Physics-Inspired Paradigms in

Wireless Communications and Networks

April 4th, 2008, Berlin, Germany

 

 

 

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Keynote Speakers
Marc Mezard (CNRS, France)

Marc Mezard is research director at CNRS. In 1984 he received a PhD in Theoretical Physics at the Ecole Normale Superieure (Paris) where he was hired after a post-doctoral stay at Rome University. In 2001 he joined the Universite de Paris Sud. The stem of his research is the statistical physics of disordered systems; he has been working on various aspects of glassy phases in physical systems, and he has pioneered the use of statistical physics concepts and methods to study emergent properties in large systems of interacting heterogeneous "atoms". He has been developing this line of approach in various systems ranging from neural networks to combinatorial optimization, information processing, and financial markets.
 

Iraj Saniee (Bell Labs, Alcatel - Lucent, USA)

Iraj Saniee is director of Complex Systems Analysis and Optimization Dept. at Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent, Murray Hill, New Jersey, USA. He received the Ph.D. degree in operations research and control theory and the M.A. (Hon.) and B.A. (Hon.) degrees in mathematics, all from the University of Cambridge in 1984, 1981 and 1979, respectively. His research interests are in the mathematical modeling, analysis, and optimization of communications systems, with applications to architecture, design tools, and control mechanisms for emerging networks. His recent work explores distributed control frameworks for optimization of large-scale and loosely-coupled autonomous systems. Prior to Bell Labs and until 1998, he was a research director in the Information Sciences Laboratory at Bell Communications Research, Morristown, NJ. He is a member of IEEE, INFORMS and IFIP WG 7.3, a past member of AMS, SIAM, and a past Chair-Elect of the Telecom Section of INFORMS. He currently serves on the Editorial Board of Operations Research, and has served on technical program committees of numerous IEEE and IFORMS conferences.