Paths Ahead in the Science of Information and Decision Systems
November 12 – 14, 2009
Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Schedule of Events

• Early Check-In at LIDS Headquarters in the Stata Center (6th Floor Dreyfoos Tower)
  • Mon Nov. 9, 11:00 – 4:00
  • Tue Nov. 10, 11:00 – 4:00
  • Thu Nov. 12, 9:00 – 4:00

• Thur Nov. 12:
  • 6:00 – 8:00 Reception at the MIT Museum (Check-In available)


• Fri Nov. 13 (at MIT's Wong Auditorium in the Tang Center):
  • 7:30 – 8:30 Check-In and Continental Breakfast
  • 8:30 – 9:15 Welcome and Opening Remarks

    Alan S. Willsky, Director of LIDS

  • 9:15 – 12:45 Session in Honor of Sanjoy Mitter
    Thomas Magnanti (MIT) Chair

    Thomas Kailath (Stanford)	Dimitri Bertsekas (MIT)
    Y.C. (Larry) Ho (Harvard)	Karl Johan Åström (Lund)
    Petar Kokotovic (UC Santa Barbara)	Roger Brockett (Harvard)
    Jan Willems (Cath. Univ. of Leuven)	Pravin Varaiya (UC Berkeley)

  • 12:45 – 2:00 Lunch
  • 2:15 – 5:30 Panel Session 1
    Munther Dahleh (MIT) Chair/Moderator

    Keith Glover (Cambridge Univ.)	Richard Murray (Cal. Tech)
    Pablo Parrilo (MIT)	Stephen Boyd (Stanford)
    Vincent Blondel (Cath. Univ. of Louvain)	Jonathan How (MIT)
    Albert Benveniste (INRIA)

  • 7:00 — Reception and Banquet
    Cambridge Marriott Hotel Grand Ballroom (2nd floor)

    Welcoming Remarks: Subra Suresh, Dean, MIT School of Engineering Main Speaker: Alan S. Willsky, Director of LIDS Title: "LIDS Through the Years"



• Sat Nov. 14 (MIT's Kirsch Auditorium in the Stata Center, Ground Floor):
  • 7:30 – 8:30 Check-In and Continental Breakfast
  • 8:30 – 9:30 Plenary Session

    Introduction: Alan S. Willsky (MIT)

    Main Speaker: Sanjoy Mitter (MIT)

  • 9:45 – 1:00 Panel Session 2
    John Tsitsiklis (MIT) Chair/Moderator

    John Doyle (Cal. Tech)	H. Vincent Poor (Princeton)
    P.R. Kumar (Illinois)	Asuman Ozdaglar (MIT)
    Balaji Prabhakar (Stanford)	David Tse (UC Berkeley)
    Jeff Shamma (Georgia Tech.)

  • 1:00 – 2:15 Lunch
  • 2:30 – 5:45 Panel Session 3
    Alan S. Willsky (MIT) Chair/Moderator

    Michael Jordan (UC Berkeley)	Sanjeev Kulkarni (Princeton)
    Devavrat Shah (MIT)	Robert Nowak (Wisconsin)
    Martin Wainwright (UC Berkeley)	Pietro Perona (Cal Tech.)
    Alfred Hero (Michigan)

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