COMMUNICATION SCIENCES INSTITUTE

University of Southern California

RESEARCH REVIEW

 

Ronald Tutor Hall Dean's Boardroom

 

Thursday, March 9, 2006

 

 

9:00 am                      Registration

 

9:30 am                      Dean Yannis Yortsos, Viterbi School of Engineering

- Welcoming Remarks

 

9:40 am                      Keynote Talk

Dr. John Treichler, CTO and Director, Applied Signal Technology, Inc.

                                   "Using Technology to Keep Other Countries Honest"

 

10:20 am                     Professor Giuseppe Caire

"How Much Do We Lose By Imposing QoS Constraints in Wireless?

An Information Theoretic Answer"

 

10:50 am                     Coffee Break

 

11:00 am                     Professor Alan Willner

                                   "Intelligent and Robust Future Optical Networks"

 

11:30 am                     Professor Urbashi Mitra

                                   "CSI News and Highlights"

 

12:00 noon                 Buffet Lunch, RTH Boardroom

 

1:30 pm                      Poster Session , RTH Second Floor Foyer

 

2:30 pm                      Professor Igor Devetak

                                   "Introduction to Quantum Shannon Theory"

 

3:00 pm                      Professor Keith Chugg

                                   "PN Acquisition, Turbo Decoding and Graphical Model Extraction"

 

3:30 pm                      CSI Advisory Board Meeting

 

 

5:00 pm                      Reception for the Viterbi Lecture, Gerontology Patio