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Newsletter of the Department of Electrical Engineering

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Faculty News
 
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Prof. Gary Rubloff, from the Dept. of Materials and Nuclear Science, was appointed Affliate Professor in the Department. Prof. Rubloff is also the Director of the Institute for Systems Research.

Prof. Fawzi Emad was appointed Professor Emeritus.

Prof. Martin Reiser was appointed Professor Emeritus.

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Prof. Jeffrey Hollingsworth wrote a chapter entitled “Instrumentation and Measurement,” for the book The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure, published by Morgan-Kaufmann, 1998.

Invited Talks/Conferences

Prof. Mario Dagenais gave an invited talk entitled “1.55 mm Mode Expander Using Single Epitaxial Growth,” at the 1998 Intl. Conf. on Applications of Photonic Tech., Ottawa, Canada, July 27-30, 1998.

Prof. Nariman Farvardin delivered a talk entitled “Combined vs. Tandem Source-Channel Coding for Wireless Channels,” at EUSIPCO 1998, Rhodes, Greece, Sept. 1998.

Prof. Jeffrey Hollingsworth gave the following talks over the summer and the last semester:

“Application Binaries: Management and Manipulation,” at Georgia Tech., Oct. 1998.

“Linger-Longer: Fine-Grain Cycle Stealing for Networks of Workstations,” at the NAS Workshop on Performance Engineered Systems, NASA Ames, Sept. 1998.

“Content-Derived Names: Automatic Management of Multiple Versions of Software Libraries,” for Microsoft Research, Redmond, Wash., Sept. 1998.

“Content-Derived Names: Automatic Management of Multiple Versions of Software Libraries,” at the Wksphp. on Clusters and Computational Grids for Scientific Computing, Knoxville, Tenn., Sept. 1998.

“Online ‘What-If’ Metrics,” at Technische Universität München, Germany, June 1998.
Prof. Isaak Mayergoyz delivered the following talks during the past year:

“Mathematical Models of Hysteresis,” at the Material Science and Engineering Dept. Colloquium, Stanford Univ., Calif., April 1998.

“Mathematical Models of Hysteresis,” at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, May 1998.

“Nonlinear Diffusion of Electromagnetic Fields,” at the National Electrotechnical Institute of Galileo Ferraris, Torino, Italy, June 1998.

Prof. Edward Ott gave the following talks over the summer and last semester:

“Chaotic Scattering in Higher Dimensional Systems,” at the Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos, New York City, NY, Nov. 6-7, 1998.

“Fractals in Fluids,” at the Workshop on Transport and Mixing in Fluids, Woods Hole Oceanographics Institute, Woods Hole, Mass., July 27-31, 1998.

“Optimal Unstable Periodic Orbits,” at the Workshop on Periodic Orbit Theory in Biology, George Mason Univ., Va., July 13, 1998.

“Chaos Control Using Experimental Data,” at the Workshop on Mathematical Tools for Neuroscience, Arlington, Va., July 13, 1998.

“Controlling Chaos,” at the Conf. on Data Analysis and Nonlinear Dynamics,” Technion, Israel, June 28-July 3, 1998.

“Chaotic Scattering in Higher Dimensional Systems,” at the Conf. on Quantum Nonintegrability,” Harvard Univ., April 30-May 2, 1998.
Prof. David Stewart gave an invited talk entitled

“Next-Generation Real-Time Operating Systems for Digital Signal Processors,” at Telogy Networks, Gaithersburg, Md., Oct. 13, 1998.
Prof. Uzi Vishkin gave talks the following talks last semester:

“A Theorist’s Proposal for a Big Little Computer System,” at the IBM Haifa Research Lab., Haifa, Israel, Aug. 19, 1998.

“A Theorist’s Proposal for a Big Little Computer System,” at the The Computer Architecture and Parallel System Lab., Univ. of Delaware, Oct. 27, 1998.

“A Theorist’s Proposal for a Big Little Computer System,” at The Ctr. for Research on Parallel Computation, Rice Univ., Houston, TX, Oct. 20, 1998.