Sunday, May 26
| 18.30 | Welcome reception |
Monday, May 27
| 09:00 – 10:00 | Keynote 1 — 5G for Industry 4.0 – Are we there yet? Andreas Mueller (Bosch and 5G-ACIA) |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Coffee |
| 10:30 – 12:10 | Session 1 — Social Networks and Information Systems Organizer: Anna Scaglione (Arizona State University) Speaker 1: Negar Kiyavash (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Title: “Causal dynamics in social networks” Speaker 2: Michael Devetsikiotis (The University of New Mexico) Title: “A Smarter and Safer Infrastructure: Cyber-Physical Interactions and Resource Orchestration Meet the Blockchain” Speaker 3: Mike Rabbat (Facebook) Title: “Decentralized Deep Learning with Stochastic Gradient Push” Speaker 4: Anna Scaglione (Arizona State University) Title: “Opinion dynamics under attack: polarization and the influence of zealots” |
| 12:10 – 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 – 13:30 | Elza Erkip, winner of the CTTC Technical Achievement Award Title: “A communication theorist’s perspective on graph matching” |
| 13:30 – 15:00 | Poster session (regular posters) & coffee Organizers: Nuria González Prelcic (The University of Texas at Austin) and Luca Sanguinetti (University of Pisa) More information here |
| 15:00 – 16:15 | Session 2 — Resilience for Network Attacks Organizer: Bruno Sinopoli (Washington University in St. Louis) Speaker 1: Giulia Fanti (Carnegie Mellon University) Title: “Privacy-Utility Tradeoffs for Routing Cryptocurrency in Payment Channel Networks” Speaker 2: Massimo Franceschetti (University of California San Diego) Title: “Detection and Authentication of Cyber-Physical Systems under Learning-Based Attacks” Speaker 3: Bruno Sinopoli (Washington University in St. Louis) Title: “Cyber-Physical Systems: From Detection to Resilience” |
| 16:15 – 16:45 | Coffee |
| 16:45 – 18:15 | Panel 1 — Machine Learning: Salvation or Illusion? Organizers: Shuguang Cui (University of California, Davis) and Sudharman Jayaweera (University of New Mexico) Panelist 1: Keith Chugg (University of Southern California) Panelist 2: Andrea Goldsmith (Stanford University) Panelist 3: Tara Javidi (University of California San Diego) Panelist 4: Slawomir Stanczak (Technische Universität Berlin) |
| 19:30 – 21:00 | Optional dinner |
Tuesday, May 28
| 08:30 – 09:30 | Keynote 2 — Looking anew at what we thought we knew Muriel Médard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
| 09:30 – 10:00 | Coffee |
| 10:00 – 12:00 | Session 3 — Communications in the Real World: Theory & Experiments Organizer: Howard Huang (Nokia Bell Labs) Speaker 1: Florian Kaltenberger (Eurecom) Title: “Experimental evaluation of reciprocity calibration for distributed massive MIMO systems” Speaker 2: Ashu Sabharwal (Rice University) Title: “POWDER-RENEW: A software-defined massive MIMO community testbed” Speaker 3: Ivan Seskar (Rutgers University) Title: “The 15-year journey of an open-access wireless experimentation platform” Speaker 4: Howard Huang (Nokia Bell Labs) Title: “Bell Labs Synchronous Network for Time-Based Localization” Speaker 5: Matt Reynolds (University of Washington) Title: “Computational Imaging with Millimeter Waves” |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 – 13:45 | Data bakeoff poster session & coffee Organizers: Erik G. Larsson (Linköping University) and Urbashi Mitra (University of Southern California) More information here |
| 13:45 – 15:15 | Panel 2: Emerging IoT Applications That Will Drive 6G and New Communication Theory Problems Organizer: Jeff Andrews (The University of Texas at Austin) Panelist 1: Joachim Sachs (Ericsson) Panelist 2: Gerhard Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden) Panelist 3: Carmela Cozzo (Huawei) Panelist 4: Erik Ström (Chalmers University of Technology) |
| 15:15 – 15:45 | Coffee |
| 15:45 – 17:25 | Session 4 — Communication Theory Core Topics Organizer: Wei Yu (University of Toronto) Speaker 1: Giuseppe Caire (Technical University of Berlin) Title: “Activity Detection, Large-Scale Pathloss Estimation, and Massive Random Access with Massive MIMO Receivers” Speaker 2: Harish Viswanathan (Nokia Bell Labs) Title: “Adaptive Network-Device Cooperative Diversity for Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Wireless Communications” Speaker 3: Yonina Eldar (Weizmann institute of Science) Title: “Hardware limited Task-Based Quantization” Speaker 4: Mingyi Hong (University of Minnesota) Title: “Hybrid Block Successive Approximation for Non-Convex Min-Max Problems: Algorithms and Applications in Communications Networking” |
| 17:45 – 23:30 | Bus trip and dinner at the Blue Lagoon Return bus departure: 22:30 |
Wednesday, May 29
| 08:30 – 09:30 | Keynote 3 — Foundational Aspects of Blockchain Protocols Juan Garay (Texas A&M University) |
| 09:30 – 10:00 | Ayfer Özgur, winner of the CTTC Early Achievement Award Title: “Distributed Learning under Communication Constraints” |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Coffee |
| 10:30 – 12:10 | Session 5 — Unconventional Communication: Emerging Modalities Organizer: Maite Brandt-Pearce (University of Virginia) Speaker 1: Milica Stojanovic (Northeastern University) Title: “Multicarrier communications in Doppler-limited regimes” Speaker 2: Zhengyuan Daniel Xu (University of Science and Technology of China) Title: “Optical Scattering Communications” Speaker 3: Chan-Byoung Chae (Yonsei University) Title: “Human implantable nano-scale communications” Speaker 4: Maite Brandt-Pearce (University of Virginia) Title: “Visible light communications” |
| 12:10 – 13:00 | Lunch |