COMMUNICATION THEORY TECHNICAL COMMITTEEcomt.committees.comsoc.org/files/2017/12/CttcMeetingDec2017-2.pdf · Communication Theory Technical Committee (CTTC) ICC 2017, Paris, France

Chair: Erik Perrins

Vice-Chair: Urbashi Mitra

Secretary: Philippa Martin

COMMUNICATION THEORY

TECHNICAL COMMITTEE

GLOBECOM 2017

DECEMBER 5, 2017

SINGAPORE

1. Welcome and Introduction

2. Approval of Minutes from 2017 IEEE ICC meeting

(available at http://committees.comsoc.org/comt/)

3. Chair Remarks

4. 2017 CTTC Awards (Urbashi Mitra)

5. Communication Theory Symposium Reports:

GLOBECOM 2017 (Marco Di Renzo)

ICC 2018 (Maged Elkashlan)

GLOBECOM 2018

6. Workshop Reports:

CTW 2018 (Erik Perrins)

CTW 2019 (Petar Popovski)

7. New Business

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http://committees.comsoc.org/comt/




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AGENDA


We hold meetings twice per year:

At ICC and GLOBECOM.

Become a member by joining the mailing list.

http://committees.comsoc.org/comt/mailinglist.html

You are an active member if:

Attend 2 of the past 5 meetings; or

Attend last two CTWs; or

Provide significant service to the committee.

Currently, ~600 members, ~150 of which are active.

Be sure to SIGN IN, so that we can log your attendance.

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WHAT IS CTTC?

Chair

Erik Perrins

University of Kansas, USA

Vice-Chair

Urbashi Mitra

University of Southern California, USA

Secretary

Philippa Martin

University of Canterbury, NZ

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OFFICERS

Standards Liaison George Alexandropolous

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

Student Competition Program Hideki Ochiai

Yokohama National University

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OTHER POSITIONS




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Communication Theory Technical Committee (CTTC)

ICC 2017, Paris, France

22-May -2017

ATTENDANCE = 79

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

1. The minutes from the Globecom 2016 meeting were approved.

2. The 2016 Award plaques were given to the three recipients

3. Conference reports were given for ICC 2017, GC 2017, and ICC 2018.

4. Workshop reports were given for CTW 2017, CTW 2018, and CTW 2019.

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The Communication Theory Technical Committee (CTTC) of theIEEE Communications Society is primarily interested infundamental problems associated with the transmission ofinformation.

Oversight of the Communication Theory Workshop

Sponsorship of GLOBECOM and ICC symposia

Primary symposium: Comm Theory

Secondary: Signal Proc. for Comm; and Wireless Comm.

Recognize member accomplishment through:

IEEE Fellow and Senior Member endorsement

IEEE Distinguished Lecturer endorsement

Nomination for other IEEE and ComSoc awards

CTTC Awards in Technical Achievement, Outstanding Service, and Early Achievement

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WHAT DOES CTTC DO?

Pascal Frossard

Alex Gelman

Aleksandar Kavcic

Jungwon Lee

Saverio Mascolo

Mehul Motani

Stefan Parkvall

Tony Q.S. Quek

Matthew Valenti

Weifeng Su

CONGRATULATIONS

NEW IEEE FELLOWS

Email list is [email protected]

Must be subscribed to send

Moderated: Must be approved by an officer

Is a “quiet” list with few postings per year

Standard acceptable uses:

CTTC-business: Meeting announcements, minutes, etc.

CFP for CTTC sponsored events: CTW and CT Symposia

Special uses:

CT-related job openings posted by CT members: Postdoc & faculty

Niche workshops targeted to the CT community

Not-acceptable:

CFP’s for conferences and workshops that are widely known

Advertising of graduate programs and announcements of fellowships

MAILING LIST INFORMATION

Best Readings is a curated collection of previously published books, articles, and papers on a featured topic

Published quarterly at http://www.comsoc.org/best-readings

Links to the source reference with short descriptions

Helpful to those who wants to acquire a background on the topic

Examples

Massive MIMO (UPDATED!)

Cognitive Radio

Multi-Tier Cellular

Green Communication

Nanoscale Communication

Device-to-Device

Internet of Things

M. Valenti is EiC

Let him know if you would like to guest edit

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Volunteer to be on the TPC for an upcoming Comm Theory

Symposium (typical TPC size is around 140 members)

GC’18: Contact Neelesh Mehta <[email protected]>

Volunteer to be a symposium chair

We have made nominations through GC’19

We have a (short) waiting list—we could use more volunteers

Contact Erik, and include your bio/CV

Standards liaison or student award rep

Get involved with the organization of a CTW

Next proposal needed: CTW’20, needed by Spring 2018

Organize a Best Readings

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WANT TO BECOME MORE INVOLVED?




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CTTC gives out 3 distinct awards:

Technical Achievement Award

Outstanding Service Award

Early Achievement Award

Call for Nominations sent in May/June

Awarded at following GLOBECOM, ICC, or CTW.

AWARDS

2017 CTTC AWARDS COMMITTEE

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Matt Valenti

Sennur Ulukus

Reinaldo Valenzuela

Larry Milstein

Urbashi Mitra, Chair

EARLY ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Recognizes young members of the CTTC who have

achieved early career visibility in the field through

research and service and who (i) have participated in the

CTTC (e.g., attended CTTC meetings, attended CTW, served

the CTTC in a significant capacity, been a member of the

TPC for ICC/GLOBECOM) and (ii) are within 10 years of

their Ph.D.

Officially adopted in 2011 (ICC, Kyoto), but first given in

2016.

Past recipient:

2016: Marios Kountouris

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EARLY ACHIEVEMENT AWARD (1 OF 2)

Tony Q.S. Quek

Associate Professor

Singapore University of

Technology and Design

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for contributions to the modeling

and analysis of cognitive radio

and heterogeneous networks

EARLY ACHIEVEMENT AWARD (2 OF 2)

Deniz Gündüz

Reader

Imperial College London

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for contributions to fundamental results in wireless

communications theory for source and channel coding,

cooperative communications and energy harvesting

OUTSTANDING SERVICE AWARD

Recognizes members of the CTTC who have adistinguished record of service to the communicationtheory community, including CTTC-sponsored symposiaand workshop organization, leadership roles within thecommittee, and promoting committee activities andinterests in the broader research community.

Past recipients:

2016: Behnaam Aazhang

2015: Sergio Benedetto

2014: Ender Ayanoglu

2013: Michael Rice

2012: Costas Georghiades

2011: Len Cimini

2010: Richard Gitlin and Larry Milstein

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OUTSTANDING SERVICE AWARD

Robert W. Heath Jr.

Cullen Trust Endowed Professor

University of Texas at Austin

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for leadership as CTTC chair and sustained

contributions in organizing and chairing the

Communication Theory Workshop

TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Recognizes members of the CTTC who have been involvedwith the committee, have done outstanding work incommunication theory, and have achieved a high degreeof visibility in the field.

Past recipients:

2016: Jack Winters

2015: John Proakis

2014: Reinaldo Valenzuela and Norm Beaulieu

2013: Andrea Goldsmith

2012: Larry Milstein

2011: Sergio Benedetto

2010: Gerald Foschini and Dariush Divsalar

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TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD (1 OF 2)

Behnaam Aazhang

J.S. Abercrombie Professor

Rice University

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for consistent, fundamental

contributions to multiuser

communication theory for

wireless networks

TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD (2 OF 2)

Michael B. Pursley

Professor and Holcombe Chair

Clemson University

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for outstanding contributions to

spread spectrum

communications in general, and

to CDMA in particular.




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5. Communication Theory Symposium Reports :



GLOBECOM 2018




7. New Business

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AGENDA


Conference Location Date

ICC’18 Kansas City 20-24 May 2018

GC’18 Abu Dhabi 9-13 Dec 2018

ICC’19 Shanghai 20-24 May 2019

GC’19 Hawaii (Waikoloa, Big Island) 9-13 Dec 2019

ICC’20 Dublin 7-11 June 2020

GC’20 Taipei 7-11 Dec 2020

ICC’21 Montreal 2021

GC’21 Madrid 2021

UPCOMING CONFERENCE VENUES




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IEEE GLOBECOM 2017 - CT SYMPOSIUM

SINGAPORE

Co-Chairs

Marco Di Renzo (Paris-Saclay University / CNRS, France)

Lifeng Lai (University of California Davis, USA)

Wei Chen (Tsinghua University, China)

Statistics

148 TPC Members

170 Submitted Papers

At least 3 review reports for each paper

66 Accepted Papers (38,82% acceptance ratio)


SINGAPORE

Sessions 10 Oral Sessions (50 papers)

2 Poster Sessions (16 papers)

Communication Theory (Chair: Angela Zhang)

Information Theory I (Chair: Tolga Duman)

Information Theory II (Chair: Samir Perlaza)

Stochastic Geometry Modeling (Chair: Justin Coon)

Coding I (Chair: Jinhong Yuan)

Coding II (Chair: Mark Flanagan)

NOMA (Chair: Zhiguo Ding)

Security and Secrecy (Chair: Linglong Dai)

MIMO – Communication and Security (Chair: Christos Masouros)

Caching (Chair: Meixia Tao)

Poster Sessions: Recent Advances in Communication Theory I & II


SINGAPORE

Best Paper Award

Paper Title: On Heterogeneous Coded Distributed Computing

Authors:

Mehrdad Kiamari, Univ. Southern California, USA

Chenwei Wang, DOCOMO Innovations, Inc., USA

Salman Avestimehr, Univ. Southern California, USA

Session: CT.2 – Information Theory I

Tuesday, 5 December 2017, 14:00 – 15:30

(first paper)




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Co-chairs Maged Elkashlan (Queen Mary University of London) Aylin Yener (Penn State University) Yonghui Li (University of Sydney)

ICC 2018 CT Symposium

Stats # Submissions: 111 # TPC members (accepted): 138, (declined): 15 Average TPC member load: 3 (each paper has 4 TPC members)

Dates Review deadline (initial): 04 December 2017 Acceptance notification: 26 January 2018 Camera ready: 23 February 2018 Conference: 20 – 24 May 2018




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AGENDA


Co-Chairs:

Neelesh Mehta

Meixia Tao

Koichi Adachi

As mentioned in opening remarks, please contact co -chairs to

volunteer for the TPC

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GLOBECOM 2018 (ABU DHABI)




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AGENDA


Conference Location Date

CTW’18 Puerto Rico Sandestin Resort,

Florida

14-16 May 2018

CTW’19 Reykjavik, Iceland 2019

CTW’20 PROPOSALS NEEDED (N.

America)

UPCOMING CTW VENUES




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AGENDA


Communication Theory Workshop 2018

Co-Chairs:David Love, Purdue

Erik Perrins, Kansas

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Organizing Committee

General Co-Chairs: David Love (Purdue) and Erik Perrins (Kansas)

Technical Program Co-Chairs: Bert Hochwald (Notre Dame) and Petar Popovski

(Aalborg)

Poster Co-Chairs: Chih-Chun Wang (Purdue) and Bruno Clerckx (Imperial)

Publicity Co-Chairs: Taejoon Kim (CityU/Kansas) and Besma Smida (U of

Illinois-Chicago)

Finance Chair: Vasanth Raghavan (Qualcomm)

Fundraising Chair: Junil Choi (POSTECH) and Lingjia Liu (Kansas)

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Previous Plan

• Scheduled for Monday, May 14 – Wednesday, May 16, 2018

• Note: ICC 2018 May 19 – 25 in Kansas City, MO

• Under contract with El Conquistador-Waldorf Astoria Resort

• Sadly, Hurricane Maria caused significant damage to the

resort, which forced us to consider alternate locations at

this late stage

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New Plan

• Scheduled for Monday, May14 – Wednesday, May 16, 2018

• Note: ICC 2018 May 19 – 25 in Kansas City, MO

• Under contract negotiations with Hilton Sandestin Resort

in the Florida Panhandle (Boca Raton was also considered)

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Hilton Sandestin

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Hilton Sandestin

Hotel ($199)

Beach

Tram

Route

Pedestrian Area,

Restaurants,

Shopping, etc.

2.5 miles from

Hotel

Northwest Florida Beaches

International Airport (ECP) 43 miles

Ft. Walton Beach Airport (VPS)

27 miles

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Draft Technical Program

Day 1 - Monday

• Keynote 1: Non-traditional wireless player—Djordje Tujkovic (Facebook)

• Session 1: Selected journal papers in comm, and their follow-up (choose five

significant papers over last two years and as authors to talk about them)—Angel

Lozano

• Session 2: Networked control, distributed robotics, drones—(invitations pending)

• Panel Session: Comm theory when everything is already connected—Constantinos

Papadias (Athens)

Day 2 - Tuesday

• Keynote 2: Challenges in Future Space Communications—Riccardo de Gaudenzi

(ESA)

• Session 3: “Starting up” with comm theory—Sriram Vishwanath (UT—Austin)

• Session 4: 5G—Peying Zhu (Huawei)

• Panel session: Communication “off the grid” – fast network deployments such as in

emergency situations—(Open for now)

Day 3 - Wednesday

• Keynote 3: Security and policy in densely connected systems—Tibor Boros (Google)

• Session 5: Core comm theory topics—Osvaldo Simeone (KCL)




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AGENDA


IEEE CTW @ ICELAND

MAY 25-29, 2019Golden Circle

General Chair

Petar Popovski (Aalborg University, Denmark)

TPC Chairs

Urbashi Mitra (USC, USA)

Erik Larsson (Linkoping University, Sweden)

ORGANIZERS

Some flights:

San Francisco: 8h40m

New York: 5h40m

Dallas: 12h

Boston: 5h5m

Stockholm: 3h10m

Copenhagen:3h10m

Berlin:3h45

Munich: 3h55m

Barcelona: 4h30m

Rome: 8h

Paris: 3h30m

IEEE CTW 2019 IN ICELAND: FLIGHTS

4-star hotel,

http://hotelselfoss.is

Reviews

8.6 on booking.com

4/5 on tripadvisor

VENUE: SELFOSS HOTEL

Photo Tours in Iceland. Páll Jökull is an Icelandic landscape photographer

and photo tour guide with a vast knowledge of photography and years of

travel experience in Iceland. His photo tours cover lots of wellknown

photogenic locations all around Iceland and, due to his local insight, many

less known locations. All photography tours are customized to meet your

specific needs.

Address: Fossheiði 1, 800 Selfoss

Tel: (+354) 578 4800, (+354) 824 0059

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.palljokull.net

facebook.com/Landscape.Photography.Iceland

Riverside restaurant at Hótel Selfoss. Riverside Restaurant is located at

Hotel Selfoss and offers the finest Icelandic cuisine to satisfy every taste,

ensuring the freshest regional ingredients of the highest quality. At Riverside

Restaurant you will find panoramic views over the banks of Ölfusá river and

Ingólfsfjall mountain, offering the perfect background for relaxation and

something to satisfy the most casual or sophisticated of palates.

Tel +3544802500,

[email protected],

www.selfosshotel.is/veitingastadur/

Riverside spa at Hótel Selfoss. Riverside spa. Riverside Spa is located in

Hótel Selfoss which seeks to offer you the best possible experience in

comfort and tranquillity. Our facilities include a large hot tub, steam bath, dry

sauna, relaxation room, relaxation showers, ice bath, seating area and a bar

that has “happy hour” daily from 1619. Riverside Spa offers a great

selection of massage and beauty treatments.

Tel +3544822005,

[email protected],

www.riverdidespa.is

Taxi service. We assist individuals or groups reach their destination whether

it’s the golden circle, the International Airport or anywhere else. A call to us

will get you there.

Address: Kirkjuvegur 8, 800 Selfoss

Tel: (+354) 482 3800, (+354) 899 5454


We are on Facebook

Walk and dine with locals. An exceptional experience in Selfoss that you

will never forget. We offer a unique opportunity for those who have seen

„everything“ except meeting local people in their own homes. We do short

walks in urban settings, which ends with dinner, coffee and a chat at our

home.

Address: Lambhagi 16, 800 Selfoss

Tel: (+354) 698 9933


Website: walkanddinewithlocals.com

We are on Facebook

Photo Tours in Iceland. Páll Jökull is an Icelandic landscape photographer

and photo tour guide with a vast knowledge of photography and years of

travel experience in Iceland. His photo tours cover lots of wellknown

photogenic locations all around Iceland and, due to his local insight, many

less known locations. All photography tours are customized to meet your

specific needs.


Tel: (+354) 578 4800, (+354) 824 0059


Website: www.palljokull.net

facebook.com/Landscape.Photography.Iceland

Riverside restaurant at Hótel Selfoss. Riverside Restaurant is located at

Hotel Selfoss and offers the finest Icelandic cuisine to satisfy every taste,

ensuring the freshest regional ingredients of the highest quality. At Riverside

Restaurant you will find panoramic views over the banks of Ölfusá river and

Ingólfsfjall mountain, offering the perfect background for relaxation and

something to satisfy the most casual or sophisticated of palates.

Tel +3544802500,

[email protected],

www.selfosshotel.is/veitingastadur/

Riverside spa at Hótel Selfoss. Riverside spa. Riverside Spa is located in

Hótel Selfoss which seeks to offer you the best possible experience in

comfort and tranquillity. Our facilities include a large hot tub, steam bath, dry

sauna, relaxation room, relaxation showers, ice bath, seating area and a bar

that has “happy hour” daily from 1619. Riverside Spa offers a great

selection of massage and beauty treatments.

Tel +3544822005,

[email protected],

www.riverdidespa.is

Taxi service. We assist individuals or groups reach their destination whether

it’s the golden circle, the International Airport or anywhere else. A call to us

will get you there.

Address: Kirkjuvegur 8, 800 Selfoss

Tel: (+354) 482 3800, (+354) 899 5454


We are on Facebook

Walk and dine with locals. An exceptional experience in Selfoss that you

will never forget. We offer a unique opportunity for those who have seen

„everything“ except meeting local people in their own homes. We do short

walks in urban settings, which ends with dinner, coffee and a chat at our

home.

Address: Lambhagi 16, 800 Selfoss

Tel: (+354) 698 9933


Website: walkanddinewithlocals.com

We are on Facebook

http://hotelselfoss.is/

Location

Countryside, lies on the

Golden Circle, a popular tourist route

The Golden Circle route includes:

Þingvellir National Park

30 minutes from hotel

Geysir, Gullfoss

50 minutes from the hotel,

Kerið crater

15 minutes from the hotel

The whole route includes

other places as well

and can be done in 6-7 hours.


Golden Circle

Other activities:

Bobby Fisher center

Secret Lagoon

40 minutes drive from hotel

Glacier hiking

with www.adgardbeyond.is

(1-1,5 hour drive to their MEETING POINT)

Lava tunnel

http://thelavatunnel.is/ (30 minute drive to their MEETING POINT)


Magic lights gallery store – handmade candles 0,525 km.

We specialize in the production of scented candles of all sizes, colours and

scents. Our candles have won a gold medal in the USA for looks, scent

quality and lengthy burntime. Opening hours: daily from 13 to 19.


Te: (+354) 893 6804

Website: www.tofraljos.is

facebook.com/tofraljos

Motivo Icelandic handcraft store, 0,459 km. We have a wide selection of

design products, fashion clothing, jewellery and locally designed products.

We focus on beautiful design and excellent customer service.

Address: Austurvegur 9, 800 Selfoss

Tel: (+354) 482 1700, (+354) 6927 200


Website: motivo.is

facebook.com/motivo.selfossi

Sundhöll Selfoss, 0,650 km. The swimming pool has both indoor and

outdoor pools, a children’s pool with three water slides, three hot tubs and

one cold tub, steam bath and a sauna. Opening hours: Weekdays from

06:30 to 21:30 and weekends from 09:00 to 19:00.

Address: By Bankavegur, 800 Selfoss

Tel: (+354) 480 1960


We are on Facebook

The Bobby Fischer Center, 0,571 km. The Bobby Fischer Center houses

memorabilia of the former World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer. It‘s the

first chess museum in the Nordic Countries. The museum also serves as a

community centre for the Selfoss Chess Club as well as hosting chess

classes and tournaments etc. Fischer’s grave in Laugardælir cemetery is

about 2 km from the Bobby Fisher Centre.

Address: Austurvegur 21, 800 Selfoss

Tel: (+354) 894 1275


Website: fischersetur.is

The handcraft store – Alvörubúðin, 0,244 km. Alvörubúðin sells

handcraft products as well as manufacturing all kinds of costumes and

textile packages with traditional Icelandic patterns as well as a variety of

art products that are sold in the store. Besides Icelandic handcraft there is

also a wide range of handicraft from India specially imported by

Alvörubúðin. Alvörubúðin has something for everyone with wide range of

yarns for all kinds of handcraft, embroidery products and accessories.

Address: Eyrarvegur 23, 800 Selfoss

Tel: (+354) 555 1314


Website: hannyrdabudin.is

facebook.com/alvorubudin

Luxury hotel,

located only 15km from

Hotel Selfoss

http://grimsborgir.com

POSSIBLE BANQUET VENUE:

GRIMSBORGIR HOTEL

http://grimsborgir.com/


2. Approval of Minutes from 2017 IEEE ICC meeting (available at http://committees.comsoc.org/comt/)

3. Chair Remarks





GLOBECOM 2018




7. New Business

CTW Steering Committee Charter to be presented and voted for approval at ICC’18 (Kansas City)

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AGENDA


THANK YOU!

See you in Kansas City

Tentatively, our meeting will be:

Monday, May 21, at 6:30 PM.

http://icc2018.ieee-icc.org

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