Spring 2008
January 25, 2008 - CMC Seminar
"Ultra Mobile Broadband: PHY and MAC overview"
Mohammad Jaber Borran, Qualcomm
Hosts: Behnaam Aazhang and Ashutosh Sabharwal
January 28, 2008 - Joint with CAAM
"Precision and Sloppiness of Cellular Signalling"
Steven Altschuler, UT Southwestern Medical School
Host: Behnaam Aazhang
February 7,
2008
"Recent advances in laser based chemical trace gas sensing"
Dr. Ulrike Willer, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany
Host: Frank Tittel
February 8,
2008- IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecture Series
"Looking for Patterns in Video"
Rama Chellappa, University of Maryland
Host: Richard Baraniuk
February 12,
2008
"Generation, manipulation and applications of ultrashort, high-intensity laser pulses"
Selcuk Akturk, Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée, ENSTA - École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
Host: Stephan Link
February 21,
2008
"Nanophotonics, Nanofabrication and Nanomaterials"
Jiming Bao, Harvard University
Host: Naomi Halas
February 25,
2008
"Transductive Anomaly Detection"
Clay Scott (Rice MS '00, PhD '05), University of Michigan
Host: Rich Baraniuk
February 26,
2008
"Laser-matter interactions at nanoscales: ultrafast x-ray and THz generation"
Kiyong Kim, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Host: Dan Mittleman
February 27, 2008 - Dean of Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series
"Building Satellite Systems: Advancing Our Understanding of the Universe We Live In - Where can you fit in?"
David L. Ryan (Rice BSEE '76, MEE '77), Sector VP and GM of Civil Systems Division,
Northrop Grumman Space Technology
February 28,
2008
"Compact and High-speed Electrooptic Modulators on Silicon"
Qianfan Xu, Hewlett-Packard
Host: Jason Hafner
March 4,
2008
"Manipulating spins and photons in semiconductors"
Vanessa Sih, Stanford University
Host: Jun Kono
March 6,
2008
"Plasmonics in highly integrated optoelectronic systems"
Peter Catrysse, Stanford University
Host: Yehia Massoud
March
26, 2008 - RNG Seminar / ECE Distinguished Lecture
"A System Theoretic Approach to Bandwidth Estimation"
Jörg Liebeherr, University of Toronto
Host: Edward Knightly
March 31, 2008
"Be part of an industry transformation"
Mark Dankberg, ViaSat
Host: Behnaam Aazhang
April 7, 2008
"Beyond Bandlimited Sampling: Nonideal Sampling, Smoothness and Sparsity"
Yonina C. Eldar, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Host: Richard Baraniuk
April 14, 2008
"The computational role of lateral and feedback connections in the primary visual cortex"
Risto Miikkulainen, University of Texas at Austin
Host: Erzsébet Merényi
April 16, 2008 - Dean of Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series
"Hubbert’s Peak, The Coal Question, and Climate Change"
Dave Rutledge, California Institute of Technology
April 17, 2008 - IEEE SPS Distinguished Lecturer
"Multiview Imaging: Convergence of Image, Vision, and Graphics"
Tsuhan Chen, Carnegie Mellon University
Host: Richard Baraniuk
Fall 2007
July
26, 2007 - Houston Chapter IEEE LEOS
"Progress in Quantum Cascade Lasers"
Prof. Jerome Faist, ETH Zurich, Institute of Quantum Electronics,
Switzerland
August
13, 2007 - Rice Networks Group
"How to Buy a Network: Trading of Resources in Physical Layer"
Admela Jukan, Technical University Carolo-Wilhelmina of Braunschweig in
Germany
Host: Ed Knightly
August
31, 2007 - Rice DSP Group, IEEE Signal Processing
Society
"Economical Sampling of Parametric Signals"
Julius Kusuma, Schlumberger Telemetry & Surveying
Host: Richard Baraniuk
September
13, 2007 - 2007 ECE Affiliates Conference Keynote
"India Awakes - Opportunities for US High Technology Enterprise"
Dr. Arogyaswami Paulraj, Stanford University and Beceem
Communications
October
8, 2007 - Joint w/ Computer Science
"A Multi-core Parallelizing Compiler for Low-Power High-Performance
Computing"
Dr. Hironori Kasahara, Waseda University, Japan
Host: Vivek Sarkar
October
31, 2007
"CITI Distinguished Lecture: AMD"
Phil Hester, Senior VP and Chief Technology Officer, AMD
November
1, 2007 - CMC Seminar
"Implementation Aspects of List Sphere Detector Algorithms for MIMO
Communications"
Markku Juntti, University of Oulu
Host: Joseph Cavallaro
November
2, 2007 - IEEE Friday Lunch Talk
"Close Encounters of the Magnetic Kind"
Ron Goldfarb, National Institute of Science and Technology
Host: Rice IEEE Student Branch
November
5, 2007
"Elucidating Protein Funcation via Fast, Scalable Molecular Dynamics
Simulations"
Ron Dror, D.E. Shaw Research
Host: Richard Baraniuk
November
6, 2007
"Nonconvex compressive sensing"
Rick Chartrand, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Host: Richard Baraniuk
November
8, 2007
"Fixed-point Signal Processing: Fast Algorithms with Limited
Resources"
Wayne Padgett, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Host: Behnaam Aazhang
November
13, 2007 - CMC Seminar
"Random Processes and Random Mixture"
Giuseppe Abreu, Center for Wireless Communications, University of
Oulu
Host: Behnaam Aazhang
December 5, 2007 - RNG Seminar
"Routing and transport challenges in multi-hop wireless networks"
Konstantinos Psounis, University of Southern California
Host: Edward Knightly
Spring 2007
January
16, 2007 - CMC Seminar
"Field-Based Computational Tools for Addressing Complexity, Scaling,
Variability, and Design in Microelectronics"
Speaker: Vikram Jandhyala, University of Washington
Host: Yehia Massoud
January
24, 2007
"Cooperation, Relay Selection, and the effects of Channel State
Information"
Speaker: Aria Nosratinia, University of Texas at Dallas
Host: Behnaam Aazhang
January
29, 2007
"An overview of MediaFLO - Mobile Multimedia Multicasting
Technology"
Speaker: K. Kiran Mukkavilli, Qualcomm
Hosts: Behnaam Aazhang, Joseph Cavallaro
January
30, 2007
"Explicit constructions for compressed sensing problems"
Speaker: Piotr Indyk, MIT
Host: Richard Baraniuk
February
21, 2007 - CMC Postdoc Candidate
"Source and Channel Coding for Wireless Networks"
Speaker: Deniz Gunduz, Polytechnic University
Host: Ashu Sabharwal
February
22, 2007
"Self-consistent Analysis of Chip Power, Voltage and Temperature"
(IBM ARL VLSI Seminar Series)
Speaker: Emrah Acar, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
Host: Kartik Mohanram
February
23, 2007 - CMC Seminar
"Optimizing Frequency Reuse in Ad-Hoc Networks"
(joint work with Jeff Andrews and Steven Weber)
Speaker: Nihar Jindal, University of Minnesota
Host: Ashu Sabharwal
March
2, 2007 - CITI Luncheon
Speaker: Farinaz Koushanfar, ECE Department, Rice University
Host: CITI
March
14, 2007 - Dean of Engineering New Professor Lecture
Series
"Virtualization, Performance, and Energy Conservation in Storage Data
Centers"
Speaker: Peter Varman, ECE Department, Rice University
March
15, 2007 - ECE Distinguished Lecture
"Key Technologies for Wireless Networking in the Next Decade"
Speaker: Ian F. Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology
Host: Edward Knightly
March
16, 2007
"Genomic Network Tomography"
Speaker: Rob Nowak, University of Wisconsin
Host: Richard Baraniuk
March
19, 2007
"Beyond Nyquist: Efficient Sampling of Sparse Bandlimited
Signals"
Speaker: Joel A. Tropp, University of Michigan
Host: Richard Baraniuk
March
20, 2007 - LANP Seminar
"Optical Forces and Slow Light in Nanophotonics"
Speaker: Michelle Povinelli, Stanford University
Host: Naomi Halas
March
21, 2007
"Post-Silicon Debugging"
Speaker: Igor Markov, University of Michigan
Host: Farinaz Koushanfar
March
26, 2007
"One Laptop per Child"
Speaker: Sam J Klein, One Laptop per Child
Host: Richard Baraniuk
March
29, 2007
"Computation and Reliable Communication: Structural Gain and
Applications"
Speaker: Bobak Nazer, UC-Berkeley
Host: Richard Baraniuk
April
5, 2007 - CMC Seminar
"State-Dependent Multiple Access Channels with Channel State Known to
Some Encoders"
Speaker: J Nicholas Laneman, University of Notre Dame
Host: Ashu Sabharwal
April
19, 2007
"Why I Love the Looming Crisis in Computer Architecture"
Speaker: Mark Oskin, University of Washington
Host: Peter Varman
April
26, 2007
"Using terahertz pulses to probe nanomaterials"
Speaker: Frank Hegmann, University of Alberta, Edmonton
Host: Daniel Mittleman
April
27, 2007
"Mobile2.0 - Enabling an Anytime, Anywhere Services Ecosystem"
Speaker: Venu Vasudevan, Motorola Labs
Host: Lin Zhong
May 2,
2007
"Information-Driven Inference in Resource Constrained
Environments"
Speaker: John W. Fisher III, MIT
Host: Farinaz Koushanfar
May 3,
2007
"Diagnosing Spatio-Temporal Internet Congestion Properties"
Speaker: Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, Northwestern University
Host: Edward Knightly
May 3,
2007
"Integrated Biosensors"
Speaker: Khaled Salama, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Host: Yehia Massoud
May
18, 2007
"BlueFS: Distributed Storage Meets Consumer Electronics"
Speaker: Jason Flinn, University of Michigan
Host: Lin Zhong
May
30, 2007
"Low Power System-on-Chip Design in Smart Medical Micro Systems"
Speaker: Zhihua Wang, Tsinghua University
Host: Lin Zhong
May
31, 2007
"The recent developments in cryptographic hardware"
Speaker: Naofumi Homma, Tohoku University
Host: Joseph Cavallaro
June
1, 2007
"An Efficient Block Floating Point Realization of the Adaptive Decision
Feedback Equalizer"
Speaker: Mrityunjoy Chakraborty, IIT-Kharagpur
Host: Joseph Cavallaro
June
27, 2007
"Compressive Sampling for Next-Generation Signal Acquisition"
Speaker: Justin Romberg, Georgia Institute of Technology
Host: Richard Baraniuk
Fall 2006
August
22, 2006
"Analysis and Control of Temporal Behaviors in Embedded and Networked
Computing Systems"
Xue Liu, CS Department, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
Host: Lin Zhong
August 31,
2006 - CMC Seminar
"Asymptotic Universality in Wireless Networks"
Petros Elia, University of Southern California
Host: Ashu Sabharwal
September 6,
2006
"Network Power Scheduling for Wireless Sensor Networks"
Barbara A. Hohlt
Host: Edward Knightly
September
21, 2006 - ECE Distinguished Lecture
"Tracking people through gaps in observation"
Speaker: Larry S. Davis, University of Maryland
Hosts: Behnaam Aazhang and Joseph Cavallaro
September
26, 2006
"Joint Channel Estimation and Peak-to-Average Power Ratio Reduction for
OFDM"
Speaker: Ning Chen, Freescale
Hosts: Joseph Cavallaro
September
27, 2006
"Nanometer CMOS Circuits Challenges and Opportunities"
Speaker: Volkan Kursun, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Hosts: Yehia Massoud
October
3, 2006
"Error Compensation in Frame Representations"
Speaker: Petros Boufounos, ECE Postdoc, Rice University
Host: Richard Baraniuk
October
4, 2006 - CS Affiliates Meeting Keynote (Webcast)
"Connexions - Building Communities and Sharing Knowledge"
Speaker: Richard Baraniuk, ECE Department and Connexions, Rice
University
October
9, 2006 - sponsored by Department of Statistics
"Coordinated Statistical Modeling and Optimization for Ensuring Data
Integrity and Attack- Resiliency in Networked-Embedded Systems"
Speaker: Farinaz Koushanfar, ECE Department, Rice University
October
12, 2006 - CMC Young Guns Seminar Series
"Network Coding Rates and Edge-Cut Bounds"
Speaker: Gerhard Kramer, Bell Labs
Host: Ashu Sabharwal
October
16, 2006 - CMC Seminar
"Capacity Theorems and Cooperative Strategies for a Multiaccess Relay
Channel"
Speaker: Lalitha Sankaranarayanan, WINLAB, Rutgers University
Host: Ashu Sabharwal
October
17, 2006
"Hyperanalytic Denoising"
Speaker: Sofia C. Olhede, Imperial College, UK
Host: Richard Baraniuk
October
18, 2006
"World Wide Sensor Web: bring live sensor data to a screen near
you"
Speaker: Feng Zhao, Microsoft
Host: Richard Baraniuk
October
18, 2006
"Twenty-first century networking: Beyond bits and packets"
Speaker: David Goodman, NSF
Host: Edward Knightly and Ashu Sabharwal
October
19, 2006
"Model to Hardware Matching for nm Scale Technologies"
Speaker: Sani R. Nassif, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
Host: Kartik Mohanram
October
23, 2006 - CMC Seminar
"Multiuser Wireless Network: Cooperation, Competition and
Security"
Speaker: Lifeng Lai, The Ohio State University
Host: Ashu Sabharwal
October
24, 2006
"Statistical Methods for Multimedia Forensics"
Speaker: Negar Kiyavash, UIUC
Host: Farinaz Koushanfar
October
24, 2006 - slides
(ppt)
"The Science of Interaction: A New NSF Initiative"
Speaker: Sirin Tekinay, CISE, NSF
Host: Ashu Sabharwal
October
26, 2006
"Entrepreneur's View of Satellite Communications"
Speaker: Mark Dankberg, ViaSat
November
2, 2006 - CMC Seminar
"MIMO Receivers for 3G LTE"
Speaker: Markku Juntti, University of Oulu, Finland
Host: Joseph Cavallaro
November
9, 2006 - CMC Young Guns Seminar Series
"Secure Communications over Wireless Channels"
Speaker: Hesham El Gamal, The Ohio State University
Host: Ashu Sabharwal
November
30, 2006
"Did the great masters 'cheat' using optics?
Computer image analysis of Renaissance masterpieces sheds light on a
controversial theory"
Speaker: David G. Stork, Ricoh Innovations
Hosts: Richard Baraniuk and Marco Duarte
December
14, 2006
"Development of high-performance RF MEMS tunable filters and their
system implications"
Speaker: Kamran Entesari, Texas A&M University
Host: Behnaam Aazhang
December
15, 2006
"Disruption Tolerant Networks: UMass DieselNet and Capacity Building
with Throwboxes"
Speaker: Mark Corner, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Host: Lin Zhong
Spring 2006
January
19, 2006
"Infrared Laser Spectroscopy and Terahertz Activities at the
Fraunhofer - IPM"
Armin Lambrecht, Fraunhofer Institute, Germany
Host: Frank K. Tittel
January
24, 2006
"Public-Key Cryptography and Other Fun Stuff"
James L. Massey, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich,
Switzerland
Host: A.C. Antoulas
January
25, 2006
"Sublinear Algorithms for Compressed Sensing"
Joel Tropp, University of Michigan
Host: Richard Baraniuk
January
26, 2006 -
Brice
Lecture
"Feedback, Erasures, Zero-Errors, and More" -
Webcast
James L. Massey, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich,
Switzerland
Host: A.C. Antoulas
January
27, 2006
"Improved Time Bounds for Near-Optimal Sparse Fourier
Representations"
Martin J. Strauss, University of Michigan
Host: Richard Baraniuk
February
21, 2006
"Gallium Nitride-Based Nanowires for Nanoscale Photonics and
Electronics"
Silvija Gradcak, Harvard University
Host: Naomi Halas
February
21, 2006
"Overview of Indian Power System and Challenges Ahead"
Janardan Nanda, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
Host: Behnaam Aazhang
February
23, 2006
"Femtosecond Comb Technology"
Steven Cundiff, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
and University of Colorado-Boulder
Host: Dan Mittleman
February
23, 2006
"Probing the nanoscale: Improving the mismatch between light and
nano-objects using gold bowtie nanoantennas"
P. James Schuck, Stanford University
Host: Naomi Halas
February
27, 2006
"Spectroscopy of Novel Materials: From Metamaterials to High
Temperature Superconductors"
Willie J. Padilla, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Host: Naomi Halas
March
1, 2006
"SurfBeam: Delivering Broadband to Home Via Satellite"
Mark Dankberg, Viasat
March
2, 2006
"Optical antennas for nanoscale imaging and spectroscopy"
Markus B. Raschke, Max-Born Institute, Germany
Host: Naomi Halas
March
7, 2006
"Photonic crystal devices for nano- and bio-photonics"
Hatice Altug, Stanford University
Host: Naomi Halas
March
8, 2006
"Light-Matter Interaction in Nanophotonic Devices"
Marko LoncÃÂar, Harvard University
Host: Naomi Halas
March
23, 2006
"Electromagnetic Field Enhancement near Ag Nanocrystals: Single
Molecule Raman Spectroscopy, Optical Forces, and Surface
Photochemistry"
Louis Brus, Columbia University
Host: Naomi Halas
March
23, 2006
"Algebraic Signal Processing Theory"
Markus PÃÂüschel, Carnegie Mellon University
Host: Richard Baraniuk
April
7, 2006
"To spread or not to spread in wireless ad hoc networks"
Jeff Andrews, The University of Texas at Austin
Host: Richard Baraniuk
April
13, 2006 - Distinguished Lecture
"Procedural Graphics" -
Webcast
Turner Whitted, Microsoft Research
Host: Lin Zhong
April
19, 2006
"Machine Learning for Programmatic work"
Nancy David, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Host: Erzsebet Merenyi
May
18, 2006
"compressive optical spectroscopy and imaging"
David J. Brady, Duke University
Host: Richard Baraniuk
May
30, 2006
"GENI: In Search of Future Internet Architecture and Design"
Guru Parulkar, NSF
Hosts: Ed Knightly and Ashu Sabharwal
June
8, 2006
"Analog-To-Information and Airborne RFINT"
Jerry Fudge, L-3 Communications
Host: Richard Baraniuk
Fall 2005