SPAR 2017 will be held on 31 March 2017 in conjunction with the Rice ECE Department's Corporate Affiliates Day.  The venue is the venerable room 1049 of historic Duncan Hall.  With an acceptance rate of just 6%, competition for this year's conference was particularly fierce.

AGENDA

8am  Breakfast 

9am Welcome and Lightning Talks

• 5 minutes for visitors, 1 minute for Rice folks
  Contents could include:  1) My/A cool new result, 2) What I want to get out of SPAR, 3) Something non-technical to share
  Please send a PDF file of any slides to Ali Mousavi <ali.mousavi@rice.edu> by 5pm Thursday 30 March 2017

10am Coffee Break

1045am Organization of Afternoon Panel Sessions

1115am Lunch 

12pm Panel Sessions 1, 2, 3, 4 (30 minutes each)

2pm  Coffee Break

330pm Panel Sessions 5, 6, 7 (30 minutes each)

4:00 PM Fireside Chat: Rice Friends and Family (McMurtry Auditorium)

• MC: Ramesh Neelamani ’03, Seismology Supervisor, ExxonMobil Upstream Research
  John Treichler ’70, CTO, Raytheon Applied Signal Technology
  John Burruss, CEO, Metrocare
  Fayé Briggs, President & CEO, Niminq, Inc., Intel Fellow, ECE Adjunct Faculty Member
  Stefanie Breyer ’95, Vice President of R&D for Data Acquisition, National Instruments

5pm  Wrap Up and Planning for SPAR 2018

530pm Valhalla

7pm  Dinner, Toasts, NonToasts, and Awards at El Tiempo Cantina, 3130 Richmond Avenue