Communications 2025 Schedule

Communications and Information Technology 2025

Tuesday, October 16, 2012
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Registration, Calit2 - walking map

Opening Plenary Session
1:00 – 1:05 p.m. Welcome
1:05 – 1:15 p.m. Introduction of Dignitaries
1:15 – 1:30 p.m. Introductory Talk: The Future of Communications 2025, Gregory N. Washington, Ph.D, UC Irvine

Cloud and Mobile Technologies
Session Chair: Israel Cidon, D.Sc., Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
1:30 – 2:15 p.m. Session Keynote: Hamid Jafarkhani, Ph.D, UC Irvine
2:15 – 4:15 p.m. Speakers
Amir Boag, Ph.D., Tel Aviv University
Israel Cidon, D.Sc., Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Franco De Flaviis, Ph.D., UC Irvine
Eran Socher, Ph.D., Tel Aviv University
4:15 – 4:30 p.m. Break

Evening Reception and Dinner
4:30 – 6:00 p.m. Reception, Poster Session, Calit2 Open House and Tours, Calit2 - walking map
6:00 p.m. Dinner, University Club
Keynote Speakers
David Siegel, Consul General of Israel in Los Angeles
Ehud Heyman, Ph.D., Dean, The Iby and Aladar Fleischman Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University

Wednesday, October 17, 2012
8:00 – 8:50 a.m. Breakfast and Registration, Calit2 - walking map
8:50 – 9:00 a.m. Welcome

Micro and Nanotechnologies for Information Processing
Session Chair: Chen S. Tsai, Ph.D., UC Irvine
9:00 – 9:45 a.m. Session Keynote: Kang L. Wang, Ph.D., UCLA
9:45 – 11:45 a.m. Speakers
Peter J. Burke, Ph.D., UC Irvine
Koby Scheuer, Ph.D., Tel Aviv University
Yosi Shacham, D.Sc., Tel Aviv University
H. Kumar Wickramasinghe, Ph.D., UC Irvine

Lunch
11:45 a.m. – 1:45 p.m. Lunch, University Club
Keynote Speaker: Henry Samueli, Ph.D., Co-founder, Chairman and Chief Technical Officer of Broadcom Corporation

Communication, Interface and Media
Session Chair: Yosi Shacham, D.Sc., Tel Aviv University
1:45 – 2:30 p.m. Session Keynote: Joseph Klafter, Ph.D., Tel Aviv University
2:30 – 4:30 p.m. Speakers
Alex Bronstein, Ph.D., Tel Aviv University
Deva Ramanan, Ph.D., UC Irvine
Padhraic Smyth, Ph.D., UC Irvine
Avishai Wool, Ph.D., Tel Aviv University

4:30 – 4:45 p.m. Break

4:45 – 5:35 p.m. Panel Discussion

Industry Panel Discussion -- Living and Working in the Hyper-connected World
Moderator: G.P. Li, Ph.D., Director of Calit2, UC Irvine

Panelists
William Cain, Ph.D., Western Digital
Sherman Chen, Ph.D., Vice President of Technology, Broadcom
Nelson Nahum, Zadara Storage
Shafi Syed, Executive Vice President Engineering and Co-Founder, Corent

5:35 – 5:45 p.m. Closing Remarks