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

10-03-08 Mehdi Hatamian
Mehdi Hatamian: 30 Years in the Life of a Super Happy Michigan Alumnus
 
10-12-07 Lee Boysel
Making Your First Million: and other tips for aspiring entrepreneurs
 
03-13-07 Prof. Kensall D. Wise
HENRY RUSSEL LECTURE - WIMS: Sparking Breakthroughs in Health Care and the Global Environment
 
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
 
04-04-06 Pallab K. Bhattacharya
Prof. Bhattacharya: Distinguished University Professor Lecture
 
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