VTIC'05 EXPANDING HORIZONS
June 3-5, 2005 - Crowne Plaza Hotel, Milpitas, CA 95035
| PROGRAM -AT-A-GLANCE | ||||||
| (Please see complete program below) | ||||||
| Friday, June 3, 2005 | ||||||
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Registration | |||||
| 18:00 - 21:00 | NETWORKING RECEPTION (Bldg. 23 Lobby, Cisco Systems, Milpitas - across from Crowne Plaza Hotel) | |||||
| (Opened to paid registrants, organizers, volunteers, speakers) | ||||||
| Saturday, June 4, 2005 | ||||||
| 7:30 - 14:00 | Registration | |||||
| 8:00 - 8:30 | Coffee | |||||
| 8:00 - 16:00 | Exhibitions | |||||
| 8:00 - 16:00 | Poster Session (Authors accompanying posters between 12-12:45pm) | |||||
| 8:30 - 9:40 | CONFERENCE OPENING AND KEYNOTE LECTURE (Grand Ballroom) | |||||
| 9:40 - 10:00 | Break | |||||
| 10:00 - 12:00 | PLENARY SESSION (Grand Ballroom) | |||||
| 12:00 - 13:00 | LUNCH AND INVITED SPEAKER (Hotel Foyer and Pasta Ristorante in hotel) | |||||
| 13:00 - 14:20 | PARALLEL TECHNICAL SESSIONS 1, 2 AND PANEL1 | |||||
| SESSION 1 - COMPUTER (Krystal A & B) | ||||||
| SESSION 2 - MEDICAL & ACADEMIC TECHNOLOGIES (Champagne I) | ||||||
| PANEL 1 - FROM CONCEPT TO COMMERCIALIZATION (Champagne II) | ||||||
| 14:20 - 14:35 | Break | |||||
| 14:35 - 15:55 | PARALLEL TECHNICAL SESSIONS 3, 4 AND PANEL 2 | |||||
| SESSION 3 - COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY & SCIENCE (Krystal A & B) | ||||||
| SESSION 4 - MICROELECTRONICS (Champagne I) | ||||||
| PANEL 2 - LEADERSHIP 1A (Champagne II) | ||||||
| 15:55 - 16:10 | Break | |||||
| 16:10 - 17:30 | PARALLEL TECHNICAL SESSION 5 AND PANELS 3, 4 | |||||
| SESSION 5 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS (Krystal A & B) | ||||||
| PANEL 3 - INFORMATION AND MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY | ||||||
| OUTSOURCING TO SOUTHEAST ASIA (Champagne I) | ||||||
| PANEL 4 - LEADERSHIP 1B (Champagne II) | ||||||
| 19:00 - 22:00 | BANQUET AND MUSIC PROGRAM (Grand Ballroom) | |||||
| Sunday, June 5, 2005 | ||||||
| 8:00 - 10:00 | VACETS/VTIC'05 speakers breakfast (Krystal A&B) | |||||
| 10:00 - 14:00 | GOLF OUTING (The Ranch Goft Course, San Jose) | |||||
VTIC'05 |
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Crowne Plaza
Hotel, Milpitas, California |
EXPANDING HORIZONS | |||||
| COMPLETE PROGRAM | ||||||
| Friday, June 3, 2005 | ||||||
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Registration | |||||
| 18:00 - 21:00 | NETWORKING RECEPTION (Bldg. 23 Lobby, Cisco Systems, Milpitas - across from Crowne Plaza Hotel) | |||||
| (Opened to paid registrants, organizers, volunteers, speakers) | ||||||
| Saturday, June 4, 2005 | ||||||
| (Please see complete program below) | ||||||
| 7:30 - 14:00 | Registration | |||||
| 8:00 - 8:30 | Coffee | |||||
| 8:00 - 16:00 | Exhibitions | |||||
| 8:00 - 16:00 | Poster Session | |||||
| (Authors accompanying posters between 12-12:45pm) | ||||||
| 8:30 - 9:00 | CONFERENCE OPENING (Grand Ballroom) | |||||
| Opening remark, Tri Tran, VTIC'05 General Chair | ||||||
| Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | ||||||
| Welcoming remark, Jose Esteves, Mayor | ||||||
| City of Milpitas | ||||||
| Welcoming remark,Thai Van Tran, California State Assemblyman | ||||||
| 68th District | ||||||
| Technical Program introduction, Christopher Hoang Pham, VTIC'05 Technical Chair | ||||||
| Cisco Systems, Inc. & San Jose State University | ||||||
| 9:00 - 9:40 | KEYNOTE LECTURE (Grand Ballroom) | |||||
| Eugene Huu-Chau Trinh, | ||||||
| Director & Former US Astronaut, Physical Sciences Research Division, NASA | ||||||
| 9:40 - 10:00 | Break | |||||
| 10:00 - 12:00 | PLENARY SESSION (Grand Ballroom) | |||||
| Chair: Canh Van Nguyen, Hoover Institute, Stanford University | ||||||
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Charles Cuong Nguyen, | |||||
| Dean, College of Engineering, Catholic University of America | ||||||
| "An Asian-American Way to the Top in Academia" | ||||||
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Tue Nguyen, | |||||
| Director, Pharmaceutical Research, Genentech, | ||||||
| "Heal Thyself: The Use Of Monoclonal Antibody As Therapeutic Agents" | ||||||
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Duy-Loan Le, | |||||
| Senior Fellow, Texas Instruments, | ||||||
| "True Leadership: A Personal Perspective" | ||||||
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Van Dang, | |||||
| Vice President, Law & Deputy General Counsel, Cisco Systems, | ||||||
| "Innovations and Global Competitiveness" | ||||||
| 12:00 - 13:00 | LUNCH AND INVITED LECTURE (Hotel Foyer and Lobby) | |||||
| 12:00-12:45 | LUNCH (Hotel Foyer and lobby) | |||||
| 12:15-12:45 | Lunch lecture (Pasta Ristorante - Hotel Lobby level) | |||||
| Thao Dang, Century 21 Fine Homes & Estates | ||||||
| "Luxury Home Market - A Perspective" | ||||||
| 12:15-13:00 | Exhibit and Poster Session with authors in attendance | |||||
| EXHIBITION (Hotel lobby and foyer) | ||||||
| Chair: Tuan Nguyen, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | ||||||
| • WinMagic, Inc. | ||||||
| • Cisco Systems, Inc. | ||||||
| • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | ||||||
| • VACETS | ||||||
| • Vietnamese Silicon Valley Network | ||||||
| • Genentech, Inc. | ||||||
| • LeWiz Communications, Inc. | ||||||
| • Hewlett Packard | ||||||
| • Lajenda Networks | ||||||
| POSTER SESSION (Hotel Lobby and Foyer) | ||||||
| Chairs: Thai Son Dao, Sierra Design and University of Nevada, Reno | ||||||
| Loi Tran, Broadcom Inc. | ||||||
| Luc Nguyen, CTO/VP Engineering | ||||||
| "Optimizing Traffic Across Multiple Border Gateways Between Two | ||||||
| Service Providers" | ||||||
| Hung Nguyen and Karen Jones, Aerospace Corporation | ||||||
| "An End-to-End Architecture for Distributing Weather Alerts to Wireless Handsets" | ||||||
| Jake Koerner and Tri Tran, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | ||||||
| "Chemical Reactivity Test for Assessing Explosive Stability and Compatibility" | ||||||
| Franco Gagliardi and Tri Tran, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | ||||||
| "Small Scale Performance Test for Studying New Explosives" | ||||||
| Thai Son Dao, Sierra Design and University of Nevada, Reno | ||||||
| "Overview of Silicon Laser" | ||||||
| Tuan Cao-Huu, York University, Canada | ||||||
| "Diffuse Optical Imaging versus fMRI and PET for Neurosurgical Planning" | ||||||
| Tuan Cao-Huu, York University, Canada | ||||||
| "3D out-of-core Krylov-subspace diffuse optical imaging and conformal maps" | ||||||
| Van Nguyen and Chip Martel, University of California, Davis | ||||||
| "A Network Design Problem: Diameter, Weight and Congestion" | ||||||
| 13:00 - 14:20 | PARALLEL TECHNICAL SESSIONS 1, 2 AND PANEL 1 | |||||
| 13:00 - 14:20 | SESSION 1 - COMPUTER (Krystal A & B) | |||||
| Chair: Nhon Quach, AMD and San Jose State University | ||||||
| 13:00 - 13:20 | Chinh H. Le, Lewiz Communication, Inc. | |||||
| "TCP/IP Offload Engine Boosts System Performance" | ||||||
| 13:20 - 13:40 | Thuy T. Le, San Jose State University | |||||
| "MPI Performance of Various Multirail InfiniBand Clusters" | ||||||
| 13:40 - 14:00 | Anh Dinh, University of Saskatchewan, Canada | |||||
| "A Synchronization Method for Ultrawideband Communications" | ||||||
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Luan D. Nguyen and Lan N. Vu, Web Office, Inc. | |||||
| "Secured Wireless Digital Video Surveilance for Distributed Enterprises" | ||||||
| 13:00 - 14:20 | SESSION 2 - MEDICAL & ACADEMIC TECHNOLOGIES (Champagne I) | |||||
| Chairs: Tanh Pham, Stanford University | ||||||
| Chanh Viet, University of California, San Francisco | ||||||
| 13:00 - 13:20 | Chanh Viet, University of California, San Francisco | |||||
| "Dental Implant as a Treatment Modality to Preserve the Integrity of the Dentition" | ||||||
| 13:20 - 13:40 | Terry Vien, San Jose State Unversity and Tanh Pham. Stanford University | |||||
| "THERMALCOOL TCTM: Latest Advances in Non-Surgical Skin Tightening" | ||||||
| 13:40 - 14:00 | Tuan Cao-Huu, York University, Canada | |||||
| "Teaching Computer Algorithms and Techniques for Imaging Cognition" | ||||||
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Tanh Pham, Stanford University | |||||
| "Corrections of Nearsightedness, Farsightedness and Presbyopia with | ||||||
| Intraocular Lens: A Combination of Therapeutic & Refractive Surgery" | ||||||
| 13:00 - 14:20 | PANEL 1 - FROM CONCEPT TO COMMERCIALIZATION (Champagne II) | |||||
| Moderators: Huy Do, Vietnamese Silicon Valley Network | ||||||
| Ban Tran, Merrill Lynch | ||||||
| Panelists: | ||||||
| Trung Dung, CEO, FogBreak, Inc. | ||||||
| Yuric Hannart, CEO, Ontelix, Inc. | ||||||
| Khoa Do, Partner, Greenberg Traurig, LLP | ||||||
| Hung Bui, Partner, Stein, McEwen & Bui, LLP | ||||||
| Julien Nguyen, Managing Partner, Applied Materials Ventures | ||||||
| 14:20 - 14:35 | Break | |||||
| 14:35 - 15:55 | PARALLEL TECHNICAL SESSIONS 3, 4 AND PANEL 2 | |||||
| 14:35-15:55 | SESSION 3 - COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY (Krystal A & B) | |||||
| Chair: Dat Nguyen, Harvard University | ||||||
| 14:35 - 14:55 | Danh Nguyen, University of California, Davis | |||||
| "A Partial Least Squares (PLS) Dimension Reduction Approach to | ||||||
| Some Challenges in Genome-wide Expression Analysis" | ||||||
| 14:55 - 15:15 | Jennifer M. Bui, University of California, San Diego | |||||
| "Conformational Dynamics of Acetylcholinesterase: A Study to | ||||||
| Decipher its Function of Inhibition" | ||||||
| 15:15 - 15:35 | Dat Nguyen, Harvard University | |||||
| "Deciphering Operating Principles in Biological Systems from Genomic Sequences" | ||||||
| 14:35-15:55 | SESSION 4 - MICROELECTRONICS (Champagne I) | |||||
| Chair: Nhan Do, Silicon Storage Technology | ||||||
| 14:35 - 14:55 | Anh Dinh, University of Saskatchewan, Canada | |||||
| "A LIGA-MEMS Voltage Control Oscillation" | ||||||
| 14:55 - 15:15 | Hieu V. Tran, Silicon Storage Technology | |||||
| "NOR and NAND Flash Memory: Overview and Challenges" | ||||||
| 15:15 - 15:35 | Loc T. Vu, Top-Vu Technology & Wright-Patterson AFRL | |||||
| "Some RF Front-End Components for Receiver-on-Chip" | ||||||
| 15:35 - 15:55 | Tan Ha, Hewlett Packard | |||||
| "Nanotechnology Program at Hewlett Packard Labs" | ||||||
| 14:35 - 15:55 | PANEL 2 - LEADERSHIP 1A (Champagne II) | |||||
| Moderator: Hai Tran, Government Accountability Office | ||||||
| Panelists: | ||||||
| Hanh Van Nguyen, Director of Refugee Resettlement, | ||||||
| Department of Health and Human Services | ||||||
| Thi Chau Nguyen-Huu, CEO, WINMAGIC Data Security | ||||||
| Tien Manh Nguyen, Engineering Fellow, The Raytheon Systems Company | ||||||
| 15:55 - 16:10 | Break | |||||
| 16:10 - 17:30 | PARALLEL TECHNICAL SESSION 5 AND PANELS 3, 4 | |||||
| 16:10-16:30 | SESSION 5 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS (Krystal A & B) | |||||
| Chair: Tony Nguyen, San Jose State University | ||||||
| 16:10 - 16:30 | Hai Tran, Government Accountability Office | |||||
| "Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection" | ||||||
| 16:30 - 16:50 | Thai Son Dao, Sierra Design and University of Nevada, Reno | |||||
| "WLAN and CDMA2000 Interworking Architecture" | ||||||
| 16:50 - 17:10 | Nilay Gupta, Cisco Systems | |||||
| "Robotic Fault Injection for Networking HA from SSO Angle" | ||||||
| 17:10 - 17:30 | Hoang Nguyen, California Franchise Tax Board | |||||
| "Recent U.S. Experience with Distant Learning in Higher Educations" | ||||||
| 16:10 - 17:30 | PANEL 3 - INFORMATION AND MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY | |||||
| OUTSOURCING TO SOUTHEAST ASIA (Champagne I) | ||||||
| Moderator: Hung Nguyen, Aerospace Corporation | ||||||
| Panelists: | ||||||
| Hung Truong, Senior Director of Engineering, | ||||||
| Network Operations Software Division, Lucent Technologies | ||||||
| Michael Lai Le, CEO and President, International IT Services, Ltd. | ||||||
| Hoang Huy Hoang, Senior Director of Strategic Business Development | ||||||
| Novellus Systems, Inc. | ||||||
| 16:10 - 17:30 | PANEL 4 - LEADERSHIP 1B (Champagne II) | |||||
| Moderator: Tri Dinh Tran, Evergreen College | ||||||
| Panelists: | ||||||
| Vinh Xuan Nguyen, Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan | ||||||
| Hai Tran, Government Accountability Office | ||||||
| Canh Van Nguyen, Hoover Institute, Standford University | ||||||
| 19:00-22:00 | BANQUET PROGRAM (Grand Ballroom) | |||||
| • Social Hours | ||||||
| • Welcoming Remark, Charles Cuong Nguyen | ||||||
| Dean, College of Engineering, Catholic University of America | ||||||
| • Music | ||||||
| • Invited Speaker, | ||||||
| • Music Program - directed by Chan Le | ||||||
| Traditional Vietnamese Instruments/Music and World Strings/Music | ||||||
| • Banquet Sponsor Remark, Thi Chau Nguyen-Huu, CEO, WINMAGIC Data Security | ||||||
| • Music | ||||||
| 22:00-22:05 | PROGRAM CONCLUSION | |||||
| Sunday, June 5, 2005 | ||||||
| 8:00 - 10:00 | VACETS/VTIC'05 speakers breakfast (Krystal A&B) | |||||
| All VACETS members / VTIC'05 speakers, organizers and volunteers | ||||||
| are cordially invited for a breakfast with VACETS Board | ||||||
| (RSVP to General or Technical Chair) | ||||||
| 10:00 - 14:00 | GOLF OUTING (The Ranch Goft Course, San Jose) | |||||
| Lunch provided by Lee Sandwich | ||||||