Opening Ceremony for The Eugene and Joan C. Wong Center for Communications Research

Eugene and Joan C. Wong Center for Communications Research

Tuesday, December 7, 2004
Cory Hall, Level 2,
East Corridor College of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley

Program

2:00 p.m. Reminiscences

Ernest S. Kuh, UC Berkeley

Pravin Varaiya, UC Berkeley

Sanjoy K. Mitter, MIT

George L. Turin, UC Berkeley

3:15 p.m. Dedication of the Wong Center

3:30 p.m. Keynote Addresses

Bruce Hajek, University of Illinois
“Stochastic Processes in Fading Channels”

Jack K. Wolf, UC San Diego
“A Broadcast Version of Source Coding with Side Information”

Brief Remarks by
Paul R. Gray, Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost, UC Berkeley

4:30 p.m. Wireless Foundations: New Directions in Communications

Moderated by David Tse, UC Berkeley

Michael Gastpar, UC Berkeley
“Distributed Information Processing and Unreliable Communication”

Anant Sahai, UC Berkeley
“Interaction, Feedback, and the Nature of Information”

Martin Wainwright, UC Berkeley
“Stochastic Processes on Graphs: Theoretical and Algorithmic Challenges”

5:30 p.m. Reception