January 29, 2009        
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THU 2/5 -Benjamin Lee, Post Doctoral Researcher, Computer Architecture Gorup, Micorsoft Research, "Statistical Inference for Tractable Architectural Analysis"
11:00 a.m., Tech L324. Abstract/Bio

MON 2/9 - Pablo Montesinos, Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Practical Time Travel of Multiprocessors"
1:00 - 2:30 p.m., Tech L324, Abstract/Bio

EECS Distinguished Speaker Series
2/18 Lance Williams (Nokia) "The Humanoid Touch"
2/25 Sartaj Sahni (U of Florida) "Data structures and algorithms for packet forwarding and classification"
3/4 Jiawei Han (UIUC) "Mining, Indexing, and Searching Graphs in Large Data Sets"
3/18 Manuela Veloso (CMU) "TBA"
4/15 Emmanuel Candes (CalTech) "Compressive Sensing: An Overview"
5/6 Andrew M. Weiner (Purdue) Ultrafast Parallel Optical Signal Processing"
5/20 Joan Feigenbaum (Yale) "Privacy in algorithmic mechanism design"
Visit the web for abstracts/bios. All Distinguished Lectures are at 4:00 p.m., and most are in the Ford ITW Auditorium.

Meet the Faculty Series
3/11: Nicole Immorlica
4/8: Robby Findler
4/22: Mike Honig
5/13: Jorge Nocedal
5/27: Alan Sahakian
Details forthcoming for these talks

Manijeh Razeghi reports that recent research results from the Center for Quantum Devices group have been published and are available on the CQD web site.

Aggelos K. Katsaggelos has been elected a Fellow of the SPIE (http://spie.org/) for achievements in Image and Video Processing. He is among the 59 new SPIE Fellows elected in the class of 2009. Katsaggelos gave invited talks as a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK and King's College, London, UK in Dec. 2008. Katsaggelos was an invited speaker by the European Commission at the Future Internet Assembly in Madrid, Spain (Dec. 2008). The title of his talk was "Future Content Networks in the US".

1/27/2009 - SPAWAR interviewing on campus March 5, 2009 for Scientists and Engineers
1/27/2009 - Waxdale Manufacturing Intern: Reducing carbon footprint projects at Waxdale
1/26/2009 - Summer Research Experiences National Database of Opportunities: Pathways to Science
1/26/2009 - Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP)
1/26/2009 - NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduate (REU) Sites in Computer, Information Science, Engg
1/26/2009 - Summer 2009 Paid Research Internships for Undergraduates: Deadline Feb 15, 2009
Details about these postings are here.

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