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INCC 2008 Conference:Organized by School of Science and Engineering (SSE), LUMS.

Venue: LUMS
Scheduled date/time: May 1, 2008

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
IEEE International Networking and Communications Conference (INCC) 2008

http://www.lums.edu.pk/incc2008

May 1-3, 2008

LUMS Campus, Lahore, Pakistan

We invite students, faculty and professionals associated with the ICT and telecom related areas to attend this first-rate event being held on the beautiful LUMS campus. It is a great and rare opportunity to network with leading telecom experts – researchers and professionals – from Pakistan and abroad who are participating and speaking at this conference.

May 1, 2008: Six tutorials in Communications and Networks by world-class individuals

May 2-3, 2008: Two Invited talks and Five Technical sessions on communications, networks, and emerging technologies

May 2, 2008: Telecom Research Panel: Is there any value of doing telecom research in Pakistan? Moderated by: Prof. Asad Abidi, LUMS School of Science and Engineering

May 3, 2008: Broadband Deployment Panel: Should Pakistan leapfrog the developed world in broadband? Moderated by: Dr. Aon Mujtaba, Infineon Technologies

May 1-3, 2008: Opportunity to network with Communication and Networking experts. Learn what problems are important, where the technology is headed, and what is the next wave in technology?

Conference registration is first-come, first-serve and you can register online at http://www.lums.edu.pk/incc2008

Conference proceedings, memorabilia and lunches are included in the registration which is discounted for students and IEEE members.

Contact email: incc2008@lums.edu.pk

Talk by Prof. Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar

Venue: Room 427
Scheduled date/time: April 29, 2008 11:00am

The Computer Science Department is pleased to announce that Prof Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar is visiting LUMS on Tuesday 29th 2008 between 9:00 am to 1:00 pm along with a delegation of HEC. He has founded and developed the robotic soccer team (The Ulm Sparrows) since 1997 for participation in world championships on robot soccer (RoboCup). During his visit he will be delivering a talk on the survey of Robocup at 11:00 am in Room 427.

The brief profile of Prof Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar is given below:
Prof Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar is Professor for Autonomous Systems University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Faculty of Computer Science. He is also a Senior Research Scientist at Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems. His research interests include adaptive autonomous agents, autonomous mobile robots, software engineering for ambient intelligence and robotics.

Seminar on 'Modeling Chaos: Prediction in Nonlinear Dynamical Systems for Video Synthesis'

Venue: A6
Scheduled date/time: April 21, 2008 4:00 pm

Computer Science Seminar

Modeling Chaos: Prediction in Nonlinear Dynamical Systems for Video Synthesis

by Arsalan Basharat
(PhD Candidate at Computer Vision Lab, University of Central Florida)
http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~arslan/

Monday, 21 Apr 2008 at 4:00 pm in A6

Abstract:

We use concepts from chaos theory in order to model non-linear dynamical systems that exhibit deterministic behavior. Observed time series data from such a system can be embedded into a higher dimensional phase space without an exact model of the underlying dynamics. Such an embedding warps the observed data into a strange attractor, in a higher dimensional phase space, which provides precise information about the dynamics involved. We extract this information from the strange attractor and utilize it to predict future observations. Given an initial condition, the predictions are computed in the phase space using kernel regression. This approach has the advantage of modelling dynamics without making any assumptions about the exact form of the mapping function (linear, polynomial, radial basis, etc.). The predicted points in the higher dimension are then pro jected back onto the time series and are used for the synthesis. We demonstrate the advantage of using these chaos theory concepts when solving important computer vision problems, including human motion and dynamic texture synthesis. Our main contributions are: multivariate phase space reconstruction for human actions and dynamic textures, a deterministic approach to model dynamics in contrast to the popular noise-driven approaches for dynamic textures, and video synthesis from kernel regression in the phase space. Experimental validation of our approach is performed on CMU & FutureLight motion capture datasets, and UCLA & MIT dynamic textures datasets. We also demonstrate that our approach outperforms previous popular approaches for dynamic texture synthesis.

Practical Entrepreneurship: A Talk by Dr Umar Saif

Venue: Syed Saigol Auditorium
Scheduled date/time: April 8, 2008 5:30 pm

How to Build a $20 Million Company from a Garage in Lahore
By Dr. Umar Saif (Founder, BumpIn.com)

Venue: Syed Saigol Auditorium
Time: 5:30 - 6:30 PM
Date: 8th April.

Almost a year ago, six young Computer Science graduates in Lahore ventured on an ambitious plan to build the next generation instant messenger. With little money, no office and no prior experience of starting a company, most people scoffed at their plans of starting a company rather than working for a "respectable" software house. The team worked on low salaries, inhabited a small room on top of a garage in Lahore, bought 6 second-hand computers and invested in a Carrom board to setup their "office".

One year on, BumpIn.com has emerged as a major player in the web 2.0 instant messenger market, evaluated at $600 Million. The company was hailed as a KillerStartup in Nov'07. In Dec'07, we were tipped to become the market leaders for the "interactive Web". In Jan'08, BumpIn.com was selected to provide online chat to a major social networking service.

In this talk, I will share our lessons of entrepreneurship in Pakistan. I will also cover the details of how we built a chat system that rivals Google chat in terms of its scalability, performance and ease of use. Importantly, our distributed chat engine can scale to millions of users without requiring expensive rack servers or high-end network switches. I will conclude by giving an overview of the company growth and opportunities to join our exciting startup. All hires are guaranteed to become pros at Carrom, with a good chance of making a few million on the side. Free T-shirts will be given during the talk.

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