8:30-9:00	Registration/Continental Breakfast - Martel Hall
9:00-9:05	Introductions	Joseph Cavallaro, Chair ECE Affiliates Program and Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
9:05-9:15	Welcome	C. Sidney Burrus, Dean George R. Brown School of Engineering
9:15-9:30	ECE Departmental Overview	Don H. Johnson, Chair Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
9:30-10:15	Plasmonics: An Emerging Optical Nanotechnology	Naomi Halas, Stanley C. Moore Professor in Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering And Dept. of Chemistry
10:15-10:45	Coffee Break / Poster Session - Martel Hall
10:45-11:15	Spintronics and Quantum Information Processing	Junichiro Kono, Assistant Professor Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
11:15-11:45	Cooperative Wireless Communications	Ashutosh Sabharwal, Faculty Fellow Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
11:45-1:30	Lunch (Registration Required) - Grand Hall, Rice Memorial Center
1:30-2:00	The Deep Sub-Micron Challenge in High Speed Integrated Circuits	Yehia Massoud, Assistant Professor Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
2:00-2:45	Panel Discussion	Timothy Dehne, Senior Vice President of R&D, National Instruments, Austin, TX Darel Linebarger, Principal DSP Engineer, The MathWorks, Natick, MA Michael Smayling, Senior Director Applied Materials, Santa Clara, CA
2:45-3:15	Student Poster Preview - McMurtry Auditorium
3:15-4:45	Poster Session - Martel Hall (Refreshments served)
4:00-4:45	Member Meetings with Students & Faculty
4:45-4:50	Concluding Remarks	Joseph Cavallaro, Chair ECE Affiliates Program
5:00	Graphics & Geometric Design Group Demo - Symonds II Lab	Joe Warren and Scott Schaefer, Computer Science
6:00	Cocktail Reception - Faculty, Affiliate members only
6:30	Dinner - Faculty, Affiliate members only
7:45	After-dinner Talk - Faculty, Affiliate members only	Steven Currall, Director, Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship

ECE Affiliates