Probability and Statistics in Complex Systems: Genomics, Networks, and Financial Engineering, September 1, 2003 - June 30, 2004

Winter 2004

IMA Short Course:

The Internet for Mathematicians

January 7-9, 2004

Organizers:

Walter Willinger
AT&T Labs - Research
walter@research.att.com
http://www.research.att.com/~walter/

and

Bruce Hajek
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
b-hajek@uiuc.edu
http://tesla.csl.uiuc.edu/~hajek/

Description:

This three-day course is mainly aimed at a mathematical audience that wants to know more about how the Internet works -- its architecture and protocols that have (in part) been designed some 20-30 years ago, the dominant technologies and applications that have been responsible for (much of) the Internet's explosive growth throughout the last 10-20 years, and the hardware and software components that have supported a development that has transformed the Internet into (one of) the largest, complex, man-made system.

The short course will feature a range of highly informative tutorials that will deal with topics of relevance to and will prepare the participants for the upcoming workshops. Topics will include

- Architecture, protocols, design principles, evolution (4 hours)

- Measurements, simulation, analysis (4 hours)

- Control theory, traffic dynamic, topology (4 hours).

By the end of this short course, the participants should have a basic understanding of the main difficulties associated with measuring, operating, modeling, and analyzing large-scale communication networks such as today's Internet. They will also appreciate the fact that while the Internet has become a gold mine for new, exciting and challenging mathematical problems, solving them in a way that is relevant for networking engineers will in general require new mathematics.

LIST OF CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS

Group Photos

IMA Public Lecture: Steven H. Strogatz, Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order, January 7, 2004

IMA Tutorial: Measurement, Modeling and Analysis of the Internet, January 11, 2004

IMA Workshop: Measurement, Modeling and Analysis of the Internet, January 12-16, 2004