EE Colloquium Series
2005 - 2006 Schedule of Talks
The following is a list of all talks being presented for the 2005-2006 Colloquium series. Events for Fall Quarter 2006 will be in Room 125 unless otherwise noted.
We now have video of the speakers' presentations available for those who are unable to attend the talks. Viewing this video will require Windows Media Player, or another program compatible with Windows Media files such as MPlayer or VLC. If you have Internet Explorer on either Windows 2000 or XP you can see a Powerpoint presentation of the speaker's slides alongside the video (you may be prompted to install a Powerpoint add-in for Internet Explorer, if you do not already have it).
If you would like to receive email notitfications for our Colloquium, please send email to talk@ee.washington.edu to be added to the list. An email is sent a three times for each talk: a week before, the day before, and the day of.
Past Colloquia:
2002-2003 EE Colloquium
Series
2003-2004
EE Colloquium Series
2004-2005
EE Colloquium Series
Fall Quarter 2005
October 6: David
Allstot, University of Washington, Electrical Engineering
"Department
of Electrical Engineering Activities: An Overview"
Host: Jenq-Neng Hwang
October 20: Doug
Carmean, Intel Corp., Desktop Products Group
"CPU
Architectures: future shifts from traditional models"
Streaming
Video of Talk
Host: Richard Shi
November 3: V.
Srinivasa Somayazulu, Intel Corp., Wireless Technology Development Group
"Title:
Ultra-wideband (UWB) system design considerations for high speed, short range
wireless communications"
Streaming
Video of Talk
Host: James Ritcey
November 17: Rob
Phillips, California Institute of Technology, Applied Physics and Mechanical
Engineering
"How Cells
Decide What to Eat and What to Become: The Physics of
Transcriptional Regulation"
Streaming
Video of Talk
Host: Eric Klavins
December 1: James
Johnston, Microsoft Corp., Codecs Group
"The Science
of Audio in 2005 – Spatial Perception"
Streaming
Video of Talk
Host: Les Atlas
December 8: Rich
Christie, University of Washington, Electrical Engineering
"There's Something
About ABET"
Streaming
Video of Talk
Host: Ming-Ting Sun
Winter Quarter 2006
January 12: Hsing-Lin
Wang, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Bioscience Division
"Toward development
of conjugated polymers: New materials for mechanical and optical devices"
Streaming
Video of Talk
Host: Karl Bohringer
January 26: Sixto
Gonzalez, National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center, Arecibo Radio Observatory
"The Arecibo
Observatory"
Streaming
Video of Talk
Host: John Sahr
February9: Yannis
Tsividis, Columbia University, Electrical Engineering
"Continuous-time
DSPs, Analog/Digital Computers and other Mixed-Domain Circuits"
Streaming
Video of Talk
Host: David Allstot
February 23: Michelle
Effros, California Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering
"Algorithms and
Rate-Distortion Bounds in Data Compression for Multi-User Communications"
Host: Eve Riskin
Spring Quarter 2006
April 20: Yahya
Rahmat-Samii, University of California at Los Angeles, Electrical Engineering
"Nature Inspired
Optimization Techniques in Engineering Electromagnetics: Let Darwin and the
bees design your cellphone and spacecraft antennas"
Streaming video of talk
Host: Akira Ishimaru
May 4: David
Tse, University of California at Berkeley, Electrical Engineering and Computer
Sciences
"Modern Wireless Communication: When Shannon
Meets Marconi"
Streaming video of talk
Host: Sumit Roy
May 11: John
R. Delaney, University of Washington, School of Oceanography
"The NEPTUNE Ocean Observatory: Interactive Networks of Remotely Operated
Submarine Laboratories"
Streaming video of talk
Host: Deirdre Meldrum
May 18: Jan
Rabaey, University of California at Berkeley, Electrical Engineering and
Computer Sciences
"Ambient Intelligence: Where Wireless
Multimedia and Sensor Networks Meet"
Host: Brian Otis
June 1: Sinclair
Yee, University of Washington, Electrical Engineering
"A 40 year Research Journey at the University
of Washington"
Host: Tim Chinowsky
