MWP 2007 Technical Program

(* MWP registrants get one free day (Tuesday) at AVFOP at Marriot Hotel)

 

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Invited Speakers

ALL LECTURE SESSIONS WILL BE HELD IN THE CRYSTAL BALLROOM, FAIRMONT Empress Hotel

 

 

Wednesday, 03 October 2007

 

Registration Hours:  8:00 – 17:30 (Palm Court)

 

09.00 – 11:30

 

Workshop/Panel

Photonic Integration as Enabler of Economically-Scalable Applications of Microwave Photonics

Chair/Moderator:

Ruth Ann Mullen, Intellectual Ventures, USA.   (ruth@qinprop.com)

Presenters/Panel

Doug Lockie, CTO, Gigabeam, USA.

Members:

Drew Guckenberger, Senior Engineer, Luxtera, USA.

 

Jonathan Wells, mm-Wave Wireless Product Management, Lumera, USA.

 

Mehmet Soyuer, Dept Group Manager, Comm. Technologies, IBM, USA.

 

 

11.30 – 13.00                                                       LUNCH BREAK

 

13.00 – 15:00

 

Session W-1

Advances in Devices for Analog Links

Session Co-Chairs

Dieter Jaeger, Univ. of Duisburg-Essen, Germany  (d.jaeger@oe.uni-duisburg.de)

 

Nick Jaeger, Univ. of British Columbia, Canada   (nickj@ece.ubc.ca)

 

 

 

15.00 – 15:30                                                       COFFEE BREAK

 

15.30 – 17:30

 

Session W-2

Radio over Fiber Technology and Systems

Session Co-Chairs

Jianping Yao, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada   (jpyao@site.uottawa.ca)

 

Dalma Novak, Pharad, LLC, USA.   (d.novak@ieee.org)

 

 

18.00 – 20:00                                                       Welcome Reception  (Royal B.C. Museum)


Thursday, 04 October 2007

 

Registration Hours:  8:00 – 17:30 (Palm Court)

 

8.30 – 10:00

Plenary Session

Session Th-1

Microwave Photonics Signal Processing

Session Co-Chairs

Tadao Nagatsuma, Osaka Univ., Japan (nagatuma@ee.es.osaka-u.ac.jp)

 

Ruth Ann Mullen, Intellectual Ventures, USA.   (ruth@qinprop.com)

 

10.00 – 10:30                                                       COFFEE BREAK

 

10.30 – 12:00

 

Session Th-2

Oscillators and Optoelectronic Integration

Session Co-Chairs

Arne Alping, Ericsson, Sweden  (arne.alping@ericsson.com)

 

Tetsuya Kawanishi, NICT, Japan   (kawanish@nict.go.jp)

 

 

12.00 – 13.30                                                       LUNCH BREAK

 

13.30 – 15:00

 

Session Th-3

Microwave Photonic Techniques for Antennas and Imaging

Session Co-Chairs

Bill Micelli, ONR, USA.   (wmiceli@onrglobal.navy.mil)

 

Greg Abbas, EOspace, USA.   (greg.abbas@eospace.com)

 

 

 

15.00 – 15:30                                                       COFFEE BREAK

 

15.00 – 17:30

(Palm Court)

Session Th-4

Open Forum Papers

Session Co-Chairs

Paul Matthews, Northrop Grumman, U.S.A   (p.matthews@ngc.com)

 

Ted Darcie, Univ. Of Victoria, Canada.   (tdarcie@uvic.ca)

 

 

18.30 – 21:30                                                       Banquet (Separate Registration)

 


Friday, 05 October 2007

 

Registration Hours:  8:00 – 10:30 (Palm Court)

 

8.30 – 10:00

 

Session F-1

Coherent Links and Novel Link Techniques

Session Co-Chairs

Masayuki Izutsu, NICT, Japan (izutsu@nict.go.jp)

 

Joe Seregelyi, Comm. Res. Centre, Canada   (joe.seregelyi@crc.ca)

 

10.00 – 10:30                                                       COFFEE BREAK

 

10.30 – 12:00

 

Session F-2

Broadband Techniques and Post-deadline Papers

Session Co-Chairs

Thas A. Nirmalathas, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia   (a.nirmalathas@ee.unimelb.edu.au)

 

Paul Yu, Univ. of Calif., San Diego, USA.   (yu@ece.ucsd.edu)

 

 

12.00 – 12:30                                                      MWP 2007 Adjourn