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MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Department Events, Fall 2001 |
Thursday, July 5, 2001
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EECS Special Seminar
Grier Room, Room 34-401B, 1:30 PM (refreshments 1:15)
Dr. Marvin Sambur,
President and CEO of ITT Defense
A Functional Decomposition Approach to Design and Development
Tuesday, September 11, 2001
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MTL VLSI Seminar
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (refreshments 3:30)
Thomas Jackson,
Pennsylvania State University
Organic Thin Film Electronics
Tuesday, September 11, 2001
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LIDS Colloquium
37-212, 4:00 PM (reception following)
Michael Mitzenmacher,
Professor, Harvard University
Getting Across Town by Bus
Tuesday, September 18, 2001
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LIDS Colloquium
37-212, 4:00 PM (reception following)
P.R. Kumar,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Ad hoc wireless networks: Analysis, protocols, architecture, and convergence
Wednesday, September 19, 2001
Nanostructures Seminar
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (refreshments 3:45)
Professor Christine Ortiz,
Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering
Nanomechanics of Cartilage: Measurement of Glycosaminoglycan Intermolecular Interactions Via High Resolution Force Spectroscopy
Wednesday, September 19, 2001
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Theory of Computation Seminar
Room NE43-518, 4:15 PM (refreshments 4:00)
Idit Keidar,
MIT and Technion
A Simple Proof of the Uniform Consensus Lower Bound
Monday, September 24, 2001
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EECS Colloquium
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (refreshments 3:45)
Andrew C. Kadak,
Prof. of the Practice of Nuclear Engineering, MIT, President, Kadak Associates
The Politically Correct Nuclear Reactor
Tuesday, September 25, 2001
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MTL VLSI Seminar
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (refreshments 3:30)
Robert Terbrueggen,
Motorola Life Science
Electronic Detection of DNA: Robust Platform for Integrated Devices
Tuesday, September 25, 2001
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LIDS Colloquium
37-212, 4:00 PM (reception following)
Anthony Yezzi,
Georgia Tech
Geometric Partial Differential Equations in Image Processing and Computer Vision
Wednesday, September 26, 2001
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Theory of Computation Seminar
Room NE43-518, 4:15 PM (refreshments 4:00)
Marten van Dijk,
Philips Research Laboratories and MIT
Optical recording systems beyond DVD
Monday, October 1, 2001
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EECS Colloquium
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (refreshments 3:45)
James L. Massey,
Prof.-em. ETH-Zurich and Adjunct Prof. Lund University
Cryptography - Science or Magic?
Tuesday, October 2, 2001
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MTL VLSI Seminar
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (reception 3:30)
Richard Blaikie,
University of Canterbury
Near Field Photolithography: Exploring the Resolution Limits of Patterning with Light
Tuesday, October 2, 2001
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LIDS Colloquium
Room 35-225, 4:00 PM (reception following)
Sumeet Sandhu,
Stanford University
Signal design for MIMO wireless : a unified perspective
Wednesday, October 3, 2001
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Special Boston Area MEMS Seminar
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (refreshments 3:30)
Kurt Petersen,
CEPHEID
Bringing MEMS to Market
Wednesday, October 3, 2001
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Theory of Computation Seminar
Room NE43-518, 4:15 PM (refreshments 4:00)
Santosh Vempala,
MIT Department of Mathematics
Solving Linear and Convex Programs, Easily.
Wednesday, October 10, 2001
Optics and Quantum Electronics Seminar
26-322 (On This Date Only), 11:00 AM
Ben Eggleton,
Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs
Photonic Devices Enabling Advanced Optical Systems
Wednesday, October 10, 2001
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Wireless Networking Seminar
RLE Conference Room, Room 36-428, 3:00 PM
Michael Gastpar,
Ecole Polytechnique Federale (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
Multiple-Relay Channel: Coding and Asymptotic Capacity
Wednesday, October 10, 2001
Nanostructures Seminar
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (refreshments 3:45)
Vikram C. Sundar,
MIT
Novel II-VI Nanocrystal Gain Media: From Amplified Spontaneous Emission to Lasing.
Wednesday, October 10, 2001
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Theory of Computation Seminar
Room NE43-518, 4:15 PM (refreshments 4:00)
Ronen Shaltiel,
Weizmann institute
Simple extractors for all min-entropies and a new pseudo-random generator
Thursday, October 11, 2001
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LCS Distinguished Lecture
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 3:30 PM (refreshments 3:15)
Dr. James Gray,
Microsoft Research, Bay Area Research Center
On-Line Science: The Virtual Oservatory as a Prototype for the New Computational Science
Monday, October 15, 2001
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EECS Colloquium
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (refreshments 3:45)
Gerald Sussman,
Prof., MIT, EECS, LCS and AIL
Struture and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics
Tuesday, October 16, 2001
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LIDS Colloquium
Room 35-225, 4:00 PM (reception following)
Sergio Verdu,
Dept. Electrical Engineering, Princeton University
Fading Channels in the Power Limited Regime
Wednesday, October 17, 2001
Optics and Quantum Electronics Seminar
26-414 (Kolker Room), 11:00 AM
Susanne Yelin,
Harvard
How to Catch a Photon: Controlling Light with Light
Monday, October 22, 2001
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EECS Colloquium
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (refreshments 3:45)
Richard Larson,
EECS and Director, CAES
Distance Learning: Past, Present and Futures
Tuesday, October 23, 2001
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MTL VLSI Seminar
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (reception 3:30)
Stephen Kosonocky,
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Low Power Circuits and Technology for Wireless Digital Systems
Tuesday, October 23, 2001
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LIDS Colloquium
Room 35-225, 4:00 PM (reception following)
Dan Spielman,
MIT - Math/LCS
SMOOTHED ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS: WHY THE SIMPLEX METHOD USUALLY TAKES POLYNOMIAL TIME
Wednesday, October 24, 2001
Optics and Quantum Electronics Seminar
Grier Room, Room 34-401B, 11:00 AM
Eric Forsythe,
Army Research Laboratory
Organic Light Emitting Devices: Harnessing Energetic Disorder for a Brighter Future
Wednesday, October 24, 2001
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Theory of Computation Seminar
Room NE43-518, 4:15 PM (refreshments 4:00)
Kamal Jain,
Microsoft Research
Equitable, Group Strategyproof Cost Allocations via Primal-Dual-Type Algorithms
Tuesday, October 30, 2001
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MTL VLSI Seminar
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (reception 3:30)
Ashok Sinha,
Applied Materials
Driving Chip Manufacturing Technology through "Nano-Chip" Generation
Tuesday, October 30, 2001
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LIDS Colloquium
Room 35-225, 4:00 PM (reception following)
Daniel Chasman, PhD.,
Variagenics
Predicting the Functional Consequences of Some Common Genetic Variation in Humans
Wednesday, October 31, 2001
Optics and Quantum Electronics Seminar
Grier Room, Room 34-401B, 11:00 AM
Steven Cundiff,
JILA, University of Colorado
Phase Stabilization of Modelocked Lasers
Wednesday, October 31, 2001
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Theory of Computation Seminar
Room NE43-518, 4:15 PM (refreshments 4:00)
Adam Kalai,
MIT
Expert Advice for On-line Algorithms
Thursday, November 1, 2001
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LIDS Colloquium
Room 35-225, 4:00 PM (reception following)
Sean Meyn,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Optimization, variability, and sensitivity in stochastic networks
Tuesday, November 6, 2001
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LIDS Colloquium
Room 35-225, 4:00 PM (reception following)
TBA
TBA
Tuesday, November 6, 2001
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MTL VLSI Seminar
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (reception 3:30)
Christopher Spence,
Advanced Micro Devices
Issues in Photomask Fabrication for 130nm Technology
Wednesday, November 7, 2001
Optics and Quantum Electronics Seminar
Grier Room, Room 34-401B, 11:00 AM
Scott Hamilton,
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Ultrafast All-Optical Time Division Multiplexing Multi-Access Networks
Wednesday, November 7, 2001
Singapore-MIT Alliance Distinguished Speaker Series
Room 4-237, 4:00 PM
Richard M. Karp,
University of California at Berkeley
Combinatorial Problems in the Design of Internet Protocols and Peer-to-Peer Networks
Tuesday, November 13, 2001
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MTL VLSI Seminar
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (reception 3:30)
Kenneth O,
University of Florida
Effects of Substrate Resistances on the Performance of Silicon Radio-Frequency Circuits.
Tuesday, November 13, 2001
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LIDS Colloquium
Room 35-225, 4:00 PM (reception following)
Ray Leopold,
Motorola, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of the Global Telecommunications Solutions Sector
Satellite Communications, with emphasis on the advantages/disadvantages of choosing CDMA as an access technique
Tuesday, November 13, 2001
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Theory of Computation Seminar
Room NE43-518, 4:15 PM (refreshments 4:00)
Mikkel Thorup,
AT&T
Compact Oracles for Reachability and Approximate Distances in Planar Digraphs
Wednesday, November 14, 2001
Optics and Quantum Electronics Seminar
Grier Room, Room 34-401B, 11:00 AM
Andrew Chraplyvy,
Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs
The Never-Ending Saga of Nonlinearities in Fiberoptic Systems
Wednesday, November 14, 2001
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Theory of Computation Seminar
Room NE43-518, 4:15 PM (refreshments 4:00)
Joe Mitchell,
SUNY Stony Brook
The Freeze-Tag Problem: How to Wake Up a Swarm of Robots
Monday, November 19, 2001
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EECS Colloquium
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (refreshments 3:45)
Leslie Pack Kaelbling,
MIT, EECS, Associate Director, AIL
Why Robbie Can't Learn: The Difficulty of Learning in Autonomous Agents
Tuesday, November 20, 2001
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MTL VLSI Seminar and Boston Area MEMS Seminar
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (reception 3:30)
John Stephen Smith,
University of California Berkeley
Massively Parallel Assembly and Low Parasitic Direct Integration by Fluidic Self Assembly
Tuesday, November 20, 2001
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LIDS Colloquium
Room 35-225, 4:00 PM (reception following)
Gerhard Kramer,
Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
TBA
Wednesday, November 21, 2001
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Theory of Computation Seminar
Room NE43-518, 4:15 PM (refreshments 4:00)
Neal Young,
Akamai
Sequential and Parallel Algorithms for Mixed Packing and Covering
Monday, November 26, 2001
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EECS Colloquium
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (refreshments 3:45)
Victor Zue,
MIT, EECS, Interim Director, LCS
Carry on a Meaningful Conversation with Your Computer
Tuesday, November 27, 2001
LIDS Colloquium
Room 35-225, 4:00 PM (reception following)
(cancelled)
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Wednesday, November 28, 2001
Optics and Quantum Electronics Seminar
Grier Room, Room 34-401B, 11:00 AM
Demetri Psaltis,
Caltech
Holographic Information Systems
Wednesday, November 28, 2001
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Theory of Computation Seminar
Room NE43-518, 4:15 PM (refreshments 4:00)
Eva Tardos,
Cornell
How Bad is Selfish Routing?
Thursday, November 29, 2001
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LCS Distinguished Lecture
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 3:30 PM (refreshments 3:15)
Prof. Nadine Strossen,
President, American Civil Liberties Union
Defending Cyberporn
Thursday, November 29, 2001
LIDS Colloquium
Room 35-225, 4:00 PM (reception following)
Professor R. Srikant,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Stable Scheduling in Time-Varying Wireless Channels
Monday, December 3, 2001
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EECS Colloquium
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:00 PM (refreshments 3:45)
Barbara Liskov,
MIT, LCS, Associate Dept. Head, EECS
Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance
Tuesday, December 4, 2001
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LIDS Colloquium
Room 35-225, 4:00 PM (reception following)
Marija Ilic,
MIT
TBA
Wednesday, December 5, 2001
Optics and Quantum Electronics Seminar
26-414 (Kolker Room), 11:00 AM
Gary Betts,
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Lithium Niobate and Semiconductor Intensity Modulators
Wednesday, December 5, 2001
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Theory of Computation Seminar
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, 4:15 PM (refreshments 4:00)
Eli Ben-Sasson,
Harvard
Expansion in Proof Complexity.
Friday, December 7, 2001
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E51 Wong Auditorium Tang Center, 9:00 AM
Hitachi-MIT day
Tuesday, December 11, 2001
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LIDS Colloquium
Room 35-225, 4:00 PM (reception following)
Ruediger Urbanke,
EPFL
Back From Infinity - Finite Length Analysis and Optimization of LDPC Codes
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