Program

Date: 23/June/2009

Location: Hotel Ipanema Porto, room TBA

Sessions comprise a set of short talks of 10 minutes plus 5 minutes for questions.

Group discussions will follow over lunch where each group will address topics of interest and brainstorm over it. The goal is to come up with useful suggestions to help us improve the program. Possible topics range from student life to recruiting, distance learning.After the afternoon sessions a personal view on living in Pittsburgh and studying at Carnegie Mellon will be given by two students.

Program Schedule

  • 09:00 –- 09:10 – Welcome and DC Outline
  • 09:10 — 10:40 – Session I
  • 10:40 — 11:00 – Coffee break
  • 11:00 — 12:30 – Session II
  • 12:30 — 14:15 – Lunch – Group discussions
  • 14:15 — 16:00 – Session III
  • 16:00 — 16:40 – Living and studyng in the US (a CMU experience)
  • 16:40 — 17:00 – Final Comments and Conclusions

PhD Program

Title

Name

9:00

Welcome and DC Outline

Francisco Veloso

9:10

TCE

Location decisions of new firms.

Cristina Carias

9:25

TCE

Exploring the effects of Financial and Human Capitals on New Venture Survival and Performance

Ana Venancio

9:40

ECE

ML-Based Sensor Network Localization and Tracking: Batch and Time-Recursive Approaches

Pinar Oguz

9:55

ECE

Vital Responder Signal Processing and Data Analysis

Can Ye

10:10

ECE

ANSIG— An Analytic Signature for Permutation-Invariant Two-Dimensional Shape Representation

José Jerónimo Rodrigues

10:25

EPP

Characterizing Digital Media Exchanges in a University Campus Network

Alexandre Mateus

10:40

Coffe Break

11:00

CS

Certifying Compiler for C with Fat pointers

Miguel Santos Silva

11:15

Real-Time Multi-Camera Human-Robot detection, localization and tracking test-bed

Dario Figueira

11:30

TCE

Intellectual Property Rights Protection Evolution

Andreia Rafael

11:45

ECE

Weight Optimization for Consensus Algorithms with Correlated Switching Topology

Dušan Jakovetić

12:00

ECE

Sensor Selection for Hypothesis Testing in Wireless Sensor Networks: a Kullback-Leibler Based Approach

Dragana Bajović

12:15

ECE

Distributed Algorithms for Basis Pursuit

João Mota

12:30

Lunch + Brainstorm

13:45

Break for coffe (outdoors!)

14:15

ECE

Recent Results on Control and Estimation over Communication Networks

Mohammadreza Aghajani

14:30

CS

Geocast routing for Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks

Rui Meireles

14:45

ECE

Hugo Conceição

15:00

CS

A Behavioral Type System for Web Applications

Filipe Militão

15:15

ECE

Subspace Segmentation

Augusto Almeida Santos

15:30

CS

Model-Checking of Security Protocols

Bernardo Toninho

15:45

TCE

ICTs and Education: Internet Usage Patterns and Academic Performance in Portuguese Schools

Rodrigo Belo

16:00

Living and Studying in the US (CMU experience)

Rui Meireles, Cristina Carias

16:40

Final Discussions and Conclusions


  • CS – Computer Science
  • ECE – Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • TCE – Technology Change and Entrepreneurship