2002-03 Keynotes Mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Mohamed Abdou was a keynote speaker at the 6th International Symposium on Fusion Nuclear Technology in San Diego. He spoke on "Recent Advances in Chamber Science and Technology." He was also the keynote speaker at the International Symposium on SiC/SiC Composite Materials R&D and Its Applications to Advanced Energy Systems in Kyoto, Japan. Electrical engineering professor Asad Abidi gave a keynote speech at the Symposium of VLSI Circuits in Kyoto, Japan. The presentation - RF CMOS Comes of Age - addressed technology developed by his team at UCLA, which has now become an industry. Panagiotis Christofides, professor of chemical engineering, gave the plenary talk in the Workshop on Modeling, Simulation and Design in Process Engineering at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. Computer science professor Jason Cong presented a keynote talk on "Architecture and Synthesis for Multi-Cycle On-Chip Communication" at the International Rapid System Prototyping Workshop in San Diego, California. (The presentation was co-authored by Y. Fan, G. Han, X. Yang and Z. Zhang.) Vijay Dhir, dean and professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, was a keynote speaker at the International Heat Transfer Conference in Grenoble, France. He spoke on the subject of boiling in microgravity. Ann Karagozian, mechanical and aerospace engineering professor, presented a keynote address - Numerical Simulations of Reactive and Non-Reactive Flows Relevant to Engine Environments - at the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics 50th Anniversary meeting in Philadelphia. Electrical engineering professor and chair Yahya Rahmat-Samii was the plenary session speaker at the 2003 Applied Computational Electromagnetic (ACES) symposium held in Monterey, California. He spoke on "The Marvels of Electromagnetic Band Gap Structures."