Below are the slides of most of the recent talks that I gave.

Oct 2024 : Netgcoop, Asymptotic Optimality in Restless Bandit
June 2024: Workshop RL4SN The bias of constant step size stochastic approximation (via Stein’s method)
June 2024: Sigmetrics 2024 Approximations to Study the Impact of the Service Discipline in Systems with Redundancy
May 2024: Seminar at Inria Sophia Approximating the bias of stochastic processes
September 2023: Seminar at EDF R\&D Mean-Field Control for Restless Bandits and Weakly Coupled MDPs
September 2023: Seminar at Inria Paris ``8 days on Network Mathematics’’ Approximations for dynamics on graphs
July 2023: Seminar at Cornell OREI Mean-Field Control for Restless Bandits and Weakly Coupled MDPs.
June 2023: Bias of two timescale ``replicas’’ mean field approximation Informs APS. Nancy 2023.
June 2023: What is optimality is time-average MDPs? MAMA workshop (ACM Sigmetrics 2023).
May 2023: Online CNI seminar series Mean-Field Control for Restless Bandits and Weakly Coupled MDPs.
April 2023: Seminar at Université Laval (Québec) The bias of mean field approximation.
April 2023: Seminar at McGuill university (Montreal) How to Use Mean-Field Control for Restless Bandits and Weakly Coupled MDPs.
Dec 2022: Seminar at Inria Paris Bias of fluid / mean field approximation:Poisson equation, averaging methods and two-timescale processes
Oct 2022: Journée du GDR COSMOS / ANR NiceTweet Computing the bias of mean field approximation
Sept 2022: DDQC (online workshop): Restless bandits, weakly coupled MDPs and LP relaxations
July 2022: Atelier d’Évaluation de Performance (AEP 12, Grenoble): Restless Bandit Problems and Computation of Index Policies
June 2022: Stochastic Network Conference (SNC 2022): The Bias of Mean Field Approximation
January 2022: visite étudiant ENS Rennes à Grenoble Reinforcement learning and bandits: Exploration-Exploitation Tradeoffs
October 2021: Polaris-Datamove seminar Exploration-Exploitation Tradeoffs: a Gentle Introduction
May 2021: LIG WAX Stochastic Scheduling and Index Policies
January 2021: Devenir chercheur à Inria: retour d’expérience
January 2020: Defense of “HDR” (habilitation) Refinments of mean field approximation. You can also find the manuscript of my HDR.
October 2019: How to use mean field approximation for 10 players. Conference on Modelling Methods in Computer Systems, Networks and Bioinformatics
August 2019: Tutorial on mean field and refined mean field approximation. ITC-31 2019
June 2019: Stochastic Models for Bike Sharing Systems Journée Thématique: Système de Véhicules en Libre Service (Univ. Paris Nanterre, France)
April 2019: Mean field approximation for (relatively) small populations. Workshop NPCG 2019, IHP.
December 2018: Congestion Avoidance in Low-Voltage Networks Using Smart Meters. Workshop e-perf, Toulouse.
December 2018: Tutorial on mean field and refined mean field approximation. YEQT 2018
December 2018: Size Expansions of Mean Field Approximation: Transient and Steady-State Analysis. Conference IFIP Performance 2018. Paper
June 2018: A Refined Mean Field Approximation. Sigmetrics 2018.
Feb 2018: A Refined Mean Field Approximation, TU Eindhoven, Netherlands
Sept 2017: Overview of the QUANTICOL project, EaPEC’17 Conference, Minsk
July 2017: Expected Values Estimated via Mean-Field Approximation are 1/N-Accurate, Sigmetrics 2017, Urbana-Champaign, USA
May 2017: Probabilistic forecasts for bike-sharing systems, QUANTICOL Industry-day, Lucca, Italy
January 2017: Probabilités et Informatique: du modèle à l’algorithme (in French). Conférence à destination des professeurs d’ISN (Introduction aux Sciences du Numériques), Grenoble
Oct 2016: On the use of mean-field models for performance evaluation, Seminar of the Institut Fourrier, Grenoble
Sept 2016: Asymptotically Exact TTL-Approximations of the Cache Replacement Algorithms LRU(m) and h-LRU (ITC 2016)
July 2016: Mean-field methods: what can go wrong? École d’été RO Jeunes Chercheurs 2016 - Optimisation et Décision en milieu Incertain, Grenoble 2016
June 2016: Mean Field Approximation of Uncertain Stochastic Models, IEEE/IFIP DSN conference 2016.
June 2016: Mean-field methods: what can go wrong? SFM 16: Quanticol summer school
June 2016: Construction of Lyapunov functions via relative entropy with applications to caching ACM MAMA Workshop 2016
May 2016: Asymptotic properties of bike-sharing systems SISCA workshop
January 2016: Analysis and design of list-based cache replacement policies Polaris/DataMove seminar.
June 2015: Transient and Steady-state Regime of a Family of List-based Cache Replacement Algorithms, ACM Sigmetrics 2015
June 2015: The Power of Two Choices on Graphs: the Pair-Approximation is Accurate, MAMA Workshop 2015
June 2015: Are Energy MarketS Efficients? The case of real and virtual storage, Workshop on the Mathematics of Demand Side Management and Energy Storage, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes.
May 2014: Mean-field Methods for Large Stochastic Systems (with application to bike-sharing systems), Nancy probability and statistic seminar.
April 2015: Quanticol, mean-field and smart cities: building and analyzing models of bike sharing systems
February 2015: Are Energy MarketS Efficients? The case of Real and virtual storage, Dagstuhl, Germany
December 2014: Volatility in Real-Time Electricity Markets: efficiency or manipulation?, Séminaire G2ELab, Grenoble
November 2014: Impact of Demand-Response on the Efficiency and Prices in Real-Time Electricity Markets, journée de rencontre du groupe de travail CNRS “COS” (contrôle optimal stochastique), Paris
November 2014: Asymptotic properties of object-sharing systems, YEQT, Eindhoven
June 2014: Impact of Demand-Response on the Efficiency and Prices in Real-Time Electricity Markets, e-Energy2014, Cambridge, UK.
April 2014: Efficiency and Prices in Real-Time Electricity Markets, CASSTING workshop
May 2013: Storage Management in Stochastic Power Grids, UC Berkeley, CA.
May 2013: Impact of Storage on the Efficiency and Prices in Real-Time Electricity Markets, ACM e-Energy.
May 2013: Impact of Storage on the Efficiency and Prices in Real-Time Electricity Markets, Séminaire ENS de Lyon / IXXI
May 2013: Energy storage and real-time generation scheduling, Inria Grenoble, France
April 2013: Quanticol Kick-off meeting, Edinbourgh University, Scotland
March 2013: Stochastic Optimization and Control for Energy Management Internal Workshop DESL/LCA2.
December 2012: Optimal storage policies with wind forecast uncertainties, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
July 2012: Stochastic Analysis of Real and Virtual Energy Storage in the Smart Grid, ACM GreenMetrics
January 2012: Mean field for Markov decision processes: from discrete to continuous optimization, workshop OCOQS
December 2011: Sizing, Incentives and Redistribution in Bike-sharing Systems, Grenoble, France.
November 2011: Sizing, Incentives and Regulations in Bike-sharing Systems Informs 2011 annual meeting, Charlotte, NC, USA.