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Short Bio Satoru Iwata is a Professor at Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences (RIMS), Kyoto University, Japan. He received PhD from Kyoto University in 1996. After teaching at Osaka University and University of Tokyo, he joined RIMS in 2006. His research interests include design and analysis of efficient algorithms concerning matroids and submodular functions, as well as applications of combinatorial optimization techniques to matrix computation and dynamical systems analysis. He shared the Fulkerson Prize in 2003 for the work on submodular function minimization. He is currently on the editorial board of Mathematical Programming, SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, and Operations Research Letters.
ZHI-QUAN (TOM) LUO Address Dept. of ECE, Room 6-161 University of Minnesota 200 Union Street SE Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA luozq[at]ece.umn.edu http://www.ece.umn.edu/~luozq/ Lectures A semidefinite relaxation scheme for multivariate quartic polynomial optimization with quadratic constraints Click here for the pdf file of the abstract of this lecture. Click here for pdf file of the presentation. Optimal spectrum management: complexity, duality and approximation Click here for the pdf file of the abstract of this lecture. Click here for pdf file of the presentation. Short Bio Zhi-Quan (Tom) Luo has been a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota since 2003 and holds an endowed ADC Chair in digital technology. He received his B.Sc. degree in Applied Mathematics in 1984 from Peking University, Beijing, China, and a Ph.D degree from the Operations Research Center and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT in 1989. From 1989 to 2003, he held a faculty position with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, where he eventually became the department head and held a Canada Research Chair in Information Processing. His research interests include optimization algorithms, data communication and signal processing. He is a recipient of the 2004 IEEE Signal Processing Society's Best Paper Award, and has held editorial positions for several international journals including Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, SIAM Journal on Optimization, Mathematics of Computation, and IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. He currently serves on the editorial boards for the journals Mathematical Programming and Mathematics of Operations Research.
SEAN MEYN Address Coordinated Science Laboratory Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Illinois 1308 W. Main Street, Urbana, IL 61801 USA meyn[at]uiuc.edu http://decision.csl.uiuc.edu/~meyn/ Lectures Stability and asymptotic optimality of generalized MaxWeight policies Click here for pdf file of the presentation. Temporal difference learning Click here for pdf file of the presentation. Clich here for the pdf file of the abstract of both lectures. Short Bio Sean P. Meyn received the B.A. degree in Mathematics (Summa Cum Laude) from UCLA in 1982, and the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from McGill University in 1987 (with Prof. P. Caines, McGill University). After a two year postdoctoral fellowship at the Australian National University in Canberra, he moved to the Midwest. He is now a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and a Research Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois. He is also an IEEE fellow. Dr. Meyn has served on the editorial boards of several journals in the systems and control, and applied probability areas. He was a University of Illinois Vice Chancellor's Teaching Scholar in 1994. He is coauthor with Richard Tweedie of the monograph Markov Chains and Stochastic Stability, and received jointly with Tweedie the 1994 ORSA/TIMS Best Publication In Applied Probability Award. His new book, Control Techniques for Complex Networks is published by Cambridge University Press. He has held visiting positions at universities all over the world. His research interests include stochastic processes, optimization, complex networks, and information theory.
GENNADY SAMORODNITSKY Address School of Operations Research and Information Engineering Cornell University 220 Rhodes Hall Ithaca, NY 14853 USA gennady[at]orie.cornell.edu http://people.orie.cornell.edu/~gennady/ Lectures A bird-eye view of fluid queues in communication network models: heavy tails and long memory, part I Click here for pdf file of the presentation. A bird-eye view of fluid queues in communication network models: heavy tails and long memory, part II Click here for pdf file of the presentation. Clich here for the pdf file of the abstract of both lectures. Short Bio
BERTHOLD VÖCKING Address Research group Informatik I Department of Computer Science RWTH Aachen University D - 52056 Aachen Germany voecking[at]cs.rwth-aachen.de http://www-i1.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~voecking/ Lectures On the impact of combinatorial structure on congestion games Click here for the pdf file of the abstract of this lecture. Click here for pdf file of the presentation. Scheduling with interference constraints in wireless networks Click here for the pdf file of the abstract of this lecture. Click here for pdf file of the presentation. Short Bio Berthold Vöcking received the Dr. rer. nat degree from Paderborn University in December 1998 under the supervision of Prof. Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide. After postdoctorial studies in Berkeley and a visiting professorship at the University of Massachusetts, he received his Habilitation degree from the University of Saarland in January 2002 while being a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science in Saarbrücken. He became associate professor at the University of Dortmund in October 2002 and full professor at RWTH Aachen University in October 2005 where he is heading the algorithms and complexity group. Since 2006 he is speaker of the special interest group Theoretical Computer Science of the German computer science society (GI). Since 2007 he serves in the editorial board of the ACM Transactions on Computation Theory (ToCT).
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