Technical Program (tentative)

Day 0, Sunday 10 May 2009

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Reception

Day 1, Monday 11 May 2009

Plenary Talk	David Tse University of California, Berkeley "The Two-User Gaussian Interference Channel"
Morning Session	The Interference Channel Session Organizer, Syed Ali Jafar, University of California, Irvine
	Vincent Poor (Princeton) "Interference and Secrecy"
	Venu Veeravalli (Illinois) "Sum Capacity of Gaussian MIMO Interference Channels in the Low Interference Regime"
	Pramod Viswanath (Illinois) "Cooperative Interference Management: An Information Theoretic Study"
	Sriram Vishwanath (UT Austin) "Lattice Alignment through Symbol Alignment for Interference Networks"
	Amir Khandani (Univ. Waterloo) "Randomized Resource Allocation in Decentralized Networks"
Afternoon Session	Cooperative Networks & Relays Session Organizer, Hesham El-Gamal, The Ohio State University
	Gerhard Kramer (USC) "Communicating Probability Distributions and Relaying"
	Moe Win (MIT) "Cooperative Localization-Aware Networks"
	Salman Avestimeher (Cornell) "Approaching the Capacity of the Multi-Pair Bidirectional Relay Network via a Divide and Conquer Strategy"
	Ashutosh Sabharwal (Rice) "Mismatched Channel Information in Interference Networks"
	Babak Hassibi (Caltech) "The Entropy Power Inequality and the Gaussian Interference Channel"
Poster Session	Peter Rost, Gerhard Fettweis, J. Nicholas Laneman, "Broadcast and Interference in Relay-Assisted Next-Generation Cellular Systems"
	Stefan Krone and Gerhard Fettweis, "Aspects of Optimal Quantization in Communications"
	Umar H. Rizvi, Ferkan Yilmaz, Mohamed-Slim Alouini, Gerard J. M. Janssen, and Jos H. Weber, "Performance of RF Level Diversity Combining with Quantized Channel Estimates over Rayleigh Fading"
	Ferkan Yilmaz and Mohamed-Slim Alouini, "Product of Shifted Gamma Variates and Outage Capacity of Multicarrier Systems"
	Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri and Babak Hassibi, "On the Distribution of Indefinite Quadratic Forms in Gaussian Random Variables"
	Amir Laufer and Yeheskel Bar-Ness, "Full Rate Space Time Codes for Large Number of Transmitting Antennas with Linear Complexity and Decoding and High Performance"

Day 2, Tuesday 12 May 2009

Plenary Talk	Bertrand Hochwald Beceem Communications "The Role of MIMO in 4G Mobile Wireless Systems and Beyond"
Morning Session	Multiuser MIMO Session Organizer, Robert Heath, University of Texas
	Prof. Nihar Jindal (Minnesota), Marious Kountouris (UT Austin), Prof. Jeff Andrews (UT Austin) "The Transmission Capacity of Multiuser MIMO in Ad Hoc Networks"
	Dr. Chan-Byoung Chae (Harvard) "Multiuser/Multi-cell MIMO Transmission with Coordinated Beamforming"
	Raymond Knopp (EURECOM) "Practical Considerations for MU-MIMO in Centralized and Distributed Wireless Networks"
	Dr. Howard Huang, Dr. Sivarama Venkatesan, Dr. Angel Lozano, Dr. Reinaldo Valenzuela (Alcatel-Lucent) "Network MIMO for Indoor Wireless Applications"
	Prof. Vincent Lau (Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Tech.) "Delay-Sensitive Spatial Division Multiple Access (SDMA) Systems"
Afternoon Session	Compressed Sensing Session Organizers, Richard Baraniuk, Rice University, and Anna Scaglione, Univ. California, Davis
	Mark Davenport (Rice Univ.) "Compressive Radio Receivers"
	Bhaskar Rao (UC San Diego) "Bayesian Methods for Sparse Signal Recovery"
	Waheed U. Bajwa, Akbar Sayeed, and Robert Nowak (Univ. Wisconsin) "Compressed Channel Sensing: Theory and Implications"
	Phil Schniter (Ohio State University) "Sparse Reconstruction as Noncoherent Decoding"
	Vahid Tarokh (Harvard) "SPARLS: A Low Complexity Recursive L1-Regularized Least Squares Algorithm"

Day 3, Wednesday 13 May 2009

Plenary Talk	Vahid Tarokh Harvard University "Near Theoretical Lower bound Sparse Representation and Compressive Sampling"
Morning Session	Cognitive Radio Session Organizer, Urbashi Mitra, University of Southern California
	Syed Jafar (UC Irvine) "Degrees of Freedom of Cognitive Interference Networks"
	Osvaldo Simeone (NJIT) "Spectrum Leasing Via Cooperation"
	Wenyi Zhang (Qualcomm) "Efficient Mechanism of Receive Side Information Feedback and its Application in Cognitive Radio"
	Qing Zhao (UC Davis) "Quickest Change Detection for Cognitive Radio Systems"