Die FAKULTÄT FÜR INFORMATIK an der TU Wien lädt zu folgendem Vortrag ein:
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Professor Roger Wattenhofer

ETH Zürich

Datum:  Montag, 9. Mai 2005
Uhrzeit: 17.00 Uhr pünktlich
Ort:    Hörsaal EI 9 (Hlawka-Hs), TU Wien, Gußhausstr. 27-29, Erdgeschoss

Im Anschluss lädt die Informatik-Fakultät zur informellen Diskussion
bei Snacks und Erfrischungen.

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TITEL: Ad hoc and Sensor Networks
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ABSTRACT: Wireless and mobile networks are an exciting new research area
bringing together researchers from different backgrounds, from
networking to distributed systems, from embedded systems to simulation,
from graph theory to computational geometry, from operating systems to
databases. In particular the rapidly growing areas of ad hoc and sensor
networks demand new networking solutions, because i) wireless devices
have lower bandwidth and ii) wireless devices are mobile and therefore
the topology of the network changes rather frequently. As a consequence,
protocols for wireless and mobile networks should i) have as little
communication overhead as possible and ii) should run as fast as
possible. Both goals can only be achieved by developing efficient
distributed algorithms (so-called "local" algorithms). In this talk I
will highlight a few fundamental ideas and techniques.

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Kurzbiographie zu Professor Wattenhofer
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Roger Wattenhofer received his doctorate in computer science in 1998
from ETH Zurich, Switzerland. From 1999 to 2001 he was in the USA, first
at Brown University in Providence, RI, then at Microsoft Research in
Redmond, WA. He is now professor at the Information Technology and
Electrical Engineering Department, ETH Zurich. Roger Wattenhofer's
research interests include a variety of algorithmic and systems aspects
in networking and distributed computing; in particular, peer-to-peer
computing, ad hoc and sensor networks. He won several awards and
prices, including the ETHZ Silver Medal for his PhD and
best paper awards at the top conferences PODC'03, PODC'04, DISC'04 und
MobiCom'04, and was coach of the Swiss Olympic Team in Informatics from
1997-99.


Weitere Informationen über den Vortragenden finden Sie auf
http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wroger/

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Kontaktperson an der TU Wien: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schmid,
                              Tel. 58801-18250, email s@ecs.tuwien.ac.at

Die Finanzierung dieser Veranstaltung erfolgt durch
das Institut für Technische Informatik und die TU Wien
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Die Fakultät für Informatik erhält Sponsorgelder u.a. von
     - Siemens AG Österreich
     - Dr. Karl Kleissner
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