Thursday, January 27:

Optimization and Control Systems

• 9:10 – 9:30 James Saunderson

  Ellipsoid Fitting and Diagonal and Low-Rank Matrix Decompositions

• 9:30 – 9:50 Parikshit Shah

  A Partial Order Approach to Decentralized Control

• 9:50 – 10:10 Jacob Steinhardt

  Verifying Stability of Nonlinear Systems with Gaussian Noise

• 10:10 – 10:30 Mark Tobenkin

  Convex Optimization in Identification of Stable Nonlinear State Space Models

• 10:30 – 10:50 Amir Ali Ahmadi

  Convexity and SOS-Convexity

Invited Speaker

• 11:10 – 12:10 Professor Ilya Kolmanovsky, University of Michigan

  Handling Transients, Constraints, and Uncertainties in Automotive Systems

Inference, Graphical Models, and Networks

• 1:10 – 1:30 Peter Jones

  Coherent Belief Revision

• 1:30 – 1:50 Venkat Chandrasekaran

  Convex Graph Invariants

• 1:50 – 2:10 Mesrob Ohannessian

  Inference about rare events: parallels in the asymptotics of unobserved probability and tail estimation

• 2:10 – 2:30 Tauhid Zaman

  Topological Network Growth and the Superstar Effect

Applications in Health Care

• 2:30 – 2:50 Hoda Eydgahi

  Development and Application of a Bayesian Framework for a Model of TRAIL-Mediated Apoptosis

• 2:50 – 3:10 Jagdish Ramakrishnan

  A Dynamic Programming Approach to Adaptive Radiation Therapy

• 3:10 – 3:30 Daniel Weller

  Comparing Sparsity Penalty Functins for Combined Compressed Sensing and Parallel MRI

Invited Speaker

• 4:00 – 5:00 Professor Costis Maglaras, Columbia University

  Algorithmic Trading: Quick Overview, Some Results, and Some Questions

Invited Speaker

• 5:00 – 6:00 Dr. John Dowdle, Draper Laboratory

  The Draper Lab Perspective

Friday, January 28:

Queueing Systems and Stochastic Networks

• 9:00 – 9:20 Ross Anderson

  Scheduling Interns at Hospitals: Queueing Models and Fluid Approximations

• 9:20 – 9:40 Güner Celik

  Scheduling in Parallel Queues with Randomly Varying Connectivity and Switchover Delay

• 9:40 – 10:00 Mihalis Markakis

  Dynamic Scheduling of Parallel Queues: Queue-Length Asymptotics under Heavy-Tailed Traffic

• 10:00 – 10:20 Kuang Xu

  On the Power of Centralization in Distributed Processing

• 10:20 – 10:40 Yuan Zhong

  Qualitative Properties of $\alpha$-Fair Policy in Bandwidth Sharing Networks

Invited Speaker

• 11:00 – 12:00 Professor Martin Wainwright, University of California, Berkeley

  Statistics, Optimization, and Information Theory: Interplay and Connections

Games, Markets, and Social Networks

• 1:00 – 1:20 Noah Stein

  Convex Geometry, Extremal Measures, and Correlated Equilibria in Polynomial Games

• 1:20 – 1:40 Kimon Drakopoulos

  Learning with Finite Memory

• 1:40 – 2:00 Ozan Candogan

  Optimal Pricing in Networks with Externalities

• 2:00 – 2:20 Yunjian Xu

  Efficiency Loss in Cournot Oligopoly with Convex Market Demand

Optimization and Control Systems

• 2:20 – 2:40 Stavros Athans Valavanis

  Price Deviation from Fundamentals and Systemic Risk

• 2:40 – 3:00 Alborz Geramifard

  Incremental Feature Dependency Discovery

• 3:00 – 3:20 Mitra Osqui

  Optimality and Performance Limitations of Analog to Digital Converters

Invited Speaker

• 4:00 – 5:00 Professor Vahid Tarokh, Harvard University

  Sampling Theorems for Deterministic Combinatorial Structures and Their Applications

Panel Discussion – Systemic Risk in Markets

• Professor Munther Dahleh (LIDS) – Moderator
• Professor Daron Acemoglu (MIT Economics)
• Professor Dimitris Bertsimas (MIT Sloan School of Management)
• Professor Andrew Lo (MIT Sloan School of Management)
• Professor Costis Maglaras (Columbia Business School)

Reception and Banquet

• 6:30 – 7:30 Reception (not open to the public)
• 7:30 – 9:30 Conference Banquet (not open to the public)