2015 Spring Colloquium Schedule

Each semester, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering offers
presentations on topics of interest to faculty, graduate students, and the public.
Presenters include university faculty from across the United States, researchers in
private industry, as well as University of Minnesota, College of Science and Engineering faculty. 

Presentation are given each Thursday at 4 p.m. thoughout the semester. A small reception
with refreshments is held prior to the presentation. The 2014 Fall Colloquium series will
be held in Keller Hall Annex, Room 3-230.

Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015
"Random Access DNA-based Storage Systems"
Prof. Olgica Milenkovic
University of Illinois
Host: Prof. Arya Mazumdar
 

Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015
"Heterogeneous nanowires and nanotubes: fast electrochemistry, from electrochromics to high power energy storage"
Prof. Sang Bok Lee
University of Maryland
Host: Prof. Jeong-Hyun Cho
 

Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015
"Kernel Learning for Correlation Analysis of Big Data"
Prof. Sun-Yuan Kung
Princeton University
Prof. Keshab Parhi

Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015
"Device Technology for a pluralistic world of computation"
Wilfried Haensch
IBM TJ Watson
Host: Prof. Steve Koester

Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015
"Decentralized Control and Coordination of Distributed Resources from Emerging Applications in Electric Power Systems"
Prof. Alejandro Dominguez-Garcia
University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
Host: Prof. Sairaj Dhople

Thursday, Feb. 26
"Memory and Logic Electronics Based on Nanoscale Resistive Switching Devices"
Prof. Wei Lu
University of Michigan
Host: Prof. Jian-Ping Wang

Thurs. Mar. 5 2015
"The feasibility of using ultrasound for transcranial imaging and targeted drug delivery in the brain"
Prof. Kullervo Hynynen
University of Toronto
Host: Prof. Emad Ebbini

Thusday, March 12, 2015
TBD

Thursday, Mar. 26, 2015
"Something Old and Something New: Magnetism for Electronics"
Prof. Allan McDonald
University of Texas
Host: Prof. Jian-Ping Wang

Thursday, April,2, 2015
TBD
Prof. Olav Solgaard
Stanford University
Host: Joseph Talghader

Thursday, Apr. 9, 2015
"Distributed machine learning problems for big graphs"
Prof. Alex Dimakis
University of Texas
Host: Prof. Soheil Mohajer

Thursday, Apr. 16, 2015
"Chemical-Eletronic Coupling and the InAs Two-Dimensional Electron Gas (2DEG)"
Prof. April Brown
Duke University
Host: Prof. Paul Ruden

Thursday, Apr. 23, 2015
"Photonic Radiative Cooling under Sunlight: A new Approach to Energy Efficiency"
Prof. Aaswath Raman
Stanford University
Host: Prof. Mo Li

Thursday, April 30, 2015
TBD
Prof. William Chappell
DARPA (Purdue University)
Host: Prof. Steve Campbell

Thursday, May 7, 2015
"Revolutionize Energy and Personal Health by Nanotechnology"
Prof. Steve Chou
Princeton University
Host: Prof. Mos Kaveh