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Main calendarCustom calendar Event archive Event editor | | Monday, January 7, 2002
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Start of IAP
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Monday, January 21, 2002
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day - Holiday
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Friday, February 1, 2002
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End of IAP
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Monday, February 4, 2002
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Registration Day
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Tuesday, February 5, 2002
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First day of classes
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Reliability in Direct Access Optical Networks . . . Abstract
Steven S. Lumetta, Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
4:00 PM (reception following), 37-212
LIDS Colloquium
- starting next week, the LIDS Colloquium will move back to room 35-225.
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Tuesday, February 12, 2002
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Divide the Evil! or: How to Stop Working and Make Better Distributed Circuits . . . Abstract
Ali Hajimiri, CalTech
4:00 PM, Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101
MTL VLSI Seminar
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Time Optimal Control of Spin Systems . . . Abstract . . . Biography
Navin Khaneja, Harvard University
4:00 PM (reception following), Room 35-225
LIDS Colloquium
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The Importance of Being Biased . . . Abstract
Shmuel Safra, Tel Aviv University
4:15 PM (refreshments 4:00), Room NE43-941
Theory of Computation Seminar
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Wednesday, February 13, 2002
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Games of prediction and Brownian Motion . . . Abstract
Yoav Freud, Banter Inc.
11:00 AM (refreshments 10:45), Room NE43-941
Special AI Lab Talk
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Thursday, February 14, 2002
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Are Multi-Antenna Capacity Gains Mere Channel-Modeling Artifacts? . . . Abstract . . . Biography
Amos Lapidoth, Professor, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
4:00 PM (reception following), 35-225
Special LIDS Colloquium
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Planning and Learning with Hidden State Using A Predictive Representation . . . Abstract
Michael L. Littman, AT&T Labs-Research
4:15 PM (refreshments 4:00), Room NE43-518
EECS Special Seminar
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Monday, February 18, 2002
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Presidents Day - Holiday
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Tuesday, February 19, 2002
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Monday class schedule
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Modeling and Reachability Analysis of Hybrid Systems
Rajeev Alur, Professor, U. of Pennsylvania
4:00 PM (reception served), Room 35-225
LIDS Colloquium
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Reinforcement Learning Formulations of the AI Problem: Have they been good for AI? . . . Agenda
Satinder Singh, AT&T Research
4:15 PM (refreshments 4:00), Room NE43-518
EECS Special Seminar
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Thursday, February 21, 2002
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Implementing Collaborative Conversation . . . Abstract
Matthew Stone, Rutgers University
4:15 PM (refreshments 4:00), Room NE43-518
EECS Special Seminar
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Monday, February 25, 2002
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Modelling Sequential Data with Dynamic Bayesian Networks: New models, applications and algorithms . . . Abstract
Kevin Murphy
12:00 noon (refreshments 11:45), Room NE43-941
AI Lab Special Talk
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Understanding the patterning limitations of Electron Beam Nanolithography . . . Abstract
Leonidas E. Ocola, Ph.D., Agere Systems, Murray Hill, NJ
3:00 PM (refreshments 2:45), Grier Room, Room 34-401A
EECS Special Seminar
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The Zigzag Graph Product and Constant-Degree Lossless Expanders . . . Abstract
Omer Reingold, AT&T and IAS
4:15 PM (refreshments 4:00), Room NE43-518
EECS Special Seminar
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Tuesday, February 26, 2002
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Biologically Inspired Electronic . . . Biography
Rahul Sarpeshkar, Professor of EECS, M.I.T.
4:00 PM (reception following), Room 35-225
LIDS Colloquium
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Wednesday, February 27, 2002
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An Overview of Optoelectronics at IBM Research
Jeff Kash, IBM
11:00 AM, Grier Room, Room 34-401B
Optics and Quantum Electronics Seminar
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Thursday, February 28, 2002
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Towards Natural Human-Computer Interface . . . Biography . . . Abstract
Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, Vice President, Natural Interactive Services Division, Microsoft Corporation
3:30 PM (refreshments 3:15), Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101
LCS Dertouzos Lecture
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Monday, March 4, 2002
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Efficient Information Transmission over Fiber Optic and Quantum Channels . . . Abstract
Dr. Gerhard Kramer, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
3:00 PM (refreshments 2:45), Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252
EECS Special Seminar
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Graph Algorithms for Stereo Correspondence . . . Abstract
Olga Veksler, NEC Research Institute
4:15 PM (refreshments 4:00), Room NE43-518
EECS Special Seminar
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Tuesday, March 5, 2002
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Vibrating RF MEMs for Low Power Wireless Communications . . . Abstract
Clark T.-C. Nguyen, University of Michigan and Discera, Inc.
4:00 PM (reception 3:30), Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101
MTL VLSI Seminar
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A New Approach to Ray Tracing in a Grid Based Framework . . . Abstract
Stanley Osher, Professor, U.C.L.A.
4:00 PM (reception following), Room 35-225
LIDS Colloquium
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Wednesday, March 6, 2002
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Femtosecond Polaritonics and THz Signal Control
Keith Nelson, MIT
11:00 AM, RLE Conference Room, 36-428
Optics and Quantum Electronics Seminar
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Thursday, March 7, 2002
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The Spline Foundation of Wavelet Theory . . . Abstract
Prof. Michael Unser, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL)
11:00 AM, Grier Room, Room 34-401A
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Large-Margin Methods for Natural Language Learning . . . Abstract . . . NOTE change in time
Michael Collins, AT&T Labs-Research
4:05 PM (refreshments 3:50), Room NE43-518
EECS Special Seminar
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Friday, March 8, 2002
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Add Date
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Monday, March 11, 2002
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Shaping and Policy Search in Reinforcement Learning . . . Abstract . . . NOTE change in time
Andrew Ng, University of California, Berkeley
4:05 PM (refreshments 3:50), Room NE43-518
EECS Special Seminar
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Tuesday, March 12, 2002
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200 GHz SiGe BiCMOS Technology for Wireless and Wire-line Communications . . . Abstract
Marco Racanelli, Conexant
4:00 PM (reception 3:30), Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101
MTL VLSI Seminar
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A primal-dual interior-point method for nonconvex optimization problems . . . Abstract . . . Biography
André L. Tits, University of Maryland
4:00 PM (reception following), 37-212 (please note irregular location)
LIDS Colloquium
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Wednesday, March 13, 2002
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Superconductive Quantum Computation: Moore's Law Meets Schrodinger's Cat
Selim Shahriar, Northwestern University (Visiting Scientist MIT)
11:00 AM, Grier Room, Room 34-401B
Optics and Quantum Electronics Seminar
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Thursday, March 14, 2002
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Data Driven Methods for Robust Control and Learning . . . Abstract . . . Biography
Michael Safonov, University of Southern California
12:00 noon (reception following), 33-116
LIDS Colloquium
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Energy Efficient System Design and Utilization
Dr. Tajana Simunic, HP Laboratories and Stanford University
2:00 PM (refreshments 1:45), Grier Room, Room 34-401B
EECS Special Seminar
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Exploiting Lightweight Structure in Text: Multiple-Selection Editing and Outlier Finding . . . Abstract
Robert Miller, Carnegie Mellon University
4:05 PM (refreshments 3:50), Room NE43-518
EECS Special Seminar
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Monday, March 18, 2002
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Magnetics Techniques in Power Electronics
Professor Charles Sullivan, Dartmouth University
4:00 PM, 3-133
LEES Seminar
- This talk will summarize research at Dartmouth on magneteics in power
- electronics, concentrating on two areas: resonant inductor design
- for low loss and low cost, and coupled inductors for improving
- efficiency and response time in VRMs for microprocessor power delivery.
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Automatic Tools for Building Secure Systems . . . Abstract
Dawn Song, University of California,Berkeley
4:05 PM (refreshments 3:50), Room NE43-518
EECS Special Seminar
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Tuesday, March 19, 2002
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Single-Chip Surface-Micromachined Integrated Gyroscope with 50°/hour Root Allan Variance
John Geen, Analog Devices, Inc.
4:00 PM (reception 3:30), Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101
MTL VLSI Seminar
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Advances in Multiuser Detection . . . Abstract . . . Biography
H. Vincent Poor, Princeton University
4:00 PM (reception following), Room 35-225
LIDS Colloquium
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Thursday, March 21, 2002
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Functional Optical Devices Based on Photonic Crystals . . . Abstract . . . text addition to abstract
Dr. Jelena Vuckovic, Stanford University
2:00 PM (refreshments 1:45), Grier Room, Room 34-401B
EECS Special Seminar
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TBA . . . POSTPONED, to be rescheduled
Abhijit Banerjee, M.I.T.
4:00 PM (reception following), Room 35-225
LIDS Colloquium
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Information Fusion for Multidocument Summarization . . . Abstract . . . NOTE change in time
Regina Barzilay, Columbia University
4:05 PM (refreshments 3:50), Room NE43-518
EECS Special Seminar
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Monday, March 25, 2002 - Friday, March 29, 2002
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Spring Vacation
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Monday, March 25, 2002
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Button-sized motors and generators for a micro-gas turbine engine . . . Abstract
Dr. Carol Livermore, MIT, Microsystems Technology Laboratories
3:00 PM (refreshments 2:45), Grier Room, Room 34-401A
EECS Special Seminar
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Monday, April 1, 2002
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MEMS for optical networking . . . Abstract
Lih Y. Lin, Tellium, Inc.
3:00 PM (refreshments 2:45), Grier Room, Room 34-401B
EECS Special Seminar
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Designing Algorithms For Game Theoretic Environments . . . Abstract
Dr. Amir Ronen, Stanford and UC Berkeley
4:05 PM (refreshments 3:50), Room NE43-518
EECS Special Seminar
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Tuesday, April 2, 2002
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Competition and Cooperation in Multi-user Communication Environments . . . Abstract
Wei Yu, Stanford University
2:00 PM (refreshments 1:45), Grier Room, Room 34-401B
EECS Special Seminar
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Coding with Side Information: Theory, Applications, and Duality . . . Abstract . . . Biography
Kannan Ramchandran, U.C. Berkeley
4:00 PM (reception following), Room 35-225
LIDS Colloquium
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Nanowires as Building Blocks for Nanoelectronics & Nanophotonics . . . Abstract
Charles M. Lieber, Harvard University
4:00 PM (refreshments 3:30), Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101
MTL VLSI Seminar and Nanostructures Seminar
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Wednesday, April 3, 2002
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Solitons in Optical Fibers: Unstable Fiber Lasers and Ultrahigh-Speed Data Transmission
Thomas Carruthers, Naval Research Laboratory
11:00 AM, Grier Room, Room 34-401B
Optics and Quantum Electronics Seminar
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Diversity and Freedom: A Fundamental Tradeoff in Multiple Antenna Channels . . . Abstract
Lizhong Zheng, University of California, Berkeley
1:30 PM (refreshments 1:15), Grier Room, Room 34-401B
EECS Special Seminar
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Automating the Design of Visualizations . . . Abstract
Dr. Maneesh Agrawala, Stanford University
4:05 PM (refreshments 3:50), Room NE43-518
EECS Special Seminar
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Thursday, April 4, 2002
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Multiple description video coding, path diversity and streaming media content delivery networks
John Apostolopoulos, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
2:00 PM (refreshments 1:45), Grier Room, Room 34-401A
EECS Special Seminar
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Mining Social Networks for Knowledge Management . . . Abstract . . . Biography
Dr. Prabhakar Raghavan, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Verity, Inc.
3:30 PM (reception 3:15), Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101
LCS Dertouzos Lecture
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Monday, April 8, 2002
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Capacity and the Separation Theorem in Ad-Hoc Wireless Networks
Dr. Michael Gastpar, EPEL, Lausanne, Switzerland
3:00 PM (refreshments 2:45), RLE Conference Room, 36-428
EECS Special Seminar
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Nested Linear/Lattice Codes for Structured Multiterminal Binning . . . Abstract
Ram Zamir, Tel Aviv University
4:00 PM (refreshments following), RLE Conference Room, 36-428
Wireless Networking Seminar
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Programming Languages for Information Security . . . Abstract
Steve Zdancewic, Cornell University
4:05 PM (refreshments 3:50), Room NE43-518
EECS Special Seminar
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Tuesday, April 9, 2002
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A Lagrange Multiplier Theory for Constrained Optimization . . . Abstract
Asu Ozdaglar-Koksal, MIT
2:00 PM (refreshments 1:45), Grier Room, Room 34-401A
EECS Special Seminar
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Computational Methods for Analyzing and Controlling Hybrid Systems
Claire Tomlin, Professor, Stanford University
4:00 PM (reception following), Room 35-225
LIDS Colloquium
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DSP BASED ON A RESIDUE NUMBER SYSTEM WITH "ONE-HOT" ENCODING or THE CHINESE REMAINDER THEOREM AND YOU . . . Abstract
David Welland, Silicon Laboratories
4:00 PM (refreshments 3:30), Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101
MTL VLSI Seminar
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Wednesday, April 10, 2002
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Photonic Crystals: On the Road from Theory to Practice . . . Abstract
Dr. Steven Johnson, MIT
1:30 PM (refreshments 1:15), RLE Conference Room, 36-428
EECS Special Seminar
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Thursday, April 11, 2002
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Redundant Signal Representations in Digital Signal Processing . . . Abstract
Zoran Cvetkovic, AT&T Shannon Laboratory, Florham Park, NJ
1:00 PM (refreshments 12:45), Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252
EECS Special Seminar
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Information-Hiding Games . . . Abstract . . . Biography
Pierre Moulin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
4:00 PM (reception following), 33-206
LIDS Colloquium
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A Stream Processing Approach to Interactive Graphics on Clusters . . . Abstract . . . Biography
Grigori Humphreys, Stanford University
4:05 PM (refreshments 3:50), Room NE43-518
EECS Special Seminar
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Monday, April 15, 2002
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Patriots Day - Holiday
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Tuesday, April 16, 2002
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No classes
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IC Technology Scaling
Dr. Calvin Chenming Hu, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (TSMC)
4:00 PM (reception following), Grier Room, Room 34-401A
MTL Special Seminar
- Dr.Hu's talk will review scaling limits, give examples of advances in
- technology, and project future scaling trends and their economic impact.
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Wednesday, April 17, 2002
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High-Power Mid-Infrared Semiconductor Lasers
Anish Goyal, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
11:00 AM, Grier Room, Room 34-401B
Optics and Quantum Electronics Seminar
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Congestion Control in Future Large Bandwidth-Delay Product Internet . . . Abstract
Dina Katabi, MIT
4:05 PM (refreshments 3:50), Room NE43-518
EECS Special Seminar
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Thursday, April 18, 2002
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A Signal-Processing Framework for Forward and Inverse Rendering . . . Abstract . . . Biography
Ravi Ramamoorthi, Stanford University
4:05 AM (refreshments 3:50), Room NE43-518
EECS Special Seminar
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Monday, April 22, 2002
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Electromagnetic Analysis and Modeling Techniques for High-Frequency Electronic Systems Design . . . Abstract
Luca Daniel, University of California, Berkeley
3:00 PM (refreshments 2:45), Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252
EECS Special Seminar
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Visibility Fundamentals of Rendering and Beyond . . . Abstract . . . NOTE change in time
Dr. Frédo Durand, MIT LCS
4:05 PM (refreshments 3:50), Room NE43-518
EECS Special Seminar
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Tuesday, April 23, 2002
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Adaptive Transmission for Energy Efficiency in Wireless Data Networks . . . Abstract
Abbas El Gamal, Stanford University
2:30 PM (reception following), 33-116
LIDS Colloquium
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The Linear Programming Approach to Approximate Dynamic Programming: Theory and Application to Web Server Farm Management . . . Abstract
Daniela Pucci de Farias, Stanford University
4:05 PM (refreshments 3:50), Room NE43-518
EECS Special Seminar
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Wednesday, April 24, 2002
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Advances in Blue and Near Ultraviolet Semiconductor Light Emitters
Arto Nurmikko, Brown University
11:00 AM, RLE Conference Room, 36-428
Optics and Quantum Electronics Seminar
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Diversity in Communications: From source coding to wireless networks . . . Abstract
Dr. Suhas Diggavi, AT&T Shannon Labs
1:30 PM (refreshments 1:15), Bush Room, 10-105
EECS Special Seminar
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Disposable Smart Labs-on-a-Chip for Clinical Diagnostics using Microfluidics and BioMEMS Technologies . . . Abstract
Professor Chong H. Ahn, University of Cincinnati
3:00 PM (reception 2:45), Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252
BAMS Seminar
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SEDA: An Architecture for Well-Conditioned, Scalable Internet Services . . . Abstract . . . Biography
Dr. Matt Welsh, UC Berkeley Computer Science Division
4:05 PM (refreshments 3:50), Room NE43-518
EECS Special Seminar
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Thursday, April 25, 2002
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Drop Date
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Superconducting Analog-to-Digital Converter for for Direct Digitization of Microwave Radio . . . Abstract
John Bulzacchelli, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center/M.I.T.
2:00 PM (refreshments 1:45), Bush Room, 10-105
EECS Special Seminar
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Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing for Wireless Communications: the Potential and the Challenges . . . Abstract . . . Biography
Dennis Goeckel, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
4:00 PM (reception following), 35-225
LIDS Colloquium
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Programming with Types . . . Abstract
Stephanie Weirich, Cornell University
4:05 PM (refreshments 3:50), Room NE43-518
EECS Special Seminar
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Monday, April 29, 2002
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Motorola at MIT Day
8:00 AM, Grier Room, Room 34-401A
Microsystems Technology Laboratories
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Masterworks 2002 . . . Session Schedule
3:00 PM (refreshments served), Bldg. 34, Rooms 301, 302, 303, 304
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Tuesday, April 30, 2002
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Distributed Silicon-Based Circuits or: How to Eat Others Lunch. (and get away with it!) . . . Abstract
Ali Hajimiri, California Institute of Technology
2:00 PM (refreshments 1:45), Grier Room, Room 34-401B
EECS Special Seminar
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CMOS Scaling: Engineering Challenges and Physical Roadblocks . . . Abstract
Chris Bowen
4:00 PM (refreshments 3:30), Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101
MTL VLSI Seminar
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Ten Simple Rules for Mathematical Writing . . . Abstract . . . Biography
Dimitri Bertsekas, M.I.T.
4:00 PM (reception following), Room 35-225
LIDS Colloquium
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Thursday, May 2, 2002
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What have we learnt from evolutionary game theory . . . Abstract
Abhijit Banerjee, M.I.T.
4:15 PM (reception following), 35-225
LIDS Colloquium
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Tuesday, May 7, 2002
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Genome Annotation & Protein Structure . . . Abstract . . . Biography
Steven E. Brenner, U.C. Berkeley
4:00 PM (reception following), Room 35-225
LIDS Colloquium
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Design of Clock Distribution in High Performance Processors
Ian Young, Intel Corporation
4:00 PM (reception 3:30), Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101
MTL VLSI Seminar
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Wednesday, May 8, 2002
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Coherent Control of Light: Optical Clock, Optical Frequency Synthesizer and Optical Pulse Synthesis
Jun Ye, JILA University of Colorado and NIST
11:00 AM, RLE Conference Room, 36-428
Optics and Quantum Electronics Seminar
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Thursday, May 9, 2002
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Mobile Wireless towards Enhanced and Beyond 3G . . . Abstract . . . Biography
Dr. Mun Geon Kyeong, ETRI
2:00 PM, 35-338
EECS Special Seminar
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Tuesday, May 14, 2002
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Enabling Adaptive Transmission for Mobile Radio Channels . . . Abstract . . . Biography
Alexandra Duel-Hallen, North Carolina State University
3:00 PM (reception following), Room 35-225
LIDS Colloquium
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Driving CMOS Technology toward 10nm Transistor Gate Length . . . Abstract
Ming-Ren Lin, Advanced Micro Devices
4:00 PM (reception 3:30), Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101
MTL VLSI Seminar
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Wednesday, May 15, 2002
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Explaining Changes in Gene Expression With Molecular Interaction Networks . . . Abstract
Dr. Trey Ideker, Whitehead Institute
4:05 PM (refreshments 3:50), Room NE43-518
EECS Colloquium
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Thursday, May 16, 2002
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Last day of classes
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Monday, May 20, 2002 - Friday, May 24, 2002
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Final Exam Week
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Monday, May 20, 2002
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Digital Paper for Reflective Displays . . . Abstract
Mark Miles, Co-Founder and CTO, Iridigm Display Corporation
4:00 PM (refreshments 3:45), Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101
BAMS Seminar
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Friday, June 7, 2002
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Commencement
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