CSC'08: July 14, 2008 Schedule

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


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

08:45 - 09:35am:  Keynote Lecture 1:
                  The Parallel Computing Landscape: A Berkeley View 2.0
                  Prof. David A. Patterson
                  Pardee Prof. of CS; Director, RAD Lab & Par Lab; Past
                  President, ACM; Member, National Academy of Engineering;
                  Member, National Academy of Sciences; Fellow of IEEE, ACM,
                  & AAAS; University of California at Berkeley.
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

09:40 - 10:25am:  Keynote Lecture 2:
                  Searching in the "Real World"
                  Prof. Ophir Frieder
                  The Royden B. Davis, SJ, Chair in Interdisciplinary
                  Studies at Georgetown University; IITRI Chair Professor
                  of CS at Illinois Institute of Technology; Director,
                  Information Retrieval lab; Fellow of IEEE, ACM, and AAAS
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

10:30 - 11:15am:  Keynote Lecture 3:
                  Achieving your Dreams
                  Anousheh Ansari
                  CEO, Chairman and Co-founder of Prodea Systems, Inc., USA;
                  Space Ambassador
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

11:15a - 12:00p:  Keynote Lecture 4:
                  Dimensions in Reconfigurable Computing: A New Wave in
                  Electronic System Designs
                  Chris Phillips
                  Vice President of Engineering at ElementCXI, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

12:00 - 12:40pm:  LUNCH (On Your Own)

12:40 - 01:20pm:  DISCUSSION SESSION A-CSC (Refreshments will be available)
                  July 14 (Monday)
                  (LOCATION: Hallways - Ballrooms 1-5)

                  O. Tracking Control of Wheeled Mobile Robots Using a Receding
                     Horizon Controller with Time-Delay
                     Yu Gao and Kil To Chong
                     Chonbuk National University Chonju, Korea
                  O. LQR Control for a Modified CD Motor Using Maple
                     Monica Patricia Arenas Correa; EAFIT University, Colombia
                  O. Analysis of a Modified Wien Bridge Using Maple
                     Valentina Londono Correa
                     EAFIT University, Medellin, Colombia
                  O. Computational Method for Solving System of First Kind Volterra
                     Integral Equations
                     Prof. K. Maleknejad, R. Mollapourasl, and K. Nouri
                     *Iran U. of Science & Tech., Iran; Islamic Azad Univ., Iran
                  O. LQR Control for a Multi-Inverted Pendulum Using Maple
                     Leidy Marcela Giraldo Castano
                     Eafit University, Medellin, Colombia


01:20 - 03:00pm:  During this period, CSC'08 attendees are encouraged to participate
                  in sessions belonging to PDPTA'08, GCA'08, BIOCOMP'08, MSV'08,
                  CGVR'08, FECS'08, FCS'08, or ERSA'08.  These sessions discuss
                  topics that overlap the scope of CSC'08.


SESSION 1-CSC:    NOVEL APPLICATIONS AND ALGORITHMS + ENGINEERING PROBLEMS
                  Chair: TBA
                  July 14, 2008 (Monday); 03:00pm - 04:40pm
                  (LOCATION: Platinum Room)

03:00 - 03:20pm:  New Algorithm for Optimization of Effect-Based Weapon-Target Pairings
                  Zbigniew R. Bogdanowicz and Norman P. Coleman
                  Armament Research, Development & Engineering Center, US Army, New Jersey, USA

03:20 - 03:40pm:  Fredholm Integral Analysis of Soft-Material Compression Data
                  Joseph R. Feldkamp
                  Global Science & Technology, Kimberly-Clark Corporation, USA

03:40 - 04:00pm:  Damage Detection in Composites Using Vibration Signatures
                  K. Oruganti, M. Mehdizadeh, S. John, and I. Herzberg
                  RMIT University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia;
                  Cooperative Research Centre for Advanced Composite Structures
                  (CRC-ACS), Victoria, Australia

04:00 - 04:20pm:  Monte Carlo Approach to Generalized Level Crossings and Fractal
                  Dimensions of Multiscale Fields with Application to Turbulence
                  Haris J. Catrakis, Siarhei Piatrovich, Fazlul R. Zubair,
                  Aaron P. Freeman, Jennifer Shockro, Adam J. Wachtor,
                  Ryan C. Sokolowski, and David W. Gwozdz
                  University of California, Irvine, California, USA

04:20 - 04:40pm:  A Tree-Based Hamiltonian for Fast Symplectic Integration
                  Mark C. Lewis and Harold F. Levison
                  Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, USA;
                  Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado, USA


04:40 - 06:00pm:  During this period, CSC'08 attendees are encouraged to participate
                  in sessions belonging to PDPTA'08, GCA'08, BIOCOMP'08, MSV'08,
                  CGVR'08, FECS'08, FCS'08, or ERSA'08.  These sessions discuss
                  topics that overlap the scope of CSC'08.


06:00 - 09:00pm:  Tutorials (please see the list of tutorials)

09:10 - 11:30pm:  CONFERENCE RECEPTION DINNER & BANQUET KEYNOTE - July 14 (Monday)
                  High Performance Computing and Computational Intelligence: Link
                  to the Translational Medicine and Personalized Healthcare
                  Dr. Jack Y. Yang and Dr. Mary Qu Yang
                  Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA and
                  National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, USA
                  (LOCATION: Ballrooms 1-5)

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