Title: Randomized Gossip Algorithms for Solving Laplacian Systems
Speaker: Anastasios Zouzias 

Abstract: 
Gossip algorithms for distributed computation are based on a gossip or rumor style asynchronous message 
exchange protocol. In this talk, I will present a randomized distributed algorithm for solving Laplacian 
linear systems under the gossip model of computation. The analysis of the proposed algorithm relies on 
recent advances in randomized least squares solvers including the so-called randomized Kaczmarz method.