Spring 2019 EE Colloquia

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January 17

Speakers: JR Watson and SherryDawn Jackson of the Penn State Department of Electrical Engineering
Titles: “Job safety and health. It’s the law!” and “Rules and milestones for EE graduate degrees”
EE Faculty Host: Vishal Monga
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February 7

Speaker: Alexandra K. Marquis, Office of Research Protections
EE Faculty Host: Victor Pasko
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February 14

Speaker: Abhronil Sengupta, Penn State Electrical Engineering
Title: Efficient neuromorphic computing enabled by spin-transfer torque: devices, circuits and systems
EE Faculty Host: Vishal Monga
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Friday, February 15 at 7 p.m.

Speaker: David Hysell, Cornell University
Title: Waynick Distinguished Lecture: “Applying modern methods to an old problem: predicting space weather near the magnetic equator”
Location: Ballroom AB, Nittany Lion Inn
EE Faculty Host: Tim Kane
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February 21

Speaker: Linhai Song, Penn State
Title: Performance diagnosis for inefficient loops
EE Faculty Host: Minghui Zhu
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February 28

Speaker: Jon-Paul Maria, Penn State Material Science
Title: Electroceramic thin films for IR plasmonic applications
EE Faculty Host: Chris Giebink
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March 12

Speaker: Morteza Kayyalha, Penn State Physics Department
Title: Toward quantum computing with topological insulators
EE Faculty Host: Chris Giebink
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March 14

Speaker: Pramod Varshney, Syracuse University
Title: Six blind men of Indostan: Theory and applications of information fusion
EE Faculty Host: Vishal Monga
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March 21

Speaker: Gennady Shvets, Cornell University
Title: Active nanphotonics: From graphene-integrated plasmonic metasurfaces and metagates to photon-accelerating semiconductor nanostructures
EE Faculty Host: Shengxi Huang
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April 4

Speaker: Hongbin Li, Stevens Institute of Technology
Title: Statistical learning for radar target detection with uncertain partial prior knowledge 
EE Faculty Host: Vishal Monga
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April 11

Speaker: Brian Foley, Penn State Mechanical Engineering
Title: Grains, domains and solid solutions: Extrinsic effects on phonon thermal transport in electronic materials 
EE Faculty Host: Chris Giebink
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April 18

Speaker: Saptarshi Das, Penn State
Title: Novel devices based on two dimensional materials 
EE Faculty Host: Vishal Monga
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April 25

Speaker: Amy K. Van Newkirk, The Electro-Optics Center at Penn State
Title: Anti-resonant hollow core fibers and their applications
EE Faculty Host: Tim Kane
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