This calendar is sponsored by the Office of the Dean, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Northwestern University. McCormick organizations who want their events to appear on this calendar should contact the Tech-IC group at tech-ic@northwestern.edu. This calendar is part of Plan-It-Purple, Northwestern University's Online Calendar system.
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Title: InNUvation's 2007 New Venture Challenge - Kickoff Meeting
Date: January 11, 2006
Time: 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: Tech LR5
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Description: Come find out about Northwestern's only university-wide entrepreneurship competition and how your team can win the $20,000 grand prize.
- Experience first-hand the process of cultivating a business idea from scratch.
- Gain access to world-class faculty, veteran entrepreneurs, and early-stage investors.
- Form teams by drawing on the diverse backgrounds, interests, and talents of individuals throughout the university.
Contact: Kenneth Kaiser
9546090220
Audience: Faculty, All students, Staff, Graduate students, Undergraduate students
Group: InNUvation
| Title: IIN Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series (Bill Jones)
Date: January 12, 2006
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: TECH LR3
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Description:
Contact: Laura Jewett
847-467-4862
Audience: Public
Group: International Institute for Nanotechnology
| Title: Transportation Seminar: Value of Service Choice in Period Vehicle Routing Problems
Date: January 12, 2006
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: McCormick Sch. of Eng (Tech) - Room L221
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Description: Speaker: Peter Francis, PhD Candidate, Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Northwestern University
Contact: Diana Marek
847-491-2280
Audience: Public
Group: Transportation Center Seminar Series
| Title: Bazant: Induced-Charge Electro-osmosis and Electrophoresis
Date: January 16, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech M416
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Description: Applied Math Colloquium
Title: Induced-Charge Electro-osmosis and Electrophoresis
Speaker: Prof. Martin Bazant, MIT
Special Note: Refreshments will be served at 3:30pm in Tech M416
Contact: Mary Catsicopoulos
847/491-5586
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick-Colloquia Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
| Title: GSF Coffee Break - Winter '06
Date: January 16, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Vestibule between Tech and Mudd Library
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Description: GSF Coffee Break for graduate students, faculty, post-docs, visiting scholars, and lab staff in the ChBE department. Hosted by the GSF and by various labs within the department:
Barron 1/9/2006
Broadbelt 1/16/2006
Miller 1/23/2006
Amaral 1/30/2006
Papoutsakis 1/30/2006
Ottino 2/6/2006
Burghardt 2/6/2006
Olvera 2/13/2006
Hatzimanikatis 2/13/2006
Gray 2/20/2006
Shea 2/20/2006
Kung 2/27/2006
Snurr 2/27/2006
Gryzbowski 3/6/2006
Torkelson 3/6/2006
Contact: Lindsay Karfeld, Jennifer Coyne, or Stacey Pace
847-491-4089
Audience: Faculty, Staff, Graduate students, Undergraduate students
Group: Chemical and Biological Engineering
| Title: Sandhouse Gang: Trespassing and U.S. Railroads
Date: January 17, 2006
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: TBA
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Description: Ian Savage, Professor of Economics, Northwestern U.will present recent research findings relating to rail safety and security concerns focusing specifically on problems relating to trespassing problems for U.S. railroads.
Contact: Diana Marek
847-491-2280
Audience: Public
Group: Transportation Center - Sandhouse Gang
| Title: ChBE Seminar: Mark Stoykovich, UW Madison
Date: January 19, 2006
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Location: Tech LR5
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Description: Directed Self-Assembly of Block Copolymer Blends into Nonregular Device-Oriented Structures
Mark Stoykovich
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI
Thursday, January 19th, 2006, at 9:00am in LR5
The Technological Institute
2145 Sheridan Road
Refreshments will be served at 8:45 AM
Contact: Allison Strick
847-491-2773
Audience: Public
Group: Chemical and Biological Engineering
| Title: Emonet: Fluctuation-adaptation relationship in bacterial...
Date: January 20, 2006
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: Tech M416
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Description: Applied Math Colloquium
Title: Fluctuation-adaptation relationship in bacterial chemotaxis
Speaker: Dr. Thierry Emonet, University of Chicago
Special Note: Refreshments will be served prior to the talk in room Tech M416, at 1:30.
Contact: Mary Catsicopoulos
847/491-5586
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick-Colloquia Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
| Title: EECS Distinguished Seminar by Kenneth D. Forbus: Cognitive Systems
Date: January 20, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: Tech L324
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Description: “Companions: A Cognitive Architecture Based on Analogical Processing”
Professor Kenneth D. Forbus
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Computer Science and Professor of Education
Qualitative Reasoning Group
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Northwestern University
Understanding the nature of common sense reasoning is one of the central problems of cognitive science. Dedre Gentner and I hypothesize that the robustness of human reasoning arises from analogical processing. One way we are testing this hypothesis is by creating a new cognitive architecture, Companion Cognitive Systems, which uses our cognitive simulations of analogical matching, retrieval, and generalization centrally. Our goal is to create flexible, broadly capable reasoning and learning systems that can operate as partners with people over extended periods of time. This talk will outline the key analogical processing ideas and some results of learning experiments involving sketch understanding with a baseline model. The features of the next generation of the architecture, which is being brought on-line now, will be discussed, along with work underway to learn how to play strategy games and to solve physics problems.
Contact: Brooke Hildebrand
847-491-3451
Audience: Public
Group: Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
| Title: GSF Coffee Break - Winter '06
Date: January 23, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Vestibule between Tech and Mudd Library
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Description: GSF Coffee Break for graduate students, faculty, post-docs, visiting scholars, and lab staff in the ChBE department. Hosted by the GSF and by various labs within the department:
Barron 1/9/2006
Broadbelt 1/16/2006
Miller 1/23/2006
Amaral 1/30/2006
Papoutsakis 1/30/2006
Ottino 2/6/2006
Burghardt 2/6/2006
Olvera 2/13/2006
Hatzimanikatis 2/13/2006
Gray 2/20/2006
Shea 2/20/2006
Kung 2/27/2006
Snurr 2/27/2006
Gryzbowski 3/6/2006
Torkelson 3/6/2006
Contact: Lindsay Karfeld, Jennifer Coyne, or Stacey Pace
847-491-4089
Audience: Faculty, Staff, Graduate students, Undergraduate students
Group: Chemical and Biological Engineering
| Title: Master of Information Technology Open House
Date: January 24, 2006
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: Technological Institute, Room L324
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Description: The Master of Information Technology Program at Northwestern University offers IT professionals the opportunity to earn a master’s degree from one of the nation’s top universities without interrupting their careers. The MITP will teach you how to:
create optimum IT solutions that meet your company's business goals
use IT strategically, from a business perspective
apply timeless engineering principles to the latest technologies
Attend a free Open House on January 24 and:
- Learn how we help you bridge the worlds of technology and business with our unique 70% technical/30% business curriculum
- Find out how our program caters to the working adult
- Meet our faculty, students, and alumni
- Get information about admission and financial aid
Contact: Erin Perez
847-467-6557
Audience: Public
Group: MS in Information Technology Program
| Title: ChBE Seminar: Dr. Emmanouil Doxastakis, UW Madison
Date: January 26, 2006
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Location: Tech LR5
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Description: Title to be announced
Dr. Emmanouil Doxastakis
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI
Thursday, January 26th, 2006, at 9:00am in LR5
The Technological Institute
2145 Sheridan Road
Refreshments will be served at 8:45 AM
Contact: Allison Strick
847-491-2773
Audience: Public
Group: Chemical and Biological Engineering
| Title: Bazant: Statistical Mechanics of Failure Risk: From...
Date: January 27, 2006
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: Tech M345
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Description: Applied Math Colloquium
Title: Statistical Mechanics of Failure Risk: From Atomic to Structural Scale
Speaker: Prof. Zdenek Bazant, Northwestern University
Special Note: This event is cosponsored by depts of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science. Please note, this lecture is in TECH M345.
Contact: Mary Catsicopoulos
847/491-5586
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick-Colloquia Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
| Title: Colloquia on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
Date: January 27, 2006
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: 2145 Sheridan Road, Tech L361
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Description: In the current design codes for concrete structures, as well as design practices for composites, ceramics and other quasibrittle materials, the understrength (capacity reduction) parts of true safety factors are very large (about 3.5 for shear of RC beams). Since extremely small failure probability such as Pf . 10€7 must be ensured in design, the safety factors can be calibrated by experiments only if the type of cumulative distribution function (cdf) of structural failure probability is established theoretically. In histograms of normal laboratory tests, the Gaussian (normal) and Weibull cdf are hardly distinguishable. But distinguished they must be, because the point of Pf . 10€7 is on Weibull cdf typically about twice as far from the mean than it is on the Gaussian distribution of the same mean and variance. It is shown that the cdf type follows from the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution of atomic thermal energies and the applied stress dependence of activation energy barriers on the interatomic potential surface. This nano-mechanical basis also yields the cdf dependence on temperature, loading duration or rate, and chemo-mechanical effects in nanopores. For concrete specimens of the size of a representative volume element (RVE), the cdf is shown to have a Gaussian core with a far-out power-law tail extending up to about Pf . 0.0001— 0.01. For increasing structure size, measured by the equivalent number Neq of RVEs (which includes the effect of structure geometry on Pf ), it is proposed to use a cdf in which aWeibull tail is grafted onto a Gaussian core. The grafting point shifts according to the proposed law from Pf . 0.0001—0.01 to Pf = 1 as Neq increases. This grafted cdf is superposed onto the energetic-probabilistic size effect on the mean structural strength. From the location of Weibull-Gaussian transition point of experimental cdf for two sufficiently different sizes, the model can be fully calibrated. For sufficiently large Neq(. 100—10,000), the strength o
Contact: Natalie L. Freely
847-467-2673
Audience: Faculty, Graduate students
Group: McCormick - Civil and Environmental Engineering
| Title: GSF Coffee Break - Winter '06
Date: January 30, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Vestibule between Tech and Mudd Library
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Description: GSF Coffee Break for graduate students, faculty, post-docs, visiting scholars, and lab staff in the ChBE department. Hosted by the GSF and by various labs within the department:
Barron 1/9/2006
Broadbelt 1/16/2006
Miller 1/23/2006
Amaral 1/30/2006
Papoutsakis 1/30/2006
Ottino 2/6/2006
Burghardt 2/6/2006
Olvera 2/13/2006
Hatzimanikatis 2/13/2006
Gray 2/20/2006
Shea 2/20/2006
Kung 2/27/2006
Snurr 2/27/2006
Gryzbowski 3/6/2006
Torkelson 3/6/2006
Contact: Lindsay Karfeld, Jennifer Coyne, or Stacey Pace
847-491-4089
Audience: Faculty, Staff, Graduate students, Undergraduate students
Group: Chemical and Biological Engineering
| Title: ChBE Seminar: Prof. Lynn Loo, UT Austin
Date: February 02, 2006
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Location: Tech LR5
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Description: Title to be announced
Professor Lynn Loo
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Texas
Austin, TX
Thursday, January 26th, 2006, at 9:00am in LR5
The Technological Institute
2145 Sheridan Road
Refreshments will be served at 8:45 AM
Contact: Allison Strick
847-491-2773
Audience: Public
Group: Chemical and Biological Engineering
| Title: The Automotive Industry and the Dynamics of Consumer Demand: The Case of Automobile Leasing
Date: February 03, 2006
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Location: McCormick Sch. of Eng (Tech)- Civil & Environ. Conference Room -A230
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Description: Speaker: Fred Mannering, Professor of Civil Engineering & Economics, Purdue University
Contact: Diana Marek
847-491-2280
Audience: Public
Group: Transportation Center Seminar Series
| Title: A Variational Approach for Inferring Dynamic Origin-Destination Trip Demands
Date: February 06, 2006
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Location: McCormick Sch. of Eng (Tech)- Civil & Environ. Conference Room -A230
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Description: Speaker:Yu (Marco) Nie, PhD Candidate, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, U. of California, Davis
Abstract: The seminar speaker will discuss his research on inferring time-varying travel demands from limited traffic measurements.
Contact: Diana Marek
847-491-2280
Audience: Public
Group: Transportation Center Seminar Series
| Title: EECS Distinguished Seminar Series - Prof. Bruce Hajek
Date: February 06, 2006
Time: 11:00 AM
Location: Technological Institute - L324
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Description: "VCG-Kelly Mechanisms for Allocation of Divisible Goods: Adapting VCG Mechanisms to One-Dimensional Signals"
Professor Bruce Hajek
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
The well known mechanism of Vikrey, Clark, and Groves (VCG) can be applied to many allocation problems. If the goods to be allocated are continuously divisible, for example if the goods are communication rates along paths of a high speed communication network, the VCG mechanism requires that the bids are functions of a real variable. F.P. Kelly and his co-workers developed an allocation mechanism based on one dimensional bids, which is efficient if the buyers are price takers. The idea is that the one-dimensional signal from a buyer specifies a function from a one-dimensional family of valuation functions. The network pretends that the specified valuation function is the true valuation function of the buyer, and the buyer acts as a price-taker to select the one-dimensional signal to maximize his value. We propose the VCG-Kelly mechanism, which is obtained by composing the one-dimensional signaling idea of Kelly with the VCG mechanism, providing efficient allocation for strategic buyers, at the Nash equilibrium point. The VCG-Kelly mechanism is studied in the case of a network rate allocation problem, and it applies to several others. It is shown how the revenue to the seller can be minimized or maximized using suitable choices of one-dimensional families of functions. The Nash equilibrium point is shown to be globally stable for the mechanism. A comparison is made to results in the economics literature, including those of Reichelstein and Reiter, on game forms with minimal message spaces. (Joint work with Sichao Yang).
Bruce Hajek received the BS in Mathematics and MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois in 1979 and the Ph. D. in Electical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.
Contact: Brooke Hildebrand
847-491-3451
Audience: Public
Group: Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
| Title: GSF Coffee Break - Winter '06
Date: February 06, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Vestibule between Tech and Mudd Library
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Description: GSF Coffee Break for graduate students, faculty, post-docs, visiting scholars, and lab staff in the ChBE department. Hosted by the GSF and by various labs within the department:
Barron 1/9/2006
Broadbelt 1/16/2006
Miller 1/23/2006
Amaral 1/30/2006
Papoutsakis 1/30/2006
Ottino 2/6/2006
Burghardt 2/6/2006
Olvera 2/13/2006
Hatzimanikatis 2/13/2006
Gray 2/20/2006
Shea 2/20/2006
Kung 2/27/2006
Snurr 2/27/2006
Gryzbowski 3/6/2006
Torkelson 3/6/2006
Contact: Lindsay Karfeld, Jennifer Coyne, or Stacey Pace
847-491-4089
Audience: Faculty, Staff, Graduate students, Undergraduate students
Group: Chemical and Biological Engineering
| Title: SBIR 101: Learn about gov. R&D grant programs for small businesses
Date: February 07, 2006
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Lurie Building, Gray Room
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Description: SBIR - 101
Do you think that your research findings might have commercial potential?
Thinking about starting a company based on your research?
Come learn how government SBIR/STTR grants can help!
Two Dates and Locations:
Chicago Campus:
Tuesday, February 7th – 12:00 – 1:00
Lurie Building, Gray Room
Evanston Campus:
Wednesday, February 8th – 12:00-1:00
Tech Institute, Room L251
Topics to be covered include:
*What Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants are and which agencies provide them
*How to search for SBIR/STTR topics
*Best practices/tips on winning SBIR/STTRs
*Eligibility requirements – You do not need a business before applying
*The benefits of getting a SBIR/STTR
*How ITEC – Evanston can help you
*Also, details for the upcoming seminar – “How to write an SBIR/STTR”
Presenter: Jim Bray, ITEC-Evanston.
Mr. Bray provides business development support to emerging high technology companies, focusing on technology with applications in the life sciences. He has successfully helped several ITEC client companies obtain grants.
Mr. Bray joined ITEC in January, 2003. His previous experience includes positions with Protocare Trials in business development and with the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center at Northwestern University in pediatric oncology research. He holds an MS in Biotechnology and a BA in Molecular and Cellular Biology from Northwestern University.
Email soon to register and confirm your spot (please specify location):
itec@northwestern.edu
Sponsored by the McCormick Office of Industry Relations and the Feinberg School of Medicine.
Contact: Jim Bray
847-491-2985
Audience: Public
Group: ITEC - Evanston
| Title: SBIR 101: Learn about gov. R&D grant programs for small businesses
Date: February 08, 2006
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Tech Institute, L251
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Description: SBIR - 101
Do you think that your research findings might have commercial potential?
Thinking about starting a company based on your research?
Come learn how government SBIR/STTR grants can help!
Two Dates and Locations:
Chicago Campus:
Tuesday, February 7th – 12:00 – 1:00
Lurie Building, Gray Room
Evanston Campus:
Wednesday, February 8th – 12:00-1:00
Tech Institute, Room L251
Topics to be covered include:
*What Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants are and which agencies provide them
*How to search for SBIR/STTR topics
*Best practices/tips on winning SBIR/STTRs
*Eligibility requirements – You do not need a business before applying
*The benefits of getting a SBIR/STTR
*How ITEC – Evanston can help you
*Also, details for the upcoming seminar – “How to write an SBIR/STTR”
Presenter: Jim Bray, ITEC-Evanston.
Mr. Bray provides business development support to emerging high technology companies, focusing on technology with applications in the life sciences. He has successfully helped several ITEC client companies obtain grants.
Mr. Bray joined ITEC in January, 2003. His previous experience includes positions with Protocare Trials in business development and with the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center at Northwestern University in pediatric oncology research. He holds an MS in Biotechnology and a BA in Molecular and Cellular Biology from Northwestern University.
Email soon to register and confirm your spot (please specify location):
itec@northwestern.edu
Sponsored by the McCormick Office of Industry Relations and the Feinberg School of Medicine.
Contact: Jim Bray
847-491-2985
Audience: Public
Group: ITEC - Evanston
| Title: IIN Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series (James Baker)
Date: February 08, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Pancoe-ENH Abbott Auditorium
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Description:
Contact: Laura Jewett
847-467-4862
Audience: Public
Group: International Institute for Nanotechnology
| Title: ChBE Seminar: Justin Notestein, UC Berkeley
Date: February 09, 2006
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Location: Tech LR5
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Description: Title to be announced
Justin Notestein
University of California Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
Thursday, January 26th, 2006, at 9:00am in LR5
The Technological Institute
2145 Sheridan Road
Refreshments will be served at 8:45 AM
Contact: Allison Strick
847-491-2773
Audience: Public
Group: Chemical and Biological Engineering
| Title: Dodds: Models of social and biological contagion
Date: February 10, 2006
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: Tech M416
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Description: Applied Math Colloquium
Title: Models of social and biological contagion
Speaker: Peter S. Dodds, Columbia University
Special Note: Refreshments will be served prior to the talk in Tech M416.
Contact: Mary Catsicopoulos
847/491-5586
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick-Colloquia Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
| Title: Colloquia on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
Date: February 10, 2006
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: 2145 Sheridan Rd
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Description: Franz-Josef Ulm
MIT Civil Engineering
Contact: Kim Nowakowski
847-491-3257
Audience: Faculty, Graduate students
Group: McCormick - Civil and Environmental Engineering
| Title: IIN Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series (Jinwoo Cheon)
Date: February 12, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Pancoe-ENH Abbott Auditorium
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Description:
Contact: Laura Jewett
847-467-4862
Audience: Public
Group: International Institute for Nanotechnology
| Title: Transportation Seminar: Deconstructing Freeway Traffic Congestion
Date: February 13, 2006
Time: 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Location: McCormick Sch. of Eng (Tech) Civil & Environ. Conference Rm. A230
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Description: Speaker: Ben Coiffman, Asst. Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering & Geodetic Science, Ohio State University
Contact: Diana Marek
847-491-2280
Audience: Public
Group: Transportation Center Seminar Series
| Title: Electro-Thermal Interaction and Design of Nanoscale Devices
Date: February 13, 2006
Time: 11:00 AM
Location: Technological Institute - L324
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Description: “Electro-Thermal Interaction and Design of Nanoscale Devices”
Dr. Eric Pop
Intel Researcher in Residence
Chemistry and Thermal Sciences, Electrical Engineering, and Physics
Stanford University
Rising power densities are often considered the ultimate roadblock in the evolution of nano-electronics. This talk presents a bottom-up approach to address the nano-electronics power problem, as well as recent progress made in understanding the physics of charge and heat transport in nanoscale devices. First, a new Monte Carlo approach to computing self-heating in solid-state devices is introduced. Device scaling is simultaneously analyzed from an electrical and thermal point of view, and new SOI/GOI designs are presented. The role of contacts and surface area/volume is explored, experimentally where the technology permits, and theoretically otherwise. Single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) are then examined as the ultimate limit of nano-transistors and interconnects. Power density issues are found in SWNTs as well, despite their outstanding electrical and thermal properties: Suspended SWNTs exhibit negative differential conductance due to severe self-heating and hot phonon scattering, while SWNTs on substrates burn when exposed to air under high applied biases. These experiments can be used to gain new insights into SWNT fundamentals like thermal conductivity, some scattering mechanisms and interactions with the environment -- which are deduced for the first time. The overall work suggests much room for the optimization of nano-electronics from SOI to carbon nanotubes, through geometry, contact and materials design.
Dr. Eric Pop received the Ph.D. degree from Stanford University in EE in 2005, supported by a joint SRC/IBM fellowship. He also holds degrees from MIT in EE (M.Eng., S.B. 1999) and Physics (S.B. 1999). In 2005 he did post-doctoral research on the electrical and thermal properties of carbon nanotubes at Stanford. He is currently an Intel Researcher i
Contact: Brooke Hildebrand
847-491-3451
Audience: Public
Group: Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
| Title: Sandhouse Gang: Impact of Weight Limits on Small & Medium Railroads
Date: February 13, 2006
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Transportation Center, Chambers Hall, Lower Level Classroom, 600 Foster, Evanston
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Description: IaReilly McCarren will discuss the 286,000 weight limit's impact on small and medium railroads. WHile this weight limit has become standard on Class I railroads, many small roads have found difficulty in accommodating this standard.
Contact: Diana Marek
847-491-2280
Audience: Public
Group: Transportation Center - Sandhouse Gang
| Title: GSF Coffee Break - Winter '06
Date: February 13, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Vestibule between Tech and Mudd Library
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Description: GSF Coffee Break for graduate students, faculty, post-docs, visiting scholars, and lab staff in the ChBE department. Hosted by the GSF and by various labs within the department:
Barron 1/9/2006
Broadbelt 1/16/2006
Miller 1/23/2006
Amaral 1/30/2006
Papoutsakis 1/30/2006
Ottino 2/6/2006
Burghardt 2/6/2006
Olvera 2/13/2006
Hatzimanikatis 2/13/2006
Gray 2/20/2006
Shea 2/20/2006
Kung 2/27/2006
Snurr 2/27/2006
Gryzbowski 3/6/2006
Torkelson 3/6/2006
Contact: Lindsay Karfeld, Jennifer Coyne, or Stacey Pace
847-491-4089
Audience: Faculty, Staff, Graduate students, Undergraduate students
Group: Chemical and Biological Engineering
| Title: Mornings @ McCormick "Advances in Nanophotonic Materials and Devices"
Date: February 14, 2006
Time: 7:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Location: McCormick Technological Institute, 2145 Sheridan, JBC Room, 4th Floor, Evanston, Illinois
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Description: Mornings@ McCormick Presentation: “Advances in Nanophotonic Materials and Devices” Presented by Professor Bruce Wessels, McCormick’s Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department
Advanced materials synthesis techniques are now available that enable fabrication of new electronic, magnetic and photonic materials and devices at the nanoscale. Multiphase composites can be designed and synthesized that are multifunctional. Through nanostructure engineering materials that have both enhanced electro-optic and microwave properties can be fabricated. Another example is by forming composites of ferroelectric materials with magnetic materials, new magneto-optical and magneto-electric materials can be realized. These multifunctional materials have applications ranging from optical devices for future generation internet to nanophotonic devices for biological, chemical and environmental sensing
Contact: d-daniel
(847) 491-8670
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick Office of Corporate Relations
| Title: BIOimpact! Learn about the upcoming BIO 2006 conference.
Date: February 14, 2006
Time: 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: Robert H. Lurie Medical Research Center, Eleanor Balwin Auditorium
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Description: Have you heard about BIO 2006? The Olympics of the biotech industry will be in Chicago in 3 months!
Think you can't afford to go? Think again! There ARE low priced options available: for $150 you can attend BIO 2006 for all three days and have access to the exhibit hall and poster session areas. There are so many exhibitors, you could spend the entire time connecting with people from organizations all over the globe. Nearly all pharmaceutical and biotech companies will be represented at this conference. Overall there are expected to be 20,000 attendees!
Students have the opportunity to volunteer for 2 days and receive a complimentary pass the remaining two days for free!
The Illinois Biotechnology Industry Association invites you to come learn more about BIO 2006. You could even win a FREE full conference registration (includes session tracks, lunches and receptions), compliments of Jack Lavin, Director, Dept. of Commerce & Economic Opportunity (DCEO), State of Illinois.
Speakers include:
Philip Greenland, Executive Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research at Northwestern University.
David Miller, President of iBIO.
Michael Flavin, chairman and CEO of Advanced Life Sciences and well-known serial entrepreneur and founder of Flavin Capital Group, which invests in promising biotech and life sciences companies.
Ray Briscuso, former executive director of BIO and developer of the BIO Annual International Convention.
Norbert Riedel, CVP, Chief Science Officer, Baxter International, Inc.
iBIO encourages all life sciences entrepreneurs; academics with a commercial focus; leading life sciences companies (medical, agricultural, environmental, industrial); angel and institutional investors; entrepreneurial assistance organizations; industry experts; public officials; and service providers to attend.
Don’t forget to RSVP to ibioadmin@ibio.org.
Contact: Jim Bray
847-491-2985
Audience: Public
Group: ITEC - Evanston
| Title: MSE Colloquium
Date: February 14, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech L211
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Description: Prof. Gunther Eggeler
Multiple Step Martensitic Transformations in Ni-rich NiTi Shape Memory Alloys
Contact: MSE Department
847-491-3537
Audience: Public
Group: Department of Materials Science and Engineering
| Title: IIN Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series (Ralph Nuzzo)
Date: February 15, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Pancoe-ENH Abbott Auditorium
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Description:
Contact: Laura Jewett
847-467-4862
Audience: Public
Group: International Institute for Nanotechnology
| Title: BME-ME Seminar: Fabrication of Micro/Nano Systems Through Biotic-Abiotic Interfacing
Date: February 16, 2006
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: Nano Building Room 4003
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Description: Joint BME-ME Seminar Dean Ho, PhD, Dept of Bioeng, Calif Instit of Tech
Contact: Arlene Preus
847 467 6510
Audience: Faculty, Graduate students
Group: McCormick - Mechanical Engineering
| Title: ChBE Seminar: Dr. Ali Mohraz, U Illinois Urbana
Date: February 16, 2006
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Location: Tech LR5
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Description: Understanding and Controlling Colloidal Interactions for Advanced Materials Assembly
Dr. Ali Mohraz, Faculty Candidate
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL
Thursday, February 16, 2006, at 9:00am in LR5
The Technological Institute
2145 Sheridan Road
Refreshments will be served at 8:45 AM
Contact: Allison Strick
847-491-2773
Audience: Public
Group: Chemical and Biological Engineering
| Title: "Exploiting the Hidden Offerings of Nanomaterials"
Date: February 16, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: Technological Institue - 2145 Sheridan Road
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Description: “Exploiting the Hidden Offerings of Nanomaterials: Carbon Nanotubes, Quantum Dots, and Controlled Electron Emission”
Nanoscale materials offer new possibilities not only because of higher integration levels, but also, and perhaps more importantly, due to their new, unusual behaviors compared to larger structures. The proper exploitation of these unique properties can lead to shortcut solutions to many challenging problems. In this seminar, we will examine some of these behaviors in the context of two distinct, but related, main subjects: carbon nanotube-based quantum dots and controllable electron emitters. Besides providing a vehicle for the study of physics, quantum dots have applications in electronics, optoelectronics, and quantum information processing. One major problem with microfabricated quantum dots is that they are often too large to exhibit quantized-level effects at room temperature. We will see how the inherent interplay between the mechanical and electronic structures in single-walled carbon nanotubes in a cross-like arrangement can provide a solution. The controlled fabrication of nanotube devices and, in particular, two-dimensional structures presents great challenge. We will introduce a new technique where a specific electric field distribution is used to align carbon nanotubes in a cross configuration in one growth step. Controllable nanoscale electron sources are in demand in electron-beam lithography systems, display technologies, and free-electron analog to digital converters. We will discuss novel nanotube-based electron emitters where emission is triggered by an external control agent, in this case another electron beam, with an electron multiplication factor of up to 100. A model based on ab initio calculations will also be presented to explain this phenomenon, which cannot be explained using traditional beam-bulk interaction models. Interestingly, this effect shows that carbon nanotubes can be used not only as controllable emitters, bu
Contact: Brooke Hildebrand
847-491-3451
Audience: Public
Group: Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
| Title: Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series (Prof. Harry Atwater)
Date: February 16, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech L-211
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Description: Harry Atwater, California Institute of Technology
"Plasmonics: A Route To Nanoscale Optical Devices"
Contact: Mary Drzewiecki
(847) 467-2530
Audience: Public
Group: International Institute for Nanotechnology
| Title: Seminar by: Dr. Stephen Borgatti Organization Studies Department, Boston College
Date: February 16, 2006
Time: 9:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Location: Ford Building, ITW Classroom (Rm#-1-350)
Description:
Topic: “On the Centrality of Nodes in a Network”
Speaker: Dr. Stephen Borgatti, Professor and Chair
Abstract: Centrality is one of the most, well, central concepts in social network analysis. But what exactly is it? Are there node-level network constructs that are not centrality? This paper discusses the essential nature of centrality measures, presenting both a graph-theoretic typology and a stochastic perspective. Finally, the relation between centrality metrics and the uses to which they are put is discussed in the light of epidemiological, anti-terrorism, marketing and human resource applications.
Bio:
Dr. Borgatti is a Professor at Boston College, and Chairman (as of 1 June 2005) of the Organization Studies Department. His primary research interest is social network analysis. He also has an interest in cultural domains and knowledge management. Dr. Borgatti is a Senior Editor at Organization Science, and sits on the editorial boards of Journal of Management, Computational and Mathematical Organizational Theory, Journal of Social Structure, and Field Methods. He is a past President of INSNA, the professional association for social network researchers, and remains a member of the board of directors. He also founded and continues to manage the SOCNET listserv, as well as the UCINET group.
A reception for Dr. Borgatti will be held from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. in Tech Building, Room C211, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL.
The reception is sponsored by IE/MS and NICO
Contact: Gwen Hoffman
(847) 491-3576
Audience: Public
Group: Industrial Engineering/ Management Sciences
| Title: “Supporting Energy Efficient Communication Through On-Demand Topology Management”
Date: February 17, 2006
Time: 11:00 AM
Location: Technological Institute - Room L324
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Description: Professor Robin Kravetz
Computer Science Department
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
To reduce energy consumption from idle listening, wireless nodes in ad hoc and sensor networks can switch to a power-save mode. However, some nodes may need to stay in active mode to support forwarding. The main challenge of selecting which nodes should stay in active or power-save mode stems from the need to conserve energy while maintaining communication. Although, topology management protocols identify redundant nodes that may power down their radios, such protocols incur proactive backbone maintenance overhead even when the network is idle. On-demand power management manages node transitions from active to power-save mode based on information from the routing protocol. However, on-demand power management is only traffic-driven and may result in keeping redundant nodes awake. We have proposed TITAN, which builds a forwarding backbone reactively utilizing information about both ongoing communication and the current power-management mode of nodes along potential routes. The design of TITAN is based on our analysis of the tradeoffs between using shorter routes and waking up power-saving nodes and using longer routes through nodes that are already active. TITAN achieves energy conservation while maintaining efficient communication without incurring any additional control overhead for topology management.
Robin Kravets is currently an associate professor at the Computer Science Department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Kravets received her Ph.D. from the College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology in 1999. She is the head of the Mobius group at UIUC, which researches communication issues in mobile and ad hoc networking, including power management, connectivity management, transport protocols, admission control, location management, routing and security.
Contact: Brooke Hildebrand
847-491-3451
Audience: Public
Group: Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
| Title: Colloquia on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
Date: February 17, 2006
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: 2145 Sheridan Rd
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Description: Anthony M Waas
University of Michigan
Contact: Kim Nowakowski
847-491-3257
Audience: Faculty, Graduate students
Group: McCormick - Civil and Environmental Engineering
| Title: Sustainability and Entrepreneurship
Date: February 18, 2006
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: Parkes Hall, room 122: 1870 Sheridan Road
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Description: Dinner will be served.
Keynote speaker: Mr. Michael Diamond, president of World Resources Chicago.
Presented by Engineers for a Sustainable World, Americans for Informed Democracy, Students for Environmental and Ecological Development, NU Students for International Development, and The Global Medical Relief Program
A mini-conference for sustainability-minded student groups and those who can help us or whom we can help. Michael Diamond received his M.A. in Medical/Social Anthropology from the New School for Social Research in New York. For 10 years, he was the Division Manager of the Humanitarian Programs of The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International and in that capacity he managed PolioPlus, Rotary's global program to eradicate polio. For 15 years he worked with the international YMCA and has visited over 45 countries and worked with people in over 150 countries.
Contact: John Romankiewicz
847 942 5982
Audience: Public
Group: Engineers for a Sustainable World
| Title: Master of Project Management Seminar Series
Date: February 20, 2006
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: Technological Institute A230
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Description: The seminar speaker will be Steve Scherer from Hayward Baker.
Contact: Leona Lealaitafea
847-491-7246
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
| Title: GSF Coffee Break - Winter '06
Date: February 20, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Vestibule between Tech and Mudd Library
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Description: GSF Coffee Break for graduate students, faculty, post-docs, visiting scholars, and lab staff in the ChBE department. Hosted by the GSF and by various labs within the department:
Barron 1/9/2006
Broadbelt 1/16/2006
Miller 1/23/2006
Amaral 1/30/2006
Papoutsakis 1/30/2006
Ottino 2/6/2006
Burghardt 2/6/2006
Olvera 2/13/2006
Hatzimanikatis 2/13/2006
Gray 2/20/2006
Shea 2/20/2006
Kung 2/27/2006
Snurr 2/27/2006
Gryzbowski 3/6/2006
Torkelson 3/6/2006
Contact: Lindsay Karfeld, Jennifer Coyne, or Stacey Pace
847-491-4089
Audience: Faculty, Staff, Graduate students, Undergraduate students
Group: Chemical and Biological Engineering
| Title: Rubinstein: The Weighted Least Action Principle
Date: February 20, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech M416
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Description: Applied Math Colloquium
Title: The Weighted Least Action Principle
Speaker: Prof. Jacob Rubinstein, Indiana University
Special Note: Refreshments will be served at 3:30pm in Tech M416.
Contact: Mary Catsicopoulos
847/491-5586
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick-Colloquia Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
| Title: BME-ME Seminar: Cell-Matrix Mechanics
Date: February 21, 2006
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: ITW Auditorium Rm 1.350, Ford Bldg
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Description: Cell-Matrix Mechanics: Matrix Characterization and Cell Behavior by Brendan Harley, PhD, Dept of Mech Eng, MA Instit of Tech
Contact: Arlene Preus
(847) 467-6510
Audience: Faculty, Graduate students
Group: McCormick - Mechanical Engineering
| Title: Fiete: A General Theory of Optimization by Perturbation in Realistic Neural Networks...
Date: February 21, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech M416
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Description: Applied Math Colloquium
Title: A General Theory of Optimization by Perturbation in Realistic Neural Networks and a Model of Birdsong Learning Speaker: Dr. Ila Fiete, Kavli Institute
Special Note: Refreshments will be served prior to the talk in Tech M416.
Contact: Mary Catsicopoulos
847/491-5586
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick-Colloquia Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
| Title: MSE Colloquium
Date: February 21, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech L211
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Description: Prof. Murray Gibson, Argonne National Laboratories
X-Ray Microscopy in the Nanoworld
Contact: MSE Department
847-491-3537
Audience: Public
Group: Department of Materials Science and Engineering
| Title: MSE Colloquium
Date: February 21, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech L211
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Description: Prof. Murray Gibson, Argonne National Laboratories
X-Ray Microscopy in the Nanoworld
Contact: MSE Department
847-491-3537
Audience: Public
Group: Department of Materials Science and Engineering
| Title: McCormick Tech Expo
Date: February 22, 2006
Time: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Louis Room, Norris University Center, 1999 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL
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Description: McCORMICK TECH EXPO: ATTENTION ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE MAJORS - Still looking for a co-op, internship or full time job? Then attend the upcoming McCormick Tech Expo presented by the NU Engineering Co-op Office. The McCormick Tech Expo is another great opportunity for you to meet recruiters seeking engineering, astronomy, biology, chemistry and physics majors for co-op, intership or full-time positions.
DRESS TO IMPRESS (IN BUSINESS ATTIRE), DO YOUR COMPANY RESEARCH AND BRING RESUMES! Some the of the companies scheduled to attend are Agilent Technologies, Boeing, Honeywell, Hospira, Intel Corporation, MOOG, Northrop Grumman, Rohm and Haas, T-Mobile, Unilever and more.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2006 - LOUIS ROOM, NORRIS UNIVERSITY CENTER 1:00 P.M. TO 5:00 P.M.
Contact: Engineering Co-op Office
(847) 491-3366
Audience: All students
Group: McCormick Office of Corporate Relations
| Title: ChBE Graduate Recruiting
Date: February 23, 2006
Location: Technological Institute and elsewhere
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Description: ChBE Graduate Recruiting Weekend I
February 23 - 26, 2006
EVENTS:
Thursday: Pick up students at airport, meet & greet at hotel
Friday, day: Lab tours, faculty meetings, poster session
Friday, evening: Firehouse Grill
Saturday: Signature Room lunch, downtown tours, social outings
Sunday: Departures
Contact: Allison Strick
847-491-2773
Audience: Faculty, Staff, Graduate students
Group: Chemical and Biological Engineering
| Title: ChBE Seminar: Dr. Mark Snyder, University of Delaware
Date: February 23, 2006
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Location: Tech LR5
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Description: Multiscale approaches towards structure-properties relations for diffusion through polycrystalline microporous films
Dr. Mark Snyder, Faculty Candidate
University of Delaware
Newark, DE
Thursday, February 23, 2006, at 9:00am in LR5
The Technological Institute
2145 Sheridan Road
Refreshments will be served at 8:45 AM
Contact: Allison Strick
847-491-2773
Audience: Public
Group: Chemical and Biological Engineering
| Title: Distinguished Seminar: Dean of Engineering at Princeton
Date: February 23, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: Technological Institute - M345
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Description: Dr. Maria Klawe
Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Science
Princeton University
President Elect, Harvey Mudd College
“Gender, Lies and Video Games: the Truth about Females and Computing”
This talk explores how girls and women differ from boys and men in their uses of and attitudes towards computers and computing.
Maria Klawe, Dean of Princeton University's School of Engineering and Applied Science for the past three years, has been selected to become president of Harvey Mudd College, effective July 1, 2006. Maria will be the first woman to serve as President of Harvey Mudd College, a liberal arts college focusing on engineering, science and mathematics education founded in 1955 as one of The Claremont Colleges in Claremont, Calif. Maria came to Princeton from the University of British Columbia where she held posts including dean of science, vice president of student and academic services, and head of the Department of Computer Science. Maria’s rich career also includes eight years with IBM Research in California. She received her Ph.D. and B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Alberta. Maria has made significant research contributions in several areas of mathematics and computer science. She was the founder and director of the Electronic Games for Education in Math and Science, a project which explores the use of computer games in enhancing mathematics education for grades 4 through 9 and studies the effect of gender in technology-based learning environments, and made seminal developments in educational software. Maria is a fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery, chair of the Board of Trustees of the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, and a trustee of the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics in Los Angeles and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley.
Contact: Brooke Hildebrand
847-491-3451
Audience: Public
Group: Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
| Title: Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series (Prof. David Thompson)
Date: February 23, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech L-211
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Description: David Thompson, Purdue University
"Bioresponsive, Nanostructured Materials for Intracellular Drug Delivery and Protein Crystalization"
Contact: Mary Drzewiecki
847-467-2530
Audience: Public
Group: International Institute for Nanotechnology
| Title: Igoshin: Patterns and Signaling Networks in Bacterial...
Date: February 23, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech M416
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Description: Applied Math Colloquium
Title: Patterns and Signaling Networks in Bacterial development: Insights from Mathematical Modeling
Speaker: Dr. Oleg Igoshin, University of California- Davis
Special Note: Refreshments will be served prior to the talk in Tech M416
Contact: Mary Catsicopoulos
847/491-5586
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick-Colloquia Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
| Title: ChBE Graduate Recruiting
Date: February 24, 2006
Location: Technological Institute and elsewhere
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Description: ChBE Graduate Recruiting Weekend I
February 23 - 26, 2006
EVENTS:
Thursday: Pick up students at airport, meet & greet at hotel
Friday, day: Lab tours, faculty meetings, poster session
Friday, evening: Firehouse Grill
Saturday: Signature Room lunch, downtown tours, social outings
Sunday: Departures
Contact: Allison Strick
847-491-2773
Audience: Faculty, Staff, Graduate students
Group: Chemical and Biological Engineering
| Title: ChBE Graduate Recruiting
Date: February 25, 2006
Location: Technological Institute and elsewhere
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Description: ChBE Graduate Recruiting Weekend I
February 23 - 26, 2006
EVENTS:
Thursday: Pick up students at airport, meet & greet at hotel
Friday, day: Lab tours, faculty meetings, poster session
Friday, evening: Firehouse Grill
Saturday: Signature Room lunch, downtown tours, social outings
Sunday: Departures
Contact: Allison Strick
847-491-2773
Audience: Faculty, Staff, Graduate students
Group: Chemical and Biological Engineering
| Title: Master of Project Management Seminar Series
Date: February 27, 2006
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: Technological Institute A230
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Description: The speaker will be Radoslav Barac from Power System Engineering, Inc.
Contact: Leona Lealaitafea
847-491-7246
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
| Title: Bending the Quantum Hall Effect: Novel Metallic and Insulating States in One Dimension
Date: February 27, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: Technological Institute - L324
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Description: Professor Matthew Grayson
Walter Schottky Institut
Technische Universitaet of Munich
One-dimensional conductors are the wires that will connect the circuits of tomorrow's nanoworld, so it is important to characterize their possible conducting phases. We study a novel one-dimensional wire state which arises at the corner of two quantum Hall systems joined at a 90 degree angle, and observe one-dimensional metallic and insulating states. Such non-planar confinement structures are unconventional for the quantum Hall effect and reveal the striking observation of a macroscopic one-dimensional metallic state whose conductance increases with decreasing temperature. This single system can map out generic properties of disordered one-dimensional conductors since the metallic, critical, or insulating character is tunable with an external parameter, the magnetic field.
Dr. Matthew Grayson is currently a non-tenure-track assistant professor at the Walter Schottky Institut, the semiconductor physics department of the Technische Universitaet of Munich. He completed his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame in 1990, and earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton in 1998 from Prof. Dan Tsui performing tunnel spectroscopy measurements of the quantum Hall edge. He then moved to the University of Maryland with Prof. Dennis Drew to study infrared spectroscopy of cuprate superconductors. He returned to the field of semiconductor physics when he began his von Humboldt Fellowship in Germany and continued this to his current appointment where he leads a research group on transport in GaAs-based quantum devices.
Contact: Brooke Hildebrand
847-491-3451
Audience: Public
Group: Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
| Title: GSF Coffee Break - Winter '06
Date: February 27, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Vestibule between Tech and Mudd Library
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Description: GSF Coffee Break for graduate students, faculty, post-docs, visiting scholars, and lab staff in the ChBE department. Hosted by the GSF and by various labs within the department:
Barron 1/9/2006
Broadbelt 1/16/2006
Miller 1/23/2006
Amaral 1/30/2006
Papoutsakis 1/30/2006
Ottino 2/6/2006
Burghardt 2/6/2006
Olvera 2/13/2006
Hatzimanikatis 2/13/2006
Gray 2/20/2006
Shea 2/20/2006
Kung 2/27/2006
Snurr 2/27/2006
Gryzbowski 3/6/2006
Torkelson 3/6/2006
Contact: Lindsay Karfeld, Jennifer Coyne, or Stacey Pace
847-491-4089
Audience: Faculty, Staff, Graduate students, Undergraduate students
Group: Chemical and Biological Engineering
| Title: Miller: New Results on the Semiclassical Limit for the...
Date: February 27, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech M416
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Description: Applied Math Colloquium
Title: New Results on the Semiclassical Limit for the Focusing Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation
Speaker: Prof. Peter D. Miller, University of Michigan
Special Note: Refreshments will be served at 3:30 in Tech M416.
Contact: Mary Catsicopoulos
847/491-5586
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick-Colloquia Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
| Title: Dow Lecture
Date: February 28, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech L211
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Description: Annual Dow Lecture
Prof. David A. Muller, Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University
From Aircraft to Microchips: When Science Meets Technology at the Atomic Scale
Contact: MSE Department
847-491-3537
Audience: Public
Group: Department of Materials Science and Engineering
| Title: Weitz: Evolutionary ecology of microbial and viral...
Date: February 28, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech M416
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Description: Applied Math Colloquium
Title: Evolutionary ecology of microbial and viral communities: from microstates to macrodynamics
Speaker: Dr. Joshua Weitz, Princeton University
Special Note: Refreshments will be served prior to the talk in Tech M416.
Contact: Mary Catsicopoulos
847/491-5586
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick-Colloquia Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
| Title: ChBE Seminar: Danilo Pozzo, Carnegie Mellon University
Date: March 02, 2006
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Location: Tech LR5
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Description: Composite Nanostructures: Protein and nanoparticle arrays templated in block-copolymer mesophases
Danilo Pozzo, Faculty Candidate
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
Thursday, March 2, 2006, at 9:00am in LR5
The Technological Institute
2145 Sheridan Road
Refreshments will be served at 8:45 AM
Contact: Allison Strick
847-491-2773
Audience: Public
Group: Chemical and Biological Engineering
| Title: "Auction Theory for Computational Settings"
Date: March 02, 2006
Time: 11:00 AM
Location: Technological Institute - L324
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Description: “Auction Theory for Computational Settings”
Dr. Ron Lavi
California Institute of Technology
With the growth of the Internet, we witness new distributed systems that are characterized by interactions among computers with different ownership and incentives. In contrast to the traditional assumption in CS that computers (or at least the ``good'' ones) will follow protocols and algorithm specifications, we now ask what happens when the input of the algorithm is kept by independent players, acting selfishly to maximize their own utility. We aim to design algorithms that have guaranteed performance with respect to the true input, even when players may declare false inputs if this will improve their own utility. Such algorithms are termed incentive compatible, or truthful. In this talk I will describe two results in this context. I will first describe a general technique to embed truthfulness (in expectation) into any given approximation algorithm, for a large class of combinatorial allocation problems that contains many routing and scheduling domains. With this method we are able to obtain the first truthful and computationally efficient mechanisms that have tight approximation factors for these settings. I will then describe the study of online auctions, where the different bidders arrive at different times, and the auction mechanism is required to make decisions about each bid as it is received.
Ron Lavi is a post-doc at the California Institute of Technology. He has a Phd in Computer Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. His main research interests are on subjects on the border of Computer Science and Game Theory, including Algorithmic Mechanism Design, Online Auctions, and Combinatorial Auctions. Ron is also interested in general algorithmic theory, and has conducted research in online algorithms, scheduling algorithms, and load balancing algorithms.
Contact: Brooke Hildebrand
847-491-3451
Audience: Public
Group: Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
| Title: Stochastic Optimization Model for Highway Project Selection and Programming
Date: March 02, 2006
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: McCormick Sch. of Eng (Tech) Room L221
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Description: Speaker: Zongzhi Li,Asst. Professor and Director of Transportation Engineering & Infrastructure Engineering Management Programs, Illinois Institute of Technology
Contact: Diana Marek
847-491-2280
Audience: Public
Group: Transportation Center Seminar Series
| Title: "Safeguarding the Nation’s Fiber-Optic Infrastructure Against Unauthorized Hacking"
Date: March 03, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: Technological Institute - L324
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Description: Professor Prem Kumar
SBC Professor of Information Technology - EECS Dept.
Director, Center for Photonic Communication & Computing
Northwestern University
In this global information society, the need to safeguard our Nation's fiber-optic infrastructure has become critical. Proliferation of web-based activities are making increasingly larger amounts of mission critical data to flow through the global core fiber-optic networks, which are largely unprotected at the physical layer. We have developed techniques that utilize quantum properties of light to provide high-speed physical layer encryption in todays widely deployed fiber-optic communication networks. With our technology, an eavesdropper is unable to decipher the transmitted data, while the legitimate receiver operates with excellent signal-to-noise. Technology developed under this project has been successfully transferred to Telcordia Technologies, Inc. which is carrying out tests in realistic networking environments over the DoD's advanced optical network in the Washington, D.C., area. A startup company, NuCrypt LLC, has also been founded under SBIR grants to commercialize this technology.
Prem Kumar is the SBC Professor of Information Technology in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the Center for Photonic Communication and Computing. He joined Northwestern in 1986. He received a Ph.D. in Physics from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1980 and is an author or co-author of over 300 publications. His research focuses on the development of novel fiber-optic devices for ultrahigh-speed optical and quantum communication networks. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, the American Physical Society, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, and the Institute of Physics.
Contact: Brooke Hildebrand
847-491-3451
Audience: Public
Group: Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
| Title: Blurred project delivery
Date: March 06, 2006
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: Technological Institute A230
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Description: The speaker will be Dr. Gui Ponce de Leon, president of PMA Consultants LLC.
Contact: Leona Lealaitafea
847-491-7246
Audience: Faculty, All students, Staff, Graduate students, Undergraduate students
Group: McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
| Title: Colloquia on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
Date: March 06, 2006
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: 2145 Sheridan Rd Tech M345
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Description: George Karniadakis
Brown University
Contact: Kim Nowakowski
847-491-3257
Audience: Faculty, Graduate students
Group: McCormick - Civil and Environmental Engineering
| Title: Promislaw: Modeling Issues in PEM Fuel Cells: From Macro to Nano
Date: March 06, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech M416
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Description: Applied Math Colloquium
Title: Modeling Issues in PEM Fuel Cells: From Macro to Nano
Speaker: Prof. Keith Promislaw, Michigan State University
Special Note: Refreshments will be served in Tech M416 at 3:30pm.
Contact: Mary Catsicopoulos
847/491-5586
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick-Colloquia Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
| Title: "Re-thinking Photography: What Devices Should Capture Visual Appearance?"
Date: March 07, 2006
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: L324 Technological Institute
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Description: Professor Jack Tumblin
EECS Dept.
The goals of photography have always been much broader and ambitious than "optical image capture and display". Good photography encompasses any technical method that makes a meaningful visual experience tangible, that lets us save, share, and manipulate what we once saw or would like to see. Photography may soon take a great leap towards more active and direct descriptions of visual appearance, in a more machine-readable form. By generously applying low-cost computing and storage, the emerging field of "computational photography" shows new classes of computer-driven devices can better capture meaningful features for interactive exploration. This talk broadly surveys recent progress and proposed methods here in EECS and elsewhere. It explores novel 'computational' sensors/arrays, illuminators, displays, probes, and expandable 'visual archive' data types that are much richer, revealing and accessible than a simple grid of pixels. These may permit 'thick' photographs that offer modest but interactive changes to lighting, viewpoint, pose, and many camera parameters *after* measurements are complete. Such visual appearance archives are especially enticing for museum collections; I will preview our current collaborative work with the Art Institute of Chicago, and a project beginning with the Chicago’s Field Museum as well.
Jack Tumblin (www.cs.northwestern.edu/~jet) is co-organizer of a short-course on computational photography at SIGGRAPH 2006 this summer with Ramesh Raskar (MERL), Marc Levoy (Stanford) and Shree Nayar (Columbia). He is an assistant professor in the EECS department. He joined NU in 2001 after post-doctoral work at Cornell University after receiving his PhD in computer science at Georgia Tech. Before returning to Georgia Tech for his 1990 Masters in Electrical Engineering, he was co-founder of IVEX Corp, where his image-based flight simulator design work led to 5 patents.
Contact: Brooke Hildebrand
847-491-3451
Audience: Public
Group: Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
| Title: Boccaletti: New Issues in Complex Networks' Structure and...
Date: March 07, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech M416
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Description: Applied Math Colloquium
Title: New Issues in Complex Networks' Structure and Dynamics
Speaker: Dr. Stefano Boccaletti, CNR- Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi
Special Note: Please note special date. Refreshements will be served prior to the talk in Tech M416.
Contact: Mary Catsicopoulos
847/491-5586
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick-Colloquia Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
| Title: MSE Colloquium
Date: March 07, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech L211
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Description: Prof. Amanda Petford-Long, Argonne National Laboratories and Northwestern University
Structure Property Relationships in Nanoscale Magnetic Materials
Contact: MSE Department
847-491-3537
Audience: Public
Group: Department of Materials Science and Engineering
| Title: Seminar by: Dr. J.-C. Lu Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Date: March 07, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech M228
Description:
Topic: Research Entrepreneurships
Speaker: Dr. J.-C. Lu
Abstract:
Research frontiers change from time to time. For a researcher to remain competitive he/she needs to know how to migrate from the fields he/she is familiar with to new areas effectively and efficiently. The speaker has taken a few research initiatives ranging from statistics to reliability, semiconductor and electronics manufacturing, data mining, logistics and supply-chain strategic planning, security and nano technology. Many of the initiatives have resulted in student theses, publications, grants and industry supports. Most of the projects involve collaborators from different disciplines and some from industries. This discussion presents the speaker’s experience and knowledge from his past work in order to stimulate a discussion in helping individuals to take research initiatives. A system engineering structured roadmap summarizes key activities involved in research entrepreneurships.
Short Biography of Jye-Chyi (JC) Lu
Dr. Jye-Chyi Lu received his Ph.D. degree in statistics in 1988 at the University of Wisconsin and was a professor in the Department of Statistics at North Carolina State University from 1988 to 1999. Now, he is a professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Lu’s has about 58 disciplinary and interdisciplinary publications appeared in both engineering and statistics journals. Currently, he is an Associate Editor for Technometrics, IEEE Transactions on Reliability and Journal of Quality Technology. His research areas cover industrial statistics, signal processing, semiconductor and electronic manufacturing, data mining and a few new topics such as supply-chain management, logistics planning and nanotechnology.
Contact: Gwen Hoffman
847 491-3576
Audience: Public
Group: Industrial Engineering/ Management Sciences
| Title: Master of Information Technology Open House
Date: March 07, 2006
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Location: Wiebolt Hall, 340 E. Superior, Ray Conley Lounge
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Description: The Master of Information Technology Program at Northwestern University offers IT professionals the opportunity to earn a master’s degree from one of the nation’s top universities without interrupting their careers. The MITP will teach you how to:
* create optimum IT solutions that meet your company's business goals
* use IT strategically, from a business perspective
* apply timeless engineering principles to the latest technologies
Attend this free Open House and:
* Learn how we help you bridge the worlds of technology and business with our unique 70% technical/30% business curriculum
* Find out how our program caters to the working adult
* Meet our faculty, students, and alumni
* Get information about admission and financial aid
Register online at mitp.northwestern.edu/openhouse.html
Contact: Erin Perez
847-467-6557
Audience: Public
Group: MS in Information Technology Program
| Title: Mornings @ McCormick "Smart...Sensors and Systems" presented by Prof. Horacio Espinosa
Date: March 08, 2006
Time: 7:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Location: JBC Commons (4th Floor) of the McCormick Technological Institute, 2145 Sheridan
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Description: "Smart...Sensors and Systems"
Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) is the integration of microscale mechanical elements, sensors, actuators, and electronics on a silicon or a non-silicon substrate by microfabrication technology. MEMS is an enabling technology allowing the development of smart products by augmenting the computational ability of microelectronics with the perception and control capabilities of microsensors and microactuators. At Northwestern, R&D on MEMS is also combined with nanotechnology, biotechnology, electro-optics, and material testing, as a way of pioneering new areas for MEMS.
This presentation will explain a special experimental technique that was developed for performing tensile tests on microfabricated membranes using a nanoindenter/interferometer set up. MEMS micro-testing units, for testing even smaller specimens (carbon nanotubes, nanowires), were developed. The device is small enough to work in TEMs, SEMs and AFMs. Modeling of nanoscale mechanical behavior of materials (grain deformation, dislocation propagation and fracture propagation) is also in progress
Contact: Debra Daniel
(847) 491-8670
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick Office of Corporate Relations
| Title: IIN Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series (James Heath)
Date: March 08, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Pancoe-ENH Abbott Auditorium
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Description:
Contact: Laura Jewett
847-467-4862
Audience: Public
Group: International Institute for Nanotechnology
| Title: ChBE Graduate Recruiting
Date: March 09, 2006
Location: Technological Institute and elsewhere
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Description: ChBE Graduate Recruiting Weekend II
March 9 - 12, 2006
EVENTS:
Thursday: Pick up students at airport, meet & greet at hotel
Friday, day: Lab tours, faculty meetings, poster session
Friday, evening: Firehouse Grill
Saturday: Signature Room lunch, downtown tours, social outings
Sunday: Departures
Contact: Allison Strick
847-491-2773
Audience: Faculty, Staff, Graduate students
Group: Chemical and Biological Engineering
| Title: Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series (Prof. James Landers)
Date: March 09, 2006
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: Nano 4003 (Please note NEW location and time)
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Description: James Landers, University of Virginia
"Integrated Microdevices for Ultrafast Genetic Analysis: From Respiratory Pathogens and Biowarfare Agents to Human Cancer Mutations"
Contact: Mary Drzewiecki
847-467-2530
Audience: Public
Group: International Institute for Nanotechnology
| Title: Senior Design Project Final Presentation
Date: March 09, 2006
Time: 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech LR2
Description: The IE392 Class Senior Design Project Final Presentation. This year's project is the renovation of Tech Library.
Contact: Adrian Gonzalez
847 863 - 3940
Audience: Public
Group: Industrial Engineering/ Management Sciences
| Title: ChBE Graduate Recruiting
Date: March 10, 2006
Location: Technological Institute and elsewhere
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Description: ChBE Graduate Recruiting Weekend II
March 9 - 12, 2006
EVENTS:
Thursday: Pick up students at airport, meet & greet at hotel
Friday, day: Lab tours, faculty meetings, poster session
Friday, evening: Firehouse Grill
Saturday: Signature Room lunch, downtown tours, social outings
Sunday: Departures
Contact: Allison Strick
847-491-2773
Audience: Faculty, Staff, Graduate students
Group: Chemical and Biological Engineering
| Title: ChBE Graduate Recruiting
Date: March 11, 2006
Location: Technological Institute and elsewhere
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Description: ChBE Graduate Recruiting Weekend II
March 9 - 12, 2006
EVENTS:
Thursday: Pick up students at airport, meet & greet at hotel
Friday, day: Lab tours, faculty meetings, poster session
Friday, evening: Firehouse Grill
Saturday: Signature Room lunch, downtown tours, social outings
Sunday: Departures
Contact: Allison Strick
847-491-2773
Audience: Faculty, Staff, Graduate students
Group: Chemical and Biological Engineering
| Title: IDEA 106 Project Fair
Date: March 11, 2006
Time: 12:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center and Tech Institute
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Description: IDEA 106-Presentations of freshman engineering design projects for the people with disabilities
12:30–2:30pm
Student presentations FMCEDC-hallways
2:45–4:00pm
Awards Ceremony Tech-Ryan Auditorium
Contact: Phillip Jacob
847-467-3533
Audience: Public
Group: Segal Design Institute
| Title: CCNE Site Visit
Date: March 15, 2006
Time: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Location: TBA
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Description:
Contact: Laura Jewett
847-467-4862
Audience: Public
Group: International Institute for Nanotechnology
| Title: Engineering Education and the Changing Role of Research Universities in the 21st Century
Date: March 16, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center - Room 1.350
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Description: Dr. Venkatesh Narayanamurti
Dean of Engineering & Applied Sciences
Harvard University
"Engineering Education and the Changing Role of Research Universities in the 21st Century"
In this talk I will discuss the increasing role of engineering and technology in our daily lives and the need for educating renaissance engineers. The role of engineering research, particularly as a synthesizing discipline in an era of integrationist science, will also be highlighted.
Venkatesh (“Venky”) Narayanamurti is Dean of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the John A. and Elizabeth S. Armstrong Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. He is also the Dean of Physical Sciences and a Professor in the Harvard Physics Department. From January 1992 to September 1998 he served as the Richard A. Auhll Professor and Dean of Engineering, as well as Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He was Vice President of Research and Exploratory Technology at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, from May 1987 to January 1992. He joined Bell Laboratories in 1968 and became Director of Solid State Electronics Research in 1981. He has published widely in the areas of low temperature physics, superconductivity, semiconductor electronics and photonics. He is credited with developing the field of phonon optics -- the manipulation of monoenergetic acoustic beams at terahertz frequencies. He is currently very active in the field of semiconductor nanostructures.
Dr. Narayanamurti is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. He is also a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the IEEE, and the Indian Academy of Sciences. Over the years he has served on numerous advisory boards of the federal government, research universities and industry.
Contact: Brooke Hildebrand
847-491-3451
Audience: Public
Group: Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
| Title: Sandhouse Gang: The Metra Star Line - Concept & Status Update
Date: March 22, 2006
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Transportation Center, Chambers Hall, Lower Level Classroom, 600 Foster, Evanston
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Description: Speakers: Phil Pasterak, Midwest Regional Manager of PB Transit & Rail Systems and David Kralik, New Start Project Leader - Star Line at Metra
The Star Line is one of Metra's most ambitious initiatives ultimately linking the many area suburbs to O'Hare Airport. This presentation will discuss the Star Line concept and its current status.
Contact: Diana Marek
847-491-2280
Audience: Public
Group: Transportation Center - Sandhouse Gang
| Title: Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series (Prof. Daniel Feldheim)
Date: March 23, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech L-211
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Description: Daniel Feldheim, North Carolina State University
"Materials Discovery Through RNA In Vitro Evolution"
Contact: Mary Drzewiecki
847-467-2530
Audience: Public
Group: International Institute for Nanotechnology
| Title: GSF Coffee Break - Spring '06
Date: March 27, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Engineering and Science Library vestibule
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Description: Barron lab 3/27/06
Broadbelt lab 4/03/06
Miller lab 4/10/06
Amaral lab 4/17/06
Papoutsakis lab 4/17/06
Ottino lab 4/24/06
Burghardt lab 4/24/06
Olvera lab 5/01/06
Hatzimanikatis 5/01/06
Gray lab 5/08/06
Shea lab 5/08/06
Kung lab 5/15/06
Snurr lab 5/15/06
Grzybowski lab 5/22/06
Torkelson lab 5/22/06
Contact: Lindsay Karfeld, Jennifer Coyne, or Stacey Pace
847-491-4089
Audience: Faculty, Staff, Graduate students
Group: Chemical and Biological Engineering
| Title: Karlsson: Multiscale Modeling of Tissue Damage During...
Date: March 27, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech M416
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Description: Applied Math Colloquium
Title: Multiscale Modeling of Tissue Damage During Cryopreservation and Cryosurgery
Speaker: Prof. Jens O.M. Karlsson, Georgia Tech
Special Note: Refreshments will be provided at 3:30pm in Tech M416.
Contact: Mary Catsicopoulos
847/491-5586
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick-Colloquia Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
| Title: SBIR Company Tips and Tactics
Date: March 29, 2006
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Tech Institute, Rm L251
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Description: Ray Genellie, from NU spinout company Questek, will discuss his experience, tips and tactics for the SBIR/STTR programs at DoD, NASA, and NSF. Plus he will share some of the things you need to do to successfully move your business through the SBIR/STTR programs and beyond.
Mr. Genellie is an entrepreneur and one of the founders of QuesTek Innovations, LLC, located in Evanston, IL. He has extensive experience in proposal writing including SBIRs, STTRs and Broad Agency Announcements, and he has worked extensively with agencies such as DARPA, Air Force, Army, Navy, ONR, Marine Corps, the DoD, DOE, NASA and NIH. He is a graduate of Northern Illinois University with a Masters of Science in Finance in 1979. Much of Mr. Genellie’s early contracting experience came at the Gas Research Institute as a Contracts Auditor and Motorola as a Contracts Officer. In 1988, he joined the senior staff at Northwestern University’s Basic Industry Research Laboratory, where he eventually met his partners and the co-founders of Questek.
PLEASE RESERVE YOUR SPOT BY SENDING AN EMAIL TO: itec@northwestern.edu
Contact: Jim Bray
847-491-2985
Audience: Public
Group: ITEC - Evanston
| Title: "Theoretical Challenges in the Design of Advertisement Auctions"
Date: March 30, 2006
Time: 11:00 AM
Location: Technological Institute - L324
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Description: Dr. Mohammad Mahdian
Microsoft
The Internet is probably the most important technological creation of our times. It provides many immensely useful services to the masses for free, including such essentials as web search, web mail, and web portals. These services are expensive to maintain, and depend upon advertisement revenue to remain free. One of the most effective ways to allocate advertisement space on the web is through auctions. In this talk, I will discuss some of the theoretical challenges in the design of online advertisement auctions, and will present some of our recent results addressing these issues. In particular, I will focus on mechanism design for budget-constrained bidders, multi-unit auctions for perishable goods with unknown supply, and dynamics of bid optimization.
Mohammad Mahdian is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research, Redmond. He received his PhD from MIT in 2004, and his MSc from the University of Toronto in 2000. He is broadly interested in theoretical computer science and its intersection with economic theory.
Contact: Brooke Hildebrand
847-491-3451
Audience: Public
Group: Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
| Title: GSF Coffee Break - Spring '06
Date: April 03, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Engineering and Science Library vestibule
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Description: Barron lab 3/27/06
Broadbelt lab 4/03/06
Miller lab 4/10/06
Amaral lab 4/17/06
Papoutsakis lab 4/17/06
Ottino lab 4/24/06
Burghardt lab 4/24/06
Olvera lab 5/01/06
Hatzimanikatis 5/01/06
Gray lab 5/08/06
Shea lab 5/08/06
Kung lab 5/15/06
Snurr lab 5/15/06
Grzybowski lab 5/22/06
Torkelson lab 5/22/06
Contact: Lindsay Karfeld, Jennifer Coyne, or Stacey Pace
847-491-4089
Audience: Faculty, Staff, Graduate students
Group: Chemical and Biological Engineering
| Title: Kriegsmann: Propagation in Periodic Dielectric Media
Date: April 03, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech M416
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Description: Applied Math Colloquium
Title: Propagation in Periodic Dielectric Media
Speaker: Prof. Gregory Kriegsmann, NJIT
Special Note: Refreshments will be served at 3:30pm in Tech M416.
Contact: Mary Catsicopoulos
847/491-5586
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick-Colloquia Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
| Title: SBIR Company Tips and Tactics
Date: April 04, 2006
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Lurie Center, Gray Room
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Description: Annette Gilchrist, from NU spinout company Cue Biotech, will discuss her experience, tips and tactics for the SBIR/STTR programs, focusing primarily on NIH. Plus she will share some of the things you need to do to successfully move your business through the SBIR/STTR programs and beyond.
Full time with the company since its inception and well versed in the NIH SBIR and STTR process, Dr. Gilchrist managed the incorporation and early development of the business. She now devotes much of her time to grant/contract writing and developing scientific discoveries. Dr. Gilchrist was formerly at Northwestern University in the Department of Pharmacology and Biological Chemistry and was a Research Associate at Pfizer, Inc. She received her Ph.D. in Immunology at the University of Connecticut and did post doctorate work at Northwestern University and the University of Illinois Chicago College of Medicine. Dr. Gilchrist is the biotech representative on the City of Chicago’s Cultural Inclusive Opportunities Subcommittee.
PLEASE RESERVE YOUR SPOT BY SENDING AN EMAIL TO: itec@northwestern.edu
Contact: Jim Bray
847-491-2985
Audience: Public
Group: ITEC - Evanston
| Title: Seminar by: Dr. Michael Ferris, University of Wisconsin
Date: April 04, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech M228
Description:
Topic: Some computational legacies of Lemke and
Dantzig in complementarity
Abstract: Pivoting methods, such as those championed by Lemke and Dantzig, have enjoyed remarkable success in the past 50+ years. While their use in linear programming is widely known, and has been refined significantly
in both computational and theoretical settings, theadaptation of the technology to complementarity problems has remained a niche area until recently. We outline these strategies, explain some of their more recent enhancements and generalizations in the context of
complementarity, and highlight some directions for future research and exploration. Some knowledge of popular and rock music is assumed.
Contact: Gwen Hoffman
(847) 491-3576
Audience: Public
Group: Industrial Engineering/ Management Sciences
| Title: Hands-on FuN with Engineers!
Date: April 05, 2006
Time: 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location: Tech LR 5
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Description: Learn hands-on how to
- Hook up a solar lighting system
- Treat dirty drinking water in the developing world
- Build cool stuff out of found and recycled materials
You will also learn more about ESW and how you can get involved!
Tell all your friends... non-engineers are welcome!
Engineers for a Sustainable World
Northwestern University
www.eswnu.org
esw@northwestern.edu
Contact: Anita Budhraja
501-454-0849
Audience: Public
Group: Engineers for a Sustainable World
| Title: Bill White Book Signing
Date: April 05, 2006
Time: 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Location: Ford Motor Co Engineering Design Center, ITW Classroom
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Description: McCormick Professional Master's Programs present this special event with Professor/Author Bill White. Professor White will share advice from his new book "From Day One" and sign books.
Contact: Susan Fox
847-491-5584
Audience: Public
Group: Master of Engineering Management
| Title: ChBE Seminar: Debarshi Majumder & Chunhui Li, Northwestern University
Date: April 06, 2006
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Location: Tech LR4
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Description: Multiscale Modeling for Materials Design: Molecular Square Catalyst
Debarshi Majumder
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Northwestern University
Design of Novel Biotransformations
Chunhui Li
Northwestern University
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Thursday, April 6, 2006, at 9:00am in LR4
The Technological Institute
2145 Sheridan Road
Refreshments will be served at 8:45 AM
Contact: Allison Strick
847-491-2773
Audience: Public
Group: Chemical and Biological Engineering
| Title: Transportation Seminar : Aaron Gellman, The Airbus A380 - a Critical Appraisal
Date: April 06, 2006
Time: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Location: Transportation Center, Chambers Hall, 600 Foster, Evanston
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Description: Prof.Aaron Gellman, noted aviation expert and former Director of the NU Transportation Center, will provide an analysis of the economic viability of the A380 program.
Contact: Diana Marek
847-491-2280
Audience: Public
Group: Transportation Center Seminar Series
| Title: "Grand Challenges For Wireless Sensor Networks"
Date: April 06, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: LR2 - Technological Institute
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Description: The technological advances in the micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) and the wireless communications have enabled the deployment of the small intelligent sensor nodes at homes, in workplaces, supermarkets, plantations, oceans, streets, and highways to monitor the environment. The realization of smart environments to improve the efficiency of nearly every aspect of our daily lives by enhancing the human-to-physical world interaction is one of the most exciting potential sensor network applications utilizing these intelligent sensor nodes. However, this objective necessitates the efficient and application specific communication protocols to assure the reliable communication of the sensed event features and hence enable the required actions to be taken by the actors in the smart environment. In this talk, the grand challenges for the design and development of sensor/actor network communication protocols are presented. More specifically, application layer, transport layer, network layer, data link layer, in particular, error control and MAC protocols, and physical layer as well as cross layer issues are explained in detail.
IAN F. AKYILDIZ is Ken Byers Distinguished Chair Professor with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Director of Broadband and Wireless Networking Laboratory. He has published over two-hundred technical papers in journals and conference proceedings. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Computer Networks (Elsevier Science) and for the newly launched AdHoc Networks Journal (Elsevier Science). Dr. Akyildiz is an IEEE FELLOW (1995), an ACM FELLOW (1996). He served as a National Lecturer for ACM from 1989 until 1998 and received the ACM Outstanding Distinguished Lecturer Award for 1994. His current research interests are in Sensor Networks, Wireless Networks, InterPlaNetary Internet.
Contact: Brooke Hildebrand
847-491-3451
Audience: Public
Group: Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
| Title: Seminar by: Dr. Mark Newman, University of Michigan
Date: April 07, 2006
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: Ford Building, ITW Classroom (Rm#-1-350)
Description:
Topic: Modularity and Community Structure in Networks
Speaker: Dr. Mark Newman
Abstract: Many systems of scientific or technological interest can be represented as networks, such as the worldwide web, citation networks, and social and biological networks. These networks are often found to divide naturally into communities or modules, whose detection and characterization has been the subject of a considerable volume of recent research. The ability to detect modules in the web network, for instance, could allow us to find collections of related web pages, while modules in citation networks might correspond to topical research communities. This talk will describe some recent advances in methods for community detection, focusing particularly on the idea of modularity optimization and on spectral methods based on matrix properties of networks. Throughout the talk a wide selection of examples will be presented of community structure in real-world networks.
Contact: Gwen Hoffman
847 491-3576
Audience: Public
Group: Industrial Engineering/ Management Sciences
| Title: GSF Coffee Break - Spring '06
Date: April 10, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Engineering and Science Library vestibule
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Description: Barron lab 3/27/06
Broadbelt lab 4/03/06
Miller lab 4/10/06
Amaral lab 4/17/06
Papoutsakis lab 4/17/06
Ottino lab 4/24/06
Burghardt lab 4/24/06
Olvera lab 5/01/06
Hatzimanikatis 5/01/06
Gray lab 5/08/06
Shea lab 5/08/06
Kung lab 5/15/06
Snurr lab 5/15/06
Grzybowski lab 5/22/06
Torkelson lab 5/22/06
Contact: Lindsay Karfeld, Jennifer Coyne, or Stacey Pace
847-491-4089
Audience: Faculty, Staff, Graduate students
Group: Chemical and Biological Engineering
| Title: MSE Colloquium
Date: April 11, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech L211
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Description: Professor David B. Williams, Vice Provost for Research, Lehigh University
Materials Analysis with Aberration-corrected Electron Microscopes
Contact: MSE Department
847-491-3537
Audience: Public
Group: Department of Materials Science and Engineering
| Title: Seminar by: Professor Alan Erera, Georgia Institute of Technology
Date: April 11, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech M228
Description:
Topic: Building Robust Plans for Freight Repositioning
Speaker: Alan Erera
Abstract: Managing freight transportation resources often requires decisions to be made at some time (or times) before the results of such decisions can be determined within acceptable error bounds. Consider, for example, a freight transporter that serves
point-to-point customer move requests, where each request is assigned a unique resource for its duration. Truckload trucking firms and global tank container management firms both operate such systems. Typically, the resource requirements of these systems are not balanced over space and time, and transporters therefore move resources empty between locations to correct imbalance. In practice, most firms attempt to develop cost-effective empty movement plans using finite-horizon deterministic network optimization models implemented in a rolling horizon fashion. While researchers have developed stochastic optimization approaches for such problems that improve decision-making given uncertainty, such approaches are generally not used in practice, partially due to the complexity of both the required data and solution methods. In contrast to existing stochastic approaches, we propose a methodology for such problems that builds on ideas from robust optimization. The focus of our approach is to build a low-cost plan that protects against potential future resource shortages. To minimize data requirements, we only require decision-makers to develop point forecasts of future supplies and demands of resources, and to estimate potential deviation intervals around the forecasted values. Further, we introduce parameters that allow the decision-maker to control the protection conservatism of the produced solution. Using feasible flow principles, we develop theory to strongly characterize robust feasible solutions for such problems, and show that realistic problem instances can be solved using off-the-shelf inte
Contact: Gwen Hoffman
(847) 491-3576
Audience: Public
Group: Industrial Engineering/ Management Sciences
| Title: Peter McDonald, United Airlines' Exec. Vice President & COO - Patterson Transportation Lecture
Date: April 11, 2006
Time: 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Location: Owen L. Coon Forum, Donald P. Jacobs Center, Kellogg, 2001 Sheridan Rd., Evanston Campus
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Description: 25th Annual William A. Patterson Transportation Lecture will feature Peter McDonald, Executive Vice President & COO of United Airlines. Mr. McDonald will address the issues impacting the US Airline industry with particular focus on the emergence from bankruptcy of United Airlines.
Pete McDonald, who has been with United since 1969, has responsibility for all airport operations, maintenance and engineering, onboard service, flight operations and system operations control, as well as cargo, Ted, United Express, cost-savings initiatives and safety and security.
Contact: Diana Marek
847-491-2280
Audience: Public
Group: Transportation Center
| Title: ChBE Seminar: Prof. Patrick Daugherty, UCSB
Date: April 13, 2006
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Location: Tech LR4
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Description: Exploiting Molecular Recognition Specificity for Biopharmaceutical Development
Professor Patrick Daugherty
University of California Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA
Thursday, April 13, 2006, at 9:00am in LR4
The Technological Institute
2145 Sheridan Road
Refreshments will be served at 8:45 AM
Contact: Allison Strick
847-491-2773
Audience: Public
Group: Chemical and Biological Engineering
| Title: CCSS Seminar Presentation
Date: April 14, 2006
Time: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Location: Nano Bldg., Room 4003
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Description: CCSS Seminar Presentation
Speaker: Courtney Lanier, Graduate Student, NU-Mat. Sci. & Engrg.
Title: "Mg3(VO4)2: Insight Into Catalytic Behavior Through Single Crystal Studies"
(Prof. L. Marks-K. Poeppelmeier Group)
Contact: Jasmine N. Tucker
847-491-4354
Audience: Faculty, Graduate students, Members only
Group: Center for Catalysis and Surface Science
| Title: Colloquia on Theroetical and Applied Mechanics
Date: April 14, 2006
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: 2145 Sheridand Rd/ Tech M345
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Description: Prof. Paul Selvin from the Unoversity of Illinois at Champaign Urbana will be speaking. The title of his talk is
Single Molecule Mechanics of Motor Proteins.
Contact: kim nowakowski
847-491-3257
Audience: Faculty, All students
Group: McCormick - Civil and Environmental Engineering
| Title: GSF Coffee Break - Spring '06
Date: April 17, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Engineering and Science Library vestibule
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Description: Barron lab 3/27/06
Broadbelt lab 4/03/06
Miller lab 4/10/06
Amaral lab 4/17/06
Papoutsakis lab 4/17/06
Ottino lab 4/24/06
Burghardt lab 4/24/06
Olvera lab 5/01/06
Hatzimanikatis 5/01/06
Gray lab 5/08/06
Shea lab 5/08/06
Kung lab 5/15/06
Snurr lab 5/15/06
Grzybowski lab 5/22/06
Torkelson lab 5/22/06
Contact: Lindsay Karfeld, Jennifer Coyne, or Stacey Pace
847-491-4089
Audience: Faculty, Staff, Graduate students
Group: Chemical and Biological Engineering
| Title: MSE Colloquium
Date: April 18, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech L211
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Description: Professor Stuart Adler, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Washington
Nonlinear Impedance Analysis of SOFC Electrodes
Contact: MSE Department
847-491-3537
Audience: Public
Group: Department of Materials Science and Engineering
| Title: Seminar by: Hai Zhou, Northwestern University
Date: April 18, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech M228
Description:
Topic: To Optimize or Not to Optimize: Algorithm Design in VLSI CAD
Abstract: As in other engineering disciplines, many problems in VLSI CAD are optimization problems. How to effectively solve them is a question of both practical importance and intellectual depth. What is the difference between optimization problems and non-optimization problems? Shall we optimize or not optimize? In this talk, I will discuss a couple of VLSI CAD problems and their algorithm design. The problems include logic gate sizing for noise control and circuit retiming for clock period minimization. They are important in CAD and the algorithms we designed are provably optimal and efficient. On the other hand, they can be viewed as case studies for algorithm design methodologies. I will also share the joy and lessons learned from them.
Bio:
Hai Zhou is an assistant professor in Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science at Northwestern University. He got his Ph.D. degree in
Computer Sciences from the University of Texas at Austin in 1999. Before
joining he faculty of Northwestern University, he was with the Advanced
Technology Group at Synopsys, Inc. His research interests include VLSI
computer-aided design, algorithm design, and formal methods. He is a senior member of IEEE and a recipient of a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation in 2003.
Contact: Gwen Hoffman
(847) 491-3576
Audience: Public
Group: Industrial Engineering/ Management Sciences
| Title: Information Security Seminar
Date: April 19, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Technological Institute, Room LR2
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Description: The primary objective of an information security program must be to enable an organization and its employees to operate in a secure manner. An effective program minimizes the potential for security breaches, complies with the latest standards and ensures the organization remains legally compliant. A well-constructed program provides an organization with the basis for consistent understanding and enforcement. It provides the security staff with specific rules and guidelines for carrying out their duties. It also should include clear guidance regarding how much and what kinds of security measures are necessary to achieve an agreed and acceptable level of risk. Information Security programs have a number of human, financial and legal consequences. In this talk, the risks associated with both the tools and the people in an information security program are discussed, along with the controls to mitigate them.
Presented by Paul W. Phillips, Information systems audit manager at General Growth Properties
Contact: Erin Perez
847-467-6557
Audience: Public
Group: MS in Information Technology Program
| Title: NICO Complexity Conference- 1st Annual
Date: April 20, 2006
Time: 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Location: James L. Allen Center 2169 Campus Drive
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Description:
Contact: Joanne DiGuido
847-491-2527
Audience: Faculty, Staff, Graduate students, Members only, Undergraduate students
Group: Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
| Title: Trans. Seminar: Occupational Labor Demand and the Sources of Nonneutral Technical Change
Date: April 20, 2006
Time: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Location: Transportation Center, Chambers Hall, 600 Foster, Evanston
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Description: Daniel Rich,Professor of Economics,Illinois State University will present the Transportation Seminar
Technical change relates to improvements in productive efficiency from any one of a wide variety of potential sources. “Neutral” technical change refers to productivity gains across all inputs, that is, producing the same output with less of all inputs (capital, materials, energy, labor). When technical change is “nonneutral” the productivity gains (and cost savings) come from reduced use of particular inputs. One application of interest is “labor-saving” technical change and the relationship between information technologies and changing skill requirements in the workplace. Another application that I will present involves the impact of airline route structure changes and new aircraft characteristics on employment patterns among different occupations (reduced employment of airline mechanics and ground personnel but not pilots or flight attendants).
Our research program introduces a two-step empirical approach for examining both the nature and sources of nonneutral technical change across multiple occupations. First, conventional labor demand parameter estimates and unbiased tests for neutrality are obtained in the context of a flexible cost system. The resulting input-specific indices of technical change, unconstrained with respect to time path, facilitate subsequent evaluation of proposed sources.
Contact: Diana Marek
847-491-2280
Audience: Public
Group: Transportation Center Seminar Series
| Title: CCSS Seminar Presentation
Date: April 21, 2006
Time: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Location: Nano Bldg, Room 4003
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Description: CCSS Seminar Presentation
Speaker: Steven Christensen, Graduate Student, NU-Mat. Sci. & Engrg.
Title: "Pt/SrTiO3(001): A Nanoscale Perspective of the Photocatalyst"
Research Group: Prof. M. Bedzyk and Prof. M. Hersam
Contact: Jasmine N. Tucker
847-491-4354
Audience: Faculty, Staff, Graduate students
Group: Center for Catalysis and Surface Science
| Title: Colloquia on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
Date: April 24, 2006
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: 2145 Sheridan Rd/ Tech M177
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Description: P. Ponte Castaneda from the University of Pennsylvania will be giving a talk on "Effective behavior, microstructure evolution and macroscopic instabilities in porous and reinforced elastomers."
Contact: kim nowakowski
847-491-3257
Audience: Faculty, All students
Group: McCormick - Civil and Environmental Engineering
| Title: "Spoken Documents and Information Management"
Date: April 24, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: LR3 - Technological Institute
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Description: Professor Mari Ostendorf
Endowed Professor of System Design Methodologies in Electrical Engineering & Adjunct Professor in Computer Science and Engineering and in Linguistics
University of Washington
As storage costs drop and bandwidth increases, there has been a rapid growth of information available via the web or in online archives, raising problems of finding and interpreting collections of documents. Significant recent progress has been made in text retrieval, analysis, summarization and translation, but much of this work has focused on written language. Increasingly, speech and video signals are also available -- including TV and radio broadcasts, congressional records, oral histories, voicemail, call center recordings, etc. -- which can be thought of as ``spoken documents''. Because it takes longer to listen to audio than to read text, spoken documents are clearly a prime candidate for automatic indexing, information extraction, and other such technologies. In this talk, we overview speech processing technology that underlies spoken document management, including mathematical frameworks for both word and metadata recognition, and for integrating video and language cues. In addition, we discuss issues that arise in text processing when moving from written to spoken language and implications for statistical models of language.
Mari Ostendorf received the Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1985. She has worked at BBN Laboratories (1985-1986) and Boston University (1987-1999), and was a visiting researcher at the ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Laboratory in Japan in 1995. In 1999, she joined the University of Washington. Prof. Ostendorf's research interests are in dynamic and linguistically-motivated statistical models for speech and language processing. She is a Fellow of IEEE and a member of ISCA, ACL, ASA, SWE and Sigma Xi.
Contact: Brooke Hildebrand
847-491-3451
Audience: Public
Group: Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
| Title: Brun: Statistical Physics of a Macromolecule in a Narrow Pore and Liquid Chromatography of Polymers
Date: April 24, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech M416
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Description: Applied Math Colloquium
Title: Statistical Physics of a Macromolecule in a Narrow Pore and Liquid Chromatography of Polymers
Speaker: Dr. Yefim Brun, DuPont
Special Note: Refreshments will be served at 3:30pm in Tech M416.
Contact: Mary Catsiocpoulos
847/491-5586
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick-Colloquia Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
| Title: GSF Coffee Break - Spring '06
Date: April 24, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Engineering and Science Library vestibule
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Description: Barron lab 3/27/06
Broadbelt lab 4/03/06
Miller lab 4/10/06
Amaral lab 4/17/06
Papoutsakis lab 4/17/06
Ottino lab 4/24/06
Burghardt lab 4/24/06
Olvera lab 5/01/06
Hatzimanikatis 5/01/06
Gray lab 5/08/06
Shea lab 5/08/06
Kung lab 5/15/06
Snurr lab 5/15/06
Grzybowski lab 5/22/06
Torkelson lab 5/22/06
Contact: Lindsay Karfeld, Jennifer Coyne, or Stacey Pace
847-491-4089
Audience: Faculty, Staff, Graduate students
Group: Chemical and Biological Engineering
| Title: MSE Colloquium
Date: April 25, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech L211
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Description: Professor Teri Wang Odom, Department of Chemistry,Northwestern University
"Manipulating Light in Nanohole Arrays and Nanoparticles"
Contact: MSE Department
847-491-3537
Audience: Public
Group: Department of Materials Science and Engineering
| Title: Seminar by: Dmitry Kramkov, Carnegie Mellon University
Date: April 25, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech M228
Description:
Topic: Sensitivity analysis of utility based prices and risk-tolerance wealth processes
Speaker: Dmitry Kramkov
Abstract: In the general framework of a semimartingale financial model and a
utility function defined on the positive real line we compute the
first order expansion of marginal utility based prices with respect
to a ``small'' number of random endowments. We show that this linear
approximation has some important qualitative properties if and only
if there is a risk-tolerance wealth process. In particular, they
hold true in the following cases:
1. for any utility function if and only if the set of state price densities has a greatest element from the point of view of second order stochastic dominance
2. for any financial model if and only if the utility function has a power form (the utility function has an exponential form if it is defined on the whole real line).
The presentation is based on a joint paper with Mihai Sirbu from Columbia University. The preprint can be downloaded from "
Contact: Gwen Hoffman
(847) 491-3576
Audience: Public
Group: Industrial Engineering/ Management Sciences
| Title: Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series (Prof. Makoto Fujita)
Date: April 26, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Pancoe Abbott Auditorium
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Description: Professor Makoto Fujita, the University of Tokyo
"Coordination Architectures: Design, Self-Assembly, and Functions." (Host: Professor Hupp)
Contact: Laura Ellis
847-467-4862
Audience: Public
Group: International Institute for Nanotechnology
| Title: Mornings @ McCormick "Abstract Compuer-Generated Imagery"
Date: April 27, 2006
Time: 7:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Location: JBC Commons Faculty Dining Room, 4th Floor of the McCormick Technological Institute, 2145 Sheridan
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Description: Mornings @ McCormick: "Abstract Computer-Generated Imagery" presented by Professor Bruce Gooch of McCormick's Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department.
Advances in consumer electronics allow multimedia content generation to increase at an unprecedented rate. According to Photo Marketing International, digital camera sales in the U.S. alone increased 40 percent to reach 18.2 million units in 2004. This does not include other camera-enabled devices, like cellular phones, which are quickly becoming ubiquitous. We can now create, store, display, and even edit multimedia content, all on the same device. While this means that we never have to miss capturing a special occasion again, we are also facing a digital media explosion and its associated problems. Media needs to be displayed on small-screened mobile devices, transmitted with limited bandwidth, and effectively summarized.
The research of Professor Gooch uniquely combines results from visual cognition, and artistic rendering to create abstract imagery. The goal of his work is to automatically create visual representations that make a problem easy to solve, or a task easy to accomplish. Professor Gooch will present three current lines of investigation.
Contact: Debra Daniel
(847) 491-8670
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick Office of Corporate Relations
| Title: ChBE Seminar: Stephen Cisar & Ying Tao, Northwestern University
Date: April 27, 2006
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Location: Tech LR4
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Description: Geometric Effects of Mixing and Segregation in Quasi-2D Granular Tumblers
Stephen Cisar
Northwestern University
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Innovative Process for Polymer Blends: Solid-State Shear Pulverization
Ying Tao
Northwestern University
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Thursday, April 27, 2006, at 9:00am in LR4
The Technological Institute
2145 Sheridan Road
Refreshments will be served at 8:45 AM
Contact: Allison Strick
847-491-2773
Audience: Public
Group: Chemical and Biological Engineering
| Title: LaValle: Information Spaces: Comparing the Power of...
Date: April 28, 2006
Time: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Location: M345
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Description: Special Seminar
Title: Information Spaces: Comparing the Power of Mobile Robots
Speaker: Steven M. LaValle, Department of Computer Science, UIUC
Abstract: Planning and control problems that involve sensing uncertainty naturally live in information spaces. The term arose in the context of game theory and stochastic control, and has appeared as belief spaces in AI literature. Just as configuration spaces have been important for unifying virtually all path planning problems and approaches, information spaces can serve the same purpose for problems that involve sensing uncertainty. This talk will introduce the basic concepts of information spaces and describe their recent application to comparing the power of mobile robots. In particular, we define a family of robots and establish a partial ordering over them based on their information spaces. We also classify them based on whether they are able to perform localization. We consider this to be a step toward developing a theory of robot sensing that is analogous to comparing the power of various machines in the theory of computation. This is joint work with Jason O'Kane.
Contact: Kevin Lynch
847-467-5451
Audience: Public
Group: Dynamics of Complex Systems in Science and Engineering
| Title: GSF Coffee Break - Spring '06
Date: May 01, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Engineering and Science Library vestibule
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Description: Barron lab 3/27/06
Broadbelt lab 4/03/06
Miller lab 4/10/06
Amaral lab 4/17/06
Papoutsakis lab 4/17/06
Ottino lab 4/24/06
Burghardt lab 4/24/06
Olvera lab 5/01/06
Hatzimanikatis 5/01/06
Gray lab 5/08/06
Shea lab 5/08/06
Kung lab 5/15/06
Snurr lab 5/15/06
Grzybowski lab 5/22/06
Torkelson lab 5/22/06
Contact: Lindsay Karfeld, Jennifer Coyne, or Stacey Pace
847-491-4089
Audience: Faculty, Staff, Graduate students
Group: Chemical and Biological Engineering
| Title: Motter: Chaos Theory for Relativistic Dynamical Systems
Date: May 01, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech M416
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Description: Applied Math Colloquium
Title: Chaos Theory for Relativistic Dynamical Systems
Speaker: Prof. Adilson Motter, Northwestern University
Special Note: Refreshments will be served at 3:30pm in Tech M416.
Contact: Mary Catsicopoulos
847/491-5586
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick-Colloquia Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
| Title: National Transportation Policy & Intercity Passenger Service
Date: May 02, 2006
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Transportation Center, Chambers Hall, Lower Level Classroom, 600 Foster, Evanston
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Description: Sandhouse Gang Meeting
Speaker: David Gunn, Former Pres. & CEO of AMTRAK
Contact: Diana Marek
847-491-2280
Audience: Public
Group: Transportation Center - Sandhouse Gang
| Title: Seminar by: Dr. Jianjun (Jan) Shi, University of Michigan
Date: May 02, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech M228
Description:
Topic: Data Fusion for Quality Improvement of Complex Systems
Speaker: Dr. Jianjun (Jan) Shi
Abstract: The rapid advancements of sensors, sensor networks and computing technologies have resulted in both temporally and spatially dense data-rich environments. With massive data readily available, there is a pressing need to develop advanced methodologies and software to intelligently extract knowledge and to reveal inherent relationships among events in order to meet various decision making objectives such as monitoring, detection, diagnosis and control. Addressing the need is considered very challenging because of a collection of factors such as the complexity of the system, the uncertainty, heterogeneity and high dimensionality of the data, and the increasing expectation and requirements on the decision-making capabilities.
Motivated by this, this presentation discusses some current research undertaking related to the data fusion, information retrieval and knowledge discovery of complex systems for optimal decision makings. Specifically, three data fusion methodologies for quality improvement, based on the theories of Stream of Variation, design of experiments, and causal discovering, will be discussed. A new research initiative on causation-based modeling, analysis and control will be presented with real examples.
Jan Shi’s Bio
Jianjun (Jan) Shi is a professor of the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering and the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan. He got his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering at Beijing Institute of Technology in 1984 and 1987 respectively, and got his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan in 1992.
Professor Shi’s research focuses on the fusion of advanced statistics and engineering knowledge for the purpose of developing in-process quality improvement (IPQI) methodologies that can enable automatic process monitoring, diagno
Contact: Gwen Hoffman
(847) 491-3576
Audience: Public
Group: Industrial Engineering/ Management Sciences
| Title: The John Dorn Lecture
Date: May 02, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech L211
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Description: Professor Steve Granick, Depts. of Chemistry, Bimolecular Engineering & Physics, University of Illinois
Nanoparticle-assisted Fun with Phospholipids
Contact: MSE Department
847-491-3537
Audience: Public
Group: Department of Materials Science and Engineering
| Title: IDEA 395-Innovation and Invention
Date: May 03, 2006
Time: 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Location: Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center-ITW Auditoreum
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Description: Kellogg professor, James Conley introduces this course that is designed for engineering students (undergraduate and graduate) with an interest in design, invention, and the meaningful expression of creative ideas. It is intended to educate engineers and designers about their critical role in the invention/creative process and give insight on the technologist’s role in wealth creation. All issues relating to patents and patentability of inventions, copyrights and the protection of the expressions of ideas, trademarks and source identifiers will be reviewed and analyzed in the context of multiple engineering domains.
Q&A and reception will follow Prof. Conley's presentation.
Contact: Phillip Jacob
847-467-3533
Audience: All students
Group: Segal Design Institute
| Title: ChBE Seminar: Prof. Ronald Larson, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Date: May 04, 2006
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Location: Tech LR4
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Description: Microfluidic Methods for Studying Biopolymers
Professor Ronald Larson
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI
Thursday, May 4, 2006, at 9:00am in LR4
The Technological Institute
2145 Sheridan Road
Refreshments will be served at 8:45 AM
Contact: Allison Strick
847-491-2773
Audience: Public
Group: Chemical and Biological Engineering
| Title: Meet the EECS Faculty Seminar Series: Selim Shahriar
Date: May 04, 2006
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: Technological Institute - Room L324
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Description: Putting Atoms and Photons to Work: From Holographic Navigation to Detection of Gravitational Waves
Professor Selim Shahriar
EECS Department
Northwestern University
In the Laboratory for Atomic and Photonic Technology (LAPT), fundamental properties of atoms and photons are explored for applications to science and technology.
In this seminar, Selim Shahriar will present an overview of the efforts at LAPT, followed by an expanded discussion of two of these projects. First, he will describe the holographic smart eye (HSE), which can recognize objects in a translation, rotation and scale invariant manner. This capability can be used for a range of applications, including vision guided navigation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, for example. Second, he will describe the so-called white-light interferometer (WLI), which makes use of atomic vapors under conditions where the group velocity of light can be many orders of magnitude faster than the speed of light in vacuum --- a phenomenon known as fast light. In one form, the WLI may enhance the sensitivity of a rotation sensor by many orders of magnitude, for applications to inertial navigation as well for measuring the general relativistic Lens-Thirring rotation. In another form, the WLI may be used to improve significantly the sensitivity of gravitational wave detectors such as the LIGO.
Dr. Selim Shahriar received the S.B. in Physics (1986) and S.B., S.M. and Ph.D. (1992) in Electrical Engineering from MIT. Upon graduation, Dr. Shahriar worked at the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT for nearly nine years in various capacities, and was a Principal Research Scientist there before he joined the faculty of the Northwestern University in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department as an Associate Professor in 2001. His research interests include Quantum Information Processing, Applications of Slow and Fast Light, Holographic Memory and Correlator, Atom Interferometry for Nanolithography, and Ato
Contact: Brooke Hildebrand
847-491-3451
Audience: Public
Group: Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
| Title: Transportation Seminar: Transferability of Household Travel Data Across Geographic Areas
Date: May 04, 2006
Time: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Location: Transportation Center, Chambers Hall, 600 Foster, Evanston
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Description: Jie “Jane” Lin, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil & Materials Engineering,Institute for Environmental Sci.& Policy,Univ. of Ill. at Chicago -- “Transferability of Household Travel Data Across Geographic Areas Using NHTS 2001"
Metropolitan areas with populations of over 50,000 are required to conduct transportation planning. In order to be eligible for federal funding, conformity regulations require metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) to have their models calibrated on a continuing basis using new data. On the other hand, surveys are expensive instruments and MPOs are often financially constrained to update or conduct large scale household travel surveys. Naturally, questions have emerged with respect to the transferability of household travel surveys data.
Contact: Diana Marek
847-491-2280
Audience: Public
Group: Transportation Center Seminar Series
| Title: Product Development the Dyson Way
Date: May 06, 2006
Time: 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Location: Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center-ITI Room;Tech LR2
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Description: James Dyson is known as the man who likes to make things work better. Dyson vacuum cleaners are the proof that he knows how to.
Please join the IDEA program as we host Andrew Samways, Senior Design Engineer and Jamie Cameron, New Product Development Engineering Manager of Dyson, in this two part one day event. The first part of the event, which is open to both students and faculty, is a lecture by Jamie Cameron who will explain the Dyson design philosophy and present a case study of how the DC12 vacuum cleaner was brought to market. Immediately following the lunch break participants who registered (students only) for the workshop will apply what they learned from the lecture in a hands-on product development exercise. Working in teams, participants in the workshop exercise will be presented with a problem statement and then engage in the follow activities: 1) Define your product and rough specifications 2) Produce concept sketches and explore layouts and configurations, 3) Produce a mockup of your concept, 4) Summarize your findings and prepare a three minute presentation, followed by a 5 minute Q&A. This event is a great opportunity for students to gain experience in understanding how ideas become products and to practice there skills as engineers and designers under the guidance of professionals.
The event is free and open to all Northwestern students. Faculty and staff are welcome to attend the lecture and observe the workshop. Space is limited for the workshop portion of the event so don’t miss out, register now. No registration is required for attending the lecture. Snacks will be provided at the lecture and lunch will be provided for all workshop participants. Contact Stephanie Daudt or Craig Stehle to register for the workshop.
Contact: Stephanie Daudt
847-581-9062
Audience: Faculty, All students
Group: Segal Design Institute
| Title: Bionanotechnology for Medical Applications
Date: May 08, 2006
Time: 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Location: Pritzker Auditorium, Feinberg Pavilion, 251 E. Huron, Chicago
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Description: Sponsored by the British Consulate-General's UK Trade & Investment in Chicago, and organized by Northwestern University's Institute for BioNanotechnology in Medicine (IBNAM), the symposium will be chaired by Professor Dame Julia M. Polak of Imperial College London, and Samuel I. Stupp, Board of Trustees Professor of Materials Science, Chemistry, and Medicine of Northwestern University.
The event will feature speakers from both institutions and the program will focus on bionanotechnology and translational medicine. Topics will include fundamental and applied aspects of nanoscience in chemistry and biology, such as cell and tissue regeneration, self-assembling and biomimetic materials and the physical chemistry of cell membranes.
For more information and for registration go to
http://www.uktradeinvestusa.com/ibnam
Due to limited room, registration is required and will close on April 23, 2006.
Contact: Gila Budescu
312-503-3246
Audience: Public
Group: Institute for BioNanotechnology in Medicine
| Title: GSF Coffee Break - Spring '06
Date: May 08, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Engineering and Science Library vestibule
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Description: Barron lab 3/27/06
Broadbelt lab 4/03/06
Miller lab 4/10/06
Amaral lab 4/17/06
Papoutsakis lab 4/17/06
Ottino lab 4/24/06
Burghardt lab 4/24/06
Olvera lab 5/01/06
Hatzimanikatis 5/01/06
Gray lab 5/08/06
Shea lab 5/08/06
Kung lab 5/15/06
Snurr lab 5/15/06
Grzybowski lab 5/22/06
Torkelson lab 5/22/06
Contact: Lindsay Karfeld, Jennifer Coyne, or Stacey Pace
847-491-4089
Audience: Faculty, Staff, Graduate students
Group: Chemical and Biological Engineering
| Title: Lauga: Bacteria and Snails: Biofluid Mechanics on Small...
Date: May 08, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech M416
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Description: Applied Math Colloquium
Title: Bacteria and Snails: Biofluid Mechanics on Small Scales
Speaker: Prof. Eric Lauga, MIT
Special Note: Refreshments will be served at 3:30pm in Tech M416.
Contact: Mary Catsicopoulos
847/491-5586
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick-Colloquia Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
| Title: MSE Colloquium
Date: May 09, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech L211
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Description: Professor Steve Davis, Northwestern Department of Mechanical Engineering
Dynamics of Metallic Foams
Contact: MSE Department
847-491-3537
Audience: Public
Group: Department of Materials Science and Engineering
| Title: Chicago Rail Project Update: Sandhouse Gang Meeting
Date: May 10, 2006
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Transportation Center, Chambers Hall, Lower Level Classroom, 600 Foster, Evanston
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Description: An updated of the Chicago CREATE Project provided by Bill Thompson, CREATE Railroad Prog. Manager, Assoc. of Amer. Railroads and Earl Wacker, Chgo.Transp.Coordination Office of CSX Transportation
CREATE: Chicago Regional Environmental & Transportation Efficiency Project - is a partnership project between the State of Illinois, the City of Chicago and the regional passenger & freight railroads to reassess the region's rail transportation system and identify critically needed improvements to the region's rail & highway transportation infrastructure needed to help reduce the impact of freight traffic growth on the city and its surrounding communities. http://www.createprogram.org/
Contact: Diana Marek
847-491-2280
Audience: Public
Group: Transportation Center - Sandhouse Gang
| Title: IDEA Info session
Date: May 10, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center, ITW Auditorium
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Description: Learn more about upcoming IDEA courses and the MaDE degree. FQ06 courses include:
IDEA 297 Practical Applications of Unigraphics
IDEA 298 Interdisciplinary Design Projects I
IDEA 370 Engineering Portfolio Development and Presentation
IDEA 395 Innovation and Invention
IDEA/ME 395 Computational Methods for Engineering Product Development
Contact: Phillip Jacob
847-467-3533
Audience: Faculty, All students
Group: Segal Design Institute
| Title: 19th Annual Hugh M. Hulburt Memorial Lecture
Date: May 11, 2006
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Location: Tech L361
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Description: 19th Annual Hugh M. Hulbert Memorial Lecture
Energy Challenges of the 21st Century: Role of Chemical Engineers
Dr. Lawrence B. Evans
Founder
Aspen Technology, Inc.
Chemical engineers were the leaders in building an energy industry based on oil in the 20th century. Now in this century the world is facing new challenges as the supply of petroleum begins to decline. While traditional sources of energy will continue to be important, it is obvious that innovative developments will be required to bring supply and demand into balance in an environmentally responsible way. In this talk I will review the various scenarios for meeting world energy needs and address the question of whether chemical engineers will continue to be the leaders in the future as they have in the past.
Thursday, May 4, 2006, at 9:00am in LR4
The Technological Institute
2145 Sheridan Road
Refreshments will be served at 8:45 AM
LAWRENCE B. EVANS
Lawrence B. Evans founded Aspen Technology in 1981 and served as chairman and chief executive officer until 2002. Under his leadership the company grew from a start-up to become the leading provider of software and solutions to the process manufacturing industries. Dr. Evans was professor of chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1962 to 1990, where he was well known for his work in computer-aided process design and process control. He was recently elected to serve as President-Elect of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers in 2006 and as President in 2007. Dr. Evans holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Oklahoma. He earned a master’s degree and a doctorate in chemical engineering from the University of Michigan.
Contact: Allison Strick
847-491-2773
Audience: Public
Group: Chemical and Biological Engineering
| Title: EECS Seminar: The "n" Things I Wish I Knew Before Grad School
Date: May 11, 2006
Time: 10:00 AM
Location: L324 - Technological Institute
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Description: This Virtual Panel Discussion is aimed at Undergraduate students who are planning or considering a PhD. program in Engineering or Computer Science.
The talk/Panel begins with the process of selecting schools to apply to, application, getting off to a good start, and selecting an advisor. The material reflects the experiences of Bill Tetzlaff of Polytechnic University, Lily Mummert and Maria Ebling of CMU, Guerney Hunt from Cornell and John Davis and Aaron Brown from UC Berkeley. All have PhDs in either CS or EE, and have the experience seared into their minds. They chose to do their PhD at quite different stages of their lives.
The talk will be informal and interactive, and we all learn from the questions and new information coming from people actually in the process.
Bill Tetzlaff, PhD. is President of the IBM Academy of Technology, Distinguished Engineer in the IBM Research Division, and a member of the external EECS Advisory Board at Northwestern University. Dr. Tetzlaff is a former undergraduate from Northwestern. He has been a visiting Industrial Fellow in the Computer Science Division at UC Berkeley. He has a PhD. from Polytechnic University in New York. He was recently elected to a two year term as the President of the IBM Academy of Technology. He has done industrial research at IBM for about 15 years, and been a manager in the Research Division of IBM for about 15 more years.
Contact: Brooke Hildebrand
847-491-3451
Audience: Public
Group: Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
| Title: EECS Seminar: The "n" Things I Wish I Knew Before the PhD Job Search
Date: May 11, 2006
Time: 11:00 AM
Location: L324 - Technological Institute
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Description: This Virtual Panel Discussion is aimed at Graduate students who are nearing completion of a PhD. program in Engineering or Computer Science, as well as those who in the program but may not made up their minds about earning a PhD. The talk will discuss the completion of one's research and dissertation, as well as the job search and beyond.
The talk/Panel begins with the process of completing your dissertation, moves to the job search process, the job talk, interviewing, negotiating, deciding and getting off to a good start. On the hiring side the talk is based on the experiences of Bill Tetzlaff, who has worked and managed in industrial research, and who has interviewed and hired many newly minted PhDs into his department. On the student side it reflects the experiences of Lily Mummert and Maria Ebling of CMU, Guerney Hunt from Cornell and John Davis and Aaron Brown from UC Berkeley. All have PhDs in either CS or EE, and have the experience seared into their minds.
The talk will be informal and interactive, and we all learn from the questions and new information coming from people actually in the process.
Bill Tetzlaff, PhD. is President of the IBM Academy of Technology, Distinguished Engineer in the IBM Research Division, and a member of the external EECS Advisory Board at Northwestern University. Dr. Tetzlaff is a former undergraduate from Northwestern. He has been a visiting Industrial Fellow in the Computer Science Division at UC Berkeley. He has a PhD. from Polytechnic University in New York. He was recently elected to a two year term as the President of the IBM Academy of Technology. He has done industrial research at IBM for about 15 years, and been a manager in the Research Division of IBM for about 15 more years.
Contact: Brooke Hildebrand
847-491-3451
Audience: Public
Group: Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
| Title: EECS Seminar: The "n" Things I Wish I Knew Before My First Engineering Job
Date: May 11, 2006
Time: 2:00 PM
Location: L324 - Technological Institute
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Description: This Panel Discussion is aimed at Undergraduate students who will be starting a job in Engineering or Computer Science in the next year or two.
The panel will include current faculty, students and industry professionals. We will briefly share our own histories of starting out as Engineers in Industry. Then we will progress to discussing selecting companies, interviewing, getting off to a good start, how companies manage pay and performance, career planning, and keeping yourself well educated.
The talk will be informal and interactive, and we all learn from the questions and new information coming from people actually in the process. Recommended reading: The world is Flat, by Thomas Freedman; Elements of Style (The Little Book), by WIlliam Stunk et al.
Bill Tetzlaff, PhD. is President of the IBM Academy of Technology, Distinguished Engineer in the IBM Research Division, and a member of the external EECS Advisory Board at Northwestern University. Dr. Tetzlaff is a former undergraduate from Northwestern. He has been a visiting Industrial Fellow in the Computer Science Division at UC Berkeley. He has a PhD. from Polytechnic University in New York. He was recently elected to a two year term as the President of the IBM Academy of Technology. He has done industrial research at IBM for about 15 years, and been a manager in the Research Division of IBM for about 15 more years.
Contact: Brooke Hildebrand
847-491-3451
Audience: Public
Group: Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
| Title: Seminar: Hospital Noise: Its Role in Patient Well-Being and the Challenges for Noise Engineering
Date: May 11, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: LR2 - Technological Institute
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Description: EECS Distinguished Seminar
James (Jim) E. West
Johns Hopkins University
Research Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Member NAE, Bell Labs Fellow, National Inventors Hall of Fame
"Hospital Noise, Its Role in Patient Well-Being and the Challenges for Noise Engineering"
Noise in hospitals is important for a number of reasons in addition to the obvious issue of annoyance. There is evidence that the high sound levels in the hospital contribute to stress and burn-out in hospital staff, and to hearing loss in some medical professionals. There is also evidence that noise negatively affects the speed of wound healing. Additionally, there is concern that hospital noise could negatively affect speech communication and cause increased numbers of medical errors. The purpose of the present study has been to characterize the noise environment in Johns Hopkins Hospital, to place our results in context geographically and historically, and to implement noise reduction strategies that will work long term. We have measured sound pressure levels in various units of Johns Hopkins Hospital using a precision sound level meter. This has produced sound levels as a function of location, time of day, and frequency. We have compared the results obtained to all similar results reported in the literature recently. We have also introduced two noise reduction strategies: the elimination of overhead paging through use of personal broadcast units, and the addition of hygienic sound absorption material. In both cases, we obtained objective measures of noise level reduction as well as survey data on perceived impact by staff and patients. Our results indicate that the level of noise in hospitals throughout the world has been rising about 0.4 decibels per year since 1960. The sound levels are now sufficiently high to be a concern in terms of sleep and speech interference.
Contact: Brooke Hildebrand
847-491-3451
Audience: Public
Group: Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
| Title: Application of Nano in Healthcare: Dr Rabinow from Baxter
Date: May 11, 2006
Time: 5:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location: Kellogg Room 101
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Description: Nanoparticles for targeted drug therapy
Speaker: Dr. Barrett E. Rabinow
Baxter Healthcare Corporation
Dr Rabinow is a Distinguished Scientist, BioPharma Solutions, at Baxter Healthcare Corporation. He received his BA from Cornell University in 1968 and a Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1974 from the University of Chicago. He joined Baxter Healthcare Corporation in1977, where he has been since. Dr Rabinow has been active in industry task forces organised by the Parenteral Drug Association, AdvaMed, Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation and the International Standards Organisation, as well as collaborative studies with USP, FDA and NIH. For six years, he identified and evaluated new business opportunities, leading to Baxter acquisitions. In 1998, he co-founded Baxter's NANOEDGE nanosuspension drug delivery platform, for which he now leads pre-clinical development and directs technical strategy. Dr Rabinow has two patents to his credit in the area of pharmaceutical formulations and biomaterials.
Thursday, May 11
Refreshments at 5:00 pm
Talk 5:15-6:00 pm
Room 101, Jacobs Center, Kellogg
Contact: Haimu Sun
847-212-5622
Audience: Public
Group: NU NanoAlliance
| Title: Seminar by: Dr. Duncan Watts, Columbia University
Date: May 12, 2006
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: TECH Building, LR5
Description:
Topic: The Paradoxical Nature of Success in Cultural Markets: An Experimental Approach
Speaker: Dr. Duncan Watts
Abstract: Cultural objects, like movies, books, and music, vary greatly in their success, suggesting that successful and unsuccessful objects are qualitatively different; yet, paradoxically, success in cultural markets appears highly unpredictable. In this talk I argue that social influence, in the form of information about the decisions of others, can resolve the paradox. To explore the counterintuitive effects of social influence, I will discuss the results of a series of four experiments (total n = 27,267), conducted via a website where subjects could listen to and download new pop songs. By controlling the information that subjects received about the behavior of others, we observed directly the effects of social influence, finding that it increased the inequality and the unpredictability of outcomes simultaneously; and that under some conditions the perceived success of a song became a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Contact: Gwen Hoffman
(847) 491-3576
Audience: Public
Group: Industrial Engineering/ Management Sciences
| Title: Colloquia on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
Date: May 12, 2006
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: 2145 Sheridan Rd/ Tech M345
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Description: Prof. Shaochen Chen from the University of Texax at Austin will be speaking."Nanophotonics and Nanomanufacturing"
Contact: kim nowakowski
847-491-3257
Audience: Faculty, All students
Group: McCormick - Civil and Environmental Engineering
| Title: Nanophotonics and Nanomanufacturing
Date: May 12, 2006
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: Tech Bldg 2145 Sheridan Rd Rm M345
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Description: Seminar speaker: Shaochen Chen,PhD, Mechanical Engineering Department, The University of Texas at Austin. Host: Prof Jian Cao
Contact: Arlene Preus
847 467-6510
Audience: Faculty, Graduate students
Group: McCormick - Mechanical Engineering
| Title: Energy Day @ Northwestern
Date: May 13, 2006
Time: 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM
Location: Harris Hall 107 and 108
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Description: Energy Day 2006 will bring together students, faculty, and professionals working in the business and public sectors to discuss our energy future and the role of sustainable energy.
Featured Speakers Include:
- Midwest Regional Director of the Department of Energy
- VP of Exelon
- VP of ComEd
- Director of Abbott Labs
- Division Director of Argonne National Labs
Registration begins at 9:30AM and opening remarks will be given at 10AM. Lunch will be provided. For more information please visit http://www.energydaynu.org
Contact: Nikhil Chawla
847.312.8646
Audience: Public
Group: Engineers for a Sustainable World
| Title: GSF Coffee Break - Spring '06
Date: May 15, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Engineering and Science Library vestibule
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Description: Barron lab 3/27/06
Broadbelt lab 4/03/06
Miller lab 4/10/06
Amaral lab 4/17/06
Papoutsakis lab 4/17/06
Ottino lab 4/24/06
Burghardt lab 4/24/06
Olvera lab 5/01/06
Hatzimanikatis 5/01/06
Gray lab 5/08/06
Shea lab 5/08/06
Kung lab 5/15/06
Snurr lab 5/15/06
Grzybowski lab 5/22/06
Torkelson lab 5/22/06
Contact: Lindsay Karfeld, Jennifer Coyne, or Stacey Pace
847-491-4089
Audience: Faculty, Staff, Graduate students
Group: Chemical and Biological Engineering
| Title: Srinivasarao: Breath Figures and the Formation of an Ordered Array of Holes in Polymer Films
Date: May 15, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech M416
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Description: Applied Math Colloquium
Title: Breath Figures and the Formation of an Ordered Array of Holes in Polymer Films
Speaker: Prof. Mohan Srinivasarao, Georgia Tech
Special Note: Refreshments will be served at 3:30pm in Tech M416.
Contact: Mary Catsicopoulos
847/491-5586
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick-Colloquia Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
| Title: Mornings @ McCormick "Soft Processing of Hard Materials" Prof. Kenneth Shull & Prof. Katherine Faber
Date: May 16, 2006
Time: 7:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Location: McCormick Technological Institute, 2145 Sheridan, JBC Commons, 4th Floor, Evanston, Illinois
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Description: Mornings @ McCormick "Soft Processing of Hard Materials" Presented by Professor Kenneth Shull and Professor Katherine Faber of McCormick's Materials Science and Engineeirng Department.
Much of the appeal of thermoplastic polymers can be attributed to their ease of processing. Upon heating, these materials can easily be molded into a variety of shapes. A consequence of this thermoplastic nature is that these “soft” thermoplastics materials cannot be used at elevated temperatures. “Hard” materials, such as ceramics, can be used at high temperatures but their processing is necessarily much more complicated.
We are developing processing strategies for “hard” materials that are based on the inherent processibility of “soft” materials such as polymer gels. In this talk, we will emphasize a thermoreversible gelcasting technique that can be used to product a wide variety of monolithic or composite ceramic materials.
Contact: Debra Daniel
(947) 491-8670
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick Office of Corporate Relations
| Title: Meet the EECS Faculty Seminar Series: Hai Zhou
Date: May 16, 2006
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: 2133 Sheridan Road (Ford Building) - ITW Auditorium (1st Floor)
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Description: Meet the EECS Faculty Seminar Series
"To Optimize or Not to Optimize: Algorithm Design in VLSI CAD"
Professor Hai Zhou
EECS Department
Northwestern University
Abstract to come - please check EECS department bulletin board and Tech monitors.
Contact: Brooke Hildebrand
847-491-3451
Audience: Public
Group: Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
| Title: Seminar by: Ali A. Yassine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: May 16, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech M228
Description:
Topic: Managing the Exchange of Preliminary Information in Collaborative Product Development
Speaker: Ali A. Yassine
Abstract: In the present paper, we develop a dynamic programming (DP) model of the product development (PD) process. We conceptualize product development as a sequence of decisions: whether to incorporate a piece of information that just arrived (i.e. became available) or wait longer. We utilize this formulation to analyze different situations that depend on the type, and nature of information that is exchanged: stationary versus dynamic information. We derive optimal decision rules to determine whether (and when) to incorporate for each case. An analysis of the model results in several important findings. First, we must not necessarily incorporate all available information that is related to the design activity. Specifically, once the information collection exceeds certain value, the design team should stop collecting further information. Second, only when past design work accumulates to a certain threshold value should the team include the latest information and perform rework. Large uncertainty of the information and large sensitivity of the design activity makes the incorporation of new information less likely. Finally, managerial implications are discussed with several numerical examples.
Contact: Gwen Hoffman
847-491-3576
Audience: Public
Group: Industrial Engineering/ Management Sciences
| Title: So you want to be an entrepreneur? Really?
Date: May 17, 2006
Time: 5:15 PM - 6:15 PM
Location: Ford Building - ITW classroom (1st Floor - one floor above ground)
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Description: By Prof. Rob Wolcott
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Levy Institute for Entrepreneurial Practice
Kellogg
(PhD Northwestern)
Professor Wolcott will do his best to convince you to forget about your dreams of becoming an entrepreneur. Then, assuming you're still interested, he'll explore a few critical mistakes entrepreneurs make over and over again... as well as a few potential solutions.
Prof. Wolcott will also briefly discuss his recent article from the MIT Sloan Management Review, "12 Different Ways for Companies to Innovate", and how it might be employed successfully for enhancing the success of early stage ventures.
May 17th
5:15 - 6:15 p.m.
Ford Building - ITW classroom
(1st Floor - one floor above ground)
Contact: Binoy Shah
847 491 8439
Audience: Public
Group: InNUvation
| Title: ChBE Seminar: Prof. M. Douglas LeVan, Vanderbilt University
Date: May 18, 2006
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Location: Tech LR4
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Description: Adsorption in Nanoporous Carbons - Novel Rate Measurements
Professor M. Douglas LeVan
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN
Thursday, May 18, 2006, at 9:00am in LR4
The Technological Institute
2145 Sheridan Road
Refreshments will be served at 8:45 AM
Contact: Allison Strick
847-491-2773
Audience: Public
Group: Chemical and Biological Engineering
| Title: Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series (Prof. Bertrand Duplantier)
Date: May 18, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Location: TECH L-211
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Description: Professor Bertrand Duplantier
CEA-Saclay, France
"1905-2005:The Age of Brownian Motion"
Contact: Laura Ellis
847-467-4862
Audience: Public
Group: International Institute for Nanotechnology
| Title: Entanglement Sudden Death: What is it, and what to do about it
Date: May 19, 2006
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: TECH L324
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Description: CPCC seminar: speaker Professor Joseph Eberly (OSA President-Elect 2006, Carnegie Professor of Physics and Professor of Optics, University of Rochester)
Abstract: In the presence of background noise, classical or quantum, initial entanglement installed in a pair of qubits will be lost. We examine this as a dynamical process and identify large categories of initial states for which entanglement abruptly vanishes ("entanglement sudden death") even as the individual qubits retain coherence. We show that purely local unitary transformations can help avoid sudden death, and examine counter-intuitive consequences of combined noises.
Contact: Lana Kiperman
847-491-2972
Audience: Faculty, All students, Staff, Graduate students, Undergraduate students
Group: Center for Photonic Communication and Computing
| Title: CCSS Seminar Presentation
Date: May 19, 2006
Time: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Location: Nano Bldg. Room 4003
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Description: Speaker: Dr. David Dubbeldam, Postdoctoral Fellow, NU-Chem. & Biol. Engrg. (Snurr Research Group);
Title: "Computer-simulation of Adsorption and Diffusion of Hydrocarbons in Zeolites"
Contact: Jasmine N. Tucker
847-491-4354
Audience: Faculty, Graduate students
Group: Center for Catalysis and Surface Science
| Title: Design Competition
Date: May 20, 2006
Time: 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center -- Machine Shop
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Description: Twenty autonomous robots will go head-to-head Saturday, May 20, as their student designers vie for a $10,000 first prize at the 15th Annual Undergraduate Design Competition at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University. Free and open to the public, the design competition attracts hundreds of spectators every year who enjoy the display of high technology and student ingenuity as well as food and music.
The competition, named “Leap of Faith,” will start at 1 p.m. at the Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center, 2133 Sheridan Road, on the Evanston campus. (A free pizza lunch will be provided at noon.)
The event is expected to conclude around 3 p.m. with an awards ceremony. Cash prizes will be awarded to the top three teams: $10,000 for first place (the largest prize in the history of the design competition), $2,000 for second and $1,000 for third.
Teams of Northwestern undergraduates representing all engineering majors have spent six months designing and building autonomous robots using microprocessors, motors, gears and electronic sensors. Remote control is not permitted.
This year each team must construct a robot that can somehow propel itself from a standing start across a yawning gap between two high platforms. It's do or die: There are no safety nets for robots that fail, and the penalty for failure is almost certain destruction. But the leap is not the end of the challenge. Each robot must then traverse a steeply inclined ramp to reach floor level and knock over a wine goblet -- the Holy Grail. The competition will be conducted in separate head-to-head speed trials with a double-elimination format.
Industry sponsors include Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Rauland- Borg and Northrop Grumman.
More information on the 2006 design competition is available at http://msgroups.tech.northwestern.edu/dc/ or from Allen Taflove, professor of electrical and computer engineering, at (847) 491-4127.
Contact: Allen Taflove
(847) 491-4127
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
| Title: EWeek: Tech Student Activity Fair
Date: May 22, 2006
Time: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Location: Technological Institute - Lobby
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Description: McCormick Engineering Week 2006
A showcase of some of McCormick's most prominent student groups, including Design Competition, Engineers for a Sustainable World, National Society of Black Engineers, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Society of Women Engineers, and Solar Car.
Contact: Kelly Luckasevic
847-332-5209
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick Student Advisory Board
| Title: Childress: Flapping flight as a bifurcation in Reynolds number
Date: May 22, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech M416
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Description: Edward L. Reiss Memorial Lecture Series
Title: TBA
Speaker: Prof. Stephen Childress, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Special Note: A reception will follow the lecture.
Contact: Mary Catsicopoulos
847/491-5586
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick-Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
| Title: Childress: Flapping flight as bifurcation in Reynolds number
Date: May 22, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech M416
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Description: Applied Math Colloquium
Title: Flapping flight as bifurcation in Reynolds number
Speaker: Prof. Stephen Childress, Courant Institute, NYU
Special Note: This even is co-sponsored by the IGERT program. A reception will follow the lecture in M416.
Contact: Mary Catsicopoulos
847/491-5586
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick-Colloquia Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
| Title: GSF Coffee Break - Spring '06
Date: May 22, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Engineering and Science Library vestibule
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Description: Barron lab 3/27/06
Broadbelt lab 4/03/06
Miller lab 4/10/06
Amaral lab 4/17/06
Papoutsakis lab 4/17/06
Ottino lab 4/24/06
Burghardt lab 4/24/06
Olvera lab 5/01/06
Hatzimanikatis 5/01/06
Gray lab 5/08/06
Shea lab 5/08/06
Kung lab 5/15/06
Snurr lab 5/15/06
Grzybowski lab 5/22/06
Torkelson lab 5/22/06
Contact: Lindsay Karfeld, Jennifer Coyne, or Stacey Pace
847-491-4089
Audience: Faculty, Staff, Graduate students
Group: Chemical and Biological Engineering
| Title: EWeek: Faculty Keynote Speaker William White
Date: May 23, 2006
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Technological Institute - LR5
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Description: McCormick Engineering Week 2006
Former CEO of Bell & Howell and industrial engineering
Professor William White speaks about his book "From Day One: CEO Advice to Launch and Extraordinary Career," which gives advice graduates beginning their careers.
Free Domino's pizza included.
Contact: Kelly Luckasevic
847-332-5209
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick Student Advisory Board
| Title: Childress: Paired vortices, voricity growth, and hovering...
Date: May 23, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech M416
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Description: Applied Math Colloquium
Title: Paired vortices, voricity growth, and hovering flight.
Speaker: Prof. Stephen Childress, Courant Institute, NYU
Special Note: This event is co-sponsored by the IGERT program. Refreshments will be served at 3:30pm in Tech M416.
Contact: Mary Catsicopoulos
847/491-5586
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick-Colloquia Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
| Title: Childress: Paired vortices, vorticity growth, and hovering flight
Date: May 23, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech M416
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Description: Edward L. Reiss Memorial Lecture Series
Title: TBA
Speaker: Prof. Stephen Childress, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Special Note: Refreshments will be availaable at 3:30pm in Tech M416.
Contact: Mary Catsicopoulos
847/491-5586
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick-Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
| Title: Seminar by: Jean-Pierre Goux, Powernext France
Date: May 23, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech M228
Description:
Topic: "Coupling European Electricity Markets Using Combinatorial Optimisation Algorithms"
Speaker: Jean-Pierre Goux
Abstract: In the past decade, the electricity landscape in Europe has changed dramatically and is on its way toward a full deregulation. The Power Exchanges are playing a key role in the construction of an efficient and integrated electricity market. Powernext, the French Power Exchange, is at the forefront of this development and is part of a pioneer project that will “couple” the French, Belgium and Dutch power exchanges together through an implicit auction of the cross-border capacities.
This market coupling project required the design of an efficient auction algorithm to determine in a coordinated and decentralised way the power prices and flows in these three areas. The underlying equilibrium problem can be formulated as a large scale mixed-integer quadratic program. However, due to the operational constraints (a maximum of 10 minutes is available to solve the problem) heuristics based on price decomposition were implemented.
After a review of commodity markets and the role of Power Exchanges, the background of the market coupling project will be presented. Design and numerical performance of these heuristics will be addressed as well as the distributed computing architecture of the final IT system. Extensions toward more than three areas will be sketched.
Bio: Since 2004 Jean-Pierre Goux is Project Manager at Powernext where he is in charge of the Powernext Futures market, and has also involved in the market coupling and Powernext Carbon projects. Jean-Pierre holds an Engineering diploma from ENSTA with a major in Operations Research and a Master Degree from University Paris-La Sorbonne in Optimization and Economics. Starting at the R&D division of Electricité de France, he designed stochastic and nonlinear optimisation algorithms for electricity production management. He was then appointed
Contact: Gwen Hoffman
847 491-3576
Audience: Public
Group: Industrial Engineering/ Management Sciences
| Title: ITEC presents: "Series A Venture Capital Funding"
Date: May 23, 2006
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: Hilton Garden Inn – Evanston, 1818 Maple Avenue
Description: ITEC-Evanston’s 9th Entrepreneurial Educational Event will focus on the process an entrepreneur must go through to successfully raise a first round of venture capital. Moderator Derrick Collins will lead a lively panel discussion with 4 local venture capitalists regarding all aspects of this process.
Some of the questions that will be discussed and debated include:
- What technology areas are getting the most attention currently?
- What kind of returns are early stage VCs looking for these days?
- How does a company determine if it is ready for institutional funding?
- How much of the management team needs to be in place?
- What percentage of the company does the VC expect in a Series A deal?
Moderator: Derrick Collins, Assistant Clinical Professor of Finance. Kellogg School of Management
Panelists:
Sona Wang, Managing Partner, Ceres Venture Fund
Chris Girgenti, Managing Partner, New World Ventures
Tom Parkinson, Partner, Hopewell Ventures
Larry Hayward, Director, Scius Capital Group
Contact: Jeff Coney
847-491-7600
Audience: Public
Group: ITEC - Evanston
| Title: ITEC-Evanston Event: Series A Venture Capital Funding - What Does It Take To Be Successful?
Date: May 23, 2006
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: Hilton Garden Inn, Evanston (1818 Maple Ave)
Description: ITEC-EVANSTON ENTREPRENEURIAL EDUCATIONAL EVENT
Series A Venture Capital Funding: What Does It Take To Be Successful?
A Panel of Experts Shares Its Insights
Tuesday, May 23rd, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
ITEC-Evanston’s 9th Entrepreneurial Educational Event will focus on the process an entrepreneur must go through to successfully raise a first round of venture capital. Moderator Derrick Collins will lead a lively panel discussion with 4 local venture capitalists regarding all aspects of this process.
Some of the questions that will be discussed and debated include:
*What technology areas are getting the most attention currently?
*What kind of returns are early stage VCs looking for these days?
*How does a company determine if it is ready for institutional funding?
*How much of the management team needs to be in place?
*What percentage of the company does the VC expect in a Series A deal?
Moderator: Derrick Collins, Assistant Clinical Professor of Finance. Kellogg School of Management
Panelists:
* Sona Wang, Managing Partner, Ceres Venture Fund
* Chris Girgenti, Managing Partner, New World Ventures
* Tom Parkinson, Partner , Hopewell Ventures
* Larry Hayward, Director, Scius Capital Group
When: Tuesday, May 23rd
6:00 – 8:00 PM
Where: Hilton Garden Inn – Evanston
1818 Maple Ave.
Cost: $15 per person (Students $5 with University ID)
Reservations: email to itec@northwestern.edu
Attendance is limited, so email to confirm your place soon.
ITEC-Evanston helps entrepreneurs navigate the path to building successful businesses. www.itec-evanston.org
Contact: Jim Bray
847-491-2985
Audience: Public
Group: ITEC - Evanston
| Title: EWeek: Tech Movie Night
Date: May 24, 2006
Time: 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Location: Technological Institute - M345
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Description: McCormick Engineering Week 2006
Free showing of X-Men and X-Men 2.
Popcorn will be sold for $1 per bag. Benefits the McCormick Student Advisory Board.
Contact: Kelly Luckasevic
847-332-5209
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick Student Advisory Board
| Title: ChBE Seminar: Prof. Christina Smolke, California Institute of Technology
Date: May 25, 2006
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Location: Tech LR4
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Description: Engineering nucleic acid-based molecular sensors for probing and programming cellular systems
Professor Christina Smolke
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA
Thursday, May 25, 2006, at 9:00am in LR4
The Technological Institute
2145 Sheridan Road
Refreshments will be served at 8:45 AM
Contact: Allison Strick
847-491-2773
Audience: Public
Group: Chemical and Biological Engineering
| Title: Hilliard Symposium
Date: May 25, 2006
Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Location: McCormick Auditorium at Norris University Center
Description: Keynote Speaker: Dr. Michelle St. Louis-Weber
"A Personal Journey with Intel Corporation"
More information concerning this event will be posted on the MSE web site.
Contact: Material Science and Engineering
847-491-3537
Audience: Public
Group: Department of Materials Science and Engineering
| Title: EWeek: Corporate Keynote Speaker Peter Hoffmann
Date: May 25, 2006
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: Technological Institute - L361
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Description: McCormick Engineering Week 2006
Global Research and Development Trends - The Changing Role of Engineering
Peter Hoffman, Director Global R&D Strategy, Phantom Works, The Boeing Company
Globalization of technology and improved access to the best and brightest minds around the world is changing the way The Boeing Company is approaching development and support of new products. Centralized, internally focused technology development is no longer an affordable or wise approach to arrive at the best solution. Instead, global technology development teams are being launched across a wide variety of technologies with direct linkage to development of new and improved products and services. Critical to the success of these initiatives is the need to form collaborative teams involving local industry and research organizations. This presentation will provide insights to the structure, benefits and challenges involved in forming these global technology development teams and the important role Engineers play in this new business model.
Free Domino's Pizza included.
Contact: Kelly Luckasevic
847-332-5209
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick Student Advisory Board
| Title: Zoran Nenadic: Signal Processing and Data Analysis for Brain-Machine Interfaces
Date: May 25, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech L361
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Description: Zoran Nenadic
University of California Irvine
Signal Processing and Data Analysis for Brain-Machine Interfaces: Challenges and Perspectives
Recording the electrical activity from a single neuron or a population of neurons has become a method of choice for studying the physiologic function of the brain. Extracellular signals obtained from chronically implanted electrode arrays are also a key component of emerging brain-machine interfaces. Motivated by some of the limitations in current multi-electrode technologies and practice, we developed a control algorithm that can autonomously position an electrode so as to find and then maintain an optimal extracellular recording position. The algorithm is based on a stochastic optimization of a suitably defined signal quality metric, and is capable of fully unsupervised operation. The algorithm was developed using a two-neuron computational model, and its performance was tested under both simulated and experimental conditions.
In the second part of the presentation we discuss an information-theoretic approach to the extraction of low-dimensional features from high-dimensional neural data. We argue that this approach may be better suited for certain neuroprosthetic applications than the traditionally used features. An extensive analysis of local field potentials from the human brain demonstrates that processing data in this manner yields more informative features than off-the-shelf techniques such as linear discriminant analysis. Finally, we show that the feature extraction is not only a useful dimensionality reduction technique, but also that the recognition of neural data may improve in the feature domain.
Contact: Jennifer Lopez
847-491-8178
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick - Biomedical Engineering Department
| Title: Seminar: "Sexy Types" The Future of Type Systems for Programming Languages
Date: May 26, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: LR5 - Technological Institute
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Description: David MacQueen
Chair, Department of Computer Science
University of Chicago
Static type systems have been an active area of programming language research for more than 30 years, and the major ideas developed have heavily influenced the design of functional languages like ML and Haskell, and have more gradually begun to influence mainstream "industrial" language designs like C++, Java, and C#. I will survey some of the more advanced type features that have been investigated recently but that have so far only appeared in prototype form in language designs. These features include first-class polymorphism, existential types, generalized datatypes, recursive modules, polymorphic records and sums, row polymorphism, and equi-recursive types. I will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of these features and speculate on which of them might make the grade for inclusion in a next-generation ML-like language.
David MacQueen is Chair and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago. Before joining that department in 2001, he was a Member of Technical Staff and a Department Head in the Computing Science Research Center at Bell Laboratories for 20 years. He was a pioneer in the fields of functional programming and type systems, starting in the mid-1970s. He was one of the principle designers of the Hope and Standard ML functional languages, and he and Andrew Appel of Princeton led the development of the Standard ML of New Jersey system. He received his PhD in Mathematical Logic from MIT and spent five years at the University of Edinburgh.
Contact: Brooke Hildebrand
847-491-3451
Audience: Public
Group: Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
| Title: Memorial Day (no classes)
Date: May 29, 2006
Location:
Description: Holidays specified in union contracts are observed according to those contracts, even if different from this calendar.
Contact: Office of the Registrar
847-491-5234
Audience: Public
Group: University Holidays
| Title: Art Institute of Chicago & Northwestern University
Date: May 30, 2006
Time: 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Location: TBD
Description: Art Conservation Science: Ceramics and Glasses
Contact: Material Science and Engineering
847-491-3537
Audience: Public
Group: Department of Materials Science and Engineering
| Title: Meet the EECS Faculty Seminar Series: Kristian Hammond
Date: May 30, 2006
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: 2133 Sheridan Road (Ford Building) - ITW Auditorium (1st Floor)
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Description: Meet the EECS Faculty Seminar Series
Professor Kristian Hammond
EECS Department
Northwestern University
Title and abstract TBA - Please check EECS Dept bulletin board and Tech monitors.
Contact: Brooke Hildebrand
847-491-3451
Audience: Public
Group: Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
| Title: Seminar by: H.I. Gassmann, Dalhousie University, Halifax
Date: May 30, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech M228
Description:
Topic: AN INTRODUCTION TO STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING
Speaker: H.I. Gassmann
Abstract: 2005 marked the 50th anniversary of stochastic programming. In that year two
articles were published (by G.B. Dantzig in Management Science and E.M.L.
Beale in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society) that formulated the
first stochastic linear programs and gave algorithms for their solution.
I will give an introduction to the field, using different problem
formulations, and I will describe several general classes of algorithms. My
particular interest lies in representations of stochastic programs, and I
will describe different approaches, including the SMPS format, algebraic
modeling languages, internal data structures, as well as a new approach
using XML.
Further information about the speaker is at http://myweb.dal.ca/gassmann/.
Contact: Gwen Hoffman
847 491-3576
Audience: Public
Group: Industrial Engineering/ Management Sciences
| Title: Transportation Seminar: Real Time Traffic Management under Emergency Evacuation
Date: June 01, 2006
Time: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Location: Transportation Center, Chambers Hall, 600 Foster, Evanston
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Description: Henry Liu, Asst. Prof. of Civil Engineering, U. of Minnesota -- Recent natural or man-made disasters around the world have provided compelling evidence that transportation system plays a crucial role in the emergency evacuation and have stressed the need for effective evacuation traffic management to maximize the utilization of the transportation system and to minimize fatalities and losses. Traffic network management under evacuation is more complicated than that under normal condition since the conventional user equilibrium route choice behavior of traveler does not apply in this case. To cope with the dynamic and uncertain nature of evacuation traffic, we propose a model reference adaptive control (MRAC) framework based on both dynamic network modeling techniques and adaptive control theory, by considering the traffic network under evacuation as a dynamical system. In the MRAC framework, a prescriptive dynamic traffic assignment model (reference model) is applied to predict, in a short-term and rolling-horizon manner, the desired traffic states (reference points) based on certain system optimal objectives. The adaptive control mechanism is designed to guide the evacuation traffic towards the reference points, based on the difference between the desired traffic states from the prescriptive reference model and prevailing traffic states collected via the traffic monitoring system. The MRAC framework is currently implemented in a simulation-based platform and simulation studies demonstrate that the proposed framework can significantly improve the performance of real time evacuation traffic management.
Contact: Diana Marek
847-491-2280
Audience: Public
Group: Transportation Center Seminar Series
| Title: ChBE Seminar: Prof. Andre Palmer, University of Notre Dame
Date: June 08, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech LR4
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Description: Engineering Novel Oxygen Therapeutics
Professor Andre Palmer
Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN
Thursday, June 8, 2006, at 4:00PM in LR4
The Technological Institute
2145 Sheridan Road
Refreshments will be served at 3:45PM
Contact: Allison Strick
847-491-2773
Audience: Public
Group: Chemical and Biological Engineering
| Title: Sandhouse Gang Mtg: The Development of the North American Railroads in the 20th Century
Date: June 12, 2006
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Transportation Center, Chambers Hall, Lower Level Classroom, 600 Foster, Evanston
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Description: Robert E. Gallamore, Director of the Northwestern U. Transportation Center will provide a preview of his forthcoming book that he and Prof. John Meyer, Emeritus Prof. of Economics, Harvard University are writing: "Enduring Enterprise: The Development of the North American Railroads in the Twentieth Century"
Contact: Diana Marek
847-491-2280
Audience: Public
Group: Transportation Center - Sandhouse Gang
| Title: Engineering Across Nano-Macro Scales for Applications in Bioinspired Sensing & Scanning Probe Lithog
Date: June 15, 2006
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: ITW Auditorium Rm 1.350, Ford Building, 2133 Sheridan Rd, Evanston, IL
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Description: Guest Speaker: Professor Chang Lui,Department of Electrical And Computer Engineering, University of Illinois At Urbana -Chanpaign
Contact: Arlene Preus
847 467-6510
Audience: Faculty, Graduate students
Group: McCormick - Mechanical Engineering
| Title: 148th Annual Commencement
Date: June 16, 2006
Location: Ryan Field
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Description: Commencement exercises are scheduled for this date, with individual school convocations on Saturday, June 17.
Contact: University Commencement Coordinator
847-491-3600
Audience: Public
Group: University Commencement
| Title: MS Recognition and PhD Hooding Ceremony
Date: June 16, 2006
Time: 9:00 AM
Location: Ryan Family Auditorium, Technological Institute
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Description:
Contact: Kelly Janura
847-491-4548
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
| Title: Professional Masters Recognition Ceremony
Date: June 16, 2006
Time: 12:00 PM
Location: Ryan Family Auditorium, Technological Institute
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Description:
Contact: Kelly Janura
847-491-4548
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
| Title: Honorary Degree recipient Robert S. Langer on Biomaterials
Date: June 16, 2006
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: Abbott Auditorium in the Pancoe Building
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Description: Biomaterials and How They Will Change Our Lives
Advances in drug delivery and tissue engineering are revolutionizing medical therapies. New drug delivery technologies including novel polymers and intelligent microchips promise to create new treatments for cancer, heart disease and many other illnesses. Furthermore, by combining mammalian cells with synthetic polymers, new approaches for engineering tissues are being developed that may someday help repair tissues for patients with burns, damaged cartilage, paralysis and vascular disease.
Biography:
Exploring the intersection of engineering, biology, and medicine, Robert S. Langer has made discoveries in drug delivery and tissue engineering that have had profound effects on human health. After earning a doctorate in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he joined its faculty in 1978 and is one of 14 Institute Professors (MIT's highest faculty rank). Langer holds more than 500 patents, and his research has led to such widely used medical and health-care products as the nicotine patch. Named one of the top individuals in his field by Forbes, Discover and Time magazines, he has received more than 130 honors, including election to the Institute of Medicine, the National Academy of Science, and the National Academy of Engineering, which in 2002 awarded him the Charles Stark Draper Prize, the world's most prestigious engineering honor.
Contact: Jenny Lopez
847-491-8178
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick - Biomedical Engineering Department
| Title: Order of the Engineer Oath Ceremony
Date: June 16, 2006
Time: 2:15 PM
Location: Ryan Family Auditorium, Technological Institute
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Description:
Contact: Kelly Janura
847-491-4548
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
| Title: Undergraduate Reception
Date: June 16, 2006
Time: 2:30 PM
Location: Grand Foyer, Technological Institute
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Description:
Contact: Kelly Janura
847-491-4548
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
| Title: Undergraduate Convocation
Date: June 17, 2006
Time: 8:30 AM
Location: Welsh-Ryan Arena/McGaw Memorial Hall
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Description:
Contact: Kelly Janura
847-491-4548
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
| Title: EECS & Department of Linguistics Seminar
Date: June 23, 2006
Time: 3:30 PM
Location: Swift Hall - Room 107
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Description: EECS & Department of Linguistics Seminar
“Separating Linguistic and Speaker-Specific Information in the Acoustic Signal of Speech”
This talk will focus on aspects of phonetics that may help with specific problems in speech technology, linguistics, and clinical intervention. Our goal is to find and characterize sub-phonemic aspects of the speech signal that convey (1) information about the detailed shape of the vocal tract, and (2) information about speaker characteristics. Our approach involves the integration of knowledge from engineering, acoustic and articulatory phonetics, speech production and speech perception. Specifically, the talk will describe our research into the relationship between the speech production system and the physical characteristics of the speech signal for the particularly troublesome American English /r/ and /l/. We will discuss new paradigms for the development of a speech signal representation that separates the linguistic and speaker-specific information in the speech signal for use in (a) speaker-independent speech recognition, (b) speaker recognition, and (3) speech enhancement for disordered speakers.
Dr. Carol Espy-Wilson, Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Institute for Systems Research
University of Maryland
Dr. Suzanne Boyce, Associate Professor
Department of Language Pathology and Speech Science
University of Cincinnati
Contact: Professor Bryan Pardo
847-491-7184
Audience: Public
Group: Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
| Title: Business Plan Series - Introduction to Business Plan
Date: June 26, 2006
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:45 PM
Location: ITW Classroom, Ford Building
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Description: InNUvation hosts the SBPS (Summer Business Plan Series) that is a biweekly seminar conducted over the summer by various speakers from Northwestern and industry. The goal of the series is to provide a basic foundation of important topics in a business plan. Topics will include, market analysis, marketing sales and strategy, entrepreneurial finance, intellectual property and venture capitalists.
Lecture by Jeff Coney from ITEC.
Contact: James Sulzer
847-467-1070
Audience: Members only
Group: InNUvation
| Title: Walter P. Murphy Society Application Due
Date: June 30, 2006
Time: 5:00 PM
Location:
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Description: Applications for funding from McCormick’s Walter P. Murphy Society (“Murphy Society”) are now being accepted for academic year 2006-2007. The Murphy Society is McCormick’s annual giving society that recognizes unrestricted leadership gifts ($1,000+) from individuals, most of whom are McCormick alumni. Each year the Murphy Society funds projects that are reviewed and recommended by Murphy Society members and selected by Dean Julio Ottino. Traditionally, these funds have only been designated for faculty projects; however, for the upcoming 2006-2007 academic year, a portion of the Murphy Society funds will be allocated to support special student group projects. Student groups must submit a full proposal to be considered and must also be prepared to report on the use of any awarded funds at the end of the academic year.
Murphy Society proposals are for special initiatives only, not general operating support. For example, groups can request funds to attend a conference, participate in workshops or enter engineering competitions. Dean Ottino would like student groups to “think BIG” and use this opportunity to fund something that might otherwise be cost prohibitive. Assistant Dean Ellen Worsdall must approve all proposals prior to their submission, so you may contact her to discuss ideas for your proposal.
For proposal and planning purposes, funding could be in the range of $1,000 - $5,000 per year. Please note: a submitted proposal is not a guarantee of funding. There is competition from all over McCormick for Murphy funds, so make sure that your proposals are thorough and complete. Projects should be unique and should have a strong potential to positively impact the future of your organization.
To be considered, please adhere to the following format when preparing your proposal. Submit proposals electronically to Assistant Dean Worsdall at e-worsdall@northwestern.edu for review and approval. Proposals must be submitted and approved by June 30, 2006.
Contact: Ellen Worsdall
847-491-5173
Audience: Graduate students, Undergraduate students
Group: McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
| Title: Independence Day
Date: July 04, 2006
Location:
Description: Holidays specified in union contracts are observed according to those contracts, even if different from this calendar.
Contact: Office of the Registrar
847-467-5234
Audience: Public
Group: University Holidays
| Title: Business Plan Series - Market Analysis, Sales and Strategy
Date: July 10, 2006
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: ITW Classroom, Ford Building
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Description: InNUvation hosts the SBPS (Summer Business Plan Series) that is a biweekly seminar conducted over the summer by various speakers from Northwestern and industry. The goal of the series is to provide a basic foundation of important topics in a business plan. Topics will include, market analysis, marketing sales and strategy, entrepreneurial finance, intellectual property and venture capitalists.
Lecture by Jim Bray from ITEC and Richard Barnes from rickmark.com.
Contact: James Sulzer
847-467-1070
Audience: Members only
Group: InNUvation
| Title: Master of Engineering Management Information Session
Date: July 12, 2006
Time: 5:30 PM
Location: Hilltop Professional Plaza, 650 E. Higgins Rd, Schaumburg, IL
Description: The Master of Engineering Management Program is a selective evening graduate program that prepares working engineering professionals for technical leadership roles. The combination of the business core and the technical electives enable engineers to communicate more effectively throughout the organization and advance in their careers. MEM awards a prestigious Northwestern University degree while accommodating the personal and work demands of the busy professional. To better accommodate these needs, the program offers degree and non-degree options, with classes held on the Evanston campus and in Schaumburg.
Contact: Sue Fox
847-491-5584
Audience: Public
Group: Master of Engineering Management
| Title: World Congress on Computational Mechanics
Date: July 16, 2006
Location: Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles, CA
Description: Pre-Congress Short Course
Contact: Sam Mirza
847-467-7909
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
| Title: World Congress on Computational Mechanics
Date: July 17, 2006
Time: 8:00 AM - 6:30 PM
Location: Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles, CA
Description: The 7th World Congress on Computational Mechanics will be held at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, California in July 2006. This event is hosted by Northwestern University and the University of California at Los Angeles.
Contact: Sam Mirza
847-467-7909
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
| Title: Sandhouse Gang Mtg: Transforming Innovations at the Illinois Central Electric Commuter Line
Date: July 17, 2006
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Transportation Center, Chambers Hall, Lower Level Classroom, 600 Foster, Evanston
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Description: Speaker: Norm Carlson, Chairman, Carlson Consulting Int'l, LLC will discuss the book he is researching on the Illinois Central Commuter Service which is now the Metra Electric. He will share the development of some of the transforming innovations that made this a leading service and now common throughtout the rail industry.
Contact: Diana Marek
847-491-2280
Audience: Public
Group: Transportation Center - Sandhouse Gang
| Title: World Congress on Computational Mechanics
Date: July 18, 2006
Time: 8:00 AM - 6:30 PM
Location: Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles, CA
Description: The 7th World Congress on Computational Mechanics will be held at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, California in July 2006. This event is hosted by Northwestern University and the University of California at Los Angeles.
Contact: Sam Mirza
847-467-7909
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
| Title: World Congress on Computational Mechanics
Date: July 19, 2006
Time: 8:00 AM - 6:30 PM
Location: Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles, CA
Description: The 7th World Congress on Computational Mechanics will be held at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, California in July 2006. This event is hosted by Northwestern University and the University of California at Los Angeles.
Contact: Sam Mirza
847-467-7909
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
| Title: World Congress on Computational Mechanics
Date: July 20, 2006
Time: 8:00 AM - 6:30 PM
Location: Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles, CA
Description: The 7th World Congress on Computational Mechanics will be held at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, California in July 2006. This event is hosted by Northwestern University and the University of California at Los Angeles.
Contact: Sam Mirza
847-467-7909
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
| Title: World Congress on Computational Mechanics
Date: July 21, 2006
Time: 8:30 AM - 6:30 PM
Location: Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles, CA
Description: The 7th World Congress on Computational Mechanics will be held at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, California in July 2006. This event is hosted by Northwestern University and the University of California at Los Angeles.
Contact: Sam Mirza
847-467-7909
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
| Title: World Congress on Computational Mechanics
Date: July 22, 2006
Location: Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles, CA
Description: Post-Congress Short Course
Contact: Sam Mirza
847-467-7909
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
| Title: Business Plan Series - Entrepreneurial Finance
Date: July 24, 2006
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Location: ITW Classroom, Ford Building
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Description: InNUvation hosts the SBPS (Summer Business Plan Series) that is a biweekly seminar conducted over the summer by various speakers from Northwestern and industry. The goal of the series is to provide a basic foundation of important topics in a business plan. Topics will include, market analysis, marketing sales and strategy, entrepreneurial finance, intellectual property and venture capitalists.
Contact: James Sulzer
847-467-1070
Audience: Members only
Group: InNUvation
| Title: Structural Engineering Seminar
Date: July 28, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: 2145 Sheridan Rd Tech A230
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Description: Mesolevel Modeling of Concrete Structures Subjected to Extreme Loading Conditions.
by Prof. Gianluca Cusatis
Contact: Prof. Bazant
847-491-4025
Audience: Faculty, All students
Group: McCormick - Civil and Environmental Engineering
| Title: NSF Summer Institute on Nano Mechanics and Materials
Date: July 31, 2006
Location: Ford Building
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Description: Science Fundamentals for Nano-and Bio-Mechanics of Materials
7/31/06 - 8/4/06
Instructors:
Yip-Wah Chung (Northwestern University)
Roger Narayan (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Part One of this course presents background topics in materials science necessary to understand the basic principles and applications of nanotechnology. Materials science fundamentals include atomic structure and bonding, imperfections, diffusion, dislocations, fracture and fatigue, phase diagrams, electrical, optical, and magnetic properties, corrosion and electrochemistry, and properties of specific materials such as ceramics, polymers, nanocomposites, and prosthetic implant materials. Building on these science fundamentals, Part Two covers essential elements of biology, including chemicals of life (carbohydrates, lipids, proteins and nuclei acids), energy and enzyme processes, cell structure, the genetic code, transcription and translation, protein synthesis, genetic engineering, etc. This provides physical scientists and engineers a glimpse of the complexity of biological systems from the nano to the micro level. Laboratory demonstrations will be arranged to complement lecture topics.
Contact: Sam Mirza
847-467-7909
Audience: Members only
Group: McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
| Title: NSF Summer Institute on Nano Mechanics and Materials
Date: August 07, 2006
Location: Ford Building
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Description: Micro and Nano Devices with Applications to Biology and Nanoelectronics
8/7/06 - 8/11/06
Instructors:
Horacio D. Espinosa (Northwestern University)
George Schatz (Northwestern University)
Eric Stach (Purdue University)
Monica Olvera (Northwestern University)
Mark Hersam (Northwestern University)
Mike Bedzyk (Northwestern University)
Teri Odom (Northwestern University)
Advances in nano fabrication and characterization have made possible the development of novel nanosystems that are poised to revolutionize a variety of applications ranging from wireless communication to the next generation of electronic devices to biomolecular sensing with unprecedented resolution and sensitivity. Likewise, the emergence of new technologies at the intersection of multiple disciplines also presents a number of intellectual challenges, which are current topics of research within universities, national laboratories and industries. This short course will review the state of the art in the development of nanosystems and examine remaining challenges.
The course will integrate readings, lectures, discussion groups, and laboratory tours with demonstrations. These activities are expected to provide the participant a unique perspective on the current state of affairs of the subject as well as to motivate new research efforts.
Contact: Sam Mirza
847-467-7909
Audience: Members only
Group: McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
| Title: Business Plan Series - Intellectual Property
Date: August 07, 2006
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Location: ITW Classroom, Ford Building
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Description: InNUvation hosts the SBPS (Summer Business Plan Series) that is a biweekly seminar conducted over the summer by various speakers from Northwestern and industry. The goal of the series is to provide a basic foundation of important topics in a business plan. Topics will include, market analysis, marketing sales and strategy, entrepreneurial finance, intellectual property and venture capitalists.
Lecture by David Orosco from the Center of Research and Technology, Kellogg School of Management.
Contact: James Sulzer
847-467-1070
Audience: Members only
Group: InNUvation
| Title: RET Closing Symposium Presentations
Date: August 11, 2006
Time: 9:00 AM - 12:45 PM
Location: TECH M-164
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Description: Research Experience for Teachers (RET) program interns present aspects of their summer research and a curriculum project developed for use in their classroom.
Contact: Laura Ellis
847-467-4862
Audience: Public
Group: International Institute for Nanotechnology
| Title: Engineering Seminar
Date: August 14, 2006
Time: 10:30 AM
Location: 2133 Sheridan Road (Ford Engineering Center) - Room 1.350
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Description: ENGINEERING SEMINAR
“Engineering Across Nano-Micro-Macro Scales for Applications in Bioinspired Sensing”
Dr. Chang Liu, Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Engineering at the nanoscale, micro scale, and macro, system scales complement each other. Revolutionary new devices and applications in the future will call for advancements of design and fabrication at all three scales.
Professor Chang’s group focuses on the development of novel fabrication and manufacturing techniques across the nano-micro-macro length scales. He will discuss results and potential of cross-scale engineering.
Animals ranging from fish to insects exhibit immense inspiration of biological intelligence. Today, the advancement of micro and nano engineering makes it possible to mimic the functions and/or structures of biological sensory systems and to realize advanced engineering applications. Professor Chang’s group is developing artificial haircell and artificial lateral line sensors that are inspired by biological haircells. He will discuss the design, materials, and characterization of artificial haircell sensors, which can serve as a modular building block for various applications. His group is also building artificial lateral line system for intelligent underwater vehicles, following the inspiration of the fish lateral line system.
Contact: Brooke Hidebrand
847-491-3451
Audience: Public
Group: Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
| Title: Sandhouse Gang Mtg: Rick Harnish, Exec. Dir., Midwest High Speed Rail Assoc.
Date: August 14, 2006
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Transportation Center, Chambers Hall, Lower Level Classroom, 600 Foster, Evanston
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Description: Mr. Grandish will present a vision of a regional network of high speed passenger trains that will build on the planned expansion of the Illinois Amtrak network and take passenger service to a new level.
Contact: Diana Marek
847-491-2280
Audience: Public
Group: Transportation Center - Sandhouse Gang
| Title: Tuck: Extensional fall of a slender viscous drop
Date: August 15, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech M416
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Description: Special Seminar
Title: Extensional fall of a slender viscous drop
Speaker: Prof. E. Tuck, University of Adelaide, Australia
Special Note: Refreshments will be served prior to the talk it Tech M416.
Abstract: A drop of viscous fluid (such as honey) hangs attached beneath a fixed boundary (such as an upturned spoon) and falls freely under gravity. A slender body theory is discussed in which gravity, viscosity, inertia, and surface tension all play roles. A simple gravity-viscosity balance yields a finite-time blow up, with drop length (and velocity and acceleration) tending to infinity at a fintie time. This is moderated by inertia, limiting the drop’s acceleration to that of gravity, and also by surface tension, intially opposing its tendency to fall. Top and bottom end boundary conditions are discussed from a singular-perturbation point of view. The governing equations with inertia included can be converted to a heat equation, and some consequences for both free drops and pulled filaments are discussed.
Contact: Mary Catsicopoulos
847/491-5586
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick-Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
| Title: REU Closing Symposium
Date: August 16, 2006
Time: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Location: Pancoe Abbott Auditorium
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Description: Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program interns present their summer research in various aspects of nanotechnology.
Contact: Laura Ellis
847-467-4862
Audience: Public
Group: International Institute for Nanotechnology
| Title: Business Plan Series - Venture Capitalists
Date: August 21, 2006
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Location: ITW Classroom, Ford Building
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Description: InNUvation hosts the SBPS (Summer Business Plan Series) that is a biweekly seminar conducted over the summer by various speakers from Northwestern and industry. The goal of the series is to provide a basic foundation of important topics in a business plan. Topics will include, market analysis, marketing sales and strategy, entrepreneurial finance, intellectual property and venture capitalists.
Lecture by Tom Parkinson from Hopewell Ventures.
Contact: James Sulzer
847-467-1070
Audience: Members only
Group: InNUvation
| Title: CCSS Seminar Presentation
Date: August 25, 2006
Time: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Location: Nano Bldg., Rm 4003
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Description: CCSS Seminar Presentation
Guest Speaker: Dr. Kathleen Carrado, Group Leader, Catalyst Design, Chemistry Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Title: "Silicate-Based Catalysts & Nanocomposites for Energy Applications"
Host: Professor Peter C. Stair
Contact: Jasmine N. Tucker
847-491-4354
Audience: Faculty, Graduate students, Members only
Group: Center for Catalysis and Surface Science
| Title: Annual Scientific Meeting
Date: August 28, 2006
Time: 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM
Location: Nano Bldg, 2190 North Campus Drive, Room 4003
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Description: "Catalysis and Energy Sustainability"
The Meeting will be chaired by Professor Harold Kung, NU, Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering. After an introductory discussion of the global and national energy scenarios, invited speakers will present their views of the current developments, potentials, and obstacles related to the production, conversion, and utilization of bio-fuel as energy source and hydrogen as energy carrier.
Northwestern University presenters:
• Prof. Scott Barnett, Dept. of Materials Sci. & Engrg., "Energy Applications of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells";
• Prof. Harold Kung, Dept. of Chemical & Biol. Engrg., "Energy and Global Sustainability";
Distinguished invited speakers:
• Prof. Kazunari Domen, School of Engineering, The University of Toyko,"Hydrogen Production from Water on Heterogeneous Photocatalysts";
• Prof. James Dumesic, Chemical & Biological Engrg., Univ. of Wisconsin Madison, "Catalytic Production of Fuels from Biomass derived Oxygenated Hydrocarbons";
• Dr. Thomas Foust, Biomass Technology Mgr., National Renewable Energy Laboratory, "A Research and Market Pathway to Realize the Potential of Ethanol";
• Dr. John L. Robbins, Corporate Programs, ExxonMobil Research & Engrg., "Pressure Swing Reforming: A Novel, High Efficiency Method for Hydrogen Production"
Meeting Registration*:
• Advance Registration (by 8/21/06): $155 (cash, check, money order)
• Late Registration (after 8/21/06): $175 (cash, check, money order)
*No cost to NU faculty, graduate students and post docs.
Checks and money orders should be made payable to Northwestern University.
Registration fee includes breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Contact: Jasmine N. Tucker
847-491-4354
Audience: Faculty, Graduate students, Members only
Group: Center for Catalysis and Surface Science
| Title: Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Seminar
Date: August 28, 2006
Time: 10:00 AM
Location: Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center - ITW Auditorium
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Description: New Directions In Internet Congestion Control: Quality-of-Service (QoS), Uncooperative Users, Large Bandwidth-Delay and Lossy Networks
Prof. Shivkumar Kalyanaraman,
Department of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering (ECSE) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
This seminar will overview non-traditional directions in Internet traffic management and congestion control:
• First, we explore how closed loop control frameworks can be used to engineer Quality-of-Service (QoS) expectations over best-effort networks (overlay QoS). Specifically, we show how the parameters of a class of "accumulation-based" congestion control techniques can be modified to support QoS expectations as an extension of "fairness" ideas.
• Second, we discuss an edge-based framework for handling non-cooperative users who modify their congestion control algorithms to be more aggressive. This avoids the need for "penalty-box" mechanisms at every router in the Internet.
• Third, we examine the value of an extra bit of congestion feedback in the context of large bandwidth-delay product networks. We show that with one more feedback bit, we can approximate the performance of explicit rate feedback schemes.
• Fourth, we show how to improve TCP performance over highly lossy networks (up to 50% loss rates). The talk will conclude with general comments on interesting future directions in this area.
Contact: Lianna Wright
847-491-7132
Audience: Public
Group: Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
| Title: Labor Day
Date: September 04, 2006
Location:
Description: Holidays specified in union contracts are observed according to those contracts, even if different from this calendar.
Contact: Office of the Registrar
847-491-5234
Audience: Public
Group: University Holidays
| Title: IIN Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series (Prof. Joan Redwing, Penn State University)
Date: September 07, 2006
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Pancoe Abbott Auditorium
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Description: "Silicon Nanowires for Nanoscale Electronics"
Contact: Laura Ellis
847-467-4862
Audience: Public
Group: International Institute for Nanotechnology
| Title: CCSS Seminar Presentation
Date: September 08, 2006
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Nano Bldg., Room 4003
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Description: CCSS Seminar Presentation
Guest Speaker: Prof. Miguel A. Banares, Institute of Catalysis & Petroleum Chemistry, Univ. of Cantoblanco (Madrid)
Title: "Operando Raman Methodology: The Combination of Kinetic and Structural Information in a Single Experiment to Understand Catalytic Operation"
Host: Prof. Peter Stair, NU - Chemistry
Contact: Jasmine N. Tucker
847-491-4354
Audience: Faculty, Graduate students
Group: Center for Catalysis and Surface Science
| Title: ChBE New Graduate Student Orientation
Date: September 12, 2006
Time: 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: Tech L160
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Description:
Contact: Allison Strick
847-491-2773
Audience: Graduate students
Group: Chemical and Biological Engineering
| Title: IIN Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series (Dr. Jeff Chinn, President, Applied MicroStructures)
Date: September 12, 2006
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: TECH L-211
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Description:
Contact: Laura Ellis
847-467-4862
Audience: Public
Group: International Institute for Nanotechnology
| Title: ChBE Departmental Retreat
Date: September 15, 2006
Time: 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Location: Greenbelt Cultural Center, North Chicago, IL
Description:
Contact: Allison Strick
847-491-2773
Audience: Faculty, Staff, Graduate students
Group: Chemical and Biological Engineering
| Title: CCSS Seminar Presentation
Date: September 15, 2006
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Nano Bldg. , Room 4003
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Description: CCSS Seminar Presentation
Speaker: Dr. Gennady Panov, Director, Laboratory of Oxidation Catalysis, Boreskov Institute of Catalysis (Russia)
Title: "Active Oxygen in Selective Oxidation Catalysis"
Host: Prof. Wolfgang Sachtler, NU-Chemistry
Contact: Jasmine N. Tucker
847-491-4354
Audience: Faculty, Graduate students
Group: Center for Catalysis and Surface Science
| Title: Ehrhard: Measurements and simulations of the flow field...
Date: September 15, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech M416
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Description: Special Seminar
Title: Measurements and simulations of the flow field in an electrically-excited micromixer
Speaker: Prof. Peter Ehrhard, University of Dortmund, Germany
Special Note: Refreshments will be served prior to the talk in TECH M416
Contact: Mary Catsicopoulos
847-491-5586
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick-Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
| Title: IIN Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series (Professor C. Pat Collier, CalTech)
Date: September 15, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Pancoe Abbott Auditorium
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Description: "CONTROL OF BIOCHEMICAL REACTION DYNAMICS IN RESTRICTED ENVIRONMENTS"
Contact: Laura Ellis
847-467-4862
Audience: Public
Group: International Institute for Nanotechnology
| Title: MEM Information Session
Date: September 16, 2006
Time: 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Location: Ford Motor Co Design Center, 2133 N. Sheridan Rd, Evanston, IL
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Description: Learn how the Master of Engineering Management can help you accelerate your career.
Contact: Susan Fox
847-491-5584
Audience: Public
Group: Master of Engineering Management
| Title: Seminar by: Prof. Darrell Duffie Graduate School of Business, Stanford Univ.
Date: September 19, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech M228
Description:
Topic: Frailty Correlated Default
Speaker: Prof. Darrell Duffie
Abstract: We analyze portfolio credit risk in light of dynamic "frailty," in the form of incompletely observed default. Common dependence by firms on unobservable time-varying default covariates is estimated to cause large changes in conditional mean default rates above and beyond those predicted by observable factors, and large increases in the fatness of the tails of the distributions of portfolio default losses for U.S. corporates. We also allow for unobserved heterogeneity across firms.
Contact: Gwen Hoffman
(847) 491-3576
Audience: Public
Group: Industrial Engineering/ Management Sciences
| Title: The Use of Carbon Nanotubes and Si Semiconductor Nanowires for Electronic Devices
Date: September 22, 2006
Time: 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: Cook Hall Room 2058
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Description: Devices made from individual carbon nanotubes (CNTs) or semiconductor nanowires (NWs) are known to exhibit impressive electronic properties. For instance, carrier mobility values above 3000 cm2/Vs have been measured in CNT-FETs, whereas values of 1300 cm2/Vs have been reported for Si NW FETs. However, CNTs and NWs cannot be organised in a way compatible with large scale manufacturing, which tends to slow their acceptance outside research labs.
In this talk, we will review some recent advances in the use of these materials, from random networks of carbon nanotubes (that do not need to be organised) to the development of templates for the organised growth of semiconductor nanowires.
Contact: George Mach
847-491-7251
Audience: Public
Group: Center for Quantum Devices (CQD)
| Title: CCSS Seminar Presentation
Date: September 22, 2006
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Nano Bldg., Room 4003
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Description: CCSS Seminar Presentation
Guest Speaker: Dr. Tilman Beutel, Senior Chemist, Environmental Technologies, BASF Catalysts
Title: "On the Inhibition of the CO Oxidation Catalysts by Sulfur Dioxides"
Host: Prof. Wolfgang Sachtler, NU-Chemistry
Contact: Jasmine N. Tucker
847-491-4354
Audience: Faculty, Graduate students
Group: Center for Catalysis and Surface Science
| Title: Zhang: Singular Surfaces
Date: September 25, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech M416
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Description: Applied Math Colloquium
Title: Singular Surfaces
Speaker: Professor Wendy Zhang, University of Chicago
Special Note: Refreshments will be served prior to the talk in TECH M416.
Contact: Mary Catsicopoulos
847/491-5586
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick-Colloquia Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
| Title: Flip Chip Integration of a Large Format Array of MOEMS Devices for Space Infrared Astronomy
Date: September 26, 2006
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: 2220 Campus Drive, Cook Hall Room 4051
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Description: A large format Micro-Optoelectro-Mechanical Systems (MOEMS) array known as the Microshutter Array (MSA) is designed to provide target selection for simultaneous multiple object spectrometry at cryogenic temperatures for the Near Infrared Spectrometer on the James Webb Space Telescope. This fully addressable array of micro-aperatures is fabricated using through-wafer Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) processing techniques. The completed MSA chip has electrical connections on the top and bottom of the chip to enable 2-dimensional addressing of the array. Electrical and mechanical connection of the MSA device chip to the substrate containing the address circuitry was accomplished through a combination of single-sided indium bump bonding and conventional wire bonding processes. Traditional eutectic ball bonding is unsuitable due to temperature constraints on the fully fabricated MSA devices. Underfilled gold stud compression bonding has been applied, but results in undesirable issues such as punch-through shorting, lower than optimal interconnect yield, and warping of components upon cool down to the operating temperature. Indium bump bonding has provided an excellent solution for establishing highly reliable electrical and mechanical interconnects without the need for underfill, and the single-sided bonding technique can be performed at room temperature. We present design considerations, process overview, and test results, including launch simulation vibration testing.
Contact: George Mach
847-491-7251
Audience: Public
Group: Center for Quantum Devices (CQD)
| Title: Gromov: Protein Problems: How a Mathematician May Think...
Date: September 26, 2006
Time: 4:10 PM - 5:10 PM
Location: Lunt 218
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Description: Special Seminar
Title: Protein Problems: How a Mathematician May Think of Proteins
Speaker: Prof. M. Gromov, IHES and CIMS
Special Note: Refreshments served at 3:45
Abstract: This speaker is jointly sponsored by the Mathematics Dept.
Contact: Mo Ormiston
(847)491-5586
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick-Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
| Title: Gromov: Protein Problems: How a Mathematician May Think...
Date: September 26, 2006
Time: 4:10 PM - 5:10 PM
Location: Lunt 105
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Description: Applied Math Colloquium
Title: Protein Problems: How a Mathematician May Think of Proteins
Speaker: Prof. M. Gromov, IHES and CIMS
Special Note: Refreshments Served at 3:45 in Lunt 218
Abstract: Jointly sponsored by the Mathematics Dept.
Contact: Mo Ormiston
847-491-5586
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick-Colloquia Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
| Title: Rail Reregulation: The Struggle for Prosperity
Date: September 28, 2006
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Transportation Center, Chambers Hall, Lower Level Classroom, 600 Foster, Evanston
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Description: Attorney Mike Blaszakwill will present a survey of the history of railroad regulation in the U.S. He will provide background on how economic regulation originated and how the rail industry responded when the Staggers Act was enacted. He will also examine the arguments for and against modifying that legislation in ways that are perceived to favor the economic interestd of rail shippers.
Contact: Diana Marek
847-491-2280
Audience: Public
Group: Transportation Center - Sandhouse Gang
| Title: Eshbach Lecture: Mladen Poluta Out of Africa: What can health technology innovators learn
Date: September 28, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech L361
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Description: 2006 ESHBACH LECTURE
Mladen Poluta
University of Cape Town, South Africa
2006 Eshbach Visiting Scholar
Out of Africa: What can health technology innovators learn from Africa's healthcare challenges?
Thursday, September 28, 2006
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Tech L361
Mladen Poluta is Senior Lecturer and Director of the HTM Program at the University of Cape Town and also holds the position of Principal Biomedical Engineer at Groote Schuur Hospital. He has served on the executive councils of the IFMBE (International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering), the AFTH (African Federation for Technology in Healthcare) and the South African national biomedical- and clinical engineering professional societies, as well as on a number of advisory committees for the South African Department of Health and as a short-term consultant for the World Health Organization. He has worked in industry as an R&D engineer, in a healthcare setting as a biomedical engineer and is currently engaged largely in academic and advisory activities.
Contact: Jenny Lopez
847-491-8178
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick - Biomedical Engineering Department
| Title: CCSS Seminar Presentation
Date: September 29, 2006
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Nano Bldg. Room 4003
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Description: CCSS Seminar Presentation
Guest Speaker: Dr. Sarah Larsen, Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Iowa
Title: "Applications of Nanocrystalline Zeolites in Environmental Catalysis"
Host: Prof. Randy Snurr, NU-Dept. of Chem. & Biol. Engrg.
Contact: Jasmine N. Tucker
847-491-4354
Audience: Faculty, Graduate students, Members only
Group: Center for Catalysis and Surface Science
| Title: Nanoscience & Nanotechnology in Electronic Devices
Date: September 29, 2006
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: 2145 Sheridan RD Tech L251
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Description: Professor Ed Yu of the University of California will present his seminar "Nanoscience & Nanotechnology in Electronic Devices."
Contact: Kim Nowakowski
847-491-3257
Audience: Faculty, All students
Group: McCormick - Civil and Environmental Engineering
| Title: IIN Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series (Professor Ricardo Garcia, CSIC-Spain)
Date: October 02, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Pancoe-ENH Abbott Auditorium
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Description: LOCAL CHEMICAL NANOLITHOGRAPHIES:
NANOFABRICATION AND NANODEVICES
Contact: Laura Ellis
847-467-4862
Audience: Public
Group: International Institute for Nanotechnology
| Title: Swimming with Giants in International Waters
Date: October 03, 2006
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Hotel Orrington, 1720 Orrington Ave. Evanston
Description: A panel of railroad leaders will discuss the opportunities and challenges of operating railroads internationally and advances in advanced rail technologies.
Contact: Diana Marek
847-491-2280
Audience: Members only
Group: Transportation Center - Sandhouse Gang
| Title: Seminar by: Way Kuo, University of Tennessee
Date: October 03, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech L150
Description:
Topic: Teaching Performance and Its Relationship to
Research Performance
Speaker: Way Kuo
Abstract: Background and Motivation Over the years, academics, students and the general public have questioned the measurement of engineering faculty teaching performance and whether a professor's involvement in research has any effect on his or her ability to teach. Professors not involved in research are inclined to dismiss the value that performing research has on teaching. This issue raises many related questions, such as: How is teaching performance related to class size? Are teaching evaluations conducted by students good indicators of teaching performance? Are research-oriented faculty members better, or worse classroom teachers? Are teaching evaluations closely related to the grades given by the instructors? Is it preferable to have senior faculty, as opposed to junior faculty, as the primary instructors for classroom teaching?
The answers to the above questions, however, often depend on the individual professor's point of view. In the 1980s, whether or not an increased emphasis on research might impede teaching progress was a frequent topic of conversation. These days, such debates are rare among faculty at top-ranked universities because conventional wisdom has shown that active research complements teaching activities. Since no rigorous study aimed at answering these questions has been performed, we decided to conduct our own analysis.
Study The study is based on the teaching and official research reports of 350 tenure-track faculty and 50 non-tenure track teaching staff at Texas A & M University's College of Engineering from 1999 through 2003. The student population involved in the study consisted of over 10,000 graduate and undergraduate students in 11 engineering departments representing each year for the 1999-2003 period.
Speaker Way Kuois a member of US National Academy of Engineering, Academia Sinica of Taiw
Contact: Gwen Hoffman
847 491-3576
Audience: Public
Group: Industrial Engineering/ Management Sciences
| Title: Special Guest Speaker Dr. Eran Segal from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel
Date: October 03, 2006
Time: 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location: Cook Hall 2220 Campus Drive, room 3118 A&B
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Description: Predicting Expression Patterns from Sequence: A Model for Transcription Control in Drosophila Segmentation
Eran Segal, PhD
Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
The Weizmann Institute of Science
Rehovot, Israel
Contact: Suzana Han
847-467-1972
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick - Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
| Title: CCSS - Ipatieff Lecture Presentation
Date: October 04, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Nano Bldg., Room 4003
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Description: CCSS - V.N. Ipatieff Lecture Presentation
Guest Speaker: Dr. Enrique Iglesia, Professor of Chemical Engrg. and Chemistry, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Catalysis and 2004-2005 NU - V.N. Ipatieff Lecturer
Title: "Synthesis, Structure and Reactivity of High-Valent Metal-Oxo Species Anchored in Microporous Solids"
Host: Prof. Peter Stair, NU-Chemistry, Director, CCSS
Contact: Jasmine N. Tucker
847-491-4354
Audience: Faculty, Graduate students
Group: Center for Catalysis and Surface Science
| Title: ChBE Colloquia: M.D. LeVan, Vanderbilt University
Date: October 05, 2006
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: Tech LR4
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Description: Adsorption in Nanoporous Carbons -- Novel Rate Measurements
M. Douglas LeVan
Department of Chemical Engineering
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN
A quantitative understanding of rate phenomena in nanoporous materials is important for many applications including adsorption and catalysis. This talk will describe two new flow-through frequency response methods that we have developed to investigate adsorption kinetics for both pure and mixed gases in nanoporous adsorbents. The systems considered are N2 and O2 and their mixtures on carbon molecular sieve, CO2 and CH4 and their mixtures on carbon molecular sieve, and chloroethane with and without helium on activated carbon. Mass transfer rate mechanisms and parameters are obtained from the experimental results and the corresponding analytical solutions for the models, which consider both micropore diffusion and a surface barrier resistance. Pure-component diffusivities obtained from the pressure-swing frequency response method agree well with the main-term diffusivities of the mixture results from the concentration-swing frequency response method. The mixtures are studied at different compositions and are well described by a non-constant Fickian diffusivity model. A simple relationship is suggested for the concentration dependence of the mixture diffusivities, and it reduces to Darken’s equation for pure components.
Thursday, October 5, 2006 at 9:00am in LR4
The Technological Institute
2145 Sheridan Road
Refreshments will be served at 8:45 AM
Contact: Allison Strick
847-491-2773
Audience: Public
Group: Chemical & Biological Engineering Colloquia
| Title: IIN Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series (Prof. Weihong Tan- University of Florida)
Date: October 05, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Pancoe-ENH Abbott Auditorium
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Description:
Contact: Laura Ellis
847-467-4862
Audience: Public
Group: International Institute for Nanotechnology
| Title: Konrad Koerding: The dynamics of motor memory are a consequence of optimal adaptation to a changing
Date: October 05, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech L361
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Description: Konrad Koerding
Departments of Physiology and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Northwestern University
The dynamics of motor memory are a consequence of optimal adaptation to a changing body
Thursday, October 5, 2006
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Tech L361
The response of the motor apparatus to neural commands varies due to many causes. Fast timescale disturbances occur when muscles fatigue, but slow timescale disturbances occur when muscles are damaged. To maintain performance, motor commands need to be adapted. Computing the best adaptation in response to any performance error results in a temporal credit assignment problem: what timescale is responsible for this disturbance? Here we show that a Bayesian solution to this problem can account for the varying sensitivity of the nervous system to error and the history-dependent timescale of the resulting memory. Hence the rules governing adaptation in the nervous system may result from optimal statistical inferences about potential disturbances to the motor apparatus. Our analysis explains numerous characteristics of the oculomotor system. Other adaptation and memory phenomena, such as reach adaptation, the adaptation of visual neurons, and retrieval of declarative memories, appear to follow similar rules.
Contact: Jenny Lopez
847-491-8178
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick - Biomedical Engineering Department
| Title: Northrop Grumman Day @ McCormick
Date: October 09, 2006
Time: 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Location: Lobby of McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, 2145 Sheridan, Evanston
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Description: Northrop Grumman Day @ McCormick
Find out about job opportunies! Target Audience: Undergraduate and Graduates in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Physicists
Northrop Grumman will be at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science Technological Institute on Monday, October 9th, 2006 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Northrop Grumman is a member of the McCormick Corporate Partners Program sponsored by the McCormick Office of Corporate Relations.
Look for displays and information in the Tech lobby.
Contact: Debra Daniel
(847) 491-8670
Audience: Graduate students, Undergraduate students
Group: McCormick Office of Corporate Relations
| Title: EECS Distinguised Seminar: Professor Jack Dongarra
Date: October 09, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: Tech LR4
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Description: EECS DISTINGUISHED SEMINAR
"The Impact of Multicore on Math Software and Exploiting Single Precision Computing to Obtain Double Precision Results"
Jack Dongarra
University of Tennessee & Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Recent versions of microprocessors exhibit performance characteristics for 32 bit floating point arithmetic (single precision) that is substantially higher than 64 bit floating point arithmetic (double precision). Examples
include the Intel's Pentium IV and M processors, AMD's Opteron architectures and the IBM's Cell Broad Engine processor. When working in single precision, floating point operations can be performed up to two times faster on the
Pentium and up to ten times faster on the Cell over double precision. The performance enhancements in these architectures are derived by accessing extensions to the basic architecture, such as SSE2 in the case of the Pentium and the vector functions on the IBM Cell. The motivation for this talk is to exploit single precision operations whenever possible and resort to double precision at critical stages while attempting to provide the full double precision results. The results described here are fairly general and can be applied to various problems in linear algebra such as solving large sparse systems, using direct or iterative methods and some eigenvalue problems. There are limitations to the success of this process, such as when
the conditioning of the problem exceeds the reciprocal of the accuracy of the single precision computations. In that case the double precision algorithm should be used.
Contact: Brooke Hildebrand
847-491-3451
Audience: Public
Group: Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
| Title: Postlehwaite: Cycling Cycles: Dynamics Near A...
Date: October 09, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech M416
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Description: Colloquia Engineering Sciences
Title: Cycling Cycles: Dynamics Near A Heteroclinic Network
Speaker: Prof. C. Postlehwaite, Northwestern University
Special Note: Refreshments will be served at 3:30 p.m.
Contact: Mo Ormiston
847-491-5586
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick-Colloquia Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
| Title: Postlethwaite: Cycling cycles: Dynamics Near A...
Date: October 09, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: M416
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Description: Special Seminar
Title: Cycling cycles: Dynamics Near A Heteroclinic Network
Speaker: Dr. C. Postlethwaite, Northwestern University
Special Note: Refreshments served at 3:30 p.m.
Abstract: This information is not yet available.
Contact: Mo Ormiston
(847)-491-5586
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick-Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
| Title: Strogatz: Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order
Date: October 09, 2006
Time: 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location: James L. Allen Center
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Description: NICO Distinguished Speaker Event
Title: Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order
Speaker: Steven H. Strogatz, Cornell University
Abstract: What caused hundreds of Japanese children to fall into seizures while watching an episode of the cartoon show Pokemon? Why do women roommates sometimes find that their menstrual periods occur in sync? The tendency to synchronize is one of the most mysterious and pervasive drives in all of nature. Every night along the tidal rivers of Malaysia, thousands of fireflies flash in silent, hypnotic unison; the moon spins in perfect resonance with its orbit around the Earth; the intense coherence of a laser comes from trillions of atoms pulsing together. All these astonishing feats of synchrony occur spontaneously -- almost as if the universe had an overwhelming desire for order. On the surface, these phenomena might seem unrelated. After all, the forces that synchronize fireflies have nothing to do with those in a laser. But at a deeper level, they are all connected by the same mathematical theme: selforganization, the spontaneous emergence of order out of chaos.
Contact: Joanne DiGuido
847-491-2527
Audience: Public
Group: Dynamics of Complex Systems in Science and Engineering
| Title: Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order by Steven H. Strogatz
Date: October 09, 2006
Time: 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location: James L. Allen Center, 2169 Campus Drive
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Description: What caused hundreds of Japanese children to fall into seizures while watching an episode of the cartoon show Pokemon? Why do women roommates sometimes find that their menstrual periods occur in sync?
The tendency to synchronize is one of the most mysterious and pervasive drives in all of nature. Every night along the tidal rivers of Malaysia, thousands of fireflies flash in silent, hypnotic unison; the moon spins in perfect resonance with its orbit around the Earth; the intense coherence of a laser comes from trillions of atoms pulsing together. All these astonishing feats of synchrony occur spontaneously -- almost as if the universe had an overwhelming desire for order.
On the surface, these phenomena might seem unrelated. After all, the forces that synchronize fireflies have nothing to do with those in a laser. But at a deeper level, they are all connected by the same mathematical theme: self-organization, the spontaneous emergence of order out of chaos.
Contact: Joanne DiGuido
847-491-2527
Audience: Public
Group: Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
| Title: Honeywell Day @ McCormick
Date: October 10, 2006
Time: 7:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Location: Lobby of McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, 2145 Sheridan, Evanston
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Description: Honeywell Day @ McCormick
Tuesday, October 10, 2006 from 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
FIND OUT ABOUT JOB OPPORTUNIES! HAVE LUNCH, TALK OR DO A 30-MINUTE MOCK INTERVIEW.
Mock Interviews with Honeywell personnel: Come practice with Honeywell between 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. SPACE IS LIMITED AND YOU MUST SIGN UP by sending an e-mail to a-berger@northwestern.edu with the following: 1)indicate in the subject line of your e-mail "Honeywell Mock Interviews"; 2) Indicate your preferred interview tile slot (7am to 7:30am, 7:30am to 8:00am, etc). 3)include your resume as an attachment). You will receive a confirmation e-mail with other pertinent information.
LUNCHEON INFO SESSIONS - 11:00am to 12:00pm or 12:00pm to 1:00pm in the JBC Commons (Tech 4th floor) YOU MUST SIGN UP by sending an e-mail to a-berger@northwestern.edu, Indicate in the subject line "Honeywell Info Session Luncheon and indicate preferred time (11:00am or 12:00pm)
Honeywell is a member of the McCormick Corporate Partners Program sponsored by the McCormick Office of Corporate Relations.
Look for displays and information in the Tech lobby.
Contact: Debra Daniel
(847) 491-8670
Audience: Graduate students, Undergraduate students
Group: McCormick Office of Corporate Relations
| Title: Seminar by: John Fowler, Arizona State University
Date: October 10, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech M228
Description:
Topic: Scheduling Interfering Job Sets on Parallel Machines
Speaker: John Fowler
Abstract: We consider bicriteria scheduling on identical parallel machines in a nontraditional context: jobs belong to two disjoint sets, and each set has a different criterion to be minimized. The jobs are all available at time zero and have to be scheduled (non-preemptively) on m parallel machines. The goal is to generate the set of all non-dominated solutions, so the decision maker can evaluate the tradeoffs and choose the schedule to be implemented. We consider the case where, for one of the two sets, the criterion to be minimized is makespan while for the other the total completion time needs to be minimized. Given that the problem is NP-hard, we propose an iterative SPT-LPT-SPT heuristic and a bicriteria genetic algorithm for the problem. Both approaches are designed to exploit the problem structure and generate a set of non-dominated solutions. In the genetic algorithm we use a special encoding scheme and also a unique strategy - based on the properties of a non-dominated solution – to ensure that all parts of the non-dominated front are explored. The heuristic and the genetic algorithm are compared with a time-indexed integer programming formulation for small and large instances. Results indicate that both the heuristic and the genetic algorithm provide high solution quality and are computationally efficient. The heuristics proposed also have the potential to be generalized for the problem of interfering job sets involving other bicriteria pairs.
John W. Fowler is a Professor in the Industrial Engineering Department at Arizona State University. Prior to his current position, he was a Senior Member of Technical Staff in the Modeling, CAD, and Statistical Methods Division of SEMATECH. He received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University and spent the last 1.5 years of his doctoral studies as an intern at Advanced
Contact: Gwen Hoffman
(847) 491-3576
Audience: Public
Group: Industrial Engineering/ Management Sciences
| Title: Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Fall Meeting
Date: October 11, 2006
Location: Various
Description: For more information please go to http://www.bme.northwestern.edu/bmes2006
Contact: Jenny Lopez
847-491-8178
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick - Biomedical Engineering Department
| Title: International Institute for Nanotechnology Symposium
Date: October 11, 2006
Time: 8:00 AM - 6:30 PM
Location: Norris McCormick Auditorium
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Description: Program brochure, schedule, location and information available at http://www.iinano.org/symposium2006.
Contact: Nanotechnology
847-491-5784
Audience: Public
Group: International Institute for Nanotechnology
| Title: Nishikawa: Maximum Performance at Minimum Cost in Network...
Date: October 11, 2006
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Location: F235
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Description: Special Physics Seminar
Title: Maximum Performance at Minimum Cost in Network Synchronization
Speaker: Prof. Takashi Nishikawa, Southern Methodist University
Abstract: I will discuss two optimization problems on synchronization of oscillator networks: maximization of synchronizability and minimization of synchronization cost. I will show that the solution sets of the two optimization problems coincide and are simultaneously characterized by a simple condition on the Laplacian eigenvalues. Among the optimal networks, we have identified a subclass of hierarchical networks, characterized by the absence of feedback loops and the normalization of inputs. I will show that most optimal networks are directed and non-diagonalizable, and that oriented spanning trees can be used to systematically construct optimal networks under network topological constraints. These results may provide insights into the evolutionary origin of structures in complex networks for which synchronization plays a significant role.
Contact: Adilson Motter
847-491-8316
Audience: Public
Group: Dynamics of Complex Systems in Science and Engineering
| Title: GOOGLE ON CAMPUS
Date: October 11, 2006
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: ITW Classroom 1-250 in the Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center, 2133 Sheridan, Evanston
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Description: GOOGLE WILL BE ON CAMPUS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2006
FIND OUT ABOUT JOB OPPORTUNITES! Target audience: Undergraduate and Graduate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Computer Engineering.
LUNCHEON INFO SESSION: Ford Building in the ITW Classroom #1-250. You must sign up by sending an e-mail to a-berger@northwestern.edu. Indicate in the subject line of your e-mail: Google Info Session Lunch.
Contact: Debra Daniel
847.491.8670
Audience: Faculty, All students, Graduate students, Undergraduate students
Group: McCormick Office of Corporate Relations
| Title: Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Fall Meeting
Date: October 12, 2006
Location: Various
Description: For more information please go to http://www.bme.northwestern.edu/bmes2006
Contact: Jenny Lopez
847-491-8178
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick - Biomedical Engineering Department
| Title: Mornings @ McCormick: Six Sigma Tools for Modern Manufacturing and Design Processes
Date: October 12, 2006
Time: 7:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Location: JBC Commons, 4th floor, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, 2145 Sheridan, Evansto
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Description: Mornings @ McCormick: Presentation on "Six Sigma Tools for Modern Manufacturing and Design Processes: Making Effective Use of Data and Information" given by Professor Daniel Apley of McCormick's Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences.
Six Sigma programs are becoming increasingly popular vehicles for reducing variation and improving quality and efficiency in industrial processes. However, the standard Six Sigma statistical tools were mostly developed more than 50 years ago and were designed for use with relatively limited amounts of data. In contrast, modern manufacturing and design processes are usually characterized by the availability of mountains of data and information.
Professor Apley will discuss ongoing research into new Six Sigma tools developed specifically for modern data-rich and information-rich manufacturing and design operations. Consistent with the traditional Six Sigma paradigm, the new tools are intended to be generic and easy to use.
Contact: Debra Daniel
(847) 491-8670
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick Office of Corporate Relations
| Title: ChBE Colloquia: P. Woolf, University of Michigan
Date: October 12, 2006
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: Tech LR4
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Description: (Title TBA)
Peter Woolf
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
Thursday, October 12, 2006 at 9:00am in LR4
The Technological Institute
2145 Sheridan Road
Refreshments will be served at 8:45 AM
Contact: Allison Strick
847-491-2773
Audience: Public
Group: Chemical & Biological Engineering Colloquia
| Title: EECS & School of Communication Joint Seminar
Date: October 12, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: Frances Searle Building, Room 1-421
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Description: EECS & School of Communication Joint Seminar
"HOLD THAT THOUGHT! WHY I CARE ABOUT AUTOMATING THE CAPTURE OF EVERYDAY ACTIVITIES"
Gregory D. Abowd
Georgia Tech
One of the common themes of ubiquitous computing is the automated capture of everyday experiences that can be accessed sometime in the future. At Georgia Tech, we have been exploring this theme since the mid 90's in environments such as the classroom, museums, offices and the home. In this talk, I will reflect on a few of these experiences and explain how challenges in my own personal life have resulted in a variety of opportunities to advance the research agenda for automated capture applications. These opportunities vary from solutions to short-term memory failures, a desire to preserve the legacy of my father's family film history and a seven-year battle to support the needs of families dealing with developmental disabilities. While there are significant research issues addressed in this body of work, the over-arching message is that everyday life presents many opportunities for human-centered research into the application of emerging technologies.
Contact: Justine Cassell
847-491-3534
Audience: Public
Group: Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
| Title: TSB Speaker Series: Gregory D. Abowd - Hold that Thought! Why I care about automating the capture...
Date: October 12, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Location: Frances Searle 1-421
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Description: Hold that Thought! Why I care about automating the capture of everyday activities.
Gregory D. Abowd
Georgia Institute of Technology
Abstract: One of the common themes of ubiquitous computing is the automated capture of everyday experiences that can be accessed sometime in the future. At Georgia Tech, we have been exploring this theme since the mid 90's in environments such as the classroom, museums, offices and the home. In this talk, I will reflect on a few of these experiences and explain how challenges in my own personal life have resulted in a variety of opportunities to advance the research agenda for automated capture applications. These opportunities vary from solutions to short-term memory failures, a desire to preserve the legacy of my father's family film history and a seven-year battle to support the needs of families dealing with developmental disabilities. While there are significant research issues addressed in this body of work, the over-arching message is that everyday life presents many opportunities for human-centered research into the application of emerging technologies.
Contact: Andrea Tartaro
847-467-4621
Audience: Public
Group: Technology and Social Behavior
| Title: Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Fall Meeting
Date: October 13, 2006
Location: Various
Description: For more information please go to http://www.bme.northwestern.edu/bmes2006
Contact: Jenny Lopez
847-491-8178
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick - Biomedical Engineering Department
| Title: Topology Optimization in Biomechanics
Date: October 13, 2006
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: 2145 Sheridan Rd Tech L251
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Description: Professor John Renaud of the University of Notre Dame will present his seminar " Topology Optimization in Biomechanics"
Contact: kim nowakowski
847-491-3257
Audience: All students
Group: McCormick - Civil and Environmental Engineering
| Title: EECS/CPCC Seminar: Professor Mark Shtaif
Date: October 13, 2006
Time: 11:00 PM
Location: Technological Institute - L324
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Description: "Polarization dependent loss and its effect as a waveform distorting mechanism"
Abstract: Polarization dependent loss has been attracting growing amounts of attention in recent years. The prime reason for this has been the development of long terrestrial communication links where the number of inline components contributing to PDL is large, and where cost constraints prevent the selection of ultra-low PDL devices, as is commonly done in the undersea cable world. There are two major ways in which PDL affects the performance of a fiber-optic link. The first has to do with the distortion of the signal to noise ratio which we have studied extensively in the past. The second is by distorting the transmitted waveform in a nontrivial interaction with the polarization mode dispersion (PMD) of the link. The previous few studies of the latter effect demonstrated the complexity of the problem and argued about the potentially detrimental effect that PDL-induced waveform distortions may have on the performance of optical communications systems. In this work we proceed with the study of the combined PMD and PDL phenomenon, and present a new and very simple angle on considering and interpreting the effect on the optical waveform. While the nature of the distortions is interesting in its character and can be of importance in certain situations, it is demonstrated, by an analytical and numerical study, that in an optical communications setting the significance of PDL as a waveform distorting mechanism is considerably smaller than its significance as a mechanism that affects the SNR.
Contact: Lana Kiperman
847-491-2972
Audience: Public
Group: Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
| Title: Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Fall Meeting
Date: October 14, 2006
Location: Various
Description: For more information please go to http://www.bme.northwestern.edu/bmes2006
Contact: Jenny Lopez
847-491-8178
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick - Biomedical Engineering Department
| Title: Eaton Day @ McCormick
Date: October 16, 2006
Time: 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Location: Lobby of McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, 2145 Sheridan, Evanston
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Description: EATON DAY @ McCORMICK: MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2006
FIND OUT ABOUT JOB OPPORTUNITES AND TEST YOUR PUTTING CAPAPBILITIES ON THE EATON PUTTING GREEN
Target Audience: Undergraduate and Graduate Students
Information Session: 9:00am to 3:00pm TECH LOBBY
LUNCHEON INFO SESSION IN THE BME CONFERENCE ROOM E311 FROM 12pm TO 1pm. SPACE IS LIMITED: YOU MUST SIGN UP by sending an e-mail to a-berger@northwestern.edu. Indicate in the subject line of your e-mail: Eaton Info Session Luncheon.
Representatives of Eaton Corporation will be at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science Technological Institute as part of the McCormick Corporate Partners program sponsored by the McCormick Office of Corporate Relations.
Contact: Debra Daniel
(847) 491-8670
Audience: Faculty, All students, Graduate students, Undergraduate students
Group: McCormick Office of Corporate Relations
| Title: Seminar Speaker: Dr. Jose Luis Pau Vizcaino
Date: October 16, 2006
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: Tech Room L324
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Description: Seminar Title: III-nitride optical sensors for UV-A/visible and high-energy detection
III-nitride materials have demonstrated excellent properties for radiation detection.
In this work, on one hand, InGaN/GaN MQW photodetectors are presented as a reliable alternative to accomplish selective detection in the UVA and visible ranges. Back-illumination helps to reduce optical losses and to integrate optical filtering with rejection ratios of 2-4 orders of magnitude. Peak responsivities higher than 1012 W-1Hz1/2cm were achieved. P-InGaN/GaN-N photodetectors were fabricated to exploit these characteristics in combustion monitoring or fluorescence spectroscopy. Specific MQW structures were designed by internal field engineering and fabricated to study gain mechanisms.
On the other hand, detection of high-energy photons was assessed by characterization of GaN MSM and SB photodiodes under synchrotron radiation. Carrier thermalization and scattering by ionization and phonon emission have been modelled from probabilistic methods and related to the experimental results. The importance of the layer thickness and material quality for high energy radiation will be discussed. Besides, performance of GaN detectors grown by HVPE (452-µm thick) and nano-ELO (10-µm thick) material were compared under alpha-particle irradiation. HVPE MIS devices were fabricated by photoelectrochemical oxidation of the surface and SiN deposition before evaporation of Au semitransparent contact. This procedure reduced the leakage current notoriously in the devices studied. Samples grown by HVPE showed a higher total energy deposition as expected from the larger volume but a less uniform response caused by material inhomogeneities.
Contact: George Mach
847-491-7251
Audience: Public
Group: Center for Quantum Devices (CQD)
| Title: EECS SEMINAR: Sotirios Tsaftaris
Date: October 16, 2006
Time: 3:30 PM
Location: Technological Institute - L324
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Description: EECS SEMINAR
Dr. Sotirios Tsaftaris
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Northwestern University
"DNA-Based Storage and Retrieval of Digital Signals and Applications in Life Sciences"
DNA-based Digital Signal Processing is a new and exciting area that falls in the field of DNA computing, where DNA molecules and chemistry are employed to solve computational problems. In DNA-based storage and retrieval for digital signals, DNA molecules are used to process and store digital signals. There are certain advantages of storing data into DNA which will be discussed. When designing DNA-based storage solutions, three main problems have to be solved: codeword design, database design, and database management. Codeword design is the problem of mapping digital signal (integers) to DNA sequences. Database design involves constructing the database, whereas management includes maintenance, data extraction, and data input. I will discuss my solutions to the above main problems. An in silico (simulation based) equivalent of the proposed system will be presented that allows to draw conclusions on performance. An exciting aspect of my work is the application of the same concepts to either invent new or improve old biotechnology tools necessary for life science research. On that aspect, I will present a novel construction for universal microarrays that allows for multiple reaction temperatures and relaxes the tag-antitag and gene probe optimization problem. Finally, I will conclude with future research directions and time permitting present some other areas that I have worked on.
Sotirios Tsaftaris is a Post-Doctoral Researcher with the Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at Northwestern University. He holds an PhD and MSc degree from the same department. He received his diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2000). He held research and teaching positions at Northwestern. He held a research
Contact: Brooke Hildebrand
847-491-3451
Audience: Public
Group: Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
| Title: InNUvation Undergrad Kickoff
Date: October 16, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Location: Tech L160
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Description: Interested in Entrepreneurship opportunities for Undergrads at Northwestern?
Come find out how you can get involved!
Tech L160 -
Monday, October 16th
4:00 - 4:30PM
Contact: Kenneth Kaiser
9546090220
Audience: Undergraduate students
Group: InNUvation
| Title: Newman: Epidemics, ERDOS Numbers and the Internet: The...
Date: October 16, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech M416
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Description: Applied Math Colloquium
Title: Epidemics, ERDOS Numbers and the Internet: The Structure and Function of Networks
Speaker: Professor Mark Newman, University of Michigan
Special Note: Refreshments will be served prior to the talk in TECH M416.
Contact: Mary Catsicopoulos
847/491-5586
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick-Colloquia Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
| Title: Newman: Epidemics, ERDOS Numbers and the Internet: The...
Date: October 16, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech M416
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Description: Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Title: Epidemics, ERDOS Numbers and the Internet: The Structure and Function of Networks
Speaker: Mark Newman, University of Michigan
Abstract: not available
Contact: Mo Omerson
847-491-5586
Audience: Public
Group: Dynamics of Complex Systems in Science and Engineering
| Title: Bain & Company Information Session
Date: October 16, 2006
Time: 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location: Room L211 in the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, 2145 Sheridan, Evanston
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Description: Consulting Q&A for Engineers - Hosted by Bain & Company
Bain & Company, a leading global management consulting firm would like to invite all interested McCormick students to a consulting Q&A session on Monday October 16th in Tech L211 from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Please email a-berger@northwestern.edu to register for this event.
Topics covered:
- Applying to consulting firms: Cover letters and resumes for engineers
- Interviewing: What is a case interview and how best to prepare
- Working in consulting: Why engineering students should consider a career in consulting
- Q&A with a panel of Bain consultants
Contact: Debra Daniel
847.491.8670
Audience: Faculty, All students, Graduate students, Undergraduate students
Group: McCormick Office of Corporate Relations
| Title: MEM Information Session
Date: October 16, 2006
Time: 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Location: Ford Motor Co Design Center, 2133 N. Sheridan Rd, Evanston, IL
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Description: Learn how the Master of Engineering Management can help you accelerate your career.
Contact: Susan Fox
847-491-5584
Audience: Public
Group: Master of Engineering Management
| Title: GM Day @ McCormick
Date: October 17, 2006
Time: 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Location: Lobby of McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, 2145 Sheridan, Evanston
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Description: GM DAY @ McCORMICK
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2006
FIND OUT ABOUT JOB OPPORTUNTIES AND CHECK OUT SOME COOL VEHICLES!
Target Audience: Undergraduate and Graduate Students
TECH LOBBY FROM 9:00am to 3:00pm.
LUNCHEON INFO SESSION FOR SHPE, NSBE AND SWE MEMBERS ONLY
12:00pm to 1:00pm in BME Conference Room #E311. SPACE IS LIMITED AND YOU MUST SIGN UP by sending an e-mail to a-berger@northwestern.edu. Indicate in the subject line of your e-mail: GM Info Session Luncheon and note if you are SHPE, NSBE or SWE.
Representatives of General Motors Corporation will be at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science Technological Institute as part of the McCormick Corporate Partners program sponsored by the McCormick Office of Corporate Relations.
Contact: Debra Daniel
(847) 491-8670
Audience: Faculty, All students, Graduate students, Undergraduate students
Group: McCormick Office of Corporate Relations
| Title: ChBE Faculty Research Presentations to 1st Year ChBE Graduate Students
Date: October 17, 2006
Time: 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: Tech A110
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Description: Faculty presentations of current research projects for new graduate students.
Attendance restricted to new graduate students in ChBE only.
Lunch served during presentations.
12:30pm - Lonnie Shea
1:00pm - Annelise Barron
1:30pm - John Torkelson
Contact: Allison Strick
847-491-2773
Audience: Graduate students
Group: Chemical and Biological Engineering
| Title: MSE Colloquium: Chad Mirkin, Northwestern University
Date: October 17, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech. L211
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Description: Dr. Chad Mirkin
Department of Materials Science & Engineering
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL
Tuesday, October 17, 2006 at 4:00pm in Tech L211
The Technological Institute
2145 Sheridan Road
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 PM
Contact: Elizabeth Haley
847-491-3537
Audience: Faculty, Graduate students
Group: McCormick - Materials Science & Engineering
| Title: Seminar by: Michael Johnson, Carnegie Mellon University
Date: October 17, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech M228
Description:
Topic: Decision Models for Affordable Housing and Community Development: Policy Analysis to Implementation
Speaker: Michael Johnson
Abstract: Researchers in urban housing and community development face significant challenges in evaluating the success of efforts to improve urban neighborhoods, and identifying underlying theories that might predict the success of future initiatives. Practitioners in this field confront political considerations, restrictive administrative guidelines and limited funding. How can we identify and explain the theory behind current practices in housing and community development, and propose new, more effective strategies?
In this talk I present current research results for two policy modeling exercises, one optimization-based, the other a simulation, that investigate potential outcomes associated with a large expansion in a heretofore experimental housing mobility program. I also describe preliminary work on a decision model to provide specific short- and medium-term guidance to an urban affordable housing provider regarding property acquisition and development.
Contact: Gwen Hoffman
(847) 491-3576
Audience: Public
Group: Industrial Engineering/ Management Sciences
| Title: James Hong, founder of HOTorNOT.com
Date: October 17, 2006
Time: 5:15 PM - 6:15 PM
Location: Jacobs G05
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Description: InNUvation’s first speaker of the year will be James Hong, founder of HOTorNOT, 10 over 100, and other websites. James’ has an engineering degree and MBA from UC Berkeley. He realized that he wasn’t cut out for corporate life which led him to start his first website called HOTorNOT that was a hit and has since expanded to a popular social networking site. James’ idea for 10 over 100 came from his personal frustration with determining how much of his newfound income to give to charity. 10 over 100 allows users to set a rule on the amount of money they will donate and does so publicly for friends and family to see ensuring that they will follow through. James has discovered that giving money to charities and organizations that he cares about provides a great amount of satisfaction while helping those in need. James’ inspiration springs from a quote by Goethe introduced to him by a good friend: "If there is anything you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now."
Contact: Kenneth Kaiser
9546090220
Audience: Public
Group: InNUvation
| Title: MEM Information Session
Date: October 17, 2006
Time: 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Location: 650 East Higgins Rd, Schaumburg, IL
Description: Learn how the Master of Engineering Management can help you accelerate your career.
Contact: Susan Fox
847-491-5584
Audience: Public
Group: Master of Engineering Management
| Title: EATON CORPORATION FIRESIDE RESUME AND COVER LETTER WORKSHOP
Date: October 17, 2006
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: Slivkja Residence Hall, 2332 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus
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Description: EATON CORPORATION RESUME AND COVER LETTER WORKSHOP
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2006 FROM 6:00 P.M. TO 8:00 P.M.
Exceed.... Lead.... Grow.... As you begin your career journey, all signs point to Eaton. The Eaton Corporation is proud to consider Northwestern University a "business partner" to infuse campus talent into our various company-wide opportunities.
In conjuction with Eaton Day @ McCormick and the SWE Industrial & Technical Job Fair, Eaton Corporation will be holding a Fireside Resume and Cover Letter Workshop Critique. This will be held in the Slivka Residence Hall at 2332 Campus Drive on the Evanston Campus.
Contact: Debra Daniel
847.491.8670
Audience: All students, Graduate students, Undergraduate students
Group: McCormick Office of Corporate Relations
| Title: Master of Information Technology Information Session
Date: October 17, 2006
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: Technological Institute, Room L324
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Description: The Master of Information Technology Program is a graduate degree for working IT professionals. It combines engineering fundamentals of technology with strategies for business decision-making. Students attend classes only on Saturdays at the Evanston Campus.
The Information Session will give prospective students the opportunity to learn more about the curriculum and admission to the program. Alumni and current students will be available to share their experiences with the MITP.
Contact: Erin Perez
847-467-6557
Audience: Public
Group: MS in Information Technology Program
| Title: Ford Day @ McCormick
Date: October 18, 2006
Time: 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Location: Lobby of the Ford Motor Company Design Engineering Center, 2133 Sheridan, Evanston, IL
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Description: FORD DAY @ McCORMICK: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2006
Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center lobby, 2133 Sheridan, 9:00am to 3:00pm
Find out about job opportunites and check out their display vehicles! Target Audience: Undergraduate and Graduate Students.
Representatives of Ford will be at the Ford Motor Company Enginering Design Center lobby as part of the McCormick Corporate Partners program sponsored by the McCormick Office of Corporate Relations.
Contact: Debra Daniel
(847) 491-8670
Audience: Faculty, All students, Graduate students, Undergraduate students
Group: McCormick Office of Corporate Relations
| Title: "Putting Disk Spatial Locality Information on the OS Map to Speedup Disk Accesses"
Date: October 18, 2006
Time: 3:30 PM
Location: 2145 Sheridan Road - Tech L324
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Description: EECS SEMINAR
Prof. Xiaodong Zhang
Ohio State University Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
ABSTRACT
With the rapid advancement of processor and networking technology, and with the falling price of memory and disks, computing resources of CPU cycles, available bandwidths at different levels of inter- and external connections (for memory, I/O, and Internet), and large capacity of memory and disks are increasingly plentiful to many data-intensive applications. Unfortunately, the improvement of data access latency, particularly, the access latency to disks, has significantly lagged behind. The performance bottleneck of "memory wall" has been shifted to "disk wall" that is a serious bottleneck for many applications. To address the concerns of ``disk wall", we have built a system infrastructure called DiskSeen, which puts the disk layout information on the OS map.
BIO
Xiaodong Zhang is the Robert M. Critchfield Professor in Engineering, and Chairman of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Ohio State University.
His research interests cover a wide spectrum in the areas of high performance and distributed systems.
Contact: Lianna Wright
847-491-7132
Audience: Public
Group: Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
| Title: ChBE Seminar: L. Amaral, Northwestern University
Date: October 19, 2006
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: Tech LR4
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Description: Luis Amaral
Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL
Thursday, October 19, 2006 at 9:00am in LR4
The Technological Institute
2145 Sheridan Road
Refreshments will be served at 8:45 AM
Contact: Allison Strick
847-491-2773
Audience: Public
Group: Chemical & Biological Engineering Colloquia
| Title: Ioannis Koktzoglou - Time-Efficient Methods for 3D Vascular Wall Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Date: October 19, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech L361
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Description: Ioannis Koktzoglou
Northwestern University – PhD Candidate
Time-Efficient Methods for 3D Vascular Wall Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Thursday, November 2, 2006
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Tech L361
With use of blood-suppressed techniques, two-dimensional (2D) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has demonstrated the ability for non-invasive in-vivo assessment of atherosclerotic plaque morphology, and the capability for characterizing atherosclerotic plaque composition. While these results are promising, significant technical advances appear warranted before these “black-blood” MRI techniques can be performed efficiently enough for routine use in a clinical setting. Recently, faster three-dimensional (3D) black-blood MRI techniques have been proposed for vascular wall imaging, facilitating higher spatial resolution imaging than afforded by 2D techniques. In this talk, these 3D techniques will be introduced and their performance compared to conventional 2D techniques for assessment of the carotid and aortic arterial walls. In addition to the exciting new possibilities offered by 3D spatial information – which include improved arterial wall segmentation from image sets with sub-millimeter isotropic voxels – the inherent limitations of these 3D techniques will be discussed. Finally, preliminary experience with these techniques in patients will be presented.
Contact: Jenny Lopez
847-491-8178
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick - Biomedical Engineering Department
| Title: Transportation Seminar: Construction & Management Practices on the Boston (Big Dig) Project
Date: October 19, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Transportation Center, Chambers Hall, 600 Foster, Evanston
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Description: Chris Hendrickson,the Duquesne Light Company Professor of Engineering, Co-Director of the Green Design Institute and Director of the Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education and Research at Carnegie Mellon University will present this seminar which will include an overview of the now completed $16B Boston Big Dig transportation project, including history, construction practices and the recent ceiling failure. The talk is based in part upon a National Research Council report 'Completing the Big Dig'.
Contact: Diana Marek
847-491-2280
Audience: Public
Group: Transportation Center Seminar Series
| Title: Industry Day 2006
Date: October 19, 2006
Time: 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Location: Hilton Garden Inn, 1818 Maple Ave., Evanston, IL
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Description:
Contact: Ellen Worsdall
847-491-5173
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
| Title: Master of Information Technology Information Session
Date: October 19, 2006
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 230 S. LaSalle St. , Illinois Room
Description: The Master of Information Technology Program is a graduate degree for working IT professionals. It combines engineering fundamentals of technology with strategies for business decision-making. Students attend classes only on Saturdays at the Evanston Campus.
The Information Session will give prospective students the opportunity to learn more about the curriculum and admission to the program. Alumni and current students will be available to share their experiences with the MITP.
Contact: Erin Perez
847-467-6557
Audience: Public
Group: MS in Information Technology Program
| Title: ChBE Faculty Research Presentation (Amaral) to 1st Year ChBE Graduate Students
Date: October 19, 2006
Time: 10:00 PM - 10:30 PM
Location: Tech E133 - ChBE Conference Room
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Description: Faculty presentations of current research projects for new graduate students.
Attendance restricted to new graduate students in ChBE only.
Lunch served during presentations.
Contact: Allison Strick
847-491-2773
Audience: Graduate students
Group: Chemical and Biological Engineering
| Title: Co-op Interview Day
Date: October 20, 2006
Time: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Location:
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Description:
Contact: Michelle Bledsoe
847-491-3366
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
| Title: Seminar by: Dr. Noshir Contractor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: October 20, 2006
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: Nanofabrication Building, Room 4003 2190 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL
Description:
Topic: From Disasters to WoW: Enabling Communities with Cyberinfrastructure
Speaker: Dr. Noshir Contractor
Abstract: Advances in digital technologies invite consideration of organizing within communities as a process that is accomplished by global, flexible, adaptive, and ad hoc networks that can be created, maintained, dissolved, and reconstituted with remarkable alacrity.
This presentation will outline the major socio-technical challenges for the successful development, deployment, and growth of social and knowledge networking tools as part of the cyberinfrastructure to support communities engaged in a wide range of activities such as public health, disaster response, environmental engineering, economic resilience, educational diversity, and gaming. In particular it will underscore the importance of a principled methodology to empower the social and knowledge networks of the individuals and organizations that comprise these communities.
A reception for Dr. Contractor will be held from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. in
Tech Building, Room C211, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL.
Contact: Gwen Hoffman
(847) 491-3576
Audience: Public
Group: Industrial Engineering/ Management Sciences
| Title: Goodyear at McCormick School
Date: October 20, 2006
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Room M345 in the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, 2145 Sheridan, Evanston
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Description: GOODYEAR ON CAMPUS AT TECH
Friday, October 20th from 12:00pm to 1:00pm in Room M345.
Target Audience: B.S. or M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Material Sciences and Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Chemistry
Luncheon Info Session with Goodyear from 12:00pm to 1:00pm in Tech Room M345. SPACE IS LIMITED AND YOU MUST SIGN UP by sending an e-mail to a-berger@northwestern.edu. Indicate in the subject line of your e-mail: Goodyear Info Session Luncheon.
Contact: Debra Daniel
(847) 491-8670
Audience: Faculty, Graduate students, Undergraduate students
Group: McCormick Office of Corporate Relations
| Title: EECS Distinguished Seminar: B.H. Juang
Date: October 20, 2006
Time: 3:00 PM
Location: Technological Institute - M345
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Description: EECS DISTINGUISHED SEMINAR
“Advances & Challenges in Selective Areas of Multimedia Communication and Signal Processing”
B.H. Juang
Georgia Institute of Technology
Multimedia communication refers to a modern mode of communication in which signals in the form of text, voice, image, video, etc. may be mixed, processed, used and supported to bring out beneficial results. Multimedia signal processing involves techniques that allow efficient representation, reconstruction, transmission, and extraction of intelligence from these signals in order to realize the benefits. In this talk, key research areas related to multimedia signal processing are presented, including signal acquisition and presentation, coding, synthesis, and recognition and understanding. Selected topics in these areas are discussed in terms of recent advances as well as remaining challenges. With the proliferation of broadband networks, the need for multimedia processing technologies has grown tremendously, giving rise to a very interesting prospect in what is called “full-dimensional remote collaboration.” We conclude the talk with a video that suggests this potential paradigm change in telecommunications.
Professor Juang received his Ph.D. from University of California, Santa Barbara. He had worked at Speech Communications Research Laboratory (SCRL) and Signal Technology, Inc. (STI) on a number of Government-sponsored research projects. Notable accomplishments during the period include development of vector quantization for voice applications, voice coders at extremely low bit rates, 800 bps and around 300 bps, and robust vocoders for use in satellite communications. He subsequently joined the Acoustics Research Department of Bell Laboratories in 1982, working in the area of speech coding, recognition and enhancement. Prof. Juang became Director of Acoustics and Speech Research at Bell Labs in 1996, and Director of Multimedia Technologies Research at Avaya Labs (a spin-off of Bell Labs) in
Contact: Brooke Hildebrand
847-491-3451
Audience: Public
Group: Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
| Title: Krupenkin: Nanograss, Nanobricks, Nanonails, and Other...
Date: October 23, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech M416
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Description: Applied Math Colloquium
Title: Nanograss, Nanobricks, Nanonails, and Other Things Useful in Your Nano-landscaping
Speaker: Dr. Tom Krupenkin, Lucent Technologies
Special Note: Refreshments served at 3:30 p.m.
Contact: Mo Ormiston
847-491-5586
Audience: Public
Group: McCormick-Colloquia Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
| Title: Krupenkin: Nanograss, nanobricks, nanonails, and other...
Date: October 23, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Tech M416
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Description: Applied Math Cooloquium
Title: Nanograss, nanobricks, nanonails, and other things useful in your nano-landscaping
Speaker: Dr. Tom Krupenkin, Lucent Technologies
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