{"52874":{"#nid":"52874","#data":{"type":"event","title":"CERCS Colloquium - Dr. David Nicol","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPizza will be served\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETitle:\u00a0 Abstraction and High Performance Simulation of Large Scale Networks.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAbstract:\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe activity of modeling necessarily means developing abstractions; in doing so some information about the system of interest is lost. There is an art to abstraction---finding one that captures the essential system behavior while remaining computationally tractable, and a science---making quantitative linkages between models of high resolution and models of low resolution. This talk uses simple examples to illustrate these points, proposes some common principles to observe when modeling, and discusses applications of these principles to problems in modeling communication network traffic.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBio:\u003Cbr \/\u003EDavid Nicol received a B.A. in mathematics from Carleton College in 1979, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from University of Virginia in 1983 and 1985.He has served on the faculties at the College of William and Mary, Dartmouth College, and is now Professor of ECE at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.\u00a0 He received the Alumni Fellowship Award for Excellence in Teaching from William and Mary in 1992, He has received several best paper awards, including two from the annual Conference on Advanced and Distribution Simulation.\u00a0 He is former editor-in-chief of the flagship journal on simulation, the ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, and in 2006 was General Chair of the Winter Simulation Conference.\u00a0 He has been elected Fellow of the IEEE (2003) and Fellow of the ACM (2006) for his work in discrete-event simulation, and was just selected as the first inaugural recipient of the ACM Special Interest Group on Simulation\u0027s annual Distinguish Contributions Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E-----\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cercs.gatech.edu\/events.shtml\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/www.cercs.gatech.edu\/events.shtml\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.cercs.gatech.edu\/events.shtml\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cercs.gatech.edu\/seminar.shtml\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/www.cercs.gatech.edu\/seminar.shtml\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.cercs.gatech.edu\/seminar.shtml\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-11 15:58:01","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:50:17","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2008-01-28T11:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2008-01-28T12:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2008-01-28T12:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2008-01-28 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2008-01-28 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2008-01-28 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"Lometa Mitchell","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}