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  <td align=center><font size="+2" color=blue>Connections II:</font></td>
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<tr><td align=center><font size="+2" color = blue> Fundamentals of Network Science</font></td>
<tr><td align=center><font size="+1" color=blue>14-18 August 2006 <br> Pasadena, CA</font></td>
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| width=20% align=center | [http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~murray/connections/register.html Register]
| width=20% align=center | Participants
| width=20% align=center | [[Connections_II_travel|Travel Info]]
| width=20% align=center | [http://www.cds.caltech.edu CDS Home]
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<center><font size="+1">The workshop will take place in Dabney Hall ([http://www.caltech.edu/map/Caltech-map-2006-02-10.pdf campus map]).</font></center>
== Invited speakers (confirmed) ==
* Samuel Buss, UC, San Diego
* Mung Chiang, Princeton
* Ali Jadbabaie, Penn
* Neil Gershenfeld, MIT
* Keith Glover, Cambridge
* Bill Helton, UC, San Diego
* Mustafa Khammash, UC, Santa Barbara
* Sanjay Lall, Stanford
* Nuno Martins, U. Maryland
* Antonis Papachristodoulou, Oxford
* Pablo Parrilo, MIT
* Mihai Putinar, UC, Santa Barbara
* Lawrence Saul, UC, San Diego
* Christina Smolke, Caltech
* Lin Xiao, Microsoft Research
== Caltech organizers and speakers ==
* Jean-Charles Delvenne, John Doyle, Maryam Fazel, Richard Murray, Ben Recht, Henrik Sandberg
== Agenda ==
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'''Mon(Tutorial), Tue-Thur (workshop), Fri(Student talks)'''
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'''Mon-Thur (workshop)''' - Daily schedule
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{{agenda item|08:00|Breakfast (buffet)}}
{{agenda item|08:30|Early morning talks}}
{{agenda item|10:15|Morning break}}
{{agenda item|10:45|Late morning talks}}
{{agenda item|12:15|Lunch (buffet)}}
{{agenda item|13:00|Early afternoon talks}}
{{agenda item|14:30|Afternoon break}}
{{agenda item|14:45|Late afternoon talks}}
{{agenda item|16:00|Afternoon break until dinner}}
{{agenda item|18:00|Dinner (buffet, Tue-Wed only)}}
{{agenda item|18:30|Dinner talk (Tue-Wed only)}}
{{agenda item|19:30|Dessert, wine, and...}}
{{agenda end}}
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'''Monday''' - Tutorial speaker list
* Schedule TBD: Pablo Parrilo, John Doyle, Maryam Fazel, Xin Liu, Nuno Martins, Ben Recht, Lijun Chen
* [[Media:doyle_tutintro-14aug06.pdf|Introduction]], John Doyle
* [[Media:chen_wctut-14aug06.pdf|The capacity of wireless networks]], Lijun Chen
* [[Media:martins_infotheory-14aug06.pdf|Basic results and definitions of information theory]], Nuno Martins
* [[Media:delvenne_thermo-14aug06.pdf|Notions of Energy and Entropy]], Jean-Charles Delvenne and Henrik Sandberg
* [[Media:fazel_percolation-14aug06.pdf|Complexity and fragility in the lattice percolation problem]], Maryam Fazel
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'''Tuesday''' - Hard Limits
{{agenda begin}}
{{agenda item|08:30|John Doyle, [[Media:doyle_overview-15aug06.pdf|Workshop Overview]]}}
{{agenda item|    |Henrik Sandberg/Jean-Charles Delvenne: [[Media:sandberg_statmech-15aug06.pdf|Control, information, and statistical mechanics]]}}
{{agenda item|    |Nuno Martins: [[Media:martins_commctrl-15aug06.pdf|Communications and control]]}}
{{agenda item|    |Pablo Parrilo:  [[Media:parrilo_introcomp-15aug06.pdf|Intro to computational complexity]]}}
{{agenda item|13:00|Pablo Parrilo: Computational complexity and formal methods}}
{{agenda item|    |Mustafa Khammash: [[Media:khammash_master-15aug06.pdf|Complexity of the chemical master equation]]}}
{{agenda item|    |Maryam Fazel, [[Media:fazel_lp-15aug06.pdf|Complexity and Fragility in Linear Programming]]}}
{{agenda item|    |Dennice Gayme, [[Media:gayme_mandelbrot-15aug06.pdf|Complexity implies fragility]]}}
{{agenda item|    |Pablo Parrilo/John Doyle: Recap and wrapup}}
{{agenda item|18:30|Christina Smolke: Regulatory mechanisms in natural and synthetic biology}}
{{agenda end}}
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'''Wednesday''' - Short Proofs
{{agenda begin}}
{{agenda item|08:30|Pablo Parrilo, Day Overview}}
{{agenda item|    |Mihai Putinar: [[Media:putinar_ppfs-16aug06.pdf|Polynomial proofs and operator theory]]}}
{{agenda item|    |Samuel Buss: [[Media:buss_pfsys-16aug06.pdf|Proof systems]]}}
{{agenda item|    |Bill Helton: [[Media:helton_sipfs-16aug06.pdf|Scale-independent proofs in systems and control]]}}
{{agenda item|13:00|Carla Gomes: [[Media:gomes_sat-16aug06.pdf|SAT Solvers and state of the art]] ([http://www.cs.cornell.edu/gomes/TMP/Gomes-connections2.zip zipped movies])]}}
{{agenda item|    |John Doyle: Layering architectures, examples}}
{{agenda item|    |Mung Chiang: [[Media:chiang_layering-16aug06.pdf|Layering, optimization, and duality]]}}
{{agenda item|    |Parrilo: Recap and wrapup}}
{{agenda item|18:30|Neil Gershenfeld: Math as computer programming}}
{{agenda end}}
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'''Thursday''' - Small Models
{{agenda begin}}
{{agenda item|08:30|Ali J/ Sanj L/Antonis P: Networks and decentralized control}}
{{agenda item|        |Ali Jadbabaie, [[Media:jadbabaie_consensus-17aug06.pdf|Flocking and consensus algorithms]]}}
{{agenda item|        |Sanjay Lall, [[Media:lall_decentralized-17aug06.pdf|Decentralized control]]}}
{{agenda item|13:00|Lawrence Saul, Spectral methods in machine learning}}
{{agenda item|    |Ben Recht, [[Media:recht_warping-17aug06.pdf|Diffeomorphic Warping]]}}
{{agenda item|    |Lin Xiao, [[Media:xiao_spectral-17aug06.pdf|A Duality View of Spectral Methods for Dimensionality Reduction]]}}
{{agenda item|    |Parrilo: Recap and wrapup}}
{{agenda item|16:00|Adjourn, dinner on own}}
{{agenda end}}
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'''Friday''' - Student talks
{{agenda begin}}
{{agenda item|09:00|Breakfast (buffet)}}
{{agenda item|09:30|Morning talks and break
* Tamas Keviczky, [[Media:keviczky_drhc-18aug06.pdf|Distributed LQR and Predictive Control]]
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{{agenda item|12:00|Lunch (buffet)}}
{{agenda item|13:00|Afternoon talks and break}}
{{agenda item|16:00|End}}
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== Additional Information ==
The main workshop will be held on 15-17 August 2006 in Pasadena, CA, with additional sessions on Monday and Friday for interested participants:
* Monday: tutorial sessions
* Tuesday: Hard Limits
* Wednesday: Short Proofs
* Thursday: Small Models
* Friday: student presentations<br>
* [http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~murray/connections/register.html Register to attend]<br>
* [[Connections II Participants|Participants (restricted page)]]
The Connections workshop is sponsored by Caltech and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

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