Seminar

Seminar: Committee Scoring Rules: Theory and Experiments

Speaker
Piotr Faliszewski, Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza
Date
Abstract

In this presentation, I will discuss a number of issues related to the problem of selecting a group of candidates (referred to as the committee). Committee elections have applications ranging from shortlisting, through the issue of finding items to present on a store's website, to parliamentary elections (or, on a smaller scale, the problem of choosing the electors at a university). I will show simulation results for a number of multiwinner rules and discuss these rules' computational complexity and axiomatic properties.

Seminar

Tensor networks based on example of toric code

Speaker
Anna Francuz, Uniwersytet Jagielloński
Date
Abstract

During the presentation I will introduce the formalism of tensor networks and introduce their relevance to describe the basic states of many-body systems. Then I will introduce the simplest model with topological order presented by Alexei Kitaev, known as the toric code. On his example, I will construct a Projected Entangled Pair States (PEPS) tensor network that describes the basic state of the model and will present the purpose of my project, ie, investigating anion excitation statistics.

Seminar

Quantum walks and their exceptional configurations

Speaker
Nikolay Nahimov, University of Latvia
Date
Abstract

Quantum walks are quantum counterparts of classical random walks.
They have been useful for designing quantum algorithms that outperform their classical versions for a variety of search problems.
Most of the results, however, consider a search space containing a single marked element only.
We show that if the search space contains more than one marked element the quantum speed-up may disappear.

Seminar

Nested loops on contemporary processor architectures

Speaker
Beata Bylina i Jarosław Bylina, Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej w Lublinie
Date
Abstract

Nested loops occur very often in numerical problems. The aim of the presentation is to show various strategies of parallelizing nested loops on modern architectures -- like Intel Xeon and Intel Xeon Phi. We employ both parallelism and vectorization to accelerate nested loops. It is possible to shorten the runtime when utlilizing the appropriate strategies with the use of good scheduling.

Seminar

Local management method in cellular networks

Speaker
Mariusz Słabicki, IITiS PAN
Date
Abstract

The aim of the work "Local management method in cellular networks" was to develop a new method to change configuration of base stations in an LTE cellular network. The main advantage of developed method is a reduction of reconfigured base stations, which can be profitable for the network operator. To solve the problem of determine optimal transmission power in base stations, analytical models and metaheuristic methods were used.

Seminar

Some applications of Ateb-functions in signal processing

Speaker
Ivanna Droniuk, Lviv Polytechnic National University
Date
Abstract

Funkcje Ateb powstały jako odwrócenie niepełnych funkcji Beta, stąd ich nazwa. Dr Droniuk zaproponowała transformatę opartą na tej funkcji i w pracy habilitacyjnej przedstawia różne jej zastosowania, w szczególności do ochrony informacji, w przetwarzaniu sygnałów, do ukrycia informacji w szumie, do zabezpieczania dokumentów.