Activities

Dec 2020

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 [...]
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. [...]
14 Oct

Seminar Presentation by a new LINCS associate member "Performance Benchmarking of State-of-the-Art Software Switches for NFV"

14/10/2020    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Tianzhu Zhang
With the goal of replacing proprietary hardware appliances with Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) implemented in software, Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has gained popularity in the [...]
14 Oct

Iterators: A Simple Tool to Browse Objects in Python

Iterators are simple tools to browse objects in Python. They define a unique interface called iteration protocol, that enables to decorrelate the objects that contain [...]
12 Oct

Thesis defense "FabLabs, a global and growing network of collaborative organizations: an analysis of intra and inter-organizational coordination modes"

12/10/2020    
2:00 pm-5:00 pm
Constance Garnier
This thesis contributes to the understanding of the organizational phenomenon of FabLabs, which aims to democratize personal digital manufacturing and promote knowledge sharing. To this [...]
08 Oct

Thesis Defense "Governing the Commons in Blockchains"

08/10/2020    
3:00 pm-6:00 pm
Yackolley Amoussou-Guenou
Blockchains are one of most appealing technologies over the last years, both for scientists and for the general public. Blockchains are distributed ledgers that aim [...]
07 Oct

"CoronaSurveys: Using Indirect Reporting to Estimate the Incidence of Epidemics"

07/10/2020    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Antonio Fernández Anta
The world is suffering from a pandemic called COVID-19, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. National governments have problems evaluating the reach of the epidemic, due [...]
07 Oct

Zap Stochastic Approximation and Reinforcement Learning

07/10/2020    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
François Durand
Many reinforcement learning problems can be seen from the point of view of stochastic approximation. Unfortunately, classic stochastic approximation algorithms, such as Robbins-Monro, may have [...]

Sep 2020

23 Sep

Seminar Presentation by a new LINCS associate member "On the inference of high-speed networks’ behavior via Machine Learning"

23/09/2020    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Leonardo Linguaglossa
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is a novel trend in IT networks which advocates replacing hardware middleboxes with equivalent pieces of code executed on general-purpose servers. [...]
23 Sep

Dictionaries

23/09/2020    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
François Durand
In this second session about collections, I will talk about dictionaries and their main subclasses: OrderedDict, defaultdict, Counter and ChainMap.
22 Sep

Thesis defense: "Algorithmic and Software Contributions to Graph Mining"

22/09/2020    
9:00 am-1:00 pm
Nathan De Lara
Since the introduction of Google’s Page Rank method for Web searches in the late 1990s, graph algorithms have been part of our daily lives. In [...]
16 Sep

Seminar presentation "Nash equilibrium structure of a class of spatial competition games"

16/09/2020    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
François Baccelli
We study an N-player game where a pure action of each player is to select a non-negative function on a Polish space supporting a finite [...]
16 Sep

Collections in Python

16/09/2020    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
François Durand
I will talk about collections in Python. Sets: set, frozenset. Sequences: tuple, named tuples, list, deque (we will just mention str and bytes). Mappings: dict, [...]
14 Sep

Thesis defense : "Malliavin calculus and Dirichlet structures for independent random variables"

14/09/2020    
2:00 pm-5:00 pm
Hélène Halconruy
In a pioneer work from 1976, Paul Malliavin lays the foundations for an infinite-dimensional stochastic calculus of variations. Initially developed on the Wiener space, the [...]
09 Sep

Interns' talks: (1) Monitoring as a service for IoT networks and (2) Structured and interactive summarization

09/09/2020    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Pooneh Mokariasl & Mélanie Cambus
Two interns from LINCS will present their works at this LINCS seminar: 1) Pooneh Mokariasl (Nokia Bell Labs / Sorbonne Université): Monitoring as a service [...]
09 Sep

Quantum Internet

09/09/2020    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Ludovic Noirie
IRTF is the research part of the IETF, producing Internet Drafts and Requests For Comments on topics that are still in the research phase. The [...]

Jul 2020

15 Jul

Contact process on point processes, part II

15/07/2020    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
François Baccelli
I will first review some results on the contact process on graphs. I will then describe ongoing research on this type of dynamics on random [...]
01 Jul

"Clean Code" from Robert Martin

01/07/2020    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Élie de Panafieu
What is the difference between "good" and "bad" code? What gain is there to expect from turning to clean code? I know how to code [...]

Jun 2020

25 Jun

Models and Solutions of Strategic Resource Allocation Problems: Approximate Equilibrium and Online Learning in Blotto Games

25/06/2020    
2:00 pm-4:00 pm
Dong Quan VU
In this thesis, we investigate resource allocation games, broadly defined as resource allocation problems involving interactions between competitive decision makers. We primarily focus on the [...]
24 Jun

Contact process on point processes, part I

24/06/2020    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
François Baccelli
I will first review some results on the contact process on graphs. I will then describe ongoing research on this type of dynamics on random [...]
17 Jun

Characterizing the Expressive Power of Invariant and Equivariant Graph Neural Networks

17/06/2020    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Marc Lelarge
Various classes of Graph Neural Networks (GNN) have been proposed and shown to be successful in a wide range of applications with graph structured data. [...]
17 Jun

Introduction to Pygame

17/06/2020    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
François Durand
Pygame is a Python package that wraps the SDL library. SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) is a cross-platform development library written in C, designed to provide [...]
10 Jun

Gismo: a Generic Information Search... with a Mind of its Own!

10/06/2020    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Fabien Mathieu
Searching for documents is a task that everyone faces on a regular basis, especially when looking for a relevant Internet page, an e-mail, or a [...]
10 Jun

A Mathematical Theory of Communication: Discrete Noiseless Systems

10/06/2020    
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 present the first part of the article, which [...]
03 Jun

IoT Network Control and Management

03/06/2020    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Ludovic Noirie
Internet of Things (IoT) devices are increasingly present in our lives. This plethora of devices creates a need to manage them easily, transparently and quickly [...]
03 Jun

Input, Output, and the Internet: Part II

03/06/2020    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Fabien Mathieu
Python offers a lot of tools to easily deal with local and Internet files. We will present a selection of these tools illustrated with nice [...]

May 2020

27 May

Beam management in 5G

27/05/2020    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Sanket Kalamkar
Beam management is central in the operation of dense 5G cellular networks. Focusing the energy radiated to mobile terminals (MTs) by increasing the number of [...]
27 May

Support-vector networks

27/05/2020    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Anastasios Giovanidis
Cortes, C., Vapnik, V. Support-vector networks. Mach Learn 20, 273–297 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00994018 . Abstract of the paper: "The support-vector network is a new leaming machine [...]
20 May

Input, Output, and the Internet: Part I

20/05/2020    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Fabien Mathieu
Python offers a lot of tools to easily deal with local and Internet files. We will present a selection of these tools illustrated with nice [...]

Mar 2020

12 Mar

Thesis Defense : Resource allocation and optimization for the non-orthogonal multiple access

12/03/2020    
2:00 pm-4:00 pm
Lou Salaün
Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is a promising technology to increase the spectral efficiency and enable massive connectivity in future wireless networks. In contrast to orthogonal [...]
11 Mar

Comparing the modelling powers of RNN and HMM

11/03/2020    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Achille Salaün
Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) and Hidden Markov Models (HMM) are popular models for processing sequential data and have found many applications such as speech recognition, time [...]
11 Mar

Introduction to PyTorch

11/03/2020    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Léo Laugier
Join us on for an introduction to PyTorch! Learn how to use it for machine learning purposes, and why it is useful for deep learning [...]
06 Mar

Thesis Defense : Autonomous IoT device type identification

06/03/2020    
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Nesrine Ammar
With the proliferation of smart devices, more and more people buy IP devices and home appliances to benefit from new services, allowing them to control [...]
04 Mar

Log Analysis via Space-time Pattern Matching

04/03/2020    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Marc-Olivier Buob
The increasing number of machines and technologies involved in existing infrastructures and networks hardens their management. Even if many monitoring solutions help to detect a [...]
04 Mar

Rare geometries: revealing rare categories via dimension-driven statistics

04/03/2020    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Achille Salaün
In many situations, classes of data points of primary interest also happen to be those that are least numerous. A well-known example is detection of [...]

Feb 2020

26 Feb

Converting Python plots to tikz with tikzplotlib

26/02/2020    
4:00 pm-4:10 pm
Fabien Mathieu
Short presentation of tikzplotlib. Example.
26 Feb

Abstract Classes in Python

26/02/2020    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Edouard Pineau
An abstract class can be considered as a blueprint for other classes. It allows you to create a set of methods that must be created [...]
26 Feb

Beam Based Operations in 5G NR Rel-15

26/02/2020    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Fuad Abinader
Deploying cellular networks in millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies require coping with rapid channel variations and severe free-space pathloss and atmospheric absorption. In order to make [...]
19 Feb

Collaboration and Innovation in an International Science and Engineering Competition

19/02/2020    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Marc Santolini
In this talk, we will present our recent work investigating criteria of performance and success of teams in a scientific context using a quantitative approach. [...]
19 Feb

Asymptotics for Euclidean minimal spanning trees on random points

19/02/2020    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Bharath Roy Choudhury
I will present the main ideas of the paper "Asymptotics for Euclidean minimal spanning trees on random points" by David Aldous and J. Michael Steele. [...]
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