Fall 2015 – Spring 2016
Sept. 4
Matthias Rungger, Technical University, Munich
Feedback Refinement Relations for the Synthesis of Symbolic Controllers
Sept. 11
Majid Zamani, Technical University, Munich
When Lyapunov meets Church, Automated Synthesis of Complex Systems Emerges
Sept. 14
Sanjeev Arora, Princeton University
Random Walks on Discourse Spaces: A Generative Model Approach to Semantic Word Embeddings
Sept. 18
Victor Preciado, University of Pennsylvania
Optimal Resource Allocation to Control Epidemic Outbreaks in Networked Populations
Oct. 9
Sertac Karaman, MIT
Breaking the Curse of Dimensionality with Compressed Computation in Approximately Low-rank Instances of Control, Estimation, and Inference Problems
Oct. 16
Wencen Wu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Bio-inspired Distributed Sensing with Mobile Sensor Networks
Oct. 23
René Vidal, Johns Hopkins University
Algebraic, Sparse and Low Rank Subspace Clustering
Oct. 28
Davide Raimondo, University of Pavia
Oct. 30
Michael Hasselmo, Boston University, Center for Memory and Brain
Neural Coding of Space and Time in the Cortex
Nov. 6
Daniel Work, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Traffic Estimation for Extreme Congestion Events
Nov. 13
Amir Aghdam, Concordia University
Connectivity of Asymmetric Networks
Nov. 20
P.R. Kumar, Texas A&M University
CISE Resident Scholar
A Clean Slate Approach to Provable Security for Wireless Networking
Nov. 23
P.R. Kumar, Texas A&M University
CISE Resident Scholar
Demand Response: Architectures, Strategies and Theories
Dec. 4
Emina Soljanin, Bell Labs
Cloud Storage Space vs. Download Time for Large Files
Dec. 11
John Tsitsiklis, MIT
An Analysis of Sparse, Limited Flexibility, Service Architectures
Dec. 18
Asaf Cohen, Ben Gurion University
Coded Retransmission in Wireless Networks via MDPS: Theory and Algorithms
January 22
J. Q. Hu, Fudan University
Computing Equilibrium Prices for a Capital Asset Pricing Model with Heterogeneous Investors
January 29
Yuval Cassuto,Technion
Coded Network Switches
February 10,
Sérgio Pequito, University of Pennsylvania
Neuroscience: A Control Theory and Network Science Perspective
February 12
Aaron Ames, Georgia Tech
Towards the Humanoid Robots of Science Fiction
February 17
Shuo Han, University of Pennsylvania
Data-Driven Control and Optimization for Smart Cities
Faculty Host: John Baillieul
February 19
Constantine Caramanis, University of Texas at Austin
Crowd Sourcing Epidemic Detection
February 24
Mahnoosh Alizadeh, Stanford University
Enabling Large-Scale Electricity Demand Management
February 26
Rebecca Willett, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Estimating High-Dimensional Autoregressive Point Processes
March 2
Sam Felton, Harvard University
Origami in Design, Function, and Fabrication
March 3
Alex Olshevsky, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Linear Time Consensus and Its Applications to Multi-Agent Control
March 18
Jerry Zhu, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Machine Teaching
March 25
Liyu Wang, University of California, Berkeley
Robot Self Sufficiency Through On-the-fly Fabrication
March 25
Ness Shroff, The Ohio State University
Minimizing Latency in Cloud Based Systems: Replication Over Parallel Servers
March 30
Nikolay Atanasov, University of Pennsylvania
Acquiring Metric and Semantic Information Using Autonomous Robots
April 1
Vasumathi Raman, United Technologies
Connecting the Physical, the Logical and the Human
April 1
Ricardo Sanfelice, University of California, Santa Cruz
Robust Hybrid Feedback Control Design Tools for Networked Systems
April 4
Vijay Gupta, University of Notre Dame
Cyber-Physical-Human Systems: Results and Challenges
April 8
Xiaojun Lin, Purdue University
Managing Uncertainty in Future Smart Grid: An Online-Algorithmic Approach Towards Robust and Efficient Decisions
April 13
Cedric Langbort, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
On Control with Limited Information
April 15
Dimitri Bertsekas, MIT
Incremental Proximal and Augmented Lagrangian Methods for Convex Optimization: A Survey
April 22
Milind M. Buddhikot, DMTS, Nokia Bell Labs
SSPICE for Ultra-broadband Wireless