Massively Distributed Self-Organizing Networks - IPAM

Massively Distributed Self-Organizing Networks

Part of the Long Program Large Scale Communication Networks
May 13 - 17, 2002

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, May 13, 2002

Morning Session

08:30-08:30
Tutorials: Communications Perspective
08:30-09:00
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:15
Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:15-10:30
Deborah Estrin (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Embedding the Internet: This Century Challenges
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-12:00
Urbashi Mitra (University of Southern California (USC))
Wireless Changes

Afternoon Session

12:00-13:30
Lunch (on your own)
13:30-13:30
Tutorials: Systems and Technology Perspectives
13:30-14:30
David Culler (Intel / UC Berkeley)
Technology Enabler
14:30-15:00
Coffee Break
15:00-16:00
Kristofer Pister (UC Berkeley)
Closing in on Smart Dust
16:00-17:00
Group and Round Table Discussion
17:00-19:00
Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, May 14, 2002

Morning Session

08:30-08:30
Tutorials: Physics and Biology Perspectives
08:30-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-10:00
Jean Carlson (University of California, Santa Barbara (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
11:30-14:00
Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

14:00-14:00
Tutorials: Information Theoretic Perspectives
14:00-15:00
Michelle Effros (California Institute of Technology)
Information Perspective
15:00-15:30
Coffee Break
15:30-16:30
Greg Pottie (UCLA)
Information Perspective

Wednesday, May 15, 2002

Morning Session

08:30-08:30
Tutorials: Physics and Biology Perspectives
08:30-09:30
Continental Breakfast
09:30-10:30
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

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-15:00
Reka Albert (Pennsylvania State University)
Boolean modeling of genetic regulatory networks
15:00-15:30
Coffee Break
15:30-16:30
P. R. Kumar (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Ad Hoc Wireless Networks: Protocols, Architecture, and Convergence

Thursday, May 16, 2002

Morning Session

08:30-08:30
Research Talks
08:30-09:30
Continental Breakfast
09:30-10:30
Bhaskar Krishnamachari (Cornell University)
Critical Density Thresholds and Complexity in Wireless Networks
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-12:00
Tad Hogg (Hewlett Packard Laboratories)
Multiagent control of modular self-reconfigurable robots

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-15:00
Andrea Goldsmith (Stanford University)
Robust multilayer design of wireless networks for massively distributed systems
15:00-16:00
P. R. Kumar (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
A Network Information Theory for Wireless Communications
16:00-16:30
Coffee Break
16:30-17:30
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Optimization Technqiues for Sensor Networks
17:30-19:00
Conference Dinner BBQ

Friday, May 17, 2002

Morning Session

08:30-08:30
Research Talks
08:30-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-10:00
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
11:15-12:15
Kannan Ramchandran (UC Berkeley)
Title not available

Afternoon Session

12:15-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-15:00
Massimo Franceschetti (California Institute of Technology)
Wireless Networks: from Collective Behavior to Physical Models
15:00-15:15
Conclusion
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