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Seminars & Events

 

August 2008

15th
Fri
2:00p "RF I-V Waveform Measurement and Engineering - addressing large signal circuit design challenges (i.e. power amplifiers)"...more Paul J. Tasker
Cardiff University
4164
HFH
11th
Mon
2:00p "Electron Waveguide Based Models of SWCNT
Bundle and MWCNT Interconnects for High-Speed
Electronics"...more
Alessio Tamburrano
University of Rome
Sapienza, Italy
4164
HFH

 

July 2008

31st
Thur
2:00p "Failure modes and mechanisms oF GaN High
Electron Mobility Transistors"...more
Enrico Zanoni
Dept. of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy
4164
HFH
10th
Thur
4:00p "Building Web-scale Data Mining Infrastructure for
Search"...more
Wei-Ying Ma
Microsoft Research Asia
4164
HFH

 

June 2008

25th
Wed
10:30a "Protocol Design Issues in Underwater Acoustic
Networks "...more
Professor Michele Zorzi
University of Padova and UC San Diego
4164
HFH
19th
Thur
2:00p "Information Flows in Cooperative Networked Control
Systems"...more
Girish Nair
CCDC Seminar
ESB
2001
10th
Tues
11:00a "Triple-well NMOS and Characteristics for Circuit
Applications - A High-Linearity, LC-Tuned, 24-GHz
T/R Switch "...more
PilJae Park
ECE, UCSB
Electronics Design Seminar
4164
HFH
5th
Thur
9am-
5pm
"Computer Engineering Senior 'Capstone', ECE, and
LITE Project Presentation Day"...more
ECE 189, CS 189,
ECE 188 & LITE Students
ESB 1001, 2002, &
Courtyard
5th
Thur
2:00p "Carbon nanotube via interconnects fabricated by
novel damascene process "...more
Mizuhisa Nihei
Fujitsu Laboratories, Japan
4164
HFH

 

May 2008

30th
Fri
3:00p "Control and Analysis of Coupled Slow and Fast
Motions"...more
Zvi Artstein
CCDC Seminar
1104
HFH
30th
Fri
2:00p "Object Recognition by Scene Alignment"...more Antonio Torralba
Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science,
MIT
4164
HFH
23rd
Fri
3:00p "How Difficult Skills Become Automatic: A
Computational Neuroscience Approach"...more
Greg Ashby
CCDC Seminar
1104
HFH
22nd
Thur
2:00p "Science for the Energy Challenge"...more Thom E. Mason
Oak Ridge National
Laboratory (ORNL)
ESB
2001
20th
Tues
10:00a "Boosting System Performance with Emerging
Materials"...more
Franz Kreupl
Qimonda AG, Munich, Germany
ESB
2001
16th
Fri
3:00p "An Asymptotic Analysis of Random Lyapunov and
Riccati Recursions"...more
Babak Hassibi
CCDC Seminar
1104
HFH
12th
Mon
10:00a "Monolithically Integrable Semiconductor Active
Waveguide Optical Isolators"...more
Hiromasa Shimizu
Tokyo U. of Agriculture & Technology
ESB
2001
9th
Fri
3:00p "Effect of Topological Dimension on Rigidity of
Vehicle Formations: Fundamental Limitations of
Local Feedback"...more
Bassam Bamieh
CCDC Seminar
1104
HFH
9th
Fri
11:00a "Bowhead whale call localizations using passive
underwater acoustics"... more
Charles Greene
Greeneridge Sciences
Electronics Design Seminar
4164
HFH
2nd
Fri
3:00p "From Consensus and Agreement in Multi-Agent
Systems to Coverage Verification in Sensor"...more
Ali Jadbabaie
CCDC Seminar
1104
HFH
2nd
Fri
2:00p "Haptic Interaction with 3D Models"...more Chris Harding
Iowa State Univ.
ESB
2001
1st
Thur
10:00a "Temperature Aware SoC Design for Reduced
Leakage Power and Enhanced Reliability"...more
Magdy S Abadir
Freescale Semiconductor
Inc.
ESB
2001

 

April 2008

28th
Mon
9:00a "ZebraNet and Beyond: Collaboration in Sparse
Mobile Networks"...more
Pei Zhang
Princeton University
ESB
2001
25th
Fri
3:00p "On Pseudospectral Methods of Nonlinear Optimal
Control"...more
Wei Kang
CCDC Seminar
1104
HFH
18th
Fri
3:00p "Noncooperative Cooperation"... more Jason Marden
CCDC Seminar
1104
HFH
18th
Fri
2:00p "Art in Consumerland; Where, Exactly?"... more Harold Cohen
Visual Arts, UCSD
2114
HFH
15th
Tues
2:00p "The Arsenic Crisis in the Developing World: A Sustainable Engineering Solution"... more Arup K. SenGupta
Environmental Engineering Leigh University
MRL
2053
11th
Fri
3:00p "Uncertainty Analysis in Dynamical Systems"...more Igor Mezic
CCDC Seminar
4164
HFH
10th
Thur
3:00p "Programmed Molecular Self-Oganization Robots
behaving like molecules and molecules behaving like robots"...more
Eric Klavins
Electrical Engineering, Univ. of Washington
ESB
1001
4th
Fri
3:00p "Minimum Variance Control over a Gaussian
Communication Channel"...more
Jim Freudenberg
CCDC Seminar
1104
HFH
4th
Fri
3:00p "Applying Simple Control Techniques in Fuel Cell
Systems"...more
Anna G Stefanopoulou
CCDC Seminar
1104
HFH
1st
Tues
11:00a "Systems biology of information processing in
biological networks"... more
Ilya Nemenman
CCDC Seminar
ESB
2001
1st
Tues
9:00a "Achieving a Solar Cell of Greater than 50 Percent:
Physics, Technology, Implementation and
Milestones"...more
Dr. Christiana Honsberg &
Dr. Allen Barnett
ECE, Univ. of Delaware
ESB
2001

March 2008

21st
Mon
11:00a "What Every Architect Should Know About Technology"... more Sani R. Nassif
CE Distinguished Lecture
IBM Austin Research Lab
2001
ESB
20th
Thur
3:00p "Optical Integrated Circuits: A Personal Perspective"... more Ivan P Kaminow
UC Berkeley
2001
ESB
17th
Mon
9:00a "Dynamic Compilation in Practice: From
Instrumentation to Parallelization"... more
Chi-Keung (CK) Luk
CE Faculty Candidate
Intel
2001
ESB
14th
Fri
3:00p "Stability and Stabilization of Networked Control
Systems: A Discrete-Time Modeling Approach"... more
Maurice Heemels
CCDC Seminar
1104
HFH
14th
Fri
9:00a "Wireless Health: Reliability-Oriented Design and
Optimization"...more
Foad Dabiri
CE Faculty Candidate
UCLA
2001
ESB
11th
Tues
3:00p "Bioprocess Control: State-of-the-Art, Opportunities,
and Challenges"...more
Joseph S. Alford
CCDC Seminar
2001
ESB
7th
Fri
3:00p "On Singular Non-zero Sum Differential Games"... more Jose Cruz
CCDC Seminar
1104
HFH
7th
Fri
2:00p "Efficient Creation of Urban Environments through
Procedural Techniques"... more
Pascal Mueller
Computer Vision Lab.
ETH Zurich
1940
Buchanan
7th
Fri
11:00a "Species Signatures and their Application"...more Khalid Sayood
U. of Nebraska-Lincoln
4164
HFH
7th
Fri
9:00a "Reining in Fabrication Cost with Brick and Mortar
Chips"... more
Martha Mercaldi Kim
CE Faculty Candidate
University of Washington
2001
ESB
3rd
Mon
4:00p "Architectures, abstractions, and algorithms for large teams of robots"... more Vijay Kumar
CCDC Seminar
1001
ESB

 

February 2008

29th
Fri
3:00p "Modeling, Analysis and Control of the Translational Initiation Regulation Process in Eukaryotic Cells"... more Nadi Skjondal-Bar
CCDC Seminar
1104
HFH
29th
Fri
2:30p "Broadband CMOS design in TV broadcasting\
applications"...more
Vamsi Paidi
Maxlinear Recruiting Visit
2001
ESB
29th
Fri
11:00a "Programming, Modeling and Synthesis of Multi Processor System Software"...more Andreas Gerstlauer
UC Irvine
Electronics Design Sem.
4164
HFH
28th
Thur
3:30p "Improving FPGA Performance for Arithmetic Circuits"...more Philip Brisk
Swiss Federal Inst. of Technology, Lausanne
1132
HFH
25th
Mon
9:00am "Bio-ionic Neural Interface"...more Luke Theogarajan
CE Faculty Candidate
MIT
2001
ESB
22nd
Fri
3:00pm "Distributed Implementations of Global Temporal
Logic Motion Specifications"...more
Calin Belta
CCDC Seminar
1104
HFH
22nd
Fri
2:00pm "Sketch Recognition from the User's Perspective"... more Christine Alvarado
CS, Harvey Mudd College
1940
Buchanan
21st
Thur
3:00p "AlInN/GaN HEMTs" Sylvain Delage
Alcatel/Thales
4164
HFH
20th
Wed
9:00am "On-chip Communication Architecture Synthesis for Multi-Processor Systems-on-Chip"...more Sudeep Pasricha
CE Faculty Candidate
UC Irvine
2001
ESB
15th
Fri
4:00p "Snakes and Ladders: Localized States in the Swift Hohenberg Equation"...more John Burke
CCDC Seminar
1104
HFH
15th
Fri
2:00p "Approximation of large-scale dynamical systems"... more A.C. Antoulas
CCDC Seminar
1104
HFH
15th
Fri
11:00a CANCELLED "Can We Teach Computer To Write
Fast Libraries?"
Markus Pueschel
ECE,Carnegie Mellon U
Electronics Design Sem.
MRL
2053
8th
Fri
3:00p "Control of Systems over Finite Alphabets"...more Danielle Tarraf
CCDC Seminar
1104
HFH
8th
Fri
2:00p "Upcoming Video Coding Standards"...more Madhukar Budagavi
Texas Instruments
1940
Buchanan
8th
Fri
11:00a "Synergistic Modeling and Optimization for Physical and Electrical DFM"...more David Pan
ECE, U of Texas at Austin,
Electronics Design Sem.
4164
HFH
1st
Fri
3:00p "Prehistoric Feedback Mechanisms: An Opportunistic Study"...more Danny Abramovitch
CCDC Seminar
1104
HFH
1st
Fri
2:00p "Animating Characters Using Motion Capture and
Simulation"...more
Victor B Zordan
C.S., UC Riverside
1940
Buchanan
1st
Fri
11:00a "Circuit Design with DSM CMOS Technologies and
Novel Devices"...more
Doris Schmitt-Landsiedel
Tech. Univ. of Munich Electronics Design Sem.
4164
HFH

 

January 2008

24th
Thur
11:00a "Randomized Consensus Algorithms over Large
Scale Networks"...more
Fabio Fagnani
CCDC Seminar
1001
ESB
22nd
Tues
2:00p "IPTV Challenges and Opportunities"...more Dov Zimring ,
Occam Networks
1802
Psych
22nd
Tues
11:00a "Advanced Stochastic Numerical Methods for
Systems and Synthetic Biology"...more
Howard Salis
CCDC Seminar
1001
ESB
18th
Fri.
3:00p "Using Control Theory to Study Biological Systems:
Perfect Adaptation in the Osmo-Response Signaling
Network of S. Cerevisiae"...more
Carlos A. Gomez-Uribe
CCDC Seminar
1104
HFH
17-18
Th-Fr
8:00a
-6:00p
"Workshop on Bio-Image Informatics: Biological
Imaging, Computer Vision and Data Mining,
2008"...more
Center for Bio-Image Informatics Corwin
Pavilion
14th
Mon
3:30p "The Vision and Reality of Ubiquitous
Computing"...more
Henning Schulzrinne
Columbia, University
1001
ESB
11th
Fri
3:00p "The Hahn–Banach–Lagrange theorem"...more Stephen Simons
CCDC Seminar
1104
HFH
8th
Tues
11:00a "Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of
Chemotactic Systems in Biology"...more
Pablo A. Iglesias
CCDC Seminar
1132
HFH

 


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Ph.D. Defenses

June 2008

4th
Wed
11:00a "Services Computing: Architectures, Protocols and Applications"...more Firat Kart
PhD Defense
ESB
2001
2nd
Mon
10:00a "Capacity of Underwater Acoustic OFDM Cellular Networks "...more Balakrishnan Srinivasan
PhD Defense
Bldg 406, Rm 216

May 2008

30th
Fri
3:00p "Mode-Locked Lasers for Photonic Integrated Circuits"...more Brian Koch
PhD Defense
ESB
2001
9th
Fri
2:00p "Resource-Efficient Distributed Radiolocation in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks"...more Andrew P Brown
PhD Defense
Bldg 406, Rm 216

April 2008

8th
Tues
3:00p "InP-based on-chip optical recirculating buffer"...more Emily F Burmeister
PhD Defense
ESB
1001

March 2008

21st
Thur
2:00p "Enhancement-Mode GaN-Based HEMTs for High-
Voltage Switching Applications"...more
Chang Soo Suh
PhD Defense
ESB
2001
13th
Thur
3:00p "Silicon Evanescent Lasers "...more Alexander W Fang
PhD Defense
ESB
2001
13th
Thur
10:00a "Silicon Evanescent Devices for Optical Buffers and
Networks"...more
Hyundai Park
PhD Defense
MRL
2053

January 2008

22nd
Tues
2:00p "Interference Suppression Algorithms for TDMA
Cellular Systems"...more
Myung-Hoon Yeon
PhD Defense
Bldg 406, Rm 216



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