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Project Highlight: Decentralized Spacecraft Formation Flight

The objective of this research is the development of control mechanisms for spacecraft formation flight with minimal information transfer between spacecraft. The pr...

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Project Highlight: Approximate Dynamic Programming Using Bellman Residual Elimination

Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) are a powerful and general framework for addressing problems involving sequential decision-making under uncertainty.  Such problems occur ...

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Project Highlight: Communication and Learning in Social Networks

Most individuals form their opinions about the quality of products, social trends and political issues via their interactions in social and economic ne...

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Project Highlight: Scaling Laws for Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

We develop approximate asymptotic characterizations of the performance of large heterogeneous wireless networks. We consider the impact of location, traffic, and service heterogeneity. Th...

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Project Highlight: Sum of Squares and Polynomial Convexity

Given a multivariate polynomial how can we decide if it is globally nonnegative? This basic question appears ubiquitously in various areas of...

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Project Highlight: Classification and Dimensionality Reduction Using Geometric Level Set Methods

Shell International uses noisy measurements to tell the difference between two types of rock, sandstone and shale, which is useful for oi...

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Project Highlight: Market Mechanisms for Matching Supply and Demand in Smart Power Grids

In the transformation of today’s power grids to smart grids, a major challenge to be overcome is to offset the supply-side un...

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LIDS NEWS
Dimitri Bertsekas has been chosen as the recipient of the 2009 INFORMS Expository Writing Award. Read the full text of the announcement here.
At the recent 2009 INFORMS Annual Meeting in San Diego, Dan Iancu was awarded the INFORMS Optimization Society Student Paper Prize. The Student Paper Prize recognizes the most outstanding paper in optimization that is submitted to and received by, or published in a refereed professional journal no more than three years before the closing date of the nomination. Dan is jointly supervised by Prof. Dimitris Bertsimas and Prof. Pablo Parrilo.
 
LIDS EVENTS

November 9 -- LIDS Seminar
4:15 to 5:15 PM in 32-141
PORTS and TERMINALS -- Jan Willems (K.U. Leuven, Belgium)
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November 10 -- LIDS Seminar
4:15 to 5:15 PM in 32-141
A Formulation and Theory for Delay Guarantees in Wireless Networks -- P.R. Kumar (University of Illinois)
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November 12 – 14, 2009 - Symposium
LIDS is organizing a major symposium Paths Ahead in the Science of Information and Decision Systems, that will bring together many of the intellectual leaders around the world in the allied fields of control, optimization, networks, communication, inference and learning. Visit http://paths.lids.mit.edu for more information and registration.