LIDS Seminars Spring 2012
The weekly LIDS Seminar series has become the intellectual signature of the lab over the years. These seminars provide an overview and exciting recent advances of an area to a broad audience. Topics include the areas of communication, computation, networks, probability and statistics, control, optimization, and signal processing.
Time: Tuesdays, 4:00-5:00pm
Post-seminar Tea/Reception: 5:00pm, 6th floor LIDS lounge
Location: Room 32-141
February 7
Alessandro Vespignani (Northeastern University)
Predicting the Behavior of Socio-technical Systems
February 14
Domitilla Del Vecchio (MIT)
A Control Theory Approach to Engineer Biomolecular Circuits
February 21
Alexandre Bayen (Berkeley)
Real-time Estimation of Distributed Parameters Systems: Application to Traffic Monitoring with Smartphones
March 6
Larry Carin (Duke)
Inferring Latent Structure From Mixed Real and Categorical Relational Data
March 13
Karen Willcox (MIT)
Model Reduction for Uncertainty Quantification of Large-scale Systems
March 20
Fernando Paganini (ORT University, Uruguay)
Content dynamics over the cloud: from queues to PDEs
April 3
Saurabh Amin (MIT)
Incentive Problems for Reliable and Secure Networked Control Systems
April 10
Anima Anandkumar (UC, Irvine)
Beyond Sparse Graphical Models: Incorporating Mixtures and Residuals
April 24
Dimitri Bertsimas (MIT)
Network Information Theory via Robust Optimization
May 1
Robert Kleinberg (Cornell)
Generalized Prophet Inequalities and Their Applications
May 8
Mihaela van der Schaar (UCLA)
Strategic Design
May 15
A. Kevin Tang (Cornell)
Sparse Recovery over Networks
