EE 8500 Communications Seminar Series (SPiNCOM Seminar)

Spring 2008

Time: Thursdays 5:30 - 7:00 pm

Place: Conf. Room 5-120 in EE/CSci Building

DATE	SPEAKER	TOPIC
Jan. 31	F.-M. Mirzaei	Motion-Induced Sensor-to-Sensor Extrinsic Calibration
Feb. 7	R.-H. Gohary	Grassmannian Signalling for Non-Coherent MIMO Communication: Constellation Design and Efficient Detection
Feb. 14	N. Ravindran	Multi-user diversity vs. accurate channel information
Feb. 21	A. Ribeiro	Optimal Design of Wireless Networks - Part I
Feb. 28	A. Ribeiro	Optimal Design of Wireless Networks - Part II
Mar. 6	H. Zhu	Distributed In-Network Decoding
Mar. 13	P. Wu	ARQ in Fading Channels
Mar. 20	--	Spring Break
Mar. 27	N. Gatsis	Utility-Based Power Control for Peer-to-Peer Cognitive Radio Networks
Apr. 3	--	--
Apr. 10	J. Xiao	Optimal Polarized Beampattern Synthesis Using a Vector Antenna Array
Apr. 17	Prof. M. Jiang	Uniqueness Results for Multi-spectral Bioluminescence Tomography
Apr. 24	J.-A. Bazerque	Distributed Spectrum sensing for cognitive radios by exploiting sparsity
Apr. 28	P.-A. Forero	Distributed Unsupervised Learning with Wireless Sensor Networks
May 8	M. Fardad	State-Space Design of Optimal Controllers for Distributed Systems with Communication Constraints

Note: Please contact Ioannis Schizas at schiz001@umn.edu for more information about the seminar