http://ub2020.buffalo.edu/strategicstrengths/announcements News and Information about UB 2020 Strategic Strengths Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:20:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Esther Sans Takeuchi, Greatbatch Professor of Advanced Power Sources and Integrated Nanostructured Systems (INS) faculty member, has recently been named by President Obama as a recipient of the prestigious National Metal of Technology and Innovation. Prof. Takeuchi will receive the honor at a White House ceremony which recognizes top ... http://ub2020.buffalo.edu/strategicstrengths/announcements/ins/professor-esther-sans-takeuchi-to-receive-highest-honor/ Venu Govindaraju, UB Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and ICT Chair, has recently been selected for two renewal awards under Hewlett-Packard’s Innovation Research Program. The projects, “Multimodal Command-and-Control By Integrating Two-Handed Gestures and Speech” (Co-PI Jason Corso), and “Intelligent Processing of Hand-Annotated Documents” (Co-PI Srirangaraj Setlur), both involve ... http://ub2020.buffalo.edu/strategicstrengths/announcements/ict/professor-govindaraju-receives-two-hewlett-packard-grant-awards/ Assistant Professor of CSE and ICT faculty member, Jason Corso, will receive the NSF CAREER award for computer vision research entitled "CAREER: Generalized Image Understanding with Probabilistic Ontologies and Dynamic Adaptive Graph Hierarchies." Please join us in congratulating Professor Corso in this major accomplishment. http://ub2020.buffalo.edu/strategicstrengths/announcements/ict/professor-jason-corso-to-receive-career-award/ The Information and Computing Technology Strategic Initiative sponsored “ICT Day,” an event dedicated to academic pursuits related to this Strategic Strength. ICT Day featured lectures throughout the day by both UB faculty and several distinguished external speakers in the areas of Enabling Discovery and Smart Environments. A poster session open ... http://ub2020.buffalo.edu/strategicstrengths/announcements/ict/ict-day-may-1-2009/ Cemal Basaran, a Professor in the Department of Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering, and an adjunct Professor in the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, recently had his work on single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) featured by several dozens of international newspapers, magazines, and trade publications, such as The Times ... http://ub2020.buffalo.edu/strategicstrengths/announcements/ins/professor-cemal-basaran-widely-published-for-work-on-single-walled-carbon-nanotubes/ Natalia Litchinitser, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at UB, and Vladimir Shalaev, Robert and Anne Burnett Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, published their commentary on developing low-loss metamaterials in the February issue of Nature Photonics.  In the article, they discuss recent work proposed by Alexander Popov ... http://ub2020.buffalo.edu/strategicstrengths/announcements/ins/assistant-professor-natalia-litchinitser-published-in-february-issue-of-nature-photonics/ Sponsored in part by the UB2020 Strategic Strengths and organized by the Information and Computing Technology (ICT) initiative, the purpose of the 2008 Fall Workshop was to promote and facilitate faculty-led, multi-disciplinary research projects related to information science, human-computer interaction, or computational science. An anticipated outcome of this workshop is to ... http://ub2020.buffalo.edu/strategicstrengths/announcements/ict/ict-hosts-inaugural-workshop-fall-2008/ Jason Corso, Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, was recently awarded a grant from the DARPA Computer Science Study Group Program.  This program aims to fund work in computer science that will revolutionize operations at the DoD rather than make incremental advances.  The first phase of this award will ... http://ub2020.buffalo.edu/strategicstrengths/announcements/ict/grant-awarded-to-assistant-professor-jason-corso-for-work-on-automatic-computer-learning-from-video/ In December 2008, at the invitation of the Russian government and Rusnano, the Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies, two UB professors participated in Rusnanotech '08, a major, international conference about the future of nanotechnology. SUNY Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Paras N. Prasad, Ph.D., gave the invited plenary talk, addressing approximately two ... http://ub2020.buffalo.edu/strategicstrengths/announcements/ins/ub-professors-attend-conference-in-russia-on-the-future-of-nanotechnology/ Several of the course offerings for the Spring 2009 semester may be of interest to graduate students working in areas related to Integrated Nanostructured Systems. Please refer to the following links or contact the appropriate professor(s) for further information: MAE 589: Diffraction, Microscopy and Spectroscopy Techniques (PDF) CHE 510: Materials Chemistry (PDF) CHE ... http://ub2020.buffalo.edu/strategicstrengths/announcements/ins/spring-2009-courses/