![Sanjoy Mitter](https://www.ece.iastate.edu/files/2015/09/Mitter-144x150.jpg)
Date: Oct. 9, 2015
Title: On Some Connections between Stochastic Control with Partial Observations, Information Theory and Statistical Mechanics
Speaker: Sanjoy Mitter, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
![Jung Han](https://www.ece.iastate.edu/files/2015/10/Jung-Han-web-144x150.jpg)
Date: Dec. 4, 2015
Title: The History, Challenges, and Frontiers of GaN Blue Light Emitters
Speaker: Jung Han, William A. Norton Professor in Technological Innovation, Yale University
![H. Kumar Wickramasinghe](https://www.ece.iastate.edu/files/2016/01/Untitled1-150x150.png)
Date: March 11, 2016
Title: Tip Based Near Field Optical Microscopy – Past, Present and Future
Speaker: H. Kumar Wickramasinghe, Henry Samueli Endowed Chair, University of California, Irvine
![Weng Cho Chew](https://www.ece.iastate.edu/files/2016/03/IMAGE-150x150.png)
Date: April 6, 2016
Title: Maxwell’s Equations and Computational Electromagnetics after 150 Years
Speaker: Weng Cho Chew, Professor, University of Illinois