John Tsitsiklis is an international star in the area of optimization / decision-taking (with some connections to reinforcement learning). He will give a talk on distributed averaging algorithms which are closely connected to the kinds of algorithms presented by John Langord on distributed machine learning at a recent talk also at McGill. I encourage you to go.

-- Yoshua

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From: "Carrie Serban, Ms." <carrie.serban@mcgill.camailto:carrie.serban@mcgill.ca> Subject: IEEE/MITACS Seminar February 9, 2012: John Tsitsiklis,MIT Date: 2 February, 2012 11:14:51 AM EST To: "Carrie Serban, Ms." <carrie.serban@mcgill.camailto:carrie.serban@mcgill.ca>

Good morning,

The next MITACS seminar will be held as follows:

Averaging algorithms and distributed anonymous discrete function computation Dr. John Tsitsiklis Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Friday, February 10, 2012 11:30 – 1:00 McGill University, McConnell Engineering building, room 12

This seminar is co-sponsored by the IEEE Montreal chapter.

Kindly forward to any students or colleagues who might be interested.

Thanks very much. Best regards, Carrie

Carrie Serban Administrative Coordinator SYTACom McGill University (514) 398-8104 carrie.serban@mcgill.camailto:carrie.serban@mcgill.ca