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SCS Seminar List

for period 11 Jan to 2 Jul

Monday 11 January
09:35-10:35 Ganesh, A (Bristol)
  Decentralised load balancing in closed and open systems Sem 1
11:00-12:00 Medard, M (MIT)
  Some new(ish) results in information theory Sem 1
14:00-15:00 Prabhakar, B (Stanford)
  The Struggle for Independence Sem 1
15:30-16:30 Resnick, S (Cornell)
  Modeling data network sessions Sem 1
Tuesday 12 January
09:30-10:30 Montanari, A (Stanford)
  Iterative Algorithms Sem 1
11:00-12:00 Tsitsiklis, J (MIT)
  Some models of information aggregation and consensus in networks Sem 1
Wednesday 13 January
11:00-12:00 Kumar, PR (Illinois)
  A Formulation and Theory for Delay Guarantees in Wireless Networks Sem 1
Thursday 14 January
09:30-10:30 Wischik, D (UCL)
  Two new problems in congestion control: MAC3, and restless bandits Sem 1
11:00-12:00 Tse, D (UC, Berkeley)
  Information Theory of Wireless Networks: Approximate Max-Flow Min-Cut Sem 1
Friday 15 January
09:30-10:30 Orlitsky, A (UC, San Diego)
  Probability Estimation over Large Alphabets Sem 1
11:00-12:00 Walrand, J (UC, Berkeley)
  Scheduling for Communication and Processing Networks Sem 1
14:00-15:00 Ramanan, K (Carnegie Mellon)
  Stochastic networks and measure-valued processes Sem 1
15:30-16:30 Massoulie, L (THLAB)
  Flows and matchings for P2P systems Sem 1
Tuesday 19 January
15:00-16:00 Franceschetti, M (UC, San Diego)
  Physical limits to the capacity scaling of wireless networks DS
Monday 25 January
15:00-16:00 LeLarge, M (Ecole Normale Superieure)
  Diffusion and cascading behaviour in random networks Sem 1
Thursday 28 January
15:00-16:00 Penrose, MD (Bath)
  Co-variance bounds and chaos expansion over Poisson spaces Sem 1
Monday 01 February
15:00-16:00 Foss, S (Heriot-Watt)
  Ergodicity of a stress release point process seismic model with aftershocks Sem 1
Thursday 04 February
15:00-16:00 Weiss, G (Haifa)
  Queuing systems with multi-type jobs and multi-type servers Sem 1
Monday 15 February
15:00-16:00 Mörters, P (Bath)
  Random networks with nonlinear preferential attachment Sem 1
Thursday 18 February
16:00-17:00 Wachtel, V (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen )
  Conditional limit theorems for ordered random walks Sem 1
Friday 19 February
15:00-16:00 Norros, I (VVT Technical Research Centre of Finland)
  On the stability of file-sharing systems Sem 1
Monday 22 February
15:00-16:00 Mandjes, M (Amsterdam)
  Simulation-based computation of the workload correlation function in a Lévy-driven queue Sem 1
Tuesday 23 February
16:30-17:30 Kurtz, T (Wisconsin-Madison)
  Applications of a Markov mapping theorem CMS Mtg Rm 3
Thursday 25 February
14:30-15:30 Janson, S (Uppsala)
  Graph limits for threshold graphs and interval graphs CMS Mtg Rm 3
16:00-17:00 Bambos, N (Stanford)
  Cone schedules for processing systems - throughput and cost issues Sem 1
Friday 26 February
15:00-16:00 Miyazawa, M (Tokyo)
  Conjectures on tail asymptotics of the stationary distribution for a multidimensional SRBM Sem 1
Monday 01 March
15:00-16:00 Hajek, B (Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
  A Martingale framework for trust Sem 1
Thursday 04 March
15:00-16:00 Whittle, P
  Associative neural memories and oscillatory operation Sem 1
Monday 08 March
15:00-16:00 Kurtz, T (Wisconsin)
  Identifying separated time scales in stochastic models of reaction networks Sem 2
Thursday 11 March
14:30-15:15 Louth, G (OfCom)
  Combinatorial auctions in theory and practice Sem 2
15:15-16:00 Handley, M (UCL)
  Rethinking the control architecture of the Internet Sem 2
16:00-16:45 Hajek, B (Illinois)
  Combinatorial auctions and spectrum sale in the US Sem 2
17:00-17:30 Allwright, D (KTN)
  Heavy-tailed distributions in queueing systems: a potential approach Sem 2
17:30-18:00
  Panel Discussion (chair - Frank Kelly) Sem 2
Monday 15 March
15:00-17:00 Hajek, B (Illinois)
  Martingale calculus and a maximal inequality for supermartingales CMS Mtg Rm 4
Wednesday 17 March
15:00-17:00 Hajek, B (Illinois)
  On Bayes-Nash implementation of combinatorial auctions: structure and efficiency CMS Mtg Rm 3
Thursday 18 March
15:00-17:00 Dai, J (Georgia Institute of Technology)
  Distributional sensitivity in many-server queues Sem 2
Friday 19 March
16:00-17:00 Konstantopoulos, T (Heroit-Watt)
  Limit theorems for stochastic ordered graphs Sem 1
Monday 22 March
09:30-10:30 Baccelli, F (INRIA Paris - ENS)
  Capacity and error exponents of stationary point processes with additive displacement noise Sem 1
11:00-12:00 Reiman, M (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs)
  Assemble-to-Order Inventory Systems as Newsvendor Networks Sem 1
14:00-15:00 Zwart, AP (CWI)
  Scheduling and large deviations Sem 1
15:30-16:30 Srikant, R (Illinois)
  Scheduling in Wireless Networks Sem 1
17:00-18:00 Hajek, B (Illinois)
  Rothschild Visiting Professor - Mathematical analysis of peer to peer communication networks Sem 1
Tuesday 23 March
09:30-10:30 Anantharam, V (UC, Berkeley)
  Persistence of long-range-dependence under data compression Sem 1
11:00-12:00 Graham, C (École Polytechnique)
  Self-adaptive congestion control for multi-class intermittent transmissions in a network Sem 1
14:00-15:00 Glynn, P (Stanford)
  Numerical Methods for Stochastic Networks Sem 1
15:30-16:30 Anderson, D (Wisconsin-Madison)
  Simulation methods for stochastically modeled chemical reaction networks Sem 1
Wednesday 24 March
09:30-10:30 Williams, R (UC, San Diego)
  A stochastic model of coupled enzymatic degradation Sem 1
11:00-12:00 Roch, S (UC, Los Angeles)
  Probabilistic Techniques in Mathematical Phylogenetics Sem 1
Thursday 25 March
09:30-10:30 Bramson, M (Minnesota)
  A Positive Recurrent Reflecting Brownian Motion with Divergent Fluid Path Sem 1
11:00-12:00 Atar, R (Technion)
  On the non-degenerate slowdown diffusion regime Sem 1
14:00-15:00 Lelarge, M (ENS)
  Matchings and rank for random diluted graphs Sem 1
Friday 26 March
09:30-10:30 Evans, S (UC, Berkeley)
  Go forth and multiply? Sem 1
11:00-12:00 Robert, P (INRIA Paris - Rocquencourt)
  The Evolution of a Spatial Stochastic Network Sem 1
14:00-15:00 Ferrari, P (Buenos Aires)
  Slow-to-start traffic models, coalescing Brownian motions and M/M/1 queues Sem 1
15:30-16:00 Kelly, F (Cambridge)
  Closing Perspectives Lecture Sem 1
Monday 29 March
15:00-16:00 Vladimirov, A (Russian Academy of Sciences)
  Non-stationary processes in queueing networks Sem 2
Tuesday 30 March
16:00-17:00 Kelbert, M (Swansea)
  Continuity of mutual entropy in the limiting signal-to-noise ratio regimes Sem 2
Wednesday 31 March
15:00-16:00 Schmidt, V (Ulm)
  Random geometric graphs for modelling the pore system in fibre-based materials Sem 2
Tuesday 06 April
09:30-10:30 Bollobas , B (Cambridge)
  Percolation on polygon configurations Sem 1
11:00-12:00 Gupta, P (Bell Labs)
  Scaling of the Unicast and Multicast Capacity Regions of Wireless Networks Sem 1
14:00-15:00 Last, G (Karlsruhe)
  Gamma distributions in Poisson Voronoi and hyperplane tessellations Sem 1
15:30-16:30 Thiran, P (Lausanne)
  Medium Access Control, Fairness and Phase Transitions in Multihop Wireless Networks Sem 1
Wednesday 07 April
09:30-10:30 Aldous, D (Berkeley)
  Discrete and Continuum Random Spatial Networks Sem 1
11:00-12:00 Bordenave, C (Toulouse)
  Load optimization in a planar network Sem 1
14:00-15:00 Franceschetti, M (San Diego)
  The percolation benefit of spreading random connection functions Sem 1
15:30-16:30 Soljanin, E (Bell Labs)
  On Storing and Retrieving (coded) Data in Mobile P2P Networks Sem 1
Thursday 08 April
09:30-10:30 Peres , Y (Microsoft)
  Finding Sparse Cuts Locally Using Evolving Sets and the anatomy of random graphs Sem 1
11:00-12:00 Shah, D (MIT)
  Medium Access using Queues Sem 1
15:00-16:00 Blaszczyszyn, B (Paris and Wroclaw)
  Stochastic geometry and wireless ad-hoc networks - from the coverage probability to the asymptotic end-to-end delay on long routes Sem 1
16:30-17:30 Xie, L-L (Waterloo)
  Omnidirectional Relay in Wireless Networks Sem 1
Friday 09 April
09:30-10:30 Penrose, M (Bath)
  Strict inequalities of critical points in continuum percolation Sem 1
11:00-12:00 Zuyev, S (Gothenburg)
  Thinning-stable point processes: new models in telecommunications Sem 1
14:00-15:00 van der Hofstad, R (Eindhoven)
  Random graph asymptotics on high-dimensional tori: volume, diameter and mixing time Sem 1
15:30-16:30 Leveque, O (Lausanne)
  Spatial degrees of freedom in wireless networks Sem 1
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