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This page provides a listing of seminars and workshops offered by The Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems. These seminars are intended to give CenSSIS members an opportunity to hear presentations on cross-disiplinary topics and new imaging technologies.

Downloadable files of seminars are provided when available.

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date given title   presenter
  10/24/06

"BioBED Research at Northeastern University’s Optical Science Lab"

Also, take a look at the Keck 3DFM Website at http://www.keck3dfm.neu.edu for additional information and sample images taken using this microscope.

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Charles DiMarzio, Ph. D.
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Northeastern University

Gary Laevsky, Ph.D.
Keck Facility Manager,
CenSSIS,
Northeastern University

Various Graduate Students

 
         
  8/3/05

"Novel Semiconductors: Using Atoms as Building Blocks”

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Katherine S. Ziemer, Ph.D.
Professor,
Chemical Engineering,
Northeastern University

  
         
  7/27/05

"Optical Imaging in Medicine and Biology"

 

"Investigation of the Neural Control of Locomotor Behaviors: Why Zebrafish?"

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Charles DiMarzio, Ph. D.
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Northeastern University

Donald O'Malley, Ph. D.
Biology Department,
Northeastern University

  
         
  7/20/2005

"Presentation Design ”

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Terry Beadle,
Academic Technology Services,
Northeastern University

  
         
  7/13/05

"Historical Failures, Lessons Learned and Design Improvements"

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Hamid N. Hashemi , Ph.D.
MIME,
Northeastern University		  
         
  3/30/2005

"Use of Linear and Nonlinear Priors in Diffuse Optical Tomography"”

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Gregory Boverman,
Ph.D Candidate,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Northeastern University

  
         
  2/23/2005

"Dielectric Properties of Breast Tissue for Imaging”

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Brent Poliquin,
Undergraduate,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Northeastern University

  
         
  2/16/2005

"NU CenSSIS Student Seminar - How to Develop, Write and Submit a Strong Proposal "

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Dr. Horst Wittmann,
Research Development Office, Division of Research Development,
Northeastern University
  
         
  1/19/2005

"Keck 3DFM: Multi-Modal Microscope"

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Gary Laevsky, Ph.D.,
Keck Facility Manager,
CenSSIS,
Northeastern University
  
         
  12/9/2004

"Ferroelectric and Photorefractive Materials for Imaging and Sensing"

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Prof. Nickolai Kukhtarev,
Research Professor,
Physics Department,
Alabama A&M University
  
         
  10/13/2004

"Computational Imaging"

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Prof. Berthold Horn,
Professor,
Massachusetts Institue of Technology (MIT)
C.V. of Berthold Horn
  
         
  9/30/2004

"Extracting Information on Water Properties, Bathymetry, and Habitat Composition from Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Coral Reefs”

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James Goodman,
Laboratory for Applied Remote Sensing and Imaging Processing,
University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez

  
         
  9/9/2004

"Meeting the Need for Actionable Information in the Subsurface Process Through the Automatic Autonomous Monitoring System"

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Roelof Versteeg,
Senior Scientist
Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL)
  
         
  5/14-28/2004

75th Acoustical Society of America
Annual Conference

'Automatic Error Correction in Quantitative Elasticity Imaging'
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'Cavitation Detection During and Following HIFU Exposure in vitro'
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'Combination of B-mode Imaging and Acousto-Photonic
Sensing Using a Commercial Ultrasound Scanner'
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'Enhanced Detection of Acousto-photonic Imaging Signals Using a Photorefractive Crystal Based System' Download: Presentation [.PDF]

'In vitro measurements of acoustic properties
using a high frequency scanning acoustic
microscope'
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 'The Physical Acoustics of HIFU Exposure: A Suite of
In Vitro Studies'
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'Signal-to-Noise Ratio and Attenuation of Optison® Microbubbles in Blood as a Function of Imaging Frequency'
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'Ultrasound Parametric Imaging of Coral'
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 Various CenSSIS Members
were selected to present at this year's conference.
  
         
  5/13/2004

"Image-Guided Interventions"

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 Badri Roysam, Ph. D.
Professor,
Department of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Associate Director,
CenSSIS
  
         
  4/14/2004

"Imaging Neurons and Neural Circuitry in Larval Zebrafish"

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Donald O'Malley, Ph. D.
Biology Department,
Northeastern University		  
         
  4/7/2004

"Mouse Embryos - Development and Non-Invasive Methods to Determine Viability"

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Carol Warner, Ph.D.
Matthews Distinguished Professor,
Biology Department,
Northeastern University		  
         
  3/24/2004

The Center for Inverse Problems at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (IPRPI) Workshop on Inverse Problems in Solid Mechanics

“An Elastic Inverse Problem in Medical Imaging and Medical Image Registration: Mathematical Formulation and Efficient Computational Solution”

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Paul Barbone, Ph.D.
Associate Professor,
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Boston University

  
         
  3/24/2004

“Gentle Genetics - An Overview of Cellular and Molecular Biology Terminology and Concepts”

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Carol Warner, Ph.D.
Matthews Distinguished Professor,
Biology Department,
Northeastern University

  
         
  3/24/2004

“New Imaging Methods in Diffraction Tomography Based on Shape and Topology Optimization”

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Gonzalo Feijoo, Ph.D.
Sandia National Laboratories,
Livermore, CA

 
         
  3/16/2004

“Time-Reversed Electromagnetics: Generalized Source-Inversion and Imaging”

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Edwin Marengo
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Northeastern University

 
         
  2/23/2004

“In Vivo Proteomics and Genomics in Small Animals Using Fluorescence Molecular Tomography (FMT)”

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Dr. Vasilis Ntziachristos
Massachusetts General Hospital

 
         
  2/18/2004

“Spring Seminar Series: Spectral Self Interference Fluorescence Microscopy”

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Dr. Anna Swan
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Boston University

 
         
2/10 -11/2004

“UPRM Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing”

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Various Speakers

2/9/2004e

“Stem Cells to Gametes: The Cycle of Life”

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 Dr. Ann Kiessling
Harvard Medical School
2/6/2004

“Diverse Image Processing
Challenges in Radiation Oncology”

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George T.Y. Chen, Ph.D.
Director,
Radiation Physics,
Radiation Oncology,
Massachusetts General Hospital

Edward Brown, Ph.D.
Department of
Radiation Oncology
Steele Laboratory
           
  2/6/2004e

“Model-Based Multi-Object Segmentation
via Distribution Matching”

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 Richard Radke, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor,
Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute		  
  2003 -        
  date given title   presenter  
  11/24/2003e

Fall Seminar Series: "Confocal Microscopy fro Imaging Skin and Oral Cancers: Principles, Technology Development & Clinical Applications"

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 Milind Rajadhyaksha, Ph.D.
Researcher,
CenSSIS
Northeastern University		  
           
 
11/18 - 19/2003
 “Research and Industrial Collaboration Conference"

 View RICC Presentations - PDF's and 		Various Speakers  
           
 
11/17/2003
 Fall Seminar Series: "Diffuse Optical Tomography for Imaging Breast Cancer and Brain Function"

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 View: ABSTRACT		 Dr. David A Boas
Department of Radiology,
Massachusetts General Hospital,
Harvard Medical School		  
           
 
10/22/2003
 Fall Seminar Series: "Optical Biopsy: Noninvasive Detection of Cancer with Optical Spectroscopy"

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 View: ABSTRACT
 Download: PRESENTATION		 Prof. Irving J Bigio
Electrical Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering
Boston University		  
           
 
10/2/2003
 "On the Computational Complexity of Sensor Array Imaging and Dignal Modeling Using Weyl-Heisenberg Systems"

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Domingo Rodriguez
Professor,
University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez

  
           
 
9/30/2003
 "Modeling, Simulation, and Visualization at the SCI Institute"

 Download: PRESENTATION 		Dr. David Weinstein
Technical Manager and Staff Scientist,
Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute,
University Of Utah		  
           
 
9/26/2003
 "Ultrasonic Characterization of Cortical Bone Using Axial Transmission: Modeling, In Vitro and In Vitro Experiments"

 Download: PRESENTATION 		Emmanuel Bossy
Post Doctorate,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Boston University		  
           
 
6/9/2003
 "Coded Signals In Acoustical Applications"

 Download: PRESENTATION 		Ning Xiang
Electrical Engineering,
University of Mississippi
and
National Center for Physical Acoustics 		 
           
 
3/5/2003
 "Detection Algorithms for Hyperspectral Imaging Applications: Theory and Practice"

 Download: PRESENTATION		 Dimitris Manolakis
Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology		  
           
 
2/28/2003
 "CenSSIS Seminar For Students"

 Download: PRESENTATION		 Patrick Edson
Software Engineer,
The MathWorks		  
           
 
2/7/2003
 "Faster Than Light: Propagation of Laser Pulses"

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Dr. Phillip Sprangle
Chief Scientist and Head of the Beam Physics Branch,
Naval Research Laboratory

  
  2002 -        
  date given title   presenter  
 
12/10 - 11/2002

“Research and Industrial Collaboration Conference"

 View RICC Website
 Contact censsis-info@censsis.neu.edu for presentations.

 Various Speakers  
           
 
11/22/2002
 Computational Methods to Model Wave Phenomena: "General Overview, Finite Differences, and Visualization, Sessions II"

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Carey Rappaport, Ph.D.
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Northeastern University

  
           
 
11/1/2002
 Computational Methods to Model Wave Phenomena: "General Overview, Finite Differences, and Visualization, Sessions I"

 Download: PRESENTATION [.PPT]		 Carey Rappaport, Ph.D.
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Northeastern University		  
           
 
5/1/2002
 "Digital Image Processing"

 View Website and Images		 Lester Gerhardt
Associate Dean,
School of Engineering,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute		  
           
 
4/17/2002
 "Optical Image Processing"

 View Website and Images		 Lester Gerhardt
Associate Dean,
School of Engineering,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute		  
  2001 -        
  date given title   presenter  
 
4/20/2001
 "Soil-contaminant physicochemical interactions and characterization"

 View Abstract		 Akram Alshawabkeh
Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Northeastern University		  
           
 
4/6/2001
 "Time Reversal Accoustic Mirrors for Imaging Fluid Flow"

 View Abstract		 Sebastian Maneville
Boston University		  
           
 
3/30/2001
 "Superresolution of Buried Objects in Layered Media by Near-Field Electromagnetic Imaging"

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 Download Presentation [.PDF] 		Sean Lehman
Engineer,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory		  
           
 
3/16/2001
 "Laser Acoustic Sensor and Imaging"

 View Abstract		 Stephen McKnight
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Northeastern University		  
           
 
3/9/2001
 "Applications of the Casualty Contdition to Acoustic Sensing in Noisy Environments"

 View Abstract		 Gregory J. McDaniel
Professor,
Department,
Organization		  
           
 
3/2/2001
 "Hyperspectral Image Processing in Hardware"

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 Download Presentation [.PDF] 		Miriam Leeser
Professor,
Department of Biology,
Northeastern University		  
           
 
2/9/2001
 "Confocal Imaging "

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 Download Presentation [.PDF] 		Sean Lehman
Engineer,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory		  
           
 
1/26/2001
 "Statistical Recognition of Partially Occluded Objects"

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 Download Presentation [.PDF] 		David Castañon
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Boston University		  
           
 
1/12/2001
 "Three-Dimensional Imaging with a Quadrature Tomographic Microscope"

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 Download Presentation [.PDF] 		Jonathan Stott, Ph. D.
Northeastern University		  
This work is supported in part by CenSSIS, the Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems, under the Engineering Research Centers Program of the National Science Foundation (Award # EEC-9986821).