Workshop Schedule

• Friday, October 31
  2:00-2:30 Registration and Welcome
  
  2:30-4:00 Network Inference and Computation I
  • Munther Dahleh, Information Theoretic Bounds for Distributed Computation, slides
  • Frank Alexander, Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Optimal Estimation, slides
  • Prakash Ishwar, Distributed Coding for Interactive Computing, slides
  
  4:30-5:30 Network Algorithms and Analysis I
  • Mayank Sharma, Message Passing Algorithms for Stochastic Loss Networks, slides
  • Devavrat Shah, Aloha, that Works slides
  
  
  
• Saturday, November 1
  9:00-11:00 Distributed Wireless Scheduling
  • PR Kumar, A Theory of Temporal Guarantees for Wireless
  • Saswati Sarkar, Asymptotic Delay Properties for Wireless Link Scheduling, slides
  • Sanjay Shakkottai, Scheduling over Wireless Networks with Delayed Network State Information, slides
  • Piyush Gupta, Scaling of the Capacity Region of Wireless Networks, slides
  
  11:30-12:30 Network Algorithms and Analysis II
  • Babak Hassibi, Asymptotic Eigenanalysis of Large Random Lyapunov and Riccati Recursions, slides
  • Sean Meyn, Stability and Asymptotic Optimality of Generalized MaxWeight Policies, slides
  
  2:00-3:30 Network Inference and Computation II
  • David Castanon, Distributed Coding and Classification using Compressed Sensing, slides
  • Lang Tong, Energy Scaling Laws for Distributed Inference in Random Fusion Networks, slides
  • Martin Wainwright, Graphical Model Selection in High-Dimensions: Trade-offs between Computational and Statistical Efficiency, slides
  
  4:00-5:30 Networked Control
  • Massimo Franschetti, Data Rate Theorem for Stabilization over Time-Varying Feedback Channels, slides
  • Daniel Liberzon, Towards a Unified Framework of Nonlinear Control with Limited Information, slides
  • Joao Hespanha, Networked Control Systems: Protocols and Algorithms, slides
  
  
  
• Sunday, November 2
  9:00-10:30 Distributed and Cooperative Control I
  • Kishan Baheti, NSF Initiative on Cyber-Physical Systems and Related Programs, slides
  • Francesco Bullo, Synchronized Motion and Partitioning Problems for Gossiping Robots, slides
  • Ali Jadbabaie, Finding sparse sensor covers and verifying coverage in blind sensor networks, slides
  
  11:00-12:30 Distributed and Cooperative Control II
  • Sanjay Lall, Computation of Decentralized Control Systems, slides
  • Hamsa Balakrishnan, Control and Optimization of Air Traffic Flows, slides
  • John Baras, Collaboration in Networks of Autonomous Agents: Coalitional Games, Constraints and Architectures slides
  
  2:00-3:00 Panel Discussion