Distinguished Lecture Series in Electrical and Computer Engineering

The Electrical and Computer Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series brings to campus top thinkers in the field. They meet with faculty and students and present their cutting-edge research to the University of Michigan community.

Upcoming and Former Lectures

10-25-12	Curtis Ling MaxLinear Curtis Ling: Founding to post-IPO: One Perspective on Technology Entrepreneurship and Fabless Design 12:00pm - 1:00pm in 1005 EECS
10-12-12	Daniel Moloney Motorola Mobility Daniel Moloney - ECE Alumni Award Winner Lecture 10:30am - 11:30am in 1303 EECS
10-11-12	Dr. Cahit Akin Mushroom Networks, Inc. Cahit Akin - A Venture Capitalist/Entrepreneur Talks about Starting and Growing Technology Companies 12:00pm - 1:00pm in 1005 EECS
09-20-12	John A. Rogers University of Illinois-Champaign Materials and Mechanics for Bio-Integrated Electronics 3:00pm - 4:00pm in Beyster Building, Room 1670
10-28-11	Syed B. Ali MSE EE ’81 and 2011 CoE Alumni Merit Award Winner for ECE From Michigan to NASDAQ 11:00am - 12:00pm in 1303 EECS
05-23-11	Sajeev John University of Toronto Photonic Band Gap Materials: Light Trapping Crystals 11:00am - 12:00pm in 1311 EECS
04-04-11	Dr. R. Keith Raney The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Thinking Outside of the Box can be Over the Moon 11:30am - 12:30pm in 1311 EECS
03-21-11	Michal Lipson Cornell University, MacArthur Fellow Michal Lipson: Manipulating Light on Chip 2:30pm - 3:30pm in Gerald Ford Presidential Library Auditorium
11-11-10	Nader Engheta University of Pennsylvania Taming Light and Electrons with Metamaterials 4:00pm - 5:30pm in 1670 Beyster Bldg.
11-03-10	Charles M. Lieber Harvard University Semiconductor Nanowires: A Platform for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 3:30pm - 5:00pm in 1200 EECS
10-15-10	Rick Bolander Gabriel Venture Partners Value Creation: The Role for EECS 1:30pm - 2:30pm in 1200 EECS
09-29-10	Richard (Rick) P. Wallace KLA-Tencor Corporation Rick Wallace: From Bursley to the Boardroom 2:30pm - 3:30pm in 1013 Dow
09-25-09	Prof. Nino Masnari North Carolina State University Memories and Recollections: and How to Move a College 1:00pm - 2:00pm in 1311 EECS
09-25-09	Dr. Michael McCorquodale Straight Down the Crooked Path: The Dynamic Process of Commercializing Research 2:30pm - 3:30pm in 1200 EECS
10-03-08	Mehdi Hatamian Vice President of Engineering for DSP Microelectronics, Broadcom Corporation Mehdi Hatamian: 30 Years in the Life of a Super Happy Michigan Alumnus 1:00pm - 2:00pm in 1311 EECS
11-14-07	Amory Lovins Rocky Mountain Institute Goff Smith Lecture - Amory Lovins 4:00pm - 6:00pm in Biomed. Res. Bldg. Auditorium - Medical Campus
10-12-07	Lee Boysel Making Your First Million: and other tips for aspiring entrepreneurs 12:00pm - 1:00pm in 1670 Beyster Bldg.
11-09-06	Prof. and Augustine Scholar David R. Smith The Power of Metamaterials: From Negative Refraction to Invisibility Cloaks 3:30pm - 4:30pm in 1014 DOW
10-27-06	Daniel P. Siewiorek Lessons from Wearable Computing and Beyond 3:00pm - 4:00pm in 1670 Beyster Bldg.
04-11-06	Dr. Jack Jakowatz, Sandia National Laboratories Topics in Synthetic Aperture Radar Processing 4:00pm - 5:30pm in Room 1500 EECS Building
04-10-06	Professor Kerry Vahala, of CalTech Silicon-chip-based optical resonators with Q factor> 100 million 11:00am - 12:00pm in EECS 1005
04-06-06	Dr. John Ackenhusen, General Dynamics Real Time Signal Processing for Remote Sensing Applications 4:00pm - 5:30pm in Room 1500 EECS Building
03-30-06	Prof. Giuseppe Caire, University of Southern California Diversity-multiplexing tradeoff of MIMO fading channels: what's next? Advances and challenges in space-time coding design 4:00pm - 5:30pm in 1500 EECS
03-28-06	Dr. Philip Chou, Microsoft Network Coding for the Internet and Wireless Networks 4:00pm - 5:30pm in Room 1500 EECS Building
03-09-06	Prof. Gregory Wornell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology On the Sufficiency of Ignorance: Recent Lessons from Information Theory 4:00pm - 5:30pm in Room 1500 EECS Building
02-21-06	Prof. Alan Willsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Graphical Models, Distributed Fusion, and Sensor Networks 4:00pm - 5:30pm in Room 1500 EECS Building
02-16-06	Dr. Gregory Chaitin, IBM Research Is mathematics like biology? Is it like physics? 4:00pm - 5:30pm in Room 1500 EECS Building
02-09-06	Prof. Jim Fienup. University of Rochester Phase Retrieval for Imaging and Wave Front Sensing 4:00pm - 5:30pm in Room 1500 EECS Building
01-24-06	Prof. Patrick Hayden, McGill University Quantum-Physical Theory of Communication 4:00pm - 5:30pm in Room 1500 EECS Building
04-08-04	Prof. Peter Ramadge, Princeton University Some Analysis and Applications of Image Registration 4:00pm - 5:30pm in 1500 EECS
03-30-04	Prof. Armand Makowski COMPARING STRENGTH OF LOCALITY OF REFERENCE -- Popularity, majorization, and some folk theorems 4:00pm - 5:30pm in 1500 EECS
03-25-04	Prof. Pravin Varaiya, University of California Ber PEDAMACS: Power Efficient and Delay Aware Medium Access Protocol for Sensor Networks 4:00pm - 5:30pm in 1500 EECS
03-19-04	Szymon Rusinkiewicz DLS in Graphics 4:00pm - 5:30pm in 1005 EECS
03-18-04	Dr. John Rigden, American Institute of Physics H Stands for Hydrogen . . . and Humility 4:00pm - 5:30pm in 1500 EECS
03-08-04	Steve Seitz DLS in Graphics 4:00pm - 5:30pm in 1005 EECS
03-02-04	Dr. Gerhard Kramer, Lucent Tecnologies Extrinsic Information Transfer Charts as a Design Tool for Inerative Processors 4:00pm - 5:30pm in 1500 EECS
02-20-04	Fredo Durand DLS in Graphics 4:00pm - 5:30pm in 1005 EECS
02-12-04	Dr. John Derbyshire What is the Zeta Function? 4:00pm - 5:30pm in 1500 EECS
02-05-04	Prof. P. R. Kumar, University of Illinois Urbana-C From Wireless and Sensor Networks to Convergence: Theory, Protocols, and Architecture 08:00am - 08:30am in 1500 EECS
01-27-04	Prof. Balaji Prabhakar, Stanford University Simple, Scaleable Network Algorithms 4:00pm - 5:30pm in 1500 EECS
01-22-04	Dr. Emina Soljanin Network Coding: from Graph Theory to Algebraic Geometry 4:00pm - 5:30pm in 1500 EECS
10-03-03	Jim Gray On-Line Science: The World-Wide Telescope as a Pro 4:00pm - 7:30pm in Cheseborough Auditorium
04-02-03	Prof. Ken Wise Dow Professorship Lecture: Prof. Ken Wise 4:00pm - 5:00pm in Michigan League, Hussey Room