[BANANA] Oct 2 - Joint ICME/Probability Seminar

[Chana Chiemi Motobu]

Subject- CME 500 Seminar - Joint ICME/Probability Seminar

Date - Monday, October 2, 2006

Location and Time- Building 380, Room 380C (basement), 4:15-5:05PM
Refreshments are served at 4:00PM in the courtyard outside Room 380C

Presenter - Andrea Montanari, Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering
and Statistics

Research Interests
Coding Theory and iterative coding schemes. Combinatorial optimization and
typical case analysis. Statistical mechanics of disordered systems.
Mean-field spin glasses.

Bio
Andrea Montanari received a Laurea degree in Physics in 1997, and a Ph.D.
in Theoretical Physics in 2001 (both from Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa,
Italy). He has been post-doctoral fellow at Laboratoire de Physique
Théorique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure (LPTENS), Paris, France, and the
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, USA. Since 2002 he is
Chargée de Recherche (a permanent research position with Céntre National de
la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS) at LPTENS.

Links
- ICME Seminar Schedule: http://icme.stanford.edu/Events/
- Stanford Probability Seminar Schedule:
http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~kjross/seminar/
- Professor Montanari's Home Page: http://www.lpt.ens.fr/~Montanari/