NSF I/U CRC Planning Meeting

Center for Telecommunications

University of Hawaii

August 3-5, 2003

 

August 3, 2003

 

6:00 PM            Reception

                        Magdy and Sonia Iskander

                        152 Polihale Place

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August 4, 2003*

 

8:30 AM           Introduction and Welcome

                        Dean W.F. Chen, College of Engineering, UH

 

8:45                  The NSF I/U CRC Program

                        Dr. Alex Schwarzkopf, NSF/ERC

 

9:15                  Connection One Telecommunications Center

                        Prof. Sayfe Kiaei, ASU

 

9:45                  Hawaii Center for Advanced Communications

                        Magdy Iskander, UH

 

10:15                Break

 

10:30                Iterative Decoding Techniques for Wireless Communications

                         Marc Fossorier, UH

 

10:50                Enabling MEMS Technologies for Communications Systems

                        Victor Lubecke, UH

 

11:10                Retrodiative Antenna Array

                        Ryan Miyamoto, UH

 

11:30                Cooperative Diversity for Robust Multiuser Communications

                        Anders Host-Madsen, UH

 

11:50                Lunch

 

1:30PM             Educational Programs and Funding Opportunities at NSF/DUE

Dr. Roger Salters, NSF/DUE

 

2:00 PM            Advanced Propagation Modeling and RF Channel Characterization

                        Zhengqing Yun, UH

 

 

 

NSF I/U CRC Planning Meeting

Center for Telecommunications

University of Hawaii

August 3-5, 2003

 

 

August 4, 2003 (continued)

 

2:20 PM            Remote Vital Signs Monitoring with Communications Signals

                        Olga Boric-Lubecke, UH

 

2:40                  Interfering MIMO Links

                        M. Fatih Demirkol, UH

 

3:00                  Quasi-Optical Power Combining

                        Wayne Shiroma, UH

 

3:20                  Open

 

3:40 PM            Break

 

4:15                  MIMO Wireless Communications

Mike Jensen

 

4:15                  High Performance, Low cost and  Multiband, Phased Antenna Arrays

Magdy Iskander and Rory Sorensen, UH

 

4:35                  Educational Multimedia Assets at UH

                        Magdy Iskander, UH

 

5:00                  Concluding Remarks

 

5:05                  Adjurn

 

6:00                  Dinner at Ocean Terrace

                       Sheraton Waikiki

 

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August 5, 2003*

                      

9:00AM            NSF/ Connection One Executive Committee Meeting

 

12:00 noon        Adjurn

 

 

 

 

*All presentations will be made in the Engineering Multimedia Classroom, 389 Holmes Hall