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CIAN Student Retreat Agenda

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:40:00 -0700

CIAN Student Retreat Agenda

Date: Nov. 11-12 , 2009

Location: Hotel Palomar Los Angeles - Westwood, Los Angeles, CA
Address: 10740 Wilshire Boulevard (at Selby Avenue), Los Angeles, CA 90024, Tel: 310.475.8711 or 800.472.8556, Fax: 310.475.5220

Wednesday,11 ,2009
7:00 - 8:00	Continental Breakfast
8:00 - 8:15	Welcome - CIAN's 1st Retreat - Peyghambarian
8:15 - 8:25	Retreat Goals for Faculty, Students, Postdocs - Fainman
8:25 - 8:30	Logistics - Cochran
Working Groups Overview
8:30 - 9:30	WG I - Cross-Layer Optimization - Bergman
9:30 - 10:30	WG II - Scalable and Energy Efficient Data Centers - Vahdat
10:30 - 10:45	Coffee Break
10:45- 11:45	WG III - Integrated Transport Platforms - Kueppers
Thrust I Research
11:45 - 11:55	Thrust I Overview - Willner
11:55 - 12:05	Touch
12:05 - 12:15	Zussman
12:15 - 1:15	Working Lunch: CIAN Web site and data collection - Cochran/Riaz
Thrust II Research
1:15 - 1:25	Thrust II Overview - Scherer/Wu
1:25 - 1:35	Lomakin (Optical Spice)
1:35 - 1:45	Jalali
1:45 - 1:55	Ford
Thrust III Research
1:55 - 2:05	Thrust III Overview - Chang-Hasnain/Gibbs
2:05 - 2:15	Dapkus
2:15 - 2:25	Das
2:25 - 2:35	Huffaker
2:35 - 2:45	Khitrova
Testbeds
2:45 - 2:55	Kueppers, "Overview of Testbeds/ Arizona Satellite Testbed on Integrated Transmission Network"
2:55 - 3:05	Radic, "San Diego Grand Challenge Testbed"
3:05 - 3:15	Papen, "New Data Center Testbed"
3:15 - 3:25	Patra, "Packaging Issues for Testbed Insertion"
3:25 - 4:00	Coffee Break
4:00 - 6:00	3 Working Groups Parallel Sessions
4:00 - 6:00	SLC Meeting: Effective Leadership Practices - Seemiller
CIAN Retreat Working Dinner: Comments by CIAN Management
7:00 - 9:00	Center Dinner at Shaherzad 1422 Westwood Blvd. (at Wilkin Ave), Los Angeles, CA 90024 Tel.: 310-470-9131
Thursday.12.2009
7:00 - 8:00	Continental Breakfast
8:00 - 10:30	3 Working Groups Parallel Sessions Continued
10:30 - 10:45	Coffee Break
10:45 - 12:00	Presentations of the results of 3 WGs to all
12:00 - 1:00	Working Lunch: Supercourse Review and CIAN Education Highlights - Kupinski, Simmons, Mead
CIAN IAB, Management and Education
1:00 - 1:20	Industry Recruitment of System Level Vendors - Norwood
1:20 - 1:30	Technical Program Committee - Fainman
1:30 - 1:50	Student Leadership Council - Sweet / Kupinski
1:50 - 2:00	Newsletter - Sukumar
2:00 - 2:15	RET Video - Wang
2:15 - 2:35	Mentoring REU/RET on a Time Budget - Seraphin
Milestones Metric Review/SLC Meeting
2:35 - 3:30	Identification of Key Tasks, Key Milestones, GAANT chart - Cochran
2:32 - 4:00	Student Research Talks - Kupinski
3:30 - 4:00	Coffee Break
4:00 - 5:00	issues, things to do, wrap up - Fainman and Peyghambarian

CIAN Industry Advisory Board Meeting Agenda

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:39:00 -0700

CIAN Industry Advisory Board Meeting Agenda

Date: Nov. 10 2009

Location: Hotel Palomar Los Angeles- Westwood, Los Angeles, CA
Address: 10740 Wilshire Boulevard (at Selby Avenue), Los Angeles, CA 90024, Tel: 310.475.8711 or 800.472.8556, Fax: 310.475.5220

Tuesday,10 ,2009
7:30 - 8:30	Continental Breakfast
8:30 - 8:40	Welcome Remarks - Dr .Nasser Peyghambarian
8:40 - 8:45	Introduction of IAB Member Firms - Dr. Robert Norwood
8:45 - 9:45	Working Group (WG) 1: Cross-layered Optimized Access Network Dr. Keren Bergman - This session will include: (1) vision of the WG and its mission, (2) architecture and systems, (3) technology gaps that need to be filled by Thrusts 2 and 3, (4) testbed insertion examples, (5) industry drive/interaction, and (6) GENI interaction. This session may have industry presenters, students and faculty.
9:45 - 10:45	Working Group (WG) 2: Scalable and Energy Efficient Data Centers Dr. George Papen/Dr. Amin Vahdat - This session will include: (1) vision of the WG and its mission, (2) architecture and systems, (3) technology gaps that need to be filled by Thrusts 2 and 3, (4) testbed insertion examples, (5) industry drive/interaction, and (6) GENI interaction. This session may have industry presenters, students and faculty.
10:45 - 11:15	Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:15	Working Group (WG) 3: Integrated Transport Platforms Dr. Franko Kueppers - This session will include: (1) vision of the WG and its mission, (2) architecture and systems, (3) technology gaps that need to be filled by Thrusts 2 and 3, (4) testbed insertion examples, (5) industry drive/interaction, and (6) GENI interaction. This session may have industry presenters, students and faculty.
12:15 - 1:00	Lunch (students can set up posters)
1:00 - 2:45	Technology: Integrated OE chips/optical spice/devices in support of the WGs Dr. Axel Scherer/Dr. Ming Wu/Dr. Connie Chang-Hasnain - This session will include directions to address needs of WGs, industry talks, student talks and faculty talks.
2:45 - 3:00	Education Program Overview - Dr. Meredith Kupinski
3:00 - 3:45	IAB Closed Meeting (Industry SWOT analysis)
3:45 - 4:15	Refining your "Elevator Pitch" - Students interview with industry representatives
4:15 - 5:00	Refreshment Break/Student Posters

Reminder to register for CIAN IAB/Retreat

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:29:00 -0700

CIAN Faculty, Staff and Students,

The CIAN Biweekly meeting is canceled for Thursday Oct 1, 2009, due to travel of the Center Director.

In lieu, of the time you would have spent on the call. Please take time to indicate whether you will be attending the CIAN Industry Advisory Board Meeting and the CIAN Retreat by send an RSVP response to Trin (email: trin@optics.arizona.edu ). If you are attending, registration can be accomplished at http://www.cian-erc.org/eventdetails.cfm?Tab=Retreat. If you are not going to attend please let Trin know.

The CIAN preferred hotel rate is only available up to Oct 15. It is the hotel's understanding that individuals will make their own reservations directly with the hotel's reservation department via telephone at 1-800-Kimpton or 424-901-7270. Please inform the hotel you will be attending the IAB and CIAN Retreat function for the special room rate ($120/day).

Please note, that the CIAN Retreat is mandatory for all faculty. Please also bring at least one of your students (forward this email to that student so that he/she will register as well). There is a student poster session scheduled on Nov. 10, 2009 in the afternoon. Indicate who in your group will be presenting a poster and the title of their poster (email: ecochran@optics.arizona.edu).

I am attaching the near final agenda’s for these meetings. Please review these agendas to see what content you are responsible to provided. If you have any questions please call me or the center directors.

PS The next biweekly call will be on Oct 15. Please register by then.

Best Regards,

Eugene R. Cochran, PhD, MBA

Administrative Director, CIAN Engineering Research Center

University of Arizona

The College of Optical Sciences

1630 E. University Blvd., Rm 529

Tucson, AZ 85721

Tel. 520-626-0157

Fax 520-626-6219

Cell 520-977-8126

Email: ecochran@optics.arizona.edu