Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Computer Engineering Seminar

Seminar Schedule (Spring 2007-2008)

This seminar is a forum for presentation of preliminary and final results of work being performed by students and faculty in Computer Engineering and the invited outside speakers. All meetings will be held in the Room 4610, Engineering Hall (Conference room) beginning at 12:00 noon on Fridays. Soft drinks will normally be provided. Visitors are welcome to attend.
Date Speaker Subject Title
January 25 No Seminar
February 1 Seminar cancelled due to fire
February 8 Sanghamitra Roy (UW) Numerically Convex Form: A new paradigm for optimizing discrete data with application to VLSI design automation
February 15 Lin Xie and Prof. Azadeh Davoodi (UW) New Challenges in Statistical Static Timing Analysis
February 22 Prof. Subhasish Mitra (Stanford) Robust System Design in Scaled CMOS and Emerging Nanotechnologies
February 29 Seda Memik (Northwestern) Thermal-Aware Design
March 7 Possibly no seminar ECE Open Hourse
March 14 No seminar Spring break begins
March 21 No Seminar - Spring break
March 24 (Monday) Minsik Cho (UT-Austin) Physical Synthesis for Nanometer VLSI and Emerging Technologies (Special Seminar - Room 4610)
March 26 (Wednesday) Dr. Nam Sung Kim (Intel) Variation and Aging Tolerant Computing System Design in Nanoscale Technology (Special Seminar - Room 3609)
March 28 No seminar
April 4 Natalie D. Enright Jerger (UW) Circuit-Switched Coherence (Practice Talk)
April 11 Professor Franco Cerrina Advances in Lithography and the Future of Scaling
April 15 (Tuesday) Umit Ogras (CMU) Analysis and Optimization of On-chip Communication Architectures (Special Seminar - Room 4610)
April 17 (Thursday) Martha Mercaldi Kim (University of Washington) Reining in Fabrication Costs with Brick and Mortar Chips (Special Seminar - Room 1221 CS)
April 18 No seminar
April 25
May 2 No Seminar (May be Lunch get together)
May 9 No Seminar (last lecture day)