UCLA Engineering | 2008 Technology Forum

FORUM SCHEDULE - MAY 27
8:00 - 8:45	Registration/Breakfast	De Neve Plaza Room
8:45 - 9:55	Welcome + Keynote	De Neve Auditorium
8:45	Welcome Address Vijay K. Dhir Dean
9:00	Remarks Gene D. Block Chancellor
9:10	Keynote Address + 1st L.M.K. Boelter Lecture Transformational Research and our Energy Future Raymond L. Orbach Under Secretary of Science U.S. Department of Energy
9:55 - 12:15	Innovations in Research	De Neve Auditorium
9:55	Silicon Photonics Bahram Jalali Professor Electrical Engineering
10:15	Advances in Electronic Design Automation for Giga-scale Integration Jason Cong Professor and Chair Computer Science
10:35	Research and Educational Highlights of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UCLA Adrienne Lavine Professor and Chair Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
10:55	Improving Water Resource Characterization and Management from Space Steve Margulis Assistant Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering
11:15	Sustainable Energy Mark Goorsky Professor and Chair Materials Science and Engineering
11:35	Cell Traffic Control: Applications in Cancer Drug Delivery Dan Kamei Assistant Professor Bioengineering
11:55	Next Generation Biofuels James Liao Professor Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
12:15 - 2:00	Poster Session/Lunch	Tom Bradley International Hall
	Poster Competition Sponsored by YAHOO!
	Buffet Lunch
2:00 - 3:00	Centers of Excellence	Multiple Locations
2:00 - 2:20	NIH CENTER FOR CELL CONTROL Rapid Search for Optimized Drug Cocktails Chih-Ming Ho Professor and Director
2:20 - 3:00	CENTER FOR SCALABLE AND INTEGRATED NANOMANUFACTURING
	Precision Engineering and Control for NanoManufacturing Tsu-Chin Tsao Professor Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
	Educational Outreach in the Center for Scalable and Integrated NanoManufacturing Adrienne Lavine Professor and Chair Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
2:00 - 2:10	NSF CENTER FOR EMBEDDED NETWORKED SENSING An Overview of CENS Deborah Estrin Professor and Director
2:25 - 2:50	WESTERN INSTITUTE OF NANOELECTRONICS An Overview of WIN Ajey Jacob Intel Resident
2:15 - 2:25	CENTER FOR INFORMATION AND COMPUTATION SECURITY An Overview of CICS Rafail Ostrovsky Professor and Director
2:00 - 5:00	Research Review	Multiple Locations
2:00 - 5:00	ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING Department Overview and Graduate Student Talks
2:00 - 5:00	COMPUTER SCIENCE Cyber-Security
2:00 - 5:00	MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING Innovations from Auto to Space
2:00 - 4:00	CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING - Safety of Engineering Structures - Water and Environmental Sustainability
2:00 - 5:00	MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING Materials for Sustainable Energy
2:00 - 5:00	BIOENGINEERING Graduate Student Research in Bioengineering
2:00 - 5:00	CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING Frontiers in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Department
5:00 - 6:30	Awards Ceremony & Reception	Tom Bradley International Hall
5:00	Reception
5:30	Awards Ceremony


	KEYNOTE ADDRESS Delivered by Raymond Orbach, Under Secretary for Science, Department of Energy INNOVATIONS IN RESEARCH Recent Advances from UCLA Engineering Researchers POSTER COMPETITION UCLA Engineering Graduate Students Present Recent Research. Sponsored by Yahoo! CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE Featuring the Work of Interdisciplinary Research Centers based at UCLA Engineering RESEARCH REVIEW School Departments Highlight Cutting-Edge Work AWARDS CEREMONY UCLA Engineering Honors Industry Partners + Poster Competition Winners