2010 EU-US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium

Jesus College, Cambridge, U.K.
September 1-3, 2010

Organized by the European Council of Applied Sciences and Engineering and the U.S. National Academy of Engineering

Chair: Richard Andrew Williams, University of Birmingham

Chair: Sergio Verdu, Princeton University

August 31, 2010

6:30 PM – 8:30 PM

Registration/Reception -

(Second Court/The Hall)

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Welcome

September 1, 2010

7:00 AM – 8:30 AM

Breakfast

(The Hall)

8:30 AM – 9:00 AM

Welcome -

(Upper Hall)

William Wakeham, Treasurer, EuroCASE Charles M. Vest, President, National Academy of Engineering

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Welcome Messages
William Wakeham, Treasurer, EuroCASE
Charles M. Vest, President, National Academy of Engineering
Opening Remarks
Richard Williams, University of Leeds, Committee co-chair (EU)
Sergio Verdu, Princeton University, Committee co-chair (US)
- Richard Andrew Williams, University of Birmingham
- Sergio Verdu, Princeton University

9:00 AM – 10:30 AM

Bio-Inspired Engineering -

(Upper Hall)

Session organizer: Robert J. Wood, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Session organizer: David Edwards, Harvard University

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How Insects Fly and Turn
- Jane Wang, Cornell University
- Abstract
Bio-Concrete: A Novel Bio-based Material
- Henk Marius Jonkers, Delft University of Technology
- Abstract

Session Abstract

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM

Break

(Upper Hall Balcony)

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM

Bio-Inspired Engineering (cont.) -

(Upper Hall)

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Sensory Guidance of Locomotion: From Neurons to Newton's Laws
- Noah J. Cowan, Johns Hopkins University
- Abstract
Self-Assembling Nanomedicine for Oncology
- Harivardhan Reddy Lakkireddy, Sanofi-aventis
- Abstract

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM

Lunch

(The Hall)

1:30 PM – 2:15 PM

Poster Session I

(The Cloisters)

2:15 PM – 3:00 PM

Poster Session II

(The Cloisters)

3:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Break

(Prioress’ Room)

3:30 PM – 5:00 PM

Signal Processing -

(Upper Hall)

Session organizer: Richard Baraniuk, Rice University

Session organizer: Mislav Grgic, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing

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Exploiting Diversity and Specialization in Intelligent Systems via Adaptive Combination
- Jerónimo Arenas-García, University Carlos III of Madrid
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Managing Massive Interference
- Helmut Bölcskei, ETHZ, Switzerland
- Abstract

Session Abstract

5:00 PM – 5:30 PM

Guest Speaker

Sean Blanchflower, Head of R&D, Autonomy

5:30 PM – 6:00 PM

Break

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Reception

(Fellows Lodge)

7:00 PM

Dinner at Jesus College -

(The Hall)

Dinner Speaker: Sean Blanchflower, Head of R&D, Autonomy

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September 2, 2010

7:00 AM – 8:30 AM

Breakfast

(The Hall)

8:30 AM – 10:00 AM

Signal Processing (cont.) -

(Upper Hall)

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Discovering and Exploiting Structure in High-Dimensional Data Sets
- Martin Wainwright, University of California, Berkeley
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Compressive Sensing
- Emmanuel Candes, Stanford University
- Abstract

10:00 AM – 10:30 AM

Break

(Upper Hall Balcony)

10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

Augmented Reality -

(Upper Hall)

Session organizer: Ronald Azuma, Intel IXR

Session organizer: Jakob Andreas Baerentzen, Technical University of Denmark

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Spatial Augmented Reality: Merging Real and Virtual Worlds
- Ramesh Raskar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Tracking
- Georg Klein, Microsoft Corporation
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Session Abstract

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

Lunch

(The Hall)

1:00 PM – 2:30 PM

Augmented Reality (cont.) -

(Upper Hall)

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How Smartphones Can Be Used to Augment Reality
- Daniel Wagner, Qualcomm Austria Research Center
- Abstract
Interaction Techniques for AR by Non-Intrusive Devices
- Alex Olwal, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology)
- Abstract

2:30 PM – 3:00 PM

Break

(Prioress' Room)

3:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Walking tour of Cambridge and punting on the River Cam (weather permitting).

7:00 PM

Dinner at Jesus College

(The Hall/Second Court)

September 3, 2010

7:00 AM – 8:30 AM

Breakfast

(The Hall)

8:30 AM – 10:05 AM

Materials Ecology -

(Upper Hall)

Session organizer: Carina Maria Alles

Session organizer: Paul Collier, Johnson Matthey

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Industrial Ecology and Cradle-to-Cradle Management of Materials
- Sangwon Suh, University of California, Santa Barbara
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The Ecology of Energy Materials
- Klaus Hellgardt, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine - UK
- Abstract
Steel: A Sustainable Material
- Jean-Sebastien Thomas, AcelorMittal Global R&D
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Session Abstract

10:05 AM – 10:35 AM

Break

(Upper Hall Balcony)

10:35 AM – 11:00 AM

Materials Ecology (cont.) -

(Upper Hall)

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Sustainable Life Cycle Management of Complex Products: Automobiles
- Wulf-Peter Schmidt, Ford
- Abstract

11:00 AM – 11:55 AM

Materials Ecology Panel

11:55 AM

Closing Remarks and Announcements

12:00 PM

Lunch

(The Hall)