Stanford Report, May 7, 2008

Ph.D. Orals

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

FRIDAY, MAY 9

Jason Hu, electrical engineering, "Low-Power Dynamic Amplifiers for Pipelined A/O Conversion," 1 p.m., CIS-X Building, Room 101.

Won Chae Kim, electrical engineering, "Adaptive Transceiver Design and Performance Analysis for OFDM Systems," 2:40 p.m., Packard Building, Room 202.

MONDAY, MAY 12

Erol Akcay, biology, "Of Rhizobia, Birds and Everything Else: The Functioning and Evolution of Biological Cooperation," 10 a.m., Clark Auditorium.

Gael Close, electrical engineering, "On-Chip Demonstration of Carbon Nanotube Interconnects," 10 a.m., Packard Building, Room 101.

TUESDAY, MAY 13

Serena Wong, electrical engineering, "Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers for MR-Guided Therapeutic Ultrasound," 9 a.m., Packard Building, Room 101.

Ryan Said, electrical engineering, "Geo-Locating Individual Lightning Strikes Using Impulsive VLF Waveforms," 12:30 p.m., Packard Building, Room 101.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 14

Charles Wang, electrical engineering, "High Fidelity Analog-to-Digital Conversion for Spaceborne Applications," 9 a.m., Packard Building, Room 101.

Mike Ruvolo, biology, "The Role and Regulation of a Developmental Checkpoint in Bacillus subtilis," 2 p.m., Clark Auditorium.

THURSDAY, MAY 15

Hyunsik Park, electrical engineering, "High-Precision Low-Voltage Low-Power Analog-to-Digital Conversion," 3 p.m., Packard Building, Room 202.

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