Stanford Report, February 27, 2008

Ph.D. Orals

The deadline for submitting Ph.D. orals is 5 p.m. Wednesday for the following issue.

THURSDAY, FEB. 28

Andrew V. Kearney, materials science and engineering, "Fracture and Fatigue of Ultrathin Nanoporous Polymer Films," 2 p.m., CIS-X Auditorium.

TUESDAY, MAR. 4

Ricardo J. Zednik, materials science and engineering, "Stress Effects in Ferroelectric Perovskite Thin-Films," 9:15 a.m., McCullough Building, Room 335.

Paul H. Park, electrical engineering, "Millimeter-Wave Transmitters Using On-Chip Dipole Antennas and Standing-Wave Oscillators," 1:30 p.m., Packard Building, Room 101.

Jacob C. Chang, electrical engineering, "Early Detection of Design Problems: Formal Verification Along with Design for Transactional Models," 1 p.m., Gates Building, Room 463a.

WEDNESDAY, MAR. 5

Sumanth Jagannathan, electrical engineering, "Interference and Outage Optimization in Multi-User Multi-Carrier Communication Systems," 2:30 p.m., Packard Building, Room 101.

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