[Todos] Recordatorio: "Synchronization is coming back, but is it the same?" - Hoy, 15:00hs

[Esteban Mocskos]

Los invitamos a la charla de Michel Raynal (University of Rennes,
France): "Synchronization is coming back, but is it the same?"

Día: Miércoles 26/3
Hora: 15:00hs
Lugar: Laboratorio Turing (Pabellón 1)

Informally, "wait-free" means that  the progress of a process depends
only on itself. This notion is more and more pervasive in a lot of
problems that basically  rely (in one way or another) on the definition
and the use of concurrent objects  in presence of failures.
This talk  will visit wait-free computing: its underlying concepts
and basic mechanisms. To that end, the talk will also visit
fundamental notions of synchronization such as the consensus number
notion, and problems of asynchronous computing in presence of failures
(such as renaming,  set agreement, snapshot, etc.).

Short biography:
Michel Raynal is a Professor of computing science at the University of
Rennes, France. His main research interests are the basic principles of
distributed computing systems. He is a world leading researcher in the
domain of distributed computing. He is the author of numerous papers on
distributed computing (more than 130 in int'l scientific journals, more
than 300 papers in int'l conferences). He is also well-known for his
eleven books on distributed computing. He has chaired the program
committee of the major conferences on the topic (e.g., ICDCS, DISC,
SIROCCO, OPODIS, ICDCN, etc.) and has served on the program committees
of more than 160 int'l conferences including all the most prestigious
ones. He is the recipient of several "Best Paper" awards (ICDCS 1999,
2000 and 2001, SSS 2009 and 2011, Europar 2010, DISC 2010) and has
supervised more than 45 PhD students. He has been invited by many
universities all over the world to give lectures on distributed
computing. His h-index is greater than 50 (Harzing index).

In the recent past (2010-2013), Michel Raynal has written four books:
"Communication and Agreement Abstractions for Fault-Tolerant
Asynchronous Distributed Systems", Morgan & Claypool  251 pages, 2010
(ISBN 978-1-60845-293-4);
"Fault-Tolerant Agreement in Synchronous Distributed Systems", 165
pages, Morgan & Claypool,September 2010), (ISBN 978-1-60845-525-6);
"Concurrent Programming: Algorithms, Principles and Foundations",
Springer, 515 pages, 2012 (ISBN 978-3-642-32026-2), and  "Distributed
Algorithms for Message-passing Systems",  Springer, 510 pages, 2013
(ISBN: 978-3-642-32026-2).

Since 2010, Michel Raynal is a senior member of the prestigious
"Institut Universitaire de France".