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Workshops in Electrical Engineering

14th Southern California Nonlinear Control Workshop
(Professors Paulo Tabuada and Panagiotis Christofides, organizers June 8, 2007)

D. Pekarek (California Technical Institute)
Optimal Control for Simple Hybrid Mechanical Systems

R. G. Sanfelice (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Hybrid Control Strategies for Robust Stabilization

A. Anta (UCLA)
Real-time Scheduling for Homogeneous Control Systems

S. Summers (University of California, San Diego)
Adjoint-based Model Predictive Control and Identifi cation of Switched Nonlinear Systems

I. Al-Shyoukh (UCLA)
Switching Supervisory Control Using Calibrated Forecasts

S. Dubljevic (UCLA)
Optimal Mechano-electric Stabilization of Cardiac Alternans

A. Simpkins (University of California, San Diego)
Optimal Trade-off Between Exploration and Exploitation in Human Movement

A. Deshpande (University of California, San Diego)
Dimensionality and Complexity: Revoking the Two Curses

A. Mesquita (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Optimotaxis: A Random Multi-Agent On-site Optimization Procedure

P. Barooah (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Decentralized Control of Vehicular Platoons: Improving Closed-loop Stability by Mistuning

W. Dong (University of California, Riverside)
Cooperative Control of Multiple Robots

S.L. Smith (University of California, Santa Barbara)
A Geometric Assignment Problem for Robotic Networks

UCLA Telehealth Workshop
(Professor William J. Kaiser, organizer, May 30, 2007)

D. Aberle, E. Savitsky, M. Sarrafzadeh
Clinical Opportunities in Telehealth

D. Estrin, J. Burke and B. McCarthy
Telehealth for Public Health and Wellness

A. Bui, M. Hansen, and M. B. Srivastava
Security, Privacy, and Compliance in Telehealth

Future Directions in Advanced Accelerator Research
(Professor Chan Joshi, organizer March 23-24, 2007)

M. Hogan (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)
The SABER Facility for Advanced Acceleration Experiments

R. Ischbeck (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)
Latest Analysis on Particle Trapping

E. Oz (University of Southern California)
Brightness Multiplier

I. Blumenfeld (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)
Energy Gain Scaling Laws

K. Marsh (University of California, Los Angeles)
Plasma Sources for SABER

X. Wang (University of Southern California)
Positron Acceleration in Electron Wakes

M. Zhou (University of California, Los Angeles)
Head Erosion in PWFA

C. Huang (UCLA)
Perturbation Theory for the Hosing Instability in Plasmas

P. Muggli (University of Southern California)
e+ Beam Halo Formation

C. Joshi (UCLA) and R. Bingham (Rutherford Laboratories, UK)
European vs. U.S. Programs

Water Production: Desalination, Purifi cation, and Reclamation
(Professors W. J. Kaiser, Electrical Engineering, and Y. Cohen, Chemical and Bioengineering, organizers, February 23, 2007)

Breakout Sessions discussed

• Framework for collaborative research

• Smart water systems technologies

• Agricultural water systems

• Municipal water systems research

• Modular technology transfer platforms

Workshop on Emerging Antenna Research for Wireless Communications
(Professors Yuanxun Ethan Wang and Yahya Rahmat-Samii, organizers, February 20, 2007)

Y. Rahmat-Samii (UCLA)
Antenna Design and Optimization for Modern Wireless and MIMO Applications

C. Balanis (Arizona State University)
Impact of Antenna Characteristics on Network Throughput and Communication Channel BER

J. Bernhard (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Reconfi gurable Antennas: State of the Art and Future Directions

H. Ling (University of Texas, Austin)
Electrically Small Antennas – Theory, Design and Challenges

T. Itoh (UCLA)
Progress on Metamaterial Based Antennas

J. Volakis (Ohio State University)
Anisotropic Media and Printed Circuits for Narrowband and Ultra-Wideband Antennas

M. Iskander (University of Hawaii)
Antenna Array Technologies for Advanced Wireless Systems

M. Jensen (Brigham Young University)
Antenna Design Principles for MIMO Wireless Communications

Y. E. Wang (UCLA)
On and Beyond the Capacity Limit of Space Constrained Radiation Platforms

Workshop on Power-Constrained Multimedia Systems
(Professor Mihaela van der Schaar, organizer, February 2, 2007)

K. Nahrstedt (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Cooperative Energy-Constrained Resource Management in Mobile Multimedia

A. Ortega (University of Southern California)
Error-Tolerant Video Compression for Low Power Encoding via Voltage Scaling Environments

D. Sow (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
Information Rate, Complexity and Distortion Trade-offs

H. Jiang (Intel Research)
Balance of Power, Performance and Flexibility

J. Li (Microsoft Research, Redmond)
Efficient and Reliable P2P Content Delivery

J. Moura (Carnegie Mellon)
Spiral: Joint Runtime/Energy Optimization and Hardware/Software Partitioning of Linear Transforms

P. H. N. de With (Eindhoven University of Technology)
Embedded Video Applications in Video Content Analysis

R. Gupta (University of California, San Diego)
Energy Efficient Multi-Radio Platforms for Mobile Applications

Y. Lu (Microsoft Research, Asia)
Complexity Constrained Video Coding

Z. He (University of Missouri)
Power-Rate-Distortion Analysis and Control for Energy-Aware Embedded Video Sensing

P. Frossard (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)
Low Complexity Scheduling of Packetized Media with Feedback

M. van der Schaar (UCLA)
Theoretical Foundations for Power-Constrained Multimedia Applications on Multiple Processors

Workshop on Wireless Multimedia Systems
(Professor Mihaela van der Schaar, organizer, May 11-12, 2006)

T. Chen (Carnegie Mellon University)
Content-Aware Adaptive Retry for Media Streaming Over Wireless Networks

P. Cosman (University of California, San Diego)
Visibility of Packet Losses in H.264 Video

B. Girod (Stanford University)
Network Adaptive Video Streaming

Y. H. Hu (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Wireless Video Communication for Sensor Network Applications

C. J. Kuo (University of Southern California)
Technologies for Decoder-Friendly Embedded Multimedia Systems

A. Ortega (University of Southern California)
Model Estimation for Distributed Source Coding

G. J. Pottie (UCLA)
In-Network Processing in Sensor Networks: Keeping It Local

H. Radha (Michigan State University)
Utility and Limitations of Side-Information for Wireless Multimedia

K. Ramchandran (Univ. of California, Berkeley)
Video Transmission Based on Distributed Source Coding Principles

I. Rubin (UCLA)
Backbone Synthesis, Routing and Medium Access Control for Autonomous Multimedia Ad Hoc Wireless Communications and Sensor Networks

M. van der Schaar (UCLA)
New Game-Theoretic Paradigm for Wireless Multimedia Communication with Resource and Information Exchanges