Juan-Carlos Cano's Blog

During the week from 6 to June 10, 2011, I gave the fourth edition of a ten-hour workshop on Ad Hoc Wireless Networks in the Official Master in Telecommunications Technology at the Higher Technical School of Telecommunications Engineering of the University of Malaga, Teatinos Campus. The workshop was funded by the Ministry of Education and […]

June 2011, I attended the 12th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless Mobile and Multimedia Networks WoWMoM 2011, which was held in Lucca, Italy, from June 20-23, 2011. My first stop was in Pisa, where I flew directly from Valencia in a low cost fly (50 € roundtrip ticket) and where I spend […]

The GRC and the WARG groups of the Computer Engineering Department at the Universitat Politècnica de València have organized the 10th IFIF Networking Conference which took place at the beautiful city of Valencia, May 9th to 13th. More information at http://networking2011.org. The Conference was sponsored by the IFIP Technical Committee on Communication Systems.

The GRC and the DISCA Department attended to the second IEEE Conference on Using New Technologies for Fostering and Innovation in Engineering Education, (FINTDI 2011), which was held in Teruel, Spain, May 2011, and was broadcast live through Internet. We enjoyed Teruel architecture and gastronomy, and it was great to meet Paco as well as […]

February 11th 2011, Jorge Hortelago graduated with honor, Cum laude, after defending his Phd entitled “Design and Implementation of Architectures for the Deployment of Secure Community Wireless Networks”. The evaluation committee remarked the social impact of Jorge’s research especially in the developing world which is helping to reduce the digital divide.

January 21st 2011, Francisco Martínez organized in Teruel a seminar on research and development of the motor industry in Spain, and the role of the Aragon region. The seminar was presided by Alexia Sanz, Research Rector of the Campus of Teruel. The conference invited speakers were: (1) Carlos Hernanz. Director of the Foundation Antonio Gargallo, […]

December 17th 2010, Francisco Martinez, a member of the GRC group graduated with honor, Cum laude, after defending his Phd entitled “Improving Vehicular ad hoc Network Protocols to Support Safety Applications in Realistic Scenarios”. Paco’s works was supervised by Prof. Juan-Carlos Cano and Prof. Carlos T. Calafate.

December 9th 2010, the Consejo Social of the UPV delivers the 2010 awards in its 10th edition. It includes the best student awards, the best master program, the best’s doctoral thesis, industry recognition as well as the distinguished teaching award, where seven professors including Juan Carlos Cano and Jose Vicente Benlloch, from the DISCA Department […]

The Bancaja-UPV Joint Committee has granted 131 awards to the best final projects in enterprises run by cooperative educational programs during the 2009-2010 academic year. A total of 764 universities and 528 companies took part in this thirteenth edition. The ceremony of UPV-Bancaja Prizes will be on Wednesday December 1st at 12 pm in the auditorium […]

November 4th, 2010 I visited Malaga University, where I acted as a member of the tribunal who evaluated the PhD Thesis of D. Jose Rafael Luque entitled: “Modelado del retardo de transmisión Bluetooth 2.0+EDR». I enjoyed visiting Malaga again having the opportunity to meet some colleagues and enjoying Malaga’s gastronomy. It was a pleasure to […]