Thursday, Jan 29, Room 32-141

08:30 – 09:30 Breakfast and Registration
09:30 – 09:45 Opening remarks
09:45 – 10:45 Plenary Talk
10:45 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:15 Student Session on Control and Communications

  • A Robustness Approach to the Stability Analysis of Linear Systems in the Presence of Model Uncertainty
    • Jordan Romvary

  • Neuronal Decoding in the Motor System: Considerations in Feedback
    • Shreya Saxena

  • Discrete-Time Models Resulting From Dynamic Continuous-Time Perturbations In Phase-Amplitude Modulation-Demodulation Schemes
    • Omer Tanovic

  • Combinatorial Joint Source-Channel Coding for the BSC
    • Andrew Young

  • Distributed Multi-Depot Routing without Communications
    • Dawsen Hwang
12:15 – 01:30 Poster Session and Lunch at LIDS lounge (Stata D Tower 6th floor)
01:30 – 02:30 Plenary Talk
02:30 – 02:45 Coffee break
02:45 – 03:45 Student Session on Networks

  • A Simple Model of Cascades in Networks
    • Yongwhan Lim

  • Can Interdependency make the Networks Robust?
    • Marzieh Parandehgheibi

  • Towards an Algebra for Cascade Effects
    • Elie Adam

  • On the Max-Cut over sparse random graph
    • Quan Li
03:45 – 04:00 Coffee break
04:00 – 05:00 Student Session on Inference and Information

  • When is efficient inference (im)possible?
    • Hajir Roozbehani

  • Analysis of Models for Physical Redundancy
    • Jennifer Tang

  • A Framework For Attributing Probabilities to Possible Sources of Foodborne Disease Outbreaks
    • Abigail Horn

  • Focused Information Gathering and an application in SLAM
    • Beipeng Mu
05:15 LIDS Social


Friday, Jan 30, Room 32-155

08:30 – 09:30 Breakfast
09:30 – 10:30 Plenary Talk
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 – 12:15 Student Session on Optimization and Approximation Algorithms

  • Chordal structure and polynomial systems
    • Diego Cifuentes

  • The linear images of convex cones: face lattices, lower bounds, and extension complexity
    • Frank Permenter

  • Multiperiod Optimization for Fleet Defense: Centralized and Distributed Approaches
    • Nikita Korolko

  • An Integrated Scheduling and Operations Approach to Airport Congestion Mitigation
    • Alexandre Jacquillat

  • Solving Systems of Linear Equations: Locally and Asynchronously
    • Christina Lee

  • A greedy algorithm for approximate non-negative matrix factorization
    • Qingqing Huang
12:15 – 01:30 Lunch (by invitation only)
01:30 – 02:30 Panel Discussion
02:30 – 02:45 Coffee break
02:45 – 04:00 Student Session on Decision Systems and Game Theory

  • Collaborative Design with Boundary Objects
    • Vivek Sakhrani

  • Model use in sustainability negotiations
    • Ellen Czaika

  • Decision Models of Technology
    • Stephen Zoepf

  • Analysis of capacity pricing and allocation mechanisms in shared railway systems
    • Maite Pena-Alcaraz

  • Games people (could not) play
    • Swati Gupta
04:00 – 04:15 Coffee break
04:15 – 05:15 Plenary Talk
06:00 Banquet (by invitation only)