Workshops

Spring 2018

Real-Time Decision Making Boot Camp

Jan 22, 2018 to Jan 26, 2018

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Monday, January 22nd, 2018
9:00 am–9:20 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:20 am–9:30 am		Opening Remarks
9:30 am–10:30 am		Supernovae and the Era of Synoptic Surveys Peter Nugent, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
10:30 am–11:00 am		Break
11:00 am–12:00 pm		Supernova Detection Danny Goldstein, UC Berkeley
12:00 pm–1:30 pm		Lunch
1:30 pm–2:30 pm		Earthquake Early Warning: Streaming Data to Reduce the Loss Richard Allen, UC Berkeley
2:30 pm–3:00 pm		Break
3:00 pm–4:00 pm		Earthquake Early Warning: MyShake - Building a Global Seismic Network Using Your Smartphones Qingkai Kong, UC Berkeley

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2018
9:00 am–9:30 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am–10:30 am		Understanding and Shaping Urban Mobility Using Dollars and Data I Balaji Prabhakar , Stanford University
10:30 am–11:00 am		Break
11:00 am–12:00 pm		Understanding and Shaping Urban Mobility Using Dollars and Data II Balaji Prabhakar, Stanford University
12:00 pm–1:30 pm		Lunch
1:30 pm–3:00 pm		Operating Bike-Sharing Systems – A Case Study in Real-Time Decision Making David Shmoys, Cornell University
3:00 pm–3:30 pm		Break
3:30 pm–5:00 pm		Ridesharing Sid Banerjee, Cornell University

Wednesday, January 24th, 2018
9:00 am–9:30 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am–10:30 am		A Brief Introduction to Algorithms, Game Theory and Risk-Averse Decision Making Evdokia Nikolova, UT Austin
10:30 am–11:00 am		Break
11:00 am–12:30 pm		Sub-Linear Time Algorithms: Fast, Cheap and (Only a Little) Out of Control Ronitt Rubinfeld, MIT
12:30 pm–2:00 pm		Lunch
2:00 pm–3:00 pm		Feedback Control Theory: Architectures and Tools for Real-Time Decision Making I Richard Murray, Caltech
3:00 pm–3:30 pm		Break
3:30 pm–4:30 pm		Feedback Control Theory: Architectures and Tools for Real-Time Decision Making II Richard Murray, Caltech

Thursday, January 25th, 2018
9:00 am–9:30 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am–10:30 am		The Flow of Power (Part I: Basic Concepts and Models) Steven Low, Caltech
10:30 am–11:00 am		Break
11:00 am–12:00 pm		The Flow of Power (Part II: Power Flow Solutions and Optimization) Steven Low, Caltech
12:00 pm–1:30 pm		Lunch
1:30 pm–3:00 pm		The Flow of Information Sean Meyn, University of Florida
3:00 pm–3:30 pm		Break
3:30 pm–5:00 pm		The Flow of Money Kameshwar Poolla, UC Berkeley

Friday, January 26th, 2018
9:00 am–9:30 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am–10:30 am		Physics at the Large Hadron Collider: A New Window on Matter, Spacetime and the Universe I Harvey Newman, Caltech
10:30 am–11:00 am		Break
11:00 am–12:00 pm		Physics at the Large Hadron Collider: A New Window on Matter, Spacetime and the Universe II Harvey Newman, Caltech