Fall 2017 Joint CSC@USC/CommNetS-MHI Seminar Series

Maxim Raginsky, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Decentralized online optimization with global objectives and local communication
Abstract

Nov 27, 2017, 2:00pm; EEB 132

Srinivas Shakkottai, Texas A&M University
Towards a market-mediated software defined communications ecosystem at the wireless edge
Abstract

Nov 20, 2017, 2:00pm; EEB 132

Victor Preciado, University of Pennsylvania
From local network structure to global graph spectrum
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Nov 15, 2017, 2:00pm; EEB 132 (note day change)
Cross-listed with CCI-MHI Joint Seminar Series on Cyber-Physical Systems

Francesco Bullo, University of California, Santa Barbara
Network systems and Kuramoto oscillators
Abstract

Nov 7, 2017, 2:00pm; EEB 132 (note day change)

Jordan Berg, National Science Foundation
Dynamics, controls, and robotics programs at NSF: a biased perspective
Abstract

Nov 6, 2017, 2:00pm; EEB 132

Anil Aswani, University of California, Berkeley
Making robust decisions from data
Abstract

Oct 30, 2017, 2:00pm; EEB 132

Fabio Pasqualetti, University of California, Riverside
Synchronization patterns in networks of Kuramoto oscillators: A network-theoretic approach for analysis and control
Abstract

Oct 23, 2017, 2:00pm; EEB 132

Bin Hu, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Dissipativity theory for optimization and machine learning research
Abstract

Oct 16, 2017, 2:00pm; EEB 132

Allen Tannenbaum, Stony Brook University
Optimal mass transport and the robustness of complex networks
Abstract

Oct 9, 2017, 2:00pm; EEB 132

Carolyn Beck, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Epidemic processes over topologically varying networks
Abstract

Oct 4, 2017, 2:00pm; EEB 132 (note day change)
Cross-listed with CCI-MHI Joint Seminar Series on Cyber-Physical Systems

Aaron Ames, California Institute of Technology
Unified control of dynamic robotic systems
Abstract
Oct 2, 2017, 2:00pm; EEB 132

Evangelos Theodorou, Georgia Institute of Technology
The science of autonomy: a “happy” symbiosis among learning, control, and physics
Abstract

Sep 26, 2017, 2:00pm; EEB 248 (note day/room change)

Angelia Nedich, Arizona State University
Fast distributed algorithms for optimization and resource sharing in networks
Abstract

Sep 25, 2017, 11:00am; EEB 248 (note time/room change)

Ramtin Pedarsani, University of California, Santa Barbara
Robust scheduling for flexible stochastic networks
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Sep 11, 2017, 2:00pm; EEB 248 (note room change)

Terence Sanger, University of Southern California
Rate coding, spike coding, and biological control
Abstract

Aug 28, 2017, 2:00pm; EEB 132

Peter Schmid, Imperial College, London
Model-based and data-based flow analysis using optimization
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Aug 21, 2017, 2:00pm; EEB 132