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Contact the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Thursday, September 5, 2013 — 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM EDT
Speaker
Professor Roger Howe
Title
Vacuum Nano-Systems for Energy Conversion
Thursday, September 5, 2013 — 10:30 AM EDT
Speaker
Professor Sorina Dumitrescu
McMaster University
Title
Bit-error Resilient Index Assignments for Multiple Description Scalar Quantizers
Thursday, September 26, 2013 — 3:00 PM EDT
Speaker
Professor Takayoshi Yokota
Department of Information and Electronics
Graduate School of Engineering
Tottori University
Japan
Title
The Traffic Network Analysis Based on GPS Probe Data by a New Map Matching Algorithm and a Sensor Fusion Algorithm for Road Network Data Acquisition
Monday, September 23, 2013 — 2:30 PM EDT
Candidate
Zhao Ren
Title
Microwave Near-Field Probes to Detect Electrically Small Particles
Friday, September 20, 2013 — 1:30 PM EDT
Candidate
Seyedeh Elham Akhavan Rezai
Topic
Grid-able Plug in Electric Vehicles in Smart Grids: Challenges, Impacts, and Benefits
Supervisors
Friday, September 20, 2013 — 9:00 AM EDT
Candidate
Amin Olah Eftekharian
Title
Plasmonic Superconducting Single Photon Detector
Thursday, September 19, 2013 — 10:00 AM EDT
Candidate
Amin Olah Eftekharian
Title
Plasmonic Superconducting Single Photon Detector
Wednesday, September 18, 2013 — 2:00 PM EDT
Candidate
Gaurav Jain
Title
ReserveTM: Optimizing for Eager Software Transactional Memory
Tuesday, September 17, 2013 — 11:30 AM EDT
Speaker
Rohit Verma
Title
Local Binary Pattern Approach for Fast Block Based Motion Estimation
Monday, September 16, 2013 — 2:00 PM EDT
Candidate
Zhao Ren
Title
Microwave Near-Field Probes to Detect Electrically Small Particles
Monday, September 16, 2013 — 2:00 PM EDT
Speaker
Professor Marco Pavone
Stanford University
Title
Fast Marching Trees: a Fast Marching Sampling-Based Method for Optimal Motion Planning in Many Dimensions
Monday, September 16, 2013 — 11:00 AM EDT
Speaker
Masoumeh Dadjou
Title
Analysis and Design of Clock-glitch Fault Injection within a FPGA
Friday, September 13, 2013 — 2:00 PM EDT
Speaker
Professor Mac Schwager
Boston University
Title
Optimal Sensing of Dynamic Environments with Multiple Robots
Thursday, September 12, 2013 — 3:00 PM EDT
Speaker
Professor Raj Mittra
Electrical Engineering Department
Pennsylvania State University
Title
New Challenges in Electromagnetic Communications: Antenna Design, High-speed Data Transfer and Energy Harvesting
Thursday, September 12, 2013 — 2:00 PM EDT
Speaker
Professor Xiupu Zhang
Concordia University
Title
InP Quantum Dot Semiconductor Lasers
Abstract
InP quantum dot (QD) lasers are emerging. This presentation reviews InP QD lasers, including muti-wavelength lasers, coherent frequency comb, DFB single-mode lasers, and mode-locked lasers, accomplished by NRC and Concordia.
Thursday, September 12, 2013 — 10:45 AM EDT
Speakers
Keith Concessao
Strategic Account Manager – Electronic Measurement Group
Agilent Technologies
Jean-Marc Moreau
Senior RF and Microwave Application Engineer - Electronic Measurement Group
Agilent Technologies
Abstract
Measurement and discovery go hand in hand. The two have always been linked, from mankind’s earliest discoveries to today’s innovations in electronics, biological science and alternative energy.
Thursday, September 12, 2013 — 9:30 AM EDT
Candidate
Seyed Ghasem Razavipour
Title
Design, Analysis, and Characterization of Indirectly-Pumped Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers
Thursday, September 12, 2013 — 9:00 AM EDT
Speaker
Daniel Janse van Rensburg
Sales & Marketing Manager
Nearfield Systems Inc.
Title
An Overview of Near-Field Test Technology
Wednesday, September 11, 2013 — 9:30 AM EDT
Speaker
Behzad Esfandiarpour
Title
Integration of Nanoscale Structures for Spherical Silicon Photovoltaics
Wednesday, September 11, 2013 — 9:00 AM EDT
Speaker
Philip James McCarthy
Title
Cardinality Constrained Robust Optimization Applied to a Class of Interval Observers
Tuesday, September 10, 2013 — 4:30 PM EDT
Speaker
Saman Nasirahmadi
Title
Lossy Filter Synthesis
Monday, September 9, 2013 — 11:00 AM EDT
Speaker
Deepak Kumar
Title
Runtime Verification with Controllable Time Predictability and Memory Utilization
Monday, September 9, 2013 — 10:00 AM EDT
Candidate
Alireza Tari
Topic
Effect of Mechanical Strain and Constant bias Stress on the performance of Flexible a-IGZO TFTs
Supervisor
William Wong
All are welcome.
Friday, September 6, 2013 — 10:00 AM EDT
Speaker
Seyed Ghasem Razavipour
Title
Design, Analysis, and Characterization of Indirectly-pumped Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers
Friday, September 6, 2013 — 9:04 AM EDT
Speaker
Fatma Kiraz
Title
Distance Measurement Based Cooperative Source Localization: A Convex Range Free Approach