Presentations
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Natick Kickoff Meeting (December 3-4, 2012)
Click to OpenResearch Update for MURI Project
Richard A. Davis (Columbia)
Overview of UMass Research
Weibo Gong (UMass Amherst)
MURI Presentation
Gennady Samorodnitsky (Cornell)
Competition Under Cumulative Advantage
Bo Jiang (UMass Amherst)
Computational Tools for Multivariate Heavy Tailed Data
John Nolan (American)
Analysis and Design of Complex Systems with Multivariate Heavy Tail Phenomena
Ness Shroff (Ohio State)
Multivariate Heavy Tailed Phenomena: Modeling, Diagnostics and Applications (work)
Sidney Resnick (Cornell)
Multivariate Heavy Tailed Phenomena: Modeling, Diagnostics and Applications (overview)
Sidney Resnick (Cornell)
Cloud Computing and Multivariate Heavy Tails
R. Srikant (Illinois)
Deadline Scheduling and Heavy Tailed Distributions
Lang Tong (Cornell)
Complex Graph Similarity Testing and Multivariate Distribution Comparison Using Random Walks
Weibo Gong (UMass Amherst)
Multivariate Heavy Tails and Structural Properties of Networks
Zhi-Li Zhang (Minnesota)
Team Meeting at Columbia (April 26-27, 2013)
Click to Open| Cloud Computing and Multivariate Heavy Tails | R. Srikant (Illinois) |
| Research Update for MURI Project | Richard A. Davis (Columbia) |
| MURI Presentation | Gennady Samorodnitsky (Cornell) |
| Learning to Generate Networks | James Atwood (UMass Amherst) |
| Random Walk for Similarity Testing in Complex Networks | Shan Lu (UMass Amherst) |
| Generalized Spherical Distributions | John Nolan (American) |
| A Framework for Seeking Hidden Risks; Origins of Power Laws in Networks | Sidney Resnick (Cornell) |
| Deadline Scheduling and Heavy Tail Distributions | Lang Tong (Cornell) |
| Multivariate Heavy Tails and Structural Properties of Networks | Zhi-Li Zhang (Minnesota) |
Update Meeting at Cornell (October 1, 2013)
Click to Open| Research Update for MURI Project | Richard A. Davis (Columbia) |
| Overview of UMass Research | Weibo Gong (UMass Amherst) |
| MURI Presentation | Gennady Samorodnitsky (Cornell) |
| Competition Under Cumulative Advantage | Bo Jiang (UMass Amherst) |
| Computational Tools for Multivariate Heavy Tailed Data | John Nolan (American) |
| Analysis and Design of Complex Systems with Multivariate Heavy Tail Phenomena | Ness Shroff (Ohio State) |
| Multivariate Heavy Tailed Phenomena: Modeling, Diagnostics and Applications (work) | Sidney Resnick (Cornell) |
| Multivariate Heavy Tailed Phenomena: Modeling, Diagnostics and Applications (overview) | Sidney Resnick (Cornell) |
| Cloud Computing and Multivariate Heavy Tails | R. Srikant (Illinois) |
| Deadline Scheduling and Heavy Tailed Distributions | Lang Tong (Cornell) |
| Complex Graph Similarity Testing and Multivariate Distribution Comparison Using Random Walks | Weibo Gong (UMass Amherst) |
| Multivariate Heavy Tails and Structural Properties of Networks | Zhi-Li Zhang (Minnesota) |
Update Meeting at Columbia (October 7, 2014)
Click to Open| MURI Update Meeting - Overview & Schedule | Sidney Resnick (Cornell) |
| Testing Independence Between Angular and Radial Components and ICA for Heavy-Tails | Richard A. Davis (Columbia) |
| Multivariate Heavy Tailed Distribution Generator Using Poisson Processes | Weibo Gong (UMass Amherst) |
| Algorithms for working with multivariate distributions and PCA/ICA for heavy tails | John Nolan (American) |
| Multivariate Heavy Tail Phenomena: Modeling and Diagnostics | Sidney Resnick (Cornell) |
| MURI Presentation | Gennady Samorodnitsky (Cornell) |
| Analysis and Design of Complex Systems with Multivariate Heavy Tail Phenomena | Ness Shroff (Ohio State) |
| Control Issues in Cloud Computing: Heavy Traffic Optimality | R. Srikant (Illinois) |
| Impact of Heavy-tailed Joint Degree Distribution on Network Characteristics | Don Towsley (UMass Amherst) |
| Modeling, sampling, generating Networks with MRV | Don Towsley (UMass Amherst) |
| Multivariate Heavy Tails and Structural Properties of Complex Networks | Zhi-Li Zhang (Minnesota) |
Team Meeting NYC at CFEM (March 6, 2015)
Click to Open| Update on Projects | Sidney Resnick (Cornell) |
| Reciprocity in Social Networks with Capacity Constraints | Bo Jiang (UMass Amherst), Zhi-Li Zhang (Minnesota), Don Towsley (UMass Amherst) |
| Multivariate Subexponential Distributions | Gennady Samorodnitsky (Cornell) |
| PCSDE Models for Multivariate Power Law distribution | Shan Lu (UMass Amherst) |
| Directional histograms Measuring independence for stable distributions | John Nolan (American) |
| MURI research | Gennady Samorodnitsky (Cornell) |
| MURI 3.6 | Phyllis Wan (Columbia) |
| ICA Model with Log-Concave Density Estimations | Richard Davis (Columbia) |
Update Meeting at Columbia (October 16, 2015)
Click to Open| MURI Update Meeting - Overview & Schedule | Sidney Resnick (Cornell) |
| Software tool for multivariate distributions | John Nolan (American) |
| Analysis and Design of Complex Systems with Multivariate Heavy Tail Phenomena | Ness Shroff (Ohio State) |
| Load Balancing with Multivariate Heavy-Tailed Distributions | R. Srikant (Illinois) |
| Multivariate Heavy Tails and Large Networks | Don Towsley (UMass Amherst) |
| Influence Maximization on Social Networks | Zhi-Li Zhang (Minnesota) |
| MURI research | Gennady Samorodnitsky (Cornell) |
| PCSDE Models for Bivariate Power-Law Behavior | Weibo Gong (UMass Amherst) |
| Multivariate Heavy Tail Phenomena: Modeling and Diagnostics | Sid Resnick (Cornell) |
| MURI Research Update | Richard A. Davis (Columbia) |
| Multivariate Heavy Tail Phenomena: Modeling and Diagnostics, The Coming Year | Sid Resnick (Cornell) |
Team Meeting NYC at CFEM (April 15, 2016)
Click to Open| Power law in Natural Images: sources and applications | Weibo Gong (UMass Amherst) |
| Competitions in Nonlinear Pólya Urn Processes with Fitness | Bo Jiang (UMass Amherst) Daniel R. Figueiredo (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) Bruno Ribeiro (Carnegie Mellon) Don Towsley (UMass Amherst) |
| Projection distance based measure of dependence for extreme value and stable distributions | T. Alparslan (American) A-L. Fougères (American) C. Mercadier (American) John Nolan (American) |
| Multivariate Heavy Tails, Preferential Attachment | Sid Resnick (Cornell) Tiandong Wang (Cornell) |
| A Poisson driven stochastic differential equation model with regularly varying tails | Gennady Samorodnitsky (Cornell) Emily Fischer (Cornell) Weibo Gong (UMass Amherst) Don Towsley (UMass Amherst) Shan Lu (UMass Amherst) |
| MURI research | Gennady Samorodnitsky (Cornell) |
| Changes in Extremal Behaviour | Gennady Samorodnitsky (Cornell) Julian Sun (Cornell) |
| PCSDE Models for Bivariate Power-Law Behavior | Gennady Samorodnitsky (Cornell) Weibo Gong (UMass Amherst) Bo Jiang (UMass Amherst) Jieqi Kang (UMass Amherst) Shan Lu (UMass Amherst) Don Towsley (UMass Amherst) |
| MURI Meeting | Phyllis Wan (Columbia) |
| Multivariate Heavy Tails and Structural Properties of Complex Networks | Zhi-Li Zhang (Minnesota) |
| Sampling and Estimating Behaviors of Target Nodes in Networks Demo | Jingjing Zou (Columbia) Richard A. Davis (Columbia) Gennady Samorodnitsky (Cornell) Zhi-Li Zhang (Minnesota) |
Update Meeting at Natick Mass. (November 21, 2016)
Click to Open| Multivariate Heavy Tailed Phenomena: Modeling, Diagnostics and Applications | Sid Resnick (Cornell) |
| Sampling and Classification of Large Networks | Don Towsley (UMass Amherst) |
| Transition Opportunities in Networking and Cloud Computing | R. Srikant (Illinois) |
| Unfolding the Core Structure of the Reciprocal Graph of a Massive Directed Online Social Network | Zhi-Li Zhang (Minnesota) |
| A new Sampling Approach for Estimating Features of Large Networks | Gennady Samorodnitsky (Cornell) |
| Extreme Value Analysis without the Largest Values | Richard A. Davis (Columbia) |
| Computational and Numerical Tools for non-Gaussian Multivariate Distributions | John Nolan (American) |
| Analysis and Design of Complex Systems with Multivariate Heavy Tail Phenomena | Ness Shroff (Ohio State) |
| Multivariate Power Laws in Social Networks and Image Searching | Weibo Gong (UMass Amherst) |
| Hidden Risk Estimation, Network Model Calibration | Sid Resnick (Cornell) |
Team Meeting NYC at CFEM (May 12, 2017)
Click to Open| A common-neighbors-based random graph model for community structure | Emily Fischer (Cornell) |
| Extreme Value Theory Without the Largest Values | Jingjing Zou (Columbia) Richard Davis (Columbia) Gennady Samorodnitsky (Cornell) |
| Avoiding Threshold Selection in Extremal Inference | Gennady Samorodnitsky (Cornell) Julian Sun (Cornell) |
| MURI Update | Phyllis Wan (Columbia) Richard Davis (Columbia) |
| Stable Ratios and Robust PCA and ICA for heavy tailed distributions | Tuncay Alparslan (DOE) Richard Davis (Columbia) John Nolan (American) Sid Resnick (Cornell) Jingjing Zou (Columbia) |
| r-largest jump or observation; trimming; PA models | Sid Resnick (Cornell) |
| MURI Update | Tiandong Wang (Cornell) |
Team Meeting at ARL, Md. (October 27, 2017)
Click to Open| Some MURI Supported Research Projects on Multivariate Heavy-Tails | Richard Davis (Columbia) |
| Scales in visual images and how to handle them | Weibo Gong (UMass Amherst) |
| MURI Update | Gennady Samorodnitsky (Cornell) |
| Computational Geometry, Cubature on Surfaces, Robust PCA and Compressive Sensing | John Nolan (American) |
| Multivariate Heavy Tails: Modeling, Diagnostics and Applications | Sid Resnick (Cornell) |
| Approximate Graph Matching | Joseph Lubars (Illinois) R. Srikant (Illinois) |
| Hunting For a Unique, Stable, Sparse and Fast Feature Learning Algorithm on Graphs | Zhi-Li Zhang (Minnesota) |