| Date | Topics | Reading | ||||
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| Week 1 | 8/25/14 | Course introduction | Chapter 1 | |||
| 8//28/14 | Matrix Theory | Chapter 2 | ||||
| Week 2 | 9/1/14 | Labor Day - No Class | ||||
| 9/4/2014 | Graph Theory and the Adjacency Matrix | Chapters 3-4 | ||||
| Week 3 | 9/8/14 | Discrete-Time Averaging | Chapter 5 | |||
| 9/11/14 | The Laplacian Matrix | Chapter 6 | ||||
| Week 4 | 9/15/14 | Estimation from Relative Measurements | Chapter 8 | |||
| 9/18/14 | Convergence Rates | Chapter 9 | ||||
| Week 5 | 9/22/14 | Convergence Rates | ||||
| 9/25/14 | Time-Varying Averaging | Chapter 10 | ||||
| Week 6 | 9/29/14 | Time-Varying Averaging | ||||
| 10/2/14 | Randomized Averaging | Chapter 11 | ||||
| Week 7 | 10/6/14 | Averaging With Additive Noise | Distributed Average Consensus with Least-Mean-Square Deviation L. Xiao, S. Boyd, and S.-J. Kim, J. Parallel Distrib. Comput., 2007 |
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| 10/9/14 | Continuous-Time Averaging | Chapter 7 | ||||
| Week 8 | 10/14/14 (Tuesday) | Epidemics | Chapters 13-14 | |||
| 10/16/14 | Paper Presentations: Stacy |
Convergence Rates of Distributed Average Consensus With Stochastic Link Failures | ||||
| Week 9 | 10/20/14 | Paper Presentations (1) Brayden Hollis and Micah Corah (2) Mark Plagge and Neil McGlohon |
(1) Flocks, herds and schools: A distributed behavioral model (2) Motion Coordination with Distributed Information |
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| 10/23/14 | Paper Presentations (3) Emily Heath and James Van Bebber (4) Daniel Campos and Zoe Konrad |
(3) Geographic Gossip: Efficient Averaging for
Sensor Networks (4) Gossip-based computation of aggregate information |
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| Week 10 | 10/27/14 | No Class | ||||
| 10/30/14 | Paper Presenations (5) Chukwogozirim Ehrim and Jie You (6) Hao Zhong and Zachary Jablons |
(5) A space-time diffusion scheme for peer-to-peer least-squares estimation (6) LiMoSense: live monitoring in dynamic sensor networks |
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| Week 11 | 11/3/14 | Paper Presentations (8) Dan Kruse and Matt Minakais Project status reports due in class |
(8) Discrete Partitioning and Coverage Control for Gossiping Robots | |||
| 11/6/14 | Paper Presentations (7) Huy Nguyen and Orkun Baycik (9) Lily Briggs and Felipe Wilches |
(7) Estimation on graphs from relative measurements (9) Decentralized estimation and control of graph connectivity for mobile sensor networks |
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| Week 12 | 11/10/14 | Paper Presentations (10) Kevin O'Connor and Viktor Rumanuk (11) Dwight Naylor and Shi Gan |
(10) Distributed Randomized Algorithms for the PageRank Computation (11) Opinion Dynamics and Bounded Confidence: Models, Analysis, and Simulation | |||
| 11/13/14 | Paper Presentations (12) Nidhi Rastogi and Bolong Liang |
(12) Time varying networks and the weakness of strong ties | ||||
| Week 13 | 11/17/14 | Topics in Distributed Computing | 11/20/14 | Topics in Distributed Computing | ||
| Week 14 | 11/24/14 | No Class | ||||
| 11/27/14 | Thanksgiving - No Class | |||||
| Week 15 | 12/1/14 | Project Presentations (1) Emily (2) Huy and Jie (3) Orkun (4) Zoe and Daniel (5) Dwight |
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| 12/4/14 | Project Presentations (1) Felipe (2) Hao (3) Micah (4) Brayden (5) Lily |
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| 12/5/14 | Makeup class 7pm - 9pm in CII 3051 Project Presentations (1) Viktor, Zach, and Kevin (2) Mark (3) Neil (4) Matt and Dan (5) Bolong (6) Shi and James |
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| Final Report Due 12/7/14 at 11:59 PM | ||||||