CITRIS Europe Research Symposium 2007

"CITRIS - Europe" Research Symposium on July 11 and 12, 2007, in London.

This event is generously sponsored by BT and Microsoft, and supported by University College, London, and Imperial College, London. We will hold a full-day symposium at the Wellcome Collection Conference Center on July 11th, and the second day (July 12th) will consist of various parallel workshops at the Skempton Building at Imperial College London.

We will offer subsidized registration, thanks to the generous sponsorship of BT and Microsoft, and members of any CITRIS Corporate Sponsor company may register at no charge.

In addition, there will be an EU-US workshop on July 10 on Wirelessly Networked Embedded Systems, and more information about this event is online at http://euusworkshop07.specknet.org/.

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Agenda

July 11: Wellcome Collection Conference Center, 183‐193 Euston Road (map)

8:00 a.m. Registration and continental breakfast

9:00 a.m. Welcome and Introduction by Bernard Buxton, Dean of Engineering Sciences Faculty, University College London

9:10 a.m. Overview of CITRIS: Collaborations among Academia, Industry and Government

S. Shankar Sastry, CITRIS Director
Jeff Wright, CITRIS Director at UC Merced

Session One: Wireless, Sensors and Telecommunications

10:00 a.m. Jan Rabaey, UC Berkeley

10:25 a.m. Ali Niknejad, UC Berkeley

10:50 a.m. Ulrich Ramacher, Infineon Technologies

11:15 a.m. CITRIS Keynote on Energy and the Environment: Paul Wright, UC Berkeley and CITRIS

11:45 a.m. Keynote Speaker: Steve Wright, Head of Strategic Research, BT

12:15 p.m. Lunch

Session Two: Future Network Architectures and their Impact

1:00 p.m. Anthony Joseph, UC Berkeley

1:25 p.m. Jitendra Malik, UC Berkeley

1:50 p.m. Felix Wu, UC Davis

2:15 p.m. Randy Katz, UC Berkeley

2:35 p.m. Break

Session Three: Services and the Global Society

2:45 p.m. Keynote speaker: Jonathan Murray, WW Technology Officer, Public Sector,EMEA Technology Office, Microsoft

3:30 p.m. Ravi Nemana, UC Berkeley and CITRIS

3:55 p.m. Ramakrishna Akella, UC Silicon Valley Center

4:20 p.m. Javeed Siddiqui, UC Davis

4:55 p.m. John Zysman, UC Berkeley

5:30 p.m. Panel Discussion on the Social Impacts of Technology
Jonathan Murray, Microsoft
Isha Ray, UC Berkeley
Fiona Doyle, UC Berkeley
Eero Silvennoinen, Tekes
Susan Morgan, BT

6:30 p.m. Reception and Cocktails, Williams Lounge and Wellcome Trust Auditorium
Keynote speaker: Ulf Dahlsten, Director for Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures,
DG Information Society and Media, European Commission

Thursday, July 12: Skempton Building, South Kensington Campus, Imperial College London (map)

8:00 a.m. Registration and continental breakfast

9:00 a.m. Welcome and Introduction by Professor Dame Julia Higgins, Principal of the Faculty of Engineering, Imperial College London

9:15 a.m. Parallel Workshop Sessions, Morning
Researchers will present brief overviews on their current approach; the most pressing challenges in their field; and the future direction of research in this field. The overviews are followed by a round‐table discussion and a wrap‐up with numerous action items for follow‐up.

Room 207
Workshop One: Impacts of IT on Medicine and Biology [Overview, including abstracts and bios]
Richard Kitney, Imperial College London
Jose Carmena, UC Berkeley
Dorian Liepmann, UC Berkeley
Chris Toumazou, Imperial College London
Javeed Siddiqui, UC Davis
Nick Booth, BT

Room 228
Workshop Two: IT Advances for Energy and the Environment [Overview, including abstracts and bios]
Peter Pearson, Imperial College London
Paul Wright, UC Berkeley
Eric Yeatman, Imperial College London
Jasmina Vujic, UC Berkeley
Phil Bull, BT

Room 227
Workshop Three: Innovations in Services [Overview, including abstracts and bios]
Ravi Nemana, UC Berkeley

Ramakrishna Akella, UC Silicon Valley Center
Anthony St. George, UC Berkeley
Erkko Autio, Imperial College London
Wolfgang Emmerich, University College London
Michael Lyons, BT

Room 208
Workshop Four: Technology and Infrastructure for Emerging Regions [Overview, including abstracts and bios]
Joyojeet Pal, UC Berkeley
Isha Ray, UC Berkeley
Čedo Maksimović, Imperial College London
Jan Rabaey, UC Berkeley
R.J. Honicky, UC Berkeley

12:00 p.m. Lunch at the main concourse

2:00 p.m. Parallel Workshop Sessions, Afternoon

Room 228
Workshop Five: Trustworthy and Secure Information Systems and Computing [Overview, including abstracts and bios]
Ross Anderson, University of Cambridge
Robin Bloomfield, City University, London
Bryan Littlefair, BT
Angela Sasse, University College London

Room 208
Workshop Six: The Intersection of Art and Technology [Overview, including abstracts and bios]
Lesley Gavin, BT
Steve Beck, UC Berkeley
Ruzena Bajcsy, UC Berkeley
Gordana Novakovic, University College London

Greg Niemeyer, UC Berkeley

Room 207
Workshop Seven: The Next Generation of Networking [Overview, including abstracts and bios]
Bob Briscoe, BT
Randy Katz, UC Berkeley
Felix Wu, UC Davis
Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College London

4:30 p.m. Meeting adjourns