Brief Announcement accepted at DISC 2015!

Our paper On the Voting Time of the Deterministic Majority Process has been accepted as a brief announcement to the 29th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC) 2015! The brief announcement will be presented in Tokio in October 2015; the full paper can be found on arXiv.

ICDCS’15 Conference

From June 29th to July 3rd I attended the 35th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2015) in Columbus, Ohio. The last flight from Toronto to Columbus was an Air Canada flight on a Bombardier Dash 8-100 Machine. I have never – ever – felt so uncomfortabe!

At the conference, I presented our recent results on diffusion based load balancing. Our paper (On Discrete Load Balancing in Heterogeneous Networks with a Focus on Second-Order Diffusion) can be obtained from arXiv. The presentation slides are also available online!

IPDPS’15 Conference

From May 25 to May 29 I attended the IPDPS’15 conference in Hyderabad, India. I also held a talk on Wednesday, May 27, where I presented our recent research in the area of randomized information dissemination. The presentation slides I used in my talk are available online and the paper can be found on arXiv.

Travel and Hotel

I had a pleasant flight since I managed to get a seat with lots of space for my legs. The hotel was nice with friendly staff and good breakfast.

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  Plenty of Space on the Airplane
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  The Hotel Lobby of Novotel Hyderabad International Convention Centre
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  The view from my hotel room. The desserted area is supposed to be a lake.
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  Birds on the Sky over Hyderabad International Convention Centre
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  The view from the lounge on 6th floor
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  Me at the pool after arriving in Hyderabad.
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  It’s HOT outside! Can you see the 45°C?
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  Once again at the pool after a long day attending many conference talks.

Hyderabad

On Tuesday evening we booked a taxi and went sightseeing in Hyderabad.

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  a temple nearby the hotel
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  A construction site with the infamous Indian Tuc-Tuc!
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  Streets of India
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  Fruit market: Cook it, boil it, peel it or forget it!
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  Sunset
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  Buddha Statue of Hyderabad
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  Bats, not birds!
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  Environmental protection

Workshop “Random Walks on Random Graphs and Applications”

From April 14th to 16th, I attended the workshop on Random Walks on Random Graphs and Applications at TU Eindhoven in the Netherlands.

Paper Accepted!

Our paper “Discrete Load Balancing in Heterogeneous Networks with a Focus on Second-Order Diffusion” has been accepted for presentation at the 35th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS’15) which will be held in Columbus, Ohio.

Deterministic Binary Majority Voting

Last week Emanuele Natale from Sapienza University of Rome visited the Efficient Algorithms Group at the University of Salzburg to finish the project we startet when we met at the summer school in Vancouver in summer 2014.

Paper Accepted!

Our paper “On the Influence of Graph Density on Randomized Gossiping” has been accepted for presentation at the 29th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS’15) which will be held in Hyderabad, India.

Summer School in Vancouver, August 2014

A few impressions from Vancouver, August 2014, where I attended the Summer School on Randomized Techniques for Combinatorial Algorithms.

Vancouver

Simon Fraser University

Hiking up the Grouse Grind

View from Burnaby Mountain

Warning: Bear Sightings in this area!

Please do not throw food away!

A family of raccoons roaming free at the Simon Fraser University.

The Flight Back

International Workshop on Algorithms and Software for Scientific Computing

Today, I held a talk at the “International Workshop on Algorithms and Software for Scientific Computing” (web page) in Vienna.

Randomized Techniques for Combinatorial Algorithms

I will attend the Summer School on Randomized Techniques for Combinatorial Algorithms from August 18 to August 20. Really looking forward to it!