Public presentations 2019

2019

• ETH-Tight Exact Algorithms for Hard Geometric Problems Using Geometric Separators
  de Berg, M., Invited plenary presentation at the 13th International Conference and Workshop on Algorithms and Computation (WALCOM), Guwahati, India

• ETH-Tight Exact Algorithms for Hard Geometric Problems Using Geometric Separators
  de Berg, M., Invited plenary presentation at the 31st Canadian Conference in Computational Geometry (CCCG), Alberta, Canada

• From the single server queue to reflected autoregressive processes
  Boxma, O., ICMS Conference, Edinburgh, 15 May 2019

• Multiplayer XOR games & tensor norms
  Briët, J., Workshop on the Connes embedding problem, Banff International Research Station, Canada

• Quantum query algorithms are not nonlocal games

  Briët, J., Research program on quantum information, ICMAT Madrid, Spain

• Arithmetic progressions in nonlocal games and quantum query algorithms
  Briët, J., Workshop on Analytical and combinatorial aspects of quantum information theory, International Center for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh, UK

• Approximate pricing in networks: How to boost the betweenness and revenue of a node
  Brokkelkamp, K.R., ISAAC 2019: The 30th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation, 10 December 2019

• Quantum Computers and the Quantum Revolution
  Buhrman, H., KU Leuven, 24 September 2019

• Critical percolation on scale-free random graphs
  van der Hofstad, R., RIMS Probability Seminar Kyoto, 20 February 2019

• Progress in High-dimensional Percolation
  van der Hofstad, R., Probability Seminar, NYU Shanghai, 26 February 2019

• Progress in High-dimensional Percolation
  van der Hofstad, R., Fudan Academic Frontier Forum, Fudan University Shanghai, 28 February 2019

• Critical percolation on scale-free random graphs
  

  van der Hofstad, R., STAR Workshop on Random Graphs, Groningen, 10-12 April 2019

• Critical percolation on scale-free random graphs
  van der Hofstad, R., Conference on Graphs, Networks, and their Applications Moscow, 12-17 May 2019

• Scale-free Percolation
  

  van der Hofstad, R., Network Science Institute, Northeastern University Boston, 17 September 2019

• Ising models on random graphs
  van der Hofstad, R., MIT Probability Seminar, 23 September 2019

• Competition and rumor spread on scale-free random graphs
  

  van der Hofstad, R., DAMUT Lunchbag Colloquium, Twente University, 2 October 2019

• Critical percolation on scale-free random graphs
  van der Hofstad, R., Mark Kac Seminar Utrecht, 4 October 2019

• Relating Structure and Function of Complex Networks
  

  van der Hofstad, R., TI Dutch Network Economics Day, Tinbergen Institute, 17 October 2019

• The hierarchical Cannings process

  den Hollander, F., Workshop on Spatial Population Models, Erlangen, Germany, 25-27 March 2019

• Spatial populations with seed-bank

  den Hollander, F., & Oomen, M., Workshop on Population Dynamics and Statistical Physics in Synergy, Centro di Ricerca Matematica Ennio De Giorgi, Pisa, Italy, 1-3 April 2019

• Thermodynamics on Networks

  den Hollander, F., Invited session on the 15th Joint European Thermodynamics Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 21-24 April 2019

• Metastability for the Widom-Rowlinson model

  den Hollander, F., Conference on Probability Theory and Mathematical Physics, Skoltech, Moscow, Russia, 24-28 June 2019

• Mini-symposium on Hamilton-Jacobi in Probability

  den Hollander F., Equadiff 2019, Leiden, The Netherlands, 8-12 July 2019

• Metastability for the Widom-Rowlinson model: microscopic and mesoscopic fluctuations of the critical droplet

  den Hollander, F., Workshop on Universality in Interacting Particle Systems, University of Cologne, Germany, 2-3 September 2019

• Hierarchical seed-banks

  den Hollander, F. & Oomen, M., Workshop on Evolutionary Consequences of Dormancy, Technical University Berlin, Germany, 16-18 September 2019

• Graphon dynamics

  den Hollander, F., Workshop on Geographic Spaces for Evolution: from Lattices to Graphs to Continuum, Erlangen, Germany, 12-13 December 2019

• Sparsification for Constraint Satisfaction Problems
  Jansen, B.M.P., Invited talk at the Workshop on Kernelization (WORKER 2019), 5 June 2019, Bergen, Norway

• Parameterized Complexity of Graph Coloring Problems
  Jansen, B.M.P., Invited talk at Dagstuhl Seminar 19271: Graph Colouring: from Structure to Algorithms, 3 July 2019, Dagstuhl, Germany

• Data-driven decision making under uncertainty

  Kapodistria, S., Invited talk at YEQT XIII: Data-Driven Analytics and Optimisation for Stochastic Systems, 2019

• Integrated learning and decision making
  

  Kapodistria, S., Invited talk at AI meetings, EAISI, 2019

• Overview of first passage times calculations for double thresholded processes
  Kapodistria, S., Invited talk at the 20th INFORMS Applied Probability Society Conference, 2019

• Machine learning meets stochastic modelling and optimisation
  

  Kapodistria, S., Invited talk at Applied Square Probability, Queensland, 2019

• Decision making under uncertainty, Queues, Modelling, and Markov Chains
  Kapodistria, S., A Workshop Honouring Prof. Peter Taylor, Queensland, 2019

• Knowledge through big data: Measuring and detecting for energy systems
  Kapodistria, S., NWO Energy meeting, Amsterdam, 2019

• Exact and approximate solutions for a class of stochastic dynamic programming problems
  

  Kapodistria, S., Invited talk at the 55th Dutch Mathematical Congress (NMC), 2019

• Exact and approximate solutions for decision making under uncertainty
  Kapodistria, S., Invited seminar talk, University of Athens, 2019

• The workload correlation function is positive, decreasing and convex
  

  Mandjes, M., Key note lecture at YEQT XIII, Eindhoven, the Netherlands

• Estimating the input of a Levy-driven queue by Poisson sampling of the workload process
  Mandjes, M., Invited talk workshop Honouring Prof. Peter Taylor, Eagle Heights, Australia

• Simulation-based assessment of the stationary tail distribution of a stochastic differential equation
  Mandjes, M., Invited talk University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

• Proportionally fair scheduling for traffic light networks
  Núñez-Queija, R., Symposium on Queueing and traffic, Enschede, 27 September 2019

• Spatial populations with seed-bank

  Oomen, M., Workshop on Spatial Population Models, Erlangen, Germany, 25-27 March 2019

• Spatial populations with seed-bank

  Oomen, M., Japanese-Dutch meeting, Lorentz Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, 30 May 2019

• Hierarchical seed-banks

  Oomen, M., Workshop on Geographic Spaces for Evolution: from Lattices to Graphs to Continuum, Erlangen, Germany, 12-13 December 2019

• Approximately counting proper colourings in bounded degree graphs through the Potts model

  Patel, V., conference talk at ‘Random structures and algorithms’,  ETH Zürich, 15-19 July 2019

• Zero-free regions of graph polynomials and computational counting

  Patel, V., conference talk at British Combinatorial Conference, 29 July-2 August 2019

• Algorithmic extensions of the Bollobas-Haggkvist conjecture

  Patel, V., invited talk at ‘Structure, sparsity, and randomness’, Radboud University Nijmegen, 4-5 November 2019

• Reducing latency via redundancy scheduling

  Raaijmakers, Y., Lunteren Conference on the Mathematics of Operations Research, Lunteren, The Netherlands, 15 January 2019

• Delta probing policies for redundancy

  Raaijmakers, Y., Beta Symposium, Soesterberg, The Netherlands, 11 April 2019

• Achievable stability in redundancy scheduling

  Raaijmakers, Y., 20th INFORMS Applied Probability Society Conference, Brisbane, Australia, 3 July 2019

• Statistical estimation of the input to a queue by Poisson probing
  Ravner, L., Queueing Colloquium at CWI, May 2019, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

• Estimating the input of a Lévy queue by Poisson sampling of the workload process

  Ravner, L., DynStoch, June 2019, Delft, The Netherlands

• Statistical estimation of the input to a queue by Poisson probing
  

  Ravner, L., Informs Applied Probability Society Meeting (APS), July 2019, Brisbane, Australia

• Queue-based activation protocols in random-access networks

  Sfragara, M., Leiden Complex Networks Network (LCN2) Seminar, Leiden University, January 2019

• Queue-based activation protocols in random-access networks

  Sfragara, M., ISI Probability Seminar, Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata, India, February 2019

• Queue-based activation protocols in random-access networks

  Sfragara, M., ISI Probability Seminar, Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore, India, March 2019

• Queue-based activation protocols in random-access networks

  Sfragara, M., Second Italian Meeting on Probability and Mathematical Statistics, Salerno, Italy, June 2019

• Spectra of adjacency and Laplacian matrices of inhomogeneous Erdős-Rényi random graphs

  Sfragara, M., Workshop on “Random Graphs, Counting and Sampling”, Amsterdam CWI, September 2019

• Complete resource pooling of a load balancing policy for a network of battery swapping stations

  Sloothaak, F., YEQT, Eurandom, Eindhoven, October 2019

• Emergence of scale-free blackout sizes in power grids

  Sloothaak, F., Heavy Tails workshop, Eindhoven, December 2019

• Online Interval Scheduling on Two Related Machines: the Power of Lookahead
  Spieksma, F.C.R., 14th Workshop on Models and Algorithms for Planning and Scheduling Problems, Renesse, June 2019

• On the flexibility of Home-Away Pattern sets

  Spieksma, F.C.R., 30th European Conference on Operational Research, Dublin, June 2019

• On the flexibility of Home-Away Pattern sets
  

  Spieksma, F.C.R., 7th International Conference on Mathematics in Sport, Athens, July 2019