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Friday, June 27, 2014 — 11:00 AM EDT
Candidate
Akash Raghurajan
Thesis Title
Optimal Demand Response of Controllable Loads in Isolated Microgrids
Supervisors
Kankar Bhattacharya and Claudio Canizares
Thursday, June 26, 2014 — 2:00 PM EDT
Speaker
Professor Marcos Eduardo Orchard Concha
Topic
Lithium-Ion Battery Management Systems: State-of-Charge Prognosis and Degradation Monitoring
Thursday, June 26, 2014 — 12:30 PM EDT
Candidate
Haytham Aly Atteya Mohamed
Title
Zonal Energy Management and Optimization Systems for Smart Grid Applications
Supervisors
Magdy Salama and Ramadan El-Shatshat
Thursday, June 26, 2014 — 11:30 AM EDT
Candidate
Ahmed Samir Ahmed Awad
Title
Application of Energy Storage Systems in Smart Grids
Supervisors
Magdy Salama and Tarek El-Fouly (Adjunct)
Wednesday, June 25, 2014 — 11:00 AM EDT
Speaker
Professor Ramy El-Ganainy
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics
Michigan Technological University
Topic
On-Chip Optical Isolators
Abstract
One of the fundamental issues in laser engineering is protection against reflection from output light. This task is achieved by using optical isolators which are devices that allow only uni-directional light propagation. Currently, the operation of commercial isolators is based on Faraday rotation and thus requires large magnetic fields and bulky magnets.
Tuesday, June 24, 2014 — 10:00 AM EDT
Candidate
Ahmed Gad
Title
A Study of Electrode Material Performance During Food Processing by Pulsed Electric Fields
Supervisor
Sheshakamal Jayaram
Friday, June 20, 2014 — 10:00 AM EDT
Candidate
Kuan Zhang
Topic
Exploiting Mobile Social Networks From Privacy and Security Perspectives
Supervisor
Sherman Shen
Thursday, June 19, 2014 — 9:30 AM EDT
Candidate
Bo Wang
Topic
CO-OFDM Elastic Optical Networks-Issues on Transmission, Routing, and Bandwidth Allocation
Supervisor
Pin-Han Ho
Thursday, June 12, 2014 — 11:00 AM EDT
Speaker
Dr. John R. Long
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Topic
Circuit and System Design for Millimetre and Submillimetre- Wave Applications, with a View to Mining the Terahertz Gap
Wednesday, June 11, 2014 — 11:00 AM EDT
Speaker
Dr. David Lie
Topic
Using Static Analysis and Machine Learning to Improve the Security and Configuration Management of Systems
Wednesday, June 11, 2014 — 10:00 AM EDT
Candidate
MohammadSadegh Faraji-Dana
Title
Miniaturized Phase-Shifters for Ka-Band Phased Array Antennas
Supervisor
Tuesday, June 10, 2014 — 1:30 PM EDT
Candidate
Hojatollah Yeganeh
Title
Cross dynamic range cross resolution Image Quality Assessment with Applications
Supervisor
Friday, June 6, 2014 — 1:30 PM EDT
Speaker
Dr. Vince Weaver
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Maine
Topic
Tracking the sources of Performance Measurement Variation
Abstract
For years computer software developers depended on "Moore's Law" (yearly increases in processor speed) to boost the performance of their programs. This is starting to change as hardware designers hit fundamental physical laws that have slowed the speed increases.