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Events from Winter 2009

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ECE Seminar and Event Requests: available for faculty and students only to post a special event, seminar or PhD defense.

Seminars & Events

March 2009

16th Mon	11:00a	"Multimodal signal analysis for audio-visual speech recognition"...more	Jean-Philippe Thiran Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	HFH 4164
13th Fri	9:00a	"Reconfigurable and Self-Optimizing Multicore Architectures"...more	Engin Ipek Microsoft Research	HFH 4164
13th Fri	3:00p	"Specification and Optimization of Interconnected Switched Systems with Applications to Robotic Marionettes"...more	Magnus Egerstedt CCDC Seminar	Chem 1171
10th Tue	9:00a	"High-Throughput Message-Passing Decoder Design for Improved Low Error Rate Performance"...more	Zhengya Zhang UC, Berkeley	HFH 4164
6th Fri	9:00a	"Emerging Resistive Memory - the Next Breakthrough in Computers"...more	Hai Li Purdue University	HFH 4164
6th Fri	11:00a	"A Channel Coding Perspective of Collaborative Filtering"...more	Onkar Dabeer	HFH 4164
3rd Tues	2:00p	"Multi-round Protocols for Two-way Fading Channels"...more	Ashu Sabharwal Rice University	HFH 4164

February 2009

27th Fri	3:00p	"Information-theoretic Paradigms for Modeling and Control of Dynamical Systems"...more	Prashant Mehta CCDC Seminar	Chem 1171
23rd Mon	2:00p	"Acoustical Beamforming in Sensor Networks"...more	Kung Yao UCLA	ESB 1001
20th Fri	4:00p	"High Performance Digital Control for Precision Mechanical Motion"...more	Tsu-Chin Tsao CCDC Seminar	Chem 1171
20th Fri	3:00p	"Optimizing Sensing from Water to the Webl"...more	Carlos Guestrin CCDC Seminar	Chem 1171
20th Fri	9:00a	"Towards Reliable Storage Systems"...more	Haryadi Gunawi U. of Wisconsin, Madison CE Seminar	HFH 1132
16th Mon	11:00a	"Distributed Design: a New Direction in Distributed Control"...more	Langbort Cedric CCDC Seminar	HFH 4164
13th Fri	3:00p	"Dynamics of Aquatic Locomotion"...more	Eva Kanso CCDC Seminar	Chem 1171
12th Thur	2:30p	"Elementary Matrix Methods for Complex Component Characterization"...more	Doug Baney Agilent Laboratories, Agilent Technologies	ESB 2001
6th Fri	3:00p	"Optimal Control of Heavy-Haul Freight Trains to Save Fuel"...more	Paul Houpt CCDC Seminar	Chem 1171
2nd Mon	4:00p	"Thermoelectrics, potentially an important contributor to energy savings and greenhouse gas emission reductions"...more	Lon Bell President, BSST, LLC	ESB 2001

January 2009

30th Fri	3:00p	"Using Invariant Manifolds to Classify Chaotic Transport Pathways in Mixed Phase Space"...more	Kevin Mitchell CCDC Seminar	Chem 1171
30th Fri	10:00a	"MOS Modeling: Back to Fundamentals and Look beyond Devices"...more	Zhiping Yu Tsinghua and Stanford Universities Electronics Design Sem.	HFH 4164
23rd Fri	3:00p	"Impact of Increased Penetration of DFIG based Wind Turbine Generators on Transient and Small Signal Stability of Power Systems"...more	Vijay Vittal CCDC Seminar	Chem 1171
21st Wed	4:00p	"Hetero-epitaxy of III-V Compounds on Silicon Substrates by MOCVD for Device Applications"...more	Kei May Lau Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	MRL 2053
16th Fri	3:00p	"An Approximation Theory for Model Validation"...more	Roger Ghanem CCDC Seminar	Chem 1171
16th Fri	11:00a	"mm-Wave Op-Amps for low-GHz, Ultra High Linearity Amplification with Reduced PDC"...more	Zach Griffith Teledyne Scientific Comp. Electronics Design Sem.	HFH 4164
15th Thur	2:00p	"Carrier Transport in Stressed (100) and (110) nMOSFETs"...more	Ken Uchida Tokyo Institute of Technology	HFH 4164
15th Thur	3:00p	"Fault Injection Attacks on Cryptographic Devices & Countermeasures"...more	Israel Koren UMass, Amherst CE Seminar	HFH 1132

Ph.D. Defenses

March 2009

9th
Mon

3:00p

"Variational Image Segmentation based on Pixel Pairwise Similarities"...more

Luca Bertelli
PhD Defense

HFH
4146

February 2009

19th Thur	10:00a	"High-Frequency Parasitic Extraction for General VLSI Interconnects and On-chip Inductors in the Presence of a Multi-layer Conductive Substrate"...more	Navin Srivastava PhD Defense	HFH 4164
9th Mon	10:00a	"Sparse Approximation and Atomic Decomposition: Considering Atom Interactions in Evaluating and Building Signal Representations"...more	Bob L Sturm PhD Defense	HFH 4146

January 2009

23rd
Fri

2:00p

"Iterative Estimation and Decoding for OFDM Systems in Fast-Fading Channels"...more

Taehyuk Kang
PhD Defense

ESB
2001

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