Review Meeting: August 27, 2009 at Penn
The review meeting for the ONR MURI will take place on August 27 at Penn. Schedule...
Schedule
Click on the links to see the slides.Thursday, September 18
08:00-09:00 Breakfast09:00-09:10 Introductory Remarks, Don Wagner, ONR
09:10-09:30 Michael Kearns & Ali Jadbabaie, Penn: NexGenNetSci MURI overview
09:30-10:00 Dave Alderson, NPS: Robustness, complexity, and architecture in network-centric infrastructures
10:00-10:30 Jean Carlson, UCSB: Wildfire models and resource allocations in conditions involving multiple threats
10:30-11:00 Brian Steckler, NPS: Hastily Formed Networks in complex humanitarian emergencies
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:00 John Doyle, Caltech: A control-theoretic view of layering and decomposition in complex networks
12:00-12:30 Shawndra Hill, Penn: Social network signatures: A framework and experimental results
12:30-1:30 Lunch Break (served in Levine 307)
1:30-2:00 Michael Kearns, Penn: Behavioral network science: individual modeling and collective behavior
2:00-2:30 Fan Chung-Graham, UCSD: New directions in graph theory: network games and percolations
2:30-3:00 Babak Hassibi, Caltech: Information flow in wired and wireless networks: Beyond network coding
3:00-3:30 Coffee Break
3:30- 4:00 Ali Jadbabaie, Penn: Information aggregation in complex networks: from consensus to social learning
4:00-5:00 Discussion of plans for next year
5:00-5:30 Feedback from the government team
5:30 Adjourn
Kickoff Meeting: July 28, 2008 at UCSD
The meeting took place at UC San Diego Campus, AP&M building, room 6402
Schedule
Click on the links to see the slides.Thursday, September 18
8:30 Light breakfast available9:00 Welcome and brief introductions
9:15 Brief overview of our MURI proposal --- M. Kearns and A. Jadbabaie
9:45 Remarks from Don Wagner, ONR PM for the MURI
10:00 Brief (15 minutes) research presentations from team members:
F. Chung Graham (UCSD): Graph Analysis of Inherent Structures in Subgraphs and Local Partitioning Algorithms
S. Hill (Penn): Re-identification in Dynamic Networks: Challenges and Opportunities
Break
J. Doyle (Caltech): Robustness and Architecture (John will also speak for J. Carlson of UCSB)
D. Alderson (NPS): Optimization-Based Reverse Engineering of Network Structure and Function
M. Kearns (Penn): Behavioral Network Science
A. Jadbabaie (Penn): Distributed Coordination, Consensus and Coverage in Networked Dynamic Systems: Graph Theory to Algebraic Topology
12:00 Lunch at the UCSD faculty club
1:30 Brief research presentations, continued:
B. Hassibi (Caltech): Network Information Theory and Convex Optimization
B. Steckler (NPS): Hastily Formed Networks: Activities and Opportunities
2:00 Remarks from military and government participants on their interests and opportunities in Network Science: R. Zachary (ARO), J. Pierre (DTRA), others?
2:30 Open brainstorming and discussion on synergies between the research presentation topics, opportunities for collaboration, group projects, relationship to research elsewhere, etc.
3:30 Break
4:00 Brainstorming on opportunities for military applications and interaction
4:30 Programmatics and logistics: future team meetings (frequency and location); creation of a web page/wiki for the MURI; creation/maintenance of an evolving slide deck for use by Don Wagner and others; etc.
5:30 Adjourn