[UCI-CalIT2] Discovery Grant Program - Visit to UCI Thursday

[Stuart A ROSS]

January 12, 2004

Dear Colleagues,

Dr. Dev Kambhampati, Research Development Officer of the UC
Industry-University Cooperative Research Program (IUCRP) [UC DISCOVERY
GRANT] will be visiting our Campus on Thursday, January 15.

The purpose of his visit is to get the faculty of this Campus to become
interested in this Program through a presentation and subsequent
interaction with the faculty interested in submitting proposals to the
Program. Areas on which he would like to focus during the present visit
are: (1) Communications and Networking, (2) Digital Media, and (3)
Information Technology for Life Sciences.

Dr. Albert Yee, Director of Cal-IT(2) has kindly agreed to host Parts
(1) and (2) of his  visit, and Dr. Susan Bryant, Dean of School of
Biological Sciences, will kindly do the same for Part (3).

Catherine Hammond of Cal-IT(2) is in charge of the arrangements.  Please
contact her at x 4-9073 (hammondc@uci.edu) if you wish to schedule a
one-to-one meeting with Dr. Kambhampati.

Below is his schedule for the Communications and Digital Media Part as
well as remarks on the specific objectives of his visit.

PLEASE RSVP TO THE CAL-(IT)2 OFFICE AT (949) 824-6900 or
hammondc@uci.edu if you plan to attend.

Thank you for your attention and best wishes for the New Year.

Rui J. P. de Figueiredo
Professor 
and UCI Member of the IUCRP Executive Committee
for Communications and Networking

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SCHEDULE OF DR. KAMBHAMPATI'S VISIT TO THE CAL-IT(2) COMMUNITY

- 9:30 - 11:00 AM: Meetings with Dean and Director 

- 11:00 - 1:00 PM: Presentation by Dev followed by Questions and
Answers.
			 Cal-(IT)2 Presentation by Albert Yee and Layer
Leaders.
                    Eng. Gateway 3161 - Lunch will be provided.
 
- 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM: Individual brief meetings with faculty (Please
contact Catherine Hammond at 824-9073 to arrange for an appointment.

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REMARKS ON THE SPECIFIC AIMS OF VISIT:

1. To generate interest in the IUCRP program - 5 fields such as
Biotechnology, Information Technology for Life Sciences, Communications
& Networking, Digital Media, and Electronics Materials & Manufacturing.

2. To highlight the fact that funding over $15 million is available in
UC/state funding, and when coupled with industry contributions, a net
total of $40 million is available during this year.

3. Areas on which the visit will focus include the following:
  (a) Communications and Networking
  (b) Digital Media
  (c) Information Technology for Life Sciences

4.(a) In COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING- All aspects of hardware and
software issues, embedded systems, security, networking issues,
multi-vendor interfacing, WIFI, RFID, ultra-broadband, etc.

  (b) In DIGITAL MEDIA, the following topics are interesting- multimedia
applications, graphics, video games, animation, image processing,
computing environments, AI, human-computer interfaces, including
hardware for digital media applications.  Issues pertaining to digital
content delivery, privacy, and digital rights management are all
important for the Program.

  (c) In INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR LIFE SCIENCES, the topics include:
medical informatics, healthcare delivery over mobile networks, systems
biology, biochemical pathways, digital organ atlas/digital biology, etc.

Topics that lie at the interface of the above fields are also highly
encouraged. IUCRP is especially interested in emerging technologies such
as nanotechnology (nano-biology, nano-electronics, etc.) that have
enormous long term potential.
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