University of Michigan
EECS Department
Electrical and
Computer Engineering
EECS Building
1301 Beal Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2122

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

10-28-11 Syed B. Ali
From Michigan to NASDAQ
 
05-23-11 Sajeev John
Photonic Band Gap Materials: Light Trapping Crystals
 
03-21-11 Michal Lipson
Michal Lipson: Manipulating Light on Chip
 
11-11-10 Nader Engheta
Taming Light and Electrons with Metamaterials
 
11-03-10 Charles M. Lieber
Semiconductor Nanowires: A Platform for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
 
10-15-10 Rick Bolander
Value Creation: The Role for EECS
Video Link
 
09-29-10 Richard (Rick) P. Wallace
Rick Wallace: From Bursley to the Boardroom
Video Link
 
10-03-08 Mehdi Hatamian
Mehdi Hatamian: 30 Years in the Life of a Super Happy Michigan Alumnus
Video Link
 
10-12-07 Lee Boysel
Making Your First Million: and other tips for aspiring entrepreneurs
Video Link
 
11-09-06 Prof. and Augustine Scholar David R. Smith
The Power of Metamaterials: From Negative Refraction to Invisibility Cloaks
 
10-27-06 Daniel P. Siewiorek
Lessons from Wearable Computing and Beyond
 
04-11-06 Dr. Jack Jakowatz, Sandia National Laboratories
Topics in Synthetic Aperture Radar Processing
 
04-10-06 Professor Kerry Vahala, of CalTech
Silicon-chip-based optical resonators with Q factor> 100 million
 
04-06-06 Dr. John Ackenhusen, General Dynamics
Real Time Signal Processing for Remote Sensing Applications
 
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
 
03-28-06 Dr. Philip Chou, Microsoft
Network Coding for the Internet and Wireless Networks
 
03-09-06 Prof. Gregory Wornell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
On the Sufficiency of Ignorance: Recent Lessons from Information Theory
 
02-21-06 Prof. Alan Willsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Graphical Models, Distributed Fusion, and Sensor Networks
 
02-16-06 Dr. Gregory Chaitin, IBM Research
Is mathematics like biology? Is it like physics?
 
02-09-06 Prof. Jim Fienup. University of Rochester
Phase Retrieval for Imaging and Wave Front Sensing
 
01-24-06 Prof. Patrick Hayden, McGill University
Quantum-Physical Theory of Communication
 
04-08-04 Prof. Peter Ramadge, Princeton University
Some Analysis and Applications of Image Registration
 
03-30-04 Prof. Armand Makowski
COMPARING STRENGTH OF LOCALITY OF REFERENCE -- Popularity, majorization, and some folk theorems
 
03-25-04 Prof. Pravin Varaiya, University of California Ber
PEDAMACS: Power Efficient and Delay Aware Medium Access Protocol for Sensor Networks
 
03-18-04 Dr. John Rigden, American Institute of Physics
H Stands for Hydrogen . . . and Humility
 
03-02-04 Dr. Gerhard Kramer, Lucent Tecnologies
Extrinsic Information Transfer Charts as a Design Tool for Inerative Processors
 
02-12-04 Dr. John Derbyshire
What is the Zeta Function?
 
02-05-04 Prof. P. R. Kumar, University of Illinois Urbana-C
From Wireless and Sensor Networks to Convergence: Theory, Protocols, and Architecture
 
01-27-04 Prof. Balaji Prabhakar, Stanford University
Simple, Scaleable Network Algorithms
 
01-22-04 Dr. Emina Soljanin
Network Coding: from Graph Theory to Algebraic Geometry