FCS'06: June 26, 2006 Schedule

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6:30am - 5:00pm:  Registration (Second Floor, Conference Lobby: 1-5)

08:30 - 08:45am:  WORLDCOMP'06 Opening Remarks
                  Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia (General Chair & Coordinator)
                  University of Georgia, Georgia, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

08:45 - 09:45am:  Keynote Lecture 1:
                  Erasing the Digital Divide: Putting Your Best Idea on the
                  $100 Laptop
                  Prof. Barry Vercoe
                  Founding Member of MIT Media Lab, MIT, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

09:50 - 10:50am:  Keynote Lecture 2:
                  The Reinvention of the Microprocessor
                  Dr. Chris Rowen
                  President and CEO, Tensilica, Inc., USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

10:50 - 11:20am:  Increasing Diversity and Participation in Advanced Computing
                  Dr. John R. Boisseau
                  Director, Texas Advanced Computing Center,
                  The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

11:20a - 12:20p:  Panel - Performance and Connectivity on the $100 Laptop
                  Panel Chair: Prof. Barry Vercoe, MIT Media Lab, MIT, USA
                  Panelists: Jim Gettys* and Michail Bletsas**
                  *Vice President, Software Engineering, OLPC
                  **Chief Connectivity Officer, OLPC
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

12:20 - 01:20pm:  LUNCH  (On Your Own)


SESSION 1-FCS:    GRAPHS AND NETWORKS
                  Chair: Dr. Ping-Tsai Chung
                  Long Island University, New York, USA
                  June 26, 2006 (Monday);  01:20pm - 03:00pm
                  (LOCATION: Meeting Room 1)

01:20 - 01:40pm:  Bounds on the Labeling Number of Chordal Graphs
                  Peter Che Bor Lam, Guohua Gu, Wensong Lin, and Ping-Tsai Chung
                  Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon, Hong Kong
                  Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York, USA

01:40 - 02:00pm:  Hamiltonian-Connectivity and Strongly Hamiltonian-Laceability of
                  Folded Hypercubes
                  Sun-Yuan Hsieh and Che-Nan Kuo
                  National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

02:00 - 02:20pm:  A Theoretical Study of Parallel Voronoi Diagram
                  Rashid Bin Muhammad
                  Kent State University, USA

02:20 - 02:40pm:  On Induced Matching Partitions of Certain Interconnection Networks
                  Paul Manuel, Indra Rajasingh, Bharati Rajan, and Albert Muthumalai
                  Kuwait University, Kuwait
                  Loyola College, Chennai, India

02:40 - 03:00pm:  VLSI Layout of Benes Networks
                  Paul Manuel, Kalim Qureshi, Albert William, and Albert Muthumalai
                  Kuwait University, Kuwait
                  Loyola College, Chennai, India

03:00 - 03:20pm:  BREAK


03:20 - 06:00pm:  Note: There are a number of sessions (not listed here) that
                  are of significant interest to FCS conference participants
                  (sessions belonging to other joint conferences in this event.)
                  Therefore, you are encouraged to also check the schedules for
                  other joint conferences.  (In particular, schedules for PDPTA'06,
                  CSC'06, ICAI'06, MLMTA'06, SERP'06, FECS'06, and BIOCOMP'06).


06:00 - 9:00pm:   TWO TUTORIALS  (planned)

                  CONFERENCE TUTORIAL A
                  Alice: Using Animation to Teach Introductory Programming
                  Dr. H. Keith Edwards
                  University of Hawaii - Hilo, USA
                  June 26, 2006 (Monday)
                  (LOCATION: Meeting Room 7)

                  CONFERENCE TUTORIAL B
                  An Introduction to Biometric Recognition Systems
                  Dr. M. Deriche
                  KFUPM, Saudi Arabia
                  June 26, 2006 (Monday)
                  (LOCATION: Meeting Room 8)


09:00 - 11:00pm:  CONFERENCE RECEPTION DINNER - June 26 (Monday)
                  (LOCATION: Meeting Rooms 1-5)

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