Agenda of 1st THU-USC Faculty Research Symposium on

Workshop on Emerging Technologies

Dates: 24-25 May, 2007
Venue: FIT Building, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Day 1: Thursday, 24 May, 2007

8:45 - 09:30 AM: Welcome and MOU Signing Ceremony

Tsinghua: VP Weihe Xie, Dean of School of Information Science and Technology (SIST), Directors from related university offices.

USC: Yannis Yortsos, Dean of Engineering and Faculty, Mr. Feng Deng, Alumnus of both Tsinghua and USC, Invited governement representatives

Keynote Talks, Ball Room FIT Building
9:35 – 10:10 AM: Solomon Golomb (NAE, NAS, AAAS member, Professor of Electrical Engineering USC) - Communications Research at USC---Signal Design and Coding

10:10 – 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

10:45 -11:00 AM: Coffee break

USC EE and CS Dept. Overview, Ball Room, FIT Bldg
11:00 – 11:30 AM: Alexander Sawchuk, USC: Overview of Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering

11:30 – 12:00 PM: Gerard Medioni, USC: Overview of Computer Science Department, USC

12:00 PM: Lunch

12:00 - 3:00 PM: Three parallel tracks each having five to six talks

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

Tianling Ren, THU: Micro/Nano Devices Research at IMETU
Chong-Wu Zhou, USC: Synthesis and Applications of Massively Alligned Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Dan Dapkus, USC: Photonic Integrated Circuits with Circular Resonators
John Obrien, USC: Photonic Crystal Devices
Wei Zhang, THU: Nonlinear Optical Effects in Microstructure Fibers

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

Michael Waterman: Genomic Optical Mapping Computational and Molecular Biology, USC
Ted Berger: Brain-Computer Interfaces: Implantable Biomimetics Microelectronics as Neural Prostheses for Lost Cognitive Function, Dept of Biomedical Engineering, USC
Xuegong Zhang, THU: Bioinformatics at Tsinghua: From Genomics to Systems
Kirk Shung, USC: High Frequency Ultrasonic Imaging
Xiaoqing Ding, THU: Intelligent Image Processing of my Report
Ellis Meng, USC: Polymer Microfluids and BioMEMS

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

Ramesh Govindan, USC: Wireless Networked Sensing Systems
Xiaohong Guan, THU: Energy-Efficient Sensing Coverage and Communication for Wireless Sensor Networks
Shidong Zhou, THU: Sum Capacity Analysis of Distributed Wireless Communication System
Raghu Raghavendra, USC: Energy Efficient Protocols for Wireless Networks
Jian Song, THU: Key Technologies in Chinese Digital Television Terrestrial Broadcasting Standard and its Future Applications

5:00 PM: Campus Tour

6:00 PM: Dinner with Tsinghua University Officials

Day 2: Friday, 25 May, 2007

9:00-11:00 AM: Two Parallel tracks each having six talks

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

Todd Brun, USC: Quantum Information and Computation
Wei Chen, THU: Studies of Decoherence in a Large Area Nb Flux Qubit
Guilu Long, THU: Quantum Search Algorithms, One-party Quantum Error Correction in Quantum Communication
Runyao Duan, THU: On the Perfect Distinguishability of Unitary Operations
Grace Lu, USC: Science and Applications of Nanostructured Devices
Joe Qin, USC: Systems and Control in Micro and Nano Scale Manufacturing

Track II, 1-415, FIT Bldg - Multimedia, Vision, Graphics and Games

Jay Kuo, USC: Multimedia Communications, Content and Rights Management
Yujin Zhang, THU: Advances in Image and Video Segmentation
Huangyou Xu, THU: Group Interaction Analysis Under Dynamic Context
Shri Narayanan, USC: Speech, language and Audio Processing at USC
Fang Zhang, THU: Speaker Recognition Activities at CSLT
Qionghai Dai, THU: A Real Time Interactive Dynamic Light Field Transmission System

11:00 AM: SIST Common Lab Tour

Exhibit Hall, FIT BLDG
Network, FIT Bldg
HPC/EDA, FIT Bldg

SIST Department Tour

Four Parallel Tracks each having two labs
EE, (East) Main Bldg
CS, (East) Main Bldg
Automation, (Central) Main Bldg
Micro and Nano Electronics, IME Bldg

12:00 PM: Lunch with SIST Officials and Faculty

01:30 - 03:30PM: USC Open Floor with Tsinghua Students (Outside Ball Room, FIT Bldg)

03:30 - 05:00PM: Faculty Group Discussions

Saturday 26th May, 2007 - Optional Tour of the Great Wall of China and Ming Tombs