Bellairs workshop 2012

Bellairs Tutorial Program on Stochastic Optimization, Particle Filtering, and Distributed Learning

The Bellairs MPrime Tutorial Session provided tutorials by leading international experts and students on March 12-16, 2012 held at the McGill University Bellairs Research Institute in Holetown, Barbados.

Technical Program:

Distinguished Guests:

• Angelia Nedic (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign), Distributed optimization over a network
• Anand Sarwate (University of Chicago), Mixing time analysis for Markov chains and its application to wireless systems
• Anna Scaglione (University of California - Davis), Distributed learning in networks

Co-Organizers

• Mark Coates (McGill University), Particle filtering for high-dimensional and distributed systems
• Michael Rabbat (McGill University), Processing signals supported on graphs

Student Presenters:

• Konstantinos Tsianos (McGill University), Push Sum Distributed Dual Averaging for convex optimization
• Santosh Nannuru (McGill University), Moment based filters for multi-target tracking using super-positional sensors
• Babak Fatouhi (McGill University), Aggregation Kinetics and Network Evolution
• Sean Lawlor (McGill University), Distributed computing with MPI
• Benjamin Renard (McGill University), Regenerating codes
• Milad Kharratzadeh (McGill University), Graph Clustering Using Hierarchical Dirichlet Process and Variational Inference
• Rodrigo Alarcon (McGill University), NetFlow-based bandwidth estimation in IP networks
• Alok Sharma (McGill University)
• Nilofar Afsariardchi (McGill University), Community discovery in dynamic networks via non-negative matrix factorization