Activities

Apr 2021

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"

25/11/2020    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Marco Ajmone Marsan
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
19 Nov
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.

28/10/2020    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Rémy Léone
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 [...]
23 Oct

All-day Workshop LINCS-SystemX

23/10/2020    
9:00 am-5:00 pm
Baccelli, Bassi, Benjemaa, Desoblin, Hajri, Kofman, Noirie, Potop-Butucaru, Singh, Toumi
A one-day collaborative workshop gathering researchers from LINCS and engineers from SystemX who will share their ongoing research to consolidate joint R&D activities, to create [...]
21 Oct

Seminar Presentation by a new LINCS associate member "Multi-Tenant Resource Allocation at the Network Edge"

21/10/2020    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Andrea Araldo
Edge Computing (EC) is a network paradigm in which computational resources, e.g., CPU, memory, are distributed in the access networks, close to the final users. [...]
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