November 20, 2008         Send your news items to eecsnews@eecs.northwestern.edu

Of all the gin joints
in all the towns in the world,
she walks into mine.
   - Rick Blaine

WEDNESDAY 12/3 - DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER SERIES presents Manijeh Razeghi,"Quantum Sensing Through Nano-Photonics: Inspiration from Nature"
at 4:00 PM in the Ford ITW Auditorium
Abstract/Bio

THURSDAY 12/4 - Graduate Research Seminar presents Lei Xia, "Towards Virtual Passthrough I/O on Commodity Devices" to be presented at WIOV 2008, affiliated with OSDI 2008, on December 10 at 12:00 noon, Ford ITW
Abstract

FRIDAY 12/5 - Ellen Spertus, Assoc. Professor of Computer Science, Mills College
"Evaluating Similarity Measures: A Large-Scale Study in the Orkut Social Network"
Time/Location: 4:00 PM, Tech L324; Abstract/Bio

A First in Gaming: Humans Team with AI Software - November 17, 2008
Justine Cassell, with researchers from the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Germany, organized the GIVE challenge. Read more

Yan Chen is invited as the TPC Co-Chair for the 5th International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureCom) 2009 to be held on September 14-18 at Athens, Greece. Details

Changxin Shi - MS Project
Date/Time/Location: Friday November 21, 2008 / 4:00 PM / Tech L324
Title: "Distributed Interference Pricing with MISO Channels"
Committee Chairman: Michael Honig

Grace Nijm -- PhD Final Exam
Date/Time/Location: Wednesday December 3, 2008 / 2:00 PM / Tech L324
Title: "Signal Processing of Gating Signals for Cardiac MRI and Computational Modeling of Magetohydrodynamic Blood Flow Potentials"
Committee: Alan Sahakian (Chair), Dr. Steven Swiryn, Thrasyvoulos Pappas (EECS), Andrew Larson (EECS)

Serhan Uslubas -- MS Final Exam
Date/Time/Location: Thursday December 4, 2008 / 10:00 AM / Tech M-164
Title: "Macroblock Based Resolution Adaptive Video Encoding"
Committee: Aggelos Katsaggelos (Chair), Thrasyvoulos Pappas (EECS), Sotirious Tsaftaris (EECS)

Jana Zujovic - MS Thesis
Date/Time/Location: Friday December 5, 2008 / 3:00 PM / Tech L324
Title: "Structure Similarity Metrics for Texture Analysis and Retrieval"
Committee Chairman: Thrasos Pappas

Sausan Yazji - PHD Qualifying Exam
Date/Time/Location: Friday December 5, 2008 / 10:00 AM / Tech L324
Title: "Implicit User Re-Authentication for Mobile Wireless Devices"
Committee Chairman: Peter Scheuermann

11/20/2008 - Center for Int'l Media Etihcs: Web Management Intern (Chicago, North side)
11/6/2008 - Sunrise Futures: C++/Perl Developer
Details about these postings are here.

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