BEARS Wireless Foundations Workshop 2/11/05

This workshop celebrates the new home of the Wireless Foundations Center in the second floor of Cory Hall. We are happy to announce five talks by leading experts in the field. A poster session, combined with an extended catered lunch, will feature some of the most recent results of our graduate students, hopefully leading to many stimulating discussions. We are looking forward to seeing you at the workshop!

Workshop Agenda:

9:30am - Coffee and Welcome

Wozniak Lounge, Soda Hall

10:00 -12:15pm - Morning Session

Wozniak Lounge, Soda Hall

• Martin Vetterli, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) and University of California, Berkeley
  Title: Distributed Signal Processing for Sensor Networks (slides)
• Abbas El Gamal, Stanford University
  Title: Energy-Centric Theory for Wireless Networks (slides)
• P. R. Kumar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Title: The Maxwellian Revolution in Communication, Computing and Control

12:15pm - Walk to Wireless Foundations Center

Cory Hall, 2nd Floor

12:30pm - Unveiling of QUALCOMM Plaque and dedication of the QUALCOMM Room (258 Cory Hall) in the presence of Roberto Padovani, CTO, QUALCOMM, Edward Lee, EE Division Chair, EECS Department, UC Berkeley, and David Tse.

• Lunch
• Poster session

2:20 - 4:00pm - Afternoon session

Wozniak Lounge, Soda Hall

• Roberto Padovani, CTO, QUALCOMM
  Title: TV to the Cell Phone: Will It Fly? (slides)
• Bob Brodersen, University of California, Berkeley
  Title: How Can Theorists and Implementers Work Together in Developing Future Wireless Systems? (slides)