Thu 5/28: IEEE/EECS Picnic! All are invited for burgers, brats, beverages, Frisbee. On the lawn South of Ford (2133 Sheridan) , 11:30 - ~1:30.

Fri 5/29: GEECS Coffee & Bagels! 10:00 a.m. in Ford 2.227 [link]

Fri 5/29: Optimization Center presents two brief presentations by Argonne scientists. 4:00 p.m., Wilkinson Lab [link]

Wed 6/3: EECS Distinguished Speaker Series presents Vipin Kumar, 4:00 p.m. Ford ITW [link]

Thu 6/4: Graduate Research Seminar presents John Otto, 11:00 a.m. in Ford ITW [link]

Fri 6/5: EECS Faculty and Student Awards Ceremony, 2:00 p.m. in Tech L324

More events links:
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MSIT
Segal Design Institute

Student Job Opportunities:
New this week
5/26 - Web design and development for local jeweler (Evanston)
5/22 - CCL at NU seeks FT software developer
Details and contact information for these jobs is available at this link.

Vipin Kumar is next EECS Distinguished Lecturer
Vipin Kumar is currently William Norris Professor and Head of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota. His research interests include High Performance computing and data mining. His talk is entitled "Discovery of Patterns in Global Earth Science Data using Data Mining" Read more
Wednesday, June 3rd at 4:00 p.m. in the Ford ITW Auditorium.

Optimization of the Happy Hour
The Optimization Center will host two speakers from Argonne National Laboratory's Math and Computer Science division, who will each give a brief talk at the next Optimization Happy Hour. Stefan Wild will discuss "Optimization without derivatives", and Victor Zavala will explore "Exploiting Weather Forecast Information in Smart Grid Operations". Friday May 29th at 4:00 p.m. in the Wilkinson Lab, Tech M338

Faculty Activities & Accolades

Ken Forbus gave an invited colloquium at DARPA’s Information Processing Techniques Office last week.

Michael Honig was recently the Visiting Wei Lun Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Ian Horswill gave talks at the following meetings and universities: AAAI Spring Symposium on Intelligent Narrative Technologies; the A*STAR symposium Social Interaction in Virtual Worlds; the National University of Singapore EECE Colloquium; the Interactive and Digital Media Institute at the University of Singapore; UC Santa Cruz.

Upcoming Exams

Jiahui Liu -- Ph.D. Final Examination
Date/Time/Location: Thursday, June 4, 2009 / 2:00 P.M. / F 3-340
Dissertation: "Information Diversity in Web Search"
Committee: Prof. Lawrence Birnbaum, Chairperson; Prof. Kristian Hammond (EECS); Prof. Bryan Pardo (EECS)

Earl Joseph Wagner -- Ph.D. Final Examination
Date/Time/Location: June 5, 2009 / 10:00 A.M. / Ford 3-340
Dissertation: "Extracting and Aggregating Information about Situations Over Time to Present the Context of News"
Committee: Prof. Lawrence A. Birnbaum, Chairperson; Prof. Kenneth D. Forbus (EECS); Prof. Christopher K. Riesbeck (EECS)

Ionut Trestian -- Ph.D. Final Qualifier
Date/Time/Location: Friday, June 5, 2009 / 3:00 P.M. / Ford 3-340
Dissertation: “N/A ”
Committee: Prof. Alexandar Kuzmanovic, Chairperson; Prof. Peter Dinda (EECS); Prof. Gokhan Memik (EECS)

Serkan Ozdemir -- Ph.D. Final Defense
Date/Time/Location: Monday, June 8, 2009 / 3:30 pm / L324
Dissertation: "Mitigating the Effects of Process Variations through Microarchitectural Techniques"
Committee: Prof. Gokhan Memik, Chairperson; Prof. Hai Zhou (EECS); Prof. Fatma Seda Memik (EECS); Prof. Russ Joseph (EECS)

Berkin Ozisikyilmaz -- Ph.D. Final Defense
Date/Time/Location: Tuesday, June 9, 2009 / 1:00 P.M. / Tech L324
Dissertation: "Analysis, Characterization and Design of Data Mining Applications and Application to Computer Architecture"
Committee: Prof. Alok Choudhary, Chairperson; Prof. Gokhan Memik (EECS) Prof. Wei-Keng Liao (EECS)

Fei Yi -- Ph.D. Final Prospectus
Date/Time/Location: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 / 4:00 P.M. / Tech L324
Dissertation: “High Speed Low Voltage Electro-Optic(EO) Modulators Enabled by Transparent Conducting Materials"
Committee: Prof. Seng Tiong Ho, Chairperson; Prof. Selim Shahriar (EECS); Prof. Tobin J. Marks (Chemistry)

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