Section: Dissemination

Animation of the Scientific Community

TREC's seminar

the following scientists gave talks in 2009:

• France

  • Marc Lelarge from INRIA-ENS, France , talking on “Economics of Malware: Epidemic Risks Model, Network Externalities and Incentives” February 2009,

  • Fernando Peruani from CEA, France , talking on “Information spreading in dynamical networks of mobile agents”; May 2009,

  • Nicolas Gast from INRIA, France , talking on, “A Mean Field Approach for Optimization and Applications”; May 2009,

  • Calvin Chen from INRIA, France , talking on “User Unsuppressible Protocol Sequences for Collision Channels without Feedback”; May 2009,

  • Anthony P. Metcalfe from Paris 6, France , talking on “Universality properties of Gelfand-Tsetlin patterns”; December 2009,

  • Furcy Pin from ENS , talking on “Statistical Estimation of Delays in a Multicast Tree”; December 2009,

  • Bruno Kauffmann from Inria and Paris 6 , talking on “Inverse problems in queueing networks”; December 2009,

• Europe

  • Guenter Last from University of Karlsruhe, Germany , talking on “Invariant transports of random measures” January 2009

  • Florence Bénézit from EPFL, Switzerland , talking on “Locating IP congested links with unicast probes”; March 2009,

  • Patrick Thiran from EPFL, Switzerland , talking on “Locating IP congested links with unicast probes”, March 2009,

  • Hermann Thorisson from University of Iceland , talking on “Coupling and Convergence in Density and in Distribution”; June 2009,

  • Moez Draief from Imperial College London , talking on “Convergence Speed of Binary Interval Consensus”; September 2009,

  • Dario Maggiorini from The University of Milano , talking on “ Network Traffic Over a Public Transportation Network: a Probabilistic Approach”; December 2009.

• Asia, Australia, Canada, USA

  • Massimo Franceschetti from University of California, San Diego, USA , talking on “Information-theoretic and physical limits on the capacity scaling of wireless ad-hoc networks”; January 2009,

  • William A. Massey from Princeton, USA , talking on “Dynamic Pricing to Control Loss Systems with Quality of Service Targets” and “Dynamical Queueing Systems”; January 2009,

  • Ravi Mazumdar from University of Waterloo, Canada , talking on “Comparison theorems and the validity of heavy traffic limit distributions for stochastic networks”; May 2009,

  • Vishal Misra Columbia University, USA , talking on “A Shapley Value approach to Internet Economics”; June 2009,

  • Andrea Montanari from Stanford University, USA , talking on “Matrix Completion from Fewer Entries”; July 2009,

  • Siu Wai Ho from University of South Australia , talking on “The Refinement of Two Fundamental Tools in Information Theory”; October 2009.

  • D. Manjunath from IIT Bombay, India , talking on “Computing Functions Over Random Networks: Two New Formulations”; December 2009.

Miscellaneous

• TREC is a founding member of and participates to Paris-Networking (http://www.paris-networking.org/ ), a virtual community of researchers in networking who work in or around Paris (or visit Paris).

• M. Lelarge animates the project-team seminar http://www.di.ens.fr/~trec/ .

• M. Lelarge animates the reading group on random graphs.

• B. Błaszczyszyn is a member of Commission détachement, délégation et post-doc "sur subvention", Inria Rocquencourt .

• P. Brémaud is a member of the editorial board of the following journals: Journal of Applied Probability, Advances in Applied Probability, Journal of Applied Mathematics and Stochastic Analysis ;

• F. Baccelli is a member of the editorial board of the following journals: QUESTA, Journal of Discrete Event Dynamical Systems, Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, Advances in Applied Probability .