ICDCN 2010: Call for Participation

Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ICDCN 2010 11th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking January 3-6, 2010, Kolkata, India Conference Website: http://www.icdcn.org The 11th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN 2010) will be held in Kolkata, India, during January 3-6, 2010. Over the years, ICDCN has become a leading forum for disseminating the latest research results in distributed computing and networking. The historic city of Kolkata is one of the biggest cities in India, where tradition and modernity blend in harmony. The conference will have a full day of tutorials on January 3, 2010. This will be followed by multiple technical sessions with high quality research papers, keynote talks from academia and industry, panel discussion, industry session, and a Ph.D. forum for students on January 4-6, 2010. The technical paper presentation sessions will run in two parallel tracks, Distributed Computing and Networking. TECHNICAL PROGRAM JANUARY 3: 9:00 12:00 Tutorial: Rajeev Shorey, NIIT Univ, India 9:00 12:00 Tutorial: Amos Korman, CNRS Paris 9:00 12:00 Tutorial: Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ. 14:00 17:00 Tutorial: C. Pandurangan, IIT Madras, India 14:00 17:00 Tutorial: Hillol Kargupta, UMBC, USA 14:00 17:00 Tutorial: Anwitaman Dutta, NTU, Singapore JANUARY 4: 9:00 9:30 Inauguration 9:30 10:30 Keynote - Prithiraj Banerjee (Senior VP of HP) 10:30 11:00 Tea/coffee 11:00 12:30 Session 1 12:30 13:00 A word from your sponsors 13:00 14:00 Lunch 14:00 15:30 Session 2 15:30 16:00 Tea/coffee 16:00 17:30 Session 3 18:00 20:00 Dinner w/ word from sponsors and Keynote -- Ashok Jhunjhunwala (IIT Madras) JANUARY 5: 9:00 10:00 Keynote - Prabhakar Raghavan (Head, Yahoo Labs) 10:00 10:30 Tea/coffee 10:30 12:00 Session 4 12:00 13:00 AK Choudhury Memorial Lecture: Sartaj Sahni (Univ of Florida) 13:00 14:00 Lunch 14:00 15:30 Session 5 15:30 16:00 Tea/coffee 16:00 17:30 Session 6 17:30 18:30 Followup of PEERS workshop 18:30 20:30 Banquet w/ future ICDCN planning JANUARY 6: 9:00 9:45 Keynote -- Manish Gupta (IBM Research, India) 9:45 11:15 Panel on "Role of Digital Convergence in Reaching Out to a Billion People" Panelists: Shivkumar Kalyanraman (IBM Research) Sharad Jaiswal (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs) Giridhar Mandhyam (Qualcomm) Mukesh Shah (Varaha Systems) Moderator: Sanjoy Paul (AVP and GM-Research, Infosys Technologies Limited) 11:15 11:30 Tea/coffee 11:30 13:00 Invited industry research talks Vishy Poosala (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs) Amitabha Das (Infosys Technologies Limited) Shrikant Naidu (Motorola India Research Labs) 13:00 14:00 Lunch 14:00 16:00 PhD Student Forum 16:00 16:45 PhD Student Forum: Poster Session with Coffee/Tea REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN For more information: http://www.icdcn.org