Activities

Nov 2024

29 Nov

The functools python module

29/11/2024    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Marc-Olivier Buob
First, we recall several concepts (lambda functions, callbacks, callables, functors, decorators) needed for the rest of the presentation. Second, we present the "functools" module, which [...]
27 Nov

Knowledge Graphs Construction using Small Language Models

27/11/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Camilo Chacón Sartori
This talk demonstrates how to efficiently Knowledge Graphs Construction using Small Language Models like Llama-3.2-3B, showing practical techniques for extracting structured knowledge from JSON and [...]
22 Nov

Lagrangian multipliers, normal cones and KKT optimality conditions

22/11/2024    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Lorenzo Maggi
Lagrange multipliers are a go-to tool for anyone who’s worked in optimization. In this talk we will explore the renowned Karush-Kuhn-Tucker optimality conditions starting from [...]
20 Nov

Lincs PhD Welcome Day

20/11/2024    
8:30 am-1:30 pm
PhD Students Affiliated with Lincs
We are delighted to finally announce the programme (click on it!) for this special day dedicated to welcoming our PhD students ! The event will begin with [...]
15 Nov

Optimizing Energy Consumption and Performance in Modern Cloud Systems

15/11/2024    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Fadel Chbib
In the modern era of data-driven innovation, the challenge of optimizing energy consumption without sacrificing performance in modern cloud system networks has become increasingly important. [...]
08 Nov

uv: an extremely fast Python package installer and resolver & marimo notebooks: rethinking the notebook to create reproducible notebooks

08/11/2024    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Alonso Silva
alonsosilvaallende.github.io/2024-11-08_uv_marimo_at_LINCS
In this session, we will talk about uv, an extremely fast Python package and project manager designed as a single tool to replace pip, pip-tools, [...]
06 Nov

The Squared Kemeny Rule for Averaging Rankings

06/11/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Dominik Peters
For the problem of aggregating several rankings into one ranking, Kemeny (1959) proposed two methods: the median rule which selects the ranking with the smallest [...]

Oct 2024

30 Oct

Optimal time partitioning in V2V ISAC Systems

30/10/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Ashutosh Balakrishnan
Platooning-based vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) frameworks have emerged as an attractive strategy in recent years. In this work, we present an optimal [...]
25 Oct

Hierarchical Community Detection in Hierarchical Stochastic Block Models

25/10/2024    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Sayeh Khaniha
In this session of our reading group, I will discuss community detection in hierarchical clustering of networks, based on the paper "When Does Bottom-up Beat Top-down [...]
18 Oct

Understanding Reinforcement Learning error in image-based environments

18/10/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Matthew Andrews
In many Reinforcement Learning (RL) environments the state is represented by an image. In such cases, if the RL doesn’t work well, is the problem [...]
18 Oct

Decentralized Federated Policy Gradient with Byzantine Fault-Tolerance and Provably Fast Convergence

18/10/2024    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Alexandre Pham
In Federated Reinforcement Learning (FRL), agents aim to collaboratively learn a common task, while each agent is acting in its local environment without exchanging raw [...]
11 Oct

Visual Studio Code, an all-in-one development environment

11/10/2024    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Rémi Varloot
Rémi Varloot will present VS Code, a text editor / development environment that can be used for just about every coding need, and showcase how [...]
09 Oct

Zero knowledge proofs in blockchain

09/10/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
José Luis Muñoz-Tapia
In this talk, we will explore the fundamental concept of Zero Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs), a cryptographic technique that allows one party to prove knowledge of [...]
04 Oct

Quantum states are relative to observers!

04/10/2024    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Ludovic Noirie
Many "pseudo-paradoxes" arise in quantum physics because "quantum states"  are generally considered to be absolute, that is, independent of observers. But entangled pairs of qubits [...]
02 Oct

How Much Can Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Augment Sky Visibility: A Stochastic Geometry Approach

02/10/2024    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Junse Lee
This talk presents the application of point processes and stochastic geometry to quantify the sky visibility experienced by users located in an outdoor environment. The [...]
02 Oct

Design and Optimizations Toward Smart Grid Connected Green Future Networks

02/10/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Ashutosh Balakrishnan
Realizing energy sustainable communication networks has been a key challenge in the upcoming sixth generation (6G) networks. A key bottleneck has been to make the [...]

Sep 2024

25 Sep

Gaming on the Edge: Performance Issues of Distributed Online Gaming

25/09/2024    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Diletta Olliaro
Edge computing is revolutionising gaming and streaming services by processing data closer to the user, which greatly reduces latency and enhances bandwidth efficiency. This talk [...]
25 Sep

Job migrations in queueing networks: some non-conventional product-forms

25/09/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Andrea Marin
Job migrations are important to improve the performance in distributed systems.  In this talk, we explore two policies for job migration that are receiver-initiated, i.e., [...]
18 Sep

 An Economic Analysis of 5G Network Slicing and the Impact of Regulation

18/09/2024    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Patrick Maillé
A joint work with Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul, Maël Le Treust, and Bruno Tuffin Network slicing is a key component of 5G-and- beyond networks, requiring to define [...]
18 Sep

Performance analysis of a buffered cellular network: Coverage probability, channel capacity, and steady-state analysis

18/09/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Taisia Morozova
In this talk I will discuss a stochastic geometric model of a buffered cellular network with either uplink or downlink transmissions. Various network models have [...]

Jun 2024

27 Jun

2024 LINCS Annual Workshop with its Scientific Committee

27/06/2024-28/06/2024    
9:00 am-6:00 pm
Members of the LINCS Community
https://www.lincs.fr/2024-lincs-annual-workshop-with-its-scientific-committee/ The event is reserved to the LINCS community Please find the program by clicking => Workshop LINCS - agenda 2024
19 Jun

Elevator: Self-* and Persistent Hub Sampling Service in Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Networks

19/06/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Mohamed Amine Legheraba
We present Elevator, a novel algorithm for hub sampling in peer-to-peer networks, enabling the construction of overlays with a topology between a random graph and [...]
12 Jun

LINCS PhD Student Day + Team Building

12/06/2024    
8:30 am-6:00 pm
Supporting our PhD students is crucial for nurturing their talent and ensuring the success of their research. We are glad to be there for them, [...]

May 2024

29 May

Understanding and Modeling Collective User (Mis-)Behavior Driving Information Spread Online

29/05/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Jussara Almeida
The literature is quite rich in efforts to model and analyze how different aspects of user behavior may drive the dissemination of a piece of [...]
22 May

Caching and pre-fetching: the role of hazard rates

22/05/2024    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Andres Ferragut
Consider a local memory system receiving requests from a given catalog: the typical caching objective is to maximize its hit rate, i.e. the number of [...]
22 May

Hypercomputation: a paradigm for network-inspired computing

22/05/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Carlos Zapata-Carratala
In this talk Carlos Zapata-Carratala will present evidence from recent work on hypergraph rewriting research and abstract algebra that points towards new ways to conceptualise [...]
22 May

How to create pure Python web apps (Solara+AnyWidget)

22/05/2024    
10:30 am-11:30 am
Alonso Silva
Solara lets you build pure Python web apps. These apps work both inside the Jupyter Notebook and as standalone web apps. With Solara, you benefit [...]
15 May

Navigating 5G Virtualization: Constructing a Kubernetes Cluster for Seamless Deployments

15/05/2024    
10:30 am-11:30 am
Massinissa Ait-Aba
This presentation navigates the intersection of 5G and virtualization, offering  a comprehensive guide to building a Kubernetes (K8s) cluster and configuring the OAI 5G core [...]

Apr 2024

24 Apr

What a confidence interval really is

24/04/2024    
10:30 am-11:30 am
François Durand
By analyzing a (hopefully) illuminating example in depth, we will show what a confidence interval really is, and what are the common traps in its [...]
17 Apr

Seminar Talk : A Protocol to Assess the Accuracy of Process-Level Power Models

17/04/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Dimitri Saingre and Emile Cadorel
The energy consumption of servers has been a critical research area, drawing significant interest from academic and industrial sectors. Various models have been developed to [...]
10 Apr

Level-strategyproof Belief Aggregation Mechanisms

10/04/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Estelle Varloot
In the problem of aggregating experts' probabilistic predictions over an ordered set of outcomes, we introduce the axiom of level-strategy\-proofness (level-SP) and prove that it [...]
03 Apr

Double talk : "Can Edge Computing fulfill the requirements of automated vehicular services using 5G network?" & "Can Vehicular Cloud Replace Edge Computing?"

03/04/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Hakim OUEDRAOGO & Rosario PATANE
Abstract 1: Communication and computation services support- ing Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) are characterized by stringent requirements, in terms of response time and reliability. [...]
03 Apr

C

03/04/2024    
10:30 am-11:30 am
Marc-Olivier Buob
As stated in WIkipedia, C is a general-purpose computer programming language. It was created in the 1970s by Dennis Ritchie, and remains very widely used [...]

Mar 2024

27 Mar

Tournament Solutions

27/03/2024    
10:30 am-11:30 am
François Durand
A tournament is an oriented graph where there is exactly one edge between each pair of nodes, in one direction or the other, with the [...]
20 Mar

Double Feature: IPyWidgets + Using LLM

20/03/2024    
10:30 am-11:30 am
Fabien Mathieu
IPyWidgets is a popular Python library for creating interactive, customizable user interfaces in Jupyter Notebooks and other environments using the power of the Widgets system [...]
13 Mar

Group Signature in Dynamic Clusters

13/03/2024    
10:30 am-11:30 am
Farah-Emma Braiteh
This talk presents a group signature scheme specifically designed for a cluster of moving vehicles. The group signature enables vehicles to authenticate themselves within dynamic [...]
06 Mar

Introduction to the cake cutting problem

06/03/2024    
10:30 am-11:30 am
Emma Caizergues
The cake cutting problem arises when a cake must be divided fairly among individuals who have different preferences. In this presentation, after a brief explanation [...]

Feb 2024

28 Feb

Is Reinforcement Learning all you need?

28/02/2024    
10:30 am-11:30 am
Lorenzo Maggi
When attacking a new problem, the algorithm designer typically follows 3 main steps: rule out options that are unlikely to work well test the handful [...]
22 Feb

International Workshop on RIS

22/02/2024-23/02/2024    
9:30 am-5:00 pm
Mathias Fink, Markku Juntti, Alessio Zappone, Mohsen Khalily, Angeliki Alexiou, Dinh-Thuy Phan Huy, Guodong Sun, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Luis Uzeda Garcia, Valeria Loscri, Philipp Del Hougne, Emilio Calvanese Strinati
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces are very promising physical-layer candidates for sixth-generation cellular networks. This international workshop will cover the main scientific and technological questions underlying this [...]
21 Feb

A visual journey to convey complex messages through MAThematical ANIMation - manim

21/02/2024    
10:30 am-11:30 am
Leonardo Linguaglossa
Manim is a tool used to programmatically create precise and high-quality animations. Based (almost) entirely on Python, manim evolved from being a powerful visualization engine [...]
14 Feb

A new perspective of entropy

14/02/2024    
10:30 am-11:30 am
Guodong Sun
Have you ever wondered how mathematicians "understand"? In a 1932 lecture, Hermann Weyl identified two key modes of mathematical reasoning: topology and abstract algebra. These, [...]
07 Feb

Bell theorem and the role of complex numbers in quantum information theory

07/02/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Marc-Olivier Renou
Quantum information theory has several puzzling properties. In particular, it predicts that information carried by quantum objects is incompatible with the use of the logical [...]
07 Feb

An introduction to anonymity networks

07/02/2024    
10:30 am-11:30 am
Guillaume Nibert
Anonymity networks play a crucial role in preserving privacy on the Internet by masking users' identities and guaranteeing the confidentiality of communications. In this talk, [...]

Jan 2024

31 Jan

Everyone procrastinates: a Beamer demo

31/01/2024    
10:30 am-11:30 am
Francesca Bassi
This tutorial delves into the intricacies of Beamer, a powerful LaTeX document class designed for crafting presentations. We will explore basic and advanced features and [...]
24 Jan

Understanding quantum computing using Quirk, a drag-and-drop quantum circuit simulator - Quantum

24/01/2024    
10:30 am-11:30 am
Ludovic Noirie
Quirk (https://algassert.com/quirk) is a drag-and-drop quantum circuit simulator that is easy to use and very interesting to understand how quantum computers works. In this session, [...]
17 Jan

Data Poisoning Attacks in Gossip Learning

17/01/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Alexandre PHAM
Traditional machine learning systems were designed in a centralized man-ner. In such designs, the central entity maintains both the machine learningmodel and the data used [...]
17 Jan

Understanding quantum computing using Quirk, a drag-and-drop quantum circuit simulator - Basic

17/01/2024    
10:30 am-11:30 am
Ludovic Noirie
Quirk (https://algassert.com/quirk) is a drag-and-drop quantum circuit simulator that is easy to use and very interesting to understand how quantum computers works. In this session, [...]
10 Jan

Authentication through error estimation in QKD

10/01/2024    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Ludovic Noirie
The one-time pad is an encryption technique that is proven to be unbreakable by an eavesdropper. It relies on a single-use secret key shared between [...]
10 Jan

D3.js tutorial: animating a card game

10/01/2024    
10:30 am-11:30 am
Rémi Varloot
D3.js is a JavaScript library that facilitates the creation and animation of HTML and SVG content representing a (possibly dynamic) data structure. While clearly more [...]

Dec 2023

20 Dec

Proving and analysing security protocols with Tamarin Prover

20/12/2023    
10:30 am-11:30 am
Guillaume Nibert
Tamarin Prover is an open source model checker for proving and verifying security protocols in the Dolev-Yao symbolic model, initially developed at the Information Security [...]
13 Dec

Binomial Line Cox Processes - Modeling Streets Across a City

13/12/2023    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Gourab Ghatak
Acknowledgment: Joint work with Martin Haenggi (University of Notre Dame) The current analysis of wireless networks whose transceivers are confined to streets is largely based [...]
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