Seminars

Here you will find information about all doctoral and licentiate seminars and also some information about invited guest lecturer.

Upcoming seminars 2015

Business Innovation Seminar

"Skogsråvarans egna Google skapar nya möjligheter"
Magnus Hedin, Vice VD och affärsutvecklare SDC
Date: Thursday December 3, 2015
Time: 11.00-12.00
Place: Mid Sweden University, Campus Sundsvall, Room O102
Read more (in Swedish)

Public thesis defence of doctoral thesis by Victor Kardeby

Doctoral thesis: ”Resource Consumption in Distributed Internet of Things”
Date: Wednesday November 25, 2015 at 10:15
Place: Campus Sundsvall, L-building room L111
Main supervisor: Prof. Mikael Gidlund
Co-supervisors: Assistant prof. Ulf Jennehag
Opponent: Associate Prof. Luigi Atzori from The University of Cagliari, Italy.

Public thesis defence of doctoral thesis by Felix Dobslaw

Doctoral thesis: ”End-to-end Quality of Service Guarantees for Wireless Sensor Networks”
Date: Friday December 11, 2015 at 10:15
Place: Campus Sundsvall, L-building room L111
Main supervisor: Prof. Tingting Zhang
Co-supervisors: Prof. Mikael Gidlund
Opponent: Dr. Song Han, University of Connecticut, USA

The seminar will be held in English. Welcome!

Doctoral and licentiate seminars

2015

Nazar Ul Islam Muhammad

Licentiate thesis: Reference Setup for Characterization and Calibration of Low-range Differential Pressure Sensors
Date: Thursday October 8, at 13:15
Place: Campus Sundsvall, O102
Main supervisor: Prof. Bengt Oelmann
Co-supervisors: Dr. Peng Cheng
Opponent: Docent Cristina Rusu
Abstract as PDF

Shakeel Ashraf

Licentiate Thesis: Design and Integration of Infrared Absorber Structure Into Polymer Membrane Based Thermal Detectors.
Date: Thursday September 17, 2015 at 10:00
Place: Campus Sundsvall, O-building room O111
Main supervisor: Doc. Göran Thungström
Co-supervisors: Associate Professor Claes Mattsson
Opponent: Professor Frank Niklaus KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.

Dr. Erik Fröjdh

Doctoral Thesis: Hybrid Pixel Detector, Characterization and Optimization
Date: Tuesday September 8, 2015 at 13:00
Place: Campus Sundsvall, O-building room O102
Main supervisor: Doc. Göran Thungström
Co-supervisors: Assistant Professor Börje Norlin and Michael Campbell.
Abstract as PDF

Dr. Suryanarayana Murthy Muddala

Doctoral Thesis: "Free view rendering for 3D Video – Edge-Aided Rendering and Depth-Based Image Inpainting"
Date: Thursday June 18, 2015 at 10:15 am
Place: Campus Sundsvall, L-building room L111
Main supervisor: Prof. Mårten Sjöström
Co-supervisor: Dr. Roger Olsson
Opponent: Prof. Christine Guillemot, National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA), France

Dr. Yun Li

Doctoral Thesis: "Coding of Three-Dimensional Video Content – Diffusion-based Coding of Depth Images and Displacement Intra-coding of Plenoptic contents"
Date: Tuesday June 9, 2015 at 10:00
Place: Campus Sundsvall, L-building room L111
Main supervisor: Prof. Mårten Sjöström
Co-supervisors: Dr. Ulf Jennehag and Dr. Roger Olsson
Opponent: Professor Touradj Ebrahimi, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland

Dr. Patrik Jonsson

Doctoral Thesis: "Surface Status Classification Utilizing Image Sensor Technology andComputer Models"
Date: Tuesday May 5, 2015, at 10.15
Supervisors: Doc. Benny Thörnberg
Opponent: Torbjörn Eltoft, Department of Physics and Technology Earth Observation Laboratory, Tromsø

Dr. David Krapohl

Doctoral Thesis: "Monte Carlo and Charge Transport Simulation of Pixel Detector Systems"
Date: Wednesday April 8, 2014, at 10.00
Supervisors: Doc. Göran Thungström and Prof. Christer Fröjdh
Opponent: Doc. Cinzia Da Vià, School of Physics and Astronomy, Manchester, UK

2014

Dissertation seminar Stefan Forström Doctoral Thesis: "Enabling Fully Distributed Global Services on the Internet-of-Things" Date: Thursday 27^th of November 2014 in room L111 Supervisors: Dr. Mikael Gidlund Opponent: Prof. Antonio Corradi, University of Bologna, Italy
Dissertation seminar Omeime Esebamen Doctoral Thesis: "Characterization of Interface States & Radiation Damage Effects in Duo-lateral PSDs Using SEM Microscopy and UV Beam Profiling Techniques"Listen Date: June 17th at 10:30 in room O111 Supervisors: Doc. Göran Thungström and Prof. Hans-Erik Nilsson. Opponent: Professor Harry J Withlow, University of Applied Sciences in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.
Dissertation seminar Khurram Shahzad Doctoral Thesis: "Energy Efficient Hardware Architecture for Data and Computation Intensive Wireless Monotoring" Listen Date: June 11th at 10:15 in room M102 Supervisor: Prof. Bengt Oelmann. Opponent: Professor Teresa Riesgo, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain.
Dissertation seminar Sebastian Schwarz Doctoral thesis: "Gaining depth - Time-of-flight sensor fusion for three-dimensional video content creation"Listen Date: June 4th at 10:00 in room L111 Supervisor: Prof. Mårten Sjöström, Dr. Roger Olsson. Opponent: Prof. Reinhard Koch, Christian Albrechts University Kiel, Germany.
Licentiate seminar Reza Salim Licentiate Thesis: "Phase-Contrast and Spectroscopic X-ray Imaging for Paperboard Quality Assurance" Listen Date: May 22nd at 10:15 in room M102 Supervisor: Assistant. Prof. Jan Thim, Assistant Prof. Börje Norlin, Prof. Christer Fröjdh Opponent: Associate Professor Anna Burvall, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
Dissertaion seminar Meng Xiazhou Doctoral Thesis: "Technology driven obolescence management for embedded systems"Listen Date: Thursday, May 15th at 13:15 pm in room O102 Supervisor: Dr. Benny Thörnberg Opponent: Prof. Jim Tørresen, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
Dissertation seminar, Wei Shen Doctoral Thesis: "A Protocol Framework for Adaptive Real-Time Communication in Industrial Wireless Sensors and Actuator Networks" Date: Thursday, March 6th at 13:15 am in room L111 Supervisor: Prof. Tingting Zhang Opponent: Prof. Gerhard Hancke from City University of Hong Kong
Dissertation seminar, Waheed Malik Doctoral Thesis: "Real-time Optical Position Sensing on FPGA" Date: Wednesday, January 29th at 10:30 am in room M108 Supervisor: Prof. Mattias O´Nils and Dr. Benny Thörnberg Opponent: Prof. Daniel Crookes, Queen´s University, Belfast

2013

Dissertation seminar, Naeem Ahmad

Doctoral Thesis: "Modelling, Optimization and Design of Visual Sensor Networks for Sky Surveillance" Listen
Date: Tuesday December 17th at 8:30 am in room O102
Supervisor: Prof. Mattias O´Nils
Opponent: Prof. Arno Ruckelshausen, Hochschule Osnabrück, Germany

Dissertation seminar, Anzar Alam

Doctoral Thesis: "Development of embedded optical technique and device for real-time surface metrology using line of laser triangulation" Listen
Date: Monday December 16th at 13:15 pm in room L111
Supervisor: Prof. Mattias O´Nils
Opponent: Prof. Consolatina Liguori, University of Salerno, Italy

Dissertation seminar, Majid Abdul

Doctoral Thesis: "Analysis and EMI Suppression of MHz frequency range Switch Mode Power Supplies" Listen
Date: Wednesday November 20th at 10:30 am in room M108
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Kent Bertilsson
Opponent: Prof. Jorma Kyyrä, Aalto University, Finland

Dissertation seminar, Jawad Saleem

Doctoral Thesis: "Power Electronics for - and Modelling of - Resistance Welding Equipment" Listen
Date: Thursday October 24th at 10:15 am in room O111
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Kent Bertilsson
Opponent: Prof. Drago Dolinar, University of Maribor, Slovenia

Dissertation seminar, Imran Muhammad

Doctoral Thesis: "Energy Efficient and Programmable Architecture for Wireless Vision Sensor Node" Listen
Date: Tuesday October 22nd at 13:15 pm in room M108
Supervisor: Prof. Mattias O´Nils
Opponent: Prof. Bernhard Rinner, Alpen-Adria Universität, Austria

Dissertation seminar, Radhika Ambatipudi

Doctoral Thesis: "High Frequence (MHz) Planar Transformers for Next Generation Switch Mode Power Supplies" Listen
Date: Friday October 4th at 10:30 am in room O102
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Kent Bertilsson
Opponent: Prof. Jesus Doval-Gandoy, University of Vigo, ESP

Dissertaion seminar, Sebastian Bader

Doctoral Thesis: "On the Lifetime and Usability of Environmental Monitoring Wireless Sensor Networks" Listen
Date: Wednesday October 2nd at 13:30 pm in room L111
Supervisor: Prof. Bengt Oelmann
Opponent: Dr. Kirk Martinez - University of Southampton, GB

Dissertation semianar, Hari Babu Kotte

Doctoral Thesis: "High Frequency (MHz) Resonant Converters using GaN HEMTs and Novel Planar Transformer Thecnology"Listen
Date: Thursday September 26th at 10:15 am in room L111.
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Kent Bertilsson
Opponent: Prof. Noel Shammas – Staffordshire University, GB

Dissertation seminar, Jinlan Gao

Doctoral Thesis: ”Antenna Based Passive UHF RFID Sensor Tags”Listen
Date: Thuesday June 18th 2013 at 13:15 pm in room O102.
Supervisors: Dr. Johan Sidén and Prof. Hans-Erik Nilsson.
Opponent:Prof. Emmanouil Tentzeris, School of ECE, Georgia Tech, USA.

Dissertation seminar, Johan Jason

Doctoral thesis: ”Fibre-optic displacement and temperature sensing using coupling based intensity modulation and polarization modulation techniques”Listen
Date: Wednesday June 12^th2013 in room O111.
Supervisor: Prof. Hans-Erik Nilsson.
Opponent: Prof. Werner Daum, Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und prüfung (BAM), Berlin, Germany.

Licentiate seminar, Suryanarayana Muddala

Licentiate thesis: "View Rendering for 3DTV"Listen
Date: Thuesday June 11 th 2013, in room L111.
Supervisor: Professor Mårten Sjöström and Dr. Roger Olsson.
Opponent: Associate Professor Klas Nordberg, Linköping University.

Dissertation seminar, Khursheed Khursheed

Doctoral thesis: ”Intelligence Partitioning and Data Reduction in Wireless Visual Sensor Networks” Listen
Date: Monday June 10^th2013 in room O102.
Supervisor:Prof. Mattias O'Nils.
Opponent: Prof. Johan Lilius, Åbo Akademi, Finland.

Licentiate seminar, Yun Li

Licentiate thesis: "Coding of Three-dimensional Video Content – Depth Image Coding by Diffusion"Listen
Date: Wednesday 5^th of June 2013 in room O102.
Supervisors: Prof. Mårten Sjöström, Dr. Ulf Jennehag and Dr. Roger Olsson.
Opponent: Associate Professor Markus Flierl, KTH, Stockholm.

Licentiate seminar, Mitra Damghanian

Licentiate thesis: "The Sampling Pattern Cube – A Framework for Representation and Evaluation of Plenoptic Capturing Systems"Listen
Date: Tuesday 4^th of June 2013 in room O102.
Supervisors: Prof. Mårten Sjöström and Dr. Roger Olsson.
Opponent: Associate Professor Göran Manneberg, KTH, Stockholm.

Dissertation seminar, Kannan Thiagarajan

Doctoral thesis: "Monte Carlo simulation of electron transport in semiconducting zigzag carbon nanotubes” Listen
Date: Monday 23 rd of May in room O111.
Supervisor: Prof.Ulf Lindefelt.
Opponent: Prof. Michele Goano, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy.

Licentiate seminar, Kung Wang

Licentiate thesis: "Stereoscopic 3D video quality of experience - impact of coding, transmission and display technologies"Listen
Date: Friday May 17 ht 2013, in room M102.
Supervisors: Prof. Mårten Sjöström, Adj. Prof. Kjell Brunnström (Acreo), Dr. Ulf Jennehag and Dr. Roger Olsson.
Opponent: Prof.Hans-Jürgen Zepernick, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola.

Licentiate seminar, Sara Rydberg

Licentiate thesis: "Radiation induced losses in ytterbium doped laser materials" Listen
Date: Thuesday February 26 th 2013, in room O111.
Supervisor: Dr. Magnus Engholm.
Opponent: Dr. Daniel Milanese, University of Torino.

2012

Licentiate seminar, Sebastian Schwarz

Licentiate thesis: "Depth Map Upscaling for Three-Dimensional Television - The Edge-Weighted Optimization Concept"Listen
Date: Thursday November 22nd 2012, room O111.
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Mårten Sjöström.
Opponent: Adj. Prof. Atanas Gotchev, Tampere University of Technology.

Licentiate seminar, Omeime Esebamen

Licentiate thesis: “Simulation, Measurement and Analysis of the Response of Electron- and Lateral Position Sensitive Detector"Listen
Date: Wednesday October 10th at 13:15, room O111. Supervisors: Doc. Göran Thungström and Prof. Hans-Erik Nilsson.
Opponent: Technology Dr Uwe Zimmermann, Uppsala University.

Licentiate seminar, Abdul Majid

Licentiate thesis: “Analysis and implementation of Switch Mode Power Supplies in MHz frequency region" Listen
Date: Thursday June 14^th at 10.15 pm, room O111.
Supervisors: Associate Prof. Kent Bertilsson and Prof. Bengt Oelmann.
Opponent:

Dissertation seminar, Winnie Wong

Doctoral thesis: ”A Hybrid Pixel Detector ASIC with Energy Binning for Real-Time, Spectroscopic Dose Measurements” Listen
Date: Wednesday May 30^th, 13.00 pm, room O102
Supervisor: Prof. Christer Fröjdh.
Opponent: Dr. Roberto Dinapoli, Switzerland.

Licentiate seminar, Abdul Waheed Malik

Licentiate thesis: “Machine Vision Architecture on FPGA"
Date: Thursday May 31^st at 10.00 pm, room M108.
Supervisor:
Opponent:

Licentiate seminar, Xiaozhou Meng

Licentiate thesis: “Maintenance consideration for long life cycle embedded"Listen
Date: Thursday May 24^th at 10.15 pm, room O102.
Supervisor:
Opponent:

Licentiate seminar, Jawad Saleem

Licentiate thesis: “Power electronics for resistance spot welding equipment"Listen
Date: Tuesday May 22^nd at 10.15 pm, room O111
Supervisor:
Opponent:

Licentiate seminar, Xin Cheng

Licentiate thesis: “Hardware centric machine vision for high precision measurement of reference structures in optical navigation" Listen
Date: Thursday Mars 8^th at 13.15 pm, room O102.
Supervisor:
Opponent:

Licentiate seminar, Mohammad Anzar Alam

Licentiate thesis: "An Online Surface Topography Characterization Technique for Paper and Paperboard using Line of Light Triangulation"Listen
Date: Februari 9, kl.10.00 i sal O102.
Supervisor: Prof. Mattias O'Nils
Opponent:

2011

Dissertation seminar, Peng Cheng

Doctoral thesis: "Applications of Embedded Sensors in Loader Crane Positioning and Rotor RPM Measurement".
Date: December 9, 09.00 in O111.
Supervisor: Prof. bengt Olmann
Opponent:Prof. Dr. Arno Ruckelshausen, Hochschule Osnabrück, Germany.

Licentiate seminar, Felix Dobslaw

Licentiate thesis: "Automated Instance-based Tailoring of Parameter Settings for Metaheuristics"Listen
Date: October 14, 10.15 in room Q211.
Supervisor: Prof. Theo Kanter.
Opponent:Prof. Thomas Bartz-Beielstein from the University of Applied Sciences, Cologne.

Licentiate seminar, Patrik Jonsson

Licentiate thesis: "Intelligent networked sensors for increased traffic safety" Listen
Date: October 12, 10.15 in room Q221, Östersund.
Supervisor: Prof. Hans-Erik Nilsson.
Opponent:Associate Professor Jörgen Bogren, Physical Geography, University of Gothenburgh.
Note: The seminar will be held in the Swedish language.

Dissertation seminar, Tomas Unander

Doctoral thesis: “System integration of electronic functionality in packaging application”Listen
Date: September 23, 2011.
Head supervisor: Prof. Hans-Erik Nilsson.
Opponent: Prof. Shaofang Gong, Linköping University.

Licentiate seminar, Muhammad Imran

Licentiate thesis: "Investigation of Architectures for Wireless Visual Sensor Nodes" Listen
Date: June 10, 10:30 AM in room O102.
Supervisors: Mattias O'Nils
Opponent: Senior Lecturer Khaled Benkrid, University of Edinburgh.

Licentiate seminar, Khursheed Khursheed

Licentiate thesis: "Investigation of Intelligence partitioning in wireless visual sensor networks"Listen
Date: June 9, 10:30 AM in room O102
Supervisors: Mattias O'Nils
Opponent: Prof. Per Lindgren, Luleå University of Technology.

Licentiate seminar, Hari Babu Kotte

Licentiate thesis: "High Speed (MHz) Switch Mode Power Supplies (SMPS) using Coreless PCB Transformer Technology Date" Listen
Date: May 27, 10:00 AM in room M102
Supervisors: Kent Bertilsson and Bengt Oelmann
Opponent: Docent Per Henrik Karlsson from Lund University

Licentiate seminar, Radhika Ambatipudi

Licentiate thesis: "Multilayered Coreless Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Step-down Transformers for High Frequency Switch Mode Power Supplies (SMPS)" Listen
Date: May 20, 1:00 PM in room O102
Supervisors: Kent Bertilsson and Bengt Oelmann
Opponent: Professor Torbjörn Thiringer from Chalmers tekniska högskola.

Licentiate seminar, Stefan Forsström

Licentiate thesis: "Enabling Adaptive Context Views for Mobile Applications Negotiating Global and Dynamic Sensor Information"
ListenDate: April 29, 2011
Supervisors: Theo Kanter
Opponent: Dr. Andreas Fasbender, Adjunct Professor at the University of Agder

Licentiate seminar, Victor Kardeby

Licentiate thesis: "Automatic Sensor Clustering: Connectivity for the Internet of Things"
ListenDate: April 28, 2011
Supervisor: Theo Kanter
Opponent:

Licentiate seminar, Jamie Walters

Doctoral thesis: "Ripples Across The Internet of Things -- Context Metrics as Vehicles for Relational Self-Organization" Listen
Date: April 26, 2011
Supervisor: Theo Kanter
Opponent:

Dissertation seminar, Rahim Rahmani

Doctoral thesis: "Active Queue Management for Quality of Service in Heterogenous Networks" Listen
Date: March, 3rd. 10.00 am in room M108
Head Supervisor:
Opponent: Associate Professor Roch H.Glitho, Concordia University, Canada.

Licentiate seminar, Kannan Thiyagarajan

Licentiate thesis: "Tight-binding calculations of electron scattering rates in semiconducting zigzag carbon nanotubes" Listen
Date: January 19 ht, 1.15 pm in room O111
Head supervisor: Prof. Ulf Lindefelt
Opponent: Prof. Sven Öberg, Luleå University of Technology

Licentiate seminar, Sebastian Bader

Licentiate thesis: "Enabling Autonomous Environmental Measurement Systems with Low-Power Wireless Sensor Networks" Listen
Date: January 1o ht, 1.00 pm in room O111
Head supervisor: Prof. Bengt Oelmann
Opponent: Dr. Kirk Martinez, University of Southampton, UK

2010

Licentiate thesis, Xin Huang

Licentiate thesis: "Sensor Application Privacy and Security"Listen
Date: Monday November 13th, 10.00 am in room O111.
Head supervisor: Prof. Tingting Zhang
Opponent: Dr. Thijs Jan Holleboom

Licentiate seminar, Fredrik Linnarsson

Licentiate thesis: "Wireless Sensor Networks in Loader Crane Applications"Listen
Date: Monday November 1st, 1.00 pm in room O102
Head supervisor: Bengt Oelmann
Opponent: Dr Mikael Gidlund - ABB Corporate research

Dissertation seminar, Linda Karlsson

Doctoral thesis: "Coding for Improved Perceived Quality of 2D and 3D Video over Heterogeneous Networks"Listen
Date: May 27, 10.00 am in room O111
Head Supervisor: Doc. Mårten Sjöström
Opponent: Dr. -Ing. Karsten Müller, Karsten -Fraunhofer Institut für Nachrichtentechnik Heinrich-Hertz-Institut (HHI)

Dissertation seminar, Qinghua Wang

Doctoral thesis: "Traffic Analysis, Modeling and Their Applications in Energy-Constrained Wireless Sensor Networks - on network optimization and anomaly detection" Listen
Date: February the 3 rd, 10:00 am in room L111
Head Supervisor: Prof. Tingting Zhang, Mid Sweden University - ITM.
Co-Supervisors: Dr. Stefan Pettersson, Mid Sweden University and Prof. Youzhi Xu, Jönköping University
Opponent: Dr. Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway.

2009

Dissertation seminar, Najeem Lawal

Doctoral thesis: ”Memory Synthesis for FPGA Implementation of Real-Time Video Processing Systems"Listen
Date: Wednesday January 7, 10.30 am, room O102
Head supervisor: Prof. Mattias O'Nils
Opponent: Dr. Khaled Benkrid - University of Edinburgh.

Licentiate seminar, Lisa Nordin

Licentiate thesis: "Measurement and prediction of dewatering characteristics for mechanical pulps using optical fibre analysis"Listen
Date: Wednesday June 17th, 10.00 am in room O102
Head supervisor: Per Engstrand
Assistant supervisor: Mattias O'Nils
Opponent: Annikki Vehniäinen D.Sc ( Tech), Senior Advisor UPM Nanoncenter

Dissertation seminar, Claes Mattsson

Doctoral thesis: "Design, Fabrication and Optimization of Thermal Radiation Detectors Based on Thin Polymer Membranes" Listen
Date: September 18, 13.15 pm in room O113
Head supervisor: Prof. Hans-Erik Nilsson
Assistant supervisor: Dr. Göran Thungström
Opponent: Prof. Ylva Bäcklund – Programme Manager ICT VINNOVA.

2008

Licentiate seminar, Johan Jason

Licentiate thesis: "Theory and Applications of Coupling Based Intensity Modulated Fibre-Optic Sensors"Listen
Date: Wednesday December 17th, 1.15 pm in room O111
Head supervisor: Prof. Hans-Erik Nilsson
Opponent: Dr Bernt Sundström.

Licentiate seminar, Tomas Unander

Licentiate thesis: "Characterization of Low Cost Printed Sensors for Smart Packaging"Listen
Date: Thursday December 11th, 1.15 pm in room O102
Head supervisor: Prof. Hans-Erik Nilsson
Opponent: Dr Mats Robertsson - Acreo AB

Dissertation seminar, Aron Larsson

Doctoral thesis: ”Essays on Theories and Applications of Decision Analysis in Imprecise Domains”
ListenDate: October 24, 1.15 pm, room O102
Head supervisor:
Opponent: David Ríos Insua, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid

Dissertation seminar, Roger Olsson

Doctoral thesis: ”Synthesis, Coding, and Evaluation of 3D Images Based on Integral Imaging”Listen
Date: June 12, 1.15 pm, room L111
Head supervisor:
Opponent: Dr. -Ing. Aljoscha Smolic, Fraunhofer Institut für Nachrichtentechnik Heinrich -Hertz-Institut (HHI), Berlin, Tyskland.

Dissertation seminar, Jon Alfredsson

Doctoral thesis: ”Limitations of Subthreshold Digital Floating-Gate Circuits in Present and Future Nanoscale CMOS Technologies”Listen
Date: Thursday May 29, 1.15 pm, room O102
Head supervisor: Prof. Bengt Oelmann
Opponent is Dr. Markku Åberg - VTT

Dissertation seminar, Magnus Engholm

Doctoral thesis: ”Materials Optimization for Optical Fiber Amplifiers and Fiber Lasers” Listen
Date: Thursday May 22, 1.15 pm, room L111
Head supervisor: Dr. Lars Norin
Opponent is Dr. Johannes Kirchhof - IPHT Jena

Dissertation seminar, Henrik Andersson

Doctoral thesis: ”Position Sensitive Detectors - Device Technology and Applications in Spectroscopy"
ListenDate: Thursday May 15, 1.15 pm, room O102
Head supervisor is Prof. Hans-Erik Nilsson
Opponent is Prof. Jan Linnros - KTH

Licentiate seminar, Niklas Lepistö

Licentiate thesis: "FPGA based architectures for embedded video systems"Listen
Date: Wednesday February 6th, 1.15 pm in room O111
Head supervisor: Prof. Mattias O'Nils
Opponent: Dr Peter Nilsson - Lund University

Licentiate seminar, Ulf Jennehag

Licentiate thesis: ”Bandwidth Efficient IPTV Distribution - On Error Resilience and Fast Channel Change”
ListenDate: January, 17, 1.15 pm in room L111
Head supervisor:
Opponent:

2007

Licentiate seminar, Rahim Rahmani

Licentiate thesis: “Models for quality of service in heterogenoeous networks.”
Date: 2007
Head supervisor:
Opponent:

Dissertation Seminar, Patrik Österberg

Doctoral thesis: “Fair Treatment of Multicast Sessions and Their Receivers: Incentives for more efficient bandwidth utilization”Listen
Date: December 15, 2007
Head supervisor: Prof. Tingting Zhang
Opponent: Dr. Kirk Martinez from university of Southampton, UK

Licentiate seminar, Claes Mattsson

Licentiate thesis: "Fabrication and Characterization of Photon Radiation Detectors"Listen
Date: Monday December 17, 1.15 pm in room O102
Head supervisor: Prof. Hans-Erik Nilsson
Opponent: Dr. Mikael Lindeberg - Uppsala Universitet

Dissertation seminar, Cao Cao

Doctoral thesis: ”Automatic Synthesis of Partitioned FSMs Based on Mixed Synchronous/Asynchronous State Memory"Listen
Date: Friday June 15, 1.15 pm, room O111
Head supervisor is Prof. Bengt Oelmann
Opponent: Prof. Peeter Ellervee - Tallinn Technical University

Dissertation seminar, Börje Norlin

Doctoral thesis: ”Characterisation and application of photon counting X-ray detector systems"
ListenDate:Friday June 1, 10.15 am, room O102 (SCA-salen)
Head supervisor: Doc. Christer Fröjdh
Opponent: Prof. Sherwood Parker - University of Hawaii

Dissertation seminar, Jan Lundgren

Doctoral thesis: ”Simulating Behavioral Level On-Chip Noise Coupling"
ListenDate: Wednesday May 30, 10.00 am, room O102 (SCA-salen)
Head supervisor is Prof. Mattias O'Nils
Opponent is Prof. Mark Vesterbacka - Linköping University

Dissertation seminar, Torbjörn Olsson

Doctoral thesis: ”Antenna Robustness Modelling"
ListenDate: Tuesday May 29, 1.15 pm, room O102 (SCA-salen)
Head supervisor: Prof. Hans-Erik Nilsson
Opponent: Prof. Manos Tentzeris - Georgia Institute of Technology

Dissertation seminar, Johan Sidén

Doctoral thesis: ”On the Design, Characterization and Optimization of RFID Tag Antennas"Listen
Date: Friday May 25, 1.15 pm, room M108 (Lubbe-salen)
Head supervisor is Prof. Hans-Erik Nilsson
Opponent is Prof. Heikki Seppä - VTT, Finland

Dissertation seminar, Xavier Llopart

Doctoral thesis: ”Design and characterization of 64K pixels chips working in single photon processing mode"Listen
Date: Friday May 25, 10.15 am, room M102
Head supervisor: Doc. Christer Fröjdh
Opponent is Prof. Christian Broennimann - SLS Detector Group

Licentiate seminar, Suliman Abdalla

Licentiate thesis: "Architecture and Circuit Design of Photon-Counting Readout for X-Ray Imaging Sensors"Listen
Date: Tuesday May 22, 1.00 pm in room O111
Head supervisor: Doc. Bengt Oelmann
Opponent: Prof. Kenway Smith - Glasgow University.

Licentiate seminar, Linda Karlsson

Licentiate thesis: “Spatio-Temporal Pre-Processing Methods for Region-of-Interest Video Coding”Listen
Date: April 27, 2007
Head supervisor: Prof. Tingting Zhang
Assistant supervisor: Dr. Mårten Sjöström and Prof. Youzhi Xu
Opponent: PhD. Apostolos Georgakis, Applied Physics and Electronics, Umeå University

Licentiate seminar, Jon Alfredsson

Licentiate thesis: "Performance of Digital Floating-Gate Circuits Operating at Subthreshold Power Supply Voltages"Listen
Date: Monday January 22, 1.15 pm in room O111
Head supervisor: Doc. Bengt Oelmann
Opponent: Associate Prof. Dag Wisland - Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo

Licentiate seminar, Henrik Andersson

Licentiate thesis: "Development of Process Technology for Photon Radiation Measurement Applications"
ListenDate: Friday January 19, 1.15 pm in room O102
Head supervisor: Prof. Hans-Erik Nilsson
Opponent: Doc. Per-Erik Hellström - KTH

2006

Licentiate seminar. Aron Larsson

Licentiate thesis: ”Graph decision models in a computational decision analytic framework.”
Date: 2006.
Head supervisor:
Opponent:

Dissertation seminar, Håkan Norell

Doctoral thesis: ”Development, Analysis and Implementation of Pre-Processing Video Filters"Listen
Date: Friday December 15, 8.30 am, room Fälldinsalen
Head supervisor: Mattias O'Nils
Opponent: Prof. Danny Crookes - Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Licentiate seminar, Najeem Lawal

Licentiate thesis: "Memory Synthesis for FPGA Implementation of Real-Time Video Processing Systems"Listen
Date: Wednesday November 22, 10.30 am in room M102
Head supervisor: Prof. Mattias O'Nils
Opponent: Prof. Petru Eles - Linköping University.

Dissertation seminar, Benny Thörnberg

Doctoral thesis: ”Memory Modeling and Synthesis for Real-Time Video Processing Systems”Listen
Date: Thursday May 18, 13.15 at Mid Sweden University, Campus Sundsvall, in room O102
Opponent: Dr. Erwin de Kock from Philips Research, Eindhoven, Netherlands

2005

Dissertation seminar, Shang Xue

Doctoral thesis: "Alternating Coding and its Decoder Architectures for Unary-Prefixed Codes"Listen
Date: Wednesday June 8, 1.15 pm in room O111
Head supervisor: Doc Bengt Oelmann
Opponent: Prof Jukka Teuhola - University of Turku, Finland.

Licentiate seminar, Cao Cao

Licentiate thesis: "Automatic Synthesis of Partitioned FSMs Based on Mixed Synchronous/Asynchronous State Memory"Listen
Date: Monday May 30, 1.15 pm in room O111
Head supervisor: Doc Bengt Oelmann
Opponent: Prof Per Larsson-Edefors - Chalmers Technical University.

Licentiate seminar, Jan Lundgren-Thim

Licentiate thesis: “Behavioral Level Simulation Methods for Early Noise Coupling Quantification in Mixed-Signal Systems”Listen
Date: February 10, 2005
Head supervisor: Prof. Mattias O’Nils
Opponent: Prof. Li-Rhong Zheng, KTH

Licentiate seminar, Håkan Norell

Licentiate thesis: “Pre-Processing Video Filters and Automated Implementation of Memory Architectures”
Date: 2005
Head supervisor: Prof. Mattias O'Nils
Opponent:

Licentiate seminar, Börje Norlin

Licentiate thesis: “Photon Counting X-ray Detector Systems” Listen
Date: February 11, 2005
Head supervisor: Prof. Christer Fröjdh
Assistant supervisor: Prof. Hans-Erik Nilsson
Opponent: Prof. Kenway Smith, University Glasgow