1. Avogadro-Scale Engineering:
Form and Function
NSF CCR

2. Statistical Mechanics
macroscopic state
internal configuration
microscopic degrees of freedom

3. Statistical-Mechanical Engineering?
macroscopic goal
internal configuration
microscopic degrees of freedom

4. Programming Distributed Systems
problem
algorithm
program
executable
protocol
messages

5. Graphical Message-Passing
problem
algorithm
program
executable
protocol
messages

6. Graphical Networks

7. trees: exact loops: approximations
Sum Product
Belief propagation, …, (Loeliger, …) fm xi fn xj
trees: exact loops: approximations

8. Bethe Approximation
(Jonathan Yedidia) fn xi

9. CDMA LFSR code acquisition
Noise-Locked Loops
(Ben Vigoda)
CDMA LFSR code acquisition

10. Local Search

11. Global Convex Optimization
(Pablo Parrilo et al.)
Interior point solution to a semidefinite program on a relaxed problem

12. programming computer programming linear programming
semidefinite programming
integer programming
dynamic progamming
toolpath programming
fault-tolerant programming
developmental programming
programming