1. Welcome to ISPD 2007 The International Symposium on Physical Design Austin, Texas March 18th-21st General Chair: Patrick H. Madden

2. Steering Committee Patrick Groeneveld (Magma) Lou Scheffer (Cadence) Desmond Kirkpatrick (Intel) Dennis Sylvester (Michigan) Paul Villarrubia (IBM)

3. The TPC David Pan (Chair) Ulrich Brenner Yao-Wen Chang Kai-Yuan Chao Chris Chu Bill Halpin Xianlong Hong Frank Johannes Hardy Leung Jens Lienig Sung-Kyu Lim Rob Mains Patrick McGuinness Gi-Joon Nam Shigetoshi Nakatake David Newmark Ray Nijssen Dave Noice Hidetoshi Onodera Yegna Parasuram Rob Rutenbar Prashant Saxena Toshi Shibuya Hai Zhou

4. The Program 22 accepted papers Invited Talks from IBM, Sun, Intel, Cadence, Sierra, Georgia Tech, UT Austin

5. Best Paper Variability-Driven Formulation for Simultaneous Gate Sizing and Post- Silicon Tunability Allocation Vishal Khandelwal and Prof. Ankur Srivastava from UMCP Session 1, paper 3

6. Logistics Breakfast every day near the conference room Lunch/Dinner in the adjoining room on M&T Drink tickets for dinner (2 per night) WiFi should be open for all

7. The Routing Contest Support from IEEE/CEDA and SRC Gi-Joon Nam (Publications Chair) in charge 17 teams signed up; 10 survived Winners to be announced tomorrow Think you know who won? Fill out the score sheet correctly to win!

8. 2008? US? International? Please fill out the survey for your preferences!

9. Thank You ACM for sponsorship, and IEEE CAS for technical co- sponsorship. To the corporate support from Cadence, IBM, Intel, Magma, Sierra, Sun, Synopsys, and Tabula. IEEE/CEDA and SRC for sponsoring the Routing Contest. The TPC and the steering committee for putting together a program. The authors and speakers. And you! Thank you for coming to Austin!

10. Keynote Jim Kahle (IBM): Cell Architecture - Key Physical Design Features and Methodology