Tuesday, September 17, 2024 - 8:00am to 6:00pm
Event Calendar Category
Other LIDS Events
Building and Room number
Building 45, 8th Floor
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Please join us September 17, 2024, for a memorial conference to commemorate the life and work of Professor Sanjoy Mitter, our late mentor and former LIDS Director and EECS faculty member.
A panel and talks from former students, colleagues, and current faculty will explore the legacy and impact of Mitter's pioneering and visionary accomplishments in the theoretical foundations of systems, communication, and control.
This event is hosted in collaboration with the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Learn more about the life and work of Sanjoy Mitter.
Agenda
Tuesday, September 17
8:00 AM Breakfast / Registration / Check-in
9:00 AM Welcome remarks
Daniel Huttenlocher, Dean MIT Schwarzman College of Computing
Asuman Ozdaglar, Department Head EECS
9:10 AM Reflections by Pronob Mitter
9:15 AM – 10:15 AM Remembering Sanjoy
Alan Willsky
Jose Moura
George Verghese
Maxim Raginsky
Peter Falb
10:15 AM – 10:45 AM Coffee break
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM A Gentleman and Lifelong Scholar
Munzer Dahleh
John Tsitsiklis
Vivek Borkar
John Baras
Marija Ilic
Massimo Franceschetti
12:00 PM – 12:30 PM Sanjoy’s Legacy and Impact
Tom Richardson
Lav Varshney
Anant Sahai
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM Lunch
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM MIT Faculty: Sanjoy as a Colleague
Lizhong Zheng
Devavrat Shah
Yuri Polyanskiy
Moe Win
2:45 PM – 3:30 PM Sanjoy’s Influence as a Mentor
Nicola Elia
Jeff Shamma
Le Xie
Vijay Chandru
3:30 PM – 4:00 PM Coffee break
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Eulogies/remembrances/tributes
Video tributes
Written tributes read aloud by: Ali Jadbabaie, Pablo A Parrilo, Anant Sahai, and Lizhong Zheng
5:00 – 6:00 PM Reception
Credits
Sanjoy Mitter Memorial Conference Planning Committee: Ali Jadbabaie; Pablo A Parrilo; Lizhong Zheng; Anant Sahai; and Munzer A Dahleh. LIDS and EECS staff organizers: Shyla Putrevu; Jane Halpern; Bill Tilden; Amanda Moore; and staff volunteers.
Thank you to Sanjoy Mitter’s family, especially his brother Pronob Mitter for helping to bring Sanjoy’s character to the event. And thank you to all of Sanjoy Mitter’s friends and colleagues for sharing your thoughts and memories–this event would not have been possible without you.
Special thanks to Sertac Karaman LIDS Director and Asu Ozdaglar Department Head, EECS and Deputy Dean of Academics, Schwarzman College of Computing for their generous support of this event.
This event was made possible with support from the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS).