Participants willing to speak elsewhere

All long-term participants in Newton Institute programmes are encouraged to give seminars at, or to make short visits to, UK institutions outside Cambridge during their stay. To support this activity, the Institute will cover the travel expenses involved for any participant who is formally invited to speak at another institution; the host institution is expected to cover any accommodation and incidental costs.

To assist organizers of seminar series at UK Universities in their search for relevant speakers, the Newton Institute maintains a register of those of its participants who are visiting from overseas for a period of at least two weeks, and who have indicated their willingness to give lectures or seminars elsewhere during their stay. This register lists their contact details, visit dates and key subject areas. Arrangements are normally made directly with the speaker via the email address given in the register; but the Institute will be happy to assist in cases where there are difficulties in making direct arrangements.

A complete list of all participants in each programme may be found by visiting the relevant programme's web page.

Stochastic Processes in Communication Sciences
11 Jan - 2 Jul 2010
Name Dai, J
Home InstitutionGeorgia Institute of Technology
Date of visits6 Mar - 10 Apr
Area of ExpertiseStochastic networks, applied probability
Possible titles for seminars:
Maximum pressure policies in stochastic processing networks
Dynamic control of parallel server systems
Fluid and diffusion limits for many-server queues
Fluid models and stability of multiclass queueing networks
Name Ephremides, A
Home InstitutionUniversity of Maryland
Date of visits24 May - 31 May
Area of ExpertiseWireless networks
Possible titles for seminars:
Network-level cooperation in wireless networks
The scheduling problem in wireless networks
Name Gamarnik, D
Home InstitutionMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Date of visits18 Mar - 30 Apr
Area of ExpertiseStochastic processes, applied probability, algorithms
Possible titles for seminars:
Statistical physics of algorithms for counting and optimization
Sparse random graphs, random K-SAT and the interpolation tecnique
Parallel server queueing systems in the heavy traffic regime
Undecidability of queueing network stability problems
Name Gupta, P
Home InstitutionAlcatel-Lucent Bell Labs
Date of visits11 Jan - 16 Jan, 5 Apr - 11 Apr
Area of ExpertiseWireless networks, information theory
Possible titles for seminars:
Scaling of the capacity region of wireless networks
Name Juneja, SK
Home InstitutionTata Institute of Fundamental Research
Date of visits6 Jun - 25 Jun
Area of ExpertiseApplied probability
Possible titles for seminars:
Estimating expectation of a non-linear function of a conditional expectation
Concert/cafeteria queueing problem: a game of arrivals
Extremal dependence in portfolio credit risk: asymptotics and efficient simulation
Variance reduction techniques in pricing American options
Name Kurtz, T
Home InstitutionUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Date of visits16 Feb - 15 Apr, 28 Apr - 29 May
Area of ExpertiseStochastic processes
Possible titles for seminars:
Identifying separated time scales in stochastic models of reaction networks
Applications of a Markov mapping theorem
Martingale problems for conditional distributions
Martingale problems for controlled and constrained Markov processes
Name Lelarge, M
Home InstitutionÉcole Normale Supérieure
Date of visits11 Jan - 29 Jan, 21 Mar - 27 Mar
Area of ExpertiseRandom graphs
Possible titles for seminars:
Matchings on random diluted graphs: the cavity method at positive temperature
The rank of diluted random graphs
Efficient control of epidemics over random networks
Economics of Malware: epidemic risks model, network externalities and incentives
Name Mairesse, J
Home InstitutionLIAFA
Date of visits21 Mar - 27 Mar, 17 Apr - 24 Apr
Area of ExpertiseQueueing, Petri nets, discrete probability
Possible titles for seminars:
Deficiency 0 and product form markovian Petri nets
Stability of the bipartite queueing model
Probabilistic cellular automaton and perfection simulation
Name Mazumdar, R
Home InstitutionUniversity of Waterloo
Date of visits21 Mar - 15 Apr, 11 Jan - 16 Jan
Area of ExpertiseWireless networks, information theory, applied probability
Possible titles for seminars:
Capacity scaling laws for wireless networks
Stochastic networks - comparison theorems, stability, and interchange results
Applications of game theory to networks
Reflected diffusions in the positive orthant: boundary behaviour and comparison theorems
Name MacDonald, DR
Home InstitutionUniversity of Ottawa
Date of visits20 Mar - 27 Mar, 1 Jun - 18 Jun
Area of ExpertiseApplied probability
Possible titles for seminars:
A mean field analysis of the Wi-Fi protocal
Rare events with nonlinear large deviation paths
Name Robert, P
Home InstitutionINRIA Paris - Rocquencourt
Date of visits14 Mar - 26 Mar
Area of ExpertiseStochastic networks
Possible titles for seminars:
Interacting multi-class transmissions in large stochastic networks
The evolution of a spatial stochastic network
Name Rybko, AN
Home InstitutionRussian Academy of Sciences
Date of visits11 Jan - 11 Apr, 26 Apr - 17 Jun
Area of ExpertiseStochastic networks, probability
Possible titles for seminars:
Fluid limit for stochastic networks
Poisson hypothesis for symmetric networks
Spontaneous resonances and the coherent of the queueing networks
Absence of the breakdown of the Poisson hypothesis
Name Schmidt, V
Home InstitutionUniversität Ulm
Date of visits13 Mar - 17 Apr
Area of ExpertiseApplied probability, stochastic geometry and statistics
Possible titles for seminars:
Coxian point processes on the edge sets of random tessellations
Modeling of pore systems by 3D random geometric graphs
Stochastic segmentation of 3D morphology in TEM and FIB/REM images
Name Shah, D
Home InstitutionMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Date of visits19 Mar - 10 Apr
Area of ExpertiseNetworks and inference algorithms, information theory
Possible titles for seminars:
Learning rankings using partial information
Network algorithms made distributed
Belief propagation, combinatorial optimization and compressed sensing
Rumor in a network: who's the culprit?
Name Szpankowski, W
Home InstitutionPurdue University
Date of visits1 Jun - 10 Jun
Area of ExpertiseAnalysis of algorithms, information theory
Possible titles for seminars:
Algorithms, combinatorics, and information
Tries
Average redundancy for known sources
Facets of information
Name Wierman, A
Home InstitutionCALTECH (California Institute of Technology)
Date of visits15 Mar - 25 Mar, 30 May - 11 Jun
Area of ExpertiseScheduling, queueing, power management, data centres
Possible titles for seminars:
Scheduling to balance energy and delay
Overcoming limitations of game-theoretic control
Is tail-optimal scheduling possible?

Stochastic Partial Differential Equations (SPDEs)
4 Jan - 2 Jul 2010
Name Barbu, V
Home InstitutionUniversitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza
Date of visits15 Apr - 31 May, 4 Jan - 8 Jan
Area of ExpertiseNonlinear PDE, Navier-Stokes equations, stochastic PDEs
Possible titles for seminars:
Stabilisation of Navier-Stokes equations
Stabilisation by noise of PDEs
Stochastic porous media equations
Generic properties of eigenvalues of Stokes-Oseen operator
Name Flandoli, F
Home InstitutionUniversità di Pisa
Date of visits28 Mar - 25 Apr, 4 Jan - 8 Jan
Area of ExpertiseStochastic Partial Differential Equations
Possible titles for seminars:
Uniqueness of PDEs and random perturbations
Anomalous dissipation in deterministic and random models
Stochastic transport equations
Name Freidlin, M
Home InstitutionUniversity of Maryland
Date of visits20 Jun - 2 Jul
Area of ExpertiseAsymptotic problems for stochastic processes and PDE's
Possible titles for seminars:
On Neuman problem for PDE's with a small parameter and related diffusion processes
On stochastisity of nearly - Hamiltonian systems
Name Krylov, N
Home InstitutionUniversity of Minnesota
Date of visits1 Jun - 30 Jun
Area of ExpertiseProbability and PDEs
Possible titles for seminars:
SPDEs and Kalman filter
Name Kurtz, TG
Home InstitutionUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Date of visits16 Feb - 15 Apr, 28 Apr - 29 May
Area of ExpertiseStochastic processes
Possible titles for seminars:
Prophetic constructions of branching and related processes
Particle representation for some SPDEs and measure-valued processes
The Yamada-Watanabe-Engelbert Theorem for general stochastic processes
Name Mueller, C
Home InstitutionUniversity of Rochester
Date of visits28 Mar - 5 Jun
Area of ExpertiseProbability, stochastic PDE
Possible titles for seminars:
Uniqueness and nonuniqueness for some stochastic PDE
Name Peszat, S
Home InstitutionPolish Academy of Sciences
Date of visits25 Jan - 28 Feb, 4 Jan - 8 Jan, 4 May - 12 Jun
Area of ExpertiseStochastic PDEs, stochastic analysis
Possible titles for seminars:
Time regularity of solutions to linear SPDEs, driven by Levy processes
Invariant measures for SPDEs
Parabolic and hyperbolic equations with white noise boundary conditions
Name Schmalfuß, B
Home InstitutionUniversität Paderborn
Date of visits4 Jan - 8 Jan, 9 Mar - 11 Apr
Area of ExpertiseSPDE, random dynamical systems
Possible titles for seminars:
Dynamics of spde

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