Seminars

See all upcoming seminars in LäsIT and seminar web pages at the homepage for the PhD studentseminars, TDB, CBA, Theory and Applications Seminars (TAS) @ UpMARC., Department of Mathematics and The Stockholm Logic Seminar.

Docentföreläsning i ämnet datavetenskap med inriktning mot datorkommunikation
Today
Christian Rohner: Sökning i distribuerade mobila nätverk
Location: ITC 2446, Time: 13:15

Sökfunktioner är idag det vanligaste sättet att hitta information på nätet och på den egna datorn. En viktig egenskap hos sökningsalgoritmer är att hitta den mest relevanta informationen i mängden av alla möjliga träffar.

Opportunistiska nätverk är ett paradigm i trådlös mobil kommunikation där noder byter ut information när de är nära varandra. Nätverket är därför dynamiskt och sannolikt segmenterat. Sökning och spridning av information inom nätverket kan därmed inte använda sig av en global syn på nätverket utan ska förlita sig på nodernas lokala syn för att ta beslut vilken information som ska bytas ut när två noder möts. Denna föreläsning diskuterar användning av sökning som central princip för att effektivt hitta relevant information inom ett opportunistiskt nätverk.

Docenturnämndens representant: Professor Ingela Nyström

Föreläsningen hålls på svenska.

TDB seminar
Today
Michael Patriksson, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology and Gothenburg University: Mathematical optimization at Chalmers
Location: ITC 2244, Time: 13:15

Michael is professor in applied mathematics and will speak about optimization on the west coast in general and about two current projects.

(TAS)@UpMarc
Tomorrow (23 May)
Frédéric Haziza : An Integrated Specification and Verification Technique for Highly Concurrent Data Structures
Location: 1145, Time: 10:30

EASST Best Paper Award

We present a technique for automatically verifying safety properties of concurrent programs, in particular programs which rely on subtle dependencies of local states of different threads, such as lock-free implementations of stacks and queues in an environment without garbage collection. Our technique addresses the joint challenges of infinite-state specifications, an unbounded number of threads, and an unbounded heap managed by explicit memory allocation. Our technique builds on the automata-theoretic approach to model checking, in which a ...read more »

This work received the EASST Best Paper Award at the ETAPS 2013 joint conferences in Rome, Italy.

Posterutställning av IT åk 3
Tomorrow (23 May)
, Time: 13:00

Studentprojekten för Självständigt arbete och Uppsatsmetodik på IT-programmets årskurs 3 har posterutställning i korridoren på plan 2 i hus 2. Varmt välkomna!

Seminar at Systems and Control
Tomorrow (23 May)
Prof. Amit Mitra, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India: on Estematin the Parameters of a Non-Linear Chirp Signal Model
Location: ITC 2344, Time: 15:15

Language: English

Abstract
Estimation of the parameters of chirp signal model is a fundamental problem in signal processing and has been of interest for a long time. Chirp signals embedded in additive noise occur in a variety of signal processing applications, e.g. in SAR, inverse SAR imaging, sonar and communications. Given a set of observed signals, the problem is to estimate the unknown frequencies and the frequency rates associated with such a chirp model. In this talk, we present some recent results in this area. Theoretical asymptotic properties of important estimators of the parameters of a real valued non-linear chirp signal model will be discussed.
We first consider the non-linear least squares estimators (NLSE) of the parameters of a chirp model in the presence of a stationary additive noise. Using a number theoretic result, we present a simplified form of the asymptotic variance covariance matrix of the NLSE. We also present a sequential estimation procedure for obtaining the NLSE of a superimposed chirp model and establish, asymptotically, that the proposed estimators are strongly consistent.
We further study the asymptotic theoretical properties of robust least absolute deviation (LAD) estimators of the parameters of a chirp model in the presence of additive white noise. We establish that the LAD estimators are strongly consistent, find the convergence rates and present the form of the asymptotic joint distribution of the resultant estimators.
A computationally efficient algorithm for estimating the frequencies and the frequency rates of a chirp signal model in the presence of stationary noise will also be presented. We show that the proposed iterative algorithm yields efficient estimators in a fixed number of iterations. Strong consistency results and asymptotic equivalence of the proposed estimators and the NLSE of the corresponding parameters will be presented.

CV

All are welcome!

Disputation
Friday 24 May
Rebecka Janols: Evolving Systems – Engaged Users: Key Principles for Improving Region-wide Health IT Adoption
Location: Auditorium Minus, museum Gustavianum, Time: 13:30

Abstract
Opponent: Professor Anne Persson, Forskningscentrum för Informationsteknologi, Högskolan i Skövde.

Licentiate seminar at TDB
31 May
Marcus Holm: Scientific Computing on Hybrid Architectures
Location: ITC 2446, Time: 14:00

Opponent: Dr. Xing Cai, Senior Research Scientist at Simula Research Laboratory and Professor at the University of Oslo

The discussion will be held in English.

Abstract: Modern computer architectures, with multicore CPUs and GPUs or other accelerators, make stronger demands than ever on writers of scientific code. Normally, the most efficient program has to be written - using a substantial effort - by expert programmers for a certain application on a particular computer. This thesis deals with several algorithmic and technical approaches towards effectively satisfying the demand for high performance parallel scientific applications on hybrid computer architectures without incurring such a high cost in expert programmer time. Efficient programming is accomplished by writing performance-portable code where performance-critical functionality is provided either by an optimized library or by adaptively selecting which computational tasks that are executed on the CPU and the accelerator.

Seminar at Systems and Control
31 May
Ass. Prof. Sharmishtha Mitra, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India: Analysis of Life Testing Models under different censoring and stress acceleration schemes
Location: ITC 2344, Time: 14:15

Language: English

Abstract
Traditional life data analysis analyzes time-to-failure data (of a product, system or component) obtained under normal operating conditions to quantify the life characteristics of the objects. Accelerated life test (ALT) is a popular experimental strategy to obtain information on life distributions of highly reliable products. The main idea is to submit materials to higher than usual environmental conditions, or stress, to ensure early failure. Data obtained from such an experiment need to be extrapolated to estimate lifetime distribution under normal conditions.
A Step-Stress life test is a particular type of ALT. We observe the failure times of the products at a particular stress level, and then change the stress to a different level. Failure times in the new stress level are observed, and the stress level is changed again and so on. There are several stress loading schemes - constant stress, step-stress, ramp-stress, progressive stress, etc. Introduction of stresses ensures a reasonable number of failures and reduces the experimental time. The stress structure and the lifetime distribution have to be combined to get the comprehensive ALT model.
The analysis relies on life and stress data or time-to-failure data at a specific stress level. Data are either complete or censored. In this talk we discuss various aspects of the exact inference for the two-parameter Exponential distribution (a standard life-time distribution) under Type-II Hybrid Censoring (a popular censoring method) and Bayesian analysis of different Hybrid and Progressive Life Tests. This would be followed by exact and approximate inference procedures for a Simple Step-Stress model under Exponential distribution with location and scale parameters. We shall further consider the order restricted Bayesian inference for the Exponential Simple Step-Stress Model. Finally, Bayesian analysis of Simple Step-stress Model under Weibull lifetimes (another standard lifetime distribution) would be discussed in brief.

CV

All are welcome!

Licentiatseminarium
4 June
Daniel Elfverson: On Discontinuous Galerkin Multiscale Methods
Location: ITC 2446, Time: 14:00

Abstract

Disputation
5 June
Stefan Hellander: Stochastic simulation of reaction-diffusion processes
Location: ITC 2446, Time: 10:15

Abstract
Opponent: Doctor Koichi Takahashi, RIKEN, Quantitative Biology Center.

Seminar
11 June
Jimmy Ho Man Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong: Constraint Programming on Infinite Data Streams and Applications
Location: ITC 2446, Time: 11:00

Abstract

(TAS)@UpMarc
18 June
David Broman : Modelyze: Embedding DSLs for Modeling and Analyzing Cyber-Physical Systems
Location: 1112, Time: 10:30

Cyber-physical systems combine computations, networks, and physical processes. Modeling and analysis of such systems are vital engineering techniques to mange complexity and enable rapid prototyping. In particular, complex cyber-physical systems are heterogenous, requiring various model of computations. A key challenge is to provide both expressive modeling capabilities and mechanisms for analyzing these heterogenous systems. This talk explores a solution to this challenge based on domain-specific embedded languages. We introduce a host language, named Modelyze, in which various domain-specific modeling languages may be embedded. The key features of ...read more »

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