Co-sponsored by: Alice Wang Volunteer needed! There will be a session of Teacher In-Service Program (TISP) session taking place at: Harris County Department of Education, 6300 Irvington Blvd, Houston, TX 77022.  The address is a high rise red brick building located near North Loop 610 and Irvington, outside the loop.  The classroom for this session is actually in a single story building across the side street from the building listed above in a parking lot.  The classroom building on the backside of that parking lot.   The session starts at 8:30 a.m. and should last for about 7 hours.  There will be teachers from many school districts around Harris County, both elementary and secondary.   If you are interested to attend, contact Freddie Wong at [email protected] .  There are limited space as we have to leave room for the teacher participants. Location: Bldg: Harris County Department of Education 6300 Irvington Blvd HOUSTON, Texas 77022

Co-sponsored by: Alice Wang Volunteer needed! There will be a session of Teacher In-Service Program (TISP) session taking place at: Harris County Department of Education, 6300 Irvington Blvd, Houston, TX 77022.  The address is a high rise red brick building located near North Loop 610 and Irvington, outside the loop.  The classroom for this session is actually in a single story building across the side street from the building listed above in a parking lot.  The classroom building on the backside of that parking lot.   The session starts at 8:30 a.m. and should last for about 7 hours.  There will be teachers from many school districts around Harris County, both elementary and secondary.   If you are interested to attend, contact Freddie Wong at [email protected] .  There are limited space as we have to leave room for the teacher participants. Location: Bldg: Harris County Department of Education 6300 Irvington Blvd HOUSTON, Texas 77022

Co-sponsored by: Rice University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Abstract: Low-power wireless communication has been identified as one of the key enabling technologies for the Internet of Things (IoT). The performance of the contemporary IoT connectivity solutions is mainly limited by congestion, interference, and limited operation time with the battery. These limitations hamper the scaling of the IoT deployments. In this talk, we envision a new solution to the IoT connectivity combining existing and emerging wireless communication systems (hereafter legacy systems) with a new layer of ultra-low-power or passive ambient backscatter communication (AmBC). It can operate under very low signal-to-noise ratio conditions, share the spectrum with legacy systems without causing harmful interference to them, and scale to support a large number of devices. We will also discuss how the emerging microwave quantum technology can be utilized to enhance the performance of backscatter communications beyond the limits of classical solutions. Speaker(s): Riku Jäntti, Agenda: Technical talk at 4:00pm held at Rice University, Duncan Hall, room 1046 Location: Room: 1046 Bldg: Duncan Hall Rice University 6100 Main St. Houston, Texas 77005