Spring 2021 Colloquium Series
Our Research
Antenna and Wireless Communications
The Electrical Engineering Department has an internationally recognized faculty (two IEEE and ACES fellows) in the antennas and wireless communications areas with diverse but closely related interests and expertise in computational electromagnetics, electromagnetic radiation and scattering, antennas and antenna arrays, microwave circuits, radar, remote sensing, electromagnetic measurements and more.
Previous Colloquium Series
Spring 2020
| Friday, Feb. 14 3:00 - 3:50 BB W250 |  | MEMS Devices and Sensors | Dr. Panos Datkos Senior Research Advisor, NREL Golden, CO |
| Friday, Feb. 28 3:00 - 3:50 BB W250 |  | Network‐Aware Electric Load Coordination Architectures and Control Strategies | Dr. Johanna Mathieu Assistant Professor Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Michigan Ann Arbor |
| Friday, Mar. 13 3:00 - 3:50 BB W250 |  | High‐Temperature Thermal Energy Storage as a Means to Increase Renewable Energy Grid Penetration | Dr. Greg Jackson Professor Mechanical Engineering Colorado School of Mines |
| Friday, Apr. 3 3:00 - 3:50 BB W250 |  | Integrating Massive Amounts of Wind and Solar into Electric Power Systems | Dr. Ben Kroposki Director NREL Power Systems Engineering Center |
Fall 2019
| Wednesday, Sep. 11 3:00-4:00 Brown Hall 269 |  | Powering 5G: Ultra Efficient Design of Power Transistors using a Multiphysics Approach | Dr. Peter Aaen Professor and Department Head Electrical Engineering Department Colorado School of Mines |
| Wednesday, Sep. 25 3:00-4:00 Brown Hall 269 |  | Quantum Engineering | Dr. Eliot Kapit Associate Professor Department of Physics Colorado School of Mines |
| Wednesday, Oct. 9 3:00-4:00 Brown Hall 269 |  | Submodular Optimization, Greedy Policies, and Approximate Dynamic Programming | Dr. Ali Pezeshki Associate Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Mathematics Colorado State University Fort Collins |
| Wednesday, Oct. 23 3:00-4:00 Brown Hall 269 |  | The importance of low loss RF transmission, and those effects applied to space based RF sensors | Mr. Joseph (Joe) Torres Chief Engineer Advanced Programs Payload Sensors Lockheed Martin |
| Wednesday, Nov. 6 3:00-4:00 Brown Hall 269 |  | Asset-and-User-Aware Power Grid Dispatch during Extreme Temperatures | Dr. Salman Mohagheghi Associate Professor Electrical Engineering Department Colorado School of Mines |
| Wednesday, Nov. 20 3:00-4:00 Brown Hall 269 |  | System Design of Wireless Charging for Automated Vehicles | Dr. Ahmed A S Mohamed Research Engineer at the Transportation & Hydrogen Systems Center, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) |
Spring 2019
| Tuesday, Feb 12 3:30-4:30 Brown Hall W210 | Magnetic Manipulation for Medical Applications |  | Andrew Petruska, PhD. Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering Colorado School of Mines |
| Tuesday, Mar 5 3:30-4:30 Brown Hall W210 | Application of Real-time Simulation and Hardware-in-the-loop for Power Systems and Power Electronics |  | Sudipta Chakraborty Director-Energy Systems OPAL-RT Corporation Wheat Ridge, CO |
| Tuesday, Mar 19 3:30-4:30 Brown Hall W210 | Antenna Technologies for Simultaneous Transmit and Recieve |  | Dejan S. Filipovic PhD. Hudson Moore Jr Endowed Chair Department of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering University of Colorado Boulder |
| Tuesday, Apr 9 3:30-4:30 Brown Hall W210 | At the Crossroads: Some tales from the nexus of power conversion and plasma-based thin film deposition |  | David Christie PhD. Member of Technical Staff Advanced Energy Industries Inc. Fort Collins, CO |
| Tuesday, Apr 23 3:30-4:30 Brown Hall W210 | Big Geospatial Data for in-Earth Recourses Management |  | Sebnem Duzgun PhD. Professor and Fred Banfield Distinguished Endowed Chair Mining Engineering Colorado School of Mines |
Fall 2018
| Tuesday, Sep. 11 3:30-4:30 Brown Hall W210 | Antenna Product Development – The intersection of the theoretical and real worlds |  | Eng. Mike Sharkey President FIRST RF Corp. Boulder, CO |
| Tuesday, Sep. 25 3:30-4:30 Brown Hall W210 | Science and Engineering of ELF/VLF Waves |  | Dr. Mark Golkowski Associate Professor Department of Electrical Engineering University of Colorado Denver |
| Tuesday, Oct. 09 3:30-4:30 Brown Hall W210 | Distributed Machine Learning in the Age of Cyber Attacks |  | Prof. Waheed Bajwa Associate professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Rutgers Piscataway, NJ |
| Tuesday, Oct. 23 3:30-4:30 Brown Hall W210 | Research Funding: Views from the Other Side |  | Dr. Stephanie Tompkins V.P. Research and Technology Transfer Colorado School of Mines |
| Tuesday, Nov. 6 3:30-4:30 Brown Hall W210 | Collaborative Robotic Teams |  | Dr. Rafael Fierro Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering University of New Mexico |
| Tuesday, Nov 20 3:30-4:30 Brown Hall W210 | Case Study for the Design of an Off Grid Water Treatment Plant |  | Eng. Anthony L. Morroni Senior Vice President Senior Project Manager Carollo Engineers, Inc. Littleton, CO |
Spring 2018
| Tuesday, Jan. 30 3:30-4:30 Brown Hall W210 | Estimation and Diagnostics Algorithms for Batteries and Connected Vehicles |  | Satadru Dey Assistant Professor, University of Colorado, Denver |
| Tuesday, Feb. 13 3:30-4:30 Brown Hall W210 | Reverse Time Migration from Topography to Image Ground-Penetrating Radar Data in Complex Terrain |  | John H. Bradford Geophysics Professor & Department Head, Colorado School of Mines, Golden |
| Tuesday, Feb. 27 3:30-4:30 Brown Hall W210 | Breaking limits: space-time focusing technologies for imaging and manipulating biological systems |  | Jeff Squier Professor, Department of Physics, Colorado School of Mines, Golden |
| Tuesday, Mar. 6 3:30-4:30 Brown Hall W210 | Wireless Energy Harvesting |  | Payam Nayeri Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden |
| Tuesday, Mar. 20 3:30-4:30 Brown Hall W210 | Aethereal Waves Make History |  | James C. Rautio President and CEO of Sonnet Software, Syracuse NY |
| Tuesday, Apr. 10 3:30-4:30 Brown Hall W210 | Improved Nystrom Kernel Matrix Approximation for Large-Scale |  | Farhad Pourkamali-Anaraki Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado, Boulder |
| Tuesday, Apr. 24 3:30-4:30 Brown Hall W210 | Humanitarian+Engineering+Ethics |  | Kevin Passino Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering & Director of Humanitarian Engineering, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH |
Spring 2017
| January 17 | Integrating High Levels of Variable Renewable Energy in Electric Power Systems |  | Ben Kroposki, Director, Power Systems Engineering Center, NREL |
| January 31 | Model-Based Decision Making in Cyber-Physical Systems |  | Dr. Farshad Harirchi, Postdoctoral Fellow, EECS, University of Michigan |
| February 14 | Active Subspaces: Emerging Ideas for Dimension Reduction in Highly Parameterized Models |  | Dr. Paul G. Constantine, Ben L. Fryrear Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Colorado School of Mines |
| February 28 | Comments on Research and a Technical Talk: Learning to Cooperate |  | Dr. Kevin L. Moore, Dean, College of Engineering and Computational Sciences, Colorado School of Mines |
| March 14 | Robust Design and Optimization of Low Frequency Electromagnetic Devices |  | Dr. David A. Lowther, EECS Professor, McGill University |
| April 4 | Printing of Nano and Microscale Sensors and Electronics |  | Dr. Ahmed Busnaina, William Lincoln Smith Professor and Director, NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing, Northeastern University |
| April 18 | Mathematical Optimization and its Applications in Signal and Information Processing |  | Dr. Gongguo Tang, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering, Colorado School of Mines |
| May 2 | Measurement of duty cycle of underground haulage units for sizing of the batteries |  | Dr. Jamal Rostami, Associate Professor and Alacer Gold/ Hadden Endowed Chair, Mining Engineering, Colorado School of Mines |
Fall 2016
| November 2 | Is Smart Grid Really Smart? |  | PK Sen, Professor, Colorado School of Mines |
| November 9 | “Characterization and Design Optimization of Efficient and Renewable Energy Conversion Systems |  | Abd A. Arkadan, Teaching Professor, Colorado School of Mines |
| November 16 | “Colorado School of Mines Antennas and Computational Electromagnetics Research Activities” |  | Atef Elsherbeni, Professor, Colorado School of Mines |
| November 22 | “Modeling and Control of Thermal Loads for Frequency Regulation and Ramping Reserve” |  | Tyrone Vincent, Professor, Colorado School of Mines |
| November 30 | Subspace Modeling Off-the-Grid |  | Michael Wakin, Associate Professor, Colorado School of Mines |
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