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The Information Theory and Applications Center is dedicated to the study of information theory fundamentals and their relations to communications, computer- and life-sciences, finance, statistics, and related disciplines. The center supports both original research and educational activities in these areas. 
Friday, 01.27.12, today, 11 AM - 12 PM, Atkinson Hall, room 4004, Seminar
Load balancing for dynamically scalable web services Yi Lu, UIUC Web services have traditionally benefited from efficient load balancing. With multi-tenancy and the need for dynamic scalability in the cloud environment, existing hardware load balancers are expensive, difficult to scale and difficult to divide among users... Monday, 01.30.12, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Jacobs Hall, Room 2512 (Booker Conference Room), Seminar Algorithmic Phase Transitions Dimitris Achlioptas, UC Santa Cruz Constraint Satisfaction Problems are the common abstraction of numerous real-life settings, ranging from air-traffic design to protein folding. The ubiquity of CSPs presses forward a fundamental question: why is finding solutions to certain CSP instances exceptionally hard while often for, seemingly similar, instances it is quite easy? To study this phenomenon in a principled way we consider probability distributions over CSP instances formed by adding constraints one-by-one, uniformly and independently... | |
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