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Massively Distributed Self-Organizing Networks

May 13 - 17, 2002

IPAM Building
Room 1200

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Monday, May 13, 2002

Tutorials: Communications Perspective

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:00 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:15 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:15 - 10:30

Deborah Estrin (UCLA)

"Embedding the Internet: This Century Challenges"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00

Urbashi Mitra (University of Southern California)

"Wireless Changes"

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)

Tutorials: Systems and Technology Perspectives

Afternoon Session

1:30 - 2:30

David Culler (Intel / UC Berkeley)

"Technology Enabler"

2:30 - 3:00 Coffee Break
3:00 - 4:00

Kristofer Pister (University of California at Berkeley)

"Closing in on Smart Dust"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

4:00 - 5:00 Group and Round Table Discussion
5:00 - 7:00 Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, May 14, 2002

Tutorials: Physics and Biology Perspectives

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00

Jean Carlson (UCSB)

"Tutorial: Introduction to phase transitions and power laws "

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:30

Evelyn Fox Keller (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

"The history and prospects for mathematical biology"

11:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Tutorials: Information Theoretic Perspectives

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

Michelle Effros (California Institute of Technology)

"Information Perspective"

3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30 - 4:30

Greg Pottie (UCLA)

"Information Perspective"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

Tutorials: Physics and Biology Perspectives


Wednesday, May 15, 2002

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 10:30

John Doyle (California Institute of Technology)

"Tutorial: Biological molecules, modules, and networks"

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00

John Doyle (California Institute of Technology)

"Tutorial: Emergence and self-organization in physics, biology, and engineering"

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

Reka Albert (University of Minnesota)

"Boolean modeling of genetic regulatory networks"

3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30 - 4:30

P. R. Kumar (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

"Ad Hoc Wireless Networks: Protocols, Architecture, and Convergence"
Presentation (PDF File)

Research Talks


Thursday, May 16, 2002

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 10:30

Bhaskar Krishnamachari (Cornell University)

"Critical Density Thresholds and Complexity in Wireless Networks"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00

Tad Hogg (Hewlett Packard Laboratories)

"Multiagent control of modular self-reconfigurable robots "
Presentation (PDF File)

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

Andrea Goldsmith (Stanford University)

"Robust multilayer design of wireless networks for massively distributed systems"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

3:00 - 4:00

P. R. Kumar (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

"A Network Information Theory for Wireless Communications"
Presentation (PDF File)

4:00 - 4:30 Coffee Break
4:30 - 5:30

To Be Announced

5:30 - 7:00 Conference Dinner BBQ

Research Talks


Friday, May 17, 2002

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00

Feng Zhao (Xerox Palo Alto Research Center)

"Collaborative Processing in Microsensor Networks"

10:00 - 10:15 Coffee Break
10:15 - 11:15

Gaurav Sukhatme (University of Southern California)

"Physics-based Sensing and State Estimation Algorithms for Robotic Sensor"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

11:15 - 12:15

Kannan Ramchandran (University of California at Berkeley)

 

12:15 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

Massimo Franceschetti (California Institute of Technology)

"Wireless Networks: from Collective Behavior to Physical Models"

3:00 - 3:15 Conclusion

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