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Workshop Program

July 6
Monday
July 7
Tuesday
July 8
Wednesday
July 9
Thursday
9:00 - 10:00am Plenary Session Plenary Session Plenary Session
10:00 - 10:20am Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break
10:20 - 12:00pm Invited Speakers Session I Invited Papers Session Technical Session Technical (Poster) Session
12:00pm - 1:30pm Lunch Break Lunch Break Lunch Break
1:30 - 3:10pm Technical Session Invited Speakers Session II Technical Session Technical (Poster) Session
3:10 - 3:30pm Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break
3:30 - 5:10pm Technical Session Industry-Academia Panel
(3:30pm - 6:00pm)
Technical Session Technical (Poster) Session
Welcome Reception
(6:30pm - 9:00pm)
Workshop Banquet
(7:00pm - 10:00pm)


  • Registration times are as follows
    • Monday, July 6, 4 - 6pm (Sheraton)
    • Monday, July 6, 6:30 - 8pm (Quidi Vidi Brewery)
    • Tuesday, July 7, 8 - 10:00am (Sheraton)
    • Wednesday, July 8, 8am - 1:30pm (Sheraton)
  • The plenary sessions, invited speaker sessions, invited paper session, invited industry-academia panel, technical sessions (oral presentations) will take place at Sheraton Hotel, in Fort William Ballroom, Salon A.
  • The technical sessions (poster presentations) will take place at Sheraton Hotel, in the Pre-Function Area A.
  • The welcome reception will take place at Quidi Vidi Brewery.
    • Bus schedule can be found here.
  • The banquet will take place at the Sheraton Hotel, in the Court Garden.
  • The meeting of the CSIT Board of Directors will take place on Tuesday, July 7, between 5:30 pm and 7:00 pm at the Sheraton Hotel, in Fort William Ballroom, Salon A.

EXHIBITION

The exhibition will be opened on Tuesday and Wednesday, 9:00 am to 5:10 pm, at Sheraton Hotel, in the Pre-Function Area A. Tektronix and Testforce will be presenting most recent products.

PLENARY SPEAKERS

Tuesday, July 7, 9:00 am to 10:00 am
Monique Morrow, CTO CISCO Services: The Making of a 21st Century Technology Leader

Wednesday, July 8, 9:00 am to 10:00 am
Moe Win, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Fundamental Limits of Network Localization and Navigation

Thursday, July 9, 9:00 am to 10:00 am
Vahid Tarokh, Harvard University: Some Applications of The Theorem of Fisher–Tippett–Gnedenko

INVITED SPEAKERS SESSION I

Tuesday, July 7, 10:20 am to 12:00 pm
(in the order of presentations)

  • Milica Stojanovic, Northeastern University, USA: Underwater Wireless Communication: An Overview of Challenges and Recent Results
  • Sarah Katie Wilson, Santa Clara University, USA: Shine a Light: Optical Wireless Communications
  • Alex Alvarado, University College, London, UK: Coding and Modulation for Optical Communication Systems

INVITED SPEAKERS SESSION II

Wednesday, July 8, 1:30 pm to 3:10 pm
(in the order of presentation)

  • Shu Lin, University of California, Davis: A Broader View of the Superposition Construction of LDPC Codes
  • Sofiène Affes, INRS, Canada: Efficient Distributed Collaborative Beamforming Designs for Real-World Applications
  • Andrew Eckford, York University, Canada: Information Theory in Intercellular Signal Transduction

INVITED PANEL: THE ROADMAP FOR OPEN INNOVATION

Wednesday, July 8, 3:30 pm to 6:00 pm

  • Moderator: Ray Gosine, Memorial University, Canada
  • Academia: Vijay Bhargava, UBC, Canada; Milica Stojanivic, Northeastern University, USA; Katie Wilson, Santa Clara University, USA.
  • Industry: Dragos Cristea, Ciena, Canada; Doru Calin, 
Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA; Monique Morrow, Cisco Services; Mark Newell, Altera NL, Canada.

TECHNICAL SESSION PROGRAM

The full conference program is available here.