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8:30—9:00
Registration and Breakfast
sponsored by Broadcom Corporation
9:00—10:15 Welcome by the Dean Vijay Dhir
Overview by EE Dept. Chair Ali H. Sayed
              and Representative Faculty
10:15—10:45 Coffe Break and Poster Exhibits
10:45—12:45 Parallel Technical Tracks
Circuits and Embedded Systems Session 1
1A Power-Area-Throughput Optimization of VLSI Signal Processing Algorithms
Rashmi Nanda, Victoria Wang, Dejan Markovic
1B A Hardware Friendly 4x4 Linear MIMO Detector for MIMO-OFDM Based Systems
Hun-Seok Kim, Weijun Zhu, Jatin Bhatia, Karim Mohammed, Anish Shah, Babak Daneshrad
1C An Energy-Efficient Reconfigurable Multi-processor IC for DSP Applications
Guichang Zhong and Alan Willson
Circuits and Embedded Systems Session 2
2A An Adaptive Low-Jitter LC-Based Clock Distribution
Li-Min Lee and Chih-Kong Ken Yang
2B A Spur Elimination Technique for Fractional-N Phase Locked Loops Based on VCO Phase Interpolation
Siamak Delshadpour and Sudhakar Pamarti
2C Minimal Skew Clock Embedding Considering Time Variant Temperature Variation
Hao Yu, Yu Hu, Chuenchen Liu, and Lei He
Signals and Systems Session 1
1A Cross Layer Integrated Code Rate Control and Routing for Multi-hop Wireless Networks
Ju-Lan Hsu and Izhak Rubin
1B Blind Calibration of Distributed Networked Sensors
Laura Balzano and Mani Srivastava
1C Informed Scheduling for Belief Propagation Decoding of LDPC Codes
Andres I. Vila Casado, Miguel Griot, and Richard D. Wesel
1D Theoretical and Experimental Study of Isotropic and Non-Isotropic 3D Arrays for Direction-of-Arrival Estimation
S. Asgari, A. Ali, T. Collier, Y. Yao, C.E. Chen, R.E. Hudson, K. Yao, and C. Taylor
1E Design of Two-dimensional FIR Filters by Semidefinite Programming
Tae Roh and Lieven Vandenberghe
Physical and Wave Electronics Session 1
1A
CMOS Integrated Nano-Photonics is Now a Commercial Technology
Eli Yablonovitch
1B
Electro-optic Polymer Ring Resonator Modulation up to 165 GHz
Bart Bortnik, Yu-Chueh Hung, Hidehisa Tazawa, William H. Steier, Jingdong Luo, Alex Jen, Byoung-Joon Seo, and Harold R. Fetterman
1C

Dual-Frequency Multifunction Lidar
Rosemary Diaz, Sze-Chun Chan, and Jia-Ming Liu

1D
Processing Parameters for the Development of Glass/Ceramic MEMS
Janet Stillman, Jack Judy, and Henry Helvajian
12:45—2:30 Lunch and Posters Exhibit
sponsored by Conexant Systems, Inc.
Special Session on Cognitive Radios
  (2:00—2:30) 
2:30 — 4:30 Parallel Technical Tracks
Circuits and Embedded Systems Session 3
3A A 2.2 Gb/s CMOS DifferentialQPSK Direct-Conversion Analog Baseband Receiver for 60-GHz Links
Minghui Chen and Frank M.C. Chang
3B Modeling Op Amp Nonlinearity in Switched-Capacitor Sigma-Delta Modulator
Khaled Mahmoud Abdelfattah and Behzad Razavi
3C 60GHz CMOS Differential Power Amplifier Using On-Chip Transformers for Compact Design
Tim Larocca and Frank M.C. Chang
Circuits and Embedded Systems Session 4
4A A System for Coarse Grained Memory Protection in Tiny Embedded Processors
Ram Kumar, Akhilesh Singhania, Andrew Castner, and Mani B. Srivastava
4B A New Energy-Aware Embedded Platform for Networked Sensing
Dustin McIntire and Willliam J. Kaiser
4C Software Radio Implementation of Short-range Wireless Standards for Sensor Networking
Thomas Schmid and Mani B. Srivastava
Signals and Systems Session 2
2A On-the-fly Synthesis of Correct-by-design Embedded Control Software
Giordano Pola and Paulo Tabuada
2B Game Theoretic Approaches for Multi-User Resource Allocation in Cognitive Radio Networks
Fangwen Fu, Yi Su, and Mihaela van der Schaar
2C Energy-Optimized Image Communication on Resource-Constrained Sensor Platforms
Dong-U Lee, Hyungjin Kim, Steven Tu, Mohammad Rahimi, Deborah Estrin, and John D. Villasenor
2D A Distributed Sampling Scheme Based on Innovations Diffusion in Sensor Networks
Zhi Quan, William J. Kaiser, and Ali H. Sayed
2E Bayesian Selection of Non-faulty Sensors
Kevin Ni and Gregory J. Pottie
2F A 2x2 Multistrata Space-Time Block Code
Michael Samuel and Michael P. Fitz
Physical and Wave Electronics Session 2
2A Analaysis and Applications of Microwave Electronics
Catherine Allen, Darren Goshi, Anthony Lei, Cheng-Jung Lee, and Tatsuo Itoh
2B A Miniaturized Elliptic-Card UWB Antenna for Wireless Communications
Keyvan Bahadori and Yahya Rahmat-Samii
2C Beyond the Performance Limit with Switched Electrically Small Antennas
Xiaojing Xu and Y. Ethan Wang
2D Advanced Accelerator Research at UCLA: 40 GeV Energy Gain in Less than One Meter
Miaomiao Zhou, Chan Joshi, and Warren Mori
4:45 — 5:45 Reception