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
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PhD Program
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Title
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Name
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9:00
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Welcome and DC Outline
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Francisco Veloso
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9:10
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TCE
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Location decisions of new firms.
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Cristina Carias
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9:25
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TCE
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Exploring the effects of Financial and Human Capitals on New Venture Survival and Performance
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Ana Venancio
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9:40
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ECE
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ML-Based Sensor Network Localization and Tracking: Batch and Time-Recursive Approaches
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Pinar Oguz
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9:55
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ECE
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Vital Responder Signal Processing and Data Analysis
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Can Ye
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10:10
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ECE
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ANSIG— An Analytic Signature for Permutation-Invariant Two-Dimensional Shape Representation
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José Jerónimo Rodrigues
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10:25
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EPP
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Characterizing Digital Media Exchanges in a University Campus Network
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Alexandre Mateus
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10:40
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Coffe Break
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11:00
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CS
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Certifying Compiler for C with Fat pointers
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Miguel Santos Silva
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11:15
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Real-Time Multi-Camera Human-Robot detection, localization and tracking test-bed
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Dario Figueira
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11:30
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TCE
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Intellectual Property Rights Protection Evolution
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Andreia Rafael
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11:45
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ECE
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Weight Optimization for Consensus Algorithms with Correlated Switching Topology
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Dušan Jakovetić
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12:00
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ECE
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Sensor Selection for Hypothesis Testing in Wireless Sensor Networks: a Kullback-Leibler Based Approach
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Dragana Bajović
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12:15
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ECE
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Distributed Algorithms for Basis Pursuit
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João Mota
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12:30
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Lunch + Brainstorm
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13:45
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Break for coffe (outdoors!)
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14:15
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ECE
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Recent Results on Control and Estimation over Communication Networks
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Mohammadreza Aghajani
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14:30
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CS
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Geocast routing for Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks
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Rui Meireles
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14:45
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ECE
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Hugo Conceição
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15:00
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CS
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A Behavioral Type System for Web Applications
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Filipe Militão
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15:15
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ECE
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Subspace Segmentation
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Augusto Almeida Santos
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15:30
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CS
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Model-Checking of Security Protocols
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Bernardo Toninho
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15:45
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TCE
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ICTs and Education: Internet Usage Patterns and Academic Performance in Portuguese Schools
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Rodrigo Belo
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16:00
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Living and Studying in the US (CMU experience)
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Rui Meireles, Cristina Carias
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16:40
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Final Discussions and Conclusions
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- CS – Computer Science
- ECE – Electrical and Computer Engineering
- TCE – Technology Change and Entrepreneurship