Dr. Maarten van Steen, full professor at the VU University Amsterdam is visiting Amrita University, Amritapuri campus on 27-Nov-2010, monday. He is one of the pioneer’s in Distributed Systems and have authored many books including Computer and Network Organization, Distributed Systems, Graph Theory and Complex Networks etc. He also co-authored one book Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms with Prof. Andrew S Tanenbaum.

He is instrumental in signing the dual degree program between AMRITA and VU amsterdam on masters in parallel and distributed systems. The current first year MTech students are eligible for this dual degree program.

Dr. Maarten is planning to deliver two talks to the faculty members and M.Tech students. The details of the talks are given below.

Talk 1: Gossiping computers
Date: 29 Nov 2010
Time: 2.15 – 3.15  PM
Venue: Room #116 (CIR room)

Talk 2: Gossiping: Checks and Balances
Date: 29 Nov 2010
Time: 3.45 – 4.45  PM
Venue: Room #116 (CIR room)

Others who are interested in listening to him can also attend the session.