March 2021
Eindhoven Stochastics Seminar
Tim Oosterwijk (UM) The secretary problem with independent sampling Sequential decision making under uncertainty is a basic problem that bridges several areas. Examples include online algorithms in computer science, and optimal stopping problems with stochastic input in the field of operations research and applied probability. In this talk, I will discuss the secretary problem, where we are faced with an online sequence of elements with values. Upon seeing an element we have to make an irrevocable take-it-or-leave-it decision. The goal…
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YEQT XIV: "Load balancing and scheduling for distributed service systems"
Summary Distributed service systems are ubiquitous, from server farms for cloud computing and charging stations for electric vehicles, to checkout lines at supermarkets and ICU beds in hospitals. The size of many of these systems has exploded over the past few years, which has created new challenges in the design of control policies. These new challenges, such as scalability, data locality, and server and task heterogeneity, have fueled a renewed interest in the study of these systems, and accelerated the…
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Workshop YEP XVII: "Interacting Particle Systems"
Format At this point in time (Jan '21) we can not yet determine whether this workshop will be a hybrid event or fully online. We hope to inform you a.s.a.p. what the definite format will be. We aim for the last week of August '21 or first week of September '21. Summary The theory of Interacting Particle Systems focuses on the dynamics of systems consisting of a large or infinite number of entities, in which the mechanism of evolution is…
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