Fri 4/24: Optimization Happy Hour, Wilkinson Lab, weekly at 4pm [link]

Wed 4/29: Meet the Faculty Series presents Michael L. Honig,"Spectrum Markets, Interference Management, and Wireless System Design" 4:00 p.m.[link]

More events links:
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MSIT
Segal Design Institute

Student Job Opportunities:
New this week
4/20 - Simplex Investments (Chicago) seeks smart, ambitious C/C++ programmers
4/16 - Career Development Week: April 20-24


Details and contact information for these jobs is available at this link.

McCormick News at Seven's Virtual Presentations are made for you
Now, thanks to News at Seven developers in the InfoLab, anyone can make a virtual video presentation, and everyone is invited to do just that. Drop by the landing page for McCormick News at Seven, peruse the instructions, then make Zach and Neko (shown above) talk about your research project. The idea is to keep the language colloquial and the presentation under a minute. The videos are shown continuously in the lobby of Tech. Try it out!

Our GEECS own wiki
The Graduate students of EECS are invited to use this wiki space to help make graduate school easier to traverse. Lianna Wright in the department's Graduate Office has been pointing students to this site and encouraging them to utilize it. Ms. Wright has been posting updated information there herself, intent on making it a viable resource for graduate students and their advisors.

Meet Mike
Michael L.Honig's Meet the Faculty lecture is entitled "Battle of the Bandwidths: Spectrum Markets, Interference Management, and Wireless System Design" Read more
Wednesday, April 29 at 4:00 p.m. in the Ford ITW Auditorium.

In the News

Aleksandar Kuzmanovic discusses the Internet congestion and net neutrality issues in an article entitled "Cox Cable Congestion Management Plan Challenged, Defended." Read the full article.

Faculty Activities & Accolades

Prem Kumar continued on his IEEE/LEOS Distinguished Lecturer tour, presenting a talk entitled "Fiber-Optic Quantum Communications and Information Processing" at the Boston LEOS Chapter, and also at the DC/NOVA Chapter in College Park, MD. in early April.

Student Awards & Honors

Can Bayram, Ph.D. candidate in Manijeh Razeghi's Center for Quantum Devices has won two prestigious awards this week. His first is for research contributing to global sustainability through the Sustainability Innovation Student Challenge sponsored by the Dow Chemical Company, and includes a prize of $10,000. The second is SPIE's 2009 Laser Technology, Engineering, and Applications Scholarship. This scholarship award of $6,000 -- the third biggest SPIE scholarship awarded in the world, and the biggest award in Optoelectronics -- is awarded in recognition of a student's scholarly achievement in laser technology, engineering, or applications.

Binh Minh Nguyen, Ph.D. candidate in the Center for Quantum Devices, has also won a SPIE scholarship, in Optical Science and Engineering. The award includes a gift of $4,000 for education related expenses in optics and photonics. SPIE is The International Society for Optical Engineering.

Dev Ghosh's proposal, Mosaic Mode for Hugin/Panotools was selected for funding for Google's 'Summer of Code' project. Dev is a PhD Candidate studying with Prof. Jack Tumblin. More at this link

Upcoming Exams

Neal N. Oza -- Ph.D. Qualifying Exam
Tuesday May 26, 2009, 2:00 p.m. in Tech L324
Committee: Prof. Prem Kumar, Chairperson; Prof. Hooman Mohseni, EECS; Prof. Sellim Shahriar, EECS

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