Week of February 3, 2013 to February 9, 2013

1. Monday, February 4, 2013

   1. 12:00 pmCharles Reichhardt, Los Alamos National Lab
      ICMT Seminar: Pattern Formation from Competing Interactions: Implications for Soft and Hard Condensed Matter Systems
      190 ESB
   2. 4:00 pmSara Behdad, University of Illinois
      Decision Analysis Methods to Make Product Take-back Systems Profitable
      303 Transportation Building

2. Tuesday, February 5, 2013

   1. 2:00 pmFinal Defense- Ngo Yin (Brian) Wong
      322 MSEB
   2. 4:00 pmProfessor Matthew I. Campbell, University of Texas at Austin
      Automated Graph Synthesis in Engineering Design and Manufacturing
      303 Transportation Building
   3. 4:30 pm - 6:00 pmAlex Pawlicki, Xin Li
      Bioacoustics Research Laboratory mini-seminar series
      4269 Beckman Institute
   4. 7:00 pmGot the winter blues? Seasonal affective disorder
      Wilson Chapel Room of the YMCA

3. Wednesday, February 6, 2013

   1. 10:00 amA More Youthful Self-renewal: Bioengineering Solutions to Rejuvenate Dysfunctional Muscle Stem Cells in Aging
      1000 Lincoln Hall
   2. 12:00 pmIMSE Lunchtime Seminar
      Room 335, Grainger Library
   3. 12:00 pmProfessor Harley Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
      Mechanics of Ion Irradiated Semiconductor Surfaces
      2310 Newmark Civil Engineering Bldg
   4. 3:00 pmDr. Robert D. Gregg, Northwestern University
      Translational Control Design for Lower-Limb Prosthetics and Orthotics: Lessons from Robot Locomotion
      B02 Auditorium CSL
   5. 4:00 pmYang Zhang, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Illinois
      Probabilistic Acoustic Tube: A Probabilistic Generative Model of Speech for Speech Analysis/Synthesis
      301 Coordinated Science Laboratory
   6. 5:00 pmScott Wright, Technical Fellow, Northrop Grumman Information Systems
      Recent Advances In Trans-Ionospheric Geolocation
      151 Everitt Lab

4. Thursday, February 7, 2013

   1. 2:00 pmThe Sub-Nanometer Length Scale: Exploring Fundamental Challenges in Aerosols & Catalysis
      116 Roger Adams Laboratory
   2. 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

      Dr. Sunil Kumar
      PhD Electrical & Computer Engineering '96

       

      Sunil Kumar is Dean and George Pratt Shultz Professor of Operations Management at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

       

      Dr. Kumar’s academic research includes performance evaluation and control of manufacturing systems, service operations, and communications networks. In particular, he studies systems affected by stochastic variability via mathematical models. He also studies application of optimization methods and control theory to managerial problems. Dr. Kumar has published dozens of scholarly research articles and has served as the editor of the Stochastic Models area of the journal Operations Research. He co-developed a widely used factory simulator for teaching operations management. The simulator, “Littlefield Technologies,” has been used in classes at more than 50 business and engineering schools. He also served as an operations consultant to several companies.

       

      Dr. Kumar joined the Chicago Booth faculty on January 1, 2011, after spending 14 years on the faculty of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business where he also served as senior associate dean for academic affairs, overseeing the school’s MBA program and leading faculty groups in marketing and organizational behavior.

       

      Born in India, Dr. Kumar received a Master of Engineering degree in computer science and automation from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore and a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Mangalore University in Surathkal. He earned a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

      
      Engineering at Illinois Event in Yorktown Heights, NY at IBM
      

      IBM - TJ Watson Research Center
      Cafeteria
      1101 New York 134
      Yorktown Heights, New York
   3. 5:30 pmWomen in ECE February General Meeting
      EL 269