Professor Majeed Hayat was elected a Fellow of the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) on Dec. 15, 2012. This honor was given to Dr. Hayat for his "pioneering work in modeling and understanding impact ionization and noise in avalanche-photodiode devices well as seminal contributions to image processing for reducing noise in infrared focal-plane arrays.” Dr. Hayat received his recognition and plaque at the Photonics West Fellows Luncheon (Monday 23 January 2012 in San Francisco, CA).
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Congrats to the department Chair Prof. Luke Lester on winning the 2012 Harold E. Edgerton award. This Award is presented annually by SPIE for outstanding contributions to optical or photonic techniques in the application and understanding of high speed physical phenomena.
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The team lead by Prof. Olga Lavrova from the ECE department has been selected as one of the participants in the 2013 DOE solar Decathlon. The announcement was made by Energy Secretary Steven Chu at a student town hall meeting held at UNM. The team from UNM and the Arizona State University is one of twenty teams to be selected for this prestigious event. see the blog at DOE for additional information.
http://www.solardecathlon.gov/blog/archives/tag/solar-decathlon-2013
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Prof. Yasamin Mostofi, the recent PECASE recipient, was featured on KNME's new
show "Connect". More on this story on the SOE website. This is the premier of the show which is about UNM faculty.
http://www.soe.unm.edu/latest/jan-june12/unm-soe-faculty-profiled-on-knme-this-week.html
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CST University Publication Award is an annual grant to university
institutes and researchers for their work in the application of 3D
EM field simulation. This year the award was made to Prashanth Kumar,
a graduate student at ECE advised by Prof. Christodoulou and the late
Prof. Baum. The basis of the award was a publication by Mr. Kumar which
was selected by CST as an outstanding publication. Details of the paper
and the CST University Publication Award can be found at
http://www.cst.com/Content/Company/UniAward2011.aspx
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President Schmidly, the President of UNM, recognized Professor Yasamin Mostofi
of ECE for her research accomplishments in the Board of Regents meeting on Dec. 13, 2011.
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