Fri 8/28: GEECS Coffee, Bagels, More! All are invited. 10:00 a.m. in Ford 2.227

Tuesday 9/8: International Graduate Student Orientation and Welcome Reception 1:30 p.m., McCormick Tribune Center, Evanston. RSVP by 8/31. Details

Saturday - Tuesday 9/12-9/15:
Undergraduate Int'l Student Orientation Details

More events links:
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Student Job Opportunities:
New:
8/25 - Childrens Faces.com seeks Access and Excel programmers
8/24 - Center for Psychiatric Genetics seeks statistics or CS graduate (Evanton)
8/24 - Kellogg School of Mgmt seeks web designer
8/12 - Access databse project
8/5 - CS Position at WMS Gaming
Details and contact information is available at this link.

Delaunay is awarded IEEE Electron Devices Society PhD Student Fellowship
Pierre-Yves Delaunay, Ph.D. candidate in the Center for Quantum Devices group under Prof. Manijeh Razeghi, has been selected as one of the winners of the 2009 IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) PhD Student Fellowships. More

Faculty Activities & Accolades

Aggelos Katsaggelos taught a short course on "Multimedia Signal Processing, at the University of Granada, and gave a keynote talk on "Current Advances on Video Transmission" on Rodos Island, Greece this Summer.

Aleksandar Kuzmanovic gave an invited talk entitled "Measuring Serendipity: Connecting People, Locations and Interests in a Mobile 3G network," at Telefonica Research in Barcelona, Spain recently.

Prem Kumar has been appointed by the The Optical Society (OSA) Board of Directors to serve as one of the OSA representatives to the Joint Council on Quantum Electronics (JCQE) for a three-year term. Read more

Randy Berry, Program Co-Chair along with Dongning Guo, reports that the 2nd Annual North American School of Information Theory was held at Northwestern University August 10-13, 2009. The School featured short courses and a keynote lecture presented by four distinguished professors on topics related to information theory. Read more

Upcoming Exams

Deidre Morrison -- Ph.D. Dissertation Defense
Date/Time/Location: Thursday, August 27, 2009 / 11:00 A.M. - 1:30 P.M. / Tech L324
Dissertation: Visual Information Displays for Decision Task Support:  Alternative Methods for Choice Framing and Risk Perception in Relationship Maintenance Decisions
Committee: Prof. Bruce Gooch (Chairperson); Prof. Ian Horswill (EECS); Prof. Joan Chiao (Psychology)

If you wish to attend, as a courtesy please contact the Committee Chair in advance.

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