Booz Allen Hamilton Distinguished Colloquium Series
in Electrical and Computer Engineering
FRIDAY AFTERNOONS

  FALL 2009

September 11, 2009
Taming the Light at the Nanoscale
Dr. Nader Engheta, H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor, Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Rm. 1110
2:00 p.m.
See Video of Colloquium Talk

September 18, 2009
World's Highest Energy Density Thin-Film Battery
Dr. Martin Peckerar, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Rm. 1110
2:00 p.m.
See Video of Colloquium Talk

September 25, 2009
Architectures, Abstractions, and Algorithms for Large Teams of Robots
Dr. Vijay Kumar, Professor, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
Lecture Hall, CSIC Bldg., 1st Floor
2:30 p.m.

October 16, 2009
Foreseeing the Unseen: Probability Estimation over Large Alphabets
Dr. Alon Orlitsky, Professor, ECE and CSE, University of California, San Diego
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Rm. 1110
2:00 p.m.
See Video of Colloquium Talk

October 23, 2009
Just How Complicated Can a Power System Be?
Dr. James Thorp, Professor and Department Head, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech University
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Rm. 1110
2:00 p.m.
See Video of Colloquium Talk

October 27, 2009
Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Lecture:
Enlightening the Darkness
Dr. Patrick O'Shea, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland
John S. Toll Physics Building, #1412
4:00 p.m.

October 30, 2009
Exascale Computing: The Challenges and Opportunities in Technology and Applications in the Next Decade
Dr. Tilak Agerwala, Vice President, Systems, IBM Research
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Rm. 1110
2:00 p.m.

November 13, 2009
Maximal Transmission Rate for Finite Blocklength
Dr. Sergio Verdu, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Rm. 1110
2:00 p.m.
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November 20, 2009
Automatic Speech Recognition and Code Breaking
Dr. Fred Jelinek, Julian Sinclair Smith Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director, Center for Language and Speech Processing, Johns Hopkins University
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Rm. 1110
4:00 p.m.
See Video of Colloquium Talk

December 11, 2009
Balance and Fall Control in Humanoid Robots
Dr. Ambarish Goswami, Senior Scientist
Honda Research Institute, California
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Rm. 1110
2:00 p.m.
See Video of Colloquium Talk

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