Third International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC'00)
The Telecommunications Program in the School of Advanced Technologies, together with the Yokosuka Research Park (YRP) R&D; Committee (Japan) and the Communications Research Laboratory (CRL) of the Japanese Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, are organizing the Third International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC'00) to be held on 12-15 November at the Imperial Queen's Park Hotel, Bangkok. The symposium will be officially opened by H.E. Dr. Arthit Ourairat, Minister of Science, Technology and Environment on 13 November.
To be held under the theme 'Seamless Global Personal Multimedia Connectivity', the symposium includes six special tutorial sessions by highly recognized lecturers and experts as follows: UMTS/IMT 2000 by Hamid Aghvami of King's College, U.K.; JPEG-2000 and MPEG-7 by K. R. Rao, of the University of Texas at Arlington, USA; Advanced Receivers for CDMA Systems by Matti Latva-aho and Markku Juntti of the University of Oulu, Finland; Wireless IP by Fumoio Teroka of Sony Computer Science Labs, Inc., Japan; Agent-Based Service Provisioning in Cellular Mobile Networks by Jens Hartmann of Ericsson Eurolab Deutschland GmbH, Germany; and Third Generation Mobile Communications - Mobility Management and Handover - by Shahram Ghaheri-Niri of the University of Surrey, UK.