Name: PhysDIS Workshop
Start: 2008-05-15T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2008-05-17T18:00:00+02:00
Location: AlbaNova

PhysDIS Workshop

from Thursday, May 15, 2008 (9:00 AM) to Saturday, May 17, 2008 (6:00 PM)

Monday, May 12, 2008
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Thursday, May 15, 2008
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Room: FB42
Contributions

9:00 AM Opening of the workshop - Erik Aurell (KTH) Mikko Alava (HUT, Espoo, Finland)

9:20 AM Evaluating the performance of Structured Peer-to-Peer Overlays - Supriya Krishnamurthy (SICS)

10:00 AM Statistical physics and message-passing algorithms for Steiner trees - Riccardo Zecchina (Politecnico di Torino)

11:00 AM A minimal model to understand the onset of congested phases in information networks. - Luca Dall'Asta (Abdus Salam ICTP)

11:20 AM Towards an Optimal Separation of Space and Length in Resolution - Jakob Nordström (KTH)

1:00 PM Simplifying Distributed Application Development using WheelFS - Jeremy Stribling (MIT CSAIL)

2:00 PM Gaussian Belief Propagation for Solving Systems of Linear Equation - Danny Bickson (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

2:20 PM Consensus under bounded connectivity control laws and time delayed communication - Dimos Dimarogonas (KTH)

3:00 PM Finite size scaling in complex networks - Meesoon Ha (KAIST)

3:20 PM Capacity analysis of collaborative wireless communication - Olav Tirkkonen (TKK)

4:00 PM Solving K-SAT by going slowly down - Mikko Alava (HUT, Espoo, Finland)

4:20 PM Tail Behavior and Scaling of the Playback Delay for Overlay Multicast - György Dan (KTH)

4:40 PM Networks of caustics in turbulent aerosols - Bernhard Mehlig (Chalmers University of Technology)
Friday, May 16, 2008
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 7:40 PM
Room: FB42
Contributions

9:00 AM Non-coding RNAs in bacteria - Massimo Vergassola (Institut Pasteur)

10:00 AM Computational Aspects of Random Boolean Networks - Elena Dubrova (KTH)

10:20 AM Evolutionary dynamics in random fitness landscapes - Joachim Krug (University of Cologne)

11:00 AM Local-majority-rule dynamics: Influence of network structure and dynamics-driven structural evolutions - Haijun Zhou (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

1:00 PM Searching for Scalable Solutions to really Large Problems: Experiments - Scott Kirkpatrick (School of Engineering and CS, HUJI)

2:00 PM Searching for Scalable Solutions to really Large Problems: Theory - Luis Lafuente (MIT CBA)

2:20 PM Issues in Distributed Aggregation - Mads Dam (KTH)

3:00 PM Solving Industrial SAT Problems - Ilkka Niemelä (TKK)

4:00 PM Inferring Spike Pattern Distributions from Data - John Hertz (NORDITA)

4:20 PM Tug-of-war of molecular motors and the role of vesicle pairing during the formation of the immunological synapse - Heiko Rieger (Universität des Saarlandes)

5:00 PM Programming Bits and Atoms - Neil Gershenfeld (MIT CBA)
Saturday, May 17, 2008
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Room: FB42
Contributions

9:00 AM On the approximability of Constraints Satisfaction Problems - Johan Håstad (KTH)

10:00 AM Computing the Tutte polynomial in vertex-exponential time - Petteri Kaski (HIIT)

10:20 AM Uniform sampling of local minima in Ising lattices - Pekka Orponen (TKK)

11:00 AM Solution Counting for Combinatorial Problems: Exploiting BP, DPLL, and Statistics - Ashish Sabharwal (Cornell)

1:00 PM Clusters and solution landscapes for vertex-cover and SAT problems - Alexander Hartmann (University of Oldenburg)

2:00 PM Locked Constraint Satisfaction Problems - Lenka Zdeborova (U Paris-Sud)

2:20 PM Ark-less strategy for flood victims - Florent Krzakala (ESPCI, Paris)

3:00 PM Learning to be lucky - Matteo Marsili (Abdus Salam ICTP)

4:00 PM Contact patterns of inpatients in a regional healthcare system - Petter Holme (Coputational Biology)

4:20 PM The (many) phase transitions in random constraint satisfaction problems - Federico Ricci-Tersenghi (Roma)

4:40 PM The Jarzynski identity: lessons from the Random Energy model - Matteo Palassini (Barcelona)

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