Dr. Lalitha Sankara, Fading Wireless Networks: The Interference Case, Thursday, November 20, 3:00 pm, Engineering 2 Building, Room 280

CITRIS: A Memristor and Memristive Systems Symposium, Friday, November 21, 9:00 am, Sibley Auditorium, UC Berkeley

Jonathan Greene - Actel Corporation, Mountain View, California, Architecture of Flash-based FPGAs for Low Power Applications, Monday, November 24, 2:00 pm, Engineering 2 Building, Room 399

Brigitte Tenhumberg - School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Behavior and Life History Affects Consumer-Resource Interactions, Monday, November 24, 4:00 pm, Engineering 2 Building, Room 180

David G. Stork - Chief Scientist, Ricoh Innovations, Overthrowing some old optical principles in the new world of computational imaging, Monday, December 1, 2:30 pm, Engineering 2 Building, Room 215

Jesus Palomo, AMS Seminar, Monday, December 1, 4:00 pm, Engineering 2 Building, Room 180

Rich Frietas, IBM Research, SSRC Seminar: Storage Class Memory: Technology and Use, Wednesday, December 3, 11:30 am, E2-599

Justin Hensley, PhD, AMD's Stream Computing Platform: From the hardware to the software, Wednesday, December 3, 6:00 pm, E2 Simularium

Friis Arne Petersen [Danish Ambassador to the United States], CITRIS: EU as a Rising Superpower, Friday, December 5, 2:00 pm, Sibley Auditorium, UC Berkeley campus

A team of SOE researchers receive IEEE Fred W. Ellersick Award for Best Unclassified Paper at 2008 Milcom conference

A paper by a team of researchers in the Baskin School of Engineering was selected to receive the IEEE Fred W. Ellersick Award for Best Unclassified Paper at the 2008 Milcom conference in San Diego. The authors of the paper are graduate student Zheng Wang; postdoctoral fellow Shirish Karande; Hamid Sadjadpour, associate professor of electrical engineering; and J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, Baskin professor of computer engineering. They will be honored for their paper "On the capacity improvement of multicast traffic with network coding." The researchers will receive the award in a ceremony during the Chairman's Gala at the conference on November 18.  More

Expert on origins of life to give free public lecture November 13 at UCSC

Biochemist David Deamer will discuss the origins of life in a free public lecture on Thursday, November 13, at UC Santa Cruz.   More

Sun Microsystems Renews OpenSPARC Center of Excellence at UCSC

Sun Microsystems has renewed the OpenSPARC Center of Excellence at UCSC. Sun created the first ever OpenSPARC center of excellence in UCSC as a renewable 3 year project. The Center of Excellence establishes a collaborative partnership between Sun and UCSC faculty (Assistant Prof Renau and Guthaus) who are working with the OpenSPARC community and promoting OpenSPARC in academia and research. This second Year, Sun donated a $100K gift to provide additional support to the MASC group and sponsor a new "Distinguished OpenSPARC Guest Talk" seminar.  More

Computer Engineering Department Announces New Langdon Fellowships

The Computer Engineering Department was pleased to award two inaugural Langdon Fellowships to new graduates students  Bryant Mairs and Fan Wang. Bryant did his undergraduate work at Brown University and is pursing studies in computer architecture and inter-networking. Fan studied at Tsinghua University in Beijing and will work in image retrieval and computer vision.  More

Baskin School of Engineering will showcase faculty research on Friday, October 17

The innovative and transformative research conducted by faculty in the Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, led to a record $27 million in gifts and research awards in the 2007-08 fiscal year. The school's Research Review Day on Friday, October 17, will include faculty research presentations, graduate student posters, and more.  More