[Colloq] REMINDER: Colloquium - Madhav Marathe, TODAY, Wednesday, May 6, 11am

[Rachel Kalweit]

The College of Computer and Information Science Colloquium presents:


Speaker:
Madhav  Marathe 
Dept. of Computer Science and 
Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory 
Virginia Bio-Informatics Institute  
Virginia Tech


Wednesday, May 6
11:00am
366 West Village H


Talk Title:
High Performance Computational Network Science: Epidemics in Social and Wireless Networks
  

Abstract:
Complex Networks are pervasive in our society.  Realistic biological,information, social and technical networks share a number of unique features that distinguish them from physical networks.  Examples of such features include: irregularity, time-varying structure,
heterogeneity among individual components and selfish/cooperative game-like behavior by individual components.  Furthermore, the network structure, the dynamical process on the network and the behavior of constituent agents co-evolve over time.  The size and heterogeneity
of these networks, their co-evolving nature and the technical difficulties in applying dimension reduction techniques commonly used to analyze physical systems makes reasoning, prediction 
and controlling of these networks even more challenging.
  
Recent quantitative changes in high performance and pervasive computing including faster machines, distributed sensors and service-oriented software have created new opportunities 
for collecting, integrating,analyzing and accessing information related to such large complex
networks.  The advances in network and information science that build on this new capability provide entirely new ways for reasoning and controlling these networks. Together, they enhance our ability to
formulate,analyze and realize novel public policies pertaining to these complex networks.
  
The talk will focus on elements of network and information science required to support policy informatics as it pertains to epidemic processes in social and wireless networks. Understanding these
epidemiological processes is of immense societal importance. Additionally they serve as excellent "model organisms" for developing a theory of co-evolving complex networks. Perhaps more
intriguing, recent advances in wireless communications provide compelling reasons for studying these networks together. I will discuss this possibility in my concluding remarks.


Bio:
Madhav V. Marathe is the Deputy Director of the Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory and a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Virginia Bio-Informatics Institute at Virgina Tech. Prior to joining Virginia Tech, he was the team leader in the Basic and Applied Simulation Science group, Computer and Computational Sciences at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He obtained his B.Tech in CS&E from IIT Chennai in 1989 and  a Ph.D. in CS in 1994 from the State
University of New York (SUNY) at Albany.