Department Events
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Feb19
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lessFrancesca Parise
MITAbstract: Many of today’s most promising technological systems involve large numbers of autonomous agents that influence each other and make strategic decisions within a given infrastructure. Examples include demand-response methods in energy markets, opinion dynamics and targeted marketing in social networks, routing decisions in transportation systems or economic exchange and international trade in financial networks. The analysis of agents behavior and equilibrium outcome in these large scale systems necessitates the development of new theoretical and algorithmic tools that combine ideas from game, network and control theory. In this talk, I discuss how aggregative games can help us achieve such a goal by providing a systematic framework for the modeling and control of large scale socio-technical systems. Specifically, I will touch on three models. First, I will present how “average aggregative games” can be used to model systems where each agent is affected by the average of the actions of the rest of the population and how iteratively broadcast information can be used to coordinate agents behavior. Second, I will consider systems where agents interactions are heterogeneous and can be described by a network. I will present a variational inequality framework for the analysis of such “network games” which allows us to extend previous literature results, gain a systematic understanding of how network interactions affect the equilibrium outcome and plan targeted interventions based on agents centrality measures in social and financial networks. Finally, I will focus on a new game theoretical framework that I am developing to model strategic interactions in large scale networks by using the concept of “graphon games” and I will illustrate how this framework can be exploited to design interventions that are robust to stochastic network variations.
Biography: Francesca Parise is a postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at MIT. She defended her PhD at the Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Switzerland in 2016 and she received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Information and Automation Engineering in 2010 and 2012, respectively, from the University of Padova, Italy, where she simultaneously attended the Galilean School of Excellence. Francesca’s main research interest is in control, network and game theory. She has worked on a broad set of topics, including systems biology, reachability analysis, distributed multi-agent systems, network analysis, aggregative games and opinion dynamics. Francesca was recognized as an EECS rising star in 2017 and is the recipient of the Guglielmo Marin Award from the “Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti”, the SNSF Early Postdoc Fellowship, the SNSF Advanced Postdoc Fellowship and the ETH Medal for her doctoral work.
TIME Tuesday, February 19, 2019 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
LOCATION Technological Institute map it
CONTACT Agnes Kaminski a-kaminski@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
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Feb25
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less**This event is open to McCormick PhD students only**
Join Northwestern Engineering for the 2018-19 seminar series featuring lunchtime presentations by faculty from outside the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. Broaden your horizons by listening to speakers from disciplines such as theatre, economics, law, and philosophy.
Speaker: Sandy Goldberg
Professor of Philosophy
Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and SciencesTIME Monday, February 25, 2019 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
LOCATION ITW classroom, 1-350, Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center map it
CONTACT Northwestern Engineering Events northwestern-engineering-events@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
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Feb28
EVENT DETAILS
lessPlease register early. There is no charge for attendance, but space is limited, and reservations will be taken on a first-come, first-served basis.
Northwestern Engineering alumna Gwynne Shotwell (BS '86, MS '88) will be honored with the prestigious Ralph Coats Roe Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers on February 28 in recognition of her outstanding leadership and innovation for space commercialization, technical contributions to the design of reusable rockets, and the promotion of STEM education.
Following the ceremony, Shotwell will deliver a lecture titled "Launching Our Future."
TIME Thursday, February 28, 2019 at 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
LOCATION McCormick Tribune Auditorium, James L Allen Center map it
CONTACT Northwestern Engineering Events northwestern-engineering-events@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
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Mar16
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lessWinter Classes End
TIME Saturday, March 16, 2019
CONTACT Office of the Registrar nu-registrar@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR University Academic Calendar
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Apr1
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lessSpring Classes begin 8 a.m.
TIME Monday, April 1, 2019
CONTACT Office of the Registrar nu-registrar@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR University Academic Calendar
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Apr17
EVENT DETAILS
less**This event is open to McCormick PhD students only**
Join Northwestern Engineering for the 2018-19 seminar series featuring lunchtime presentations by faculty from outside the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. Broaden your horizons by listening to speakers from disciplines such as theatre, economics, law, and philosophy.
Speaker: Ken Alder
Professor of History and Milton H. Wilson Professor in the Humanities
Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and SciencesTIME Wednesday, April 17, 2019 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
LOCATION ITW classroom, 1-350, Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center map it
CONTACT Northwestern Engineering Events northwestern-engineering-events@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
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May1
EVENT DETAILS
less**This event is open to McCormick PhD students only**
Join Northwestern Engineering for the 2018-19 seminar series featuring lunchtime presentations by faculty from outside the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. Broaden your horizons by listening to speakers from disciplines such as theatre, economics, law, and philosophy.
Speaker: Shari Diamond
Howard J. Trienens Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology
Pritzker School of LawTIME Wednesday, May 1, 2019 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
LOCATION ITW classroom, 1-350, Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center map it
CONTACT Northwestern Engineering Events northwestern-engineering-events@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
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May22
EVENT DETAILS
less**This event is open to McCormick PhD students only**
Join Northwestern Engineering for the 2018-19 seminar series featuring lunchtime presentations by faculty from outside the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. Broaden your horizons by listening to speakers from disciplines such as theatre, economics, law, and philosophy.
Speaker: Todd Rosenthal
Professor of Theatre
School of CommunicationTIME Wednesday, May 22, 2019 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
LOCATION ITW classroom, 1-350, Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center map it
CONTACT Northwestern Engineering Events northwestern-engineering-events@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
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Jun8
EVENT DETAILS
lessSpring classes end
TIME Saturday, June 8, 2019
CONTACT Office of the Registrar nu-registrar@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR University Academic Calendar