Computer Science, Rutgers University:


November 30	DCIS Distinguised Lecture Series: PlanetLab - A Platform for Introducing Disruptive Technology into the Internet
November 30	Larry Peterson, Princeton University Faculty Host: Liviu Iftode

June 1	DCIS Colloquium: IP Backbone Monitoring and Measurements: Practice and Experience
June 1	Tao Ye, Sprint Labs Faculty Host: Rich Martin

May 14	DCS Qualifying Exam: Atomic Changes and Dependences in Chianti
May 14	Xiaoxia Ren , Rutgers University Examination Committee: Prof. Barbara G. Ryder, Prof. Alexander T. Borgida, Prof. Ulrich Kremer and Prof. Casimir Kulikowski

May 11	DCIS Colloquium: Online Ascending Auctions for Gradually Expiring Items
May 11	Ron Lavi, Institute of Computer Science, Hebrew University Faculty Host: Michael Littman

May 6	DCIS Colloquium: Medical Imaging for Skin Cancer- statistical and computer science opportunities
May 6	Allan Halpern, MD, the head of dermatology in mem. sloan kettering cancer center in NYC Faculty Host: Dimitris Metaxas Co-Hosts: Statistics and DIMACS

May 5	DCS Qualifying Exam: Testing of Java Web Services for Robustness
May 5	Chen Fu , Rutgers University Examination Committee: Prof. Barbara Ryder, Prof. Thu Nguyen, Prof. Daniel JimＯez and Dr. Leonid Khachiyan

April 29	Masters Defense: Disambiguation of User Intent through Rules and User Feedback
April 29	Richard Psota, Rutgers University Defense Committee: Dr. Matthew Stone, Dr. Alex Borgida, Dr. L. Thorne McCarty

April 26	DCIS Colloquium: Ad hoc Networking with Swarm Intelligence
April 26	Chien-Chung, Univ of Delaware Faculty Host: Badri Nath

April 26	DCIS Colloquium: Nonrigid Motion Analysis Research and Applications
April 26	Chandra Kambhamettu, Univ of Delaware Faculty Host: Dimitris Metaxas

April 21	PhD Thesis Defense: Distributed Admission Control in Core-Stateless Networks
April 21	Sudeept Bhatnagar, Rutgers University Defense Committee: Prof. Badri Nath (chair), Prof. Richard Martin, Prof. Thu Nguyen and Dr. Arup Acharya (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)

April 21	PhD Thesis Defense: Interpretation of the 3D Visual Environment from Uncalibrated Image Sequences
April 21	Bogdan Georgescu, Rutgers University Defense Committee: Dr. Peter Meer (chair/ECE-CS), Dr. Casimir Kulikowski (CS), Dr. Vladimir Pavlovic (CS), Dr. Kristin J. Dana (ECE) and Dr. Yakup Genc (Siemens)

April 19	DCIS Colloquium: Learning a Rare Event Detection Cascade by Direct Feature Selection
April 19	Jim Rehg, Georgia Tech Faculty Host: Vladimir Pavlovic

April 15	DCIS Colloquium: Type-Based Distributed Access Control
April 15	Dominic Duggan, Stevens Institute of Technology Faculty Host: Naftaly Minsky

April 12	DCS Qualifying Exam: Efficient Interpretation Policies
April 12	Ramana Isukapalli , Rutgers University Examination Committee: Dr. Russ Greiner (University of Alberta), Dr. Ahmed Elgammal, Dr. Dmitri Metaxas, Dr. Micael Littman, Dr. Rich Martin

April 12	DCIS Colloquium: WebIC: An Effective "Complete-Web" Recommender System
April 12	Russ Greiner, Department of Computing Science and Alberta Ingenuity Centre for Machine Learning, University of Alberta Faculty Host: Michael Littman

April 8	DCIS Colloquium: Beyond Code Generation: Using compiler technology for security and software defect identification
April 8	Larry Koved, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Hawthorne NY Faculty Host: Barbara Ryder

April 7	DCIS Colloquium: Reconstruction of Apparent Diffusion Coefficient and Characterization of Anisotropy in Diffusion Weighted MRI
April 7	Dr. Yunmei Chen, University of Florida Faculty Host: Dimitris Metaxas

April 5	DCIS Colloquium: Dense Multiview Stereo Approaches for Handling Occlusions, Highlights, Reflections, and Translucency
April 5	Sing Bing Kang, Microsoft Faculty Host: Vladimir Pavlovic

April 2	DCIS Colloquium: Finding needles in a 20 TB haystack, 200 million times per day
April 2	Craig Nevill-Manning, Google Faculty Host: Thu D. Nguyen

April 2	PhD Thesis Defense: A Probabilistic Approach to Building Large Scale Federated Systems
April 2	Francisco Matias Cuenca-Acuna, Rutgers University Defense Committee: Prof. Thu D. Nguyen, Prof. Ricardo Bianchini, Prof. Richard P. Martin and Craig Neville-Manning

April 1	PhD Thesis Defense: Interface Heterogeneity and Group Interaction
April 1	Bogdan Dorohonceanu, Rutgers University Defense Committee: Dr. Nevill-Manning (chair/CS), Dr. Stone (CS), Dr. Pavlovic (CS), Dr. Marsic (ECE), and Dr. Tremaine (IS, NJIT).

March 25	PhD Thesis Defense: Forwarding and Positioning Problems in Ad Hoc Networks
March 25	Dragos Niculescu, Rutgers University Defense Committee: Prof. Badri Nath, Prof. Muthu Muthukrishnan, Prof. Richard Martin, External member: Arup Acharya (IBM Research)

March 11	DCIS Colloquium: Data mining large databases: scalability considerations
March 11	Usama Fayyad, DMX Group Faculty Host: Haym Hirsh

March 2	DCS Qualifying Exam: Discovering Temporal Relations in Biomolecular Pathways Using Protein-protein Interactions
March 2	Yang Huang , Rutgers University Examination Committee: Dr. Martin Farach-Colton(Chair), Dr. S. Muthu Muthukrishnan, Dr. Vladimir Pavlovic

February 9	DCIS Colloquium: Coordinated Atomic Actions and System Fault Tolerance
February 9	Alexander Romanovsky, School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Faculty Host: Naftaly Minsky

December 8	PhD Thesis Defense: Bounded Depth Arithmetic Circuits
December 8	Samir Datta, Rutgers University Defense Committee: Prof. Eric Allender, Prof. Endre Szemeredi, Prof. Michael Saks, Prof. Pierre McKenzie

December 5	DCIS Colloquium: Methods for Medical and Bioinformatics Image Analysis
December 5	Dr. Chandra Kambhamettu, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware Faculty Host: Dimitris Metaxas

November 25	PhD Thesis Defense: Temporal Locality at Procedure Level - Its Study and Exploitation
November 25	Ravi V. Batchu, Rutgers University Defense Committee: Dr. Daniel A. Jimenez (Chair), Dr. Saul Y. Levy Dr Barbara G. Ryder and Dr Samuel Z. Guyer, UT Austin

November 24	DCIS Colloquium: Using the Broadway compiler for accurate and efficient error detection
November 24	Samuel Z. Guyer, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin Faculty Host: Daniel Jimenez

November 19	DCS Qualifying Exam: Online Data Cleaning in Wireless Sensor Networks
November 19	Eiman Elnahrawy , Rutgers University Examination Committee: Dr. Badri Nath (Chair), Dr. Michael Littman, Dr. Richard Martin, Dr. Muthu Muthukrishnan

November 14	DCIS Colloquium: Pictorial Query Specification for Browsing Through Spatially-Referenced Image Databases
November 14	Hanen Samet , Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland Faculty Host: Dimitris Metaxas

November 14	PhD Thesis Defense: On Regulating Open Distributed Systems
November 14	Takahiro Murata , Rutgers University Defense Committee: Dr. Naftaly Minsky (Chair), Dr. Alex Borgida (Co-advisor), Dr. Marvin Paull, Dr. Richard Scherl, Monmouth University

November 4	DCIS Colloquium: Multisensory Data Acquisition and its Applications
November 4	Michael Suppa , German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics Faculty Host: Dinesh Pai

October 31	DCIS Colloquium: The virtual stuntman: dynamic characters with a repertoire of autonomous motor skills
October 31	Petros Faloutsos, Department of Computer Science, University of California at Los Angeles Faculty Host: Dimitris Metaxas

October 24	DCIS Colloquium: Efficient Learning in Stochastic Games
October 24	Ronen Brafman , Ben-Gurion University Faculty Host: Michael Littman

October 23	DCIS Colloquium: Intenet Routing Validation
October 23	John Ioannidis , AT&T Research Faculty Host: Naftaly Minsky

September 26	Masters Defense: Efficiently Sorting Certain Cartesian Sums
September 26	Pradip Hari , Rutgers University Examining Committe: Dr. William Steiger, Dr. Michael Fredman, Dr. Endre Szemeredi

September 12	DCIS Colloquium: Secure OTA Download for Software Defined Radio
September 12	Greg Perkins , Panasonic Information & Networking Technologies Faculty Host: Thu D. Nguyen

2003-2004 Colloquia Schedule