[math-ias] Talk by Yoram Moses next monday September, 9 in the CS department

[Mary Jane Hayes]

From: Laurent Vanbever [mailto:vanbever at CS.Princeton.EDU] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2013 4:36 PM
To: contactus at ias.edu
Subject: Talk by Yoram Moses next monday September, 9 in the CS department

 

Hello,

 

Yoram Moses is visiting Princeton's CS department next Monday (September 9)
and will give a talk at 4:30pm (details enclosed). We think that this talk
might be relevant to IAS folks. Could you circulate the announcement
internally?

 

Best regards,

-- Laurent Vanbever, Postdoctoral Research Associate

 

 

 

The Knowledge of Preconditions principle 
Yoram Moses <http://moses.eew.technion.ac.il/> ,
<http://webee.technion.ac.il/> Technion 
Monday, September 9, 4:30pm
Computer Science 105

This talk will present a simple principle relating knowledge and action in
distributed systems: If some condition must be true when a given action is
taken, then this condition must be known when the action is taken. This
yields a number of fundamental connections between knowledge and multi-party
coordination. In particular, the talk will illustrate how these can provide
insight into the interplay between time, communication and coordination in
networks and distributed systems. The talk will be self-contained, intended
for a general CS audience.

The latter part of the talk is based on joint work with Ido Ben Zvi. No
familiarity with the subject will be assumed. 

 

Yoram Moses is the Israel Pollack Academic Chair at the Technion. He is a
recipient of the Godel Prize 1997 and the Dijkstra Award in 2009. 

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