Thursday, May 21, 2009

9:00- 9:30: Welcome Remarks and Introduction(Lecture Hall)

Keynote Talks (Lecture Hall)

9:30-10:00:  “Enhancing EHS, Maximizing Recovery Efficiency and Minimizing OPEX and CAPEX with IT Driven Intelligent Oilfield Operations”

                       by Iraj Ershaghi, (Omar B. Milligan Professor and Director Petroleum Engineering Program and Executive Director of Center for Interactive Smart Oilfield Technologies, USC)

10:30-11:00:  “Developments of Solar Thermal in China”

              by Zhiqiang Yin (Professor, THU)

11:00-11:30:  “Multi-Disciplinary Technology Applications in the Energy Industry with a Focus on Geosciences, Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition ”

by Fred Aminzadeh, (Research Professor, Center for Interactive Smart Oilfield Technologies, USC)

14:00 - 17:30   Parallel Sessions

Track I: IT-Driven Energy and Sustainability (Room 1-315)

Cyrus Shahabi , USC: “GeoRealism: Expanding the human ability to comprehend a larger geo space"

Yi Luo , THU: “Key Technologies for Solid State Lighting -- from Epitaxy to Lighting Fixture”

Don Zhang , USC: “Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide in Geologic Formations: A Viable Option for Mitigating the Greenhouse Effect”

Ruixi Yuan, THU: “Green IT for Energy Efficient Buildings”

Ellis Meng , USC :“Biologically-Inspired Smart Microfabricated Sensor and Actuator Networks”

Yangdong Deng, THU “Massively Parallel Computing for Electronic Design Automation”

Track II: Green IT and Intelligent Software (Room 1-312)

Massoud Pedram, USC: “Reducing Energy Cost and Carbon Footprint of Data Centers ”,

Zhihua Wang, THU: “Case study for the Medical electronics and integrated circuits”

Murali Annavaram, USC: “Improving the reliability of data center servers using 3D stacked monitoring”,

Wenguang Chen, THU: “Energy-aware schedulers for HPC clusters”

Viktor Prasanna, USC: “Greening the Internet: Towards Design of Energy Efficient and High Throughput Routers”

Dong Xiang, THU: “Deadlock-Free Fully Adaptive Routing in 2D Tori”

Track III: Smart Power Grid and Urban Infrastructure (Room 1-415)

Jay Kuo, USC: "Design of Smart Power Grid Systems: Issues and Opportunities"

Zongxiang Lu, THU: “Research Activities and Technical Roadmap of Green Electric Grid in China”

Joe Qin, USC: “Model Predictive Control for Electricity Demand Reduction in Commercial Buildings”

Xiaohui Cheng, THU: “A Research Initiative: eRUCIE: e-Leaning Network on Risk-managed Underground Civil Infrastructure Engineering”

Andrea Armani, USC: “Online Sensor Networks for Dynamic Control”

Li Li, THU: “ITS in China: Our Viewpoints and Recent Research Progress”

Friday, May 22, 2009

9:00- 9:30:Signing Ceremony of “THU-USC Joint Institute on Smart and Green IT” (Lecture Hall)

Keynote Talk (Lecture Hall):

9:30-10:00: “Green and Smart for a Sustainable Future”

by Yannis Yortsos (Dean of VSoE, USC, Member of NAE)

10:00 -10:30: “Chinese Energy Challenges and Way Out ”

by Zheng Li (Deputy Director of Tsinghua Low-Carbon Lab, THU)

11:00 – 12:30: Parallel Sessions

Track IV: Mobile Sensor Networks for Energy Efficiency (Room 1-415)

Andy Molisch, USC: “Sensor Networks for energy-saving applications: physical-layer and cross-layer aspects”

Lin Zhang, THU: “ASON: Metropolitan Area Sensing and Operation Network”

Bhaskar Krishnamachari, USC: “City-Scale Sensor Networks”

Track V:  Nanotechnology and Energy Conversion (Room 1-315)

Chongwu Zhou, USC: “Green Energy Conversion and Storage Based on Novel Nanomaterials”

Yidong Huang, THU: “Passive and Active Performances of Slab Photonic Crystal Waveguides”

Jia Grace Lu, USC: “Physical Properties of Semiconductor and Metallic Nanowires”