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EE 500 Colloquia Series

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This year we have changed the structure of the EE500 Colloquia series.

  • There will be three "Distinguished Lectures," each representing one of the major areas of the EE Department.

                Dr. Robert A. Soni, Alcatel-Lucent Technologies, Inc. (3/27/08)
                Dr. Ralph Cicerone, President of The National Academy of Sciences (05/02/08)
                
          

  • Each registered student in EE500 is required to attend at least two of the Distinguished Lectures, and we encourage all students to attend all three if possible. The Distinguished Lectures will be presented by high profile external speakers and distributed throughout the semester. In addition, each of the three departmental Area Committees will organize a minimum of six area-based colloquia, for which the speakers will be a combination of internal speakers from Penn State, and speakers visiting from other institutions. The three Area Committees who are organizing the area-based seminars are the Communications, Control, Circuits, and Signal Processing (SS) Area, the Electronic and Optical Materials and Devices (EOMD) Area, and the E&M, Remote Sensing, and Space Sciences (EMRSSS) Area.
  • Area 1: Signals and Systems
        Prof. John Doherty, Area Chair
        Prof. Ken Jenkins, Seminar Series Organizer
        Subareas: Communications, Control, Circuits, Power, and Signal Processing
        Colloquia will be held in room EE225 West on Thursdays at 4:15 p.m. (alternate weeks)

    Area 2: Materials and Devices
        Prof. Stuart Yin, Area Chair
        Prof. Zhiwen Liu, Seminar Series Organizer
        Subareas: Optical Materials and Devices, Electronic Materials and Devices
        Colloquia will be held in room EE225 West on Thursdays at 4:15 p.m. (alternate weeks)

    Area 3: Electromagnetics, Remote Sensing, and Space Sciences
        Prof. Kultegin Aydin, Area Chair
        Prof. Raj Mittra, Seminar Series Organizer     Colloquia will be held in room EE225 West on Tuesdays at 4:00 p.m.

  • The EMRSSS seminars will be held at 4:00 on Tuesdays, whereas the EEOMD and SS seminars will share time at 4:15 p.m. on Thursdays. Overall registered students must attend two of the distinguished Lectures and nine area seminars that may be selected from areas of the student's choosing.
  • Brief written reports will be submitted to the EE590 Colloquium webpage, where the title of the seminar and the corresponding speaker must be clearly identified.


  • Please note that the EMRSSS, SS and EEOMD seminars will not begin until the second week of classes. We hope this new structure will provide increased flexibility so students can spend more time learning about their areas of primary interest.

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    Colloquia Schedule

    The table below lists the tentative speakers for each week.  The questionnaire can be found by following this link.

     
    Week Day Location  Area Speaker Colloquium Title
    Week 1
     
       
    No Colloquium
     
    Week 2 Tues-Jan 22 225 EEW EMRSSS Dr. Eugene Clothiaux, Department of Meteorology "Clouds: Why They Are So Important Yet So Difficult to Quantify?"
    Week 2 Thurs-Jan 24 225 EEW Signals & Systems Dr. Vijay Narayanan, Department of Computer Science & Engineering “Mitigating the Effects of Aging, Variations and Transient Errors in Semiconductor Chips”
    Week 3 Tues-Jan 29 225 EEW EMRSSS & Materials & Devices
    Combined Seminar
    Dr. Kevin J. Webb, Purdue University "Subwavelength Control of Light"
    Week 3 Thurs-Jan 31 225 EEW   No Colloquium  
    Week 4 Tues-Feb 5 225 EEW EMRSSS No Colloquium  
    Week 4 Thurs-Feb 7 225 EEW Signals & Systems Dr. Ji-Woong Lee “Constrained Optimal Control via Semidefinite Programming”
    Week 5 Tues-Feb 12 225 EEW EMRSSS Dr. James Rautio, Sonnet Software "The Life of James Clerk Maxwell"
    Week 5 Thurs-Feb 14 225 EEW Materials & Devices Dr. Russell Philbrick “Evolution of LIDAR: Techniques and Applications”
    Week 6 Tues-Feb 19 225 EEW EMRSSS Dr. Nick Buris, Motorola  
    Week 6 Thurs-Feb 21 225 EEW Signals & Systems Dr. Jeffrey J. Weinschenk, Applied Research Laboratory “Avoidance of Rule Explosion in Fuzzy Inference Systems”
    Week 7 Tues-Feb 26 225 EEW EMRSSS No Colloquium  
    Week 7 Thurs-Feb 28 225 EEW Materials & Devices Dr. Jerzy Ruzyllo "Semiconductor Surface Processing Challenges Beyond Planar Silicon Technology"
    Week 8 Tues-Mar 4 225 EEW EMRSSS Dr. Lars Dyrud, Center for Remote Sensing “Using a Software GPS Receiver to Improve Ionospheric Characterization”
    Week 8 Thurs-Mar 6 225 EEW Signals & Systems Dr. W. K. Jenkins “A Common Mathematical Framework for Synthetic Aperture Radar and Computer-aided Tomography Imaging Methods”
      Tues-Mar 11 225 EEW EMRSSS No Colloquium - Spring Break  
      Thurs-Mar 13 225 EEW Materials & Devices No Colloquium - Spring Break  
    Week 9 Tues-Mar 18 225 EEW EMRSSS Jérémy Riousset "Upward Electrical Discharges from Thunderstorms"
    Week 9 Thurs-Mar 20 225 EEW Materials & Devices Dr. Suman Datta "The Logic Transistor"
    Week 10 Tues-Mar 25 225 EEW EMRSSS Dr. Joseph R. Guerci "Radar Horizons"
    Week 10 Thurs-Mar 27 225 EEW Signals & Systems Dr. Robert A. Soni, Alcatel-Lucent Technologies, Inc. "4G Cellular Communication - Is it really better than 3G? "
    Week 11 Tues-Apr 1 225 EEW EMRSSS Dr. James Breakall “Nikola Tesla (1856 - 2006): 150 Years of One of the Greatest Electrical Engineers and Inventors”
    Week 11 Thurs-Apr 3 225 EEW Materials & Devices Dr. Yong Xu, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech “From Nanoprobes to Symmetry Enforced Quantum Entanglement”
    Week 12 Tues-Apr 8 225 EEW EMRSSS Khalid Rajab "Propagation Of Electromagnetic Waves Through Composite Media"
    Week 12 Thurs-Apr 10(rescheduled to Weds-Apr 16) 123 EEE Materials & Devices Gary W. Kamerman, Chief Scientist for FastMetrix, Inc "Emerging Technology for Commercial Laser Radar Applications"
    Week 13 Tues-Apr 15 225 EEW EMRSSS Kit Ma “Implementation of Parallelized Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) Algorithm and its Application to the Modeling of Metamaterials”
    Week 13 Thurs-Apr 17 (1:30 PM) 101 EEE Materials & Devices Arthur J. Sedlacek, III, Atmospheric Sciences Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory "Aerosol Radiative Forcing: Reducing Aerosol Absorption Uncertainty through Photothermal Interferometry (PTI)"
    Week 14 Tues-Apr 22 225 EEW EMRSSS Dr. David Chang, Chancelor of PINY "Globalization and Its Curriculum Implications in Engineering Education"
    Week 14 Thurs-Apr 24 225 EEW Signals & Systems Dr. Nirmal K. Bose “Modern Computational Imaging System for Complex Tasks”
    Week 15 Tues-Apr 29 225 EEW Materials & Devices    
    Week 15 Fri-May 2 101 EEE (2:300 PM) EMRSSS Dr. Ralph Cicerone, President of The National Academy of Sciences "Global Climate Change"
    Week 15 Fri-May 2 104 Keller (8:00 PM) EMRSSS Dr. Ralph Cicerone, President of The National Academy of Sciences (Waynick Lecture) "Global Climate Change: Human Causes and Responses"







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