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4th USC-Tsinghua University Faculty Forum on Green and Smart for a Sustainable Future

Faculty from USC and China's Tsinghua University will hold a two-day forum on environmental sustainability.

When:
April 1, 2010 8:30am to April 2, 2010 5:00pm
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DAY 1: Thursday, April 1, 2010

8:30 AM – Arrive and Refreshments, RTH 526

9:00 AM –  9:45 AM  RTH 526

Introductions and Welcoming Remarks

Elizabeth Garrett, USC, Vice President for Academic Planning and Budget
Adam Powell, Vice Provost for Globalization
Yannis Yortsos, USC, Dean of Viterbi School of Engineering
Cauligi Raghavendra, Sr. Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives
Xu Chen, Vice President of Tsinghua University
Jun Li, Executive Vice Dean of School of Information Science and Technology (SIST)
Zhisheng Niu, Vice Dean of School of Information Science and Technology (SIST)

9:45 AM to Noon – Plenary Session Talks, RTH 526

Yannis Yortsos, Dean, Viterbi School of Engineering, USC
“Smart and Green for a Sustainable Future”

Zanji Wang, Executive Director of Low Carbon Energy (LCE) and Director, China Automotive Energy Research Center (CAERC), THU
“Brief Introduction to Interdisciplinary Research of Low Carbon Energy at Tsinghua”

Dan Dapkus, Professor of Electrical Engineering, USC
“Emerging Materials for Solar Energy Conversion and Solid State Lighting”

Xiaohong Guan, Director of the Center for Intelligent and Networked Systems, THU
“Challenges and Opportunities in Efficient Energy Production, Consumption and Transmission for Information Science and Technology”

12:00 PM to 2 PM – Lunch at the University Club

14:00 PM – 17:00 PM – Two Parallel Tracks

14:00 PM – 17:00 PM
Track I, RTH 526, Green IT, Data Centers, Building Efficiency

Massoud Pedram, USC: Energy Efficient Enterprise Computing and Green Datacenters

Ling Feng, THU: Context Aware Computing and Applications - A Data Management Perspective

Burcin, Becerik, USC:  Sustainable Development of the Built Environment
Junwei Cao, THU: Smart Cyberinfrastructure for Scientific Data Analysis 

Si-Zhao Qin, USC: Efficient Building Energy Optimization and Control for Demand Response

Qianchuan Zhao, THU: Control and Scheduling of Power Aware Networked Systems

14:00 PM – 17:00 PM
Track II, RTH 306 – Alternative Energy, Waste Management, and Bioinformatics

Fred Aminzadeh, USC: Use of the Oil Patch Technologies in Geothermal Fields

Xibin Zhao, THU:

Hai Wang, USC: Combustion Kinetics Research

Don Zhang, USC: Carbon Sequestration

Shanghua Teng, USC:  Bioinformatics

Rui Jiang, THU: epiMPI, epiCUDA, epiForest, and epiMODE:
Detection of Epistatic Interactions in Genome-wide Association Studies

17:00 PM Campus Tour

18:30  PM Dinner, McKays Restaurant, Radisson Hotel, Figueroa Street

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DAY 2: Friday, April 2, 2010

9:00 AM –  12:00  Noon -- Two Parallel Tracks

9:00 AM to 12:00 Noon
Track I, RTH 526 – Smart Grid and Urban Infrastructure

Viktor Prasanna, USC: Energy Informatics for Smart Oil Field and Smart Grid

Zuo Zhang, THU: Evaluation for Traffic Situation and the Emergent Traffic Pathway Organization In Responsive to Urbane Severe Emergencies

Jay Kuo, USC: Power Quality Monitoring in Smart Grids via Change-Point Detection

Zhihua Wang, THU: Integrated Circuit Design in Smart Grid Environments

Roger Ghanem, USC: Information-Driven Predictions for Urban Sustainability

Hui Zhang, THU: Solid Reconstruction from Engineering Drawings

9:00 AM –  12:00  Noon

Track II, RTH 306 – Nanomaterials, Green Computing and Networks

Chong-Wu Zhou, USC:  Nanomaterials for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells and Supercapacitors

Huaqiang Wu, THU: Graphene Based High Frequency FET and Novel Non-Volatile Memory Device

Murali Annavaram, USC: Server Energy Resiliency

Thomas Fang Zheng, THU: User Authentication in Telephone Banking based on Speaker Verification

Bhaskar Krishnamachari, USC: Green Wireless Networks

Lin Zhang, THU: “Sensing China” with the Development of Internal of Things (IoT)

12:00 Noon  -- 13:30 PM -- Lunch with USC faculty at the University Club

13:30 PM –  15:30 PM – USC Lab Tours, HPC Lab, Nanotech Lab

15:30 PM –  17:00 PM    Faculty Group Discussion

Appointment will be made by faculty (groups)

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DAY 3: Saturday, April 3, 2010

Individual faculty lab visits and meetings