Upcoming Events - Feb 2 - Feb 8, 2025

Stay informed about the latest events happening within the CEMSE Division. Here is what is coming up next week:

IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Distinguished Lecturer Workshop

IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Distinguished Lecturer Workshop

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Auditorium between Buildings 2 and 3

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Global and regional experts and leaders gather at KAUST for the IEEE AP-S Distinguished Lecturer Workshop 2025 to share advancements in antennas and propagation research.

Vehicular Edge Services

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B9 L2 R2325

The seminar explores the research of innovative edge computing solutions for Autonomous and Connected Vehicles (AVs and CVs) by leveraging their computational resources, predicting their availability for reliable task offloading, and enhancing task allocation through reputation scoring and quality-aware offloading for improved road safety and traffic efficiency.
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KAUST International Research Conference on Multi-Grid and Multi-Scale Methods in Computational Science, IMG 2025

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Building 19 and 20

The International Conference on Multigrid and Multiscale Methods in Computational Science (IMG) offers a dynamic forum for researchers to share advances in multigrid, multilevel and multiscale computational techniques, as well as their applications across scientific domains.
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Metrics, Mayhem, and Microservices: Taming the Cloud Observability Beast

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B9, L2, R2325

Cloud applications scale their workload on massively distributed software and hardware infrastructure to deliver swift performance and meet stringent service level objectives. The latest advancements in AI and the promising results delivered by flagship AI models have reinforced this trend, fueling considerable additional investments by all major cloud players to further scale their infrastructure. Yet, fault tolerance and performance debugging remain among the relatively few levers against this exponential growth, demanding ubiquitous system instrumentation and observability to anticipate failures or identify root-causes post-mortem. Overall, observability has become mission-critical to operate cloud technology at scale. In this talk, we introduce the first-ever offloading of observability operations to data centers' Infrastructure Processing Units (IPU) accelerators. This novel architecture can significantly reduce the costs and increase operational efficiency to manage large-scale cloud systems serving millions of users daily.
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Random Matrix and SYK model

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B1, L3, R3119

The random matrix theory was started in the 1930s, with notable contributions made by J. Wishart, Baolu Xu and others. During the 1950s of last century, physicist E. Wigner introduced random matrices as a means to simulate the nuclei of heavy atoms, predicting that the spacing between the spectra of heavy atomic nuclei should mirror the spacing between the eigenvalues of random matrices. Many prominent mathematicians also worked on this theory and made very important progress. In this talk, I will begin with some basics on the random matrix theory, then I will discuss some results obtained by my collaborators and myself. Next I will briefly discuss the SYK model, which is now a very active research area in physics. Our objective is to establish a mathematical theory for the SYK model, and I will present some advancements we made as well as some open problems.
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A Limiting Model for MEMS with Heterogeneous Dielectric Properties

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B9, L2, R2325

Idealized microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) consist of two dielectric plates: a rigid ground plate above which an elastic plate is suspended. The elastic plate deforms due to a Coulomb force induced by a voltage difference applied between the two components. Coating the ground plate with an insulating layer prevents direct contact between the plates.