This site lists colloquia starting with Fall 2007

Main colloquia page, with link to colloquia for previous semesters

Department of Computer Science and Engineering: Upcoming Spring 2008 Colloquia

• May 5, 2008 (Monday) 1530-1700 (3:30-5pm), Lecture Hall B213 in 300 Main Street Building. Max Alekseyev, University of California, San Diego, "Genome Rearrangements: from Biological Problems to Combinatorial Algorithms (and back)." Abstract (MS-Word format). Abstract (text).

  Department of Computer Science and Engineering: Past Spring 2008 Colloquia

• April 24, 2008 (Thursday) 1530-1700 (3:30-5pm), Swearingen 3C02 (Chemical Engineering Conference Room). Douglas W. Raiford, Wright State University, "Algorithmic Techniques Employed in the Detection and Characterization of Global Evolutionary Forces." Abstract (MS-Word format). Abstract (text).
• April 10, 2008 (Thursday) 1530-1700, Swearingen 3C02 (Chemical Engineering Conference Room). Xuefeng Zhou, Washington University, "Study of microRNAs: A Biology Problem with Computational Challenges." Abstract (MS-Word format). Abstract (text).
• April 2, 2008 (Wednesday) 1430-1530, Swearingen 1A03 (Faculty Lounge). Bill Gasarch, University of Maryland at College Park, "Multiparty Communication Complexity." Abstract (MS-Word format). Abstract (text).
• March 25, 2008 (Tuesday) 1300-1400, Swearingen 1A03 (Faculty Lounge). H. Van Dyke Parunak, New Vectors, "Exploring and Exploiting 'The Several Branches'." Abstract (MS-Word format). Abstract (text). This is the keynote talk for the Upsilon Pi Epsilon initiation ceremony for new members. Upsilon Pi Epsilon is the Honor Society for the Computing Sciences. The talk is open to the public.
• January 17, 2008 (Thursday) 1500-1600, Swearingen 1A03 (Faculty Lounge). Brian Blake, Department of Computer Science, Georgetown University, "Towards The Matrix: Intelligent Agents and Augmented Reality to Enhance Human Learning Performance." Abstract (MS-Word format). Abstract (text)
• January 24, 2008 (Thursday) 1400-1500, Lecture Hall B103 in 300 Main Street Building. Michael W. Berry, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Tennessee, "Topic Detection and Tracking Using Nonnegative Matrix and Tensor Factorizations." Abstract (MS-Word format). Abstract (text).

Department of Computer Science and Engineering: Past Fall 2007 Colloquia

• September 7, 2007 (Friday) 3:30-4:30pm, Lecture Hall B201 in 300 Main Street. Seven-Minute Madness. Presentation by departmental faculty: Duncan Buell (Chair), Steve Fenner (The Limits of Computation), Csilla Farkas (Information Assurance), Jose Vidal (Automated negotiations and combinatorial auctions), Caroline Eastman (Search in Multifaceted Information Spaces), John Rose (Genomics and Proteomics), Chin-Tser Huang (Practically Useful Network Security), Jijun Tang (Phylogenetic Reconstruction, Medical Imaging Processing and Computer Games), and Gang Quan (Power aware real-time embedded system design).
• September 11, 2007 (Tuesday) 1530-1630, Coker Life Sciences Building Room CLS 005. Bernard Moret, Laboratory for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, École Polytecnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), A Computational View of Phylogenetic Reconstruction, Comparative Genomics, and Whole-genome Evolution at the Level of Genes." Tri-fold announcement (MS-Word format).
• September 13, 2007 (Thursday) 1530-1630, Swearingen Building Room 3A75. John Rogers, Department of Computer Science, DePaul University, "How to Use Kolmogorov Complexity to Perform (Almost) Content-free Phylogenetics." Abstract (MS-Word format). Abstract (text).
• September 14, 2007 (Friday) 3:30-4:30pm, Lecture Hall B201 in 300 Main Street. Seven-Minute Madness. Presentation by departmental faculty: Marco Valtorta (Graphical Probabilistic Models for Hypothesis Management), Michael Huhns (Agents and the Semantic Web), Song Wang (Research in the USC Computer Vision Lab), Wenyuan Xu (Wireless networking and security), Jason Bakos (Reconfigurable Computing), Srihari Nelakuditi (ARENA for Research on Emerging Networks and Applications), Jianjun Hu (Computational Genomics and Computational Evolution), Jason O'Kane (Robotics and Autonomous Systems), Homayoun Valafar (Computational Biology and Medicine), and Manton Matthews (Natural Language, Logic and the Web).
• October 18, 2007 (Thursday) 1530-1730, Lecture Hall B213, 300 Main Street Building. Special event on computing for insurance applications, including: Paul Beinat, NeuronWorks International, "Advancing the Frontiers of Machine Learning: Applying Artificial Intelligence Techniques to Insurance Regression Problems." Event announcement (pdf). Paul Beinat's biographical sketch (MS-Word format)