Events from Winter 2006

Conferences

	The following two events will take place in Santa Barbara on the week of March 27-31, 2006. The venue is the Hotel Mar Monte in the downtown area.
March 27-28		Topics in Computation and Control (TCC) will provide a forum for renowned researchers working in hybrid and embedded systems and on other domains at the intersection of computation and control to give in depth survey/tutorial presentations on topics of interest to the research community. All talks are invited. A list of talks can be found at http://hscc06.csl.sri.com/computation-control.htm
March 29-31		The 9th International Workshop on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC'06) attracts researchers from academia and industry interested in modeling, analysis, and implementation of dynamic and reactive systems involving both discrete and continuous behaviors. This is a peer reviewed conference whose proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. The workshop program can be found at http://hscc06.csl.sri.com/program.pdf

		The three plenary speakers for HSCC are:
	March 29		Dr. John M. Rushby, Program Director for Formal Methods and Dependable Systems, Computer Science Laboratory, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA.
	March 30		Prof. P. R. Kumar, Franklin W. Woeltge Professor, Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
	March 31		Prof. Francesco Bullo, Associate Professor, Mechanical and Environmental Engineering, Center for Control, Dynamical Systems, and Computation, University of California at Santa Barbara.
		Further details about these events can be found at http://hscc06.csl.sri.com/

ECE Seminars

March 13, 2006		"Reduced Voltage Substrate-Removed Gallium Arsenide/Aluminum Gallium Arsenide Electro-optic Modulators" Steven Sakamoto
March 10, 2006		"Human Movement Analysis Using Single and Multiple Cameras" Rama Chellappa Universiy of Maryland, College Park
March 3, 2006		"Solid State Gas Sensor Arrays: Gas Contaminants Detectors & Wine classification" Juan Andres de Agapito Serrano University Complutense of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
February 23, 2006		"Directional LPA-ICI Technique: A New Tool of Anisotropic Multi-Scale Estimation" Karen Egiazarian Tampere University of Technology
February 17, 2006		"Modeling and Control of Anesthesia Delivery and Response" Caroline Beck CCDC
February 17, 2006		"Networked and Distributed Control: Graphs, Permutations and Shifts" Geir E. Dullerud CCDC
February 10, 2006		"The Improved Fast Gauss Transform and Applications to Vision and Learning " Ramandi Duraiswami University of Maryland, College Park
February 10, 2006		"Capturing and rendering Three Dimensional Auditory Scenes" Ramandi Duraiswami University of Maryland, College Park
February 10, 2006		"Cooperative Control" Laura Giarre CCDC
February 7, 2006		"The 4M Algorithm for Stochastic Modeling with Applications to Gene Finding" M Vidyasagar CCDC
February 6, 2006		"The birth of modern system theory: passive network synthesis (attempted flowering, early death, why it should be resurrected)" Rudolf Kalman CCDC
February 3, 2006		"Nyquist and His Seminal Papers" Karl Astrom CCDC
February 3, 2006		"The Life of James Clerk Maxwell" James C. Rautio Sonnet Software
February 2, 2006		"Towards Experience of Audiovisual Quality" Satu Jumisko-Pyykko Tampere University of Technology
January 30, 2006		"A Practical View on the Operation of Shielded Cables" Doug Smith Distinguished Seminar
January 26, 2006		"Multi-dimensional Image Analysis Methods for Modern Optical Microscopy" Badrinath Roysam Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
January 20, 2006		"The Dielectrophoresis Activated Cell Sorter Technology" H. T. Soh Mechanical & Environmental Engineering
January 13, 2006		"Networked Robots " Kenneth Goldberg UC Berkeley

Computer Engineering Seminars

March 13, 2006		"Mobility for Sensing Uncertainty Reduction in Sensor Networks" Aman Kansal University of California, Los Angeles
March 9, 2006		"AEGIS: Architectural EnGine for Information Security" Dr. Edward Suh Pufco, Inc.
March 7, 2006		"Algorithmic Approaches to Digital Halftoning" Prof. Tetsuo Asano School of Information Science
March 2, 2006		"Rethinking Processor and System Architecture" Steven Swanson University of Washington, Seattle
January 19, 2006		"Soft-Error Tolerance by Design" Ming Zhang University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
January 17, 2006		"Heterogenous Multi-core Computing" Rakesh Kumar University of California, San Diego

PhD Defenses

March 24, 2006		"Photonic Crystal Nanocavities Positioned and Tuned for Cavity-QED" Kevin Hennessy Ph.D. Defense
March 17, 2006		"High Speed Bipolar Latch Design for Large Scale Integration " Thomas Collins Ph.D. Defense
March 17, 2006		"Low Phase Noise p-HEMT VCO Design" Vikas Manan Ph.D. Defense
March 15, 2006		"Cascadability of Wavelength Conversion-Based All-Optical Label Swapping" Roopesh R. Doshi Ph.D. Defense
March 15 , 2006		"Adaptive Algorithms for a GPS Beamformer" Suk-seung Hwang Ph.D. Defense
February 27, 2006		"Hybrid Adaptation Layers for High Performance Optical Packet Switched IP " Suresh Rangarajan Ph.D. Defense
February 14, 2006		"Automated Microtubule Tracking and Analysis" Motaz A El-Saban Ph.D. Defense
February 7, 2006		"Optimization of the High Frequency Performance of Nitride-Based Transistors" Tomas Palacios Ph.D. Defense
February 1, 2006		"Monolithic Wavelength Converters for High-Speed Packet Switched Optical Networks" Vikrant Lal Ph.D. Defense
January 30, 2006		"Growth and Characterization of Nonpolar and Semipolar Group-III Nitrides-Based Heterostructures and Devices" Arpan Chakraborty Ph.D. Defense
January 26, 2006		"Understanding material and process limits for high breakdown voltage AlGaN/GaN HEMTs " Yuvaraj Dora Ph.D. Defense
January 26, 2006		"Linearity and Efficiency of Outphasing Microwave Amplifiers" Jingshi Yao Ph.D. Defense

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