Workshop Programme
for period 11-15 January
New Topics at the Interface between Probability and Communications
11-15 January
Timetable
| Monday 11 January | ||
| 08:30-09:30 | Registration | SCS |
| 09:30-09:35 | Welcome from David Wallace (INI Director) | SCS |
| 09:35-10:35 | Ganesh, A (Bristol) | SCS |
| Decentralised load balancing in closed and open systems | Sem 1 | |
| 10:35-11:00 | Coffee | SCS |
| 11:00-12:00 | Medard, M (MIT) | SCS |
| Some new(ish) results in information theory | Sem 1 | |
| 12:15-13:30 | Lunch | SCS |
| 14:00-15:00 | Prabhakar, B (Stanford) | SCS |
| The Struggle for Independence | Sem 1 | |
| 15:00-15:30 | Tea | SCS |
| 15:30-16:30 | Resnick, S (Cornell) | SCS |
| Modeling data network sessions | Sem 1 | |
| 17:30-18:30 | Welcome Wine Reception | SCS |
| 18:30-19:30 | Dinner | SCS |
| Tuesday 12 January | ||
| 09:30-10:30 | Montanari, A (Stanford) | SCS |
| Iterative Algorithms | Sem 1 | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee | SCS |
| 11:00-12:00 | Tsitsiklis, J (MIT) | SCS |
| Some models of information aggregation and consensus in networks | Sem 1 | |
| 12:15-13:30 | Lunch | SCS |
| 14:00-16:30 | Open problems session 1 | SCS |
| 18:30-19:30 | Dinner | SCS |
| Wednesday 13 January | ||
| 09:30-10:30 | Poster Session | SCS |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee | SCS |
| 11:00-12:00 | Kumar, PR (Illinois) | SCS |
| A Formulation and Theory for Delay Guarantees in Wireless Networks | Sem 1 | |
| 12:15-13:30 | Lunch | SCS |
| 14:00-19:30 | Free time | SCS |
| 19:30-21:00 | Conference Dinner at Selwyn College | SCS |
| Thursday 14 January | ||
| 09:30-10:30 | Wischik, D (UCL) | SCS |
| Two new problems in congestion control: MAC3, and restless bandits | Sem 1 | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee | SCS |
| 11:00-12:00 | Tse, D (UC, Berkeley) | SCS |
| Information Theory of Wireless Networks: Approximate Max-Flow Min-Cut | Sem 1 | |
| 12:15-13:30 | Lunch | SCS |
| 14:00-16:30 | Open problems session 2 | SCS |
| 18:30-19:30 | Dinner | SCS |
| Friday 15 January | ||
| 09:30-10:30 | Orlitsky, A (UC, San Diego) | SCS |
| Probability Estimation over Large Alphabets | Sem 1 | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee | SCS |
| 11:00-12:00 | Walrand, J (UC, Berkeley) | SCS |
| Scheduling for Communication and Processing Networks | Sem 1 | |
| 12:15-13:30 | Lunch | SCS |
| 14:00-15:00 | Ramanan, K (Carnegie Mellon) | SCS |
| Stochastic networks and measure-valued processes | Sem 1 | |
| 15:00-15:30 | Tea | SCS |
| 15:30-16:30 | Massoulie, L (THLAB) | SCS |
| Flows and matchings for P2P systems | Sem 1 | |
| 18:30-19:30 | Dinner | SCS |
| Other Seminars |
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Seminars in the University National and International Scientific Research Meetings |