Activities

Dec 2019

18 Dec

Documenting code in Python

18/12/2019    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Nathan de Lara
We will cover the basics of docstrings and see how to generate documentation with Sphinx. Estimated duration: 30min.
17 Dec

Thesis Defense : Towards a scalable and programmable incremental deployment of ICN in the real world

17/12/2019    
3:00 pm-6:00 pm
Mauro Sardana
Information-Centric Networking (ICN) embraces a family of network architectures re-thinking Internet communication principles around named-data. After several years of research and the emergence of a [...]
06 Dec

Thesis Defense : Optimization and control of energy storage in smart grid

06/12/2019    
2:00 pm-4:00 pm
Umar Hashmi
This thesis is motivated by the electric power system transformations due to more renewable integration and changing consumption patterns. Energy storage is one possible solution [...]
04 Dec

Introduction to Python (3)

04/12/2019    
10:30 am-12:00 pm
Marc-Olivier Buob
We’ll cover basics of Python and design aspects. Do not hesitate to come even if you did not attend the first and second sessions. Download [...]

Nov 2019

27 Nov

Random walks on simplicial complexes

27/11/2019    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Laurent Decreusefond
The Laplacian of a graph is a key object in the theory of graphs and can be viewed as the generator of a continuous time [...]
27 Nov

False Discovery Rate

27/11/2019    
10:30 am-12:00 pm
Sayeh Khaniha
The false discovery rate (FDR) is a statistical approach used in multiple hypothesis testing to correct for multiple comparisons. It is typically used in high-throughput [...]
20 Nov

Introduction to Python (2)

20/11/2019    
10:30 am-12:00 pm
Marc-Olivier Buob
We’ll cover basics of Python and design aspects. Do not hesitate to come even if you did not attend the first session. Download the notebook.
13 Nov

Utility-maximising properties of some service-rates allocations in wireless communication networks

We consider wireless communication networks where service rates of nodes depend the loads of their neighbours. We demonstrate that these rates are utility-maximising in a [...]
06 Nov

Exact digraph enumeration

06/11/2019    
10:30 am-12:00 pm
Élie de Panafieu
We present exact formulas for the number of digraphs in various interesting families: acyclic digraphs (dags), strongly connected digraphs, digraphs with constraints on their strongly [...]

Oct 2019

30 Oct

Rational vs Byzantine Players in Consensus-based Blockchains

30/10/2019    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Yackolley Amoussou-Guenou
In this presentation, we will analyse from the game theoretical point of view Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) blockchains when processes exhibit rational or Byzantine behaviour. [...]
30 Oct

Parallel Computing with Joblib and Plotting with Seaborn

30/10/2019    
10:30 am-12:00 pm
Quentin Lutz
When in need of benchmarking an algorithm, running said algorithm on a given - likely wide - range of parameters is usually required. In order [...]
23 Oct

Cache Subsidies for an Optimal Memory for Bandwidth Tradeoff in the Access Network

23/10/2019    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Jim Roberts
Authors:  Mahdieh Ahmadi, James Roberts, Emilio Leonardi, and Ali Movaghar While the cost of the access network could be considerably reduced by the use of [...]
23 Oct

Deep Q-Learning: From Theory to Practice

23/10/2019    
10:30 am-12:00 pm
François Durand
After a brief presentation of Reinforcement Learning in general, I give the theoretical bases for a particular reinforcement algorithm, Q-Learning, and its neural-network-powered version, Deep [...]
16 Oct

Multi-cell MIMO Transceiver design for Mission-Critical Communication

16/10/2019    
2:00 pm-2:30 pm
Deepa Jagyasi
Business and Mission critical communication (MCC) is a major communication paradigm that is used by public agencies, e.g., during emergency situations, or critical infrastructure companies, [...]
16 Oct

Introduction to CherryPy

16/10/2019    
10:30 am-12:00 pm
Fabien Mathieu
For most daily research tasks, a Jupyter Notebook is more than enough to do anything one wants. Yet, there are situations where it can be [...]
09 Oct

OFDMA Dimensioning

09/10/2019    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Philippe Martins
This presentation will cover different models for the dimensioning of OFDMA air interfaces. In a first part, models that rely on classical stochastic geometry results [...]
09 Oct

Transformer models in Artificial Intelligence for Natural Language Processing

09/10/2019    
10:30 am-12:00 pm
Léo Laugier
We'll explore recent Deep Learning models for Natural Language Processing based on the ("post-Recurrent Neural Network") Transformer architecture described in Attention Is All You Need (Vaswani et al., 2017). We'll understand [...]
02 Oct

Introduction to Python

02/10/2019    
10:30 am-12:00 pm
Marc-Olivier Buob
We'll cover basics of Python and design aspects. Download the notebook.

Sep 2019

25 Sep

Introduction to Quantum Computing (2)

25/09/2019    
3:00 pm-4:30 pm
Ludovic Noirie
When I was student, I was interested in quantum optics: my first paper was about quantum non-linear optics. Quantum computing has become a new hype [...]
25 Sep

Distributed Reconfiguration of Graph Problems

25/09/2019    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Mikael Rabie
In Graph Theory, a reconfiguration problem is as following: given two solutions of a problem and a transition definition, is there a path of acceptable [...]
24 Sep

Thesis Defense : Resource management in computer clusters: algorithm design and performance analysis

24/09/2019    
2:00 pm-4:00 pm
Céline Comte
The growing demand for cloud-based services encourages operators to maximize resource efficiency within computer clusters. This motivates the development of new technologies that make resource [...]
19 Sep

Harnessing the Difficulties of Synchronization

19/09/2019    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Panagiota Fatourou
We are well into the era of multi-core architectures and as the applications demands are still growing, we soon expect to see the first many-cores [...]
18 Sep

Backtrack bandit algorithms for cloud computing

18/09/2019    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Lorenzo Maggi
Unimodal functions arise whenever the expected value f(x) of the metric to be optimized has a single peak as a function of the available control [...]
18 Sep

Introduction to Quantum Computing

18/09/2019    
10:30 am-12:00 pm
Ludovic Noirie
When I was student, I was interested in quantum optics: my first paper was about quantum non-linear optics. Quantum computing has become a new hype [...]
04 Sep

Tractable reliable communication in static and dynamic compromised networks

04/09/2019    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Giovanni Farina
Many solutions to fault tolerant distributed system problems, such as state machine replication, safe broadcast or agreement, rely on reliable communication primitives which guarantee the [...]

Jul 2019

10 Jul

Towards theoretically-founded structure learning

10/07/2019    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Shirin Jalali
Solving most inference tasks, such as denoising and linear regression, relies on exploiting the structure of the desired class of signals (e.g. images).  Traditionally, such structures [...]
10 Jul

Channel Estimation in Visible Light Communications

10/07/2019    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Ho, Sui Wai
In visible light communications (VLC), LEDs are used for not only illumination but also communications. LEDs can further be used to support indoor positioning with [...]
03 Jul

Structural and Temporal Information

03/07/2019    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Wojciech Szpankowski
Shannon's information theory has served as a bedrock for advances in communication and storage systems over the past five decades. However, this theory does not [...]

Jun 2019

26 Jun

Mirai and the Current State of IoT Security

26/06/2019    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Zakir Durumeric
The Mirai botnet, composed primarily of embedded and IoT devices, took the Internet by storm in late 2016 when it overwhelmed and censored high-profile websites [...]
26 Jun

Leveraging Quantum Annealing for Large MIMO Processing in Centralized Radio Access Networks

26/06/2019    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Kyle Jamieson
Conventional thinking treats the wireless channel as a given constraint, so wireless networks to date center on the problem optimizing the communication endpoints. We instead [...]
24 Jun

Introduction to the K-Nearest Neighbors problem

24/06/2019    
10:30 am-12:00 pm
Nathan De Lara
Definition and motivation.Standard algorithms.A new approach.
19 Jun

Fine-grained analysis of wireless networks: Spatial outage capacity and rate control

19/06/2019    
3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Sanket Kalamkar
Modern wireless networks should be able to accommodate a high density of users. But serving more users usually generates higher interference which leads to more [...]
19 Jun

Function Computation in Networks

19/06/2019    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Derya Malak
This talk describes a new perspective on cloud/fog computing, by distributing computation in order to handle the large volume of data with growing computational demand. [...]
17 Jun

Learning regular sets from queries and counterexamples

17/06/2019    
10:30 am-12:00 pm
Marc-Olivier Buob
The problem of identifying an unknown regular set from examples of its members and nonmembers is addressed. It is assumed that the regular set is [...]
12 Jun

Stable Coin

12/06/2019    
6:00 pm-6:30 pm
Nadia Filali
Tags: Stable Coin , Nadia Filali , Caisse des dépôts Slides Marianna Belotti & Nadia Filali - Stable Coin, Caisse des dépôtsDownload
12 Jun

Cooperative games for Atomic Crosschain Swaps

Tags: Cooperative games for Atomic Crosschain Swaps , Marianna Belotti , CNAM , Caisse des Dépots , Sorbonne-Université , Dauphine Slides Marianna Belotti - Cooperative [...]
12 Jun

Blockchains and applications to the smart grids

Tags : Blockchains and applications to the smart grids , José Horta , Telecom Paris & EDF , BlockchainDay Slides Jose Horta - Blockchains and [...]
12 Jun

Polygraph : Accountable Byzantine Agreement

Polygraph Accountable Byzantine Agreement , Pierre Civit , Nexeo , BlockChainDay Slides Pierre Civit - PolygraphDownload
12 Jun

Stakecube: Combining Sharding and Proof-of-Stake to build Fork- free Secure Permissionless Distributed Ledgers

Tags: Stakecube: Combining Sharding and Proof-of-Stake to build Fork- free Secure Permissionless Distributed Ledgers , Antoine Durand , IRT SystemX , BlockchainDay Slides Antoine Durand [...]
12 Jun

Non cooperative games and BFT-based blockchains

12/06/2019    
4:45 pm-5:00 pm
Yackolley Amoussou-Guenou
Non cooperative games and BFT-based blockchains , Yackolley Amoussou-Guenou , Sorbonne-Université CEA , BlockChainDay Slides Yackolley Amoussou-Guenou - Non cooperative games and BFT-based blockchainsDownload
12 Jun

G-IOTA & E-IOTA

Tags: Bu Gewu , Sorbonne Université , Lip6 , UPMC , G-IOTA & E-IOTA , BlockChain Day Slides Gewu Bu - G-IOTA & E-IOTADownload
12 Jun

Game theoretical analysis of competition between miners

Tags: Game theoretical analysis of competition between miners, Eitan Altman, Inria, BlockChain Day Slides Eitan Altman - Game theoretical analysis of competition between minersDownload
12 Jun

Green Mining, Toward a less energetical impact of cryptocurrencies

Tags: Green Mining, Toward a less energetical impact of cryptocurrencies, Philippe Jacquet, Nokia Bell Labs France, BlockChain Day Slides Philippe Jacquet - Green Mining, Toward [...]
12 Jun

Blockchain Communication Protocol

12/06/2019    
3:00 pm-3:30 pm
Antoine Herzog & Karim Ganem
Tags: Antoine Herzog & Karim Ganem, Blockchain Communication Protocol, IOV Slides Antoine Herzog & Karim Ganem - Blockchain Communication ProtocolDownload
12 Jun

Analysis of financial transactions with link streams

Tags: Analysis of financial transactions with link streams, Matthieu Latapy, Sorbonne Université, UPMC, Lip6, BlockChainDay Slides Matthieu Latapy - Analysis of financial transactions with link [...]
12 Jun

IOTA

Tags: IOTA, Quentin Bramas, Université de Strasbourg, BlockChain Day Slides Quentin Bramas - IOTADownload
12 Jun

Lightning Networks

Slides Bastien Teinturier - Lightning NetworksDownload
12 Jun

Sycomore

Tag: Sycomore, Emmanuelle Anceaume, CNRS, Irisa Rennes, BlockChain Day Slides Emmanuelle Anceaume - SycomoreDownload
12 Jun

Veolia blockchain projects

Veolia blockchain projects, Olivier Tridon, Véolia Slides Olivier Tridon - Veolia blockchain projectsDownload
12 Jun

Lifestyle Authentication

12/06/2019-12/07/2019    
12:00 pm-12:30 pm
Rie Yamaguchi
Tags : Lifestyle Authentification, Rie Yamaguchi, Tokyo University, Université de Tokyo, Blockchain Day Slides Rie Yamaguchi - Lifestyle AuthenticationDownload
12 Jun

Multi Signatures for Blockchains

Tags: Multi Signatures for Blockchains, Yannick Seurin, ANSSI, BlockChain Day Slides Yannick Seurin - Multi-Signatures for BlockchainsDownload
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