All seminars will start at 1:10 p.m. in 3043 ECpE Addition. A reception will follow the seminar in Sproul Center, 2202 Coover Hall
![Steven McLaughlin](https://www.ece.iastate.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/11/files/2013/09/Mclaughlin-mug-web.jpg)
Date: October 4
Title: “Communications Perspectives in Data Storage and Security”
Speaker: Steven W. McLaughlin, Professor and Steve W. Chaddick School Chair, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Tech
![David Lilja](https://www.ece.iastate.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/11/files/2011/09/eab-david-lilja.jpg)
Date: October 18
Title: “When Close is Good Enough: Exploiting Randomness for Highly Reliable Approximate Computing”
Speaker: David J. Lilja, Professor and Head, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota
![Anthony A Maciejewski](https://www.ece.iastate.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/11/files/2013/09/Maciejewski-web.jpg)
Date: January 31
Title: “Using Kinematic Redundancy to Design Fault Tolerant Robotic Systems”
Speaker: Anthony A. Maciejewski, Professor and Head, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Colorado State University
![Evelyn Hu](https://www.ece.iastate.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/11/files/2013/09/11-hu-236x300.jpg)
Date: February 14 – Canceled
Title: “Hybrid optical cavities: controlling light at the scale of a wavelength and below”
Speaker: Evelyn Hu, Tarr-Coyne Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering , Harvard University
![Jerry Hudgins](https://www.ece.iastate.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/11/files/2013/09/Jerry-Hudgins-web.jpg)
Date: March 7
Title: “Current and Future Power Semiconductor Devices”
Speaker: Jerry L. Hudgins, Professor and Chair, Electrical Engineering Department, University of Nebraska
![Keren Bergman](https://www.ece.iastate.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/11/files/2013/09/Bergman_croppedweb.jpg)
Date: March 28
Title: “Scalable computing systems with optically enabled data movement”
Speaker: Keren Bergman, Charles Batchelor Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University