Time

Saturday, March 11, 2006

8:00-4:00

Registration Open

1. Opening Ceremony

9:00

Chair: Minyue Lin

9:05

Greetings: Song Yang (CAST-DC Host)

9:08

Greetings: Yubin Ye (CAST-NS Host)

9:11

Greetings: Bailian Li (CAST-USA)

9:14

Greetings: Joseph Jen, Under Sectary, Department of Agriculture

9:17

Greetings: Embassy of PRC

2. General Session

9:20

Co-Chairs: Chaoxiang Kong and Feiyue Wang

9:25-9:45

Jin Ju, Minister Counsellor for Science & Technology, Embassy of PRC: 
“Enhancing Innovation Capacity and Building an Innovation-oriented Country”

9:45-10:05

Jimmy Lee, Executive Director, the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI): 
"Making an Economic Impact in Our World"

10:05-10:25

Huaibei Zhou, Professor and Dean of the Int’l School of Software Engineering of Wuhan University, China: “Problems and Opportunities of IT Education in China”

10:25-10:45

Feiyue Wang, Professor, The University of Arizona , USA, and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China: “Social Computing: A Scientific Marriage of Technology and Social Studies in the Age of a Connected World”

10:45-11:00                                  Break and Refreshments

3. General Science & Technology

11:00-11:05

Co-Chairs: Aijun Zhang and Zengjian Hu

11:05 11:25

Zhi Wang : “A Mathematical Programming Model to Estimate Re-export Markup and Reconcile Trade Statistics from China, Hong Kong and the United States”

11:25-11:45

Tsengdar Lee: “High Performance Computing and Competitiveness”

11:45-12:05

Zhaohua Wu: ”Signal Processing: Beyond Wavelets”

12:05-12:25

Zengjian Hu: “Drug Design in the Post-Genomic Era”

12:25-1:25

                              On Site Lunch Break

                            4. IT & Networking

1:30-1:35

Co-Chairs: Qiang Lu and Yunming Song

1:35-1:55

George Zhang, Sr. Consultant, CCIE: A brief Introduction to Internet Protocol V6 (IPv6)

1:55-2:15

Mengchu Zhou, Professor, NJIT & IEEE Fellow: "Role Theory in Development of Intelligent Collaborative Systems".

2:15-2:35

Chenxu Zhu, Member of Research Staff, Fujitsu Laboratories of America: “Radio Resource management in OFDMA-based Wireless Networks”

2:35-2:55

Gary McQuown, Co-owner of Data and Analytic Solutions, Inc: “SAS: What, Why, and How”

2:55-3:15

David Metzger, Chair of the Government Contracts Group within Holland & Knight : “SBIR Phase III:  Commercialization”

3:15-3:30

                             Break and Refreshments

                           5.  Business and Enterprise

3:30-3:35

Co-Chairs: James Bo and Cheng Ma

3:35-3:55

James Whang, CEO, AEPCO Inc.: "What Does It Take in 
This Rapid-Changing and Competitive Technology Business World?"

3:55-4:15

Ms. Shimin Luo, President, Mintor Co.: "Grow Your Business with Key Accounts"

4:15-4:35

Sri Mirajkar, President, PositiveEdge: "IT Offshore Outsourcing Development – Pros and Cons"

4:35-4:55

David Fuller, Department of Business Assistance: "Doing Business in Virginia State: 
Opportunities and Resources".

4:55-5:15

James Cheng, Founder and Principal stockholder of CHM: “The Life of a Government  Contracting Company - From Founding to Sale”

5:15-5:35

Runan Zhang, Attorney at Law: “How to use the resources of your intellect in business 
and non-business transactions”

5:35-5:50

Sessions Adjourn and Departure for Dinner

6:30-9:00

6.      Dinner

Harvest Moon Restaurant and Lounge,

7260 Arlington Boulevard,   

Falls Church, VA 22042 

Tel# (703) 573-6000

5:30-7:00

Dinner Registration

6:30

Co-Chairs: Lee Bao and Changchun Xie 

6:35

Xuejun Qiu, Counselor and Consul General, Embassy of PRC

6:38

Samuel Mok, CFO, Department of Labor

6:41

Greetings from Governor of Maryland, read by Joe Mok

6:44

Chris Foster, CTO, State of Maryland

6:47

Doug Gatchell, Program Director, National Science Foundation

6:52

Eric Lian Jensen, the Chairman for the Coalition of Asian Pacific American of Virginia

7:07

TBD

7:22

Prudential Financial Co.

7:25

CAST Awards Ceremony

7:35-9:00

Dinner

Time

Sunday, March 12, 2006

9:00-11:30    

                        CAST-USA Working Meeting

                 Co-Chairs: Bailian Li, Feiyue Wang, Minyue Lin

9:00-9:15

Introduction of 2006 executive team: Bailian Li

9:15-9:45

Updates of CAST-USA bylaw and structure: Feiyue Wang

9:45-10:20

BOD election and allocation: Minyue Lin

10:20-10:30

Activity plan for 2006: Bailian Li

10:30-10:50

Proposals of 2006 annual meetings: Chapter presidents

10:50-11:30

Discussion of chapter activities, coordination & relationship with CAST-USA: Chapter presidents

12:00-2:00

                                     Luncheon

                                 Conference Closing

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