Schedule

The conference will be held on the platform of Gather, with talks delivered through Zoom Webinar (Detailed instructions will be available soon).
- The award and keynote talks are 1-hour live talks.
- The regular talks are 25-minute talks (20 min recored video and 5 min live Q&A).
- The Highlights beyond SIGMETRICS talks are 30-minute live talks.
All times listed US Eastern (EDT).
We strongly encourage attendees to register before June 10, to avoid delay due to platform reconfiguration.

Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Time (EDT)	Event
09:00	Welcome & Opening (Summer Palace Room)
09:30	Achievement Award Talk: R. Srikant The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Lyapunov Drift Method: From Data Centers to Deep Reinforcement Learning Chair: John N. Tsitsiklis (Summer Palace Room)
10:30	Break
10:45	Keynote: Sanjeev Arora Opening the Black Box of Deep Learning: Some Lessons and Take-aways Chair: Longbo Huang (Summer Palace Room)
11:00
11:45	Break
12:00	SRC Poster (Poster Room)
13:00	Break
13:30	Session 1A: Learning BANDITS AND FRIENDSTALKS Chair: Jia Liu (Summer Palace Room)	Session 1B: Measurement WHERE ARE YOU GOING?TALKS Chair: Carey Williamson (Great Wall Room)
14:30
14:45	Break
15:15	Session 2A: Theory TO SCHEDULE OR NOT TO SCHEDULETALKS Chair: Bhuvan Urganokar (Summer Palace Room)
16:00
16:55

Time (EDT)	Event
08:30	Session 3A: Theory SHARING IS CARINGTALKS Chair: Mor Harchol-Balter (Summer Palace Room)	Session 3B: Measurement FOLLOW THE MONEYTALKS Chair: Vishal Misra (Great Wall Room)
09:30
10:10	Break
10:45	Keynote: Leandros Tassiulas Enabling Intelligent Services at the Network Edge Chair: Longbo Huang (Summer Palace Room)
11:30
11:45	Break
12:00	Mentorship Event (Chat Room)
12:30	Mentorship Event (Chat Room)
13:00	Break
13:30	Highlights beyond SIGMETRICS TALKS Chair: Adam Wierman (Summer Palace Room)
14:30
15:00	Break
15:30	Session 4A: Theory THE LOAD BALANCING ACTTALKS Chair: Sem Borst (Summer Palace Room)	Session 4B: Systems ALL SYSTEMS GOTALKS Chair: Shaolei Ren (Great Wall Room)
16:30
17:10

Time (EDT)	Event
09:00	Session 5A: Theory THE PRICE IS RIGHTTALKS Chair: Theja Maguluri (Summer Palace Room)	Session 5B: Theory MIXED KNAPSACKTALKS Chair: Weina Wang (Great Wall Room)
09:30
10:00
10:15	Preview of Sigmetrics 2022 (Summer Palace Room)
10:35	Break
10:45	Keynote: Hsiao-Wuen Hon AI for System – Infusing AI into Cloud Computing Systems Chair: Longbo Huang (Summer Palace Room)
11:00
11:45	Break
12:00	SRC presentation (Summer Palace Room)
13:00	Break
13:30	Rising Star Award Talk: Zhenhua Liu Sustainable IT and IT for Sustainability Chair: Zhi-Li Zhang (Summer Palace Room)
14:00
14:30	Break
15:00	Session 6A: Theory VARIOUS THEORISTSTALKS Chair: Sherwin Doroudi (Summer Palace Room)	Session 6B: Measurement THE TRUTH IS OUT THERETALKS Chair: Chen Qian (Great Wall Room)
16:00
16:40	Business meeting (Summer Palace Room)
17:10	Business meeting (Summer Palace Room)

Time (EDT)	Event
09:30	Tutorial 1TALKS (Summer Palace Room)	Tutorial 2TALKS (Great Wall Room)
10:00	Tutorial 1TALKS (Summer Palace Room)	Tutorial 2TALKS (Great Wall Room)
10:30	Q&A
11:00	Tutorial 1TALKS (Summer Palace Room)	Tutorial 2TALKS (Great Wall Room)
11:30	Tutorial 1TALKS (Summer Palace Room)	Tutorial 2TALKS (Great Wall Room)
12:00	Q&A
12:00	Break
13:00	Tutorial 3TALKS (Summer Palace Room)	Tutorial 4TALKS (Great Wall Room)	Tutorial 5TALKS (Bird's Nest Room)
13:30	Tutorial 3TALKS (Summer Palace Room)	Tutorial 4TALKS (Great Wall Room)	Tutorial 5TALKS (Bird's Nest Room)
14:00	Q&A
14:30	Tutorial 3TALKS (Summer Palace Room)	Tutorial 4TALKS (Great Wall Room)	Tutorial 5TALKS (Bird's Nest Room)
15:00	Tutorial 3TALKS (Summer Palace Room)	Tutorial 4TALKS (Great Wall Room)	Tutorial 5TALKS (Bird's Nest Room)
15:30	Q&A
16:00		Tutorial 4TALKS (Great Wall Room)	Tutorial 5TALKS (Bird's Nest Room)
16:30		Tutorial 4TALKS (Great Wall Room)	Tutorial 5TALKS (Bird's Nest Room)
16:30	Q&A