2002-2003 Colloquium Series

Schedule of Talks



The following is a list of all talks being presented for the 2002-2003 Colloquium series. Events are in Room 125 at 10:30am unless otherwise noted - please see the individual announcements for the latest details.

Spring Quarter

Apr 3: Jim Fruchterman, Benetech
Saving the World with Technology: How to do Socially Beneficial Applications
Room 125

Apr 17: Grainger Distinguished Speaker - Sakis Meliopoulos, Georgia Institute of Technology
Evolution of Power System Engineering: mGrids and Mega RTOs
Room 125

May 1: The Akira Ishimaru Lecture - Weng Chew, University of Illinois
Computational Electromagnetics--From the Very Small to the Very Large
Room 125

May 15: Les Atlas, University of Washington, Electrical Engineering
Modulation Spectra: A New Tool for Analysis and Coding of Speech and Music
Room 125

May 29: Sheila Hemami, Cornell University
Suprathreshold Visual Psychophysics and Applications to Image Compression
Room 125

June 5: EE Distinguished Speaker - Anthony Ephremides, University of Maryland
A Fresh Look at Multiple Access in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks
Room 125

Winter Quarter

Jan 16: EE Distinguished Speaker - Ken Goldberg, University of California - Berkeley
From Telegarden to Tele-Actor: Collaborative Online Robots
The HUB, Room 310

Jan 30: Viola Vogel, Center for Nanotechnology, UW Bioengineering
Bionanotechnology: Engineering Principles behind Biological Nanosystems
Room 105

Feb 6: Mike Sinclair, Microsoft Research
User Interface Device Research at Microsoft
Room 105

Feb 20: Donald Baker, Philips Ultrasound
The Story behind the Development of Ultrasonic Doppler Flow Imaging Techniques at the University of Washington
Room 105

Mar 13: Jelena Kovacevic, xWaveforms
Life After Wavelets: The War of the Frames
10:30  - 11:30 a.m., The HUB, Room 209A

Fall Quarter

Oct 29: Karl Bohringer, UW EE
Micromanipulation and Microassembly
Room 037

Nov 12: Terri Fiez, Oregon State University
TekBots: An Integrated Platform for Learning to Enhance Engineering Education
Room 037

Nov 26: Larry Dalton, UW Chemistry
Preparation and Utilization of New Electro-Optic Materials
Room 125

Dec 10: Deirdre Meldrum, UW EE
What does Electrical Engineering have to do with Genomics?
Room 125

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