May 24th, 2007

Keynote Talks, Ball Room, FIT Bldg

9:35-10:10 AM   Solomon Golomb (NAE, NAS, AAAS member, Professor of Electrical Engineering, USC), Communications Research at USC--Signal Design and Coding

!0:10-10:45 AM   Yi Luo (Professor and director of the State Key Lab on Integrated Opto-electronics, THU),  Optical Devices Based on III-V Compound Semiconductors for Fiber Telecommunications and Solid State Lighting

USC EE and CS Dept. Overview, Ball Room, FIT Bldg 

11:00-11:30 AM   Alexander Sawchuk, USC: Overview of  Ming Hsieh EE Department

11:30-12:00 AM   Gerard Medioni, USC: Overview of Computer Science Department, USC

14:00 - 17:00 PM Three parallel tracks each has five to six talks

Track I, 1-315, FIT Bldg, Optoelectronics and Nanotechnology 

14:00-14:30 PM  Tianling Ren, THU: Micro/Nano Device Research at IMETU

14:30-15:00 PM  Chong-Wu Zhou, USC: Synthesis and Applications of Massively Aligned Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

15:00-15:30 PM  Yidong Huang, THU: Low Loss long Range Surface Plasmon Polariton Waveguide

15:30-16:00 PM  Dan Dapkus, USC: Photonic Integrated Circuits with Circular Resonators

16:00-16:30 PM  John Obrien, USC: Photonic Crystal Devices

16:30-17:00 PM  Wei Zhang, THU: Nonlinear optical effects in microstructure fibers

Track II, 1-312, FIT Bldg, Biomimetics, Bioinformatics, and Biometrics

14:00-14:40 PM  Michael Waterman, USC: Genomic Optical Mapping

14:40-15:20 PM Ted Berger: Brain-Computer Interfaces: Implantable Biomimetic Microelectronics as Neural Prostheses for Lost Cognitive Function

15:20-15:45 PM  Xuegong Zhang, THU: Bioinformatics at Tsinghua: from Genomics to Systems

15:45-16:10 PM  Kirk Shung, USC: High Frequency Ultrasonic Imaging

16:10-16:35 PM  Xiaoqing Ding, THU:  Intelligent image processing of my report

16:35-17:00 PM  Ellis Meng, USC: Polymer Microfluidics and BioMEMS

Track III, 1-515, FIT Bldg, Wireless Communication and Sensor Networks 

14:30-15:00 PM  Xiaohong Guan, THU:  Energy-Efficient Sensing Coverage and Communication for Wireless Sensor Networks

15:00-15:30 PM  Ramesh Govindan, USC: Wireless Networked Sensing Systems

15:30-16:00 PM  Shidong Zhou, THU: Sum capacity analysis of distributed wireless communication system

16:00-16:30 PM  Raghu Raghavendra, USC: Energy Efficient Protocols for Wireless Networks

16:30-17:00 PM  Jian Song, THU: Key Technologies in Chinese Digital Television Terrestrial Broadcasting Standard and its Future Applications

May 25th, 2007

9:00-11:00 AM, Two parallel tracks each has four to six talks 

Track I, 1-315, FIT Bldg, Quantum Engineering and Systems

9:00-9:20 AM  Todd Brun, USC: Quantum Information and Computation

9:20-9:40 AM  Wei Chen, THU:  Studies of decoherence in a large area Nb flux qubit

9:40-10:00 AM  Guilu Long, THU: Quantum Search Algorithms, One-party Quantum Error Correction in Quantum Communication

10:00-10:20 AM  Runyao Duan, THU: On the Perfect Distinguishability of Unitary Operations

10:20-10:40 AM  Grace Lu, USC: Science and Application of Nanostructured Devices

10:40-11:00 AM  Joe Qin, USC: Systems and Control in Micro- and Nano-Scale Manufacturing

Track II, 1-415, FIT Bldg, Multimedia, Vision, Graphics, and Games  Chair: Fang Zheng

9:00-9:20 AM  Jay Kuo, USC: Multimedia Communications, Content and Rights Management

9:20-9:40 AM  Yujin Zhang,THU: Advances in Image and Video Segmentation

9:40-10:00 AM　Guangyou Xu, THU: Group Interaction analysis under dynamic context

10:00-10:20 AM  Shri Narayanan, USC: Speech, Language and Audio Processing at USC

10:40-11:00 AM  Fang Zheng, THU: Speaker Recognition Activities at CSLT