Invited Talks

Equilibrium analysis for large scale stochastic games.
Oberwolfach Conference on Mathematical Challenges in Stochastic Networks, MFO, Oberwolfach, Germany.
Invited presentation. Joint work with Sachin Adlakha.

Mean field equilibria of large scale stochastic games.
Plenary. Southern California Symposium on Network Economics and Game Theory, Los Angeles, California.
Joint work with Sachin Adlakha.

Mean field equilibrium in stochastic games with complementarities.
Allerton Conference for Communication, Control, and Computing, Allerton Park, Illinois.
Invited presentation. Joint work with Sachin Adlakha.

Economic perspectives on congestion exposure in networks.
Plenary. Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) 78, Maastricht, the Netherlands.
Invited presentation and panel discussion (with Frank Kelly, Bob Briscoe, and Hal Varian).

Mean field equilibrium: an approximate approach to analyzing large dynamic games.
NSF Self Optimizing Systems Workshop, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Invited presentation. Joint work with Sachin Adlakha.

Asymptotic analysis of large scale supermodular stochastic games.
Workshop on Information Theory and Applications (ITA), San Diego, California.
Invited presentation. Joint work with Sachin Adlakha.

Comparing multilateral and bilateral models for content distribution.
IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW) on Networking and Information Theory, Volos, Greece.
Invited presentation. Joint work with Christina Aperjis and Michael J. Freedman.

The role of prices in peer assisted content distribution.
Workshop on Information Theory and Applications (ITA), San Diego, California.
Invited presentation. Joint work with Christina Aperjis and Michael J. Freedman.

A comparison of bilateral and multilateral models for content exchange.
International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP), Chicago, Illinois.
Invited session. Joint work with Christina Aperjis and Michael J. Freedman.

Positive and negative externalities: how big is too big?
Google Faculty UNConference, Mountain View, California.
Invited presentation. Joint work with Sunil Kumar.

Positive externalities and negative externalities in services.
Semi-plenary. GAMES: The Third World Congress of the Game Theory Society, Evanston, Illinois.
Invited presentation. Joint work with Sunil Kumar.

The role of prices in peer-assisted content distribution.
Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) Workshop “Beyond Internet MRA: Networks of Networks”, University of California at Los Angeles.
Invited presentation. Joint work with Christina Aperjis and Michael J. Freedman.

Local dynamics in network formation games.
Allerton Conference for Communication, Control, and Computing, Allerton Park, Illinois.
Invited paper and presentation. Joint work with Esteban Arcaute and Shie Mannor.

Revenue management for content delivery.
Allerton Conference for Communication, Control, and Computing, Allerton Park, Illinois.
Invited paper and presentation. Joint work with Srinivas Shakkottai.

Bonobos vs. chimps: Cooperative and non-cooperative behavior in wireless networks.
MobiHoc/MobiCom 2007, Montréal, Québec.
Panel organized by J.-P. Hubaux, and with P.R. Kumar, J. Mitola, and H. Zheng.

Positive externalities, negative externalities, and optimal scale.
Dagstuhl Seminar on Computational Social Systems and the Internet, Schloss Dagstuhl, Wadern, Germany.
Invited presentation. Joint work with Sunil Kumar.

Interdomain routing: algorithmic objectives and economic constraints.
Bay Area Theory Symposium, San Jose, CA.
Invited presentation. Joint work with Hari Balakrishnan and Nick Feamster.

Positive externalities and optimal scale.
Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Allerton Park, IL.
Invited paper and presentation. Joint work with Sunil Kumar.

Myopic dynamics for a network formation game with routing.
Workshop on Network Design: Optimization and Algorithmic Game Theory, Montréal, Québec.
Invited presentation. Joint work with Esteban Arcaute, Eric Dallal, and Shie Mannor.

Interdomain routing: autonomy vs. expressiveness.
Bertinoro Workshop on Algorithmic Game Theory (AGATE), Bertinoro, Italy.
Invited presentation. Joint work with Hari Balakrishnan and Nick Feamster.

Interdomain routing: an impossibility theorem.
Bay Area Day on Signals, Information, and Control, Berkeley, CA.
Invited presentation. Joint work with Hari Balakrishnan and Nick Feamster.

Communication requirements of VCG-like mechanisms in convex environments.
Bay Algorithmic Game Theory Symposium, Mountain View, CA.
Invited presentation. Joint work with John N. Tsitsiklis.

Implications of autonomy for the expressiveness of policy routing.
IEEE Computer Communications Workshop (CCW), Huntington Beach, California.
Invited presentation. Joint work with Hari Balakrishnan and Nick Feamster.

Communication requirements of VCG-like mechanisms in convex environments.
Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Allerton Park, Illinois.
Invited paper and presentation. Joint work with John N. Tsitsiklis.

A game theoretic view of efficiency loss in resource allocation.
International Conference on Complementarity Problems, Stanford, California.
Invited presentation. Joint work with John N. Tsitsiklis.

A contract-based model for directed network formation.
Workshop on Game Theory and Computer Science, Stony Brook, New York.
Invited presentation. Joint work with Shie Mannor and John N. Tsitsiklis.

A game theoretic view of efficiency loss in network resource allocation.
Workshop on Economics of Communication Networks, in Workshop on Stochastic Networks, Montréal, Québec.
Invited presentation. Joint work with John N. Tsitsiklis.

Game theoretic methods for networking: a tutorial.
Workshop on the Practice and Theory of Incentives in Networked Systems, ACM SIGCOMM, Portland, Oregon.
Invited tutorial.