[note: Seminar title and abstract information is updated as we receive it, and is usually available within a week before the seminar date. Check back for updates.]
See also our Main Seminar Page for seminar info of visiting speakers.

Upcoming CSI Internal Seminars:

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