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Events for 2015

JAN
13
2015
Control Seminar
Legged Locomotion: Analysis, Planning, and Control
Katie Byl, Assistant Professor, University of California Santa Barbara
JAN
14
2015
ECE Seminar
Customer Discovery
Viktor Brandtneris, Director of Ann Arbor SPARK's Entrepreneurial Boot Camp, NSF I-Corps Teacher , Brandtneris Consulting
JAN
14
2015
MIPSE Seminar
Reaching the Extremes of Planet Formation: Shockwave Experiments in the Giant Impact Regime
Prof. Sarah Stewart, UC Davis
JAN
15
2015
ECE Seminar
Enhancement of Infrared Sensing and Imaging
Hooman Mohseni, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northwestern University
JAN
16
2015
Control Seminar
Cooperative Transport of Slung Loads by Teams of Autonomous Rotorcraft
Jack W. Langelaan, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Aerospace Engineering
JAN
23
2015
Control Seminar
MIT Cheetah: A Legged Robot for Disaster Response
Sangbae Kim, Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
JAN
26
2015
Optics Seminar
Recent explorations in whispering-gallery-mode microresonators for functional devices
Dr. Lan Yang, Professor, Elec. and Systems Engin, Washington University, St. Louis
JAN
26
2015
MIPSE Seminar
First-Principles Simulations of Particle Acceleration at Astrophysical Shocks
Dr. Damiano Caprioli, Princeton University
JAN
28
2015
MIPSE Seminar
Fowler-Nordheim, Field Emission and Field Enhancement
Dr. Donald Shiffler, The Air Force Research Laboratory
JAN
30
2015
Control Seminar
Legged Locomotion: Analysis, Planning, and Control
Katie Byl, Assistant Professor, University of California Santa Barbara
FEB
04
2015
Colloquium
Integrated Power Supply Design – Its Time to Work with the Load
Hanh-Phuc Le, Chief Technology Officer, Lion Semiconductor Inc.
FEB
04
2015
Quantum Science Seminar
Quantum Research Group
FEB
04
2015
Distinguished Lecture
Taking Bipedal Walking Robots from Science Fiction to Science Fact
Jessy Grizzle, Elmer G. Gilbert Distinguished University Professor of Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
FEB
06
2015
Optics Seminar
The Progress of Optical Nanoscopy
Xu Liu, Professor, Dept of Optical Engineering, Director of the State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation
FEB
09
2015
Solid-State and Nano Seminar
Democratization of Next-Generation Imaging, Diagnostics and Measurement Tools through Computational Photonics
Aydogan Ozcan, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
FEB
10
2015
ECE Seminar
Strategies to Increase Open Circuit Voltage in Organic Photovoltaics
Andrew Bartynski, post-doc candidate, University of Southern California
FEB
11
2015
Quantum Science Seminar
Quantum Research Group
FEB
13
2015
CUOS Seminar
High Energy Isolated Attosecond Pulses
Dr. Zenghu Chang, Distinguished Professor of Physics & Optics, Univ of Central Florida, CREOL
FEB
17
2015
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Unlocking Cellular Computation and Information Processing through Multidimensional Single-Cell Data
Smita Krishnaswamy, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Columbia University
FEB
17
2015
Solid-State and Nano Seminar
What are topological insulators good for?
Yong P. Chen, Associate Professor of Physics, Astronomy and Electrical & Computer Engineering, Purdue University
FEB
20
2015
CUOS Seminar
Semiconductor Nanowires: From Energy Harvesting to BioChemical Sensing
Prof. Simarjeet Singh Saini, Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Waterloo Institute of Nanotechnology at the University of Waterloo
FEB
20
2015
Control Seminar
Predicting Human Motor Response to Expected and Unexpected Loads
Brent Gillespie, University of Michigan, ME
FEB
25
2015
Quantum Science Seminar
Quantum Research Group
FEB
26
2015
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Incentives for Network Allocation with Strategic Agents: Unifying the Design Process and Aiming at Fairness
Achilleas Anastasopoulos, Associate Professor, University of Michigan, EECS Dept.
MAR
09
2015
ECE Seminar
Terahertz: The Last Untapped Spectrum
Ehsan Afshari, Associate Professor, Cornell University
MAR
11
2015
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Metamaterials with Spatiotemporal Modulation and Parity-Time Symmetry for Advanced Wave Manipulation
Dimitrios Sounas, Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Texas at Austin
MAR
11
2015
MIPSE Seminar
Extremely Difficult, Hard to Validate, Painful to Analyze (but Exciting!): Experiments Studying Radiation and Heat Transport of Laboratory Plasmas at near Astrophysical Conditions
Dr. Ronnie Shepherd, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
MAR
12
2015
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Crowd-Learning: Improving the Quality of Crowdsourcing Using Sequential Learning
Mingyan Liu, Professor, University of Michigan, EECS Dept
MAR
13
2015
ECE Seminar
Controls of Vehicle Systems toward Clean, Efficient and Safe Mobility
Junmin Wang, Ph.D., Director, Vehicle Systems and Control Laboratory, Ohio State University
MAR
16
2015
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Learning statistical structure in data: efficient estimation of graphical models
Guy Bresler, Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MAR
16
2015
MICL Seminar
Rethinking The Functional Boundaries of Integrated Radio-Frequency Systems Enables New Wireless Communication Paradigms
Harish Krishnaswamy, Associate Professor, Columbia University
MAR
18
2015
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Opto-Excitonic Circuits: Processing Light with Matter
Parag Deotare, Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MAR
18
2015
MIPSE Seminar
Plasma Wakefield Acceleration of Charged Particles
Dr. Patric Muggli, Max Planck Institute for Physics, Germany
MAR
20
2015
Control Seminar
Control of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells for Power Tracking
Faryar Jabbari, Professor, University of California, Irvine
MAR
25
2015
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Spread-Spectrum Wireless Power Transfer for Implantable and Wearable Biomedical Applications
Al-Thaddeus Avestruz, Research Assistant , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MAR
25
2015
Quantum Science Seminar
Quantum Research Group
MAR
26
2015
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Online Robust PCA or Online Sparse + Low-Rank Matrix Recovery
Namrata Vaswani, Iowa State
MAR
27
2015
Control Seminar
Robust and Efficient Real-time Mapping for Autonomous Robots
Michael Kaess, Assistant Research Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
MAR
30
2015
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
On extremal auxiliaries in multiuser information theory
Chandra Nair, Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong
APR
01
2015
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Sensor, Brain and the Interface
Milin Zhang, Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Pennsylvania
APR
02
2015
ECE Seminar
III-Nitride Semiconductor Photonics: Beyond LED Lighting
Zetian Mi, Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar, McGill University
APR
02
2015
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Convergence to pure-strategy Nash equilibria under simple learning rules and selection of resilient pure-strategy Nash equilibria
Richard La, Professor, University of Maryland, ECE Department
APR
03
2015
Control Seminar
Infinite Dimensional Optimization for Safety Critical Human-in-the-Loop Systems
Ram Vasudevan, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, Mechanical Engineering
APR
08
2015
ECE Seminar
Principled and Scalable Methods for Extracting multivariate dependencies in Big Data
Bala Rajaratnam, Faculty, Stanford University
APR
13
2015
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Scalable probabilistic inference for high dimensional structured variables
Oluwasanmi Koyejo, Engineering Research Associate, Stanford University
APR
13
2015
Solid-State and Nano Seminar
Progress in ZnCdMgSe-based Nanostructures
Maria C. Tamargo, Professor of Chemistry, The City College of New York
APR
13
2015
ECE Seminar
Ceremony to Honor Prof. Dave Neuhoff as 2015 Rackham Distinguished Graduate Mentor
APR
14
2015
Optics Seminar
Making the Mid- and Far-IR Nano with Designer Plasmonic and Phononic Materials
Dan Wasserman, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
APR
15
2015
Quantum Science Seminar
Negative Probabilities
Yuri Gurevich, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
APR
17
2015
Optics Seminar
Polymer/Liquid Crystal Mixtures for Dynamic Optical Applications
Dr. Timothy Bunning, Chief of the Functional Materials Division of the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory
APR
17
2015
Control Seminar
Modeling, Sensing and Control of Unstable Physical Human-Machine Interactions: A Rider-Bicycle Example
Jingang Yi, Professor, Rutgers University
APR
24
2015
Control Seminar
From Global Properties to Local Rules in Multi-Agent Systems
Magnus Egerstedt, Schlumberger Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
MAY
14
2015
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Quantile Search for Minimum – Time Stamping
Laura Balzano, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, EECS Dept
MAY
18
2015
Solid-State and Nano Seminar
Silicon Nanophotonic Devices for Optical Interconnects and Biosensing
Ray T. Chen, Professor, Keys and Joan Curry/Cullen Trust Endowed Chair, The University of Texas, Austin
MAY
26
2015
LNF Seminar
Microlithography – Identifying and Optimizing Your Lithography Needs
Greg Allion, Lithography Tool Engineer, LNF
JUN
12
2015
LNF Seminar
Microlithography – Identifying and Optimizing Your Lithography Needs
Greg Allion, Lithography Tool Engineer, LNF
JUN
15
2015
MPEL Seminar
Secure and Stable Operation of Fluctuating Sustainable Power Systems
Hjortur J³hannsson , Senior Scientific Consultant, Technical University of Denmark
JUN
18
2015
Solid-State and Nano Seminar
Gallium oxide devices for the next revolution in power electronics
Masataka Higashiwaki, Director, Green ICT Device Advanced Development Center, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
JUL
02
2015
RADLAB Seminar
Transformation Optics and its Application to Antennas
Oscar Quevedo-Teruel, Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering/Electromagnetic Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
JUL
16
2015
RADLAB Seminar
Non-Diffractive Radiation and Near-Field Focusing Techniques
Dr. Mauro Ettorre, Research Scientist, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Rennes, France
JUL
23
2015
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Online algorithms for robust subspace recovery
Jun He, Lecturer, Nanjung University of Information Science and Technology
AUG
12
2015
Systems Seminar – ECE
Systems Guest Speaker Seminar
Scott Backhaus, Design of Resilient Electrical Distribution Grids, DOE Office of Electricity and DHS Critical Infrastructure
SEP
16
2015
MIPSE Seminar
Compact Approach to Fusion Energy with the Sheared Flow Stabilized Z-Pinch
Prof. Uri Shumlak, University of Washington
SEP
17
2015
ECE Seminar
Reachability and Learning for Hybrid Systems
Claire Tomlin, Charles A. Desoer Chair in the College of Engineering Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer, University of California, Berkeley
SEP
17
2015
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Combinatorial continuum limits and their applications in data science
Alfred Hero, Professor, Department of ECE
SEP
18
2015
Control Seminar
Geometric Mechanics and Global Nonlinear Control for Multi-body Systems
Harris McClamroch, Professor, University of Michigan, Department of Aerospace
SEP
21
2015
MICL Seminar
The Coming Ethernet Revolution
Claude Gauthier, CTO, Co-Founder, OmniPhy
SEP
25
2015
Control Seminar
Predictive Control of Integrated Power Systems for Electrified Vehicles
Jing Sun, Professor, University of Michigan, Department of Naval & Marine Engineering
SEP
28
2015
RADLAB Seminar
Remote sensing at JPL and Some Satellite Convoys that we are planning for the Near Future
Dr. Ziad S. Haddad, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
SEP
30
2015
MIPSE Seminar
Microplasmas for Reconfigurable Radio-Frequency Electronics
Prof. Sergey Macheret, Purdue University
OCT
02
2015
Control Seminar
The Emerging Interface Between Control Theory, Neuroscience and Brain Medicine
ShiNung Ching, Assistant Professor, Washington University – St. Louis
OCT
05
2015
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Common Information, Information Inequalities for Networks and Some Applications to Secure Function Computation
Vinod Prabhakaran, Professor, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
OCT
06
2015
Distinguished Lecture
Unavailable Innovation: Why You Must Make Your Ideas Accessible
Garlin Gilchrist II, Deputy Technology Director for Civic Community Engagement, City of Detroit
OCT
07
2015
Distinguished Lecture
Leading Challenges and the Role of Transformation in the Fusion and Plasma Sciences
Dr. Edmund Synakowski, U.S. Department of Energy
OCT
09
2015
Distinguished Lecture
Out of Control
Rick Wallace, CEO and President, KLA-Tencor, Corp.
OCT
09
2015
Control Seminar
Design, Instrumentation, Modeling, and Control of an Additive Manufacturing System
Sandipan Mishra, Assistant Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
OCT
15
2015
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Connection Between Common Information and Algebraic Structure
Sandeep Pradhan, Professor, University of Michigan, Department of EECS
OCT
16
2015
Control Seminar
Toward Optimizing a Sensor Suite for Fully-Autonomous Driving Capabilities
James McBride, PhD, Ford Motor Company
OCT
21
2015
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Out of this World Communications Technology
Dr. Jon Hamkins, Ph.D., Jet Propulsion Laboratory
OCT
22
2015
MPEL Seminar
Managing the Future Grid – Evolution of EMS Control Centers
Jay Giri, Director, Alstom Grid, Power Systems Technology and Strategic Initiatives
OCT
23
2015
Control Seminar
Representing storage and demand response in power system operations
Josh Taylor, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering
OCT
26
2015
LNF Seminar
Nanolithography Using Thermal Scanning Probe: The NanoFrazor
Dr. ZhengMing Wu, SwissLitho AG, Zurich, Switzerland
OCT
28
2015
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Learning distributions and hypothesis testing via social learning
Anand Sarwate, Professor, Rutgers University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
OCT
29
2015
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Learning From Distributed Private Data: Algorithms and Applications
Anand Sarwate, Assistant Professor, Rutgers University
NOV
04
2015
LNF Seminar
Exploiting the Optical Response of Matter for Fun (Science) and Profit (Manufacturing)
Nik Podraza, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Toledo
NOV
05
2015
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Learning (from) networks: fundamental limits, algorithms, and applications
Soheil Feizi , Ph.D. Candidate, MIT
NOV
06
2015
Control Seminar
High-Gain Observers in Nonlinear Feedback Control
Hassan K. Khalil, University Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
NOV
09
2015
MICL Seminar
Techniques to maximize dynamic range per unit consumption for wireless systems
Sudipto Chakraborty, Senior member of technical staff, Texas Instruments
NOV
09
2015
Systems Seminar – ECE
Finite Abstractions for Robust Synthesis
Jun Liu, Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo
NOV
09
2015
RADLAB Seminar
WCOM: A New Chinese Satellite Mission for Study of the Global Water Cycle
Dr. Jiancheng Shi, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, State Key Laboratory for Remote Sensing Science, Beijing, China
NOV
13
2015
MICL Seminar
Design techniques of SAR ADCs
Junhua Shen, IC Design Engineer, Analog Devices, Inc.
NOV
13
2015
Control Seminar
High Performance Motion Control and Applications
Tsu-Chin Tsao, Professor and Chair, UCLA, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
NOV
19
2015
LNF Seminar
LNF Users Symposium
Keynote speaker Prof S. Takayama, Professor, Dept of Biomedical Engineering
NOV
19
2015
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Impact of Community Structure on Cascades
Vijay Subramanian, Associate Professor, University of Michigan, Department of EECS
NOV
20
2015
Control Seminar
Challenges in Modeling, Optimization and Control of coupled Natural Gas and Power Networks
Michael Chertkov, PhD, Los Alamos National Lab
NOV
24
2015
ECE Seminar
Non-doped Phosphorescent Organic LEDs: A New Way to Simplify Device Fabrication
Dr. Qi Wang, post-doctoral candidate, Atom NanoElectronics, Inc.
NOV
30
2015
Distinguished Lecture
ECE Dist. Lecture: III-V Quantum Structures for Infrared Detection
Sarath Gunapala, Director, Center for Infrared Photonics, Jet Propulsion Lab
DEC
02
2015
William Gould Dow Distinguished Lecture
Big Data is (at least) Four Different Problems
Michael Stonebraker, Co-Director, Intel Science and Technology Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
DEC
03
2015
MICL Seminar
Towards Interference-Free, Self-Organizing, Battery-Less Wireless Body Area Networks
Samaneh Movassaghi, PhD candidate at the Australian National University, Australian National University
DEC
03
2015
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
On the Equivalence of Simulated Annealing & Interior Point Path Following for Optimization
Jacob Abernethy, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, Department of EECS
DEC
04
2015
Control Seminar
Correct-by-Construction Control Software Synthesis for Highly Dynamic Systems – Part 1 of 2
Jessy Grizzle, Huei Peng, Necmiye Ozay, Yuxiao Chen, Petter Nilsson, Xiangru Xu, University of Michigan, Department of EECS
DEC
08
2015
Systems Seminar – ECE
Modeling and Control of Collective Dynamics
Yongxin Chen , Ph.D. Candidate, University of Minnesota
DEC
09
2015
MIPSE Seminar
Plasma in a Bottle: The Strange Dynamics of Superparamagnetic Ionic Liquids
Prof. Lyon (Brad) King, Michigan Technological University
DEC
09
2015
Distinguished Lecture
The End of Moores Law: Are we Facing the Creation or the Apocalypse?
Stephen Forrest, Paul G. Goebel Collegiate Professor of Engineering
DEC
10
2015
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Efficient Data-Driven Learning of Sparse Signal Models and Its Applications
Dr. Saiprasad Ravishankar
DEC
11
2015
Control Seminar
Correct-By-Construction Control Software Synthesis for Highly Dynamic Systems – Part 2 of 2
Jessy Grizzle, Huei Peng, Necmiye Ozay, Yuxiao Chen, Petter Nilsson, Xiangru Xu, University of Michigan, Department of EECS