Stanford Report, May 31, 2006

Ph.D. Orals

ph.d. orals

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

THURSDAY, JUNE 1

Arun Kumar Sridharan, electrical engineering, "Yb:YAG Slab Laser Amplifiers and Optical Parametric Amplifiers for Global Wind Velocity Measurements," 10 a.m., CIS-X Building, auditorium.

FRIDAY, JUNE 2

Pamela Ellis, education, "So What That Black and Brown Kids Work Less Than White Kids?" 1 p.m., Cubberley, Room 114.

MONDAY, JUNE 5

Mary Brinig, microbiology and immunology, "Evolution and Genomics of the Classical Bordella Respiratory Pathogens," noon, Munzer Auditorium.

Alessandro Magnani, electrical engineering, "Primal-Dual Cutting Plane Method for Distributed Design," 1 p.m., Packard Building, Room 202.

Navid Hassanpour, electrical engineering, "Relay Without Delay," 3 p.m., Packard Building, Room 101.

Hannah Howell Scherer, geological and environmental sciences, "Field, Geochronologic and Geochemical Constraints on the Early Mesozoic Paleogeographic and Tectonic Evolution of the Klamath Mountains, California," 3:15 p.m., Building 320, Room 105.

TUESDAY, JUNE 6

Bob Lantz, electrical engineering, "Parallel Simos: Scalability and Performance for Large System Simulation," 9 a.m., Packard Building, Room 202.

David Rebollo-Monedero, electrical engineering, "Quantization and Transforms for Distributed Source Coding," 12:45 p.m., Packard Building, Room 101.

Qihua Ran, geological and environmental sciences, "Regional Scale Landscape Evolution: Physics-Based Simulation of Hydrologically-Driven Surface Erosion," 2 p.m., Building 320, Room 109.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7

Amanda Booth, geological and environmental sciences, "Influence of River Erosion on the Metamorphic Architecture of the Eastern Himalayan Syntaxis: A Petrologic and Geochronologic Study," 10 a.m., Building 320, Room 109.