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Progress Update. Dates and Location Austin, Texas USA Hilton Austin (downtown) – Conference hotel – Technical program June 12-18 (Saturday through Friday)

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1 Progress Update

2 Dates and Location Austin, Texas USA Hilton Austin (downtown) – Conference hotel – Technical program June 12-18 (Saturday through Friday) 2010

3 Executive Team General co-chairs – Behnaam Aazhang, Rice – Costas Georghiades, Texas A&M Technical program co-chairs – Michael Gastpar, UC Berkeley – Robert Heath, University of Texas in Austin – Krishna Narayanan, Texas A&M

4 Executive Team Treasurer – Aria Nosratinia, Univ. Texas in Dallas Publicity – Jean-Francois Chamberland, Texas A&M – Ashutosh Sabharwal, Rice Univ. Local Arrangements – Jeffrey Andrews, Univ. Texas at Austin – Sriram Viswananth, Univ. Texas at Austin

5 Executive Team Tutorials – Zixiang Xiong, Texas A&M Univ. Publications – Dinesh Rajan, SMU Student travel grants – Joseph Cavallaro, Rice Recent results – Serap Savari, Texas A&M Univ. – Sanjay Shakkottai, Univ. Texas at Austin

6 Organizational Cornerstones Contract with “Conference Management Services” (CMS) is being finalized as we speak and will cover: – Handling of all money streams, from registration payments to IEEE audit. – Handling of all admin matters for papers (including IEEExplore compliance) – Call for papers – Webpage, including updating etc.

7 Budget Cornerstones Expected number of participants 820 Conference hotel room per night $189 (multiple occupancy allowed); and many cheaper hotels nearby. Registration fee: currently planned at $600, with reduced rate $300. – Welcome reception – One luncheon – One dinner banquet – Coffee breaks ISIT is guaranteeing 1720 room-nights

8 Budget Cornerstones Expected external support $40K – Federal agencies – Local industry Budgeted surplus $79K

9 Technical Program Committee CfP is ready (see paper handout…) – Submission deadline: January 7, 2010 – Reviews in: March 8, 2010 – TPC meeting: with CISS (Princeton), likely Saturday, March 20, 2010 – Notifications: April 1, 2010 – Session arrangements: mid-April 2010 TPC composition confirmed (65 regular members, 5 appeals members)

10 About Austin International airport – Non stop flights from most major US cities – Toronto, Mexico city, Monterrey Population of over 600,000

11 Downtown Austin http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/downtown/downloads/downtown_hotels.pdf 500ft Conference Hotel Nightlife Hike and bike trail (both sides) View of downtown across river

12 Nightlife http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/downtown/downloads/e6th_2page.pdf Conference Hotel 500ft ~ 160m


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