Seminars
ECE hosts a regularly scheduled seminar series, the Interdisciplinary Distinguished Seminar Series, with preeminent and leading researchers in the US and the world, to help promote North Carolina as a center of innovation and knowledge and to ensure safeguarding its place of leading research.
ABB and ECE are proud to host the ABB Distinguished Lecture Series in Power Engineering. Each semester, a nationally prominent expert will lecture on a topic related to recent developments in power technology and the smart grid. Distinguished speakers drawn from ABB, academia and the power industry will address the most timely and challenging topics of the power engineering and smart grid industries. Everyone is invited to attend, from undergraduates on up to faculty and friends of the department.
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Configuration Spaces of Hard Disks
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Matthew Kahle
Assistant Professor, Ohio State University on April 29, 2011.
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Bayesian Alignment of Unlabeled Marked Point Sets Using Random Fields
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Dr. Ian Dryden
Professor, Department of Statistics, University of South Carolina on April 15, 2011.
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Natural Language Processing in a Multilingual Setting
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Dr. Sandra Kubler
Director of Computational Linguistics, Indiana University on March 25, 2011.
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Multiscale Geometric Methods for Noisy Point Clouds in High Dimensions
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Dr. Mauro Maggioni
Assistant Professor in Mathematics and Computer Science, Duke University on March 18, 2011.
Statistical Inference, Topology and Geometry
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Dr. Sayan Mukherjee
Assistant Professor of Statistical and Computer Science, Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy on February 25, 2011.
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Finite-dimensional variational inequalities: analysis, algorithms and applications
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Dr. Shu Lu
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on February 11, 2011.
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FACTS (Flexible AC Transmission Systems) Machine for Smart Grid
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Dr. Subhashish Bhattacharya
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University on January 28, 2011.
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Information Aggregation in Complex Networks
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Dr. Ali Jadbabaie, Skirkanich
Associate Professor of Innovation, University of Pennsylvania on January 14, 2011.
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Topology in the 21st Century
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Dr. Vin de Silva
Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Pomona College, California on December 10, 2010.
Digital Color Management: Getting the Colors Right
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Dr. Michael J. Vrhel
Color Scientist, Artifex Software Inc. on November 19, 2010.
From Millimeter to Terahertz Waves
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Dr. John Scales
Professor of Physics, Colorado School of Mines on November 5, 2010.
An Introduction to Network Science: History, Perspective, Statistical Research
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Dr. Stanley Wasserman
Rudy Professor of Statistics and Psychology, Indiana University on October 22, 2010.