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	<title>November 25 (Wed) - Takashi Hikihara, Kyoto University</title>
      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml</link>
      <description>"Dynamics of Nano-Particle Manipulation"</description>
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	<title>November 23 (Mon) - Nambi Seshadri, Broadcom Corporation</title>
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      <description>"Mobile and Wireless Trends"</description>
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	<title>November 20 (Fri) - Ufuk Topcu, Caltech</title>
      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml</link>
      <description>"Model-Based Verification of Complex Systems"</description>
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	<title>CANCELED - November 20 (Fri) - Shobha Vasudevan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</title>
      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml</link>
      <description>"Early bird gets the bug: Techniques and tools for modeling and verification at the Register Transfer Level"</description>
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	<title>November 13 (Fri) - Hinke Osinga, University of Bristol</title>
      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml</link>
      <description>"Arnol'd Tongues Arising from a Grazing-Sliding Bifurcation"</description>
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	<title>November 13 (Fri) - Bernd Krauskopf, University of Bristol</title>
      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml</link>
      <description>"Continuation of Periodic Solutions in an Experiment"</description>
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	<title>November 12 (Thu) - Lute Maleki, OEwaves, Inc.</title>
      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml</link>
      <description>"Applications of Linear and Nonlinear Properties of Crystalline Whispering Gallery Mode Resonators"</description>
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	<title>November 12 (Thu) - John Bowers, ECE Professor and Director of the UCSB Institute for Energy Efficiency</title>
      <link>http://iee.ucsb.edu/events/john-bowers-waste-heat-recovery-using-novel-thermoelectrics</link>
      <description>"Waste Heat Recovery Using Novel Thermoelectrics"</description>
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	<title>November 9 (Mon) - Jaspreet Singh, PhD Defense</title>
      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#phd</link>
      <description>"Communication Transceiver Design with Low-Precision Analog-to-Digital Conversion"</description>
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	<title>November 4 (Wed) - Jason Marden, Caltech</title>
      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml</link>
      <description>"Overcoming Limitations of Game-Theoretic Distributed Control"</description>
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	<title>November 3 (Tue) - Rolf Johansson, LTH Lund University</title>
      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml</link>
      <description>"Separation Principle for a Class of Nonlinear Feedback Systems Augmented with Observers"</description>
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	<title>October 30 (Fri) - Ruggero Carli, Mechanical Engineering Department, UCSB</title>
      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml</link>
      <description>"Deployment and Territory Partitioning for Gossiping Robots"</description>
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	<title>October 23 (Fri) - Sandro Zampieri, Informatica Universita di Padova</title>
      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml</link>
      <description>"Performance Analysis of the Consensus Based Distributed Estimation Algorithms"</description>
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	<title>October 21 (Wed)  - Fred Wudl, Chemistry and Materials Depts UCSB and CEEM </title>
      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml</link>
      <description>"Recent Advances in Organic Electronic"</description>
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	<title>October 16 (Fri) - Nambi Seshadri, Broadcom Corporation</title>
      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml</link>
      <description>"Mobile and Wireless Trends"</description>
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	<title>October 16 (Fri) - Petros Koumoutsakos, ETH Zurich</title>
      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml</link>
      <description>"Multiscale Simulations Using Particles"</description>
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	<title>October 15 (Thu) - Sumit Singh, Ph.D. Defense</title>
      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#phd</link>
      <description>"Medium Access Control and Bandwidth Allocation in Millimeter-Wave and WiFi Networks"</description>
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	<title>October 7 (Wed) - Darryl  Smith, Los Alamos National Laboratory</title>
      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml</link>
      <description>"Noise Spectroscopy as a Probe of Condensed Matter Systems"</description>
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	<title>October 5 (Mon) - Christopher Schaake, Ph.D. Defense</title>
      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#phd</link>
      <description>"Contributions to the Technology and Science of Enhancing Internal Quantum Efficiency of Nitride Light Emitting Diodes" </description>
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	<title>September 29 (Tue) - Vassilios Kovanis, Wright Patterson Air Force Base</title>
      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml</link>
      <description>"Nonlinear Dynamics of Photonic Circuits: Optically Injected Lasers and Passively Mode Locked Two Section Q-dots"</description>
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	<title>September 25 (Fri) - Ole M. Aamo, NTNU, Norway</title>
      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml</link>
      <description>"Adaptive Redesign of Nonlinear Observers with Application to an Oil Well Drilling System"</description>
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	<title>September 9 (Wed) - Dong Hun Shin, Ph.D. Defense</title>
      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#phd</link>
      <description>"Sub-Circuit Cell-Based High-Frequency Analog Integrated Circuit Design in Scaled CMOS" </description>
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	<title>September 8 (Tue) - Daniel Friedman, NREL</title>
      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml</link>
      <description>"Multijunction Solar Cells for Concentrator Photovoltaics"</description>
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	<title>September 2 (Wed) - Golnaz Abdollahian, Purdue University</title>
      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml</link>
      <description>"User Generated Video Content Analysis"</description>
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	<title>August 31 (Mon) - Rajeev Ram, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</title>
      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml</link>
      <description>"Integrated Photonic Systems: From Supercomputers to Pharmaceuticals"</description>
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	<title>August 21 (Fri) - Uttam Singisetti, Ph.D. Defense</title>
      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#phd</link>
      <description>"In0.53Ga0.47As Channel MOSFETs with 5 nm Channel and Self-aligned Source/Drain by MBE Regrowth" </description>
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	<title>August 14 (Fri) - Ram Zamir, Tel Aviv University</title>
      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml</link>
      <description>"Lattices are Everywhere!" </description>
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	<title>August 12 (Wed) - Colin Sheldon, Ph.D. Defense</title>
      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#phd</link>
      <description>"Adaptive Spatial Multiplexing for Millimeter-Wave Communication Links" </description>
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	<title>July 30 (Thu) - Emily Moxley, Ph.D. Defense</title>
      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#phd</link>
      <description>"Multimedia Annotation Through Search and Mining" </description>
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	<title>July 10 (Fri) - Pietro Binetti, UCSB</title>
      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml</link>
      <description>"InP-based Photodetectors on Si ICs" </description>
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	<title>June 8 (Mon) - Christian Schmidt, Ph.D. Defense</title>
      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#phd</link>
      <description>"Advances in End-to-End Distortion Estimation for Error-Resilient Video Networking" </description>
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	<title>June 5 (Fri) - Zach Taylor, Ph.D. Defense, Ph.D. Defense</title>
      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#phd</link>
      <description>"Active THz imaging for Medical Applications" </description>
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	<title>June 5 (Fri) - Scott Newman, Ph.D. Defense, Ph.D. Defense</title>
      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#phd</link>
      <description>"Lateral Epitaxial Overgrowth of AlN and Near Ultraviolet LEDs for White Lighting Applications" </description>
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	<title>June 5 (Fri) - Tsung-Ching Jim Huang, Ph.D. Defense</title>
      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#phd</link>
      <description>"Design for Low-Power and Reliable Flexible Electronics" </description>
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	<title>June 5 (Fri) - Geoff Gordon, Carnegie Mellon University</title>
      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/ccdc/seminarcurrent09.html</link>
      <description>"Multi-Agent Machine Learning" </description>
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	<title>June 4 (Thu) - Computer Engineering Program Senior Capstone Project Event</title>
      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml</link>
      <description>"ECE 189A/B and CS 189A/B Senior Students Present their Final Hardware and Software Projects" </description>
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	<title>June 1 (Mon) - James S Tandon, Ph.D. Defense</title>
      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml#phd</link>
      <description>"Energy Scalability of the Mesh Architecture Multiprocessor System-on-Chip" </description>
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	<title>June 1 (Mon) - Shreyas Sundaram, U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign</title>
      <link>http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/department_events.shtml</link>
      <description>"Q-Learning and Pontryagin's Minimum Principle" </description>
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