EE Seminars

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Past Seminars

Dr. Michael Joham -- October 30, 2009, 3:00PM
Linear Precoding for the MIMO BC Duality and Asymptotic Results

The key for solving the multiple-input multiple output broadcast channel (MIMO BC) capacity...

Dr. Rudolf Rabenstein -- October 26, 2009, 1:30PM
Digital Sound Synthesis by Physical Modeling of Musical Instruments

Computer generated sounds have started out from dedicated digital musical instruments in the...

Dr. Francesco Borrelli -- October 12, 2009, 11:00AM
Real-time Predictive Control for Hybrid Systems

Hybrid systems are heterogeneous systems that exhibit both continuous and discrete dynamics...

Dr. Serdar Yuksel -- October 02, 2009, 3:00PM
Optimal Control with Information Constraints:
Centralized and Decentralized Settings

We first present a new stochastic stability result for Markov Chains and apply this result to...

Dr. Sanjay Shakkottai -- September 25, 2009, 3:00PM
Scheduling Over Wireless Networks With Delayed Network State Information

We study the problem of scheduling/routing over a mobile ad hoc wireless network (MANET)...

Dr. Geir Dullerud -- April 30, 2009, 3:00PM
CONTROL OVER GRAPHS, LIMITED BANDWIDTH, AND SWITCHED SYSTEMS

The future of embedded and robotic systems, as currently envisioned, involves light weight...

Dr. TIMOTHY SANDS -- April 22, 2009, 2:00PM
Metal/Semiconductor Superlattices:
Thermoelectric Metamaterials for Solid-State Energy Conversion

Thermoelectric (TE) generators have been used in niche applications, such as deep-space probes...

Dr. Josef Nossek -- April 02, 2009, 12:30PM
Does Circuit Theory play any role in Communication Theory?

Do communication and information engineers get the physics right in their models? Do the...

Dr. Paulo Tabuada -- March 23, 2009, 1:30PM
Event-triggered and self-triggred real-time control

Control task have been traditionally treated as periodic for the purposes of real-time...

Dr. Paulo Tabuada -- March 23, 2009, 1:30PM
Event-triggered and self-triggred real-time control

Control task have been traditionally treated as periodic for the purposes of real-time...

Dr. Guoxin Zheng -- December 10, 2008, 1:30PM
Wireless Communications Applied to Urban Transit Systems

At first, the speaking will present an overview and recent advances in urban transit...

Dr. Weidong Xiang -- December 10, 2008, 2:15PM
Recent Advances in Wireless Access for Vehicular Environments (WAVE) Technology

Wireless access in vehicular environments (WAVE) technology comes into sight as a state-of-the-

Mr. Kerry Bernstein -- November 10, 2008, 1:00PM
New Dimensions in Computing:
Harnessing 3D Integration

Despite generation on generation of scaling, computer chips
have remained essentially 2-dim

Dr. Glenn D. Boreman -- November 06, 2008, 11:00AM
Infrared Antennas

Radiofrequency components such as antennas, transmission lines, phased arrays, frequency-select

Dr. Marian Iordache -- October 20, 2008, 2:00PM
Concurrent Programming and Supervisory Control of DES

The emergence of multi-core microprocessors has stimulated the development of tools that can...

Dr. Wenyi Zhang -- October 14, 2008, 3:00PM
A Spectrum-Shaping Perspective on Cognitive Radio

A new perspective on cognitive radio is presented, where the pre-existent legacy service is...

Dr. John Suehle -- May 21, 2008, 11:00AM
Current Noise as a Tool for the Electrical and Reliability Characterization of Nanoelectronic Materials and Devices

Nanoelectronic devices based upon self-assembled semiconductor nanowires are excellent...

Dr. Josef Nossek -- April 04, 2008, 3:00PM
Feedback or No Feedback, that is the Question

We consider the problem of how to partition the available bandwidth of a class of...

Dr. Yasser Abdelaziez -- April 04, 2008, 3:30PM
Microsystems’ Infrastructure Applications, Design, and Characterization

Over the past two decades, semiconductor miniaturization technologies have advanced rapidly...

Dr. KIMON VALAVANIS -- March 28, 2008, 2:00PM
Unmanned Aerial and Ground Vehicle Systems:
On Controller Design, and Swarm Formation Control

When dealing with teams of heterogeneous unmanned aerial-ground vehicles operating in unison...

Dr. Roger Whatmore -- March 17, 2008, 2:00PM
FROM ATOMS TO SYSTEMS

The Tyndall National Institute was established in 2004 with the objective of providing Ireland...

Dr. Xinmiao Zhang -- March 12, 2008, 2:00PM
VLSI Architecture Design for Algebraic Soft-decision Reed-Solomon Decoding

Reed-Solomon (RS) codes are among the most extensively used error-correcting codes in digital...

Dr. Steven Weber -- February 22, 2008, 2:00PM
Uncoordinated Ad Hoc Networks:
Transmission Capacity and its Applications

Although extensive attention is given to efficient and optimal resource allocation in ad hoc...

Dr. Kenneth Laberteaux -- September 17, 2007, 3:00PM
Information-Rich Vehicular Safety System

The convergence of control, communications, and computation is profoundly impacting the future...

Michael Chertkov -- May 18, 2007, 3:30PM
Loop Calculus for Graphical Models of Statistical Inference

Loop Calculus introduced in [Chertkov, Chernyak '06] constitutes a new theoretical tool that...

Dr. Farhan Rana -- May 17, 2007, 11:00AM
High Speed Integrated Optoelectronic and Terahertz Devices

The talk will present experimental and theoretical results on ultra high speed semiconductor...

Sergio Sevetto -- May 09, 2007, 3:00PM
Bringing the Network Into The Loop

We take the point of view that a network of sensors and actuators is a distributed A/D and D/A...

Dongning Guo -- May 08, 2007, 2:00PM
Random Sparse Linear Systems in Noise:
Information Measures and Statistical Inference

We study both the information theoretic aspect and the statistical inference aspect of random...

Dr. Kiyoshi Asakawa -- April 23, 2007, 2:00PM
Photonic Crystals and Quantum Dots for Integrated All-Optical Flip-Flop Device (PC-FF)

Two kinds of nano-photonic technologies, i.e., GaAs-based two dimensional photonic crystal (2DP

Dr. Vijay Gupta -- March 29, 2007, 11:00AM
Countering Communication Channel Effects in Networked Control Systems

Rapid advances in information processing, communication and sensing technologies have enabled...

Dr. Gurdal Arslan -- March 26, 2007, 11:00AM
Design of Cooperative Systems

We will overview some of the recent developments in the design of cooperative (multi-agent)...

Dr. Grace Huili Xing -- March 23, 2007, 3:00PM
NOVA Program

Come and join us in watching this NOVA program (2 hour long movie and free) and sharing what...

Dr. Janet Pan -- March 19, 2007, 12:30PM
High-brightness, high-efficiency light-emission from self-assembled nanoscale deep-centers in GaAs for high-speed 1.5µm fiber-optics

Bernard-Duraffourg’s condition for semiconductor laser action requires that emission exceed...

Mr. Nafees Kabir -- March 19, 2007, 2:00PM
Terahertz Time Domain Spectroscopy and Design of Terahertz Detector

There has recently been a surge in interest in exploiting the terahertz (THz) frequency range (

SEMINAR CANCELED -- February 28, 2007, 11:30AM
Approximation Algorithms in Stochastic Control

A wide variety of stochastic control problems, particularly problems involving control of...

Dr. Ricardo Sanfelice -- February 21, 2007, 2:00PM
Robust Hybrid Control Systems

Driven by recent technological advances, hybrid dynamical systems have become prevalent when...

Dr. Kevin Tang -- February 13, 2007, 10:00AM
Internet Congestion Control:
Equilibrium and Dynamics

Given the important role the Internet plays in our society, a fundamental understanding of how...

Dr. Chris Mack -- December 01, 2006, 3:00PM
The Future of Semiconductor Lithography:
A Discussion of Research Opportunities

Optical lithography has been the mainstay of semiconductor patterning since the early days of...

Dr. Maja Remskar -- November 16, 2006, 3:30PM
The W5O14 nanowires as precursors for WS2 nanotubes

The Magneli phases are homologous series of quite stoichiometric phases of transition metal...

Dr. Grace Huili Xing -- November 10, 2006, 3:30PM
Einstein's Big Idea - The story behind the world's most famous equation, E=mc2

Newton, Faraday, du Chatelet, Madame and Monsieur Lavoisier, Planck, Einstein, Meitner ... how...

Dr. Chris Mack -- November 01, 2006, 10:30AM
Data Analysis and Modeling in the Real World

Standard undergraduate treatments of data analysis and modeling include important basic ideas...

Dr. Behnaan Aazhang -- October 20, 2006, 2:00PM
Cooperative Communication where Network meets the Channel

Within the last ten years, there has been a cultural shift from wired landlocked connectivity...

Dr. Christopher Jones -- October 09, 2006, 2:00PM
Constructing and Evaluating (LDPC) Codes with Relatively Low Error Floors

Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) Codes are good candidates for various power constrained...

Dr. Stephen Bates -- October 09, 2006, 4:00PM
Decoders for LDPC-CCs with Long Memory

Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes are becoming the FEC of choice in many emerging...

Dr. Roberto Tempo -- October 05, 2006, 3:00PM
Randomized Algorithms for Systems and Control

he methodology of randomized algorithms is a powerful tool systematically utilized in various...

Dr. Joao Barros -- September 26, 2006, 2:00PM
Coding Strategies for Sensor Networks and Wireless Security

In this two-part talk, we consider first the problem of separate encoding and joint decoding...

Dr. Zoltan Toroczkai -- September 18, 2006, 3:30PM
Gradient Networks: from Queuing to Protein Folding

In this talk I will introduce the notion of gradient networks, which are induced by local...

Dr. Todd Coleman -- September 15, 2006, 2:00PM
Network Information Theory and Computational Neuroscience

This talk discusses two topics. First, we consider a network information theory problem of...

Dr. Ian Blake -- September 08, 2006, 3:30PM
Coding for the Binary Erasure Channel

Recent interest in the iterative decoding of block codes has arisen largely out of three...

Dr. Gil Shamir -- June 20, 2006, 2:00PM
Non-Systematic LDPC Codes for Redundant Data

Non-systematic channel encoding can be superior to systematic encoding in the presence of...

Dr. Joerg Appenzeller -- May 30, 2006, 10:15AM
Logic Devices and Circuits on Carbon Nanotubes

Over the last years carbon nanotubes (CNs) have attracted an increasing interest as building...

Dr. Kamal Premaratne -- May 18, 2006, 3:30PM
Handling Data Imperfections in Rule Mining and Classification

The management of imprecision and uncertainty in databases has become increasingly important...

Dr. Christian Fischer -- May 08, 2006, 2:00PM
Load in CDMA cellular systems and its relation to the Perron Root

It is a well known result in CDMA communications theory that the feasibility of the power...

Dr. Daniela Tuninetti -- May 08, 2006, 2:45PM
On optimal intermediate processing in multi-hop relay networks

Communication systems today are organized in large scale packet networks, with Internet the...

Dr. Aaron Wagner -- April 27, 2006, 2:00PM
Rate Region of the Quadratic Gaussian Two-Encoder Source-Coding Problem

The celebrated theorem of Slepian and Wolf describes the rates needed in order for separate...

Dr. Anish Arora -- January 20, 2006, 1:30PM
On spatial scaling in sensor networks

This talk presents some approaches for spatial scaling of wireless sensor networks that were...

Tom Pratt -- January 19, 2006, 2:00PM
Multiple-Antenna Architectures for Non-LOS Communications

The performance of multiple-antenna architectures in co-channel interference is compared...

S.D. Walck -- January 09, 2006, 09:30AM
THE SMALL ANGLE CLEAVAGE TECHNIQUE FOR XTEM SAMPLE PREPARATION:
AN UPDATE

The Small Angle Cleavage Technique (SACT) is a relatively simple and inexpensive method of...

Dr. Robert McGough -- November 17, 2005, 2:00PM
Computer modeling of hybrid RF/US phased array systems designed for local-regional hyperthermia in the intact breast

Simulation studies of hyperthermia as an adjuvant treatment for locally advanced breast cancer...

Yasamin Mostofi -- November 02, 2005, 2:00PM
Integration of Communication and Control for Delay-Sensitive Wireless Sensor Networks

Abundance of cheap embedded units equipped with sensing, processing, communication & actuation...

Patrick B. Shea -- October 28, 2005, 3:00PM
Organic Transistors

Organic thin-film field-effect transistors (OFETs) present several technological advantages as...

Dr. Pascal Vontobel -- October 26, 2005, 2:00PM
An Explicit Construction of Universally Decodable Matrices for Space-Time Coding

Consider data transmission over a q-ary erasure channel using a block code of length n' and...

Dr. Lars-Erik Wernerrson -- September 12, 2005, 10:45AM
New Approaches for InAs-Based Devices

High mobility and low specific contact resistance makes InAs attractive for high-speed and low-

Arvydas Matulionis -- August 03, 2005, 2:00PM
High-field transport in nitride channels:
a hot-phonon bottleneck

Non-equilibrium longitudinal optical (LO) phonons (emitted by hot electrons and termed hot...

Dr. Carl-Erik W. Sundberg -- August 02, 2005, 1:00PM
Digital Audio Broadcasting and 4G Cellular Confergence

The move to digital is a natural progression taking place in all aspects of communications and...

Anthony Kuh -- July 07, 2005, 3:00PM
Kernel Methods, Sparsity, and On-line Learning

This talk discusses kernel methods and applications with a focus on the least squares support...

Stephen Bates -- April 21, 2005, 2:45PM
VLSI Implementations of Low-Density Parity-Check Convolutional Circuits

Low-Density Parity-Check Block Codes (LDPC-BCs) are becoming the Forward Error Correction (FEC)

Alex Zaslavsky -- March 29, 2005, 12:30PM
Quantum device opportunities in ultrathin silicon-on-insulator

Silicon-on-insulator (SOI) transistors built in thin fully-depleted Si channels on top of an...

Andrew Eckford -- March 22, 2005, 2:00PM
LDPC Codes for Source Coding:
A Review and Recent Results

Although the power of LDPC codes in channel coding has been recognized for nearly a decade...

Xiang Li -- February 22, 2005, 12:30PM
GaAs MOSFET with wet-thermally oxidized InAlP as gate dielectric

Dr. Orlando Auciello -- February 15, 2005, 12:30PM
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF ULTRANANOCRYSTALLINE DIAMOND (UNCD) FILMS FOR BIOMEDICAL DEVICES AND BIOSE

A discussion will be presented on the science and technology of UNCD thin films and...

Francesca Vatta -- February 15, 2005, 03:00AM
Design of Serially Concatenated Codes Using Non-systematic Feedback Convolutional Encoders

In this talk, we address the design of serially concatenated codes using non-systematic...

Qing Zhang -- February 01, 2005, 12:30PM
Tunnel transistors - can they beat the MOSFET subthreshold-swing-limit of 60mV/decade?

In a field-effect transistor, the minimum voltage swing needed to turn a transistor from on to...

Joseph Sifakis -- January 20, 2005, 03:00AM
Modeling Real-time Systems

Modeling real-time systems raises non-trivial problems for the definition of usable modeling...

Randall Feenstra -- January 18, 2005, 12:30PM
Growth and Surface Characterization of Gallium Nitride Films

Over the past decade there has been considerable research in the application of the wide...

Terry Burcham -- January 17, 2005, 01:30AM
Minimizing S-parameter Measurement Uncertainties in RF Probing Systems

Tamás Roska -- January 14, 2005, 01:30AM
Cellular Wave Computing:
Diverse Physical Implementations & Algorithmic Advances

A new type of computer is characterized by their data, as image flows, and by their...

Ph.D. J. V. Martinez de Pinillos -- November 17, 2004, 01:00AM
Semiconductor Metrology Programs at NIST

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), formerly known as the National...

Dr. Joerg Kliewer -- July 06, 2004, 11:00AM
Joint Source-Channel Decoding for Reliable Transmission of Multimedia Signals

Joint source-channel coding has recently emerged as a good alternative to the strict...

Michael Manfra -- April 20, 2004, 12:30PM
MBE Growth and Quantum Transport of Gate Tunable High Mobility AlGaN/GaN Heterostructures

The study of high power/high frequency electronic devices fabricated from AlGaN/GaN...

Dr. Peter Schreier -- March 16, 2004, 3:00PM
Improper Complex Random Processes in Signal Processing and Communications

Complex random signals are a widely used tool in communications, optics, electromagnetics...

Dr. Kevin Warwick -- February 19, 2004, 3:30PM
Cyborg Engineering: Practical Experiments

The speaker has created a stir by his vision of the future that involves robotics, artificial...

Dr. Ruediger Urbanke -- October 10, 2003, 03:00AM
Finite-Length Scaling Laws for Iterative Coding

It has been observed (empirically) in the realm of statistical physics that whenever a system...

Dr. Hongqi Xu -- June 15, 2003, 03:00AM
Three-Terminal Ballistic Junctions:
New Building Blocks For Functional Devices in Nanoelectronics

In this talk, I will review the recent development on a novel type of room-temperature...