Technical Program
Below is the technical program for the 2014 Stochastic Networks conference (also available in
pdf).
Monday, June 23
| 09.50-10.00 | Opening Remarks |
| 10.00-11.00: | Distributed content collection and rank aggregation |
| Bruce Hajek (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) |
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| 11.15-12.15 | Selfish routing: Networks, games and individual choice |
| Ilze Ziedins (University of Auckland) |
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| 13.45-14.45 | Many-sources asymptotics |
| Johan van Leeuwaarden (Eindhoven University of Technology) |
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| 15.00-16.00 | Staffing and incentives for strategic employees |
| Amy Ward (University of Southern California) |
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| 16.15-17.15 | Pitch talks for the poster session |
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| 17.15- | Welcome reception. |
Tuesday, June 24
| 09.30-10.30 | Proportional switching in FIFO networks |
| Neil Walton (University of Amsterdam) |
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| 11.00-12.00 | Limits of local algorithms for random graphs |
| David Gamarnik (MIT) |
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| 13.30-14.30 | Electricity markets |
| Adam Wierman (Caltech) |
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| 14.45-15.45 | Resource allocation in clouds |
| R. Srikant (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) |
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| 16.00-17.00 | Stability of the greedy algorithm on the circle |
| Leonardo Rolla (Universidad de Buenos Aires) |
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Wednesday, June 25
| 09.30-10.30 | Two coupled queues with independent input |
| Jevgenijs Ivanovs (University of Lausanne) |
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| 10.45-11.45 | Unifying the Dynkin and Lebesgue-Stieltjes formulae |
| Offer Kella (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) |
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| 12.00-13.00 | Community detection in stochastic block models via spectral methods |
| Marc Lelarge (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris) |
Thursday, June 26
| 09.30-10.30 | Delays in wireless random-access networks |
| Sem Borst (Bell Laboratories Alcatel-Lucent, and Eindhoven University of Technology) |
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| 11.00-12.00 | Queueing and fluid analysis of M/G processor sharing systems motivated by P2P networks |
| Andrés Ferragut (Universidad ORT, Uruguay) |
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| 13.30-14.30 | Stochastic models for biochemical reaction systems: Network properties, product-form stationary distributions, and extinction events |
| Dave Anderson (University of Wisconsin) |
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| 15.00-16.00 | Recent progress at the intersection of inventory control and applied probability |
| David Goldberg (Georgia Tech) |
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| 16.30-17.30 | Rare event simulation of heavy tailed random walks - A new approach |
| Sandeep Juneja (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai) |
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Friday, June 27
| 09.30-10.30 | An infinite-dimensional Skorohod map and continuous parameter priorities |
| Haya Kaspi (Technion, Haifa) |
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| 10.45-11.45 | Resource capacity management for stochastic networks |
| Ton Dieker (Georgia Tech) |
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| 12.00-13.00 | On the power of (even a little) resource pooling and flexibility |
| John Tsitsiklis (MIT) |
