All Seminars
Events for 2011
JAN
07
2011
Control Seminar
Decentralized control: when actions speak
Pulkit Gover , Post-doc, University of California, Berkeley
JAN
11
2011
AI Seminar
Toyota AI Seminar: The Optimal Reward Problem
Satinder Singh Baveja, Professor, University of Michigan, CSE
JAN
12
2011
MIPSE Seminar
When Low Temperature Plasmas Meet Surfaces
David Graves, Prof., University of California, Berkeley
JAN
14
2011
Control Seminar
Control Theoretic Splines with Constraints
Assen L.Dontchev, Dr., Mathematical Reviews – A Division of the American Mathematical Society
JAN
18
2011
AI Seminar
Toyota AI Seminar: Efficient Implementation of and Inference in Probabilistic Programming Languages
David Wingate, PhD., M.I.T
JAN
19
2011
MIPSE Seminar
Compressing Waves in Plasma
Nathaniel Fisch, Prof., Princeton University
JAN
20
2011
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Design Principles for Networked Communities
Mihaela van der Schaar, Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
JAN
20
2011
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Virginia Vassilevska Williams, CSE Faculty Candidate
Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Path, matrix and triangle problems — subcubic algorithms and equivalences, University of California, Berkeley
JAN
21
2011
Control Seminar
Nonlinear Control of Uncertain Fatigued Human Skeletal Muscle: Theory and Experiments
Warren Dixon, Professor, University of Florida – Gainesville
JAN
25
2011
AI Seminar
Toyota AI Seminar: Classifying the Political Leaning of News Articles and Users From User Votes
Daniel Zhou, University of Michigan, SI
JAN
28
2011
Control Seminar
Making Small Unmanned Systems do Big Things
Eric Johnson, Associate Professor , Georgia Institute of Technology
FEB
01
2011
AI Seminar
Toyota AI Seminar: Sharks attack humans, but most sharks dont attack humans: Learning to express generalizations in language
Susan Gelman, Professor, University of Michigan, Psychology
FEB
03
2011
Systems Seminar – ECE
Power electronics in electric utilities – Large and small
Giri Venkataramanan, Professor, Department of ECE University of Wisconsin-Madison
FEB
03
2011
Solid-State and Nano Seminar
NIMSA Student Seminar Series
Greg McGraw and Sameh Tawfick , PhD Students (Physics and Applied Physics; Mechanical Engineering)
FEB
03
2011
Systems Seminar – ECE
Delay-Constrained Throughput in Wireless Networks: Providing Reliable services over Unreliable Channels
I-Hong Hu, Ph.D, Candidate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
FEB
03
2011
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Ryan Williams, CSE Faculty Candidate
Ryan Williams, Algorithms, Obstructions, and Beating Exhaustive Search, IBM Almaden Research Center
FEB
03
2011
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Emotions in Engineering: Methods for the Interpretation of Ambiguous Emotional Content
Emily Mower, Post-doctoral Researcher, University of Southern California
FEB
08
2011
MIPSE Seminar
High-Resolution and Adaptive Methods for Plasma Physics
Dr. Phillip Colella, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
FEB
11
2011
Control Seminar
Machine Learning Approaches to Vehicle Power Management
Yi Lu Murphey, Professor and Chair , University of Michigan – Dearborn
FEB
14
2011
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Sensing and Feedback of Everyday Activities to Promote Environmentally Sustainable Behaviors
Jon Froehlich, Ph.D. Candidate and Microsoft Research Graduate Fellow, University of Washington
FEB
17
2011
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Nanoelectronics for Brain Inspired Computing and Implantable Neurodevices
Duygu Kuzum, Postdoctoral fellow, Stanford University
FEB
18
2011
Control Seminar
Traffic Jams: Dynamics and Control
Gabor Orosz, Assistant Professor , University of Michigan – Department of Mechanical Engineering
FEB
22
2011
AI Seminar
Toyota AI seminar: Temporal Pattern Recognition in the ICU
Mohammed Saeed, MD, PhD, University of Michigan, Cardiovascular Center and Health System
FEB
23
2011
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Emotions in Engineering: Methods for the Interpretation of Ambiguous Emotional Content
Emily Mower, Post-Doc Researcher, Univ. of Southern California
MAR
07
2011
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Extracting and Querying Probabilistic Information in BayesStore
Daisy Wang, Ph.D. Candidate, Univ. of California Berkeley
MAR
08
2011
Faculty Candidate Seminar
High-Performance Asynchronous Systems: Analysis, Optimization, and Applications
Gennette Gill, Post-Doctoral Research Scientist, Columbia University
MAR
09
2011
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Toward Visual Learning with Minimal Human Supervision
Vittorio Ferrari, Assistant Professor, ETH, Zurich
MAR
10
2011
Solid-State and Nano Seminar
Integrated Optics in Silicon (NIMSA Seminar)
Michael W. Geis, PHD, Physics, Rice University, Rice University
MAR
10
2011
Systems Seminar – ECE
Supporting Delay Guarantees over Unreliable Wireless Channels
I-Hong Hu , Ph.D candidate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
MAR
11
2011
Control Seminar
Powertrain Electrification:Taking Advanced Control Systems out of the Lab and on to the Road
Ryan McGee , Supervisor, Vehicle Controls Architecture and Algorithm Design, Ford Motor Company
MAR
14
2011
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Recent Results for random key graphs: Connectivity, triangles, etc.
Armand Makowski, Professor , University of Maryland at College Park
MAR
15
2011
AI Seminar
Toyota AI Seminar: Sharks attack humans, but most sharks don't attack humans: Learning to express generalizations in language
Susan Gelman, Professor, University of Michigan, Psychology
MAR
16
2011
Systems Seminar – ECE
Fundamental Issues in the Control of Complex Systems
Michael Rotkowitz, Senior Research Fellow , The University of Melbourne
MAR
16
2011
MIPSE Seminar
Mode Switching in Relativistic Magnetrons and Hysteresis
Edl Schamiloglu, Prof., The University of New Mexico
MAR
21
2011
Systems Seminar – ECE
Potential of Storage and Hydro Power for the Integration of Intermittent Renewable Resources
Gabriela Hug, Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
MAR
21
2011
Distinguished Lecture
Michal Lipson: Manipulating Light on Chip
Michal Lipson, Manipulating Light on Chip, Cornell University, MacArthur Fellow
MAR
23
2011
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Complex Large-Scale Systems: From Antenna Circuits to Electricity Grids
Javad Lavaei, Ph.D. Candidate, California Institute of Technology
MAR
24
2011
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Next Generation Power Electronics
Robert Pilawa-Podgurski, Research Assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MAR
24
2011
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Mechanisms for Usable Multicores
David Wentzlaff, Ph.D. Candidate, MIT
MAR
25
2011
Control Seminar
In-Situ Soil Moisture Sensing: From Physical Models to Optimal Control to Field Deployment
Mingyan Liu , Associate Professor , University of Michigan, Department of EECS
MAR
28
2011
Faculty Candidate Seminar
From neuromechanics to synthesising robots on-the-fly
Shai Revzen, Post Doctoral Research Associate, University of Pennsylvania
MAR
28
2011
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Semantic Image Understanding: From the Web, In Large-Scale, and With Real-World Data
Jia Li, Ph.D. Candidate, Stanford
MAR
29
2011
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Dc-dc Power Conversion at Very High Frequencies
Dr. Juan M. Rivas, General Electric Global Research Center
MAR
30
2011
MIPSE Seminar
Microwave-Driven Breakdown: From Dielectric Surface Multipactor to Ionization Discharge
John Verboncoeur, Prof., Michigan State University
APR
01
2011
Control Seminar
Battery Health Management for Electric Vehicles
Bhashar Saha, Dr. and Senior Chief Principal Engineer, NASA Ames Research Center
APR
04
2011
Distinguished Lecture
Thinking Outside of the Box can be Over the Moon
Dr. R. Keith Raney, IEEE Life Fellow, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
APR
04
2011
William Gould Dow Distinguished Lecture
Selling Wind Randomly
Pravin Varaiya, Nortel Networks Distinguished Professor , UC Berkeley
APR
05
2011
AI Seminar
Toyota AI Seminar: Generating and Exploiting 3D Laser Data for Mobile Robotics
Paul Newman, Professor, Oxford University
APR
06
2011
MIPSE Seminar
Dynamics of Droplet Impact and Solidification in Plasma Spray Process
Javad Mostaghimi, Prof., University of Toronto
APR
08
2011
Control Seminar
Low-power motion control of microactuators with expensive voltage conversion and sensing
Kenn Oldham , Assistant Professor , University of Michigan, Department of Mechanical Engineering
APR
13
2011
MIPSE Seminar
Plasma Based Acceleration: A Path Towards Compact Particle Accelerators
Warren Mori, Prof. , University of California, Los Angeles
MAY
20
2011
Systems Seminar – ECE
Design of Discrete-Time Filters for Efficient Implementation
Dennis Wei, Post Doctoral Candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MAY
23
2011
Distinguished Lecture
Photonic Band Gap Materials: Light Trapping Crystals
Sajeev John, Professor, Department of Physics, University of Toronto
SEP
02
2011
RADLAB Seminar
Computational Electromagnetics and Parallel Computing: Solutions of Extremely Large Integral Equations and Their Applications
Levent Gürel, Professor, Bilkent University
SEP
12
2011
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Improving GRAPPA using Simultaneous Sparsity
Daniel Weller , Ph.D student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Signal Transformation and Information Representation group
SEP
14
2011
MIPSE Seminar
Nanosecond Pulse Nonequilibrium Discharges for High-Speed Flow Control and Plasma Assisted Combustion
Igor Adamovich, Professor, Ohio State University
SEP
16
2011
Control Seminar
Quasilinear Control: Performance Analysis and Design of Feedback Systems with Nonlinear Actuators and Sensors
Semyon M. Meerkov , Professor , University of Michigan, Department of EECS
SEP
21
2011
MIPSE Seminar
High Energy Density Plasma Physics: An Evolving Role on the National Scene
Dr. Kim Budil, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
SEP
23
2011
Control Seminar
Control and Estimation of In-Wheel Motor Electric Vehicles: Utilizing the Actuation Redundancy
Junmin Wang, Assistant Professor , The Ohio State University
SEP
30
2011
Control Seminar
High Precision Coordination and Motion Control via iterative Learning Control
Kira Barton , Assistant Professor , University of Michigan, Department of Mechanical Engineering
OCT
06
2011
RADLAB Seminar
Graphene-based Electronics for RF Communications and Sensing
Tomas Palacios, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
OCT
07
2011
Control Seminar
Lyapunov Functions, Point Stabilization and Strictification
Michael Malisoff, Professor , Louisana State University, Department of Mathematics
OCT
14
2011
Solid-State and Nano Seminar
Metrology for Nanofabrication (NIMSA Seminar)
Dr. Pilar Herrera-Fierro and Dr. John Mansfield, University of Michigan
OCT
14
2011
Control Seminar
The Duality between Estimation and Control
Sanjoy K. Mitter , Professor , Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems
OCT
18
2011
Solid-State and Nano Seminar
Short Course on Advanced Methods in Atomic Force Microscopy
OCT
19
2011
WIMS Seminar
Disruptive Technology Development in the areas of Wireless Sensors
Tayfun –zdemir, Ph.D., President, Virtual EM Inc.
OCT
19
2011
MIPSE Seminar
The Solar Wind Plasma
Dr. Joe Borovsky, AOSS and Los Alamos National Laboratory
OCT
21
2011
Control Seminar
From Open-Loop Sensing to Closed-Loop Sensing and Control: Challenges to Embedded Wireless Networking
Hongwei Zhang , Assistant Professor , Wayne State University, Department of Computer Science
OCT
26
2011
MIPSE Seminar
Microcavity Plasma Science and Recent Applications: Bound-Free Coupling, Transistors and Illumination
Prof. Gary Eden, University of Illinois
OCT
28
2011
Distinguished Lecture
From Michigan to NASDAQ
Syed B. Ali, President, CEO & Founder, Cavium, Inc., MSE EE '81 and 2011 CoE Alumni Merit Award Winner for ECE
NOV
01
2011
RADLAB Seminar
RF MEMS Resonators and Applications in Filters and Low Phase Noise Oscillators
Amy Duwel , Draper Laboratory's RF and Communications Group
NOV
04
2011
Control Seminar
Interconnections and Control of Hybrid Systems
Ricardo Sanfelice, Assistant Professor , University of Arizona, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
NOV
11
2011
Control Seminar
Constraints Handling Using reference Governors, Constrained Control Allocation and Stochastic Drift Counteraction Control
Ilya Kolmanovsky, Professor , University of Michigan, Department of Aerospace Engineering
NOV
18
2011
Control Seminar
Rendezvous and Relative Motion Guidance for Space Situational Awareness
Morgan Baldwin, Dr., U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory
NOV
29
2011
Solid-State and Nano Seminar
CMOS Switched-Capacitor Circuits: Recent Advances in Bio-Medical and RF Applications
David J. Allstot, Ph.D., Professor of VLSI and Digital Systems, University of Washington
DEC
02
2011
Control Seminar
On the accuracy and Estimation of Battery Behavior
Anna Stefanopoulou, Professor , Automotive Research Center, University of Michigan
DEC
06
2011
Solid-State and Nano Seminar
Is Configurable Analog VLSI becoming a reality?
Dr. Paul Hasler, Associate Professor , School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology
DEC
07
2011
MIPSE Seminar
The Naval Research Enterprise and Plasma Physics Research at the Naval Research Lab
Dr. Tom Mehlhorn, Naval Research Laboratory
DEC
13
2011
Systems Seminar – ECE
Factor Graphs, Bayes Trees and Preconditioning for SLAM and SFM
Frank Dellaert, Professor , Georgia Institute of Technology