[Tccc] ICDCN 2010: Call for Participation

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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
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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
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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
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