David Alderson: Recent Talks

• More "Normal" Than Normal: Scaling Distributions and Complex Systems. D. Alderson, with W. Willinger, J. Doyle, and L. Li. Advanced Tutorial at the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference. December 2004. [slides]
• "What do we want in a future information infrastructure?" Guest lecture in MS&E 91SI: U.S. National Cybersecurity. Stanford University. May 26, 2004. [slides]
• "Optimization-based Approaches to Understanding and Modeling Internet Topology", Tutorial Presentation at 7th INFORMS Telecommunications Conference. Boca Raton, FL. March 2004. [slides]
• "The Role of Design in the Internet and Other Complex Systems" IMA Workshop on Robustness in Complex Systems. Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, University of Minnesota. February 10, 2004. [slides]
• "Why the Internet Scales: Interpreting Structure in Complex Systems" MIT Media Lab Colloquium, January 28, 2004.
• "Power Laws in Internet Topology Revisited" Guest Lecture in Media Arts and Sciences (MAS) 965: "Power Laws: Revelation or Hype?" Massachusetts Institute of Technology. January 27, 2004.
• "The Threat of Epidemics on the Internet" Guest Lecture in MS&E 290: Public Policy Analysis. Stanford University. January 20, 2004.
• "The Vulnerability of Internet Infrastructure" Guest Lecture in MS&E293: The Role of Technology in National Security. Stanford University. October 22, 2003.
• "Understanding Internet Topology: The Importance and Implication of Annotated Network Graphs" With Lun Li. IPAM Workshop on Communication Networks. Lake Arrowhead, CA. October 1, 2003.
• "Toward an Optimization-Driven Framework for Designing and Generating Realistic Internet Topologies" With John Doyle, Ramesh Govindan, and Walter Willinger. First Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets-I). 28-29 October 2002, Princeton, New Jersey, USA. [slides]
• "Cyberterrorism and the Vulnerability of the Internet" Guest Lecture in MS&E 293: The Role of Technology in National Security. Stanford University. October 23, 2002.
• "Critical Infrastructures and the Internet" CISAC Working Meeting on Internet Infrastructure Vulnerability. Stanford University. June 21, 2002.
• "Cascading Failures in Infrastructure Networks" Workshop on Large-Scale Engineering Networks. Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, UCLA. April 15, 2002.
• "Understanding Cascading Failures In The Context Of Critical Infrastructure Protection" Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University. February 22, 2002.
• "Modeling Congestion Dynamics and the Threat of Cascading Failures: A Presentation to Union Pacific" Union Pacific Railroad. Omaha, NE. October 18, 2001.
• "Cascading Failures in Infrastructure Networks". SFI Business Network Conference on Network Dynamics. Santa Fe Institute. Santa Fe, NM. March 22-23, 2001.
• "The Role of Technology in Protecting Critical Infrastructures" Guest Lecture in EESOR493: Government Decision Making in Technical Areas. Stanford University. May 25, 2000.
• "Periodic Messaging as a Mechanism for Mutual Synchronization in Computer Networks" Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. Cornell University. March 2000.