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Caterina
Caterina was invited and participated to the "NSF Future Internet Summit" October 12 - 15 2009.
Sohini
Congratulations to Sohini for her paper accepted in EPIDEMICS², Second International Conference on Infectious Diseases Dynamics, 2009, Athens, Greece. Great job!!
US Senate
The Sunflower Networking Group was invited to go to Washington DC on July 8 and 9, 2009 for the National Science Foundation (NSF) open-house luncheon briefing on cyber-physical systems (CPS). Held in the Hart Senate Office Building, the luncheon briefing allowed industry and academic experts to share their insights into an area of IT that has been the subject of increasing attention from Congress since a President's Council of Advisors for Science and Technology called it out for increased priority. Great job Phillip, Sakshi, Ali, and Amy!!!
Videos
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Dr. Piet F. A. Van Mieghem
Professor
Delft University of Technology
June 29, 2009 10:30 a.m. Fiedler Auditorium 1107
Title: Virus spread in Networks
Abstract: In this presentation, the influence of the network characteristics on the virus spread is analyzed. In particular, our new model, the N-intertwined Markov chain, whose only approximation lies in the application of mean field theory, will be presented. The mean field approximation is quantified in detail. The N-intertwined model has been compared with the exact 2N -state Markov model and with previously proposed “homogeneous” or “local” models. The sharp epidemic threshold Tau_c, which is a consequence of mean field theory, is rigorously shown to be equal to Tau_c = 1 / Lambda_max(A), where Lambda_max(A) is the largest eigenvalue – the spectral radius – of the adjacency matrix A. A continued fraction expansion of the steady-state infection probability at node j is presented, as well as several upperbounds. Some concepts from algebraic graph theory, such as algebraic connectivity and isoperimetric constant, will also be introduced to explain our understanding.
Bio: Piet F. A. Van Mieghem is professor at the Delft University of Technology with a chair in telecommunication networks and chairman of the section Network Architectures and Services (NAS). His main research interests lie in new Internet-like architectures for future, broadband and QoS-aware networks and in the modelling and performance analysis of network behavior and complex infrastructures. Professor Van Mieghem received a Master's and Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from the K.U. Leuven (Belgium) in 1987 and 1991, respectively. Before joining Delft, he worked at the Interuniversity Micro Electronic Center (IMEC) from 1987 to 1991. During 1993 to 1998, he was a member of the Alcatel Corporate Research Center in Antwerp where he was engaged in performance analysis of ATM systems and in network architectural concepts of both ATM networks (PNNI) and the Internet. He was a visiting scientist at MIT (department of Electrical Engineering, 1992-1993) and, in 2005, he was visiting professor at UCLA (department of Electrical Engineering). He was member of the editorial board of the journal Computer Networks from 2005-2006. Currently, he serves on the editorial board of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.
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Dr. Mark Newman, Professor of Physics,
University of Michigan
September 4 2008
Epidemics, Erdos numbers, and the Internet: The structure and function of complex networks
There are networks in almost every part of our lives. Some of them are familiar and obvious: the Internet, the power grid, the road network. Others are less obvious but just as important: the patterns of friendships or acquaintances between people form a social network; the species in an ecosystem join together to form a food web; the workings of the body's cells are dictated by a metabolic network of chemical reactions. As large-scale data on these networks and others have become available in the last few years, a new science of networks has grown up, drawing on ideas from math, engineering, biology, physics and other fields to shed light on systems ranging from bacteria to the whole of human society. This lecture will look at some new discoveries regarding networks, how these discoveries were made, and what they can tell us about the way the world works.
Mark Newman received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Oxford in 1991 and, after postdoctoral work at Cornell University, joined the staff of the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico, a think-tank devoted to the study of complex systems. In 2002 he left Santa Fe to move to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He is currently the Paul A. M. Dirac Professor of Physics at the University of Michigan as well as a professor in the university's Center for the Study of Complex Systems.
Professor Newman's research is on networks, including computer networks and social networks, and he has worked on topics as diverse as the spread of computer viruses on the Internet, the spread of human diseases over social networks, the pattern of collaborations between scientists in different fields, and the networks formed by committees in the US House of Representatives.
Dr. Mark Newman lecture at K-State on "Epidemics, Erdos numbers, and the Internet: The structure and function of complex networks".
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Master Thesis Defense of Mina Youssef
DATE: Friday, November 30th, 2007 TIME: 1:30 pm VENUE: EECE Dept conference room TITLE: OPTIMAL TOPOLOGY DESIGN FOR VIRTUAL NETWORKS
THE NABC FORUM
DATE: Thursday, August 2, 2007 TIME: 9:00 am. VENUE: KSU Union, Room 212
AGENDA:
9:00 - 9:10 | Introductory comments by Drs. Marty Vanier and Curtis Kastner
9:10 - 10:00 | Controlling Epidemic Outbreaks through Modeling, Analysis, and Optimization of Complex Networks:
by Dr. Caterina Scoglio, Dr. Todd Easton, Dr. Don Gruenbacher, and Phillip Schumm.
10:00 | Questions
Dr. Tricha Anjali is coming to visit our group from March 5, 2007 to March 9 2007.
Thanks to the NSF ADVANCE program that is supporting the travel expenses for this visit.
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Dr. Jennifer Rexford, Professor
Department of Computer Science, Princeton University
Title: GENI: Global Environment for Network Innovations
Date: March 8, 2007
Time: 3:30 PM
Location: 1107 Fiedler Auditorium, Fiedler Hall, Kansas State University, Manhattan KS
ABSTRACT: Despite its tremendous success, the Internet architecture is showing its age.
Security is weak and the problems are worsening; availability continues to be a challenge;
network management is complex and expensive; and mobile hosts are difficult to handle.
Yet, researchers interested in designing new network architectures face an unfortunate
catch-22. New ideas are not likely to see significant adoption without evaluation of prototype systems under realistic conditions, and yet deploying a prototype in a production network is difficult without first demonstrating the value. The GENI initiative at the U.S. National Science Foundation aims to break this cycle by providing the networking research community with a controlled and realistic environment to evaluate new network architectures. This talk will provide an overview of GENI and its three main features---virtualization, programmability, and user opt-in---as well as the current thinking about the design of the various components.
BIO: Jennifer Rexford is a Professor in the Computer Science department at Princeton University. From 1996-2004, she was a member of the Network Management and Performance Department at AT&T Labs--Research. Her research focuses on Internet routing, network measurement, and network management, with the larger goal of making data networks easier to design, understand, and manage. Jennifer is co-author of the book "Web Protocols and Practice" (Addison-Wesley, May 2001). Jennifer serves as the chair of ACM SIGCOMM and a member the CRA Board of Directors. She received her BSE degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University in 1991, and her MSE and PhD degrees in computer science and electrical engineering from the University of Michigan in 1993 and 1996, respectively. She was the winner of ACM's Grace Murray Hopper Award for outstanding young computer professional of the year for 2004.
Visit Itinerary for Jennifer Rexford
9:00 Meeting1 (FIND Proposal: Caterina, Tricha) 10:00 Student Presentations (Ben, Mina, Supriya, Chris) 11:30 Networking Course EECE841 (Lecture by Jennifer on Internet Topology Measur.) 12:30 Lunch: Jennifer and women students in science and engineering (Harry's) 14:00 Meeting2 (Resilient Networks: James Sterbenz, University of Kansas) 15:30 Advance Distinguished Lecture, Fiedler 1107 (Presentation by Jennifer on GENI) 17:00 Meeting3 (Traffic Measurement and Modelling: Caterina and Tricha) 18:30 Dinner: Houlihan's (Jennifer, Anil, Tricha,Caterina, Ben, Amber)
