agenda

Thursday March 9

8:30-8:45 Welcome from the organizers

8:35-8:45 Welcome from CNLS director, Bob Ecke

8:45-9:30 Yannis Paschalidis

"Sensor Networks: Localization, Transmission Scheduling, and Energy-Aware Routing with QoS"

9:30-10:00 Bill Priedhorsky

"Physical and Economic Limitations for Distributed Nuclear Sensing"

10:00-10:30 Break

10:30 - 11:00 Deborah Estrin

11:00-11:30 Jim Smith

"Communication Network Simulation for Infrastructure Protection and Sensor Network Applications"

11:30-12:00 R Srikant

12:00-1:30 Lunch

1:30-2:00 David Castanon

"Resource Management in Sensor Networks"

2:00-2:30 Angela Mielke

2:30- 3:00 Break

3:00-3:30 Christos Cassandras

"Distributed Cooperative Coverage Control Using Sensor Networks"

3:30-4:00 Ron Minnich

"BusTracker: A Prototype Mobile Distributed Sensor Network"

4:00-4:30 David Starobinski

"On the Macroscopic Effects of Local Interactions in Wireless Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks"

4:30-5:00 Gregory Eyink

7:00 Dinner at Trinity Beverage Co., Los Alamos

Friday March 10

8:30 - 9:00 Zoltan Toroczkai

9:00 - 9:30 Pirooz Vakili

"Database Monte Carlo: A New Strategy for Efficient Simulation"

9:30 - 10:00 Break

10:00- 10:30 Don Hush

"Learning in Restricted Environments"

10:30 - 11:00 John Baillieul

"Source Coding for Guaranteed Performance of Control Systems with Time-Varying Feedback"

11:00 - 11:30 Renee Brown

"Distributed Sensor Networks for Ecological Research in Aridland Ecosystems"

11:30 - 12:00 Aric Hagberg

12:00 - 12:30 Venkatesh Saligrama