Fall 2014 – Spring 2015

Sept. 19
Vivek Farias, MIT
Online A-B Testing
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Sept. 24
Erol Gelenbe, CISE Resident Scholar, Imperial College
Energy, QoS and Energy-Harvesting in Computation and Communications
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Sept. 26
Victor de la Pena, Columbia University
Dependence Measures: A Perspective
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Oct. 3
Spyros Reveliotis, Georgia Tech
Real-Time Management of Complex Resource Allocation Systems: Necessity, Achievements and Further Challenges
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October 6th
Joint seminar with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Erol Gelenbe, CISE Resident Scholar, Imperial College
Stochastic Discrete Event Networks with Product Form
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Oct. 10
George Saharidis, University of Thessaly
Speeding-Up Benders Decomposition Method
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Oct. 17
Pierre Lermusiaux, MIT
Optimal Path Planning, Bayesian Nonlinear Smoothing and Adaptive Sampling with Swarms of Vehicles
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Oct. 22
Aranya Chakrabortty, North Carolina State University
Distributed Algorithms for Wide-Area Monitoring of Power Systems Using Synchrophasors
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Oct. 24
Jeff Shamma, Georgia Tech/KAUST
Exploring Bounded Rationality in Game Theory
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Oct 30
Rahul Jain, University of Southern California
The Art of Optimizing via Simulations
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Oct. 31
Sujay Sanghavi, University of Texas, Austin
Big Low-rank Matrices
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Nov. 3
Bayu Jayawardhana, University of Groningen
Analysis and Model Reduction of Large-Scale (Bio-)Chemical Reaction Networks
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Nov. 7
Roger Brockett, CISE Resident Scholar, Harvard University
Nonlinear Integral Control:  Obtaining Infinite Gain at Zero Frequency When No Linear Relationship Suffices
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Nov. 13
Bijoy Ghosh, Texas Tech University
Optimal Control Problems with Human Binocular Vision
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Nov. 14
Roger Brockett, CISE Resident Scholar, Harvard University
Synchronization: Minimal Complexity Models for Zero Steady State Synchronization Error
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Nov. 17
Stephane Lafortune, University of Michigan
Synthesis of Event Insertion Functions for Enforcement of Opacity Security Properties
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Nov. 17
Krishnamurthy Dvijotham, California Institute of Technology
Convex Energy Functions for Power Systems Analysis
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Dec. 5
Panagiotis Tsiotras
Recent Advances in Sampling-Based Motion Planning