Raissa D'Souza

Assistant Professor
University of California, Davis
Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering
Center for Computational Science and Engineering
Graduate Group in Computer Science
Graduate Group in Applied Math

External Professor, Santa Fe Institute

office: 2095 Bainer/1101 MSB
phone: 530-754-8405
email: raissa at cse.ucdavis.edu
Recent talks

  • R. M. D'Souza "Tipping points and networks of interaction", SFI: Self-organization, Learning and Evolution discussion, October 24, 2007.

  • R. M. D'Souza "The optimization origins of Preferential Attachment", DIMACS-Georgia Tech Workshop on Complex Networks and their Applications, January 22-24, 2007.

  • R. M. D'Souza "Simulating Glauber dynamics for the Ising model", MAA Prep Workshop, Mathematics of Markov Chain Monte Carlo, June 15, 2006.

  • R. M. D'Souza "Statistical physics, computer simulation and probability theory", AMS Meeting, Special Session on Probability and Statistical Physics, April 30, 2006.

  • R. M. D'Souza "Statistical physics, computer simulation and probability theory", Bay Area Discrete Math Day, April 15, 2006. (Video available via google video "TechTalks").

  • R. M. D'Souza, D. Galvin, C. Moore, and D. Randall, "Global connectivity from local geometric constraints for sensor networks with various wireless footprints", The Fifth International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks April 19, 2006.

  • R. M. D'Souza "The Science of Complex Networks", CSE Seminar, Feb 2006. (Slides and audio track available).

  • R. M. D'Souza, N. Berger, C. Borgs, C. T. Chayes, and R. D. Kleinberg. "Competition-Induced Preferential Attachment", MSRI workshop "Models of Real-World Random Networks", April 2005.