February 13, 2019
Speaker: Amin Rahimian (LIDS)
The spread of behavior over social networks depends on the contact structure among individuals, and seeding the most influential agents can substantially enhance the extent of the spread. While the choice of the best seed set, known as...
February 20, 2019
Speaker: Jingwei Yang (Tshinghua University)
District heating system is the major form of heat supply in many countries. However, the system lacks the motivation to utilize the thermal energy storage in the heat generation scheduling of combined heat and power plants, which leads to...
February 27, 2019
Speaker: Samuel Chevalier (Mechanical Engineering)
With the recent large-scale deployment of phasor measurement units (PMUs), power systems operators have noticed the persistent presence of low frequency forced oscillations. Due to their extraneous nature, locating the sources of these...
March 6, 2019 to March 7, 2019
Speaker: Anish Agarwal (LIDS)
We consider the problem of high-dimensional error-in-variable regression where instead of directly observing the covariates, we observe its sparse, noisy version, a common thread of modern datasets. For this setup, we propose an algorithm...
March 13, 2019
Speaker: Adit Radha (LIDS & EECS)
Memorization of data in deep neural networks has become a subject of significant research interest. We prove that overparameterized single layer fully connected autoencoders memorize training data: they produce outputs in (a non-linear...
March 20, 2019
Speaker: Rajat Talak (LIDS)
Information freshness and low latency communication is important to many emerging applications. Age of Information (AoI) serves as a metric of information freshness, and packet delay is a traditional metric of communication latency. We prove...
April 3, 2019
Speaker: Sadra Sadraddini (CSAIL)
Hybrid systems demonstrate both continuous and discrete behaviors, making it computationally difficult to verify and control. We introduce "polytopic trees”, which is a novel, efficient representation for reachability properties. The central...
April 10, 2019
Speaker: Omer Tanovic (LIDS)
We consider infinite-dimensional convex quadratic optimization problems, with shift-invariant quadratic forms, subject to convex sample-wise constraints. From a systems perspective, the latter correspond to those of designing discrete-time...
April 16, 2019 to April 17, 2019
Speaker: David Rosen (LIDS)
Convex relaxations based upon semidefinite programming provide a powerful class of techniques for addressing challenging optimization problems across a broad spectrum of disciplines, including combinatorics, semialgebraic geometry, control...
April 17, 2019
Speaker: Siddhartha Jayanti (CSAIL)
As data sets become larger, there is an increasing need to develop parallel algorithms. For this reason, there has been a new burst of interest in efficient data structures designed for asynchronous shared-memory multiprocessors. In this...
April 24, 2019
Speaker: Mehdi Jafari (LIDS)
Bayesian models are applied to probabilistic analysis of phenomena which deal with multiple external stochastic factors and unmeasurable variables. Considering the large amount of available data for the EV driving, recharging and grid...
May 1, 2019
Speaker: Yuval Dagan (EECS)
Statistical learning theory has largely focused on learning and generalization given independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) samples. Motivated by applications involving time-series data, there has been a growing literature on...
May 8, 2019
Speaker: Espen Flo Boedal (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Flexible resources such as batteries and demand-side management technologies are needed to handle future large shares of variable renewable power. Wind and solar power introduce more short-term uncertainty that have to be considered when...
