Distinguished Lecturer Series

Fall 2006 & Spring 2007 Lecturers

• October 5, 2006 -  5:30-6:30pm
  Rico Malvar, Director of Microsoft Research
  “Recent Advances in Digital Processing of Images and Audio”
  http://research.microsoft.com/~malvar/
  Host: Sanjit Mitra
• November 16, 2006 - 2:00-3:00pm
  Sadik Esener, Professor at UC, San Diego
  "Photons in the Bio-Nanotech Era"
  http://circuit.ucsd.edu/~sadik/
  Host: Sandy Sawchuk
• January 25, 2007 - 2:00-3:00pm
  John Hayes, Professor at the University of Michigan
  "Handling Transient Errors in Logic Circuits"
  http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~jhayes/  
  Host: Mel Breuer/ Sandeep Gupta 
• February 13, 2007 - 4:00-5:00pm
  Kwabe Boahen, Associate Professor at Stanford
  “The Technology behind Neurogrid”
  http://bioengineering.stanford.edu/faculty/boahen.html  
  Host: Alice Parker 
• April 4, 2007 - 2:00-3:00pm
  Evelyn Hu, Professor at UC, Santa Barbara
  "Thinking Inside the Box: Quantum Dots Tuned to Photonic Crystal Cavities"
  http://www.engineering.ucsb.edu/faculty/profile/207
  Host: Daniel Dapkus