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Spring 2012

January 9, 2012
(11:00am in Space Science 202)
"Detection schemes, algorithms and device modeling for TDLS"
Andreas Hangauer, Technische Universität München
Host: Frank K. Tittel

January 19, 2012
(4:00pm in Duncan Hall 1064)
"Seamless Support for Gigabit Elephants in Cognitive Radio Mesh Networks"
Parmesh Ramanathan, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Host: Lin Zhong

January 20, 2012
(11:00am in Space Science 202)
"High performance quantum cascade lasers in the 3-5 um spectral range"
Dr. Alfredo Bismuto, Institute for Quantum Electronics, ETH-Zürich
Host: Frank K. Tittel

January 24, 2012 - K2I Lecture
(4:00pm in Duncan Hall 1064)
"Industry and Academia collaboration"
Limor Fix, Intel

January 26, 2012 - POSTPONED
(4:00pm in Duncan Hall McMurtry Auditorium)
"Time and the Brain"
David Eagleman, Baylor College of Medicine

January 31, 2012 - ECE Distinguished Lecture
(4:00pm in Duncan Hall 1070)
"EM2: Execution Migration Machine"
Srini Devadas, MIT
Host: Farinaz Koushanfar

February 8, 2012
(4:00pm in Duncan Hall 1049)
"Optimal integration of sensory evidence: A Bayesian journey through our sixth sense"
Dr. Dora Angelaki, Baylor College of Medicine
Hosts: Tony Elam and Behnaam Aazhang

February 9, 2012 - K2I Distinguished Lecture
(4:00pm in Duncan Hall 1070)
"Data, Decisions, and Intelligence in the Open World"
Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Research

February 13, 2012
(3:00pm in Duncan Hall 1049)
"Online Bayesian Analysis and Experimental Design for Massive Datasets"
Lawrence Carin, Duke University
Host: Richard Baraniuk

February 16, 2012 - Faculty Candidate
(4:00pm in Duncan Hall 1064)
"Rational Design and Assembly of Functional Nanomaterials for Energy and Electronics Applications"
Guihua Yu, Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University
Host: Behnaam Aazhang and Daniel Mittleman

February 21, 2012 - Faculty Candidate
(4:00pm in Duncan Hall 1064)
"Building Up Nanomaterials for Flexible Nanodevices and Nanobiotechnology"
SungWoo Nam, University of California, Berkeley
Host: Behnaam Aazhang and Daniel Mittleman

February 22, 2012 - CS/ECE Distinguished Lecture
(4:00pm in Duncan Hall 1070)
"Computational Imaging: Functionality and Complexity"
Shree K. Nayar, Columbia University

February 23, 2012 - Faculty Candidate
(4:00pm in Duncan Hall 1064)
"Third generation photovoltaics: harnessing the heat or "hot" carriers"
Prashant Nagpal, Center for Advanced Solar Photophysics, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Host: Behnaam Aazhang and Daniel Mittleman

March 5, 2012 - Faculty Candidate
(3:00pm in Duncan Hall 1064)
"Investigating local computation and long-range communication in multi-scale brain networks"
Ryan Canolty, University of California, Berkeley
Hosts: Behnaam Aazhang and Richard Baraniuk

March 7, 2012 - Chapman Distinguished Lecture
(4:00pm in McMurtry Auditorium, Duncan Hall)
"The Science of Invisbility"
John Pendry, Imperial College London
Host: Naomi Halas

March 8, 2012 - Faculty Candidate
(3:00pm in Duncan Hall 1049)
"Nanostructured Energy Devices -- phonons, electrons and photons on the nanoscale"
Jia Zhu, University of California, Berkeley
Host: Behnaam Aazhang and Daniel Mittleman

March 8, 2012
(4:00pm in Duncan Hall 1064)
"Fisher information and short term memory traces in neuronal networks"
Surya Ganguli, Stanford University
Host: Richard Baraniuk

March 12, 2012 - Faculty Candidate
(2:30pm in Duncan Hall 1064)
"Vertical Silicon Nanowires as a Scalable Intracellular Interface to Living Cells"
Jacob Robinson, Harvard University
Hosts: Behnaam Aazhang and Richard Baraniuk

March 14, 2012 - Faculty Candidate
(2:30pm in Duncan Hall 1064)
"Real-Time Brain-Machine Interface Architectures: Neural Decoding from Plan to Movement"
Maryam M. Shanechi, Harvard Medical School, MIT EECS, Massachusetts General Hospital
Hosts: Behnaam Aazhang and Richard Baraniuk

March 15, 2012 - Faculty Candidate
(3:00pm in Duncan Hall 3076)
"Optical Nanostructures for Enhanced Light-Matter Interactions and Energy Harvesting"
Debashis Chanda, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Host: Behnaam Aazhang and Daniel Mittleman

March 22, 2012 - Faculty Candidate
(4:00pm in Duncan Hall 1064)
"Plasmon-enhanced solar energy conversion to fuels"
Isabell Thomann, Stanford University
Host: Behnaam Aazhang and Daniel Mittleman

March 27, 2012 - Faculty Candidate

(4:00pm in Duncan Hall 1064)
"Flexible printed electronics: from materials characterization to device integration"
Tse Nga (Tina) Ng, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)
Hosst: Behnaam Aazhang and Richard Baraniuk

March 29, 2012
(4:00pm in Duncan Hall McMurtry Auditorium)
"Time and the Brain"
David Eagleman, Baylor College of Medicine

March 30, 2012
(11:00am in Brockman Hall 300)
"New Approaches to  Analytical Techniques in the Lifesciences"
Prof. Dr. Gerd Marowsky, Laser-Laboratorium Göttingen e.V.
Host: Frank K. Tittel

April 2, 2012
(3:00pm in Duncan Hall 1064)
"Adaptive Information"
Robert Nowak, University of Wisconsin
Host: Richard Baraniuk

April 3, 2012
(4:00pm in Duncan Hall 1049)
"Gbps short range connectivity at 60GHz and beyond""
Nirmal Warke, Texas Instruments
Host: Behnaam Aazhang

April 9, 2012
(3:00pm in Duncan Hall 3076)
"Latent Variable Graphical Model Selection via Convex Optimization"
Venkat Chandrasenkaran, MIT
Host: Richard Baraniuk

April 19, 2012 - Brice Colloquium Series
(4:00pm in McMurtry Auditorium, Duncan Hall)
"Challenges in Cyberphysical Systems"
P.R. Kumar, Texas A&M University
Host: Behnaam Aazhang

April 20, 2012
(12:00pm in Duncan Hall 1049)
"The Convex Geometry of Inverse Problems"
Benjamin Recht, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Host: Richard Baraniuk

April 24, 2012
(3:00pm in Duncan Hall 1049)
"Computing with Lights and Cameras"
Kyros Kutulakos, University of Toronto
Host: Ashok Veeraraghavan

April 24, 2012
(4:00pm in Duncan Hall 1064)
"Wire Routing in Electronic Design Automation"
Martin D.F. Wong, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Host: Farinaz Koushanfar



Fall 2011

August 25, 2011
(4:00pm in Duncan Hall 1064)
"Compressible distributions"
Mike Davies, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Host: Richard Baraniuk

September 12, 2011
(4:00pm in Duncan Hall 3076)
Trellisware Tech talk
Metin Bayram (Rice BSEE '93, MS '96), Jon Cromwell (Rice BSEE '96, MEE '96), Thomas Carter (BSEE '76, MEE '77)
Host: Behnaam Aazhang

September 15, 2011 - CMC Seminar
(4:00pm in Duncan Hall 1064)
"Wireless Channel Uncertainty in Relay-Assisted Communication and Distributed Detection Systems"
Azadeh Vosoughi, University of Rochester
Host: Behnaam Aazhang

September 21, 2011 - CMC/DSP Seminar
(3:00pm in Duncan Hall 3076)
"Diffuse Imaging: Acquiring Reflectance and Structure Without Lenses"
Vivek Goyal, MIT
Host: Behnaam Aazhang

September 23, 2011 - CMC/DSP/CNE Seminar
(3:00pm in Duncan Hall 1049)
TBA
Ueli Rutishauser, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research
Host: Behnaam Aazhang and Tony Elam

September 29, 2011
(3:00pm in Duncan Hall 1049)
"Developing a Multi-Sensor Wearable Device for Assessment of Diet and Physical Activity"
Mingui Sun, University of Pittsburgh
Host: Tony Elam

September 29, 2011 - New Professors' Lecture
(4:00pm in McMurtry Auditorium, Duncan Hall)
Newly promoted faculty will give 15-minute presentations on their research.
Lin Zhong, ECE Associate Professor
Host: Dean of Engineering

October 13, 2011 - IEEE SPS Distinguished Lecture
(4:00pm in Duncan Hall 1064)
"Mobile Video Coding Challenges"
Ricardo L. de Queiroz, Universidade de Brasilia
Host: Richard Baraniuk

October 18, 2011
(3:00pm in Duncan Hall 1049)
"On Smart Grids and Power Line Communications"
Anand Dabak (Rice MS '89, PhD '92), Texas Instruments
Host: Behnaam Aazhang

November 8, 2011
(3:00pm in Duncan Hall 1064)
"Online Subspace Estimation and Tracking from Incomplete and Corrupted Data"
Laura Balzano (Rice BSEE '02), University of Wisconsin

Hosts: Behnaam Aazhang and Richard Baraniuk

November 9, 2011
(1:00pm in Duncan Hall 1064)
"Millimeter-Scale Computing"
Dennis Sylvester, University of Michigan
Host: Farinaz Koushanfar

November 9, 2011
(4:00pm in Duncan Hall 1064)
"On the Power of Adaptivity in Sparse Recovery"
Piotr Indyk, MIT
Host: Richard Baraniuk

November 14, 2011
(12:00pm in Duncan Hall McMurtry Auditorium)
"Bio-inspired Adaptive Coloration of Nanomaterials: Dynamics of Neurally-controlled Skin Patterning in Cephalopods"
Roger Hanlon, Marine Biological Laboratory
Hosts: Richard Baraniuk and Naomi Halas

November 17, 2011
(12:00pm in Abercrombie A227)
"Towards a Cellular Network Architecture with a Large Number of Antennas"
Erran Li, Bell Labs
Host: Lin Zhong

November 17, 2011 - ECE Distinguished Lecture
(4:00pm in Duncan Hall 1064)
"CMOS Process Variations: A "Critical Operation Point" hypothesis"
Janak H. Patel, UIUC
Host: Farinaz Koushanfar

November 30, 2011
(3:00pm in Duncan Hall 1064)
"Bio-inspired Cognition and Diffusion Adaptation over Networks"
Ali H. Sayed, UCLA
Host: Richard Baraniuk

December 5, 2011
(12:00pm in Duncan Hall 3076)
"Three-dimensional IC Design, Architectures, and Applications"
Yuan Xie, Pennsylvania State University
Host: Lin Zhong

December 5, 2011
(3:00pm in Duncan Hall 1049)
"Physical Layer Security in Wireless Networks"
H. Vincent Poor, Princeton University
Host: Behnaam Aazhang

December 5, 2011
(4:00pm in Duncan Hall 1049)
"Coded Multipath Routing for Wireless Networks"
Brooke Shrader, MIT Lincoln Lab
Host: Behnaam Aazhang


December 6, 2011
(12:00pm in Duncan Hall 1049)
"3GPP LTE-Advanced and 4" and "mmWave Mobile Communication"
Dr. Charlie Zhang and Sridhar Rajagopal (Rice MS '00, PhD '04), Samsung Dallas Technology R&D Center
Hosts: Joseph Cavallaro and Aydin Babakhani

December 6, 2011
(3:00pm in Duncan Hall 1049)
"Having One’s Cake and Eating it Too:  The Problem of Joint Communication and Sensing"
Urbashi Mitra, University of Southern California
Host: Behnaam Aazhang


Spring 2011

February 15, 2011
(3:00pm in Duncan Hall 1070)
"Engineering tools for studying epileptic neural circuits"
Yevgeny Berdichevsky, Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School
Hosts: Behnaam Aazhang and Richard Baraniuk

February 22, 2011
(2:45pm in Duncan Hall 1070)
"Advancing Neural Interfaces: Signal Processing, Optogenetics, and Beyond"
Caleb Kemere, University of California, San Francisco
Hosts: Behnaam Aazhang and Richard Baraniuk

February 24, 2011
(4:00pm in Duncan Hall 1070)
"Long-term Stable Neural Prosthetic Systems"
Cynthia Chestek, Stanford University
Hosts: Behnaam Aazhang and Richard Baraniuk

March 1, 2011
(3:00pm in Duncan Hall 2014)
"Server Reliability and Mobile Energy Efficiency: Two Challenges and Two Solutions"
Murali Annavaram, University of Southern California
Host: Lin Zhong

March 7, 2011
(3:00pm in Duncan Hall McMurtry Auditorium)
"Magneto-Optics from Faraday to Nowadays"
Jean Léotin, Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques, France
Host: Junichiro Kono

March 8, 2011
(3:00pm in Duncan Hall 1070)
"From Idea to Market: The Development Process for Biomedical Devices"
Daniel H. Kim, MD, FACS, Baylor College of Medicine
Host: Anthony Elam

March 15, 2011- LANP Seminar
(3:00pm in Duncan Hall 1070)
"Shaping hot spots: A few things I wish I understood about plasmonic hot spots"
Martin Moskovits, University of California Santa Barbara
Host: Naomi J. Halas

March 17, 2011
(4:00pm in Duncan Hall 1070)
"Integrated Circuits and Optical Systems for Biosensing"
Kartikeya Murari, Johns Hopkins University
Hosts: Behnaam Aazhang and Richard Baraniuk

March 21, 2011- DSP Seminar
(POSTPONED - NEED TO RESCHEDULE)

"Highly Scalable Signal Processing for Ultra-Energy-Efficient Small-Scale Systems"
Doug Jones, University of Illinios at Urbana-Champaign
Host: Richard Baraniuk

March 22, 2011
(4:00pm in Duncan Hall 1064)
"Digitally Enhanced Analog Systems"
Fernando Mujica, Texas Instruments
Host: Behnaam Aazhang


March 28, 2011
(3:00pm in Duncan Hall 1046)
"Application of pulsed high magnetic fields for dynamical processes in magnetic systems and semiconductors"
Noboru Miura, National Institute for Materials Science in Tsukuba, Japan
Host: Jun Kono

April 1, 2011 - Brice Colloquium Series
(4:00pm in McMurtry Auditorium, Duncan Hall)
"Statistical methods in cancer biology"
Mathukumalli Vidyasagar , The University of Texas at Dallas
Host: A.C. Antoulas

April 4, 2011
(1:30pm in Duncan Hall 1070)
"Cognitive brain machine interfaces"
Eun Jung Hwang, California Institute of Technology
Hosts: Behnaam Aazhang and Richard Baraniuk

April 5, 2011 - DSP Seminar
"Highly Scalable Signal Processing for Ultra-Energy-Efficient Small-Scale Systems"
Doug Jones, University of Illinios at Urbana-Champaign
Host: Richard Baraniuk

April 6, 2011 - Affiliates Keynote
(4:00pm in McMurtry Auditorium, Duncan Hall)
"More than Cores and FLOPS: Computing Systems Technology Challenges"
Kevin Nowka, IBM Research - Austin

April 29, 2011 - DSP Seminar
(1:00pm in Duncan Hall 1070)
"Design of Discrete-Time Filters for Efficient Implementation"
Dennis Wei, MIT
Host: Richard Baraniuk

May 9, 2011 - DSP Seminar
(1:00pm in Duncan Hall 3076)
"Large-scale L1 Minimization in Biosensing: From Models to Algorithms"
Jianing Shi, Columbia University
Host: Richard Baraniuk

May 10, 2011 - DSP Seminar
(1:00pm in Duncan Hall 1046)
"Teaching signal processing according to what your students know"
Geoffrey Herman, UIUC
Host: Richard Baraniuk

Fall 2010

August 17, 2010
(3:00pm in Abercrombie A227)
"Mobile and Cloud Computing – Opportunities and Challenges"
Yung-Hsiang Lu, Purdue University
Host: Lin Zhong

August 23, 2010 (co-hosted by IEEE Student Chapter)
(4:00pm in Duncan Hall 1049)
"ECE Graduate School: A Duke Signal Processing Perspective"
Jeffrey Krolik, Duke University
Host: Joseph Cavallaro

September 14, 2010
(3:00pm in Duncan Hall 1070)
"Optical Absorption, Electron Paramagnetic Resonance, and Chiroptical Properties of Gold and Silver Nanoparticles"
Gitta Kutyniok, University of Osnabrueck, Germany
Host: Richard Baraniuk

September 16, 2010 - LANP Seminar
(4:00pm in Duncan Hall 1070)
"Geometric Separation via Clustered Sparsity"
Christine Aikens, Kansas State University
Host: Naomi Halas

September 23, 2010
(4:00pm in Duncan Hall 1070)
"Programmable Bio-Nano-Chips: Sensors that Learn"
John T. McDevitt, Brown-Wiess Professor of Chemistry and Bioengineering, Rice University
Host: Richard Baraniuk

October 14, 2010 - REA Outstanding Young Engineering Alumnus
(4:00pm in Duncan Hall 1070)
"The Dudley inequality and its application to two parametric estimation problems in compressive sampling"
Justin Romberg (BSEE '97, MS '99, PhD '04), Georgia Institute of Technology
Host: Richard Baraniuk

October 26, 2010
(4:00pm in Duncan Hall 1070)
"Why Design and Planning is so Difficult, and What to Do About it"
Yakov Ben-Haim, TI Visiting Professor in ECE at Rice
Yitzhak Moda'i Chair in Technology and Economics, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Host: Edward Knightly

October 28, 2010
(4:00pm in Duncan Hall 1070)
"A molecular picture of water structure and dynamics from computer simulation"
E. G. Wang, International Center for Quantum Materials, School of Physics, Peking University
Host: Naomi J. Halas

November 9, 2010 - Jones School Dean's Lecture Series
(6:00pm in McNair Hall, Jones Graduate School)
"Starting and Growning a Business"
Mark Dankberg (Rice '77), ViaSat, Inc.
Host: Jones Graduate School of Business
Registration required

November 11, 2010
(3:00pm in Duncan Hall 1070)
"Decision Making with Bounded Categorization"
Vivek Goyal, MIT
Host: Richard Baraniuk

November 18, 2010
(4:00pm in Duncan Hall 1070)
"Model Based Imaging: In Search of the Free Lunch"
Charles A. Bouman, Purdue University
Host: Richard Baraniuk

November 19, 2010
(2:00pm in Duncan Hall 3076)
"Scheduling with delayed network state information in wireless networks"
Sanjay Shakkottai, University of Texas at Austin
Host: Ashutosh Sabharwal

December 2, 2010
(4:00pm in Duncan Hall 1070)
"Approximate Message Passing Algorithm for Compressed Sensing"
Stanford University
Host: Richard Baraniuk

December 10, 2010
(3:00pm in Duncan Hall 1070)
"Half-Duplex Gaussian Relay Networks with Interference Processing Relays"
Srikrishna Bhashyam, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Hosts: Behnaam Aazhang and Joseph Cavallaro

December 16, 2010
(4:00pm in Duncan Hall 1070)
"Computational Imaging system design in an industrial research lab - experiences, challenges, opportunities"
Kathrin Berkner, Ricoh Innovations, Inc.
Host: Richard Baraniuk

Spring 2010

January 8, 2010
"Laser-Particle-Acceleration and Applications in Medicine and Material Science"
Professor Roland Sauerbrey, Research Center Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany
Host: Frank K. Tittel

January 21, 2010 - IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Lecture
"Hybrid Optical Sensors for Extreme Temperature Measurement in Next Generation High Efficiency Greener Power Plants"
Prof. Nabeel Riza, University of Central Florida
Host: Qianfan Xu

January 21, 2010
"Terahertz quantum cascade lasers"
Dr. Miriam Vitiello, University of Bari, Italy
Hosts: Frank K. Tittel and Qianfan Xu

February 2, 2010
Connexions Conference 2010
- Webcast

February 25, 2010 - Joint with Computer Science
(4:00pm in Duncan Hall 1070)
"Towards Adaptive Simulation of Molecular System"
Stephane Redon, NANO-D INRIA Grenoble Rhone-Alpes
Host: Walid Taha

February 25, 2010
(4:00pm in Duncan Hall 1064)
"Supporting Delay-Sensitive Applications in Next-Generation Wireless Networks --- A New Theory Combining Large Deviations with Lyapunov Stability"
Xiaojun Lin, Purdue University
Host: Edward Knightly

March 2, 2010 - LANP
(3:00pm in Duncan Hall 1070)
"Photophysics of Strongly Confined Multiexcitons from the Perspective of Lasing and Solar Energy Conversion"
Victor Klimov, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Host: Naomi Halas

March 9, 2010
(3:00pm in Duncan Hall 1070)
"Biologically-Inspired Integrated Circuits"
Soumyajit Mandal, Schlumberger-Doll Research Center

March 11, 2010 - ECE/DSP Colloquium
(4:00pm in Duncan Hall 1070)
"Time-frequency energy distributions meet compressed sensing"
Patrick Flandrin, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
Host: Richard Baraniuk

March 12, 2010 - ECE/CMC Colloquium
(12:00pm in Duncan Hall 1070)
"Diversity-based Multband Spectum Sensing Policy for Cognitive Radios"
Visa Koivunen, Helsinki University of Technology
Host: Behnaam Aazhang

March 15, 2010
(4:00pm in Abercrombie A227)
"Random Finite Set Approach to Multi-Object Estimation and Tracking in Computer Vision"
Reza Hoseinnezhad, University of Melbourne, Australia
Host: Behnaam Aazhang

March 18, 2010
(4:00pm in Duncan Hall 1070)
"Matrix completion: Learning matrices from incomplete data"
Sewoong Oh, Stanford University

March 19, 2010 - ECE/DSP Colloquium
(12:00pm in Duncan Hall 1070)
"Configurable Analog Signal Processing"
Paul Hasler, Georgia Institute of Technology
Host: Richard Baraniuk

March 22, 2010 - Dean of Engineering / Leadership Rice
(4:00pm in McMurtry Auditorium, Duncan Hall)
"It's All About Competition"
Hector Ruiz (Rice PhD '79), Advanced Nanotechnology Solutions Iinc.

March 24, 2010
(3:30pm in Duncan Hall 1064)
"Ultrasound Tomography for Breast Cancer Screening: From Theory to Applications"
Ivana Jovanovic, EPFL

March 25, 2010 - ECE/CMC Colloquium
(4:00pm in Duncan Hall 1070)
"Breaking the Barriers in Wireless Network Information Theory"
Salman Avestimehr, Cornell University
Host: Ashutosh Sabharwal

March 26, 2010
(11:00am in Duncan Hall 1070 tentative)
"The Analog Future of DSP"
Jeff Dugger

March 30, 2010
(3:00pm in Duncan Hall 1070)
"Algorithmic Challenges in Machine Learning"
Kamalika Chaudhuri, University of California at San Diego

April 2, 2010
(3:00pm in Duncan Hall 1070)
"Coded Computational Imaging for Visual Inference"
Ashok Veeraraghavan, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs
Hosts: Behnaam Aazhang and Richard Baraniuk

April 8, 2010
(12:00pm in Duncan Hall 1003)
"Flexible Baseband Architectures for Wireless Communications"
Gerald Sobelman, University of Minnesota
Host: Joseph Cavallaro

April 8, 2010
(3:00pm in Duncan Hall 1049)
"Sampling of Social Processes to Understand Human Activity"
Hari Sundaram, Arizona State University
Host: Ashu Sabharwal

April 13, 2010
(3:00pm in Duncan Hall 1070)
"CMOS RF NMR Biosensor & Dual-Mode Pipelined ADC"
Nan Sun, Harvard University
Hosts: Behnaam Aazhang and Richard Baraniuk

April 14, 2010 (Rice-only)
(12:00pm in Duncan Hall 3076)
"The state of the art in satellite communications for fixed and mobile broadband networks?"
Mark Dankberg, ViaSat
Host: Behnaam Aazhang

April 14, 2010
(TIME/ROOM CHANGE 3:00pm in Duncan Hall 1064)
"Should we decode or quantize?"
Sae-Young Chung, KAIST
Host: Ashu Sabharwal

April 14, 2010
(4:00pm in Duncan Hall 1070)
"Time-Based UWB Synthetic Imager (TUSI) for Medical Applications"
Amin Arbabian, University of California at Berkeley
Host: Joseph Cavallaro

April 15, 2010
(4:00pm in Duncan Hall 1070)
"Large-Scale Radiating Integrated (LSRI) Circuits"
Aydin Babakhani, California Institute of Technology
Hosts: Behnaam Aazhang and Richard Baraniuk

April 16, 2010 - ECE/IEEE/Women ExCEL
(12:00pm in Duncan Hall 1070)
"Technology Commercialization - From nuts and bolts to industry development"
Julian Lin (Rice BS '91, MEE '93), Hillcrest Venture Partners / Westhold Corporation
Jennifer Wooley, Santa Clara University
Host: Behnaam Aazhang

Fall 2009

September 4, 2009
K2I Luncheon
Lin Zhong, Assistant Professor of ECE, Rice University

September 9, 2009 - CMC Seminar
"Design Challenges in Broadband Software Defined Radio Systems; A System and Circuits Perspective"
Ahmed M. Eltawil, University of California - Irvine
Host: Ashu Sabharwal

September 14, 2009 - Joint with CAAM
"Optimizing Sensing from Water to the Web"
Andreas Krause, California Institute of Technology
Host: Volkan Cevher

September 17, 2009
"A 32 Gbps 2048-bit 10GBASE-T Ethernet Energy Efficient LDPC Decoder with Split-Row Threshold Decoding Method"
Tinoosh Mohsenin, University of California - Davis
Host: Joseph Cavallaro

September 17, 2009 - Ken Kennedy Institute Distinguished Lecture
"Future Research Directions at HP Labs"
Prith Banerjee, Senior VP of Research at HP and Director of HP Labs

September 29, 2009
"Challenges and Drivers for Future Radio Access"
Matti Latva-aho, University of Oulu, Finland
Host: Behnaam Aazhang

October 7, 2009
"New Professors Lecture: Research Overviews"
Rebekah Drezek, Professor of Bioengineering and of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Mark Embree, Professor of Computational and Applied Mathematics
Jun Kono, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Janet Siefert, Senior Faculty Fellow
John McDevitt, Professor of Bioengineering
Host: Dean of Engineering

October 14, 2009 - ECE Affiliates Keynote
"Programming multicore for low cost, real time and energy efficient systems"
Alan Gatherer, CTO for the High Performance Multicore Processor Businesses at Texas Instruments

October 16, 2009
"Comb Laser Diodes for Commodity WDM Computer Interconnects"
Dr. Daniil Livshits and Dr. Greg Wojcik, Innolume
Host: Qianfan Xu

October 16, 2009
"Parameter Variations and Leakage in Nano-scale Technologies: Error Resiliency and Low-Power Design Methods"
Kaushik Roy, Purdue University
Host: Lin Zhong

October 16, 2009
"Customer Reviews in Spectrum: Recommendation System in Wideband Cognitive Radio Networks"
Husheng Li, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Host: Lin Zhong

October 28, 2009 - ECE Distinguished Lecture
"The Technological Power of Communications + Content + Community"
Fred Kitson, Motorola
Host: Lin Zhong

November 16, 2009
"Routing in Multi-Homed Wireless Mesh Networks: extending OLSR for performance and transparency"
Renato Lo Cigno, University of Trento, Italy
Host: Edward Knightly

November 19, 2009
"Distilled Sensing and the Power of Active Sampling for Sparse Recovery"
Jarvis Haupt, DSP Group, Rice University
Host: Richard Baraniuk

December 1, 2009 - Scientia Lecture
"Networks of Knowledge"
Richard Baraniuk, Rice University
Webcast

Spring 2009

January 29, 2009
"Decentralized Model Order Reduction and Simulation of Linear Networks with Massive Ports"
Sheldon X.-D. Tan, University of California at Riverside
Host: A.C. Antoulas

February 5, 2009
"Understanding Carrier Sensing, Interference, and Capture Effect in 802.11a Networks"
Sung-Ju Lee, HP Labs
Host: Edward Knightly

February 6, 2009 - VISEN Distinguished Lecture
"Recognising and learning from patterns"
Jayanthi Sivaswamy, Indian Institute of Information Technology

February 16, 2009
"Pulling Rank: Inference from Incomplete Data"
Benjamin Recht, California Institute of Technology
Host: Richard Baraniuk and Farinaz Koushanfar

February 17, 2009
"Computing with Things Small, Wet, and Random: Design Automation for Nanoscale Technologies and Biological Processes"
Marc Riedel, University of Minnesota
Host: Lin Zhong

February 17, 2009
"Exploiting data geometry: A semi-supervised learning approach"
Aarti Singh, Princeton University
Host: Richard Baraniuk and Farinaz Koushanfar

February 26, 2009
"Coalitions and Incentives in Cognitive Radio Networks"
Narayan Mandayam, Rutgers University
Hosts: Behnaam Aazhang and Ashu Sabharwal

March 3, 2009
"Sketching, Streaming and Sub-linear Space Algorithms"
Piotr Indyk, TI Visiting Professor from MIT
Host: Richard Baraniuk

March 9, 2009
"Unconstrained Networking Research"
Supranamaya Ranjan, Narus
Host: Edward Knightly

March 10, 2009
"Efficient evaluation of complex networks: Harnessing core structures and randomness"
Lara Dolecek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Hosts: Richard Baraniuk and Farinaz Koushanfar

March 13, 2009
"Developing Safe, Secure and Sustainable Distributed Cyber-Physical Systems"
Sandeep Gupta, Arizona State University
Host: Lin Zhong

March 18, 2009
"High-Dimensional Co-Occurrence Density Estimation"
Rebecca Willett (Rice MSEE '02, PhD '05), Duke University
Host: Richard Baraniuk

March 20, 2009 - sponsored by ExCEL

"Opportunistic Routing in Wireless Networks:  A Stochastic/Adaptive Control Approach"
Tara Javidi, University of California - San Diego
Hosts: Samantha Summerson and Behnaam Aazhang

April 6, 2009
"Visible light communication"
Sridhar Rajagopal (Rice MS '00, PhD '04), Samsung Telecommunications America

April 6, 2009
- CAAM Seminar
"Sensing via Dimensionality Reduction"
Volkan Cevher, ECE Department, Rice University

April 10, 2009

"Control of nonlinear optics at the few-cycle limit for access to new wave physics"
Jeff Moses, MIT

April 17, 2009 - sponsored by VISEN
"The Challenges of Multicore: Information and Misinformation"
Yale Pratt, University of Texas at Austin

April 20, 2009
"The Future of Education & Research in the University: The Roles of Time, Process, and Context"
Edward J. Coyle, Georgia Institute of Technology

April 28, 2009 - VISEN Pioneer Distinguished Lecture Series
"Vistas in Quantum Computing"
Yao C. Andrew, Tsinghua University

May 11, 2009
"Compressive Sensing Data Acquisition and Imaging for GPRs"
Professor James H.. McClellan, Center for Signal & Image Processing, Georgia Tech

Fall 2008

July 17, 2008
"Cross Validation in Compressed Sensing via the Johnson Lindenstrauss Lemma"
Rachel Ward, Princeton University
Host: Richard Baraniuk

July 18, 2008 - sponsored by ExCEL
"Time is of the Essence: Exploiting an Unused Degree of Freedom in Packet Networks"
Negar Kiyavash, UIUC
Host: Farinaz Koushanfar

August 27, 2008 - VISEN Distinguished Lecture
"Practical, Provably Unbreakable Encryption"
Michael O. Rabin, Harvard University

October 9, 2008
"Restless Watchdog: Monitoring Multiple Channels in Cognitive Radio Systems"
Husheng Li, University of Tennessee
Host: Lin Zhong

October 22, 2008
"New Professors Lecture: Research Overviews"
David Johnson, Computer Science and ECE Departments, Rice University
John Mellor-Crummey, Computer Science and ECE Departments, Rice University
Daniel Mittleman, ECE Department, Rice University
Matteo Pasquali, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, Rice University
Host: Dean of Engineering

October 23, 2008
"Interference-Aware Wireless Network Management"
Lili Qiu, University of Texas
Host: Ed Knightly

October 30, 2008
"Shared Denoising and Segmentation of Natural Scenes"
Erik B. Sudderth, University of California at Berkeley
Host: Richard Baraniuk

November 5, 2008
"Cooperation and Fairness of Wireless Networking using Game Theoretical Approaches"
Zhu Han, University of Houston
Host: Ashu Sabharwal

November 6, 2008
"The Power of Social and Knowledge Networks: How and Why are We Connected"
Chunke Su, University of Texas at Arlington
Host: Lin Zhong

November 6, 2008
"Exploiting Structure in Statistical Compressive-Sensing Inversion"
Lawrence Carin, Duke University
Host: Richard Baraniuk

November 11, 2008
"Coding for Flash Memories"
Anxiao (Andrew) Jiang, Texas A&M University
Host: Lin Zhong

November 13, 2008
"Inference in high dimensions: Trade-offs between computational and statistical efficiency"
Martin J. Wainwright, University of California at Berkeley
Host: Richard Baraniuk

November 24, 2008
"Percolation Theory and Large-Scale Wireless Networks: Connectivity and Transmission Delay"
Edmund Yeh, Yale University
Host: Edward Knightly

December 10, 2008
"Digital Wallet: Mobile p2p Payments and More"
Rajesh Balan, Singapore Management University
Host: Lin Zhong


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

April 21, 2008
"Technology Needs for Future Human Space Missions"
Kumar Krishen, NASA JSC
Host: Frank K. Tittel

June 12, 2008
"Volcanic gases: measurements, models & mysteries"
Clive Oppenheimer, University of Cambridge
Host: Frank K. Tittel


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 Loncar, 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 Pueschel, 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

 
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