Organizing
Committee:
- Misha Chertkov
LANL (T-13)
- Anders Hansson
LANL (CCS-3)
- Allon Percus
LANL (CCS-3)
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Schedule
MONDAY, APRIL 30
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7:00 pm - 9:00 pm |
Welcome Reception |
TUESDAY, MAY 1
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8:45 am - 9:00 am |
Opening Remarks
Alan Bishop, LANL Assosiate Director
Robert Ecke, CNLS Director
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9:00 am - 9:45 am |
Dimitris Achlioptas, UCSC
Random Constraint Satisfaction Problems: From Physics to Algorithms
[pdf]
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9:45 am - 10:30 am |
Marc Mezard, CNRS & Universite Paris Sud
Information Broadcast on a Tree: The Reconstruction Problem
[pdf]
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10:30 am - 11:00 am |
AM Break |
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11:00 am - 11:45 am |
Jonathan Yedidia, Mitsubishi Research
Multi-cellular Logic Circuits
[pdf][media]
[ppt]
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11:45 am - 12:30 pm |
Sanjoy Mitter, MIT and Nigel Newton, U of Essex & MIT
A Variational View of Statistical Inference and Channel Coding
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12:30 pm - 2:00 pm |
Lunch |
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2:00 pm - 2:45 pm |
Vladimir Chernyak, Wyane State
Loop Calculus and Belief Propagation for q-ary Alphabet: Loop Tower
[pdf]
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2:45 pm - 3:30 pm |
Sekhar Tatikonda, Yale
Mixing and Clustering in Message-Passing Schemes
[pdf]
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3:30 pm - 4:00 pm |
PM Break |
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4:00 pm - 4:45 pm |
Elchanan Mossel, UC Berkeley
Convergence of message passing algorithms on planted models: how and why?
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4:45 pm - 5:10 pm |
Thomas Halford, USC
Improving Belief Propagation via Graphical Model Transformation
[pdf]
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5:10 pm - 5:35 pm |
Vicenç Gómez, U of Pompeu Fabra
Truncating the Loop Series Expansion for Belief Propagation
[pdf]
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 2
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9:00 am - 9:45 am |
David Tse, Wireless Foundations & UC Berkeley
Hierarchical Cooperation Achieves Optimal Capacity Scaling in Ad Hoc Networks
[ppt]
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9:45 am - 10:30 am |
Bhaskar Krishnamachari, USC
Querying Sensor Networks
[ppt]
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10:30 am - 11:00 am |
AM Break |
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11:00 am - 11:45 am |
Ashish Goel, Stanford
Sampling, aggregation, and phase transitions in sensor networks
[ppt]
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11:45 am - 12:10 pm |
Chen Avin, Ben-Gurion U
Random Walks Techniques in Networking
[pdf]
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12:10 pm - 12:35 pm |
Hasan Guclu, LANL
Task-Based Synchronization in Complex Noisy Networks
[pdf]
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12:35 pm - 2:00 pm |
Lunch |
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2:00 pm - 2:45 pm |
Muriel Médard, MIT
Some Interesting Directions in Network Coding
[ppt]
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2:45 pm - 3:30 pm |
Ralf Koetter, TU München
Random Network Coding for Errors and Erasures
[pdf]
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3:30 pm - 4:00 pm |
PM Break |
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4:00 pm - 4:25 pm |
Eli Ben-Naim, LANL
How to Chose a Champion
[pdf]
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4:25 pm - 5:15 pm |
Discussions lead by David Forney, MIT |
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7:00 pm - 9:00 pm |
Banquet |
THURSDAY, MAY 3
FRIDAY, MAY 4
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