Stochastic Networks Conference Program

(All talks will be in B02, Coordinated Science Lab. The conference reception will be held at the Beckman Institute. Click here for a campus map)

Abstracts are available here

The IT Convergence Laboratory in Room B14 CSL featuring demos on the use of networks for communication, sensing and actuation will be open Mon-Fri from 12:15-2:00pm.

 

        

Mon:

     9:00-9:30 Coffee

 

     9:30-10:30 Tom Kurtz, University of Wisconsin-Madison

                       Model reduction for chemical reaction networks (Slides)

 

     10:30-11:15 Coffee Break

 

     11:15-12:15 Alexander Stolyar, Lucent Bell Labs.

        Greedy Primal-Dual Algorithm for Dynamic Resource Allocation in Complex Networks (Slides)

 

     12:15-2:00 Lunch

 

     2:00-3:00 Wuqin Lin, Northwestern University

             Asymptotic Optimality of Maximum Pressure Policies in Stochastic Processing Networks

 

     3:00-3:45 Coffee Break

 

     3:45-4:45 Ruth Williams, UC San Diego

                    An Input-Queued Switch in Heavy Traffic (Slides)

 

Tue:

     9:00-9:30 Coffee

 

     9:30-10:30 Serguei Foss, Heriot-Watt Univesity

                       Stability analysis of spatial stochastic models with randomized transmission protocols

 

     10:30-11:15 Coffee Break

 

     11:15-12:15 Ravi R. Mazumdar, University of Waterloo

                              Stability and product-form invariant distributions for multidimensional  diffusions with

 state-dependent reflections (Slides)

 

     12:15-2:00 Lunch

 

     2:00-3:00 Francois Baccelli, Ecole Normale Superieure

             The Radial Spanning Tree of a Poisson Point Process

 

     3:00-3:45 Coffee Break

 

     3:45-4:45 John Tsitsiklis, MIT

                    Queueing and Delay in Bin-Packing and other Stochastic Combinatorial Problems (Slides)

 

Wed:

     8:30-9:00 Coffee

 

     9:00-10:00 Michael Harrison, Stanford University

                       Reflected Brownian Motion in a Quadrant: Tail Behavior of the Stationary Distribution (Slides)

 

     10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

 

     10:30-11:30 Poster Session (Room 301 CSL)

 

     11:30-12:30 Frank Kelly, University of Cambridge

                         Challenges of road pricing (Slides)

 

     6:00-8:00 Reception (1005 Beckman Institute)

    

 

Thu:

     9:00-9:30 Coffee

 

     9:30-10:30 Ralf Koetter, UIUC

                  Network Coding (Slides)

                            

     10:30-11:15 Coffee Break

 

     11:15-12: 15 Devavrat Shah, MIT

                          Network Scheduling via Message-Passing (Slides)

 

     12:15-2:00 Lunch

 

     2:00-3:00 David Aldous, UC Berkeley

                     Flows through random networks (Slides)

 

     3:00-3:45 Coffee Break

 

     3:45-4:45 Michael Mitzenmacher, Harvard University

     New Results for an Old Data Structure: Bloom Filters and Beyond

 

Fri:

     9:00-9:30 Coffee

 

     9:30-10:30 Amarjit Budhiraja, University of North Carolina

                       Singular Control with State Constraints (Slides)

 

     10:30-11:15 Coffee Break

 

     11:15-12:15 Damon Wischik, University College, London

         Queueing Theory for TCP

 

     12:15-2:00 Lunch

 

     2:00-3:00 David Gamarnik, MIT

                     Spatial decay of correlations and efficient methods for computing partition functions (Slides)

 

     3:00-3:45 Coffee Break

 

     3:45-4:45 R. Srikant, UIUC

                     Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks: Dynamics and Complexity (Slides)

 

Sat:

     8:30-9:00 Coffee

 

     9:00-10:00 Bruce Hajek, UIUC

                       Connections between Network Coding and Stochastic Network Theory (Slides)

 

     10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

 

     10:30-11:30 Peter Glynn, Stanford University

                         Traffic Modeling for Stochastic Networks