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Project Highlight: Sum of Squares and Polynomial Convexity

Given a multivariate polynomial how can we decide if it is globally nonnegative? This basic question appears ubiquitously in various areas ...

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Project Highlight: Influence of a Degraded Environment on Airspace Safety

The current air transportation system (ATS) is being pushed to operate ever closer to its critical capacity, leading to increases in both the ...

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Project Highlight: Finding the Culprit

In many scenarios such as the spread of viruses in computer networks, the spread of (mis)information in social networks and even the spread ...

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Project Highlight: Approximate Dynamic Programming Using Bellman Residual Elimination

Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) are a powerful and general framework for addressing problems involving sequential decision-making under uncertainty.  Such problems occur ...

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Project Highlight: Classification and Dimensionality Reduction Using Geometric Level Set Methods

Shell International uses noisy measurements to tell the difference between two types of rock, sandstone and shale, which is useful for ...

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Project Highlight: Market Mechanisms for Matching Supply and Demand in Smart Power Grids

In the transformation of today’s power grids to smart grids, a major challenge to be overcome is to offset the supply-side ...

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Project Highlight: Communication and Learning in Social Networks

Most individuals form their opinions about the quality of products, social trends and political issues via their interactions in social and economic ...

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Project Highlight: Decentralized Spacecraft Formation Flight

The objective of this research is the development of control mechanisms for spacecraft formation flight with minimal information transfer between spacecraft. The ...

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Project Highlight: Large-Deviation Analysis for the Learning of Markov Tree Structures

Learning the structure of a graphical model (or Bayesian network) from data is a fundamental task in many scientific domains. In this work, ...

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Project Highlight: Scaling Laws for Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

We develop approximate asymptotic characterizations of the performance of large heterogeneous wireless networks. We consider the impact of location, traffic, and service heterogeneity. ...

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Project Highlight: Non-monotonic Lyapunov Functions for Analysis of Nonlinear Systems

Lyapunov’s stability theorem and its many variants comprise a central core of control theory and have a wide array of applications ranging from ...

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LIDS NEWS

May 2013: MIT News writes article featuring work by Prof. John Tsitsiklis and Kuang Xu

Prof. John Tsitsiklis and Kuang Xu had their work featured in the May 1, 2013 MIT News article Valuing Versatility.

April 2013: Ermin Wei selected as one of MIT Graduate Women of Excellence

Ermin 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.

April 2013: LIDS Alum Nils Sandell, Jr. named Director of DARPA's Strategic Technology Office

Former 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.

LIDS EVENTS
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

LIDS Seminar
Tuesday, May 14 at 4pm in 32-155
Bobak Nazer (Boston University)
Harnessing Interference via Algebraic Structure