Real-Time Decision Making Boot Camp, Spring 2018
2018-01-22..2018-01-26
Berkeley, United States
who it's for
data scientists, urban mobility planners, control engineers, transportation operators, seismologists, observational astronomers, machine learning engineers
topics
difference imaging candidate classification; deep learning transient pipelines; real-time transient discovery systems; earthquake early warning networks; smartphone seismic detection classifiers; incentive-based commute shifting; bike-share rebalancing optimization; ridesharing pricing and routing models; closed-queue vehicle flow models; receding horizon control and MPC; sublinear algorithms for property testing; power flow solutions and optimization
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Supernova Detection | Danny Goldstein | 01h 14m |
Difference imaging produces 1.5 million detections per night with only ~100 supernovae and 3–4 new young, follow-up-worthy events, so machine learning replaces… | ||
| Supernovae and the Era of Synoptic Surveys | Peter Nugent | 01h 13m |
Survey history and hard numbers: a pipeline built around the Palomar Transient Factory finds ~1–3 supernovae per night, produces 1.8 million subtractions and a… | ||
| Earthquake Early Warning: Streaming Data to Reduce the Loss | Richard Allen | 01h 13m |
ShakeAlert is a coast‑wide system ingesting roughly a thousand seismic stations and already supporting automated actions like BART train slowdowns, pushing… | ||
| Earthquake Early Warning: MyShake - Building a Global Seismic Network Using Your Smartphones | Qingkai Kong | 01h 10m |
Project turns smartphones into seismometers and runs a tiny classifier on-device: a three features set (zero crossings, short-window amplitude, cumulative… | ||
| Understanding and Shaping Urban Mobility Using Dollars and Data I | Balaji Prabhakar | 01h 08m |
Pilot programs pay tiny incentives and use lotteries and games to shift commute timing, then measure real trips. Trials move Infosys cohorts of ~20,000, a… | ||
| Understanding and Shaping Urban Mobility Using Dollars and Data II | Balaji Prabhakar | 01h 03m |
Built a pipeline that ingests fare card tap data, noisy GPS and taxi traces, heals gaps and fuses sources into a digital replica that reconstructs train… | ||
| Operating Bike-Sharing Systems – A Case Study in Real-Time Decision Making | David Shmoys | 01h 32m |
Citi Bike data-driven work models stations as time-varying Poisson flows and computes a user dissatisfaction function (expected stock-outs) from 30-minute… | ||
| Ridesharing | Sid Banerjee | 01h 38m |
Presents a concrete model: a closed queuing network with M vehicles, N zones, Poisson origin–destination arrivals and state-dependent acceptance via upfront… | ||
| A Brief Introduction to Algorithms, Game Theory and Risk-Averse Decision Making | Evdokia Nikolova | 01h 12m |
Quick précis of concrete claims and tools: classic graph problems get 2^N brute force or polynomial fixes like 2-approximation via MST for metric TSP… | ||
| Sub-Linear Time Algorithms: Fast, Cheap and (Only a Little) Out of Control | Ronitt Rubinfeld | 01h 37m |
Claims that many global questions about huge data are answerable with sublinear work: property testing of lists (a one/epsilon·log n tester that… | ||
| Feedback Control Theory: Architectures and Tools for Real-Time Decision Making I | Richard Murray | 01h 01m |
Control theory frames real-time decisions as managing dynamics plus uncertainty with feedforward and feedback — memorably DUFF. It uses observers, online… | ||
| Feedback Control Theory: Architectures and Tools for Real-Time Decision Making II | Richard Murray | 01h 17m |
Control design emphasizes concrete choices: PID controllers dominate (claimed PID ≈95% use, PI ≈94%), with the integral term removing constant disturbances… | ||
| The Flow of Power (Part I: Basic Concepts and Models) | Steven Low | 01h 02m |
Covers exact steady‑state models used in power systems: sinusoidal signals become phasor domain algebra, loads and lines reduce to… | ||
| The Flow of Power (Part II: Power Flow Solutions and Optimization) | Steven Low | 01h 05m |
Per-phase analysis assumes balanced three‑phase lines so inductance and capacitance decouple and each line reduces to a pi-model with Z and Y per meter… | ||
| The Flow of Information | Sean Meyn | 01h 30m |
Claims the power grid is a distributed control system with a global 60 Hz signal and simple AGC running ~every 4 seconds using integral (PI) loops; day-ahead… | ||
| The Flow of Money | Kameshwar Poolla | 01h 28m |
Overview of electricity markets: legacy day‑ahead and real‑time pools are built for slow, centralized generation and now break under high renewables, causing… | ||
| Physics at the Large Hadron Collider: A New Window on Matter, Spacetime and the Universe I | Harvey Newman | 01h 31m |
Argues how the LHC program and the CMS detector actually discover and measure the 125 GeV Higgs: rare channels γγ and ZZ→4ℓ give ~1% mass resolution and mass… | ||
| Physics at the Large Hadron Collider: A New Window on Matter, Spacetime and the Universe II | Harvey Newman | 01h 00m |
Tracking currently uses seeding plus a Kalman filter with combinatorics that explode as pileup rises, threatening CPU budgets and motivating new… | ||
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