E E C S  MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Department Events, 2000-01


Tuesday, July 11, 2000 . . . Abstract
Nanostructures Seminar Series
Grier Room, Room 34-401B, 4:00 PM (refreshments 3:30)
Gaudenz Danuser, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETHZ
New Pictures from the Actin Machinery Driving Cell Motility and Shape Changes


Monday, July 17, 2000
Nanostructures Seminar Series
Grier Room, Room 34-401A, 4:00 PM (refreshments 3:30)
Professor Joseph Jacobson, Media Laboratory
Nanotectonics: Building Electronics and Machines from Nanoparticles


Tuesday, July 25, 2000 . . . Abstract
Nanostructures Seminar Series
Grier Room, Room 34-401B, 4:00 PM (refreshments 3:30)
Prof. Dennis Freeman, EECS and RLE, MIT
Micro and Nano Mechanics in Hearing


Monday, September 18, 2000 . . . Abstract
EECS Colloquium
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (refreshments 3:45)
Seth Teller, MIT, EECS and LCS
Acquiring Geometric Models of Urban Environments

Tuesday, September 19, 2000 . . . Abstract
MTL VLSI Seminar
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (reception 3:30)
Stephen Skedzielewski, Intel Corporation
IA-64 and its Microarchitecture

Tuesday, September 19, 2000 . . . Abstract
LIDS Colloquium
Room 35-225, 4:00 PM (reception following)
Prof. Thomas Kailath, Information Systems Laboratory, Stanford University
Array Algorithms, Displacement Structure and Fast Modems

Thursday, September 21, 2000
Room 3-434, 3:00 PM
Daniel Gottesman, Microsoft Research
Teleporting Quantum Gates


Tuesday, September 26, 2000 . . . Abstract
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (refreshments 3:30)
Steve Krueger, Texas Instruments
An Interdisciplinary Approach to "Architecting" New DSP Features

Tuesday, September 26, 2000 . . . Abstract
LIDS Colloquium
Room 35-225, 4:00 PM (reception following)
Prof. Anthony Ephremides, Electrical Engineering Department and Institute of Systems Research, University of Maryland
Energy-efficient Wireless Networking

Wednesday, September 27, 2000
Nanostructures Seminar
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (refreshments 3:30)
Professor Vladimir Bulovic, EECS
Electronic Processes in Doped Molecular Organic Semiconductors


Monday, October 2, 2000 . . . Abstract
EECS Colloquium
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (refreshments 3:45)
Ronald E. Rosensweig, Kuldip Raj, Markus Zahn, (Rosensweig), Pascal Prof., Paris (ret), Consult.; (Raj), Ferrofluidics Corp; (Zahn), MIT, EECS & LEES
Theory and Applications of Magnetic Fluids

Tuesday, October 3, 2000 . . . Abstract
MTL VLSI Seminar
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (refreshments 3:30)
Dirk Meyer, Advanced Micro Devices
Beyond Athlon: What Next from AMD?

Tuesday, October 3, 2000 . . . Abstract
LIDS Colloquium
Room 35-225, 4:00 PM (reception following)
Dr. Robert L. Kosut, Vice President, Systems & Control Division, SC Solutions
Modeling and Control of Thin Film Processes.

Thursday, October 5, 2000 . . . Abstract
Grier Room, Room 34-401A, 1:00 PM
Lov Grover, Lucent
From Schrodinger's Equation to the Quantum Search Algorithm


Thursday, October 12, 2000
LCS Distinguished Lecture
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 3:30 PM (reception 3:15)
Dr. Michael Stonebraker, Chief Technology Officer, Cohera Corporation
The Future of Object-Relational Technology


Monday, October 16, 2000 . . . Abstract
EECS Colloquium
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (refreshments 3:45)
Gill A. Pratt, MIT, EECS and AI Laboratory Leg Lab
Soft, Smooth and Under Control: The Promise of Low Impedance Robotics

Tuesday, October 17, 2000 . . . Abstract
MTL VLSI and BAMS Seminar
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (refreshments 3:30)
Carl F. Edman, Nanogen
Electronic "Pick and Place" Technology for Molecular Electronics

Tuesday, October 17, 2000 . . . Abstract
LIDS Colloquium
Room 35-225, 4:00 PM (reception following)
Prof. David Tse, Univ. of California, Berkeley (Visiting LIDS Fall 2000)
Communicating on the Grassmann Manifold: A Geometric Approach to Non-coherent Multi-Antenna Channels

Wednesday, October 18, 2000
Optics and Quantum Electronics Seminar
Grier Room, Room 34-401B, 11:00 AM
Jimmy Xu, Brown University
Next Generation Carbon Nanotubes - Strucutres, Fabrication and Electro-Opto-Mechano Responses

Wednesday, October 18, 2000
Nanostructures Seminar
Grier Room, Room 34-401A, 4:00 PM (refreshments 3:30)
Professor Jackie Ying, Chemical Engineering
Nanostructure Processing of Advanced Catalysts


Tuesday, October 24, 2000 . . . Abstract
MTL VLSI Seminar
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (refreshments 3:30)
David Blaauw, Motorola, Inc.
Deep Sub-micron Effects in High Performance Designs

Tuesday, October 24, 2000 . . . Abstract
LIDS Colloquium
Room 35-225, 4:00 PM (reception following)
Prof. Vijay Balasubramanian, University of Pennsylvania
Counting probability distributions: The geometry of parsimonious inference

Wednesday, October 25, 2000
Optics and Quantum Electronics Seminar
Grier Room, Room 34-401B, 11:00 AM
Hendrik Schön, Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs
Electrically-Driven Organic Solid State Lasers


Monday, October 30, 2000 . . . Abstract
EECS Colloquium
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (refreshments 3:45)
Neil Gershenfeld, MIT, Media Lab
Things That Think

Tuesday, October 31, 2000
MTL VLSI Seminar
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (refreshments 3:30)
William J. Gallagher, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
High Performance Demonstration of Magnetic Tunnel Junction Random Access Memory, a Potential Universal RAM

Tuesday, October 31, 2000 . . . Abstract
LIDS Colloquium
Room 35-225, 4:00 PM (reception following)
Prof. Igor Mezic, Harvard University
Ergodic Theory and Control of Mixing

Wednesday, November 1, 2000
Optics and Quantum Electronics Seminar
Grier Room, Room 34-401B, 11:00 AM
David Jones, JILA
The Alliance of Ultrafast and Ultrastable: Measuring Optical Frequencies with Mode-locked Lasers

Wednesday, November 1, 2000
Nanostructures Seminar
Grier Room, Room 34-401B, 4:00 PM (refreshments 3:30)
Professor Gavin MacBeath, Harvard University
Protein Microarrays


Monday, November 6, 2000 . . . Abstract
EECS Colloquium
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (refreshments 3:45)
Vladimir Bulovic, MIT, EECS and CMSE
Organic Optoelectronics: From Nobel Prizes to Practical Devices

Tuesday, November 7, 2000 . . . Abstract
LIDS Colloquium
Room 35-225, 4:00 PM (reception following)
Prof. Michel Goemans, Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics, MIT
Approximation Algorithms via Complex Semidefinite Programming

Wednesday, November 8, 2000
Optics and Quantum Electronics Seminar
Grier Room, Room 34-401B, 11:00 AM
Paul Drzaic, E-Ink
Next Generation Flexible Displays


Monday, November 13, 2000 . . . Abstract
EECS Colloquium
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (refreshments 3:45)
David Tse, U.C. Berkeley, EECS, Visiting MIT, EECS
Multiuser Diversity in Wireless Networks: From Information Theory to Architecture

Tuesday, November 14, 2000 . . . Abstract
MTL VLSI Seminar
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (refreshments 3:30)
Ananth Dodabalapur, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
Organic Transistors, Circuits, and Injection Lasers

Wednesday, November 15, 2000
Optics and Quantum Electronics Seminar
Grier Room, Room 34-401B, 1:00 PM
Gadi Lenz, Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs
Highly Nonlinear Glasses for Ultrafast All-optical Processing

Wednesday, November 15, 2000
Nanostructures Seminar
36-156, 4:00 PM (refreshments 3:30)
Dr. Bruce Gaber, Head, Laboratory for Molecular Interfacial Interactions, Naval Research Laboratory
Making our Mark: From Patterning with Enzymes to Molecularly-Imprinted Surfaces


Monday, November 20, 2000
EECS Colloquium
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (refreshments 3:45)
Daniel J. Weitzner, World Wide Web Consortium
Privacy in Pervasive Computing Environments


Monday, November 27, 2000 . . . Abstract
EECS Colloquium
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (refreshments 3:45)
Oded Ghitza, Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs.
On the Role of Hearing Research in Contemporary Speech Technology

Tuesday, November 28, 2000 . . . Abstract
MTL VLSI Seminar
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (refreshments 3:30)
David Harame, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
Status and Trends in SiGe HBT BiCMOS Technology

Tuesday, November 28, 2000 . . . Abstract
LIDS Colloquium
Room 35-225, 4:00 PM (reception following)
Prof. Hideo Mabuchi, Assitant Professor of Physics, California Institute of Technology
Quantum measurement and real-time feedback

Wednesday, November 29, 2000
Optics and Quantum Electronics Seminar
Grier Room, Room 34-401B, 11:00 AM
Mark Scattenburg, M.I.T.
Interference Lithography for Space Optics, Nanometrology and Integrated Optics

Wednesday, November 29, 2000
Nanostructures Seminar
Grier Room, Room 34-401A, 4:00 PM (refreshments 3:30)
Professor Hongjie Dai, Chemistry Department, Stanford University
Chemical Routes to Nanotube Science

Thursday, November 30, 2000 . . . Abstract
LCS Distinguished Lecture
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 3:30 PM (reception 3:15)
Professor Robert Brodersen, Berkeley Wireless Research Center, Professor of EECS, University of California at Berkeley
The Case Against Software for System-on-a-Chip Design of Wireless Systems


Monday, December 4, 2000 . . . Abstract
EECS Colloquium
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (refreshments 3:45)
Joel Moses, Institute Professor, MIT, EECS and LCS
The Engineering Systems Division

Wednesday, December 6, 2000
Optics and Quantum Electronics Seminar
Grier Room, Room 34-401B, 11:00 AM
Mal Teich, Boston University
Entangled Photon Photoemission

Wednesday, December 6, 2000
Nanostructures Seminar
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (refreshments 3:30)
Professor Scott Manalis, MIT Media Laboratory
Micro- and nanoscale electronic devices for biomolecular recognnition


Monday, December 11, 2000 . . . Abstract
LCS Special Lecture
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 3:30 PM (refreshments 3:15)
Dr. Eric Lander, Director of the Whitehead / MIT Center for Genome Research
LCS Special Lecture: "Biology and Computer Science in the 21st Century: The New Synthesis"

Wednesday, December 13, 2000
Optics and Quantum Electronics Seminar
Grier Room, Room 34-401B, 11:00 AM
Federico Capasso, Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs
Quantum Cascade Lasers

Wednesday, December 13, 2000
Nanostructures Seminar
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (refreshments 3:45)
Professor Charles Lieber, Harvard University Chemistry Department
Nanowire and Nanotube Building Blocks for Nanotechnology


Thursday, January 18, 2001
Nanostructures Seminar
Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252, 4:00 PM (refreshments 3:45)
Dr. Thomas F. Knight, MIT - EECS
Nanoengineering Using Minimal Organisms


Thursday, February 1, 2001 . . . Abstract
Special Seminar
Room 35-225, 4:00 PM (refreshments 3:45)
Professor Lydia Lee Sohn, Princeton University
(Electrically) Shocking Observations About DNA


Wednesday, February 14, 2001 . . . Abstract
Media Laboratory Colloquium
Bartos Theater, 4:30 PM
Shuguang Zhang, CBE, MIT
Emerging Nanomaterials through Molecular Self-assembly

Thursday, February 15, 2001 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (refreshments 3:45)
Professor Heiko Jacobs, Harvard University
Electrical Microcontact Printing to Pattern Electrons and Holes with 150 nm Resolution"


Tuesday, February 20, 2001 . . . Abstract
LIDS Colloquium
Room 35-225, 4:00 PM (reception following)
Prof. Mustafa Khammash, Iowa State University
Calcium Homeostasis: A Feedback Control Perspective

Wednesday, February 21, 2001 . . . Abstract
Grier Room, Room 34-401A, 2:00 PM
Masoud Zargari, Atheros Communications, Santa Clara, CA
5-GHz CMOS Transceiver for 802.11a Wireless LAN


Tuesday, February 27, 2001 . . . Abstract
Grier Room, Room 34-401A, 2:00 PM
Prof. Moshe Eizenberg, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
The Role of Microstructure in Electroless Deposited Diffusion Barriers for Copper Metallization

Tuesday, February 27, 2001 . . . Abstract
POCS (Principles of Computing)
Room NE43-518, 2:00 PM (refreshments 1:45)
Amin Vahdat, Duke University
Building Replicated Internet Services Using a Continuous Consistency Model

Tuesday, February 27, 2001 . . . Abstract
MTL VLSI Seminar
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (reception 3:30)
Robert Fontana, IBM Almaden Research Center
Magnetic Recording Head Technology - Physics, Processing Technology and Scaling

Thursday, March 1, 2001 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
Room NE43-518, 4:15 PM (refreshments 4:00)
Prof. Bruce Tidor, MIT, Department of Chemistry
Optimizing Electrostatic and Packing Interactions in the Design of Proteins and Drugs


Monday, March 5, 2001 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
Room NE43-518, 12:00 PM (refreshments 11:45)
Erik Demaine, University of Waterloo
Folding and Unfolding in Computational Geometry

Wednesday, March 7, 2001 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
Room NE43-518, 4:15 PM (refreshments 4:00)
Sam Roweis, Gatsby Unit, University College London
Learning Nonlinear Data Manifolds

Wednesday, March 7, 2001
Optics and Quantum Electronics Seminar
RLE Conference Room, Room 36-428, 11:00 PM
Ian Walmsley, University of Rochester
Engineerig Photoniuc Entanglement: Light Sources for Nonclassical Technologies


Monday, March 12, 2001 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
Grier Room, Room 34-401B, 4:00 PM (refreshments 3:45)
Marc Baldo, Princeton University
Energy and Charge Transport in Amorphous Organic Materials

Tuesday, March 13, 2001 . . . Abstract
MTL VLSI Seminar
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (reception 3:30)
Mark Lundstrom, Purdue University
Essential Physics of Nanoscale MOSFETs

Wednesday, March 14, 2001
Optics and Quantum Electronics Seminar
Grier Room, Room 34-401B, 11:00 AM
Richard Osgood, Columbia University
Ion-Sliced Ferroelectric Crystals for New Electro-Optical Devices

Wednesday, March 14, 2001
Nanostructures Seminar
Grier Room, Room 34-401B, 4:00 PM (refreshments 3:45)
Mark Schattenburg, Center for Space Research, MIT
Nanometers to gigaparsecs: the role of nanostructures in unraveling the mysteries of the cosmos

Thursday, March 15, 2001 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
Room NE43-518, 4:15 PM (refreshments 4:00)
Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Stanford University
Real-Time 3D Model Acquisition


Monday, March 19, 2001 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
Room NE43-518, 4:15 PM (refreshments 4:00)
Jayavel (Jai) Shanmugasundaram, University of Wisconsin
Bridging Relational Technology and XML

Tuesday, March 20, 2001 . . . Abstract
MTL VLSI Seminar and Boston Area MEMS Seminar
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (reception 3:30)
Cleo Cabuz, Honeywell/General Electric
3D MAPS: 3D Arrays of Meso Actuators on Plastic Substrates

Wednesday, March 21, 2001
Optics and Quantum Electronics Seminar
Grier Room, Room 34-401B, 11:00 AM
John Bruning, Tropel Corporation
Optical Lighography, the Thing That Won't Leave


Tuesday, March 27, 2001 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
Grier Room, Room 34-401A, 4:00 PM (refreshments 3:45)
Pablo A. Parrilo, California Institute of Technology
Convex relaxations for semialgebraic problems, and their applications


Monday, April 2, 2001 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
Grier Room, Room 34-401A, 2:00 PM (refreshments 1:45)
Dr. Ravi Narasimhan, Marvell Semiconductor, Inc.
Adaptive Bases for Estimation of Time-Varying Parameters

Monday, April 2, 2001 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
Room NE43-518, 4:15 PM (refreshments 4:00)
Frank Dellaert, Carnegie Mellon University
Structure from Motion without Correspondence

Tuesday, April 3, 2001 . . . Abstract
MTL VLSI Seminar and Boston Area MEMS Seminar
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (reception 3:30)
Hyongsok (Tom) Soh, Agere Systems Research
MEMS Technology for the New Optical Network

Wednesday, April 4, 2001
Optics and Quantum Electronics Seminar
Grier Room, Room 34-401B, 1:00 AM
Neal Bergano, TyCom Laboratories
Global Undersea Cable Networks

Wednesday, April 4, 2001 . . . Abstract
Grier Room, Room 34-401A, 11:00 AM (refreshments 10:45)
Dr. John Dobbs, Analogic Corporation
Product Development

Wednesday, April 4, 2001 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
Room NE43-518, 4:15 PM (refreshments 4:00)
Tim Oates, MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
Grounding Knowledge in Sensors: Unsupervised Learning for Language and Planning

Thursday, April 5, 2001 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
Room NE43-518, 4:15 PM (refreshments 4:00)
Aaron Hertzmann, New York University
Algorithms for Painting, Drawing, and Animation


Monday, April 9, 2001 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
Grier Room, Room 34-401A, 3:00 PM (refreshments 2:45)
Anant Sahai, Research Scientist, ENUVIS, San Francisco, CA
Communicating Unstable Signals

Monday, April 9, 2001 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
Room NE43-518, 4:15 PM (refreshments 4:00)
Vijayshankar Raman, University of California, Berkeley
Interactive Query Processing

Tuesday, April 10, 2001 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
Bldg. 4-231, 1:30 PM (refreshments 1:15)
David J. Perreault, MIT
Powering the Future: New Opportunities in Power Electronics

Tuesday, April 10, 2001 . . . Abstract
MTL VLSI Seminar
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (reception 3:30)
Robert Chau, Intel Corporation
Device Scaling and Technology Challenges for High-Performance Sub-20nm Gate Length Transistors for the 45nm Logic Generation Node

Wednesday, April 11, 2001
Optics and Quantum Electronics Seminar
Grier Room, Room 34-401B, 11:00 AM
Anvar Zakhidov, Honeywell Laboratories
Photonic Crystals for Tunable PBG-Lasers, Transparent Metals, and "Left-handed Matter"

Wednesday, April 11, 2001
Nanostructures Seminar
36-156, 4:00 PM (refreshments 3:45)
Professor Rajeev Ram, MIT, Electrical Engineering
Observing electron motion at mesoscopic length scales

Wednesday, April 11, 2001 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
Room NE43-518, 4:15 PM (refreshments 4:00)
Jovan Popovic, Carnegie Mellon University
Motion Design in Computer Animation

Thursday, April 12, 2001 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
Bldg. 24-121, 3:00 PM (refreshments 2:45)
Michael Perrott, Silicon Laboratories
A Mixed Signal Approach to the Implementations of a 1.8 GHz Wireless Transmitter and a 2.5 Gbit/s Clock and Data Recovery Circuit


Wednesday, April 18, 2001
Optics and Quantum Electronics Seminar
Grier Room, Room 34-401B, 11:00 AM
Chihaya Adachi, Princeton University
High Efficiency Electrophosphorescent Organic Light Emitting Diodes

Wednesday, April 18, 2001 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
Grier Room, Room 34-401A, 1:30 PM (refreshments 1:15)
Joel Voldman, Microsystems Technology Laboratories, MIT
High-performance Dielectrophoretic Traps for Manipulating Multiple Single Cells

Wednesday, April 18, 2001 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
Room NE43-518, 4:15 PM (refreshments 4:00)
Andris Ambainis, University of California, Berkeley
Lower Bounds on Quantum Computing

Thursday, April 19, 2001 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
Room NE43-518, 4:15 PM (refreshments 4:00)
Angela Demke Brown, Carnegie Mellon University
Taming the Memory Hogs: Explicit Compiler-based Memory Management for Out-of-core Applications


Monday, April 23, 2001 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
Room NE43-518, 12:00 PM (refreshments 11:45)
Idit Keidar, MIT, LCS
Abstractions for Fault Tolerant Distributed Computing

Monday, April 23, 2001 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
Grier Room, Room 34-401A, 4:00 PM (refreshments 3:45)
Sergio Servetto, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Coding Problems in Communication Networks

Tuesday, April 24, 2001 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
Grier Room, Room 34-401B, 2:00 PM (refreshments 1:45)
Dr. Holger Schmidt
Quantum Devices for Ultrafast Optical Switching

Tuesday, April 24, 2001 . . . Abstract
MTL VLSI Seminar
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (reception 3:30)
Scott Crowder, IBM Microelectronics
High-Performance CMOS Technology Development at IBM

Tuesday, April 24, 2001 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
Room NE43-518, 4:15 PM (refreshments 4:00)
Bill Freeman, MERL (Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs)
Inference for Vision

Wednesday, April 25, 2001
Optics and Quantum Electronics Seminar
Grier Room, Room 34-401B, 11:00 AM
Curtis Menyuk, University of Maryland, Baltimore
Dispersion-Managed Solitons and Chirped-RZ: What is the Difference?

Wednesday, April 25, 2001 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
Grier Room, Room 34-401B, 1:15 PM (refreshments 1:00)
Saligrama Venkatesh, MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems
Signal Processing in Non-Stationary Environments

Wednesday, April 25, 2001
Nanostructures Seminar
Grier Room, Room 34-401A, 4:15 PM (refreshments 4:00)
Professor Terry Orlando, MIT EECS
Quantum Computing with Superconducting Qubits

Thursday, April 26, 2001 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
Grier Room, Room 34-401A, 2:00 PM (refreshments 1:45)
Dr. Jack Judy, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering, UCLA
Micromachining and MEMS Technology for Magnetics, Optics, and NeuroEngineering

Thursday, April 26, 2001 . . . Abstract
LCS Distinguished Lecture
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 3:30 PM (refreshments 3:15)
Professor Mark Horowitz, Director of Computer Systems Laboratory, Stanford University
Life After Silicon: An Oxymoron?


Monday, April 30, 2001 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
RLE Conference Room, Room 36-428, 1:30 PM (refreshments 1:15)
Pamela A. Abshire, The Johns Hopkins University
Sensory Information Processing under Physical Constraints

Monday, April 30, 2001 . . . Abstract
Bldg. 34, Rooms 301, 302, 303, 304, 3:00 PM
EECS Master's Degree Candidates
Masterworks 2001

Tuesday, May 1, 2001 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
von Hippel Room, 13-2137, 2:00 PM (refreshments 1:45)
Dr. Michal Lipson, MIT Materials Processing Center
Si Microphotonics and Microcavities


Tuesday, May 8, 2001 . . . Abstract
MTL VLSI Seminar
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (reception 3:30)
Vidya Kaushik, Motorola
Pulling the Rug from under- The Move to High-K

Thursday, May 10, 2001 . . . Abstract
RLE Conference Room, Room 36-428, 1:00 PM (refreshments 12:45)
Elliot Hui, University of California, Berkeley
MEMS FOR MEDICAL IMPLANTS

Thursday, May 10, 2001 . . . Abstract
LCS Distinguished Lecture
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 3:30 PM (refreshments 3:15)
Professor Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law, Stanford University
Coding Innovation


Monday, May 14, 2001 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
Grier Room, Room 34-401A, 2:00 PM (refreshments 1:45)
Biblab Sikdar, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Network Traffic Modeling and the Transmission Control Protocol

Tuesday, May 15, 2001 . . . Abstract
MTL VLSI Seminar
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (reception 3:30)
Thucydides (Duke) Xanthopoulos, Compaq Computer Corporation
The Design and Analysis of the Clock Distribution Network for a 1.2 GHz Alpha Microprocessor

Wednesday, May 16, 2001 . . . Abstract
EECS Special Seminar
Grier Room, Room 34-401A, 1:30 PM (refreshments 1:15)
Dr. Joel Schindall, Senior Vice President, Engineering and Development, and Chief Engineer, Globalstar Limited Partnership
Practical Design Considerations for the Globalstar Satellite Phone

Wednesday, May 16, 2001
Nanostructures Seminar
Grier Room, Room 34-401B, 4:00 PM (refreshments 3:45)
C. Jeffrey Brinker, Sandia National Laboratories
Self-Assembly of porous and composite Nanostructures


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