Landmark events
October has been an intense month for us, featuring several double talks that enriched our discussions. We also resumed our reading groups, which continue to follow their established tripartite rotation among Network Theory, Tools, Tips and Tricks, and Practical Networks. It’s great to see our community actively participating and exploring these important topics together!
Tentative Seminar Schedule
We’d like to remind you that we need your help and participation to build our Wednesday seminar lineup. Your input is essential in creating a diverse and engaging offering that reflects the interests and expertise of our entire community. All Lincs members are invited to find available slots on this page and propose a talk or put us in contact with possibles speakers. Once the speaker and the slot are decided, please send an email to Cristina and Ludovic.
Lincs PhD Student Day – Winter edition (Call for enrollments)
This month, we’ve also welcomed more newcomers to our community, and preparations are underway for our upcoming Lincs PhD Student Day, scheduled for November 20. This event will provide a great opportunity for all of them to showcase their work, connect with peers, and engage with the broader Lincs network.
Whether attending or not, please complete this form as your input is invaluable for our planning (Type of room, Coffee order, meals…)
LINCS newcomers
Camilo Chacón Sartori
Camilo is a final-year PhD candidate in Artificial Intelligence at the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC) in Bellaterra, Spain. His research explores the intersection of computational optimization, metaheuristics, and visualization tools to enhance the interpretability of algorithmic behavior and generative models (LLMs).
Capucine Barré
Capucine is a student starting a Computer Network Engineering Ph.D. She has an engineering degree specializing in cybersecurity and networks. Her thesis focuses on the DNS (Domain Name System) and the evaluation of its environmental footprint. She is supervised by Prof. Sébastien Tixeuil at the Sorbonne University (LIP6), and by Francesca Bassi at IRT SystemX as co-supervisor.
Lorenzo Di Filippo
Lorenzo is a 25-year-old PhD candidate at the LIP6 department of Sorbonne University. He holds both a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Engineering in Computer Science from Sapienza University of Rome, where he graduated with top honors. Currently, Lorenzo’s research focuses on distributed systems, which is also the main objective of his doctoral work. His studies emphasize Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) and Blockchain, exploring the strategies employed to ensure their security and proper functionality. »
What’s coming next!
Coming Seminar talks and Reading groups
Seminar talks
- Dominik Peters – The Squared Kemeny Rule for Averaging Rankings – November 6
- Camilo Chacón Sartori – Knowledge graph + LLMs – November 27
Practical Network
- Fadlallah Chbib – Optimizing Energy Consumption and Performance in Modern Cloud Systems – November 15
Network Theory
- François Durand – Confidence intervals. – November 22
Tools, Tips and Tricks
- Alonso Silva – uv: an extremely fast Python package installer and resolver & marimo notebooks: rethinking the notebook to create reproducible notebooks – November 8
- Marc-Olivier Buob – The functools python module – November 29
What we’ve been doing…
Previous talks at LINCS seminar
- How Much Can Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Augment Sky Visibility: A Stochastic Geometry Approach by Junse Lee – October 2
- Design and Optimizations Toward Smart Grid Connected Green Future Networks by Ashutosh Balakrishnan – October 2
- Zero knowledge proofs in blockchain by José Luis Muñoz-Tapia – October 9
- Understanding Reinforcement Learning error in image-based environments by Matthew Andrews – October 18
Previous Practical Networks Reading Groups
- Decentralized Federated Policy Gradient with Byzantine Fault-Tolerance and Provably Fast Convergence by Alexandre Pham – October 18
Previous Network Theory Reading Groups
- Quantum states are relative to observers! by Ludovic Noirie – October 4
- Hierarchical Community Detection in Hierarchical Stochastic Block Models by Sayeh Khaniha – October 25
Previous Tools, Tips and Trics Reading Groups
- Visual Studio Code, an all-in-one development environment by Remi Varloot – October 11
Lab’s life
Room Hedy Lamarr (4C06)
As you might know, Hedy Lamarr is the winner of the online survey to name our shared scientific exchange room after a female scientist. She was an Austrian-born American actress (1914 – 2000), inventor of the Frequency-hopping spread spectrum, a technique used in GPS, WIFI, and Bluetooth.
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Join us at 19 place Marguerite Perey, Palaiseau, 91123 Palaiseau (4th floor)
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