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ECE Seminar* Speaker: Dr. Christian Schlegel, Professor, Dalhousie University, Halifax NS
- Location: Science & Engineering Building, Lester W. Cory Conference Room: Room 213A
- Cost: free
- Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
- Description: Topic: Iterative Information Processing: Advances towards Optimal Data Communications
Location: Lester W. Cory Conference Room, Science & Engineering Building (Group II), Room 213A
Abstract:
With the rapid increase of data rates, communications channels have become ever more complex, be that through multipath effect in high-rate radio and acoustic channels, interference contamination in dense wireless networks, or intersymbol interference in using large bandwidths on bandlimited channels. For all of these scenarios we discuss emerging iterative demodulation and decoding algorithms, which can perform exceedingly well at complexity levels that allow their implementation with modern VLSI and FPGA devices. We will address the fundamental computational complexity of detection of digital data, and show that certain iterative algorithm can probably reach the theoretical capacity of the channel. We then discuss avenues to make these algorithms practical and point out application challenges that will still have to be overcome.
Biography:
Received the Dipl. El. Ing. ETH degree from the Federal Institute of Technology, Zarich, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN. He currently holds an NSERC Industrial Research Chair at Dalhousie University. From 2002-2012, Dr. Schlegel was iCORE Chair for Digital Communications at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. Prior to that, he held academic appointments at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (visiting), the University of South Australia in Adelaide, Australia, the University of Texas at San Antonio, and from 1996-2002 at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City. From 2004-2008 he was CTO of Aquantia Corporation, Milpitas, CA, a start-up company building 10Gbit/s Ethernet transceivers. Professor Schlegel is the author of "Trellis Coding'' (1997, IEEE Press), "Trellis and Turbo Coding,'' (2004 Wiley/IEEE), and "Coordinated Multiple User Communications,'' (2006 Springer). Dr. Schlegel received a US National Science Foundation Career Award in 1997, a Canada Research Chair in 2001, and a Province of Alberta iCORE Chair in 2001 and 2006. He was named IEEE Distinguished Lecturer in 2007 and 2011, and is an IEEE Fellow.
Dr. Schlegel was associate editor for coding theory and techniques for the IEEE Transactions on Communications from 1999-2007, guest editor for the Proceedings of the IEEE, and currently serves on the editorial board of Editorial Board of the Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Hindawi Publishing. He is also lead editor for the journal's special issue on iterative processing. Dr. Schlegel served as technical program chair of the IEEE Information Theory Workshop 2001, the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT'05) 2005, and as general chair of the 2005 IEEE Communication Theory Workshop (CTW'05), and the 2013 IEEE Conference on Wireless On-Demand Network Systems and Services (WONS'13).
Dr. Schlegel has published over 60 technical journal papers and received research grants for over 1 Million US$ from the National Science Foundation, the Army Research Office, the State of Utah, and private industry, notably L3 Communications in Salt Lake City, Utah, and more than 10 Million Can$ from iCORE, NSERC, the Canadian Foundation for Infrastructure (CFI), ASRA, the Canada Research Chair (CRC) program, and national and international industry. His work with industry has resulted in eight patents in the area of spread spectrum communication, error control coding, and digital and analog implementations.
The Seminars is open to the public free of charge.
*For further information, please contact Dr. Paul J. Gendron at 508.999.8510, or via email at pgendron@umassd.edu.
- Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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CIE to host Mass Clean Energy (MASSCEC) Program
- Location: CIE: Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship
, 151 Martine Street, Fall River, MA
- Cost: Free
- Contact: CIE: Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship
- Description: Join us for a lunchtime discussion about programs to help you build and grow your clean energy company. Officials from the MassCEC will be providing an overview of their programs and services and will be available to meet directly with companies. The MassCEC is a sponsor of the CIE and, with the recent growth in the number of clean tech companies residing in our Tech Venture Center (TVC), we are pleased to be able to host this program.
The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) is a publicly-funded agency dedicated to accelerating the success of clean energy technologies, companies and projects in the Commonwealth-while creating high-quality jobs and long-term economic growth for the people of Massachusetts. Since it began operating in 2009, MassCEC has helped clean energy companies grow, supported municipal clean energy projects and invested in residential and commercial renewable energy installations, creating a robust marketplace for innovative clean technology companies and service providers.
This is a free program, but reservations are required as lunch will be provided. For questions, contact Toby Stapleton, Director of the CIE. To register, click the "Register Here" box below to send an email to rwatkins@umassd.edu.
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, CIE: Center for Innovation & Entrepeneurship, Students, Students, Law
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