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
April 23, 2009	Prof. Alexandra Von Meier	Environmental Studies & Planning Dept., SSU	Energy Technology and the Carbon Imperative: The Case for an Audacious New Vision
April 2, 2009	Dr. Don Estreich	RoHS Coordinator, Advanced Development, Technology and Services Agilent Technologies	Restriction on Hazardous Substance (ROHS)
March 19, 2009	Dr. Patrick Pfeffer	Director of Strategy and Planning Juniper Networks	Telecom 2020
March 5, 2009	Mr. Mike Resso	Product Manager, Signal Integrity Applications, Component Test Division Agilent Technologies	Signal Integrity Challenges and the Engineering Tools that Solve These Problems
February 19, 2009	Dr. Bala Ravikumar	Professor CS, SSU	Pen-based Computing at SSU
February 5, 2009	Dr. Mudhafar Hassan-Ali	System Architect Zhone Technologies	Municipal wireless mesh as a broadband platform
November 20, 2008	Dr. Hashem Akbari	Group Leader and Senior Scientist Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Cool Technologies to Save Energy, Improve Air Quality and Counter Global Warming
November 6, 2008	Prof. Tokunbo Ogunfunmi	EE, Santa Clara University	An Overview of the Principles of Speech Coding
October 16, 2008	Prof. Ali Kooshesh	CS, SSU	Ad-hoc Wireless Sensor Networks
October 2, 2008	Dr. Mario Righi	R&D Project Manager Agilent Technologies	Challenges of Hardware Design at Microwave Frequencies
September 18, 2008	Mr. Ed Boyd	Chief Technology Officer Teknovus	Ethernet PON and Fiber Access
September 4, 2008	Dr. Salam Marougi	Expert Engineer Agilent Technologies	Test and Measurement Challenges in the Digital Communications Era
April 17, 2008	Prof. Manu Malek	IEEE Fellow & Distinguished Lecturer Stevens Institute of Technology	An overview of IT Security Forensics
April 3, 2008	Dr. Mo Dehgani	Div. Leader of New Technologies Engineering Division Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Xtreme science and engineering-a national level research and technology overview
March 20, 2008	Mr. Jim Sackman	VP and CTO Tellabs	Optical Access Deployments, Trends and Future Considerations
March 6, 2008	Prof. Robert Bowman	Rochester Institute of Technology, NY	Thin is Beautiful: Thin Film Transistor Technology and Circuits for Driving OLED Displays
February 21, 2008	Prof. Jerry Gibson	UC Santa Barbara	Voice and Video Over Wireless Networks
February 7, 2008	Dr. Thomas Wu	Genentech	Bioinformatics in the Drug Development Process
November 15, 2007	Professor Zhi Ding	UC Davis	Error Reduction Techniques in MIMO Wireless Communications
October 18, 2007	Dr. Will Grossman	JDS Uniphase	Lasers: Magic, Wavelengths and Pulsewidths