CPSWEEK Call for Participation

CPS Week 2009 Call for Participation: April 13 - 16, San Francisco, CA, USA

• Advance Registration Deadline: March 31*, saving $150
• Hotel Reduced Rate: $149/night (from $179/night) deadline: March 20*
• Student Travel Grants Applications deadline: March 14*

For updates and details, please check http://www.cpsweek.org

The second "Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) Week" is a week-long event that brings together at the same time and location three leading research conferences that target complementary aspects of CPS. The 2009 version of CPS Week will be held in San Francisco, USA from April 13-16, 2009. The three co-located conferences are: 

• ACM International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), 2009.
• Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC), 2009.
• IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), 2009. 

In addition to the main conferences, there are Three plenary sessions, CPS Forum posters and demos, Extreme Sensing Competition, and CPS Forum. After the three day main conferences (4/13 - 4/15), there are 5 tutorials and 7 workshops on April 16.

The titles and speakers of plenary sessions are:

1. Sensing and Control on a Planetary Scale
   Raghunathan  "Raj" Rajkumar, Carnegie Mellon University
2. Distributed Architectures for Embedded Systems: Challenges for Real-Time Control
   Albert Benveniste, IRISA/INRIA, Rennes Cedex, France
3. From Galaxies to Sensor Networks: Science in an Exponential World
   Alex Szalay, Almni Centennial Professor, Johns Hopkins University