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Dummer, PhD Defense </title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#phd</link>      <description>"Monolithically Integrated Optical Transceivers for High-Speed Wavelength Conversion"</description>	</item>	<item>	<title>Aug 26 (Tues) - David Fattal and Marco Fiorentino, HP Labs </title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#aug</link>      <description>"Optics and photonics at HP Labs"</description>	</item>			<item>	<title>Aug 21 (Thur) - Nhat Vu, PhD Defense </title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#phd</link>      <description>"Image Segmentation with Semantic Priors: A Graph Cut Approach"</description>	</item>	<item>	<title>Aug 15 (Fri) - Paul J. Tasker, Cardiff University </title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#aug</link>      <description>"RF I-V Waveform Measurement and Engineering - Addressing Large Signal Circuit Design Challenges (i.e. power amplifiers)"</description>	</item>	<item>  	<title>Aug 11 (Mon) - Alessio Tamburrano, University of Rome, Sapienza, Italy</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#aug</link>      <description>"Electron Waveguide Based Models of SWCNT Bundle and MWCNT Interconnects for High-Speed Electronics"</description>	</item>	<item>  	<title>July 31 (Thur) - Enrico Zanoni, Dept. of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#jul</link>      <description>"Failure modes and mechanisms oF GaN High Electron Mobility Transistors"</description>	</item>	<item>  	<title>July 10 (Thur) - Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research Asia</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#jul</link>      <description>"Building Web-scale Data Mining Infrastructure for Search"</description>	</item>	<item>  	<title>June 25 (Wed) - Michele Zorzi, University of Padova and UC, San Diego</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#jun</link>      <description>"Protocol Design Issues in Underwater Acoustic Networks"</description>	</item>	<item>  	<title>June 5 (Thu) - Computer Engineering Senior Capstone, ECE, and LITE Project Presentation Day</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#jun</link>      <description>Seniors demonstrate their senior software and hardware projects.  Lunchtime poster and pizza session.</description>	</item>	<item>  	<title>June 5 (Thu) - Mizuhisa Nihei, Fujitsu Laboratories, Japan</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#jun</link>      <description>"Carbon Nanotube via Interconnects Fabricated by Novel Damascene Process"</description>	</item>	<item>  	<title>June 4 (Wed) - Firat Kart, Ph.D. Defense</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#phd</link>      <description>"Services Computing: Architectures, Protocols and Applications"</description>	</item>	<item>  	<title>June 2 (Mo) - Balakrishnan Srinivasan, Ph.D Defense</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#phd</link>      <description>"Capacity of Underwater Acoustic OFDM Cellular Networks"</description>	</item>	<item>  	<title>May 30 (Fri) - Antonio Torralba, MIT</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#may</link>      <description>"Object Recognition by Scene Alignment"</description>	</item>	<item>  	<title>May 30 (Fri) - Zvi Artstein, Weizmann Institute of Science</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#may</link>      <description>"Control and Analysis of Coupled Slow and Fast Motions"</description>	</item>	<item>  	<title>May 30 (Fri) - Brian Koch, Ph.D. Defense</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#phd</link>      <description>"Mode-Locked Lasers for Photonic Integrated Circuits"</description>	</item>	<item>  	<title>May 23 (Fri) - F. Gregory Ashby, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#may</link>      <description>"Science for the Energy Challenge"</description>	</item>	<item>  	<title>May 22 (Thu) - Jeff Hasty, Institute for Nonlinear Science, UCSD</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#may</link>      <description>"Engineered Genetic Oscillators"</description>	</item>	<item>  	<title>May 22 (Thu) - Thom E. Mason, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#may</link>      <description>"Science for the Energy Challenge"</description>	</item>	<item>  	<title>May 20 (Tue) - Franz Kreupl, Qimonda AG, Munich, Germany</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#may</link>      <description>"Boosting System Performance with Emerging Materials"</description>	</item>	<item>  	<title>May 19 (Mon) - Domenico Prattichizzo, University of Siena, Italy</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#may</link>      <description>"Multi-point Interaction in Haptics"</description>	</item>	<item>  	<title>May 16 (Fri) - Babak Hassibi, California Institute of Techology</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#may</link>      <description>"An Asymptotic Analysis of Random Lyapunov and Riccati Recursions"</description>	</item>	<item>  	<title>May 12 (Mon) - Hiromasa Shimizu, Tokyo U. of Agriculture and Technology</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#may</link>      <description>"Monolithically Integrable Semiconductor Active Waveguide Optical Isolators"</description>	</item>	<item>	<title>May 9 (Fri) - Andrew P Brown, Ph.D. Defense</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#phd</link>      <description>"Resource-Efficient Distributed Radiolocation in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks"</description>	</item>	<item>  	<title>May 9 (Fri) - Bassam Bamieh, UCSB, Mechanical Engineering Department</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#may</link>      <description>"Effect of Topological Dimension on Rigidity of Vehicle Formations: Fundamental Limitations of Local Feedback"</description>	</item>	<item>  	<title>May 9 (Fri) - Charles Greene, Greenridge Sciences</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#may</link>      <description>"Bowhead Whale Call Localizations Using Passive Underwater Acoustics"</description>	</item>	<item>  	<title>May 2 (Fri) - Chris Harding, Iowa State University</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#may</link>      <description>"Haptic Interaction with 3D Models"</description>	</item>	<item>  	<title>May 1 (Th) - Magdy S. Abadir, Freescale Semiconductor, Inc</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#may</link>      <description>"Temperature Aware SoC Design for Reduced Leakage Power and Enhanced Reliability"</description>	</item>	<item>  	<title>April 28 (Mon) - Pei Zhang, Princeton University</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#apr</link>      <description>"ZebraNet and Beyond: Collaboration in Sparse Mobile Networks"</description>	</item>		<item>  	<title>April 25 (Fri) - Wei Kang, Naval Postgraduate School</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#apr</link>      <description>"On Pseudospectral Methods of Nonlinear Optimal Control"</description>	</item>	<item>  	<title>April 18 (Fri) - Jason Marden, CalTech</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#apr</link>      <description>"Noncooperative Cooperation"</description>	</item>	<item>  	<title>April 18 (Fri) - Harold Cohen, Visual Arts, UCSD</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#apr</link>      <description>"The Arsenic Crisis in the Developing World: A Sustainable Engineering Solution"</description>	</item>	<item>  	<title>April 15 (Tue) - Arup K. SenGupta, Environmental Engineering, Leigh University</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#apr</link>      <description>"The Arsenic Crisis in the Developing World: A Sustainable Engineering Solution"</description>	</item>	<item>  	<title>April 11 (Fri) - Igor Mezic, UCSB</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#apr</link>      <description>"Uncertainty Analysis in Dynamical Systems"</description>	</item>	<item>	<title>April 10 (Thu) - R. O'Rourke, Sonnet Software</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#apr</link>      <description>"Sonnet E/M Planar Simulation Software: an orientation..."</description>	</item>	<item>	<title>April 10 (Thu) - Eric Klavins, University of Washington</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#apr</link>      <description>"Programmed Molecular Self-Oganization Robots Behaving Like Molecules and Molecules Behaving Like robots"</description>	</item>	<item>	<title>April 8 (Tue) - Emily F Burmeister, Ph.D. Defense</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#phd</link>      <description>"InP-Based On-Chip Optical Recirculating Buffer"</description>	</item>	<item>	<title>April 8 (Tue) - Atul Wad, Sustainable Tech.Ventures</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#apr</link>      <description>"Sustainability and Innovation in Developing Countries"</description>	</item> 	<item>	<title>April 4 (Fri) - Jim Freudenberg, University of Michigan</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#apr</link>      <description>"Minimum Variance Control over a Gaussian Communication Channel"</description>	</item>	<item>	<title>April 4 (Fri) - Anna Stefanopoulou, University of Michigan</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#apr</link>      <description>"Applying Simple Control Techniques in Fuel Cell Systems"</description>	</item>	<item>	<title>April 1 (Tue) - Ilya Nemenman, Los Alamos National Laboratory</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#apr</link>      <description>"Systems biology of information processing in biological networks"</description>	</item>	<item>	<title>April 1 (Tue) - Christiana Honsberg and Allen Barnett, U. of Delaware</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#apr</link>      <description>"Achieving a Solar Cell of Greater than 50 Percent:  Physics, Technology, Implementation and Milestones"</description>	</item>	<item>	<title>March 21 (Fri) - Sani R. Nassif, IBM Austin Research Laboratory</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#mar</link>      <description>"What Every Architect Should Know About Technology"</description>	</item>	<item>	<title>March 20 (Thu) - Ivan P Kaminow, Adjunct Professor, UCBerkeley</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#mar</link>      <description>"Optical Integrated Circuits: A Personal Perspective"</description>	</item>	<item>	<title>March 17 (Mon) - Chi-Keung "C.K." Luk, Intel Corporation</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#mar</link>      <description>"Dynamic Compilation in Practice: From Instrumentation to Parallelization"</description>	</item>	<item>	<title>March 14 (Fri) - Maurice Heemels, Eindhoven University of Technology</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#mar</link>      <description>"Stability and Stabilization of Networked Control Systems: A Discrete-Time Modeling Approach"</description>	</item>	<item>	<title>March 14 (Fri) - Foad Dabiri, UCLA</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#mar</link>      <description>"Wireless Health: Reliability-Oriented Design and Optimization"</description>	</item>	<item>	<title>March 13 (Thu) - Alexander W Fang, Ph.D. Defense</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#phd</link>      <description>"Silicon Evanescent Lasers"</description>	</item>	<item>	<title>March 13 (Thu) - Hyundai Park, Ph.D. Defense</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#phd</link>      <description>"Silicon Evanescent Devices for Optical Buffers and Networks"</description>	</item>	<item>	<title>March 11 (Tue) - Joseph S. Alford, Eli Lilly and Company</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#mar</link>      <description>"Bioprocess Control: State-of-the-Art, Opportunities, and Challenges"</description>	</item>	<item>	<title>March 7 (Fri) - Pascal Mueller, Computer Vision Laboratory, ETH Zurich</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#mar</link>      <description>"Efficient Creation of Urban Environments through Procedural Techniques"</description>	</item>	<item>	<title>March 7 (Fri) - Khalid Sayood, University of Nebraska-Lincoln</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#mar</link>      <description>"Species Signatures and their Application"</description>	</item>	<item>	<title>March 7 (Fri) - Jose B. Cruz, Jr., Ohio State U.</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#mar</link>      <description>"On Singular Non-zero Sum Differential Games"</description>	</item>    <item>	<title>March 7 (Fri) - Martha Mercaldi Kim, U. of Washington</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#mar</link>      <description>"Reining in Fabrication Cost with Brick and Mortar Chips"</description>	</item>	<item>	<title>March 3 (Mon) - Vijay Kumar, U. of Pennsylvania</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#mar</link>      <description>"Architectures, Abstractions, and Algorithms for Large Teams of Robots"</description>	</item>	<item>	<title>Feb 29 (Fri) - Andreas  Gerstlauer, UC Irvine</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#feb</link>      <description>"Programming, Modeling and Synthesis of Multi-Processor System Software"</description>	</item>	<item>	<title>Feb 28 (Thu) - Philip Brisk, EPFL, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#feb</link>      <description>"Improving FPGA Performance for Arithmetic Circuits"</description>	</item>	<item>	<title>Feb 25 (Mon) - Luke Theogarajan, CE Program Faculty Candidate - MIT</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#feb</link>      <description>"Bio-ionic Neural Interface"</description>	</item>	<item>	<title>Feb 22 (Fri) - Calin Belta, Boston University</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#feb</link>      <description>"Distributed Implementations of Global Temporal Logic Motion Specifications"</description>	</item>	<item>	<title>Feb 22 (Fri) - Christine Alvarado, Harvey Mudd College</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#feb</link>      <description>"Sketch Recognition from the User's Perspective"</description>	</item>	<item>	<title>Feb 20 (Wed) - Sudeep Pasricha, CE Program Faculty Candidate - UC Irvine </title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#feb</link>      <description>"On-chip Communication Architecture Synthesis for Multi-Processor Systems-on-Chip"</description>	</item>	<item>	<title>Feb 15 (Fri) - John Burke, UC, Berkeley</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#feb</link>      <description>"Snakes and Ladders: Localized States in the Swift-Hohenberg Equation"</description>	</item>	<item>	<title>Feb 15 (Fri) - Thanous Antoulas, Rice University</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#feb</link>      <description>"Approximation of Large-Scale Dynamical Systems"</description>	</item>	<item>	<title>Feb 8 (Fri) - Madhukar Budagavi, Texas Instruments</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#feb</link>      <description>"Upcoming Video Coding Standards"</description>	</item>	<item>	<title>Feb 8 (Fri) - Danielle Tarraf, Cal Tech</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#feb</link>      <description>"Control of Systems over Finite Alphabets"</description>	</item>	<item>	<title>Feb 8 (Fri) - David Pan, U. of Texas at Austin</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#feb</link>      <description>"Synergistic Modeling and Optimization for Physical and Electrical DFM"</description>	</item>	<item>	<title>Feb 1 (Fri) - Danny Abramovitch, Agilent Laboratories</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#feb</link>      <description>"Prehistoric Feedback Mechanisms: An Opportunistic Study"</description>	</item>	<item>	<title>Feb 1 (Fri) - Victor B. Zordan, UC Irvine</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#feb</link>      <description>"Animating Characters Using Motion Capture and Simulation"</description>	</item>	<item>	<title>Feb 1 (Fri) - Doris Schmitt-Landsiedel, Technical University of Munich</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#feb</link>      <description>"Circuit Design with DSM CMOS Technologies and Novel Devices"</description>	</item>	<item>	<title>Jan 24 (Thu) - Fabio Fagnani, Universita' di Torino</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#jan</link>      <description>"Randomized Consensus Algorithms over Large Scale Networks"</description>	</item>	<item>	<title>Jan 22 (Tue) - Howard Salis, UC San Francisco</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#jan</link>      <description>	"Advanced Stochastic Numerical Methods for Systems and Synthetic Biology"</description>	</item>	<item>	<title>Jan 22 (Tue) - Myung-Hoon Yeon, Ph.D. Defense</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#phd</link>      <description>"Interference Suppression Algorithms for TDMA Cellular Systems"</description>	</item>	<item>	<title>Jan 18 (Fri) - Carlos A. Gomez-Uribe, M.I.T.</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#jan</link>      <description>" Using Control Theory to Study Biological Systems: Perfect Adaptation in the Osmo-Response SignalingNetwork of S. Cerevisiae"</description>	</item>	<item>	<title>Jan 17-18 (Th-Fr) - Workshop presented by the UCSB Center for Bio-Image Informatics</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#jan</link>      <description>"Workshop on Bio-Image Informatics: Biological Imaging, Computer Vision and Data Mining, 2008"</description>	</item>	<item>	<title>Jan 14 (Mon) - Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University</title>      <link>http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/common/wordpress/?p=100</link>      <description>"The Vision and Reality of Ubiquitous Computing"</description>	</item>	<item>	<title>Jan 11 (Fri) - Steven Simons, UCSB</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/ccdc/seminarcurrent.html</link>      <description>"The Hahn–Banach–Lagrange Theorem"</description>	</item>	<item>	<title>Jan 8 (Tue) - Pablo Iglesias, Johns Hopkins University</title>      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/ccdc/seminarcurrent.html</link>      <description>"Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of Chemotactic Systems in Biology"</description>	</item>  </channel></rss>