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Long-Wavelength (Lambda ~ 12-16 um) and Cascaded-Transition Quantum Cascade Lasers
Speaker: Xue Huang
Date/Time: Thursday, June 6, 2013, 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle J401
Architectures for Secure Cloud Computing Servers
Speaker: Jakub Szefer
Date/Time: Thursday, May 30, 2013, 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle B327
III-V Semiconductor Quantum Well Systems: Physics of GaAs Two-dimensional Hole Systems and Engineering of Mid-infrared Quantum Cascade Lasers
Speaker: YenTing Chiu
Date/Time: Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle F218
Energy-efficient Designs for Securing Embedded and Mobile Computing Sytems
Speaker: Meng Zhang
Date/Time: Monday, May 6, 2013, 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle F218
Assertions for Debugging Parellel Programs
Speaker: Daniel Schwartz-Narbonne
Date/Time: Friday, May 3, 2013, 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle J401
Stability of Amorphous Silicon Thin Film Transistors and Circuits
Speaker: Ting Liu
Date/Time: Friday, May 3, 2013, 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle J401
Methodologies and Simulation Framework for Architectural Analysis and Power Management of FinFET Chip Multiprocessors
Speaker: Chun-Yi Lee
Date/Time: Thursday, March 14, 2013, 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle B327
Device-Circuit Co-design Approaches for Multi-gate FET Technologies
Speaker: Ajay Bhoj
Date/Time: Monday, February 25, 2013, 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle J401
Fabrication and Modeling of Stretchable Conductors for Traumatic Brain Injury Research
Speaker: Wenzhe Cao
Date/Time: Tuesday, December 11, 2012, 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle J401
Alignment and Supervised Learning with Functional Neuroimaging Data
Speaker: Alexander Lorbert
Date/Time: Thursday, October 25, 2012, 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle J401
Information Leakage Due to Cache and Processor Architectures
Speaker: Zhenghong Wang
Date/Time: Tuesday, October 23, 2012, 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle B205
System Design and Verification Methodologies for Secure Computing
Speaker: Chunxiao Li
Date/Time: Monday, October 15, 2012, 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle J401
Architecture for Data-Centric Security
Speaker: Yu-Yuan Chen
Date/Time: Friday, October 12, 2012, 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle J401
External Cavity Quantum Cascade Lasers for Spectroscopic Applications
Speaker: Tracy Tsai
Date/Time: Friday, September 28, 2012, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle J401
Mid-Infrared Quantum Cascade Lasers with Novel Active Core and Laser Cavity Designs
Speaker: Qiang Peter Liu
Date/Time: Tuesday, September 25, 2012, 9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle B327
The Flying Carpet and Other Tales
Speaker: Noah Jafferis
Date/Time: Friday, September 14, 2012, 12:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle J401
Trace Based Analyses of Parallel Software
Speaker: Arnab Sinha
Date/Time: Tuesday, September 4, 2012, 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle B327
Extracting Information from High-Dimensional Data: Probabilistic Modeling, Inference and Evaluation
Speaker: Güngör Polatkan
Date/Time: Monday, August 20, 2012, 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle B327
Energy-Performance Tradeoffs in Information and Communication Technology
Speaker: Ioannis Kamitsos
Date/Time: Monday, August 20, 2012, 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle J401
Exploitation of Geometry in Signal Processing and Sensing
Speaker: Yuejie Chi
Date/Time: Friday, August 10, 2012, 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle J401
Coded Compressed Sensing with Applications to Wireless Communications
Speaker: Lorne Applebaum
Date/Time: Friday, August 10, 2012, 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle J401
Electron Spin Resonance on Si/SiGe Quantum Dots
Speaker: Jianhua He
Date/Time: Wednesday, July 11, 2012, 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle J401
Combining Structural Knowledge with Sparsity in Machine Learning and Signal Processing
Speaker: Zhen James Xiang
Date/Time: Thursday, July 5, 2012, 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle B327
Adhesion and Interfacial Fracture: From Organic Light Emitting Devices and Photovoltaic Cells to Solar Lanterns for Developing Regions
Speaker: Tiffany Tong
Date/Time: Wednesday, June 27, 2012, 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle J401
New Approaches to Reconstructing Geometric Models from Noisy Measurements
Speaker: Jieqi Yu
Date/Time: Thursday, June 7, 2012, 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle J401
Fault Tolerant Architectures for On-Chip Networks
Speaker: Konstantinos Aisopos
Date/Time: Thursday, April 19, 2012, 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle B327
Dynamic Techniques for Mitigating Inter- and Intre-Application Cache Interference
Speaker: Carole-Jean Wu
Date/Time: Monday, April 16, 2012, 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle J401
Modeling the Impact of Human Mobility: Mobile Devices as Sensors and Content Vectors
Speaker: Sibren Isaacman
Date/Time: Monday, April 16, 2012, 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle J401
Physical Layer Security in Fiber-Optic Networks and Optical OFDM Transmission
Speaker: Zhenxing Wang
Date/Time: Friday, March 9, 2012, 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle J401
Electro-Optic Counter-Phase Modulation for Broadband Radio-Frequency Interference Cancellation
Speaker: John Suarez
Date/Time: Tuesday, February 7, 2012, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle J323
A System for Flexible Parallel Execution
Speaker: Arun Raman
Date/Time: Tuesday, December 6, 2011, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle B327
Advanced Nanoimprint Patterning for Functional Electronics and Biochemical Sensing
Speaker: Chao Wang
Date/Time: Friday, December 2, 2011, 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle J401
Collaborative and Adaptive Mobile Device-Resident Service Architectures
Speaker: Emmanouil Koukoumidis
Date/Time: Thursday, December 1, 2011, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle J401
Quantile Optimization in the Presence of Heavy-Tailed Stochastic Processes, and an Application to Electricity Markets
Speaker: Jae Ho Kim
Date/Time: Wednesday, October 26, 2011, 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle B327
Dynamical Imaging Using Spatial Nonlinearity
Speaker: Christopher Barsi
Date/Time: Monday, October 24, 2011, 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle J401
Models for Individual Decision-Making with Social Feedback
Speaker: Andrea Nedic
Date/Time: Tuesday, October 11, 2011, 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle B327
Crystalline-Silicon/Organic Heterojunctions for Solar Photovoltaics
Speaker: Sushobhan Avasthi
Date/Time: Monday, October 10, 2011, 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle J401
Microfluidic Devices for High Throughput Cell Sorting and Chemical Treatment
Speaker: Kevin Loutherback
Date/Time: Friday, September 23, 2011, 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle J401
Uncovering, Understanding, and Predicting Links
Speaker: Jonathan Chang
Date/Time: Tuesday, September 6, 2011, 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle B327
Novel Approaches to Amorphous Silicon Thin Film Transistors for Large Area Electronics
Speaker: Yifei Huang
Date/Time: Tuesday, September 6, 2011, 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle J401
Shannon Theory for Compressed Sensing
Speaker: Yihong Wu
Date/Time: Friday, August 26, 2011, 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle B327
Refactoring Router Software to Minimize Disruption
Speaker: Eric Keller
Date/Time: Friday, August 26, 2011, 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle B327
Non-magnetic Optical Metamaterials: Fundamentals and Applications
Speaker: Leonid Alekseyev
Date/Time: Tuesday, July 26, 2011, 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle J401
Efficient Representations of Signals in Nonlinear Signal Processing with Applications to Inverse Problems
Speaker: Eugene Brevdo
Date/Time: Monday, July 25, 2011, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle B327
Transport Studies of Topological Insulators
Speaker: Dongxia Qu
Date/Time: Monday, July 11, 2011, 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle J401
Sparsity Regularization for Learning Projections and Classification
Speaker: Yongxin (Taylor) Xi
Date/Time: Monday, June 27, 2011, 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle B327
Low-Rate Feedback and Low-Complexity Schemes in Wireless Communications
Speaker: Yiyue Wu
Date/Time: Friday, June 17, 2011, 9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle B327
Topics in Probabilistic Judgment Aggregation
Speaker: Guanchun Wang
Date/Time: Thursday, June 16, 2011, 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle B327
Quantum Cascade Lasers With Extended Spectral Range and Tunability
Speaker: Yu Yao
Date/Time: Friday, May 20, 2011, 9:15 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle B327
In-Network Coherence Techniques for Scalable Shared Memory
Speaker: Niket Agarwal
Date/Time: Friday, May 13, 2011, 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle J401
Sodium Laser Guidestar and Other Aspects of Optical Signal Processing
Speaker: Natalie Kostinski
Date/Time: Tuesday, May 3, 2011, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle B327
Distributed Learning: Regression on Attribute-Distributed Data and Consensus Clustering
Speaker: Haipeng Zheng
Date/Time: Monday, May 2, 2011, 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle B327
Quantum Cascade Lasers and Optical Metamaterials: Mid-Infrared Semiconductor Nanostructures and Their Applications
Speaker: Matthew Escarra
Date/Time: Wednesday, April 27, 2011, 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle B327
Subsystem Technologies and Network Applications for Optical Code Division Multiple Acces Systems
Speaker: Yanhua Deng
Date/Time: Friday, April 22, 2011, 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle J401
Optimization of Mid-Infrared Passive and Active Devices that Enhance Mid-Infrared Quantum Cascade Laser-Based Gas Spectroscopy
Speaker: Ekua Bentil
Date/Time: Wednesday, April 20, 2011, 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle B327
Engineering the Free Spectral Range of Fabry-Perot Quantum Cascade Lasers
Speaker: Richard Cendejas
Date/Time: Monday, April 18, 2011, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle J401
A New SiO2-Silicone Hybrid Insulator for Amorphous Silicon Thin Film Transistors
Speaker: Lin Han
Date/Time: Thursday, March 24, 2011, 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle B327
Solvent-casting of Chalocogenide Glasses and Their Application in Mid-Infrared Optics
Speaker: Shanshan Song
Date/Time: Friday, March 11, 2011, 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle J401
Shapes, Spectra and New Methods in Nonlinear Spatial Optics
Speaker: Can Sun
Date/Time: Friday, January 14, 2011, 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle J401
Processing Soft Materials for Integrated Photonic and Macroelectronic Components and Devices
Speaker: Candice Tsai
Date/Time: Monday, January 10, 2011, 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle J401
Extracting Moving People and Categorizing Their Activities in Video
Speaker: Juan Carlos Niebles Duque
Date/Time: Tuesday, December 14, 2010, 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle B327
High-Mobility Two-Dimensional Electrons in Si/SiGe Heterostructures: Relaization and Transport Properties
Speaker: Tzu-Ming Lu
Date/Time: Friday, December 3, 2010, 12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle B327
Fractional Quantum Hall Effects in Wide Quantum Wells
Speaker: Javad Shabani
Date/Time: Monday, November 29, 2010, 11:15 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle J401
Polarization and Hyperfine Transitions of Metastable 129Xe in Discharge Cells and Pressure Shift of Cs in Neon
Speaker: Tian Xia
Date/Time: Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle J401
Large-Area Nanofabrication of Complex Structures
Speaker: Wendi Li
Date/Time: Wednesday, October 27, 2010, 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle J401
Signal Processing Methhods For The Inter-Subject Registration of Neuroimaging Data
Speaker: Bryan Conroy
Date/Time: Monday, October 4, 2010, 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle J401
Channel Coding: Non-Asymptotic Fundamental Limits
Speaker: Yury Polyanskiy
Date/Time: Thursday, September 23, 2010, 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Engineering Quadrangle B327