Seminars (Spring 2008)

Departmental Seminars (COMP 690 & COMP 691) Spring 2008

The regular seminar time slot is Monday, 4-5pm, except as otherwise indicated. These seminars are included in COMP 690 & COMP 691. Seminars held in other time slots are listed below in Other Departmental Seminars and are not included in COMP 690 & COMP 691.

Date & Time Venue Title Speaker Host
01 Feb 2008, Fri (11:00-12:00) Rm3464 Energy-Time Trade-Offs in Algorithm Analysis and Design [Joint Seminar] Prof. Mark GREENSTREET
Univ. of British Columbia		 M. Golin
04 Feb 2008, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Multidimensional Visualization and Its Applications Prof. Alfred INSELBERG
Tel Aviv Univ., Israel		 H. Qu
11 Feb 2008, Mon (16:00-17:00)   [Rescheduled to 01 Feb 2008, Fri, 11am]    
18 Feb 2008, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Back-of-the-Envelope Computation of Throughput Distributions in CSMA Wireless Networks Prof. Soung Chang LIEW
Chinese Univ. of HK		 Q. Zhang
25 Feb 2008, Mon (16:00-17:00)   [Rescheduled to 27 Feb 2008, Wed, 3pm]    
27 Feb 2008, Wed (15:00-16:00) LTG Towards Accurate and Efficient Classification: A Discriminative and Frequent Pattern-based Approach Hong CHENG
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign		 Q. Yang
03 Mar 2008, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Data Mining for Business Application Raymond WONG
CUHK		 D. Papadias
10 Mar 2008, Mon (16:00-17:00)   [Rescheduled to 31 Mar 2008, Mon, 11am, the talk by Shipeng YU]    
11 Mar 2008, Tue (13:30-14:30) Rm2404 Advances in Co-training Style Semi-supervised Learning Prof. Zhi-Hua ZHOU
Nanjing Univ.		 Q. Yang
17 Mar 2008, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF A Wildland Fire Model with Data Assimilation for High Performance Computing Environments [Joint Seminar] Craig C. DOUGLAS
Univ. of Kentucky & Yale Univ.		 L. Ni
24 Mar 2008, Mon (16:00-17:00)   No Seminar (Public Holiday)    
31 Mar 2008, Mon (11:00-12:00) Rm3315 Bayesian Co-Training: Concepts and Extensions [Rescheduled from 10 Mar 2008] Dr. Shipeng YU
Siemens Medical Sol. USA, Inc.		 J. Kwok
31 Mar 2008, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Combining Static and Dynamic Analyses for Automated Bug-finding Christoph CSALLNER
Georgia Tech		 S.C. Cheung
07 Apr 2008, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Predicting Bugs by Analyzing Software History Dr. Sunghun KIM
MIT		 S.C. Cheung
14 Apr 2008, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF A Simple Model for P2P Streaming Prof. Dah Ming CHIU
CUHK		 B. Li
21 Apr 2008, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Network Effects in Algorithmic Game Theory Mr. Ning CHEN
Univ. of Washington		 M. Golin
28 Apr 2008, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Efficient Keyword Search in Archival Collections Dr. Tortsten SUEL
Yahoo, and Poly. Univ. in Brooklyn		 M. Golin
05 May 2008, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Robust Models and Methods in Clustering over Uncertain Data Zhenjie ZHANG
National Univ. of Singapore		 D. Papadias
12 May 2008, Mon (16:00-17:00)   No Seminar (Public Holiday)    
15 May 2008, Thu (16:00-17:00) LTE A New Breadth-First Introductory Computer Science Course Prof. Ran LIBESKIND-HADAS
Harvey Mudd College		 D. Wu
23 May 2008, Fri (16:00-17:00) LTH Nonparametric Bayesian Methods in Language Modeling [Joint Seminar] Dr. Daichi MOCHIHASHI
NTT Communication Sci. Lab.		 D. Wu

Other Departmental Seminars Spring 2008

Date & Time Venue Title Speaker Host
07 Jan 2008, Mon (14:00-15:00) Rm3501 Ensuring Consistency in Long-Running Transactions Jeff Fischer
UCLA		 S.C. Cheung
11 Jan 2008, Fri (16:00-17:00) LTF Building Bodies, Building Symbols: Language acquisition from unsupervised perception and text [Joint Seminar] Prof. Amitabha MUKERJEE
Indian Institute of Technology		 D. Wu
23 Apr 2008, Wed (15:00-16:00) Rm4619 Trends in Mobile Computing Dr. Hui LEI
IBM		 D.L. Lee
07 May 2008, Wed (15:00-16:00) LTE Securing Resource-Constrained Wireless Networks Yuguang FANG
Univ. of Florida		 Q. Zhang
08 May 2008, Thu (14:00-15:00) Rm3416 New Challenges in Data Management Prof. Amr EL ABBADI
Univ. of California at Santa Barbara		 Q. Luo
13 May 2008, Tue (11:00-12:00) LTH Learning of Hierarchical Task Network Domain Descriptions: Theory and Empirical Results Prof. Hector MUNOZ-AVILA
Lehigh Univ.		 Q. Yang
22 May 2008, Thu (11:00-12:30) LTG eScience, Semantic Computing and the Cloud: Towards a Smart Cyberinfrastructure for eScience [Cancelled] Prof. Tony HEY
Microsoft		 L. Ni
26 May 2008, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTH Fast and Quality-Guaranteed Data Streaming in Resource-Constrained Wireless Networks Prof. Kui WU
Univ. of Victoria, Canada		 L. Chen
27 May 2008, Tue (10:30-11:30) LTH Accurate Max-margin Training for Structured Output Spaces Dr. Sunita SARAWAGI
Indian Institute of Technology		 Q. Yang
30 May 2008, Fri (16:00-17:00) Rm3408 Using Group Information to Improve Generalization Prof. Vladimir CHERKASSKY
Univ. of Minnesota, USA		 J. Kwok
02 Jun 2008, Mon (15:00-16:00) LTF Denoising and Dimension Reduction in Feature Space Prof. Klaus-Robert MULLER
Technical Univ. of Berlin		 J. Kwok
04 Jun 2008, Wed (14:00-15:00) LTH Data Dissemination in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks Prof. Guohong CAO
Pennsylvania State Univ.		 Q. Zhang
05 Jun 2008, Thu (11:00-12:00) LTH Computer Science and Game Theory: Solving Problems in a Selfish World Dr. Samule IEONG
Stanford Univ.		 G. Chan
13 Jun 2008, Fri (14:00-15:00) Rm3416 A Distributed Spatio-Temporal EEG/MEG Inverse Solver Ms. Wanmei OU
MIT		 A. Chung
07 Jul 2008, Mon (16:00-17:00) Rm3315 User-Centric Data Management Dr. Alexandros LABRINIDIS
Univ. of Pittsburgh		 Q. Luo
11 Jul 2008, Fri (11:00-12:00) Rm3416 ProDA: An End-to-End Wavelet-Based OLAP System for Massive Datasets Prof. Cyrus SHAHABI
Univ. of Southern California		 L. Chen
16 Jul 2008, Wed (16:00-17:00) Rm5510 Adaptive Aggregation on Chip Multiprocessors Prof. Kenneth ROSS
Columbia Univ.		 Q. Luo
25 Jul 2008, Fri (11:00-12:00) Rm3530 Bigram Latent Semantic Analysis for Unsupervised Language Model Adaptation Mr. Wilson TAM
Carnegie Mellon Univ.		 B. Mak
29 Jul 2008, Tue (15:00-16:00) LTH Distributed Resource Allocation for QoS Support in Wireless Networks Prof. Weihua ZHUANG
Univ. of Waterloo		 Q. Zhang
20 Aug 2008, Wed (11:00-12:00) Rm3501 Tract-Specific Analysis of Brain White Matter Dr. James GEE
Univ. of Pennsylvania		 A. Chung

Dekai Wu is the seminar coordinator for Spring 2008.

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