9 Apr
2019
9 Apr
'19
7:55 a.m.
Dear workshop community,
We will convene for the Harvard University Applied Statistics Workshop (Gov
3009) TOMORROW on Wednesday (4/10).
The speaker is* Na Li *(Harvard) who will be presenting her work,
"Distributed Decision Making in Network Systems: Algorithms, Fundamental
Limits, and Applications".
*Where:* CGIS Knafel Building, Room K354 (see this link
<https://map.harvard.edu/?bld=04471&level=9> for directions).
*When: *Wednesday, April 10th at 12 noon - 1:30 pm.
*Abstract: *
Recent radical evolution in distributed sensing, computation,
communication, and actuation has fostered the emergence of cyber-physical
network systems. Examples cut across a broad spectrum of engineering and
societal fields such as power grids, swarm robotics, air/ground
transportation systems, green buildings, and other societal networks.
Regardless of the specific application, one central goal is to shape the
network collective behavior through the design of admissible local
decision-making algorithms. This is nontrivial especially due to the
challenges placed by the local connectivity, imperfect communication,
time-varying uncertainty, and the complex intertwined physics and human
interactions. In this talk, I will present our recent progress in formally
advancing the systematic design of distributed coordination in network
systems. We investigate the fundamental performance limit placed by these
various challenges, design fast, efficient, and scalable algorithms to
achieve (or approximate) the performance limits, and test and implement the
algorithms on real-world applications.
*All are welcome! Lunch is provided! *
Best,
Connor Jerzak
Applied Statistics Workshop -- Graduate Student Coordinator
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