







Project Highlight: Sum of Squares and Polynomial ConvexityGiven a multivariate polynomial how can we decide if it is globally nonnegative? This basic question appears ubiquitously in various areas ... Read more |
Project Highlight: Influence of a Degraded Environment on Airspace SafetyThe current air transportation system (ATS) is being pushed to operate ever closer to its critical capacity, leading to increases in both the ... Read more |
Project Highlight: Finding the CulpritIn many scenarios such as the spread of viruses in computer networks, the spread of (mis)information in social networks and even the spread ... Read more |
Project Highlight: Approximate Dynamic Programming Using Bellman Residual EliminationMarkov Decision Processes (MDPs) are a powerful and general framework for addressing problems involving sequential decision-making under uncertainty. Such problems occur ... Read more |
Project Highlight: Classification and Dimensionality Reduction Using Geometric Level Set MethodsShell International uses noisy measurements to tell the difference between two types of rock, sandstone and shale, which is useful for ... Read more |
Project Highlight: Market Mechanisms for Matching Supply and Demand in Smart Power GridsIn the transformation of today’s power grids to smart grids, a major challenge to be overcome is to offset the supply-side ... Read more |
Project Highlight: Communication and Learning in Social NetworksMost individuals form their opinions about the quality of products, social trends and political issues via their interactions in social and economic ... Read more |
Project Highlight: Decentralized Spacecraft Formation FlightThe objective of this research is the development of control mechanisms for spacecraft formation flight with minimal information transfer between spacecraft. The ... Read more |
Project Highlight: Large-Deviation Analysis for the Learning of Markov Tree StructuresLearning the structure of a graphical model (or Bayesian network) from data is a fundamental task in many scientific domains. In this work, ... Read more |
Project Highlight: Scaling Laws for Heterogeneous Wireless NetworksWe develop approximate asymptotic characterizations of the performance of large heterogeneous wireless networks. We consider the impact of location, traffic, and service heterogeneity. ... Read more |
Project Highlight: Non-monotonic Lyapunov Functions for Analysis of Nonlinear SystemsLyapunov’s stability theorem and its many variants comprise a central core of control theory and have a wide array of applications ranging from ... Read more |
| LIDS NEWS |
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May 2013: MIT News writes article featuring work by Prof. John Tsitsiklis and Kuang XuProf. John Tsitsiklis and Kuang Xu had their work featured in the May 1, 2013 MIT News article Valuing Versatility. |
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April 2013: Ermin Wei selected as one of MIT Graduate Women of ExcellenceErmin Wei has been selected as one of the MIT Graduate Women of Excellence. The honorees were nominated by their peers, faculty, and staff based on their leadership and service contributions at thee Institute and their dedication to mentoring and drive to make changes to improve student experience. |
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April 2013: LIDS Alum Nils Sandell, Jr. named Director of DARPA's Strategic Technology OfficeFormer LIDS graduate student and EECS and LIDS faculty member Nils R. Sandell, Jr. has been named as Director of DARPA's Strategic Technology Office. Nils is best known for his leadership of ALPHATECH, a company he founded together with several others including former LIDS Director Mike Athans and current LIDS Director Alan Willsky. |
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| LIDS EVENTS |
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| May 17, 2013 Room 32-123, Stata Center, MIT Professor Dimitri Bertsekas will be honored on the occasion of the publication of his 15th book with talks featuring four of his collaborators followed by a reception. More information, including a schedule and list of abstracts, can be found here. |
| LIDS Seminar Tuesday, May 7 at 4pm in 32-155 Maryam Fazel (U. Washington) Recovery and Denoising of Simultaneously Structured Models with Limited Information |
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LIDS Seminar |