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Events for December 03, 2007
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Creating a mobile network with mobile towers and limited bandwidths
Mon, Dec 03, 2007 @ 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
SPEAKER: General Paul J. Kern
The Cohen GroupABSTRACT: How the Army is solving the problem and what it might mean to commercial communications.BIOGRAPHY: General Paul Kern joined The Cohen Group as a Senior Counselor in January, 2005. In addition, he holds the Class of 1950 Chair for Advanced Technologies at West Point, is an Advisor to Battelle Memorial Institute and serves on the Board of Directors of iRobot Corporation, CoVant Technologies LLC and EDO Corporation.He concluded his more than 40-year career in the United States Army when he retired as Commanding General, Army Material Command (AMC). In that capacity, and earlier as Commander of the 4th Infantry Division (Mechanized), General Kern left his impact on the Army's future as he led a drive to digitize and transform its warfighting capabilities. He won wide respect for his efforts to direct supply chain improvements, maintain field readiness, and modernize weapons systems throughout the Army while still controlling costs.In June 2004, General Kern undertook a vastly different responsibility when Secretary Rumsfeld tapped him to lead the military's internal investigation into the abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, a tough assignment that he handled with skill.General Kern's career has also had stops in the Secretary of Defense office in Washington and several field units. As the Senior Military Assistant to Secretary of Defense William Perry, General Kern was instrumental in ensuring that the Secretary's guidance was implemented throughout the Department and in handling the most sensitive decisions for the Secretary. During that tenure he traveled with Secretary Perry to more than 70 countries, meeting numerous heads of state, foreign ministers and international defense leaders. He participated in U.S. operations in Haiti, Rwanda, Zaire and the Balkans, and helped to promote military relations in Central and Eastern Europe, South America, China, and the Middle East.General Kern had three combat tours with two tours in Vietnam as a platoon leader and troop commander, and he commanded the Second Brigade of the 24th Infantry in Desert Shield/Desert Storm.HOST: Solomon Golomb, sgolomb@usc.edu, EEB 504A, x07333Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos
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Dr. Amnon Yariv (Munushian Visiting Seminar Series)
Mon, Dec 03, 2007 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Dr. Amnon YarivCalifornia Institute of Technology"Slow Light and Dark Modes"AbstractThe talk will consider the theoretical and experimental basis for the recent interest in major slowing down of the group velocity of light (Slow Light). It will review the phenomenon in the atomic domain where it is linked intimately to that of Electromagnetically Induced Transparency (EIT). The emphasis will be on Slow Light in artificial dielectric structures such as Coupled Resonators Waveguides (CROWS) and on recent theoretical results from our group on Slow Light and Dark Modes phenomena in bi-periodic optical waveguides.BioAmnon Yariv received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1954, 1956, and 1958, respectively. In 1959, he joined Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ. In 1964, he joined the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, as an Associate Professor of electrical engineering, becoming
a Professor in 1966. In 1980, he became the Thomas G. Myers Professor of electrical engineering and applied physics. In 1996, he became the Martin and Eileen Summerfield Professor of applied physics and Professor of electrical engineering. On the technical and scientific
sides, he took part (with various co-workers) in the discovery of a number of early solid-state laser systems, in the original formulation of the theory of nonlinear quantum optics; in proposing and explaining mode-locked ultrashort-pulse lasers, GaAs optoelectronics; in proposing and demonstrating semiconductor-based integrated optics technology; in pioneering
the field of phase conjugate optics; and in proposing and demonstrating the semiconductor
distributed feedback laser. He has published widely in the laser and optics fields and has written a number of basic texts in quantum electronics, optics, and quantum mechanics.
Dr. Yariv is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the National Academy of Sciences.Location: Hedco Neurosciences Building (HNB) - 100
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Ericka Lieberknecht
