Note that the "Internal Seminars" are now being listed with the other CSI seminars on the Main CSI Seminar Page. This page has info from some previous internal seminars that are not listed on the main seminar page.

Spring 2009:

Speaker: Michael J. Neely (USC)
Title: "Stochastic Network Optimization and the Theory of Network Throughput, Energy, and Delay" [ abstract ]
Date: Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Time: 1:00-2:00pm
Location: EEB 248
Links: [Neely Homepage]

Spring 2008:

Speaker: Rahul Urgaonkar (USC)
Title: "Opportunistic Scheduling with Reliability Guarantees in Cognitive Radio Networks" [ abstract ]
Advisor: Mike Neely
Date: Friday, April 11, 2008
Time: 3:00-4:00pm
Location: EEB 248
Links: [PDF Paper (INFOCOM 2008)]

Fall 2007:

Speaker: Dr. Wenyi Zhang (Post Doc, University of Southern California)
Title: "Broadcasting without Knowing the Channel: Outage-Efficient Transmission" [ abstract ]
Date: *Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2007 (*date changed from last posting)
Time: 3:30-4:30pm
Location: EEB 539

EE Students "Practical Guide" Seminar
Speakers: Profs. Keith Chugg and Chris Kyriakakis
Title: "The Start-Up Company Experience" [ abstract ]
Organizer: Alan Willner
Date: Friday, Oct. 12, 2007
Time: 11:30am-1pm
Location: SSL 150 (outside and North of Seaver Science Library)
Pizza: Provided

Speaker: Longbo Huang (University of Southern California)
Title: "The Optimality of Two Prices: Maximizing Revenue in a Stochastic Network" [ abstract ]
Advisor: Michael Neely
Date: Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2007
Time: 3:30-4:30pm
Location: EEB 539
Links: [PDF of Paper] [PowerPoint Slides]

Spring 2007:

CSI PHD Thesis Defense: Hari Krovi (University of Southern California)
Title: "Symmetry in Quantum Walks" [ abstract ]
Advisor: Todd Brun
Date: Monday, July 2, 2007
Time: 11:00am-noon
Location: EEB 539

Speaker: Chih-Ping Li (University of Southern California)
Title: "Energy-Optimal Scheduling with Dynamic Channel Acquisition in Wireless Downlinks" [ abstract ]
Advisor: Michael Neely
Date: Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Time: 3:30-4:30pm
Location: EEB 248

Speaker: Bhaskar Krishnamachari (University of Southern California)
Title: "Modeling and Optimization of Data Gathering Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks" [abstract]
Date: Thursday, Feb. 8, 2007
Time: 3:30-4:30pm
Location: EEB 248
Links: [Bhaskar Krishnamachari Homepage]

CSI PHD Thesis Defense: Tom Halford (University of Southern California)
Title: "The Extraction and Complexity Limits of Graphical Models for Linear Codes" [ abstract ]
Advisor: Keith Chugg
Date: Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2007
Time: 9:00am-11:00am
Location: EEB 248
Links: [Tom Halford Homepage]

Fall 2006:

Speaker: Reza Omrani (University of Southern California)
Title: "Codes for Optical CDMA" [ abstract ]
Advisor: Vijay Kumar
Date: Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2006
Time: 3:30-4:30pm
Location: EEB 248
Links:

Speaker: Min-Hsiu Hsieh (University of Southern California)
Title: "Correcting Quantum Error with Entanglement" [ abstract ]
Advisor: Todd Brun
Date: Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2006
Time: 3:00-4:00pm (Note the time is 3:00pm rather than 3:30pm here)
Location: EEB 248
Links:

Speaker: Wanshi Chen (University of Southern California)
Title: "Energy-Efficient Transmissions with Delay Constraints over a Wireless Link" [ abstract ]
Advisor: Urbashi Mitra / Michael Neely
Date: Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2006
Time: 3:30-4:30pm
Location: EEB 248
Links:

Speaker: Thomas Halford (University of Southern California)
Title: "Reducing the Complexity of Graphical Models Via Cycles" [ abstract ]
Advisor: Keith Chugg
Date: Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2006
Time: 3:30-4:30pm
Location: EEB 248
Links:

Spring/Summer 2006:

CSI PHD Thesis Defense: Jordan Melzer (University of Southern California)
Title: "Low Complexity Turbo-Like Codes" [ abstract ]
Advisor: Keith Chugg
Date: Monday, Aug. 14, 2006
Time: 10am
Location: EEB 539

Speaker: Michael Neely (University of Southern California)
Title: "Cross-Layer Optimization for Wireless Networks with Multi-Receiver Diversity" [ abstract ]
Date: Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Time: 3:30-4:30pm
Location: EEB 248
Links: [Mike's Homepage] [PDF paper] [Slides]

Speaker: Giuseppe Caire (University of Southern California)
Title: "Joint Source-Channel Coding in Gaussian Fading Channels" [ abstract]
Date: Tuesday, May 2, 2006
Time: 3:30-4:30pm
Location: EEB 248

Speaker: Rahul Urgaonkar (University of Southern California)
Title: "Capacity Region, Minimum Energy, and Delay for an Ad-Hoc Mobile Network"[pdf paper]
Date: Thursday, March 30, 2006
Time: 3:30-4:30pm
Location: EEB 248