Dr. Richard Schreier
Division Fellow in the High Speed Converters Group, Analog Devices, Toronto
An LC-based Bandpass Analog-Digital Converter
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
4:30 pm - 5:20 pm
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. D. Nairn

Prof. Tara Javidi
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
Opportunistic Routing in Wireless Networks with Congestion Diversity
Friday, November 27, 2009
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. R. Mazumdar

Dr. Borzoo Bonakdarpour
Verimag Laboratory in Grenoble, France
From High-Level Component-Based Models to Distributed Implementations
Monday, November 23, 2009
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
DC 1304

Dr. Michael Nagel
Chief Engineer, Institute of Semiconductor Electronics, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Silicon-Nanophotonic-Based Terahertz Generation
Monday, November 23, 2009
10:00 am - 11:30 am
DC 1304
Invited by: Prof. S. Safavi-Naeini

Dr. Augustin Chaintreau
Thomson Labs, Paris, France
The Age of Impatience: Optimal Replication Schemes for Opportunistic Networks
Monday, November 16, 2009
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. C. Rosenberg

Mr. Amir Shalaby
Vice-President, Power System Planning, Ontario Power Authority
Planning Ontario's Electricity System
Friday, November 13, 2009
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. T. Abdel-Galil (Adjunct Professor)

Prof. Armand Makowski
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Maryland
Random Key Graphs and the Pre-Distribution Scheme of Eschenauer and Gligor
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. R. Mazumdar

Dr. Chris Backhouse
University of Alberta
Towards True Lab on Chip
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3142

Dr. Slawo Wesolkowski
Scientist, DRDC CORA
Adjunct Professor, University of Waterloo
Risk-Based Multiobjective Optimization for a Vehicle Fleet Mix Problem
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. F. Karray

Dr. Linh Thi Xuan Phan
University of Pennsylvania
Formal Modelling and Analysis of Stream Processing Systems
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
10:30 am - 11:30 am
EIT 3142

Prof. Hesham El Gamal
Ohio State University
Information Theoretic Secrecy: From Theory to Practice
Thursday, October 29, 2009
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. O. Damen

Prof. Rong Zheng
Computer Science, University of Houston
Object Discovery and Localization in Active Sensing Networks: Theory and Algorithms
Thursday, October 22, 2009
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. W. Zhuang

Dr. Mehdi Mani
Institut Telecom Sud Paris
Reconciliation of Social Networking and P2P Technology
Thursday, October 8, 2009
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. C. Rosenberg

Dr. Frederic Domingue
French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Applications of heterogeneous Micro-Nanotechnologies for innovative wireless devices
Monday, October 5, 2009
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3142

Dr. David Tse
Wireless Foundations - U.C. Berkeley
What is Wireless Resource?
Friday, October 2, 2009
10:30 am - 11:30 am
DC 1302
Invited by: Prof. A. Khandani

Antonio J. Conejo, Fellow IEEE
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering
Universidad de Castilla - La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain
Double-Seminar Series On a) Economic Valuation of Reserves in Power Systems with High Penetration of Wind Power and b) Short-term Trading for a Wind Power Producer
Friday, September 18, 2009
10:00 am - 12:00 noon
DC 1302
Invited by: Prof. K. Bhattacharya

Dr. Nader Engheta
H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering
Extreme Metamaterials
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
4:00 pm
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. O. Ramahi

Dr. Nader Engheta
H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering
Metactronics: Circuits with Light at the Nanoscale
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
2:00 pm
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. O. Ramahi

Dr. Stratis Ioannidis
Thomson - Paris, FRANCE
Distributing Content Updates over a Mobile Social Network
Thursday, September 3, 2009
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
DC 1304
Invited by: Prof. A. Khandani

Prof. S.S. (Mani) Venkata
Fellow IEEE
Professor Emeritus and Chair, Iowa State University, Ames
Affiliate Professor, University of Washington, Seattle
President, Venkata Consulting Solutions Inc.
The Global Vision and Path for Greener and Smarter Distribution Grid
Friday, August 21, 2009
10:00 am - 11:30 am
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. K. Bhattacharya

Prof. Hai Zhuge
Institute of Computing Technology
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Interactive Semantics
Thursday, August 20, 2009
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
EIT 3142

Dr. Antonino Miceli
Argonne National Library, Argonne, Illinois
Overview of X-ray Detectors Activities at the Advanced Photon Source
Thursday, August 13, 2009
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. K. Karim

Prof. Hai Jiang
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Alberta, Canada
Cognitive Medium Access: Exploration, Exploitation, and Competition
Thursday, August 6, 2009
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. W. Zhuang

Professor Radha Poovendran
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Modeling Jamming Attacks on Wireless Networks
Monday, July 27, 2009
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
DC 1302
Invited by: Prof. G. Gong

Dr. Hatem Zeineldin
Department of Engineering Systems and Management
Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.
A Q-f Droop Curve for Facilitating Islanding Detection of Inverter Based Distributed Generation
Friday, July 24, 2009
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. M. Kazerani

Dr. Shreyas Sundaram
University of Illinois at Urbana
Linear Iterative Strategies for Information Dissemination and Processing in Distributed Systems
Thursday, July 9, 2009
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3142

Dr. Rahul Mangharam
University of Pennsylvania
Networked Cyber-Physical Systems
Thursday, June 25, 2009
1:30 pm - 2:20 pm
RCH 301

Dr. Liu Yang
University of Ottawa
Model and Simulation of Dictyostelium Chemotaxis
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3142

Dr. Duncan Stewart
National Research Council of Canada
Ottawa, Ontario
Nanotechnology, Memristors and The Future of Computing
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. M. Sachdev

Kim Roberts
Nortel Fellow, Nortel Networks
Topic: 40 Gb/s, 100Gb/s and Beyond
Thursday, June 11, 2009
10:30 am - 11:30 am
DC 1302
Invited by: Prof. A. Khandani

Prof. Stanislaw Gubanski
Department of Materials and Manufacturing Technology
Chalmers University of Technology
Gothenburg, Sweden
High Voltage Insulation Systems - Future Challenges and Present Research
Monday, June 8, 2009
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
DC 1304
Invited by: Prof. S. Jayaram

Dr. Linus Maurer
DICE ATV-SC
Gusen, Austria
Highly Flexible Digital Front-End Enhanced CMOS-Based RT Transceivers
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
DC 1302
Invited by: Prof. S. Boumaiza

Dr. Abbas Omar
Chair of Microwave and Communications Engineering
University of Magdeburg, Germany
Harvard University
Resolution and Noise in Imaging
Thursday, May 28, 2009
3:30 pm
EIT 3142
Invited by: Profs. R. Mansour and S. Safavi-Naeini

Dr. Tatsuo Nakajima
Waseda University
An Operating System for Future Multi/Many-Cores Information Appliances
Thursday, May 28, 2009
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
RCH 301

Dr. Marko Loncar
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard University
Light-matter Interaction in Nanophotonic Devices
Thursday, May 7, 2009
3:30 pm
EIT 1015
Invited by: Prof. S. Chaudhuri

Dr. Derek Rayside
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Agile Specifications
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3142

Dr. Kevin Li
University of California
Enabling Easily Learnable Eyes-free Interaction by Exploiting Human Experience
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3142

Dr. Horacio Andres Lager Carvilla
University of Toronto
Flexible Computing with Virtual Machines
Monday, April 27, 2009
11:00 am- 12:00 noon
EIT 3142

Prof. Abbas Omar
Chair of Microwave and Communication Engineering
University of Magdeburg, Germany
Overview and Fundamentals of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Thursday, April 23, 2009
3:30 pm
DC 1331
Invited by: Profs. R. Mansour and S. Safavi-Naeini

Dr. William Wong
Palo Alto Research Center
Large-area flexible electronics fabricated by digital lithography
Thursday, April 23, 2009
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3142

Dr. Philippe Bonnifait
Université de Technologie de Compiègne
Managing Localization Uncertainties for Intelligent Vehicles
Thursday, April 23, 2009
10:30 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3141

Dr. Lin Tan
University of Illinois at Urbana
Leveraging Code Comments to Improve Software Reliability
Monday, April 20, 2009
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3142

Dr. Philip Brisk
UCLA
Improving FPGA Performance for Carry-Save Arithmetic
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3142

Dr. David Gesbert
EURECOM - Mobile Communications Dept. (FRANCE)
Coordination Schemes in Interference-Limited MIMO Cellular Networks
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
9:30 am - 10:30 am
DC 1302
Invited by: Prof. A. Khandani

Dr. Liu Yang
Postdoctoral Fellow, ECE Department
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
Model and Simulation of Dictyostelium Chemotaxis
Friday, April 3, 2009
10:30 am - 11:30 am
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. D. Miller

Dr. Martin Bravenboer
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Software Development Challenges: Abstraction and Analysis
Thursday, April 2, 2009
10:30 am - 11:30 am
DC 1302

Dr. Hiren Patel
University of California
A Precision Timed Architecture for Timing Predictability and Repeatability
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3142

Dr. Shan Shan Huang
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
Abstraction Mechanisms for Modular Software Construction
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
10:00 am - 11:15 am
DC 1302

Dr. Peter Yiannacouras
University of Toronto
Adaptable FPGA-Based Processor Architectures
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3142

Dr. Wen Tong
Nortel Fellow
Head of the Wireless Technology Labs at Nortel
Future Wireless Topics: 'Whitespace, Cognitive Radio and Green Radio'
Friday, March 13, 2009
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
DC 1302
Invited by: Prof. A. Khandani

Dr. Guang Gong
University of Waterloo
Monitoring-Based Key Revocation Schemes for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Friday, February 20, 2009
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
DC 1304
Invited by: Prof. A. Khandani

Dr. Pin-Han Ho
University of Waterloo
A Framework of Coded Video Multicast over WiMAX networks - Architecture, Implementation and Performance Optimization
Friday, February 13, 2009
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
DC 1302
Invited by: Prof. A. Khandani

Dr. Matthias Simon
Philips Research Europe, Aachen, Germany
Lead Oxide for Medical X-Ray Imaging
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
10:30 am - 12:00 noon
EIT 3142
Invited by: Prof. K. Karim

Dr. Greg Steffan
University of Toronto
Nice Threads! Where did you get them? On Optimistic Parallelism
Monday, February 2, 2009
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
EIT 3142