Opening Ceremony for
The Eugene and Joan C. Wong
Center for Communications Research
Cory Hall, UC Berkeley
December 7, 2004
Photos by Aaron Walburg
Page 1 Photos
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The Eugene and Joan C. Wong Center for Communications
Research is UC Berkeley’s new home for teaching and research in
societal-scale communications networks, particularly in the wireless arena.
This page includes the agenda and photos of the
ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Eugene and Joan C. Wong Center. The
photos are arranged chronologically on two pages. Page
1 photos include events leading up to the ribbon-cutting ceremony. Page 2 photos
include everything following the ribbon-cutting.
All photos may be clicked on and enlarged.
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Eugene and Joan Wong cut the
ribbon at precisely 4:23 p.m.
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Program
2:00 p.m. Reminiscences
Ernest S. Kuh, UC Berkeley
Pravin Varaiya, UC Berkeley
Sanjoy K. Mitter, MIT
George L. Turin, UC Berkeley
3:15 p.m. Dedication of the Wong Center
3:30 p.m. Keynote Addresses
- Bruce Hajek, University of Illinois
“Stochastic Processes in Fading Channels”
- Jack K. Wolf, UC San Diego “A Broadcast
Version of Source Coding with Side Information”
- Brief Remarks by Paul R. Gray, Executive Vice
Chancellor & Provost, UC Berkeley
4:20 p.m. Ribbon-Cutting by Eugene and Joan C. Wong
4:30 p.m. Wireless Foundations: New Directions in
Communications
- Moderated by David Tse, UC Berkeley
- Michael Gastpar, UC Berkeley “Distributed
Information Processing and Unreliable Communication”
- Anant Sahai, UC Berkeley “Interaction,
Feedback, and the Nature of Information”
- Martin Wainwright, UC Berkeley “Stochastic
Processes on Graphs: Theoretical and Algorithmic Challenges”
5:30 p.m. Reception
Page 1
Photos
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The thumbnail images on Page 1 are in black & white. This
reflects the great history Eugene and Joan Wong have brought (and continue to
bring) to the
College of Engineering. Also, Eugene has a fondness for black & white
photography.
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