The EECS Graduate and Undergraduate Student Poster & Project Fair took place this afternoon in the lobby of Tech. Judges spent two hours talking with the participants and prizes were awarded to the top six.    

In the Graduate Division, First Place went to Neal Oza for his poster "Entanglement-Preserving Photonic Switching: Demonstration of Full Cross-Bar Operation with 25-GHz Capability". Second Place was won by Alireza Bonakdar for his project entitled "2PA  enhanced by surface plasmon polartion". A tie  brought both Bao Wang and Yigit Demir to the stage to win Third Prize and an iPod Nano. Bao's project is "Fluorescent Microscopic Fly Eye Nuclei Segmentation and Reconstruction using Graph Cut and Convexity -Concavity Analysis" and Yigit's work is entitled"Galaxy: Pushing the Power and Bandwidth Walls with Optically Connected Disintegrated Processors.

In the Undergraduate Students category, First Place went to Heun Mo Yoo for "Directional Derivative Analysis of the Overshoot and Exchange Enhanced of the g-factor in Si/Si1-xGexHeterostructures"., and Dhrumil Mehta took second place for his project, "Political Framing".  

A big Thank You to ALL the participants -- EECS students, faculty, and staff -- who helped make this event a resounding success. Photos of the event will be posted soon.

Prem Kumar has been invited to deliver the 2013 Herman Anton Haus Lecture at MIT.  The title of his presentation will be: "Fields and Photons in Optical Fibers: In the Footsteps of a Visionary."

Supported by the Haus Fund, the Haus Lecture honors Prof. Haus's profound legacy to the world of research and scholarship. His discoveries inspired engineers and scientists in many fields; his teaching influenced generations of MIT students. Among the continuing themes of Professor Haus's intellectual life was the joy of visiting and interacting with colleagues around the world. The Haus Fund celebrates his remarkable spirit by bringing to the MIT campus visiting lecturers to present new ideas and interact with MIT faculty and students.

Light or no light-this new infrared camera captures images

PhD candidate Abbas Haddadi was interviewed by Srushti Shah of Medill about  his research in The  Center for Quantum Development. The Center has developed detectors that are a complex quantum structure. The devices are expected to be valuable for military, medical and civilian purposes. Watch the video at this link.