CAMSAP2011: Program

Time (Puerto Rico)	Foyer	Restaurant Tuscany	Salon A	Salon B
Tue, 12 13
16:15-18:15	Student Paper Contest (Poster)
19:00-21:00	Welcome Reception
Wed, 12 14
07:30-08:30	Breakfast
08:30-09:00			Introduction and Welcome
09:00-10:00			Plenary Lecture: Networked Cyberphysical Systems
10:00-11:40			MIMO Radar	Signal Processing Applied to Financial Engineering Problems
11:40-12:00			MIMO Radar
12:00-13:00		Lunch
13:00-14:00			Plenary Lecture: MIMO Situational Awareness Radar
14:00-15:20			Advances in Geographical Positioning	Through-the-Wall Imaging
15:20-15:40			Advances in Geographical Positioning
15:45-16:00	Coffee Break
16:00-17:15			Special Session in Honor of Alex Gershman
Thu, 12 15
07:30-08:45	Breakfast
09:00-10:00			Plenary Lecture: Educational and Research Activities at the Student Research Development Center of the Ana G. Mendez University System
10:00-12:00			Advances in the Theory and Practice of Computationally Intensive Methods for Statistical Signal Processing	Estimation, Learning, and Optimization for the Smart Power Grid
12:00-13:00		Lunch
13:00-14:00			Plenary Lecture: The Limited Feedback Revolution in Wireless Communication
14:00-15:40			Signal Processing for Smart Grids	Wireless Communications
15:45-16:00	Coffee Break
16:00-17:40	Wireless Relay Networks (Poster) Beamforming and Array Signal Processing (Poster)		Energy Harvesting Wireless Networks
17:40-18:00
19:30-22:00			Banquet
Fri, 12 16
07:30-08:45	Breakfast
09:00-10:00			Plenary Lecture: When is Distributed as Good as Centralized?
10:00-12:00			Efficient Algorithms for Spectrum and Infrastructure Sharing	Sparse Signal Processing
12:00-13:00		Lunch
13:00-14:00			Plenary Lecture: Faster than Nyquist but Slower than Tropp
14:00-16:00	Estimation Theory (Poster) Distributed Estimation (Poster)		Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Systems
16:00-16:15	Coffee Break
16:15-18:15	Sensor Networks (Poster) Tracking Problems (Poster)			Deterministic and Probabilistic Toolsets for High-Dimensional Optimization

Tue, 12 13 16:15 - 18:15

Student Paper Contest (Poster)

Room: Foyer

Optimal Beamforming for Range-Doppler Ambiguity Suppression in Squinted SAR Systems: Paolo Di Lorenzo and Sergio Barbarossa (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
Energy-Harvesting for Source-Channel Coding in Cyber-Physical Systems: Paolo Castiglione (FTW, Austria); Osvaldo Simeone (King's College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Elza Erkip (New York University, USA); Thomas Zemen (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Austria)
Coalition Formation in MISO Interference Channels: Rami Mochaourab (RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Sweden); Eduard A Jorswieck (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany)
Time-Delay and Doppler-Shift Based Geolocation in the Presence of Outliers: Joseph S. Picard and Anthony J. Weiss (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
On the Design and Performance of TDBC-based Bi-directional Network Beamforming: Mohammad Zaeri-Amirani and Shahram ShahbazPanahi (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada); Min Dong (Ontario Tech University, Canada)
Computational Framework for Optimal Robust Beamforming in Coordinated Multicell Systems: Emil Björnson and Mats Bengtsson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Gan Zheng (University of Warwick & Loughborough University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Björn Ottersten (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Multiple Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filtering for Target Tracking in Urban Environments: Phani Chavali (Monsanto Research & Washington University in St Louis, USA); Arye Nehorai (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
Persistently Active Block Sparsity with Application to Direction-Of-Arrival Estimation of Moving Sources: Jimeng Zheng and Mostafa Kaveh (University of Minnesota, USA)
Optimal Scheduling over Fading Broadcast Channels with an Energy Harvesting Transmitter: Omur Ozel (George Washington University, USA); Jing Yang (The Pennsylvania State University, USA); Sennur Ulukus (University of Maryland, USA)
Fully distributed auction algorithm for spectrum sharing in unlicensed bands: Oshri Naparstek (Rafael Advanced Defence Systems Ltd., Israel); Amir Leshem (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
Generalized Approximate Message Passing Estimation from Quantized Samples: Ulugbek S. Kamilov (Washington University in St. Louis, USA & Google Research, USA); Vivek K Goyal (Boston University, USA); Sundeep Rangan (New York University, USA)
A Distributed Spring Model Algorithm for Sensor Localization using Dimension Expansion and Hyperbolic Tangential Force: Jieqi Yu, Sanjeev Kulkarni and H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)

Tue, 12 13 19:00 - 21:00

Welcome Reception

Room: Foyer

Wed, 12 14 7:30 - 8:30

Breakfast

Room: Foyer

Wed, 12 14 8:30 - 9:00

Introduction and Welcome

Room: Salon A

Wed, 12 14 9:00 - 10:00

Plenary Lecture: Networked Cyberphysical Systems

P.R. Kumar (Texas A&M University, USA)

Room: Salon A

Wed, 12 14 10:00 - 12:00

MIMO Radar

Room: Salon A

Chair: Daniel Fuhrmann (Michigan Technological University, USA)

10:00 MIMO Radar Signal Processing for Distributed Phased Arrays: Daniel Fuhrmann (Michigan Technological University, USA)
10:20 Low PAPR Waveform Synthesis with Application to Wideband MIMO Radar: Marie Ström (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Mats Viberg (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)
10:40 Transmit and Receive Filter Optimization for Wideband MIMO Radar: Marie Ström (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Mats Viberg (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden); Kent Falk (Saab Electronic Defence Systems, Sweden)
11:00 Adaptive Waveform Design for Colocated MIMO Radar Using Sparse Modeling: Sandeep Gogineni (Wright State University, USA); Arye Nehorai (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
11:20 Polarimetric MIMO Radar Target Detection Using Game Theory: Sandeep Gogineni (Wright State University, USA); Arye Nehorai (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
11:40 Widely Separated MIMO Radar with Adaptive Waveform for Target Classification: Junhyeong Bae (Agency for Defense Development(ADD), Korea (South)); Nathan A Goodman (University of Oklahoma, USA)

Wed, 12 14 10:00 - 11:40

Signal Processing Applied to Financial Engineering Problems

Room: Salon B

Chairs: Daniel P Palomar (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong), Francisco Rubio (HKUST, Hong Kong)

10:00 Asymptotic analysis and consistent estimation of high-dimensional Markowitz portfolios: Francisco Rubio (HKUST, Hong Kong); Xavier Mestre (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain); Daniel P Palomar (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
10:20 lq-regularization of the Kalman filter for exogenous outlier removal: application to hedge funds analysis: Emmanuelle Jay (Quanted, France); Patrick Duvaut (ETIS, ENSEA, Université Cergy-Pontoise, CNRS, France); Serge Darolles and Christian Gouriéroux (CREST-ENSAE, France)
10:40 On Epps Effect and Rebalancing of Hedged Portfolio in Multiple Frequencies: Mustafa Ugur Torun (Amazon.com, USA); Ali Akansu (NJIT, USA)
11:00 Weight Shrinkage for Portfolio Optimization: Ilya Pollak (Purdue University, USA)
11:20 Rank Estimation in Cointegrated Vector Auto-Regression Models via Automated Trans-Dimensional Markov Chain Monte Carlo: Gareth Peters (Australia & University of NSW, Australia); Ben Lasscock and Kannan Balakrishnan (Boronia Capital Pty Ltd, Australia)

Wed, 12 14 12:00 - 13:00

Lunch

Room: Restaurant Tuscany

Wed, 12 14 13:00 - 14:00

Plenary Lecture: MIMO Situational Awareness Radar

Jeffrey Krolik (Duke University, USA)

Room: Salon A

Wed, 12 14 14:00 - 15:40

Advances in Geographical Positioning

Room: Salon A

Chair: Pascal Larzabal (ENS-Cachan, PARIS, France)

14:00 A glance on geographical positioning: Jonathan Bosse (ONERA, France); Anne Ferréol (Thales Communications, France); Pascal Larzabal (ENS-Cachan, PARIS, France)
14:20 Localization with multicomponent seismic array: Lamberto Inza (Gipsa-Lab, France); Jerome I. Mars (Univ Grenoble Alpes, GIPSA-Lab & Univ Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, GIPSA-Lab, France); Jean-Philippe Métaxian (ISTerre, IRD, France); Gareth O'Brien (University College Dublin, France); Orlando Macedo (Instituto Geophysico del Peru, Peru)
14:40 Time-Delay and Doppler-Shift Based Geolocation in the Presence of Outliers: Joseph S. Picard and Anthony J. Weiss (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
15:00 Exploiting Network Topology Information to Mitigate Ambiguities in VMP Localization: Claus Pedersen, Troels Pedersen and Bernard Henri Fleury (Aalborg University, Denmark)
15:20 Multiple Source Localization Based on Biased Bearings Using the Intensity Filter - Approach and Experimental Results: Marek Schikora and Marc Oispuu (Fraunhofer FKIE, Germany); Wolfgang Koch (Fraunhofer FKIE & University of Bonn, Germany); Daniel Cremers (TU Munich, Germany)

Wed, 12 14 14:00 - 15:20

Through-the-Wall Imaging

Room: Salon B

Chair: Arye Nehorai (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)

14:00 Physics-Based EM Models in Support of Through-Wall Microwave Imaging: Peter Weichman (BAE Systems, Advanced Information Technologies, USA)
14:20 Autofocus for Coherent Through-the-wall Imaging with Multiple Antenna Arrays: Emre Ertin and Randy Moses (The Ohio State University, USA); Robert Burkholder (Ohio State University, USA)
14:40 Fast Wideband Near-Field Imaging with URAs applied to Urban Sensing: Michael Leigsnering (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany); Abdelhak M Zoubir (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany); Mounir Ghogho (International University of Rabat, Morocco & University of Leeds, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
15:00 Sparse Through-the-Wall Imaging: Marija Stevanovic (University of Belgrade, Serbia); Arye Nehorai (Washington University in St. Louis, USA); Antonije Djordjevic (University of Belgrade, Serbia)

Wed, 12 14 15:45 - 16:00

Coffee Break

Room: Foyer

Wed, 12 14 16:00 - 17:15

Special Session in Honor of Alex Gershman

Room: Salon A

Chair: Abdelhak M Zoubir (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany)

Thu, 12 15 7:30 - 8:45

Breakfast

Room: Foyer

Thu, 12 15 9:00 - 10:00

Plenary Lecture: Educational and Research Activities at the Student Research Development Center of the Ana G. Mendez University System

Juan F. Arratia (Universidad Metropolitana in San Juan, Puerto Rico)

Room: Salon A

Thu, 12 15 10:00 - 12:00

Advances in the Theory and Practice of Computationally Intensive Methods for Statistical Signal Processing

Room: Salon A

Chair: Petar M. Djurić (Stony Brook University, USA)

10:00 A parallel resampling scheme and its application to distributed particle filtering in wireless networks: Katrin Achutegui and Joaquin Míguez (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
10:20 Non-centralized Target Tracking in Networks of Directional Sensors: Further Advances: Li Geng and Petar M. Djurić (Stony Brook University, USA)
10:40 Iterated multiple particle filtering: Pau Closas (Northeastern University, USA); Monica F. Bugallo (Stony Brook University, USA)
11:00 PDR and LRMAP detection tests applied to massive hyperspectral data: Silvia Paris (Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France); David Mary and André Ferrari (Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France)
11:20 Nonnegative Matrix Factorization with Regularization and Sparsity-Enforcing Terms: Henri Lantéri (Universit de Nice Sophia Antipolis, France); Céline Theys and Cédric Richard (Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France)
11:40 Bayesian compressed sensing in ultrasound imaging: Celine Quinsac, Nicolas Dobigeon, Adrian Basarab and Denis Kouamé (University of Toulouse, France); Jean-Yves Tourneret (University of Toulouse & ENSEEIHT, France)

Estimation, Learning, and Optimization for the Smart Power Grid

Room: Salon B

Chairs: Georgios B. Giannakis (University of Minnesota, USA), Seung-Jun Kim (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA)

10:00 Potential Impacts of Aggregator-Controlled Plug-in Electric Vehicles on Distribution Systems: Di Wu (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA); Chengrui Cai and Dionysios Aliprantis (Iowa State University, USA)
10:20 Efficient and Scalable Demand Response for the Smart Power Grid: Seung-Jun Kim (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA); Georgios B. Giannakis (University of Minnesota, USA)
10:40 Multi-Scale Stochastic Optimization for Home Energy Management: Liyan Jia and Zhe Yu (Cornell University, USA); Mary Murphy-Hoye (Intel, USA); Annabelle Pratt (National Renewable Energy Lab, USA); Ellen Piccioli (Intel, USA); Lang Tong (Cornell University, USA)
11:00 Multi-Sensor Networked Estimation in Electric Power Grids: Bei Yan (Autoliv Electronics America, USA); Hanoch Lev-Ari (Northeastern University, USA); Aleksandar Stanković (Tufts University, USA)
11:20 Phasor State Estimation from PMU Measurements with Bad Data: Dongliang Duan (University of Wyoming, USA); Liuqing Yang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China); Louis Scharf (Colorado State, USA)
11:40 A Markov Decision Process Approach to Multi-timescale Scheduling and Pricing in Smart Grids with Integrated Wind Generation: Miao He (Texas Tech University, USA); Sugumar Murugesan (ASSIA, Inc., USA); Junshan (Joshua) Zhang (University of California Davis, USA)

Thu, 12 15 12:00 - 13:00

Lunch

Room: Restaurant Tuscany

Thu, 12 15 13:00 - 14:00

Plenary Lecture: The Limited Feedback Revolution in Wireless Communication

Robert W Heath Jr (University of Texas at Austin, USA)

Room: Salon A

Thu, 12 15 14:00 - 15:40

Signal Processing for Smart Grids

Room: Salon A

Chair: Usman Khan (Tufts University, USA)

14:00 Customized Dynamic Phasors for Power Quality Control in Electric Grids: Hanoch Lev-Ari (Northeastern University, USA); Aleksandar Stanković (Tufts University, USA)
14:20 Event-Triggered Multi-Area State Estimation in Power Systems: Neelabh Kashyap (Aalto University, Finland); Stefan Werner (NTNU, Norway); Yih-Fang Huang (University of Notre Dame, USA)
14:40 A sensor placement and network design paradigm for future smart grids: Usman Khan (Tufts University, USA); Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian (Sharif University of Technology & Semnan University, Iran)
15:00 Demand Side Management Trends in the Power Grid: Mahnoosh Alizadeh (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA); Zhifang Wang (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA); Anna Scaglione (Arizona State University, USA)
15:20 A Convex Relaxation Approach to Optimal Placement of Phasor Measurement Units: Vassilis Kekatos (Virginia Tech, USA); Georgios B. Giannakis (University of Minnesota, USA)

Wireless Communications

Room: Salon B

Chair: Sergio Barbarossa (University of Rome La Sapienza", Italy)

14:00 An Interior Point Method for a Semidefinite Relaxation Based Equalizer Incorporating Prior Information: Jake Gunther and Todd Moon (Utah State University, USA)
14:20 Subspace-based semiblind channel estimation method for fast fading orthogonally coded MIMO-OFDM systems: Julia Equi (Ericsson Research, Finland); Nima Sarmadi (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany); Marius Pesavento (Technische Universität Darmstadt & Merckstr. 25, Germany)
14:40 Multi-Channel Opportunistic Spectrum Access in Unslotted Primary Systems with Unknown Models: Pouya Tehrani (Qualcomm Inc., USA); Qing Zhao and Lang Tong (Cornell University, USA)
15:00 Adaptive Underlay Cognitive Radios with Imperfect CSI and Probabilistic Interference Constraints: Antonio G. Marques and Luis M. M. Lopez-Ramos (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain); Georgios B. Giannakis (University of Minnesota, USA); F. Javier Ramos (Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain)
15:20 Distributed Stochastic Pricing for Sum-Rate Maximization in Femtocell Networks with Random Graph and Quantized Communications: Paolo Di Lorenzo (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy); Marco Omilipo (University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy); Sergio Barbarossa (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)

Thu, 12 15 15:45 - 16:00

Coffee Break

Room: Foyer

Thu, 12 15 16:00 - 18:00

Beamforming and Array Signal Processing (Poster)

Room: Foyer

Chair: Jake Gunther (Utah State University, USA)

Optimal Beamforming for Range-Doppler Ambiguity Suppression in Squinted SAR Systems: Paolo Di Lorenzo and Sergio Barbarossa (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
On the Design and Performance of TDBC-based Bi-directional Network Beamforming: Mohammad Zaeri-Amirani and Shahram ShahbazPanahi (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada); Min Dong (Ontario Tech University, Canada)
Optimum Microphone Array for Monaural and Binaural In-The-Canal Hearing Aids: David Ayllón (University of Alcalá, Spain); Roberto Gil-Pita (University of Alcala, Spain); Manuel Rosa-Zurera (University of Alcalá, Spain)
Improved Blind Separation Algorithm for Overlapping Secondary Surveillance Radar Replies: Mu Zhou (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands); Alle Jan van der Veen (Delft University, The Netherlands)
A Computationally Efficient Robust Adaptive Beamforming for General-Rank Signal Model with Positive Semi-Definite Constraint: Arash Khabbazibasmenj (Western University, Canada); Sergiy A. Vorobyov (Aalto University, Finland)

Thu, 12 15 16:00 - 17:40

Energy Harvesting Wireless Networks

Room: Salon A

Chair: Aylin Yener (The Ohio State University, USA)

16:00 Energy-Harvesting for Source-Channel Coding in Cyber-Physical Systems: Paolo Castiglione (FTW, Austria); Osvaldo Simeone (King's College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Elza Erkip (New York University, USA); Thomas Zemen (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Austria)
16:20 Optimal Scheduling over Fading Broadcast Channels with an Energy Harvesting Transmitter: Omur Ozel (George Washington University, USA); Jing Yang (The Pennsylvania State University, USA); Sennur Ulukus (University of Maryland, USA)
16:40 Transmission Policies for Asymmetric Interference Channels with Energy Harvesting Nodes: Kaya Tutuncuoglu (Pennsylvania State University, USA); Aylin Yener (The Ohio State University, USA)
17:00 Two-hop Communication with Energy Harvesting: Deniz Gündüz (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Bertrand Devillers (CTTC, Spain)
17:20 Duty Cycling and Power Management with a Network of Energy Harvesting Sensors: Srinivas Reddy and Chandra R Murthy (Indian Institute of Science, India)

Thu, 12 15 16:00 - 18:00

Wireless Relay Networks (Poster)

Room: Foyer

Chair: Shahrokh Valaee (University of Toronto, Canada)

Robust Joint Optimization of MIMO Interfering Relay Channels with Imperfect CSI: Ebrahim Gharavol and Erik G. Larsson (Linköping University, Sweden)
Power Allocation in Two-Hop Amplify-and-Forward MIMO Relay Systems with QoS requirements: Luca Sanguinetti and Antonio A. D'Amico (University of Pisa, Italy)
Multiuser Bi-directional Communications in Cooperative Relay Networks: Adrian Schad (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany); Marius Pesavento (Technische Universität Darmstadt & Merckstr. 25, Germany)
Distributed Differential Space-Time Coding Techniques for Two-Way Wireless Relay Networks: Samer J. Alabed (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany); Marius Pesavento (Technische Universität Darmstadt & Merckstr. 25, Germany); Alex Gershman (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany)
Orthogonalization Techniques for Single Group Multicasting in Cooperative Amplify-And-Forward Networks: Ahmed Abdelkader (Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH, Germany); Marius Pesavento (Technische Universität Darmstadt & Merckstr. 25, Germany); Alex Gershman (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany)
Successive Convex Approximation for System Performance Optimization in a Multiuser Network with Multiple MIMO Relays: Batu Krishna Chalise (New York Institute of Technology, USA); Yimin D. Zhang (Temple University, USA); Moeness G. Amin (Villanova University, USA)

Thu, 12 15 19:30 - 22:00

Banquet

Room: Salon A, Salon B

Fri, 12 16 7:30 - 8:45

Breakfast

Room: Foyer

Fri, 12 16 9:00 - 10:00

Plenary Lecture: When is Distributed as Good as Centralized?

José M.F. Moura (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

Room: Salon A

Fri, 12 16 10:00 - 12:00

Efficient Algorithms for Spectrum and Infrastructure Sharing

Room: Salon A

Chairs: Martin Haardt (Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany), Eleftherios Karipidis (Ericsson Research, Sweden)

10:00 Fully distributed auction algorithm for spectrum sharing in unlicensed bands: Oshri Naparstek (Rafael Advanced Defence Systems Ltd., Israel); Amir Leshem (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
10:20 Coalition Formation in MISO Interference Channels: Rami Mochaourab (RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Sweden); Eduard A Jorswieck (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany)
10:40 Efficient Computation of the Pareto Boundary for the Two-User MISO Interference Channel with Multi-User Decoding Capable Receivers: Johannes Lindblom (Swedish Defence Research Agency, Sweden); Eleftherios Karipidis (Ericsson Research, Sweden); Erik G. Larsson (Linköping University, Sweden)
11:00 Computational Framework for Optimal Robust Beamforming in Coordinated Multicell Systems: Emil Björnson and Mats Bengtsson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Gan Zheng (University of Warwick & Loughborough University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Björn Ottersten (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
11:20 Efficient Relay Sharing (EReSh) between Multiple Operators in Amplify-and-Forward Relaying Systems: Jianhui Li (Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany); Florian Roemer (Fraunhofer Institute for Nondestructive Testing IZFP & Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany); Martin Haardt (Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany)
11:40 Prescient Beamforming in Multi-user Interweave Cognitive Radio Networks: Amitav Mukherjee (Tiami Networks, USA); Lee Swindlehurst (University of California at Irvine, USA)

Sparse Signal Processing

Room: Salon B

Chair: Philip Schniter (The Ohio State University, USA)

10:00 Optimal Sensing Matrix for Sparse Linear Models: Sebastian Pazos (LEICI, UNLP, Argentina); Martin Hurtado (National University of La Plata, Argentina); Carlos H Muravchik (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina); Arye Nehorai (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
10:20 Sparsity-enforced Regression Based on Over-complete Dictionary: Peng Yang, Gongguo Tang and Arye Nehorai (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
10:40 Computable Performance Analysis of Block-Sparsity Recovery: Gongguo Tang and Arye Nehorai (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
11:00 Reconstruction of a Generalized Joint Sparsity Model using Principal Component Analysis: Alireza Makhzani and Shahrokh Valaee (University of Toronto, Canada)
11:20 Bayesian Sparse Wideband Source Reconstruction of Japanese 2011 Earthquake: Christoph F Mecklenbräuker (TU Wien, Austria); Peter Gerstoft (University of California, San Diego, USA); Huajian Yao (University of California, USA)
11:40 Stationary Point Variational Bayesian Attribute-Distributed Sparse Learning with ℓ1 Sparsity Constraints: Dmitriy Shutin (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany); Sanjeev Kulkarni and H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)

Fri, 12 16 12:00 - 13:00

Lunch

Room: Restaurant Tuscany

Fri, 12 16 13:00 - 14:00

Plenary Lecture: Faster than Nyquist but Slower than Tropp

Robert Calderbank (Duke University, USA)

Room: Salon A

Fri, 12 16 14:00 - 16:00

Distributed Estimation (Poster)

Room: Foyer

Chair: Martin Hurtado (National University of La Plata, Argentina)

Distributed Optimization via Diffusion Adaptation: Jianshu Chen (Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA & Microsoft, USA); Sheng-Yuan Tu (University of California Los Angeles, USA); Ali H. Sayed (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
A Consensus/Fusion based Distributed Implementation of the Particle Filter: Arash Mohammadi (Concordia University, Canada); Amir Asif (York University, Canada)
Distributed convex stochastic optimization under few constraints in large networks: Romain Couillet (CentraleSupélec, France); Pascal Bianchi (Telecom Paristech - LTCI, France); Jérémie Jakubowicz (Télécom SudParis, France)
Spatial Whitening Framework for Distributed Estimation: Swarnendu Kar (Intel Corporation, USA); Pramod Varshney (Syracuse University, USA); Hao Chen (Boise State University, USA)
Joint ranging and clock synchronization for a wireless network: Raj Thilak Rajan (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands); Alle Jan van der Veen (Delft University, The Netherlands)
NCTR in Netted Radar Systems: Pietro Stinco, Maria S. Greco and Fulvio Gini (University of Pisa, Italy); Mario La Manna (SELEX - Sistemi Integrati, Italy)

Estimation Theory (Poster)

Room: Foyer

Chair: Vassilis Kekatos (Virginia Tech, USA)

Robust covariance matrix estimates with attractive asymptotic properties: Mélanie Mahot (SONDRA Supelec, France); Frederic Pascal (CentraleSupélec, France); Philippe Forster (Universite Paris Ouest Nanterre, France); Jean-Philippe Ovarlez (ONERA & Centrale-Supelec/SONDRA, France)
Regularized covariance estimation in scaled Gaussian models: Ami Wiesel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
A Least Squares Algorithm for Global Joint Decomposition of Complex Matrix sets: Tual Trainini (Université du Sud Toulon Var, France); Eric Moreau (University of Toulon & LSIS UMR CNRS 7296, France)
Optimal Combination Rules for Adaptation and Learning over Networks: Sheng-Yuan Tu (University of California Los Angeles, USA); Ali H. Sayed (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Systems

Room: Salon A

Chairs: Georgios B. Giannakis (University of Minnesota, USA), Geert Leus (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)

14:00 Bandlimited or Constant Envelope? Exploiting Waveform Properties in Wireless Microphone Detection: Daniel Romero (University of Agder, Norway); Roberto López-Valcarce (Universidad de Vigo, Spain)
14:20 Exploiting Spatial Diversity in Multiagent Reinforcement Learning Based Spectrum Sensing: Jarmo Lundén and Visa Koivunen (Aalto University, Finland); Sanjeev Kulkarni and H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
14:40 Multiantenna Spectrum Sensing of a Second-Order Cyclostationary Signal: Erik Axell (Swedish Defence Research Agency, Sweden); Erik G. Larsson (Linköping University, Sweden)
15:00 Cyclostationary Feature Detection from Sub-Nyquist Samples: Deborah Cohen (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel); Eric Rebeiz and Varun Jain (UCLA, USA); Yonina C. Eldar (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel); Danijela Cabric (University of California Los Angeles, USA)
15:20 Recovering Second-Order Statistics from Compressive Measurements: Geert Leus (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands); Zhi Tian (George Mason University, USA)
15:40 Distributed Cognitive Spectrum Sensing via Group Sparse Total Least-Squares: Emiliano Dall'Anese (University of Colorado Boulder, USA); Georgios B. Giannakis (University of Minnesota, USA)

Fri, 12 16 16:00 - 16:15

Coffee Break

Room: Foyer

Fri, 12 16 16:15 - 18:15

Deterministic and Probabilistic Toolsets for High-Dimensional Optimization

Room: Salon B

Chairs: Volkan Cevher (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland), Andrea Montanari (Stanford University, USA)

16:15 Faster than Nyquist, Slower than Tropp: Andrew Harms (Duke University, USA); Waheed U. Bajwa (Rutgers University-New Brunswick, USA); Robert Calderbank (Duke University, USA)
16:35 A GEM Hard Thresholding Method for Reconstructing Sparse Signals from Quantized Noisy Measurements: Kun Qiu (SAS Institute Inc., USA); Aleksandar Dogandžić (Iowa State University, USA)
16:55 Recipes on Hard Thresholding Methods: Anastasios Kyrillidis (EPFL & IBM Research Lab Zurich, Switzerland); Volkan Cevher (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
17:15 Exploiting Structured Sparsity in Bayesian Experimental Design: Philip Schniter (The Ohio State University, USA)
17:35 Recovery of Cosparse Signals with Greedy Analysis Pursuit in the Presence of Noise: Sangnam Nam (Aix-Marseille Université, France); Mike E Davies (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Michael Elad (Technion, Israel); Rémi Gribonval (INRIA, France)
17:55 Generalized Approximate Message Passing Estimation from Quantized Samples: Ulugbek S. Kamilov (Washington University in St. Louis, USA & Google Research, USA); Vivek K Goyal (Boston University, USA); Sundeep Rangan (New York University, USA)

Sensor Networks (Poster)

Room: Foyer

Chair: Deniz Gündüz (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Static Field Estimation Using a Wireless Sensor Network Based on the Finite Element Method: Toon van Waterschoot (KU Leuven, Belgium); Geert Leus (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Detection and tracking of systematic time-evolving failures in sensor networks: Harish K Chintakunta and Hamid Krim (North Carolina State University, USA)
Modelling and Analysis of Radio Tomography: Richard K. Martin (Air Force Institute of Technology, USA); Christopher R. Anderson (Virginia Tech, USA); Ryan Thomas (Air Force Institute of Technology & US Air Force, USA); Amanda King (Air Force Institute of Technology, USA)
A Distributed Spring Model Algorithm for Sensor Localization using Dimension Expansion and Hyperbolic Tangential Force: Jieqi Yu, Sanjeev Kulkarni and H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
Multimodal Species Identification in Wireless Sensor Networks: Hector M Lugo-Cordero (UCF-EECS & UPR-Mayaguez, Puerto Rico); Abigail Fuentes-Rivera (University of Central Florida & University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, USA); Ratan Guha (University of Central Florida, USA); Kejie Lu and Domingo A. Rodriguez (University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, Puerto Rico)

Tracking Problems (Poster)

Room: Foyer

Chair: Shahram ShahbazPanahi (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada)

Clutter rejection for MTI radar using a single antenna and a long integration time: Philippe Goy (University of Toulouse, IRIT/ENSEEIHT, France); François Vincent (ISAE, France); Jean-Yves Tourneret (University of Toulouse & ENSEEIHT, France)
Persistently Active Block Sparsity with Application to Direction-Of-Arrival Estimation of Moving Sources: Jimeng Zheng and Mostafa Kaveh (University of Minnesota, USA)
Fast LASSO Based DOA Tracking: Ashkan Panahi (North Carolina State University, USA); Mats Viberg (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Particle Filter Processing of Out-Of-Sequence Measurements: Exact Bayesian Solution: Shuo Zhang and Yaakov Bar-Shalom (University of Connecticut, USA)
Efficient Target Tracking using Mobile Sensors: Sirin Nitinawarat (Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., USA); George Atia (University of Central Florida, USA); Venugopal Veeravalli (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Multiple Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filtering for Target Tracking in Urban Environments: Phani Chavali (Monsanto Research & Washington University in St Louis, USA); Arye Nehorai (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)