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

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 Loncar, 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 Püschel, 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

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Fall 2005