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Wednesday, November 4, 2009

[Meet the Faculty Seminar Series]

Selim Shahriar, Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and in the Department of Physics and Astronomy
"Putting Fast-Light to Work: Rotation Sensing, Gravitational Wave Detection and Data Buffering"

4:00 p.m.
Ford ITW Auditorium




Meet the Faculty Seminar Series

The talks are on the cutting edge of research, but at a level that everybody can understand. Everybody is invited to participate!
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Wednesday January 13, 2010
4:00 p.m.
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Mike Horn
"Learner-Computer Interaction: Designing Emerging Technology for Informal Education"

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November 11, 2009
Robby Findler
"Macros matter: infrastructure for building new programming languages"

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November 4, 2009
Selim Shahriar, Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and in the Department of Physics and Astronomy
"Putting Fast-Light to Work: Rotation Sensing, Gravitational Wave Detection and Data Buffering"

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October 28, 2009
J. Edward Colgate, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, McCormick
"Surface Haptics: Virtual Touch on Physical Surfaces"

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October 14, 2009
Nikos Hardavellas, Assistant Professor
Scaling Implications of Future Multicore Processors

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May 27, 2009
Jorge Nocedal, Professor, EECS Department, Director of the Computational Science Institute,
"Nonlinear Optimization Applications in Image Processing, Machine Learning and Energy Modeling"

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May 13, 2009
Alan Sahakian, Professor, EECS Department (joint with Biomedical Engineering),
"Fixing a Broken Heart: Mechanisms and Treatment of the Atrial Cardiac Arrhythmias"

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April 29, 2009
Michael L. Honig
"Battle of the Bandwidths: Spectrum Markets, Interference Management, and Wireless System Design"

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March 11, 2009
Nicole Immorlica
"Marriage, Honesty, and Stability"
This event was recorded on video

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November 19, 2008
Nicole Immorlica, Assistant Professor
"Marriage, Honesty, and Stability"
This talk has been cancelled and will be rescheduled.

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November 12, 2008
Doug Downey
"Autonomous Web-scale Information Extraction"

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October 29, 2008
Yan Chen
"Monitoring, Diagnosing and Securing the Internet"

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May 9, 2008
Seda Ogrenci Memik,
"Thermal-Aware Design"

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

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March 12, 2008
Meet the Faculty: Jason Hartline: "Auctions in the Unknown"
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March 6, 2008
Meet the Faculty: Peter Dinda, "The User in Experimental Computer Systems Research"
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February 29, 2008
Meet the Faculty: Lance Fortnow
"Computational Awareness"

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February 15, 2008
Xu Li, "Optical Sensing of Cellular Changes"
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November 30, 2007
Randy Freeman
"Abstract Dissipativity and Robot Swarms"

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

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November 8, 2007
Chang Liu
Micro Nanotechnology for Bioinspired Sensing"

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

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June 1, 2007
Aleksandar Kuzmanovic
"Stories from the Networks Group"

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May 25, 2007
Russ Joseph
"Hardware/Software Support for Probabilistic Architectures"


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May 4, 2007
Fabian Bustamante
"Grand Challenges in Large-Scale Distributed Systems"

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April 20, 2007
Robert P. Dick
"Design and Synthesis of Embedded Systems"

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

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March 2, 2007
Ian Horswill
"How Do We Fix Introductory Computer Science?"

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February 9, 2007
Hooman Mohseni
"A two-way Street: Using Photonics for Bio Applications and Using Bio For Photonics Applications!"

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May 30, 2006
Kris Hammond
"Theory and Practice of Needles and Haystacks: Stories from the InfoLab"

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May 16, 2006
Hai Zhou
"To Optimize or Not to Optimize: Algorithm Design in VLSI CAD"

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May 4, 2006
Selim Shahriar
"Putting Atoms and Photons to Work: From Holographic Navigation to Detection of Gravitational Waves"

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April 18, 2006
Bryan Pardo
"Finding Structure in Audio for Music Information Retrieval"

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April 4, 2006
Thrasos Pappas
"Mathematical and Perceptual Models for Image Analysis: The Need for Understanding Human Vision"

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March 7, 2006
Jack Tumblin
"Re-Thinking Photography: What Devices Should Capture Visual Appearance?"

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