Schedule

January 26th, 2012

Main Venue: B02 CSL

Time Title Speaker Status
8:30 AM - 8:55 AM Breakfast and Registration

8:55 AM - 9:00 AM Welcome

Session 1: Communications and Information Theory, B02 CSL
Time Title Speaker Status
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM "Coding Coin Flips into a Gaussian Process" Robert Gray
Stanford University 		Invited
Keynote
10:00 AM - 10:10 AM Break

10:10 AM - 10:30 AM "Multimedia Fingerprinting for Content Identification: Model Based Decoding Metrics" Rohit Naini
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 		Student
10:30 AM - 10:50 AM "MIMO communications over Multi-mode Fibers" Peter Kairouz
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 		Student
10:50 AM - 11:10 AM "Finite Block-Length Achievable Rates for Queuing Timing Channels" Thomas Riedl
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 		Student
11:10 AM - 11:20 AM Break

11:20 AM - 11:40 AM "Constant Weight Codes for Correcting Single Deletion" Daniel Cullina
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 		Student
11:40 AM - 12:00 PM "A Class of Codes Capable of Correcting Multiple Deletion and Insertion Errors" Farzaneh Khajouei
Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering 		Student
Lunch Day 1
Time Title Speaker Status
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch, 301 CSL

Session 2: Control and Power Systems, B02 CSL
Time Title Speaker Status
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM "Optimal Demand Response and Power Flow" Steven Low
California Institute of Technology 		Invited
Keynote
2:30 PM - 2:40 PM Break

2:40 PM - 3:00 PM "Efficiency and Pricing in Dynamic Markets with Friction" Ehsan Shafiee
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 		Student
3:00 PM - 3:20 PM “One-Stage Control Over an Adversarial Channel with Finite Codelength” Abhishek Gupta
Department of Aerospace Engineering 		Student
3:20 PM - 3:40 PM "Distributed Averaging and Consensus Dynamics in Random Environment" Behrouz Touri
Coordinated Science Laboratory 		Student
3:40 PM - 3:50 PM Break

3:50 PM - 4:10 PM Symmetric Formulation of the Kalman-Yakubovich-Popov Lemma and Exact Losslessness Condition Takashi Tanaka
Department of Aerospace Engineering 		Student
4:10 PM - 4:30 PM "Graph Model Reduction" Yunwen Xu
Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering 		Student
4:30 PM - 4:50 PM "Controlled Sensing for Hypothesis Testing" Sirin Nitinawarat
Coordinated Science Laboratory 		Student

January 27th, 2012

Venue: B02 CSL

Time Title Speaker Status
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Breakfast

Session 3: Networks, CSL B02
Time Title Speaker Status
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM "Cooperative Swarms" John Baras
University of Maryland, College Park 		Invited
Keynote
10:00 AM - 10:10 AM Break

10:10 AM - 10:30 AM "Efficient Random Access in Wireless Networks" Javad Ghaderi
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 		Student
10:30 AM - 10:50 AM "Distance Oracles and Compact Routing: Old Stories, New Characters" Rachit Agarwal
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 		Student
10:50 AM - 11:10 AM "Local Phy + Global Routing: A Fundamental Layering Principle for Wireless Networks" Sreeram Kannan
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 		Student
11:10 AM - 11:20 AM Break

11:20 AM - 11:40 AM "Iterative approximate Byzantine consensus in arbitrary directed graphs" Lewis Tseng
Department of Computer Science 		Student
11:40 AM - 12:00 PM "Partitioning Social Networks for Fast Retrieval of Time-dependent Queries" David Stein
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 		Student
Lunch, Day 2
Time Title Speaker Status
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Lunch, 301 CSL

Session 4: Systems and Hardware Design, B02 CSL
Time Title Speaker Status
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM "Low power design in deep sub-micron System-on-chip electronic devices" Karim Arabi
Qualcomm 		Invited
Keynote
2:00 PM - 2:10 PM Break

2:10 PM - 2:30 PM "Mitigating and Correcting Phase Noise and Sampling Errors in Optical Coherence Tomography" Nathan Shemonski
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 		Student
2:30 PM - 2:50 PM "Controlling Wild Mobile Robots Using Virtual Gates and Discrete Transitions" Leonardo Bobadilla
Department of Computer Science 		Student
2:50 PM - 3:10 PM "Stability of Digitally Interconnected Linear Systems" Taylor Johnson
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 		Student
3:10 PM - 3:20 PM Break

3:20 PM - 3:40 PM "Towards Coverage Closure: Using GoldMine Assertions for Generating Design Validation Stimulus" Lingyi Liu
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 		Student
3:40 PM - 4:00 PM "Steering a Multi-Robot System With a Shared Control Signal" Aaron Becker
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 		Student
Panel Discussion, B02 CSL
Time Title Speaker Status
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Panel Discussion, B02 CSL