Overview

Spring
2003
Schedule

Fall 2002 Schedule

Spring 2002 Schedule

Fall 2001 Schedule

Tips for Talk and Research

Date

Speaker

Title

Reading

Jan. 17, 2002

Dr. Gerry Tian

Introduction to the Seminar

 Syllabus. Please note an important change to grading.

Jan. 24, 2002

Dr. Tim Schulz 

Information-theoretic bounds for wavefield-phase estimation

Jan. 31, 2002

Dr. Roggemann

Fundamental considerations for wave front sensing with extended random incoherent beacons

Feb. 7, 2002

Winter Carnival break

Feb. 14, 2002

Eric Therkildsen

 Semiconductor Lasers

A: "A Brief History of High-Power Semiconductor Lasers" by D. F. Welch

Feb. 21, 2002

Gerald Roy

 Iterative PDF estimation and Turbo decoding

B: "Iterative PDF estimation and Turbo Decoding …" by Li & Li

Feb. 28, 2002

Vivek Venkatraman

 Cryptography 101

"Cryptography 2000 ± 10," by Maurer

Mar. 7, 2002

Spring break

Mar. 14, 2002

Dow 642

Jindong Tan

Michigan State U

Integrated Sensing and Control of Mobile Manipulators

Mar. 21, 2002

Shoumin Liu

 An Introduction to Space-Time Coding in Wireless Communications

"A Simple Transmit Diversity Technique for Wireless Communications," by Alamouti

Mar. 28, 2002

Yanfeng Gong

Capacity Analysis for fusion handoff in CDMA networks

"Handoff in CDMA with Multi-station Data Fusion," by Tian, Chang

Apr. 4, 2002

Dow 641

Chi Zhou

Northwestern U.

Utility-based forward-link resource allocation for voice and data

"Two-cell utility-based resource allocation …," by Zhou, et. al.

Apr. 11, 2002

Dow 641

Tricia Chigan

SUNY

Network resource management and Provisioning issues

Apr. 18, 2002

Chern Kwan Tan

Optimized Robotic Operation on Conveyor Belt type Plant

"Toward application of an active fence for …'' by Salvarinov et. al.  

Apr. 25, 2002

Wee-Kian Ong

Quantitative measure of Image Quality

"Visible differences predictor: …" by Daly

May 2, 2002

Baoyong Liu

Beamforming Techniques for Spatial Filtering

"Beamforming: a versatile approach to spatial filtering" by Van Veen