Colloquium Series 2007

The Advanced Networks Colloquium Series is a technical seminar series presented by the Center for Satellite and Hybrid Communication Networks, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland.

The colloquium series invites prominent academic and industrial researchers in the fields of networking, computer communications, and telecommunications to present their work to the University audience.

It is the aim of the colloquium series committee to offer seminars which help University faculty and students keep abreast of the latest research in networking and foster greater contact with both industry and the rest of academia.

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Colloquiums during Spring 2007

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Feb 9th, 2007 An MDP Approach to Computing Feedback Capacity
Dr.Sekhar Tatikonda, Yale University
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Feb 16th, 2007 Economic Mechanisms for Efficient Network Resource Allocation
Dr.Rahul Jain, IBM
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Feb 23rd, 2007 A New Look at Quadratic Gaussian Network Compression
Dr.Aaron Wagner, Cornell University
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March 2nd, 2007 Routing and Accessing Content in Disruption Tolerant Networks
Dr.Pritwish Basu, BBN
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March 8th, 2007 Economic-based Mechanisms for Dynamic Spectrum Sharing
Dr. Randall Berry, Northwestern University
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March 9th, 2007 Information-Theoretic Security in Wireless Networks: From Theory to Practice
Dr.Joao Barros, University of Porto
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March 15th, 2007 Power law and exponential decay of inter contact times between mobile devices
Dr.Milan Vojnovic, Microsoft Research, UK
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March 16th, 2007 Looking at Large Networks: Coding vs. Queueing
Dr.Sanjay Shakkottai, University of Texas
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April 2nd, 2007 About Graph Similarity and Applications
Dr.Paul Van Dooren, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium
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April 6th, 2007 Wireless Networking with Secrecy Constraints
Dr.Lang Tong, Cornell University
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April 12th, 2007 Better Good Turing Probability Estimation
Dr. Pramod Viswanath, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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April 13th, 2007 Message Passing Algorithms for Network Scheduling
Dr.Devavrat Shah, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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April 20th, 2007 Evolution and Devolution in Geometric Random Graphs
Dr. Santosh S Venkatesh, University of Pennsylvania
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April 27th, 2007 Control of Single and Multiple Autonomous Robots for Ocean Exploration: Theory and Practice
Dr.Antonio Pascoal, Institute Superior Technical, Portugal
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May 4th, 2007 Modeling the 802.11 Protocol under Different Capture and Sensing Capabilities
Dr.Patrick Thiran, EPFL. Switzerland
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Upcoming Colloquiums

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Colloquiums during Fall 2006

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Oct 13th, 2006 How to avoid doing research "10 years ahead of time"
Dr. Balaji Prabhakar, Stanford University
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Oct 26th, 2006 Distributed Wireless Utilization Optimization in Multi-hop Wireless Networks: Noisy Feedback, Lossy Channel and Stability
Dr. Junshan Zhang ,Arizona State University, Tempe
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Nov 3rd, 2006 Compression, Modelling, Estimation patters
Dr. Alon Orlitsky, University of California, San Diego
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Nov 10th, 2006 Space-Time Coding & Beamforming with Limited Feedback
Dr. Hamid Jafarkhani, University of California, Irvine
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Nov 14th, 2006 Identification Entropy
Dr. Rudolf Ahlswede, Universitat Bielfeld, Germany
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Nov 17th, 2006 Cross-Layer Optimization for Wireless Nwtworks with Multi Receiver Diversity
Dr. Michael J Neely, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
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Dec 1st, 2006 Optimization of Communication Networks: Challenges, Progress and New Ideas
Dr. Mung Chiang, Princeton
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Dec 8th, 2006 PerSiForm: Towards the Integration of performance simulation in functional design
Dr. Oliver Constant, Verimag, Grenoble, France
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Dec 15th, 2006 (A Tiny Bit of) Progress in Understanding the Relay Channel
Dr. Sergio D Servetto, Cornell University
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