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Program

Morning

8:00-8:30 a.m.
Registration, coffee and pastries

8:30-8:40 a.m.
Welcome and introductions
Eyad Abed
Director, Institute for Systems Research

8:40-8:50 a.m.
Welcoming remarks
C.D. Mote, Jr.
President, University of Maryland

8:50-9:00 a.m.
Opening remarks
Nariman Farvardin
Dean, A. James Clark School of Engineering

9:00-9:50 a.m.
Wireless Sensor Networks for Traffic Monitoring
Pravin Varaiya
Nortel Networks Distinguished Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
University of California, Berkeley

9:50-10:40 a.m.
Including the Cost of the Implementation in the Formulation of Optimal Control Problems
Roger Brockett
ISR affiliated faculty member
An Wang Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University

10:40-10:55 a.m.
Break

10:55-11:45 a.m.
A Signal Processing View of the Changing World
Bede Liu
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering
Princeton University

 

Afternoon

11:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Banquet Luncheon
Celebrating ISR history, supporters and directors

With remarks by:
William Kirwan
Chancellor, University System of Maryland

Lynn Preston
Deputy Division Leader, Centers
Division of Engineering Education and Centers
National Science Foundation

John Kenyon
Senior Vice President, Hughes Network Systems

Aris Melissaratos
Secretary of Business and Economic Development
State of Maryland

1:15-2:05 p.m.
Towards a Unifed View of Communication and Control
Sanjoy Mitter
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2:05-2:55 p.m.
Biological Systems Large and Small
Eberhard Voit
Professor and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Systems Biology, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology

2:55-3:10 p.m.
Break

3:10-4:00 p.m.
Lessons Unlearned in Wireless
Rajiv Laroia
Senior Vice President of Engineering
QUALCOMM Flarion Technologies
ISR alumnus, founder and CTO of Flarion Technologies