ICAST 2000

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Wilson Hall
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Batavia, Illinois USA
June 3, 2000

The 16^th International Conference on Advanced Science and Technology

Advancing Science and Technology for the 21^st Century

ICAST 2000 Event Schedule and Location

June 3, 2000 (Saturday)

08:00 – 09:00    Registration & Continental Breakfast
09:00 – 10:00    Keynote Speech    1-West (1st Floor)
10:00 – 10:10    Break
10:10 – 12:10    Track A: Biotechnology and Medicine at Curia II (2nd Floor)
                        Session C1: Internet and Networking at 1-West (1st Floor)
12:10 – 13:00    Lunch at Cafeteria (1st Floor)
13:00 – 13:30    Fermi Laboratory Tour
13:40 – 15:40    Track B: Environment at Curia II (2nd Floor)
                        Session C2: Information Technology at 1-West (1st Floor)
15:40 – 16:10    Coffee Break
16:10 – 17:50    Panel: e-Commerce at Comitium (2nd Floor)
                        Session C3: Physics and Experimental Technique at 1-West (1st Floor)
19:00 – 20:30    Conference Banquet

Track A: Biotechnology and Medicine
Chair: Prof. Yun-Lai Chan, University of Illinois at Chicago

Challenges in Medical Disposable Product Development
Use of Transgenic Animal Models Is Important in the Study of Renal Function
Computing Protein Shapes for Structural Bioinformatics
International Adaptation of the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy (FACIT) Quality of Life Questionnaires
Functional Brain Imaging
Quality of Life Informatics

Track B: Environment
Chair: Dr. Chi M. Tong, US EPA Central Regional Laboratory

Implementing a Waste Minimization Program for a Paint and Coatings Manufacturer
Electrochemical Noise Measurements of Sustained Microbially Influenced Pitting Corrosion in a Laboratory Flow Loop System
Microwave Dielectric Spectroscopy of Gases
International Environmental Agreements to Solve Global Environmental Problems and Its Difficulties
Detecting and Attributing Global Warming by Statistical Analysis of Variance
In-Line Ultrasonic Monitoring of Waste Slurry Suspended Solids

Session C1: Internet and Networking
Chair: Dr. Pat Liu, Lucent Technologies

How to Be a Well-informed, Intelligent On-Line Shopper: The Privacy Issue on Electronic Commerce
Internet Development in China
The Next Generation Internet and The Science Grid: Enabling New Discovery through Advanced Networking
Topology Aggregation with End-to-End Delay Guarantee in ATM PNNI Routing
Performance Analysis of a Hybrid Code-Division Multiple-Access/Wavelength-Division Multiple-Access System
Pixel Detectors

Session C2: Information Technology
Chair: Prof. Johng-Chern Chern, Chicago State University

Automatic Workflow Schema Design
Performing Data Flow Testing on Object-Oriented Classes
A Qualitative Method for Evaluating Information System End User Attitudes
Scheduling Multiple-Plan Packages
Patient Simulation for Medical Education
Intelligent Response in The Interface for DBMS

Session C3: Physics and Experimental Technique
Chair: Dr. Yen-Chu Chen, Academia Sinica, ROC

CP Violation and Rare Decay at KTeV
Introduction to CDF Production Farm - a Parallel Computing System for High Energy Experiment
Production Test of Optical Readout Module for Silicon Detector
Breakthrough into Untouchable Energy Regions
Introduction to Linux

Panel : e-Commerce
Chair: Prof. Morris Chang, Illinois Institute of Technology

B2C: What Do e-Commerce Companies Overlook?
What’s the Deal with eBusiness
Connecting the US and Developing Countries: an e-Bridge