BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Memento EPFL// BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Inaugural Lectures - Prof. Anne-Marie Kermarrec\, Prof. Lenka Zdeb orová\, Prof. Edouard Bugnion DTSTART:20221122T174500 DTEND:20221122T200000 DTSTAMP:20260507T133906Z UID:cda6caa0f65f7776723b7fa0a3b94418b85179215e25668cfd7b6b26 CATEGORIES:Inaugural lectures - Honorary Lecture DESCRIPTION:Prof. Edouard Bugnion\, Prof. Anne-Marie Kermarrec\, Prof. Le nka Zdeborová\nDate: 22 November 2022\n\nProgram: \n\n 17:45-17:50: I ntroduction by Prof. Rüdiger Urbanke\, Dean of the IC School\n 17:50-18:2 0: Inaugural Lecture Prof. Anne-Marie Kermarrec\n 18:20-18:25: Q & A\n 18: 25-18:30: Introduction by Prof. Henrik M. Rønnow\, Director of IPHYS\n 18 :30-19:00: Inaugural Lecture Prof. Lenka Zdeborová\n 19:00-19:05: Q & A\n 19:05-19:10: Introduction by Prof. Rüdiger Urbanke\, Dean of the IC Sch ool\n 19:10-19:40: Inaugural Lecture Prof. Edouard Bugnion\n 19:40-19:45: Q & A\n 19:45: Apéritif at Piano restaurant\, SG Building         \n \nLocation:  SG 1\n\nRegistration: Click here\n\n************************ ***********************************\nProf. Anne-Marie Kermarrec\n\nInterne t Collaboratif : Retour vers le Futur \n\nAbstract\nInternet a été init ialement conçu avec comme objectif de devenir un medium démocratique\, p ermettant aux citoyens du monde d'échanger leurs données sans entrave au cune. L’avènement des géants du Web (les fameux GAFAM et autres BATX)  a  singulièrement remis en cause cette belle idée lorsqu’ils s'en s ont emparés pour collecter massivement nos données et nous les revendre sous une forme ou une autre.  Cet exposé prend le parti optimiste défen dant l'idée que cet objectif peut être atteint grâce aux avancées réa lisées en informatique\, et en particulier ce que l'on appelle l'informat ique distribuée. J'illustrerai cette thèse à travers un service central d’Internet particulièrement important\, celui de la recommandation de contenu et son évolution tant dans le monde académique que dans l’indu strie.\n \nAbout the speaker\nAnne-Marie Kermarrec est Professeur à l’ EPFL depuis 2020. Jusqu’en 2019\, elle a dirigé la startup qu’elle a fondée en 2015\, Mediego\, issue de ses travaux de recherche\, qui commer cialise des produits de recommandation de contenus à destination de la pr esse en ligne. Elle l’a cédée en 2019. Auparavant\, elle a été cherc heuse à l’université d’Amsterdam (1996-97)\, Maitre de conférences à l’université de Rennes (1998-2000) et chercheuse à Microsoft Resear ch Cambridge\, UK (2000-2004) puis directrice de recherches à Inria (2004 -2015). Elle a obtenu une ERC en 2008 and une ERC proof of Concept in 2013 . Elle a reçu\, de l’Académie des Sciences\, le Prix  Montpetit en 20 11 et le prix de l’Innovation en 2017. Elle est ACM Fellow depuis 2016 e t a été décorée du titre de Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur en 201 8.\n\n***********************************************************\nProf. L enka Zdeborová\n\nThe Physics of Algorithms\n\nAbstract\nComputational qu estions in high-dimensional problems are ubiquitous\, yet we still lack a satisfying theoretical framework able to answer most of them. Correspondin g problems sometimes map to systems studied in statistical physics where t he high dimension translates into a large number of interacting elements. Theoretical tools of statistical physics can then be deployed to study com putational problems and inform both mathematical and algorithmic developme nts. We will highlight some key results in this field with examples of app lications in artificial neural networks and in signal processing.\n\nAbout the speaker\nLenka Zdeborová received her PhD in physics from University Paris-Sud and from Charles University in Prague in 2008. She spent two ye ars in the Los Alamos National Laboratory as the Director's Postdoctoral F ellow. Between 2010 and 2020 she was a researcher at CNRS working in the I nstitute of Theoretical Physics in CEA Saclay\, France. In 2014\, she was awarded the CNRS bronze medal\, in 2016 Philippe Meyer prize in theoretica l physics\, in 2018 the Irène Joliot-Curie prize\, in 2021 the Gibbs lect ureship of AMS.\n\n******************************************************* ****\nProf. Edouard Bugnion\n\nAt Microsecond-Scale\, Inside a Datacenter\ n\nAbstract\nOur cell phones are the defining\, visible innovation of our era\, yet datacenters form the invisible part of that digital iceberg. Wit hin a datacenter\, thousands or more machines communicate through very sho rt remote procedure calls  that often take a few microseconds to service but must\, nevertheless\, meet tight service-level objectives expressed in terms of tail latency. At such microsecond-scale\, operating systems and network overheads dominate and limit overall system efficiency.\n\nI will present key results from the EPFL Datacenter Systems Laboratory that (1) l everage virtualization hardware for energy proportionality and tail-tolera nce\, (2) innovate at the network protocol layer to eliminate head-of-line blocking and offer load balancing and consensus within the transport.\n\n About the speaker\nProf. Edouard Bugnion joined EPFL in 2012\, with a teac hing and research focus on datacenter systems. Before joining EPFL\, he sp ent 18 years in the US\, where he received his PhD from Stanford\, and co- founded two startups: VMware and Nuova Systems (acquired by Cisco). He ser ved as VMware’s first CTO and was later the VP/CTO of Cisco’s Server\, Access\, and Virtualization Technology Group. At EPFL\, he is the Academi c Co-director of the Swiss Data Science Center\, he has served as the Vice -President for Information Systems (2017-20) as well as on the COVID-19 In dependent Scientific Task Force for the Swiss Confederation (2020-22). Pro f. Bugnion is an ACM Fellow and a member of the Swiss Academy of Technical Sciences (SATW). He received the SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award for Disco\, t he ACM Systems Award for VMware\, and Best Paper Awards at SOSP\, OSDI and Eurosys. \n\n\n\n\n\n  LOCATION:SG 1138 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SG%201138 STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR