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April 4-6, 2006 - Six Year Site Visit
Northeastern University, Boston, MA
The Year Six Site Visit is an opportunity for the National Science
Foundation to review the progress of the Center. The Year Six Site Visit
will feature presentations from researchers, students, and center officials.
Week of February 10th, 2006 - Red Team Meeting
Northeastern University, Boston, MA
A closed, full day event when CenSSIS affiliated attendees
critically review the proposed content and presentations for the National
Science Foundation's Year Six Site Visit (April 4-6, 2006).
December 9, 2005 - Scientific Advisory Board Meeting
November 16-18, 2005 - NSF Annual National ERC Meeting
Washington D.C.
October
6-7, 2005 - Research and Industrial Collaboration Conference (RICC)
Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts
The Center for Subsurface
Sensing and Imaging Systems’ (CenSSIS) annual symposium.This year's
conference focused on two very valuable topics - Research and Development
Contract Procurement through Center-Industry Teaming and Biomedical
Imaging Research and Technology.
April
7-8, 2005 - Year Five Site Visit
Northeastern University, Boston, MA
The Year Five Site Visit is an opportunity
for the National Science Foundation to review the progress of the Center.
The Year Five Site Visit featured presentations from researchers, students,
and center officials which are now available
online.
March
11, 2005 - Communications and Digital Signal Processing (CDSP) Center
Research Workshop 8:30AM - 3:30PM
Curry
Student Center Ballroom, Northeastern University
The Sixteenth Annual CDSP Workshop featured presentations by CDSP
and CenSSIS related research groups who discussed their latest research
achievments and technology developments. Please check http://www.cdsp.neu.edu/
for program information or contact Joan Pratt at 617-373-2368 or jpratt@ece.neu.edu.
February,
Every Wednesday at 12:00PM - Brown Bag Lunch Meetings
302 Stearns Building, Northeastern University
Brownbag lunch series open to CenSSIS Faculty, Researchers and Students
to discuss their research activities and interests.
February
2, 2005
CenSSIS Senior Consultant for Corporate Partnerships, Dr. Phil Cheney.
Febraury
9, 2005
CenSSIS Scholar Mentor and Senior Electrical Engineering Student,
Brent Poliquin presents "Dielectric Properties of Breast Tissue
for Imaging."
February
23, 2005
CenSSIS Researcher and ECE Professor Eric Miller
- Week of February 14th, 2005 - Red Team Meeting
- Northeastern University, Boston, MA
- A closed, full day event when CenSSIS affiliated attendees
critically review the proposed content and presentations for the National
Science Foundation's Year Five Site Visit (April 7-8, 2005).
February
16, 2005 at 12:00PM - CenSSIS Student Seminar
"How to Develop, Write and Submit a Strong Proposal"
431 Stearns Building, Northeastern University
Dr. Horst Wittman hosted this event. Dr. Wittmann has extensive experience
in submitting funding proposals to governmental agencies and provided
advice and insight on how to approach the proposal process.
December
9, 2004 at 12:00pm - CenSSIS Seminar at BU
"Ferroelectric and Photorefractive Materials for Imaging and Sensing"
Prof. Nickolai Kukhtarev will present a seminar entitled, "Ferroelectric
and Photorefractive Materials for Imaging and Sensing" on Thursday,
December 9, 2004 at 12:00pm at Boston University, 110 Cummington Street,
Room 245 (the AME Seminar Room). We plan to record this presentation
via WebEx to make it available to CenSSIS Personnel who can not attend.
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- November 2004, National Science Foundation, Engineering
Research Center Annual Meeting
Washington D.C.
October 13th, at 11:00am (ET), CenSSIS Seminar -
"Computational Imaging"
Various Locations
Dr. Berthold K.P. Horn of Massachusetts Institute of Technology presented
at Northeastern University and was broadcast live to the CenSSIS community
via WebEx online broadcasting.
View an abstract
of the presentation and a copy of Dr. Horn's CV.
October 12, 2004, at 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM, Field Trip
to The Wellman Center for Photomedicine
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston,
Massachusetts
Doctors discussed their research activities, which span fundamental
research, translational studies, development of novel theraputics, and
diagnostics, all based on the interaction of light with biomolecules
and tissue.
October 7-8, 2004, Research and Industrial Collaboration
Conference (RICC)
Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts
The Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems’ (CenSSIS)
annual symposium. The RICC took place October 7-8 at Northeastern University
in Boston, MA. For more about this exciting event, please visit http://www.censsis.neu.edu/RICC/2004
- June 21-24, 2004, International
Multiconference in Computer Science and Computer Engineering
- Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada
- The conference is is composed of 18 conferences which
are the premier events for presentation of advances in their respective
subjects. Draft Papers are due February 16, 2004 and proposals for technical
presentations should be submitted as soon as possible. For additional
information, go to: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org.
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- April 23, 2004, CDSP & CenSSIS Collaboration
Workshop
- Curry Student Center Ballroom 8:30 am - 3:00 pm
Northeastern University, Boston, MA
- The Fifteenth Annual CDSP Center Research Workshop
to be held in collaboration with The Center for Subsurface Sensing and
Imaging Systems will take place on Friday, April 23, 2004. The Workshop
program features presentations by the CDSP related research groups from
Northeastern University who will discuss their latest research achievements
and technology developments. For more information, please visit: http://www.cdsp.neu.edu/workshop/announcing.html
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- March 31 - April 2, 2004, Year Four National Science
Foundation Site Visit
Boston University & Northeastern University,
Boston, MA
The Year Four Site Visit is an opportunity for the NSF to review
the progress of the Center. This Year's Site Visit is a two-day event,
in which there are presentations from researchers, students, and center
officials. Boston University and Northeastern University will be hosting
this year's event.
- March, 2004, Red Team Meeting
- Northeastern University, Boston, MA
- A closed, full day event when CenSSIS affiliated attendees
critically reviewed the proposed content and presentations for the National
Science Foundation's Year Four Site Visit (April 1-2, 2004). Please
contact Phillip Cheney for more information at 617-373-5110, or via
e-mail at pcheney@censsis.neu.edu.
- February 23, 2004, NU Biology Department Seminar:
"In Vivo Proteomics and Genomics in Small Animals Using Fluorescence
Molecular Tomography (FMT)"
- 90 Snell Library; noon(Refreshments at 11:45)
- Northeastern University, Boston, MA
Presented by Dr. Vasilis Ntziachristos of Massachusetts General
Hospital.
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February 10-11, 2004, UPRM Workshop on Parallel
and Distributed Computing
University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, Mayagüez,
Puerto Rico
The purpose of this workshop is to provide an open
forum for researchers to present, discuss, and exchange research-related
ideas, results, and experiences in the area of parallel and distributed
computing. For more information, go to http://ece.uprm.edu/~wrivera/PDCWorkshop.
February 9, 2004, NU Biology Department Seminar:
"Stem Cells to Gametes: The Cycle of Life"
90 Snell Library; noon(Refreshments at
11:45)
Northeastern University, Boston, MA
Presented by Dr. Ann Kiessling of Harvard Medical School.
November 24, 2003, CenSSIS Fall Seminar Series, Part
III:
"Confocal Microscopy for Imaging
Skin and Oral Cancers: Principles, Technology Development & Clinical
Applications"
Northeastern University, Boston, MA
This seminar was the third of a Three
Part Seminar Series held this fall at Northeastern University.
Presented by Dr. Milind Rajadhyaksha from Northeastern University and
the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
November 18-19, 2003, Research and Industrial Collaboration
Conference
Northeastern University, Boston, MA
Details
about conference: The conference provided a rare opportunity
to meet with leading academic researchers and students from Academic
Partner and Strategic Affiliate Institutions of our multi-university,
multi-disciplinary Engineering Research Center, providing a time to
interact with key practitioners from industry and government.
November 17, 2003, CenSSIS Fall Seminar Series, Part
II:
"Diffuse Optical Tomography for Imaging Breast Cancer and Brain
Function"
Northeastern University, Boston, MA
The second installment of a Three
Part Seminar Series held this fall at Northeastern University.
Presented by Dr. David A Boas from the Dept. of Radiology at Massachusetts
General Hospital and Boston University.
November 7, 2003, WHOI Featured in Science Channel
Program
Science Channel
WHOI's autonomous and remotely operated vehicles were featured in a
new one-hour episode of the Science Channel's "Science of the Deep"
series that specializes on the ocean. "Robots of the Deep"
premiered nationwide on Nov. 7, 2003. The program featured the WHOI's
ABE, APOGEE, glider, REMUS, SeaBED, and JASON submarines as well as
many of the people who design, build, and operate them for scientific
research. For more information, visit: http://www.whoi.edu/media/RobotsoftheDeep.html
November 1-3, 2003, NSF Engineering Research Centers
Annual Meeting
Washington, D.C.
October 22 , 2003, CenSSIS Fall Seminar Series, Part
I:"Optical Biopsy: Noninvasive
Detection of Cancer with Optical
Spectroscopy"
Northeastern University, Boston, MA
The first installment of a Three
Part Seminar Series held this fall at Northeastern University.
Presented by Prof. Irving J. Bigio from the Dept. of Electrical Computer
and Biomedical Engineering at Boston University.
September 18, 2003, CenSSIS Student and Partners
Planning Day
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA
September 18-21, 2003, CenSSIS Strategic Planning
Retreat
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods
Hole, MA
May 9, 2003 - The 14th Annual Communications and
Digital Signal Processing (CDSP) Center Workshop
Northeastern University, Boston, MA
CenSSIS, in collaboration with CDSP, presented
a full-day workshop featuring presentations on advancements in DSP and
imaging technologies delivered by teams comprised of faculty, industry
researchers, and students.
April 8-10, 2003 - Year Three Renewal Site Visit
Northeastern University, Boston, MA
The Year Three Renewal Site Visit was an opportunity for the NSF
to review the progress of the Center, and to decide whether or not to
continue funding. The Year Three Renewal Site Visit featured presentations
from researchers, students, and center officials.
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March 18, 2003 - Red Team Meeting
Northeastern University, Boston, MA
A closed full day event when CenSSIS affiliated
attendees critically reviewed the proposed content and presentations
for the National Science Foundation's Year 3 Site Visit.
March 5, 2003 - Detection Algorithms for Hyperspectral
Imaging Applications: Theory and Practice
Northeastern University, Boston, MA
Presented by Dimitris Manolakis of Lincoln
Laboratory,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract: Hyperspectral imaging remote sensing
systems are emerging as a natural follow-on to traditional multispectral
land imaging sensors. The contiguous spectral coverage with typically
200 discrete channels enables many applications including detailed land
use mapping and the detection of spatially unresolved objects. NASA's
recently launched Earth Observer-1 satellite carries the Hyperion hyperspectral
imager and has been used to demonstrate many such applications. Many
traditional signal processing approaches are being applied to hyperspectral
data with varying degrees of success. This presentation will provide
an overview of the most useful practical algorithms for detection applications
for both cases of known and unknown (anomalous) spectral signatures.
First, we provide an overview of adaptive matched filter and anomaly
detectors, including their key theoretical assumptions, design parameters,
and computational complexity. The emphasis is on the basic ideas that
underline the operation of the different algorithms and the geometrical
or statistical concepts explaining their performance limitations. Second,
we investigate how effectively the signal models used for the development
of detection algorithms characterize hyperspectral data. The accurate
modeling of the background is crucial in order to select the detection
threshold for constant false alarm rate (CFAR) operation. We demonstrate
that elliptically contoured distributions, which includes the normal
distribution as a special case, provide a flexible class of models for
hyperspectral imaging data. Finally, we compare the different algorithms
with regard to the following two desirable performance properties: capacity
to operate in a CFAR mode and object-background separation enhancement.
The generation of reliable receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves
for the case of limited data size is also investigated, and ROC curves
are used as a basis for performance comparison, where appropriate. Results
regarding the practical performance of the various algorithms using
airborne hyperspectral data sets will be also presented.
Biography: Dimitris G. Manolakis received his
education (B.S. in physics and Ph.D. in electrical engineering) from
the University of Athens, Greece. He is currently a member of the technical
staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, in Lexington, Massachusetts. Previously,
he was a Principal Member, Research Staff, at Riverside Research Institute.
Dr. Manolakis has taught at the University of Athens, Northeastern University,
Boston College, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute; and he is coauthor
of the textbooks Digital Signal Processing: Principles, Algorithms,
and Applications (Prentice-Hall, 1996, 3d ed.) and Statistical and Adaptive
Signal Processing (McGraw-Hill, 2000). His research experience and interests
include the areas of digital signal processing, adaptive filtering,
array processing, pattern recognition, remote sensing, and radar systems.
February 28, 2003, 12pm - CenSSIS Seminar for Students
Boston University, Boston, MA
Patrick Edson, software engineer at The MathWorks,
discussed his past research experience as a graduate student at Boston
University and described how that translated into his current job at
The MathWorks. Mr. Edson also gave an overview of The MathWorks, his
position and engineering group, and how The MathWorks has participated
in CenSSIS. These topics touched on acoustics (medical imaging), test
and measurement applications, software engineering, and the software
development process. Download presentation for viewing: CenSSIS
Seminar [.PDF]
February 21, 2003, 11am-12pm - Aerospace and Mechanical
Engineering Seminar
Boston University, Boston, MA
Monitoring of Hemolysis by Acoustic Scattering,
presented by Constantin Coussios of the Dept. of Aerospace and Mechanical
Engineering.
ABSTRACT: The development of a method that permits
the on-line monitoring of hemolysis (the destruction of red blood cells)
when blood flows through artificial circuits is becoming increasingly
important, as novel techniques in transplantation surgery and organ
preservation aim at increasingly longer periods of extra-corporeal circulation.
Previous investigators demonstrated that ultrasonic scattering from
blood is a function of the hematocrit, the cell size and the degree
of red cell aggregation, and traditionally modeled the red blood cell
as a spherical scatterer of equivalent volume. A new model, which approximates
the shape of the red blood cell as a disc, indicates that particle shape
and orientation also have a significant effect on the scattered field,
particularly at high frequencies. Experimentally, this implies that
ultrasonic scattering can be successfully used not only to obtain on-line
measurements of the hematocrit, but also to assess the degree of hemolysis
and to detect malformed populations of cells.
February 7, 2003 - CenSSIS SEMINAR: "Faster
Than Light: Propagation of Laser Pulses"
Northeastern University, Boston, MA
Dr. Sprangle is Chief Scientist and Head of
the Beam Physics Branch at the Naval Research Laboratory. He received
his Ph.D. in Applied Physics at Cornell University in 1973. His primary
research areas include atmospheric laser propagation, free electron
lasers, nonlinear optics and laser acceleration physics.
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