Workshops

Using Environmental Process Models to Guide Sensor Network Sampling Design

09:30-10:00

Tom Harmon (University of California, Merced (UC Merced))

An Information Theory Research Agenda for Sensor Networks

10:00-10:30

Break

10:30-11:00

Greg Pottie (UCLA)

From sensing to actuation over wireless networks

11:00-11:30

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

11:30-13:30

Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

13:30-14:00

Michelle Effros (California Institute of Technology)

Title not available

On Minimalism and Scale in Sensor Networks

14:00-14:30

Upamanyu Madhow (UC Santa Barbara)

Data driven sensor access architectures for sensor networks

14:30-15:00

Break

15:00-15:30

Anna Scaglione (University of California, Davis (UC Davis))

Information-driven Inference in Resource-constrained Environments

15:30-16:00

John Fisher (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Cyberinfrastructure Challenges for Environmental Observatories

Tuesday, January 9, 2007

Morning Session

08:00-09:00

Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)

09:00-09:30

Barbara Minsker (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Data Fusion in Sensor Networks

09:30-10:00

Hugh Durrant-Whyte (University of Sydney)

Distributed Consensus and Cooperative Estimation

10:00-10:30

Richard Murray (California Institute of Technology)

Inferential ecosystem modeling using dynamic data

10:30-11:00

Break

11:00-11:30

Jim Clark (Duke University)

Analyzing wireless sensor network data under suppression and failure in transmission

11:30-12:00

Alan Gelfand (Duke University)

Sensing Reality and Communicating Bits: A Dangerous Liaison

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00

Lunch (on your own)

14:00-17:00

Greg Pottie (UCLA)

Title not available

17:00-18:30

Reception (Location: IPAM Lobby)

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Morning Session

08:00-09:00

Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)

09:00-09:30

Michael Gastpar (UC Berkeley)

[PDF]

09:30-10:00

Akbar Sayeed (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Active Wireless Sensing in Time, Frequency and Space

[PPT]

10:00-10:30

Break

10:30-11:00

John Stankovic (University of Virginia)

Full Life Cycle Analysis For Wireless Sensor Networks

Sensor network security through identity-based encryption

11:00-11:30

Nigel Boston (University of South Carolina)

Distributed Sensor Fusion using Space-Time Diffusion

11:30-13:30

Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

13:30-14:00

Lin Xiao (Microsoft Research)

Distributed Inference: Topology Optimization

14:00-14:30

Jose Moura (Carnegie-Mellon University)

Multihopping in wireless communication channels: Some solutions, some challenges

14:30-15:00

Break

15:00-15:30

Urbashi Mitra (University of Southern California (USC))

SMART SLEEPING POLICIES FOR WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS

15:30-16:00

Venugopal Veeravalli (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Sensing Capacity, Sensing Diversity and Sparsity: Fundamental Tradeoffs & Scaling Laws

16:00-16:30

Venkatesh Saligrama (Boston University)

Detecting Polygons and Compressing Waves -- Some New Twists on Classical Problems in Information Theory

16:30-17:00

Sergio Servetto (Cornell University)

Information extraction from large scale sensor networks

Thursday, January 11, 2007

Morning Session

08:00-09:00

Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)

09:00-09:30

Alfred Hero (University of Michigan)

Learning to Satisfy Actuator Networks

09:30-10:00

Mark Coates (McGill University)

Modeling a dense wireless sensor network: complexity, stability and robustness

10:00-10:30

Break

10:30-11:00

Mingyan Liu (University of Michigan)

Blind Calibration of Sensor Networks

11:00-11:30

Robert Nowak (University of Wisconsin-Madison)