Seminars
Feb 2, 2017 - 9:15am
Quantum Photonics with Ordered Quantum Dot and Quantum Wire Systems
Prof. Eli Kapon, Laboratory of Physics of Nanostructures, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, IEEE Chapter-UCSD; IEEE Photonics Society - Distinguished Lecturer
Feb 1, 2017 - 1:00pm
On the Choice of Loss Functions and Their Estimations for Relevant Parameter Selection in Image Restoration Techniques
Charles Deledalle, Université de Bordeaux, France
The Stein unbiased risk estimator has become popular for parameter selection in image restoration algorithms. It estimates the square error loss between the reconstruction and the unknown image of Learn More
Jan 20, 2017 - 11:30am
ECE DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI SEMINAR SERIES - An Accidental Engineer and the End of Underground Nuclear Testing
Dan Chang, PhD
Dr. Chang will be sharing his experiences of his earlier years at UC San Diego and how he became interested in electromagnetic theory. At a national laboratory, he used this background to evaluate Learn More
Jan 19, 2017 - 11:00am
ECE SPECIAL SEMINAR - Inverse Optical Design for Record-Breaking Photovoltaics and Biomedical Imaging
VIDYA GANAPATI
Improvements to the efficiency of photovoltaics lowers the cost of solar electricity, as higher efficiency causes overhead costs to decrease. In this talk, I will discuss how optical design Learn More
Jan 18, 2017 - 11:00am
iGPS:Integrated Navigation & Communication
David A. Whelan, Ph.D.
The benefits of adding a two way communications channel to the Global Positioning System (GPS) are examined using an experimental arrangement of a modified Iridium communications constellation and Learn More
Jan 13, 2017 - 11:00am
An information-theoretic perspective on interference management
Young-Han Kim, University of California San Diego
For high data rates and massive connectivity, next-generation cellular networks are expected to deploy many small base stations. While such dense deployment provides the benefit of bringing radio Learn More
Jan 12, 2017 - 1:00pm
New Ingredients in the Pot: Rethink Analog IC Design
Nan Sun, University of Texas at Austin
In this talk, I will present several unconventional analog IC design techniques. First, I will talk about how we can make use of noise, which is usually deemed as an Learn More
Dec 12, 2016 - 10:00am
Development and Application of an Optogenetic Platform for Controlling and Imaging a Large Number of Individual Neurons
Ali Mohammed, Texas Tech University
The understanding and treatment of brain disorders as well as the development of intelligent machines is hampered by the lack of knowledge of how the brain fundamentally functions. Over the past Learn More
Dec 6, 2016 - 2:00pm
Why Magnetic Sensing Can Be a Useful New Method for In-Vitro Diagnostics
Dr. Oliver Hayden, In-Vitro Diagnostics & Bioscience Research Siemens Healthcare, Germany
Blood is the most important source for routine in-vitro diagnostic information, such as the concentration level of plasma biomarkers and cells. Only in special cases, Learn More
Dec 2, 2016 - 2:00pm
Polar Codes: From Theory to 5G
Hessam Mahdavifar, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan
The discovery of the channel polarization phenomenon and polar codes is one of the most recent fundamental advances in coding theory. Polar codes provably achieve the fundamental limit of capacity Learn More