Booz Allen Hamilton Distinguished Colloquium Series
in Electrical and Computer Engineering
FRIDAYS at 2:00 pm, Kim Lecture Hall

The Booz Allen Hamilton Distinguished Colloquium Series in Electrical and Computer Engineering features distinguished speakers from across the nation and around the globe, and also provides venues in which ECE faculty can showcase their research to a broad audience of their colleagues and students, as well as friends of the university.

col•lo•qui•um [kuh-loh-kwee-uhm]: A colloquium is a type of academic lecture that is offered to a broader audience than the audience of a seminar. Audience members are not expected to have detailed specialist knowledge of the subject matter.

Faculty Host: Professor Reza Ghodssi
Staff Organizers: Ted Knight and Jess Molina


FALL 2008 SCHEDULE TO BE ANNOUNCED.




LAST SEMESTER'S SPRING 2008 SPEAKERS:




February 1, 2008
Estimating the State of Large Spatiotemporally Chaotic Systems: Weather Prediction, etc.
Prof. Edward Ott
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Rm. 1110
2:00 p.m.

February 11, 2008
Biodiesel University: Engineering an Extreme Renewable Energy Education Experience
Dan Goodman, Technology Commercialization Fellow
Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship, Smith School, University of Maryland
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Rm. 1111/1107
3:00 p.m. - Special Day and Time

February 15, 2008
Focused Ion and Electron Beam Nanofabrication: New Multibeam Versions
Prof. John Melngailis
Kim Building Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110
2:00 p.m.

February 29, 2008
Re-configurable Directional Wireless Networks
Prof. Christopher Davis
Kim Building Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110
2:00 p.m.

March 7, 2008
Design Schemes for Countering Fabrication Randomness in Large Scale ICs
Prof. Ankur Srivastava
Kim Building Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110
2:00 p.m.

March 28, 2008
Haptics for Robot-Assisted Surgery
Prof. Allison Okamura, Haptics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University
Kim Building Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110
2:00 p.m.

April 4, 2008
Cross-Layer Customization Platform for Energy-Efficient and Real-Time Embedded Systems
Prof. Peter Petrov
Kim Building Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110
2:00 p.m.

April 11, 2008
ECE Colloquium and IEEE Distinguished Lecture
The Particle Filtering Methodology in Signal Processing
Prof. Petar Djuric, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
SUNY Stony Brook
Kim Building Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110
2:00 p.m.

April 18, 2008
From Micro Assembly to MEMS Lasers: Creating New Capabilities at the Micro and Nano Scales
Prof. Carol Livermore, MIT
Kim Building Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110
2:00 p.m.

April 25, 2008
New Directions in Image Sensing
Prof. Abbas El Gamal, Department of Electrical Engineering
Director, Information Systems Laboratory at Stanford University
A.V. Williams Bldg., Rm. 2460
2:00 p.m.

May 2, 2008
Programming Challenges for Multicore Parallel Systems
Prof. Vivek Sarkar, Department of Computer Science
Rice University
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Bldg., Rm. 1110
2:00 p.m.

May 9, 2008
Plasma Technology – Working Behind the Scenes to Make the World a Better Place
Prof. Amy Wendt, University of Wisconsin-Madison
A.V. Williams Bldg., Rm. 2460
2:00 p.m.

May 16, 2008
On Modern Convex Optimization
Prof. André Tits
See Colloquium Presentation
A.V. Williams Bldg., Rm. 2460
2:00 p.m.

Also see:
Directions & Parking Information
Campus Map of A.V. Williams Building & Visitor Lot
Spring 2008 Series
Fall 2007 Series
Spring 2007 Series

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