Talks
Some of my research talks
Symmetric Rendezvous Search Games, Search and Rendezvous Workshop, Lorentz Centre, May 1-4, 2012
Observations on the Bomber Problem, Third International Workshop in Sequential Methodologies, Stanford, June 2011The Multi-Armed Bandit Problem: Index Theory Since Gittins, German Open Conference on Probability and Staististics, March 2010
Mechanism Design in Shared Infrastructures, talk at Lund Workshop on Distributed Decisions via Games and Price Mechanisms, March 2010
Symmetric rendezvous search on K4, talk at LSE August 2009.
Economics Issues in Shared Shared Infrastructures, talk at VISA 2009,
Networks in Banking, talk to Cambridge Finance - Wharton workshop, 25 June, 2009
Optimal Gateway Selection in VoIP, talk to the Statistical Laboratory, October 2008.
Incentivizing participation in resource sharing networks, talk to the Statistical Laboratory, October 2007.
Rendezvous search, talk at LSE, February 2007.
A large deviations analysis of the multiplexing of a periodic traffic source, Applied Probability Day, Columbia, May 2000.
Average case analysis of on-line bin packing algorithms, November 1996
Estimation of overlow probabilities for state dependent service of traffic streams with dedicated buffers, RSS Stochastic Networks Workshop at Heriot-Watt, August 1-11, 1995.
Some of my talks aimed at nonspecialist audiences
The disputed garment problem: the mathematics of
bargaining and arbitration, Nicky Shaw Lecture, Public Understanding of Mathematics, 07/02/08.
On bargaining and arbitration, Queens' College Academic Saturday, 16/10/99.
A Mathematician Plays "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" Talk to Royal Institution
Workshop:
Symmetric rendezvous search Talk to Adams Society, 27/02/07
The bomber problem Talk to Adams Society, 30/11/11
Hide and search games with multiple objects. Talk to Sidney Sussex College Mathematics Society, 06/11/12
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