part of the Professional Masters Recognition Ceremony

McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, 847-491-3553
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[EECS General]  
June 14, 2007
Dr. Jianwei Huang
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University

"FAST Copper for Broadband Access"

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[EECS General]  
June 8, 2007
Peter D. Drummond

Center for Quantum-Atom Optics University of Queensland, Australia

"Quantum noise simulations of fiber squeezing"
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[EECS General]  
June 8, 2007
Kaibin Huang
Ph.D. Student, University of Texas at Austin
"Limited Feedback for MIMO Communications"

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[EECS General]  
June 7, 2007
Lunch provided ...
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[EECS General]  
June 6, 2007
Brooke Foucault and Emily Goodmann

"The Culture and Social Impact of Computing"
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[Graduate Research Seminars]  
June 5, 2007
The Annual EECS Department International Pot Luck
brings together faculty, students, staff and their guests.

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[EECS General]  
June 4, 2007
EECS/School of Communication Joint Seminar

Professor Rajesh Krishna Balan
School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University “Simplifying Cyber Foraging for Mobile Devices”

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[EECS General]  
June 4, 2007
Professor Volkan Rodoplu
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California Santa Barbara
“Energy Maps for Mobile Wireless Networks: Coherence time versus Node Mobility”

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[EECS General]  
June 1, 2007
Aleksandar Kuzmanovic
"Stories from the Networks Group"

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[Meet the Faculty Seminar Series]  
June 1, 2007
EECS Faculty and Student Awards presentation.
Refreshments at 3:15.


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[EECS General]  
June 1, 2007
Professor Suman Banerjee
Department of Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"A Client-Assisted Approach to Management in Wireless Networks”

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[EECS General]  
May 30, 2007
David Choffnes

"Exploiting Emergent Behavior for Inter-Vehicle Communication"
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[Graduate Research Seminars]  
May 30, 2007
Dr. Michael Chertkov
Los Alamos National Laboratory
"Physics of Algorithms or Loop Calculus for Graphical Models of Statistical Inference"

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[EECS General]  
May 29, 2007
Edward M. Reingold
Department of Computer Science Illinois Institute of Technology
“Determining Plurality - The Average Case”

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[EECS General]  
May 25, 2007
Russ Joseph
"Hardware/Software Support for Probabilistic Architectures"


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[Meet the Faculty Seminar Series]  
May 25, 2007
Professor Matthew Grayson
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Northwestern University
"Corner Overgrowth, Shadow Overgrowth, and Cleaved-Edge Overgrowth: Novel MBE Techniques for Embedded Heterostructures"

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[Center for Quantum Devices Seminars]  
May 24, 2007
Alan V. Sahakian
Northwestern University
"The Incoherent Heart: Mechanisms and Treatment of Atrial Cardiac Arrhythmias"

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[CPCC Seminar]  
May 23, 2007
Bin Lin
"Time-sharing Parallel Applications With Performance Isolation and Control"

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[Graduate Research Seminars]  
May 22, 2007
Tanu Malik
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University
"Large-scale Data Management for the Sciences"

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[EECS General]  
May 21, 2007
Eby G. Friedman
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Rochester
"Research Challenges in High Performance VLSI/SoC Circuits and Systems"

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[EECS General]  
May 21, 2007
Brian W. Fitzpatrick
Engineering Site Lead for Google Chicago
"A Recipe for Innovation"

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[EECS General]  
May 18, 2007
Dr. Joshua Yi
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
Austin, TX
"Analyzing and Improving the Statistical Rigor of Computer Architecture Simulation"


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[EECS General]  
May 17, 2007
Jennifer Rexford
Professor, Department of Computer Science
Princeton University
"VINI: Virtual Network Infrastructure"

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[EECS Distinguished Lectures Series]  
May 11, 2007
John Kim
Ph.D. Candidate, Stanford University
“High-Radix Interconnection Networks”

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[EECS General]  
May 8, 2007
Matthew Turk
Chair, Media Arts and Technology Graduate Program
Computer Science Department University of California, Santa Barbara

"Vision Based Interfaces for Mobile Computing"
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[EECS General]  
May 4, 2007
Fabian Bustamante
"Grand Challenges in Large-Scale Distributed Systems"

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[Meet the Faculty Seminar Series]  
May 2, 2007
Yao Zhao

"A Suite of Schemes for User-level Network Diagnosis without Infrastructure"
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[Graduate Research Seminars]  
May 1, 2007
The Cognitive Science Program is proud to present:
Mark Steedman
University of Edinburgh "The Surface-Compositional Semantics of Intonation"

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[EECS General]  
April 27, 2007
J. K. Aggarwal
A Cullen Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Texas at Austin
"Recognition of Human Activity and Object Interactions"

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[EECS Distinguished Lectures Series]  
April 26, 2007
Dr. Johan de Kleer
Principle Scientist, Embedded Reasoning Area
PARC’s Intelligent Systems Laboratory

"Diagnosis"

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[EECS General]  
April 25, 2007
Dr. Andrew J. Kerman

Optical Communications Technology Group, MIT Lincoln Laboratory

"Superconducting NbN-Nanowire Single Photon Detectors"
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[CPCC Seminar]  
April 24, 2007
Prof. Kaoru Kurosawa
Ibaraki University, Japan
"Tutorial on Message Authentication Codes"

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[CPCC Seminar]  
April 24, 2007
Prof. Osamu Hirota
Tamagawa University, Japan
"Recent status of quantum stream cipher by Y-00 in Japan"

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[CPCC Seminar]  
April 20, 2007
Robert P. Dick
"Design and Synthesis of Embedded Systems"

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[Meet the Faculty Seminar Series]  
April 19, 2007
Andrew Chraplyvy
Vice President, Optical Transport Networks Research Center
Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
"High-Capacity Transmission Systems and Technologies"

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[EECS Distinguished Lectures Series]  
April 19, 2007
Professor Vladimir Pavlovic
Computer Science Department, Rutgers University
"Discriminative Learning Methods for State Space Models”

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[EECS General]  
April 16, 2007
Eric Burger
Deputy CTO, BEA Systems, Inc.
“Ubiquitous Access to IP Devices”

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[EECS General]  
April 13, 2007
Monica Lam
Stanford University
Professor, Department of Computer Science
"Consumerizing PCs: From Research to Product"

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[EECS Distinguished Lectures Series]  
April 10, 2007
The McCormick Department Information Fair is the MAJOR event of the year!

Talk to department reps!
Learn about Co-Op! BS/MS! Study Abroad!
Declare your major
Eat delicious pizza!
Questions? Stop in Academic Services, Tech L269

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[EECS General]  
April 9, 2007
Prof. Jacob B. Khurgin

Johns Hopkins University

"Performance of nonlinear photonic crystal devices for wide bandwidth applications"
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[CPCC Seminar]  
April 6, 2007
Bahram Javidi
University of Connecticut
Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor

"Real Time 3D Visualization and Identification of Dynamic Biological Micro/Nano Organic Events"

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[EECS Distinguished Lectures Series]  
April 5, 2007
What is EECS?

Interested in computers and the Internet?
Want to know what makes your iPod work?
Looking for an exciting, high-paying job?
Want to learn about state-of-the-art research?

Join us at the Open House and discover that EECS is more than you think it is!
Click to see the Flyers

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[EECS General]  
April 4, 2007
The Graduate Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (GEECS) Society invites you to attend a coffee and cookie hour.

Hope to see you there!
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[EECS General]  
April 2, 2007
Jason Hartline, Ph.D.
Microsoft Research
"Economics, Algorithms, and the Internet"

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[EECS General]  
March 30, 2007
Don Norman
"Cautious Cars and Cantankerous Kitchens: Where Future Technologies May Fail"

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[Meet the Faculty Seminar Series]  
March 28, 2007
Bin Lin
Towards an Understanding of Decision Complexity in IT Configuration

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[Graduate Research Seminars]  
March 22, 2007
Nikhil Devanur
Georgia Institute of Technology
“Two Results in Approximation Algorithms”

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[EECS General]  
March 19, 2007
Mark W. Spong
Donald Biggar Willett Professor of Engineering,
Center for Autonomous Engineering Systems and Robotics,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Synchronization of Multi-Agent Systems"

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[EECS General]  
March 15, 2007
Nicole Immorlica, Ph.D.
Theory Group
Microsoft Research

“Algorithmic Game Theory with Applications to Online Auctions”

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[EECS General]  
March 15, 2007
Condensed Matter Seminar: Lucia Steinke
Walter Schottky Institut, TU Muenchen, Germany
(Ph.D. student of EECS Professor Matthew Grayson)
“Characterization and modelling of one-dimensional states in a bent quantum Hall system”

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[EECS General]  
March 14, 2007
Amit Mondal
When TCP friendliness becomes harmful

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[Graduate Research Seminars]  
March 13, 2007
Ying Wu
Visual Motion Analysis for "Machines That Can See"

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[EECS General]  
March 13, 2007
Professor Mari Ostendorf
Endowed Professor of System Design Methodologies in Electrical Engineering
Adjunct Professor in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington
“The Use of Cross-Validation in Semi-Supervised Learning for Spoken Language Processing”

Video of Prof. Ostendorf's lecture
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[EECS General]  
March 12, 2007
Nir Ailon
Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ
“New Algorithms for High-Dimensional, Inconsistent Data”

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[EECS General]  
March 9, 2007
Beyond CMOS: New Paradigms for Materials Functionality
Dr. Jean-Pierre Leburton
Beckman Institute and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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[Center for Quantum Devices Seminars]  
March 9, 2007
Dr. Hooman Mohseni

Learning from Nature: Sensing the Absolute Minimum Light Intensity
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[Center for Quantum Devices Seminars]  
March 8, 2007
Sponsored by Cooperative Education Engineering Program


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[EECS General]  
March 8, 2007
Julia Chuzhoy, Ph.D.
New Thresholds of Approximability: Problems and Techniques

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[EECS General]  
March 7, 2007
Conrad Albrecht-Buehler
Title TBA

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[Graduate Research Seminars]  
March 2, 2007
Ian Horswill
"How Do We Fix Introductory Computer Science?"

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[Meet the Faculty Seminar Series]  
March 1, 2007
Dr. Ophir Frieder
IITRI Chair Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Information Retrieval Laboratory, Illinois Institute of Technology

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[EECS General]  
February 28, 2007
David Little
Title TBA

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[Graduate Research Seminars]  
February 21, 2007
Ruiming (Raymond) Chen
"Fast Min-cost Buffer Insertion under Process Variations"

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[Graduate Research Seminars]  
February 19, 2007
“A Fast Mesh Refinement Algorithm”
Benoit Hudson
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

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[EECS General]  
February 14, 2007
Graduate Research Seminar in Computer Science and Computer Engineering - Lei Yang
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[Graduate Research Seminars]  
February 9, 2007
Hooman Mohseni
"A two-way Street: Using Photonics for Bio Applications and Using Bio For Photonics Applications!"

Download the flyer for this talk!
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[Meet the Faculty Seminar Series]  
February 2, 2007
Precise measurement and control of light-matter interactions
JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology
and University of Colorado

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[CPCC Seminar]  
February 2, 2007
Graduate Research Seminar in Computer Science and Computer Engineering - Yan Gao
Title: Detecting stealthy attacks over high speed networks in real time

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[Graduate Research Seminars]  
January 25, 2007
Yi Ma, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Clustering and Classification via Lossy Data Compression

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[EECS General]  
January 10, 2007
Interested in computer engineering as a major? Attend the CD Info Session and meet current CE majors, see lab demos by CE students, and hear 5-minute talks by the CE professors.

Hosted by CE professors Russ Joseph, Seda Memik, Robert Dick, and Larry Henschen.
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[EECS General]  
December 5, 2006
"Multicore Scaleout -- From Platform-level Scalability to Trusted Services for Distributed Enterprise Applications" by Prof. Karsten Schwan
CERCS -- Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems
Georgia Institute of Technology

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[EECS General]  
November 30, 2006
Mikhail "Mike" Atallah
Purdue University
"Security Issues in Collaborative Computing"

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[EECS Distinguished Lectures Series]  
November 16, 2006
Rama Chellappa
Minta Martin Professor of Engineering
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and UMIACS
University of Maryland, College Park
"Pattern Recognition in Video"

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[EECS Distinguished Lectures Series]  
November 9, 2006
Robert M. Gray
Stanford University
"Packet speech on the Arpanet: A history of early linear predictive coded (LPC) speech and its accidental impact on the Internet Protocol"



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[EECS General]  
November 6, 2006
"Interaction of Rate and Medium Access Control in Wireless Networks,"
by Peter Marbach,
Dept. of Computer Science, University of Toronto.

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[EECS General]  
November 3, 2006
"Large Scale Urban Mesh Networks: From Development to Applications," by Professor Edward Knightly,
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University.
Hosted by Aleksandar Kuzmanovic.

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[EECS General]  
November 3, 2006
"Network Coding: From Theory to Reality,"
by Professor Baochun Li,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Toronto
Hosted by Prof. Yan Chen.

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[EECS General]  
November 2, 2006
"Incentive-Compatible Interdomain Routing," by Vijay Ramachandran, Stevens Institute of Technology.
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[EECS General]  
November 1, 2006
"Algorithms for Sequence Finding and Selection Problems," by Professor D. T. Lee,
Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering &
Graduate Institute of Electronics Engineering, National Taiwan University.
Hosted by Professor Ming-Yang Kao.

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[EECS General]  
October 27, 2006
"Femtosecond Fiber Lasers and Their Applications" Dr. Jacob (Kobi) Lasri
Product Manager, Ultrafast Lasers, Precision Photonics Corp.

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[CPCC Seminar]  
October 24, 2006
"Wide Area Video Surveillance: Tracking and Behavior Analysis," Dr. Yunqian Ma
Honeywell Labs
Hosted by: Professor Ying Wu

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[EECS General]  
October 20, 2006
Biing-Hwang (Fred) Juang
Georgia Institute of Technology
Motorola Foundation Chair Professor
Bell Labs Fellow, Member NAE, Academia Sinica
"Advances & Challenges in Selective Areas of Multimedia Communication and Signal Processing" 


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[EECS Distinguished Lectures Series]  
October 18, 2006
"Putting Disk Spatial Locality Information on the OS Map to Speedup Disk Accesses," by Prof. Xiaodong Zhang,
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Ohio State University.
Hosted by Prof. Yan Chen.

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[EECS General]  
October 16, 2006
"III-Nitride Optical Sensors for UV-A/visible and High-energy Detection," by Dr. Jose Luis Pau Vizcaino,
ISOM and Dpto. Ingenieria Electronica, ETSI Telecomunicacion,
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria SPAIN

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[Center for Quantum Devices Seminars]  
October 16, 2006
"DNA-Based Storage and Retrieval of Digital Signals and Applications in Life Sciences," by Dr. Sotirios Tsaftaris,
EECS Department, Northwestern University.

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[EECS General]  
October 13, 2006
"Polarization dependent loss and its effect as a waveform distorting mechanism" Prof. Mark Shtaif
School of Electrical Engineering
Department of Physical Electronics
Tel Aviv University

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[CPCC Seminar]  
October 12, 2006
"HOLD THAT THOUGHT! WHY I CARE ABOUT AUTOMATING THE CAPTURE OF EVERYDAY ACTIVITIES"
Gregory D. Abowd
Georgia Tech

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[EECS General]  
October 9, 2006
Jack Dongarra
University of Tennessee & Oak Ridge National Laboratory
"The Impact of Multicore on Math Software and Expoiting Single Precision Computing to Obtain Double Precision Results"

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[EECS Distinguished Lectures Series]  
October 6, 2006
"What is Information?" by Wojciech Szpankowski, Department of Computer Science, Purdue University,
http://www.cs.purdue.edu/people/spa

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[EECS General]  
September 28, 2006
"Quantum interferometry: From Quantum Eraser to Quantum Lithography," by Prof. M. Suhail Zubairy, Texas A&M University.
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[CPCC Seminar]  
September 26, 2006
"Reducing the Complexity of Graphical Models via Cycles," by Thomas Halford, Communication Sciences Institute, University of Southern California.
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[EECS General]  
September 26, 2006
"Flip Chip Integration of a Large Format Array of MOEMS Devices for Space Infrared Astronomy," by Dr. Christine Allen, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD.
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[Center for Quantum Devices Seminars]  
September 25, 2006
"TCP and Wireless Networks," by Stephen Hanly, Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne
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[EECS General]  
September 22, 2006
"The Use of Carbon Nanotubes and Si Semiconductor Nanowires for Electronic Devices," by Dr. Didier Pribat, LPICM/Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau Cedex, France.
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[Center for Quantum Devices Seminars]  
September 21, 2006
EECS Graduate Student Welcome Party for faculty and graduate students. We hope to see you there!
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[EECS General]  
September 15, 2006
"A Unified Framework for Indexing and Retrieval of Multimedia Documents Based on High-Dimension Feature Extraction and Discriminative Classifier Learning," by Prof. Chin-Hui Lee, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology.
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[EECS General]  
August 28, 2006
"New Directions In Internet Congestion Control: Quality-of-Service (QoS), Uncooperative Users, Large Bandwidth-Delay and Lossy Networks," by Prof. Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, Dept. of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering (ECSE), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Hosted by Yan Chen.
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[EECS General]  
August 14, 2006
"Engineering Across Nano-Micro-Macro Scales for Applications in Bioinspired Sensing," by Professor Chang Liu, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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[EECS General]  
June 23, 2006
"Separating Linguistic and Speaker-Specific Information in the Acoustic Signal of Speech," by Dr. Carol Espy-Wilson, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland; and Dr. Suzanne Boyce, Associate Professor, Dept. of Language Pathology and Speech Science, University of Cincinnati.
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[EECS General]  
June 16, 2006
You are cordially invited to attend the Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Reception for Graduating Studen