Stochastic Networks

 Conference 

June 23-28, 2008

École Normale Supérieure, Paris

Program Committee
Francois Baccelli, chair
Serguei Foss
Peter Glynn
Mike Harrison
Frank Kelly
P.R. Kumar
Tom Kurtz
Jean Mairesse, co-chair
Neil O'Connell
Ruth Williams

Local Arrangements
Glenn Merlet
Eric Thierry

Administrative Assistant
Nathalie Abiola
Chantal Girodon

Sponsors
ANR
INRIA
EuroNGI
ÉNS

This week-long international conference continues a tradition of similar meetings held over the last 20 years. The meetings began with the workshop organized by Peter Glynn and Tom Kurtz in Madison in 1987. The last three editions were held in Stanford (2002), Montreal (2004) and Urbana-Champaign (2006). These meetings have brought together mathematicians and applied researchers, including many from industry, who share an interest in stochastic network models.

Like its predecessors, the Paris Stochastic Networks Conference emphasize new model structures and new mathematical problems that are motivated by contemporary developments.

There was 20 invited talks over a six-day period (Monday through Saturday), plus contributed poster sessions, with plenty of time in the interstices for informal discussion.

    Program

Best poster lecture :

Correlation Decay in Random Decision Networks: Sufficient Conditions for Efficient Decentralized Optimization, David Gamarnik by and Théophane Weber (MIT)

   Invited Talks with abstracts and presentation files

   Posters list

   Schedule

      Other information

- Registration was free, but there was a maximum number of 170 participants
To register for the conference, please follow the instructions here.

- How to go from ENS to the Senat (social event)

- Videos of the talks are avaliables there

- The conference included a contributed poster session.

- Local Information, including maps and hotels.

- Download the announcement poster

- Funding was anticipated from the US NSF to support attendance at the Conference by new researchers from US institutions. Deadline was April 5, 2008.  Click here for information.

Link to previous Stochastic Networks meetings:

http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~frank/sn/

Last modified May 24, 2008