Fri 6/12: GEECS Coffee, Bagels, More! All are invited. 10:00 a.m. in Ford 2.227

Fri 6/12: Philip Wadler, Professor of Theoretical Computer Science at the
University of Edinburgh, "Well-typed programs can't be blamed" 12:00 noon. in Tech L324.

Fri 6/19: EECS Graduation Celebration At 3:30 p.m. in Tech L324.

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Student Job Opportunities:
New this week:
6/9 - Foreign Service Security Technical Specialist
6/5 - Global Securitiy Challenge Competition -- $500,000 in awards for innovative security entrepreneurs
Details and contact information is available at this link.

EECS Grad Students Named '50 For The Future'
June 10, 2009, Northwestern News Center
Electrical engineering and computer science students Francisco Iacobelli and Nathan Nichols were among the three NU doctoral candidates named to the 2009 “50 for the Future” list sponsored by the Illinois Technology Foundation (ITF). Along with Biomedical engineering student Carrie Brubaker, they were honored at a recent ITF awards ceremony. They were selected from among 150 nominees. Read more

NU Solar-Car Team Places 3rd in Grand Prix
The Northwestern Solar Car Team took third place in the Formula Sun Grand Prix 2009, held June 1 through 5 at the Texas Motorsports Ranch in Cresson, TX.

Nine teams from across the country competed in the race, where teams strived to drive as many laps as possible in the three-day time period.  Read more

Faculty Activities & Accolades

Robby Findler's project "Lightweight, Blame-aware Contract Checking" has been awarded the prestigious NSF CAREER grant. [link]

EECS student Brian Leung from Prof. Seda Ogrenci Memik's lab was among the 10 students chosen as the first class of the Initiative for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern’s cluster fellows program. [link]

The Annual EECS Awards Presentation was held on June 5, 2009. The winners are: Best Teacher: Ian Horswill; Best TA: Oliviu Ghica (advisor Peter Scheuermann); Best Dissertation: Yao Zhao (advisor Yan Chen) "Internet Networking and Application Troubleshooting"; Best Graduating EE Major: Michael DeBoer; Best graduating CS Major; Rui Jiang; Best Graduating CO Major: Timothy Zwiebel. William L. Everitt Award winners are: Ilya Mikhelson Electrical Engineering) and Alexander Romine (Computer Engineering) [photos]

Upcoming Exams

Yan Gao -- Ph.D. Prospectus
Date/Time/Location: Thursday, June 4, 2009 / 2:00 P.M. / F 3-340
Dissertation: N/A
Committee: Alok Choudhary (Chairperson); Ying Wu (EECS); Bryan Pardo (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: . Seng Tiong Ho, Chairperson; Selim Shahriar (EECS); Tobin J. Marks (Chemistry)

Emmett Tomai -- Ph.D. Final Defense
Date/Time/Location: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 / 10:30 A.M. /Ford 3-340
Dissertation: "A Pragmatic Approach to Computational Narrative Understanding"
Committee: Kennth D. Forbus, Chairperson; Christpher Riesbeck (EECS); Ian Horswill

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