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2006-2007 Seminar Series in Electrical Engineering

2009-2010     2008-2009     2007-2008     2006-2007     2005-2006    

Fall 2006 (Signals and Systems Area; Professor Ali H. Sayed, organizer)

1. October 09: Prof. Jerry Mendel (USC)
   Signal Fusion Using Novel Weighted Averages.
2. October 16: Prof. Andy Teel (UC Santa Barbara)
   Robust Hybrid Control Systems.
3. October 23: Prof. Yinyu Ye (Stanford University)
   Semidefinite Programming Approaches to Graph Realization and Sensor Network Localization.
4. October 30: Prof. Georgios Giannakis (University of Minnesota)
   Dimensionality Reduction and Distributed Estimation using Wireless Sensor Networks with Noisy Links.
5. November 06: Prof. Simon Haykin (McMaster University, Canada)
   Cognitive Dynamic Systems.
6. November 13: Prof. Sergio Verdu (Princeton University)
   Current Trends in Information Theory.
7. November 20: Prof. Jose Moura (Carnegie Mellon University)
   Topology Design in Distributed Inference in Sensor Networks.
8. December 04: Prof. P. Vaidyanathan (Caltech)
   Signal Processing in Genomics.

Winter 2007 (Circuits and Embedded Systems Area; Professor Dejan Markovic, organizer)

1. January 22: Dr. Shekhar Y. Borkar (Intel)
   Extending and Expanding Moore's Law—Challenges and Opportunities.
2. January 29: Dr. Kevin Nowka (IBM)
   Variability, Power, and Robustness in Microprocessor Design.
3. February 5: Dr. Arya Behzad(Broadcom)
   A Brief Introduction to 802.11n, and The Design of a Fully Integrated CMOS Draft-802.11n Radio.
4. February 12: Prof. P. R. Kumar (UIUC)
   From Wireless Networks to Sensor Networks and Onward to Networked Embedded Control.
5. February 26: Prof. Borivoje Nikolic (Berkeley)
   Making Sense Out of Variability in Scaled CMOS.
6. March 5: Prof. Takayasu Sakurai (Univ. Tokyo)
   Meeting with the Forthcoming IC Design - The Era of Power, Variability and NRE Explosion and a Bit of the Future.
7. March 12: Prof. Yannis Tsividis (Columbia)
   Mixed-Domain Signal Processing.

Spring 2007 (Physical and Wave Electronics Area; Professor Jason Woo, organizer)

1. April 2: Dr. James Harris (Stanford)
   Spintronics and Beyond Road Map Electronics.
2. April 16: Dr. Robert Chau (Intel)
   Advanced Silicon Nanotechnology and Emerging Non-Silicon Nanoelectronic Devices for High- Speed and Low-Power VLSI.
3. April 23: Dr. Gary Patton (IBM)
   Ultra-scaled Silicon Technology.
4. April 30: Dr. Y. K. Chen (Bell Labs)
   Recent Advanced in Photonic Signal Processing Techniques.
5. May 7: Dr. Hans Stork (Texas Instruments)
   Challenges of Mobile System Integration with Next Generation CMOS Technology.
6. May 14: Dr. Peter Asbeck (UC San Diego)
   Transistor Technologies for Wireless Communications.
7. May 21: Dr. T.P. Ma (Yale)
   Several Novel Techniques for Electrical Characterization of High-k Gate Dielectrics.
8. June 4: Dr. Dan Radack (Institute for Defense Analyses)
   A Perspective on the Future of Microsystems Technology Research.