Activities

May 2021

05 May

Python profiling

05/05/2021    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Fabien Mathieu
This session will be devoted to a non-exhaustive view of profiling techniques that can be useful in Python. While profiling is absolutely no substitute for [...]

Apr 2021

28 Apr

SOBA: Session optimal MDP-based network friendly recommendations

28/04/2021    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Theodoros Giannakas
Caching content over CDNs or at the network edge has been solidified as a means to improve network cost and offer better streaming experience to [...]
28 Apr

Exponential families

28/04/2021    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Céline Comte
Exponential families are parametric sets of probability distributions that arise in many applications. These include well-known univariate distributions (such as the binomial, Poisson, geometric, exponential, [...]
21 Apr

Pattern Matching, text generation and sequence complexity

21/04/2021    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Philippe Jacquet & Dimitrios Milioris
Pattern matching is a powerful tool used on many kinds of data as long as they stand on a linear support such as texts or [...]
21 Apr

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Repurposing Existing Measurements to Identify Stale Traceroutes

21/04/2021    
10:45 am-12:00 pm
Maxime Mouchet
Dear all,  The Internet Measurement reading group will meet again on April 21st. We will talk about the following paper : Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Repurposing Existing [...]
07 Apr

PhDs presentations n° 1 on Network Metrology, Blockchain, Computational Social Choice

07/04/2021    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Maxime Mouchet, Matthieu Gouel, Pierre Civit, Simona Ramos, Abhimanyu Rawat, Théo Delemazure
Seminar by: - Maxime Mouchet (Postdoc UPMC) = Network Metrology - Matthieu Gouel (PhD UPMC) = Network Metrology - Pierre Civit (PhD UPMC) = Blockchain [...]
07 Apr

Design of algorithms for the production of training data

07/04/2021    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Quentin Lutz and Élie de Panafieu
There is a well-known saying in the supervised machine learning community: "garbage in, garbage out". The performance of a supervised learning algorithm depends critically on [...]

Mar 2021

31 Mar

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for Wireless Communications

31/03/2021    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Marco Di Renzo - Directeur de Recherche CNRS
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have recently emerged as the new wireless communication research frontier with the goal of realizing metamaterial-coated smart and reconfigurable radio propagation [...]
31 Mar

Classification of Load Balancing in the Internet

31/03/2021    
10:45 am-12:00 pm
Matthieu Gouel
Dear all,  Next Wednesday (31/03/2021) will take place the first Internet Measurement reading group ! We will talk about the following paper : Classification of Load [...]
24 Mar

DNN Based Beam Selection in mmW Heterogeneous Networks

24/03/2021    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Deepa Jagyasi
In this work, we consider a heterogeneous cellular network wherein multiple small cell millimeter wave (mmW) base stations (BSs) coexist with legacy sub-6GHz macro BSs. [...]
24 Mar

Python Threads 101 + Python Sockets 102

24/03/2021    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Sébastien Tixeuil
The threading library permits programs to execute several things at the same time on the same machine. This talk will review the basics of the [...]
17 Mar

Collective brainstorming for the organization of the June WS with the LINCS Co.Sci.

17/03/2021    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Sébastien Tixeuil
This time, during our usual seminar time-slot, the whole LINCS community is encouraged to participate in a remote collective brainstorming to elaborate on the organizational [...]
17 Mar

Ensemble methods

17/03/2021    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Thomas Bonald
Ensemble methods are popular machine learning techniques that combine the predictions of multiple agents to improve their accuracy and robustness. We will introduce these methods, [...]
10 Mar

Formalizing the analysis of blockchains robustness through game theory

10/03/2021    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Paolo Zappalà
Blockchains systems evolve in complex environments that mix classical patterns of faults with selfish, rational or irrational behaviours typical of economic systems. During the presentation [...]
03 Mar

FCLTs for Determining the Performance in Finite Systems of Servers with Randomized Load Balancing

03/03/2021    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Prof. Ravi Mazumdar
Here the abstract and bibliography provided by Professor Mazumdar for his talk: http://www.lincs.fr/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/FCLT_MFE.pdf 
03 Mar

Container Overview

03/03/2021    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Rémy Léone
Containers are one of the fundamentals of cloud native application development. Popularized by Docker and now widely adopted by the cloud computing industry, containers paved [...]

Feb 2021

24 Feb

Can we automate our own work — or show that it is hard?

24/02/2021    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Prof. Jukka Suomela
Computer scientists seek to understand what can be automated, but what do we know about automating our own work? Can we outsource our own research [...]
24 Feb

A Mathematical Theory of Communication: Discrete Noisy Systems (2)

24/02/2021    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Fabien Mathieu
In 1948 Shannon published the article that defines modern information theory. For this reading group, we will briefly remind the first part of the article [...]
17 Feb

The impact of multi-user massive MIMO on resource allocation in 5G cellular networks

17/02/2021    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Prof. Catherine Rosenberg
One of the very important technologies for 5G is multi-user massive MIMO. It has the potential to deliver excellent performance if used well. However, it [...]
17 Feb

A Mathematical Theory of Communication: Discrete Noisy Systems (1)

17/02/2021    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Fabien Mathieu
In 1948 Shannon published the article that defines modern information theory. For this reading group, we will briefly remind the first part of the article [...]
10 Feb

Real-time Bidding in First and Second Price Auctions with Temporal and Targeting Constraints

10/02/2021    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Professor Ravi R. Mazumdar
Please, find here the abstract and bibliography provided by Professor Mazumdar for his talk: http://www.lincs.fr/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Bidding_LINCS_Jan2021.pdf Here, Professor Mazumdar's webpage with info on his academic path: [...]
10 Feb

Fastcore

10/02/2021    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
François Durand
According to its website, fastcore is a set of "Python goodies to make your coding faster, easier, and more maintainable". "Fastcore [adds] to Python features [...]
03 Feb

Edit distances, string alignments and dynamic programming

03/02/2021    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Marc-Olivier Buob
Edit distances quantify how dissimilar two strings are by counting the minimum number of edit operation (insertion, deletion, etc) to transform one string into the [...]

Jan 2021

27 Jan

Presentation of Huggingface Transformers library for Natural Language Processing

27/01/2021    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Gérard Burnside
Transformers architectures have been dominating the benchmarks of most Natural Language Processing tasks for the past 3 years with new models popping up every week, [...]
20 Jan

"Secure and Robust MIMO Transceiver for Multicast Mission Critical Communications"

20/01/2021    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Deepa Jagyasi
Mission-critical communications (MCC) involve all communications between people in charge of the safety of the civil society. MCC have unique requirements that include improved reliability, [...]
20 Jan

A tutorial on Bayesian optimization with Gaussian processes

20/01/2021    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Lorenzo Maggi
Bayesian optimization proves to be useful when our goal is to i) optimize an unknown function, that we can learn by sampling ii) our sample [...]
13 Jan

"Self-Adjusting Networks: From Metrics to Algorithms"

13/01/2021    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Stefan Schmid
In this talk I will present the vision of self-adjusting networks: communication networks whose physical topology adapts to the traffic pattern it serves, in a [...]
13 Jan

Takeaways of building a research-oriented system

13/01/2021    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Matthieu Gouel
Building a modern, scalable and fault-tolerant system in Python has never been so easy and enjoyable. Here is some takeaways of building such system in [...]
06 Jan

Multi-winner voting rules

06/01/2021    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
François Durand
Multi-winner voting rules aggregate the opinions of several agents and yield a set of several options. We will give an overview of the classic rules [...]

Dec 2020

21 Dec

Thesis defense "Tractable Reliable Communication in Compromised Networks"

21/12/2020    
2:00 pm-5:00 pm
Giovanni Farina
Reliable communication is a fundamental primitive in distributed systems prone to Byzantine (i.e. arbitrary, and possibly malicious) failures to guarantee integrity, delivery, and authorship of [...]
17 Dec

Thesis defense "Deep learning techniques for graph embedding at different scales"

17/12/2020    
2:00 pm-5:00 pm
Alexis Galland
In many scientific fields, studied data have an underlying graph or manifold structure such as communication networks (whether social or technical), knowledge graphs or molecules. [...]
16 Dec

Special meeting: new tool for LINCS research&projects

16/12/2020    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Fabien Mathieu
The LINCS community is encouraged to participate in an exceptional Wednesday meeting with Fabien Mathieu to check, discuss and exchange about a new tool to share [...]
16 Dec

Python Sockets 101

16/12/2020    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Sébastien Tixeuil
The socket library permits programs that execute on various machines over a network to communicate. This talk will review the basics of the Python socket [...]
14 Dec

Thesis defense "Mechanisms and architectures to encourage the massive and efficient use of local renewable energy"

14/12/2020    
3:00 pm-6:00 pm
Diego Kiedanski
To meet carbon reduction goals in Europe but worldwide too, a large number of renewable distributed energy resources (DER) still need to be deployed. Aiming [...]
10 Dec

Thesis defense "Random walk on simplicial complexes"

10/12/2020    
2:00 pm-5:00 pm
Zhihan Zhang
The notion of Laplacian of a graph can be generalized to simplicial complexes and hypergraphs. This notion contains information on the topology of these structures. [...]
09 Dec

"On the deployability of Augmented Reality Using Embedded Edge Devices"

09/12/2020    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Ayoub Ben Ameur
Edge Computing exploits computational capabilities deployed at the very edge of the network to support applications with low latency requirements. Such capabilities can reside in [...]
09 Dec

Voting in Networks

09/12/2020    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Théo Delemazure
In this talk, we are investigating a selection of problems related to the process of voting on a (social) network. Among other problems, I am [...]
08 Dec

Thesis defense "Speed of convergence of diffusion approximations"

08/12/2020    
2:00 pm-5:00 pm
Eustache Besançon
In many fields of interest, Markov processes are a primary modelisation tool for random processes. Unfortunately it is often necessary to use very large or [...]
07 Dec

Thesis defense "Contributions to the representation of multivariate time series and graphs"

07/12/2020    
2:00 pm-5:00 pm
Edouard Pineau
Machine learning (ML) algorithms are designed to learn models that have the ability to take decisions or make predictions from data, in a large panel [...]
02 Dec

Thesis defense "Transport of critical services over unlicensed spectrum in 5G networks"

02/12/2020    
4:00 pm-7:00 pm
Ayat Zaki Hindi
Critical services in 5G networks, denoted by Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communication (URLLC), allow the existence of many promising applications such as factory automation, remote surgery and [...]
02 Dec

Pyinstaller / Vis.js Network

02/12/2020    
10:45 am-12:15 pm
Fabien Mathieu
Two independent tools will be presented for this session. Pyinstaller is a tool that converts Python code in standalone executable. The goal is not to [...]

Nov 2020

25 Nov

Talk by a member of LINCS Scientific Committee "On the Use of Small Solar Panels and Small Batteries to Reduce the RAN Carbon Footprint"

The limited power requirements of new generations of base stations make the use of renewable energy sources, solar in particular, extremely attractive for mobile network [...]
25 Nov

An introduction to mean field theory

25/11/2020    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Michel Davydov
When working with interacting particle systems, mean-field models provide a link between models on a microscopic scale describing the behavior of the system and simplified [...]
20 Nov

Mini Workshop I.A. appliquée

20/11/2020    
9:30 am-12:30 pm
LINCS+SystemX
18 Nov

Talk by a member of LINCS Scientific Committee "Distributing service execution"

Services often consists of independent components that can be executed independently (so-called microservices) and they often deal with very large user populations. This setup presents [...]
18 Nov

SimPy Package tutorial

18/11/2020    
10:45 am-12:15 pm
Thomas Tournaire
SimPy is a python package for discrete event simulations based on python’s standard generators. This tutorial will demonstrate how you can use SimPy to implement [...]
16 Nov

Mini Workshop BlockChain

16/11/2020    
9:30 am-12:30 pm
LINCS+SystemX
13 Nov

Mini Workshop IoT

13/11/2020    
9:30 am-12:30 pm
LINCS+SystemX
04 Nov

Fluid limits : a useful tool to study the stability of queuing networks

04/11/2020    
10:45 am-12:15 pm
Pierre Popineau
Introduced by Rybko and Stolyar in 1992, fluid-scaling and fluid limits offer a systematic way to study the stability or instability of queuing networks over [...]

Oct 2020

28 Oct

What problems does cloud solve? Non BS introduction by a former academic.

Cloud computing in addition to being a large industry can also seem daunting to understand. In this introduction, we will present in a very didactic [...]
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