Lectures & Workshops

Engineering Lecture Series

Each spring and fall, the Engineering Department at SSU presents a series of colloquia on a wide range of engineering topics and trend of technologies. The talks are generally very high-level and designed for the general audience. The Engineering Colloquium was established in Fall 2006 and was initially sponsored by former Agilent Technologies (now Keysight Technologies) and local industries.

Days & Dates: First and Third Thursday of every month
Zoom ID:
https://SonomaState.zoom.us/j/87287592076, Passcode: 2009A
and/or Cerent Engineering Science Complex, Salazar Hall 2009A, Campus Map
Lecture: 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. including Q &A

Attendance is open to students, faculty and staff of SSU and other members of the community, in general. A parking permit is required to park on campus, and is available for $5.00 at machines in the parking lots. Talks are otherwise free.

For more information, please contact the Engineering Department at (707) 664-2030 or engineering@sonoma.edu.

6
MAR

Interactive Language Agents: Training, Evaluation, and Interface

Dr. Alane Suhr

EECS Department, UC Berkeley, CA

20
MAR

Unscripted Grounded Visual Learning

Dr. Stella Yu

EECS Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Past Lectures

Date	Speaker	Speaker Affiliation	Lecture Title
March 7, 2013	Dr. Charan Lichtfield	Visiting Professor University of Greenwich, UK	MIMO Wireless Communication Networks: Challenges and Future Perspectives
February 21, 2013	Dr. Haider Khaleel	Assistant Professor Engineering Science Dept., Sonoma State University	Metamaterials: A New Frontier in Engineering Science
November 15, 2012	Ms. Elizabeth S. Perry	Vice President Global Strategic Sales, Ciena	WAN's Role in the Cloud - Dynamic Optimized Bandwidth
November 1, 2012	Dr. Farid Farahmand	Assistant Professor Engineering Science Department, Sonoma State University	Internet Technology: Liberating or Controlling
October 18, 2012	Mr. Wael Diab	Senior Technical Director Office of the CTO, Broadcom	Energy Efficient Networking
October 4, 2012	Dr. Stephen O'Driscoll	Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC Davis	Low Power Analog IC Design for Biomedical Devices
September 20, 2012	Ms. Suna Taymaz & Mr. Dan Pearson	Managers, Smart Grid & Technology Integration, PG&E	PG&E's Smart Grid, a Foundation for a Sustainable Electric System
September 6, 2012	Dr. Salam Marougi	Expert Engineer Agilent Technologies	Design Aspects and Performance Parameters of Microwave Signal Sources
September 2, 2010	Dr. David Root	Research Fellow Agilent Technologies	Nonlinear Analog Behavioral Modeling of Microwave Devices and Circuits
April 15, 2010	Dr. Hongtao Shi	Physics Dept., Sonoma State University	Nanostructures through electro-deposition
April 1, 2010	Prof. Andrea Goldsmith	Stanford University & IEEE Fellow	The next wave in wireless technology: challenges and solutions
March 18, 2010	Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy	EECS Dept., UC Berkeley	Performance Evaluation and Optimization of the Teleimmersion System
March 4, 2010	Dr. Hamid Mahmoodi	EE Dept., San Francisco State University	IC design challenges in nano-scale era: technology and circuits perspective
February 18, 2010	Dr. Ken Wong	Manager Agilent Technologies	From nano to giga, measurement technologies and us
November 19, 2009	Dr. Shally Saraf	ES Dept., Sonoma State University	Recent advances in solid-state laser technology
November 5, 2009	Mr. Matt Birdsall	Cardio Vascular S&T Director of Engineering & Bakken Fellow Medtronic	Trends in Cardiovascular Devices
October 15, 2009	Mr. Jim Sackman	VP of Access Development Strategy Tellabs	Deep packet inspection, net neutrality and you
October 1, 2009	Mr. Mike Powers	Engineering Scientist Agilent Technologies	MEMS In The 21st Century
September 17, 2009	Prof. Venkat Anantharam	EECS Dept., UC Berkeley	Breaking the Error Floor of LDPC codes
September 3, 2009	Dr. Joel Dunsmore	R&D Fellow Agilent Technologies	Modern methods for testing RF components