Delivery-Date: Tue Apr 20 21:22:04 2010
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Subject: FWD: Augustin Chaintreau seminar on Thursday
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:20:55 -0700
From: Bill Cheng <william@bourbon.usc.edu>

Hi everyone,

Since we have been talking about peer-to-peer systems and
mobile networking this semester, I would like to encourage
you to attend a talk given by a CS faculty candidate this
Thursday at 3:30pm in SSL 150.  Please see the talk
announcement below.  The speaker is a "rising star" in
the field of networking research.  So, the talk should be
interesting.

(I should mentione that this is not a requirement.  What's
mentioned in this talk will not be part of the final exam.)
--
Bill Cheng // bill.cheng@usc.edu <URL:http://merlot.usc.edu/william/usc/>


  -----Original Message-----
  Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:33:00 -0700
  From: Ramesh Govindan <ramesh@usc.edu>
  To: John Heidemann <johnh@isi.edu>,
      Bill Cheng <william@bourbon.usc.edu>,
      Leana Golubchik <leana@bourbon.usc.edu>,
      Cyrus Shahabi <shahabi@usc.edu>,
      Bhaskar Krishnamachari <bkrishna@usc.edu>,
      Konstantinos Psounis <kpsounis@usc.edu>
  Subject: Augustin Chaintreau seminar on Thursday

  Folks,
  
  Can I ask if you would encourage the students in your lab and in your
  respective classes to attend Augustin's talk?
  
  Thanks!
  
  Ramesh
  http://cs.usc.edu/~ramesh
  
  Thursday, April 22, 2010
  
  CS Colloq: Augustin Chaintreau
  Time: 3:30 PM - 5 PM
  
  Location: SSL 150
  
  Talk Title: Addressing the Mobile Social Data Deluge
  Speaker: Dr. Augustin Chaintreau
  Host: Prof. Ramesh Govindan
  
  Abstract:
  Extracting the full economic and scientific value of the "data
  deluge", which follows from the information produced and consumed
  online by individuals, is redefining the frontier of computer science.
  Five years after one of the first experiments on mobile social
  dynamics, the size and scope of data collected or accessed through
  mobile devices have increased dramatically. In this talk, it is argued
  that understanding and releasing the potential of mobile social
  networks is possible provided that three key challenges are addressed:
  the lack of a guiding theory, the need to design algorithms exploiting
  social properties, and the presence of entities with competing goals.
  Although these broad challenges are likely to exist for some time,
  this talk presents three examples in which these issues are addressed,
  using new analytical and algorithmic tools, to improve the efficiency
  of information dissemination.
  
  Bio:
  A. Chaintreau graduated in 2006 from Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris.
  He joined Technicolor (previously known as Thomson) to contribute to
  the creation of a new research lab on advanced communication
  platforms, where his research deals with mobile and social dynamics in
  information systems. Prior to that, he worked at Intel Research
  Cambridge where he was involved in conducting the first measurement
  campaign of opportunistic mobile dissemination. During his Ph.D, made
  under the supervision of Francois Baccelli, he worked with Alcatel
  Bell, and the IBM Watson T.J. Research Center, on characterizing
  scalable resource sharing systems in the presence of fairness and
  reliability constraints.