DCS Colloquia

Parking: If you are visiting for a colloquium talk, you will need a one-day parking permit. These may be obtained from Komal Agarwal in Hill 371 or from the departmental secretary in Hill 390.

Academic year is from August 1 to July 31 of the next year.

Academic Year 2007-2008
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5/13/2008 10:00 am	Video Objects Segmentation and Tracking Qualifying Exam Yuchi Huang: Rutgers University Examination Committee: Dimitris Metaxas (chair), Ahmed M. Elgammal, Vladimir Pavlovic, Vinod Ganapathy
5/12/2008 03:00 pm	Kernel methods and algorithms for general sequence analysis Qualifying Exam Pavel P. Kuksa: Rutgers University Examination Committee: Prof. Vladimir Pavlovic (Chair), Prof. Ahmed Elgammal, Prof. Casimir Kulikowski, Prof. Danfeng (Daphne) Yao
5/9/2008 09:30 am	HRW 2008: The 3rd Helsinki-Rutgers Ph.D. Student Workshop on Spontaneous Networking- May 5-9, 2008 Colloquium Workshop: Rutgers University Faculty Host: Liviu Iftode
5/1/2008 11:00 am	Algorithms for the Design of DNA Microarrays Colloquium Alexander Schliep: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biology, Berlin, Germany Faculty Host: William L. Steiger
4/30/2008 10:00 am	Essential Computing: Is Inference the key ingredient? Distinguished Lecture Series Andrew A. Chien: Intel Corporation Faculty Host: Barbara G. Ryder
4/22/2008 01:30 pm	HEURISTIC SEARCH AND INFORMATION VISUALIZATION METHODS FOR SCHOOL REDISTRICTING Colloquium Marie desJardins : University of Maryland Baltimore County Faculty Host: Michael L. Littman
4/17/2008 10:00 am	Towards Practical Secure Computation Qualifying Exam Andre Madeira : Rutgers University Examination Committee: Joe Kilian (chair), S. Muthukrishnan, Rebecca Wright, Amelie Marian
4/14/2008 01:00 pm	Effective Computer Agents for Interacting With People Colloquium Kobi Gal: MIT and Harvard Faculty Host: Michael L. Littman
4/11/2008 03:00 pm	Discriminative Models and Dimensionality Reduction for Regression PhD Defense Minyoung Kim: Rutgers University Defense Committee: Vladimir Pavlovic (Chair), Dimitris Metaxas, Ahmed Elgammal, Sanjiv Kumar(Google Research)
4/11/2008 10:00 am	An Execution Context Optimization Framework for Disk Energy PhD Defense Jerry Hom: Rutgers University Defense Committee: Dr. Ulrich Kremer (chair), Dr. Ricardo Bianchini, Dr. Rich Martin, Dr. Frank Bellosa (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
4/10/2008 11:00 am	Discrete Geometry: From Graphics to Computational Science Colloquium Yiying Tong: Michigan State University Faculty Host: Dimitris Metaxas
4/8/2008 11:00 am	Fast and Simple 3D Model Creation and Modification Colloquium Andy Nealen: Technische Universität Berlin, Germany Faculty Host: Dimitris Metaxas
4/3/2008 11:00 am	Modeling Material and Visual Detail for Computer Animation Colloquium Adam W. Bargteil : Carnegie Mellon University Faculty Host: Dimitris Metaxas
3/28/2008 09:00 am	State of the Art in Software Testing and Analysis Day Workshop Multiple speakers from the ISSTA08 Program Committee: ACM SIGSOFT Organizer(s): Barbara G. Ryder
3/27/2008 10:00 am	Machine Learning from the Nonparametric Bayesian Point of View Distinguished Lecture Series Michael I. Jordan: University of California, Berkeley Faculty Host: Rich Martin
3/25/2008 11:00 am	Interdisciplinary Visualization and Interactive Computing for Science Colloquium Daniel Keefe : Brown University Faculty Host: Dimitris Metaxas
3/20/2008 12:30 pm	Learning from Collective Behavior Colloquium Jennifer Wortman : University of Pennsylvania Faculty Host: Bethany Leffler
3/6/2008 11:00 am	Towards Bridging Bottom-Up and Top-Down Vision with Hierarchical Compositional Models Colloquium Iasonas Kokkinos : UCLA Faculty Host: Dimitris Metaxas
3/4/2008 11:00 am	Efficient and accurate methods for computing the E-value of sequence motifs Colloquium Dr. Uri Keich : Department of Computer Science, Cornell University Faculty Host: William L. Steiger
3/3/2008 11:00 am	Words and networks Colloquium Dragomir R. Radev: University of Michigan Faculty Host: Matthew Stone
2/28/2008 11:00 am	Computational Metagenomics: Algorithms for Understanding the "Unculturable" Microbial Majority Colloquium Sourav Chatterji: University of California, Davis(genome center) Faculty Host: William L. Steiger
2/27/2008 10:30 am	Efficient Structural Query Processing for Personal Information Management Systems Qualifying Exam Wei Wang : Rutgers University Examination Committee: Prof. Thu Nguyen(chair), Prof. Amelie Marian, Prof. Richard Martin, Prof. Ahmed Elgammal
2/25/2008 10:00 am	Playbot: Towards a Visually-Guided Semi-Autonomous Wheelchair for the Disabled Colloquium John K. Tsotsos: York University, Toronto, Canada Faculty Host: Dimitris Metaxas
2/21/2008 11:00 am	Photographs in the times of Social Media Colloquium Mor Naaman: Yahoo! Faculty Host: Matthew Stone
2/18/2008 10:00 am	Behavioral Games on Networks Distinguished Lecture Series Michael Kearns: University of Pennsylvania Faculty Host: Vladimir Pavlovic
2/12/2008 11:00 am	Population genomics of human microRNA binding sites Colloquium Kevin Chen: Department of Biology, New York University Faculty Host: William L. Steiger
2/7/2008 11:00 am	Time from Space: Self-supervision in the Representational Cortex Colloquium Elizabeth B. Torres: CALTECH Faculty Host: Dimitris Metaxas
2/6/2008 11:00 am	Data Compression in Dynamic Systems PhD Defense Su Chen : Rutgers University Defense Committee: Muthu Muthukrishnan(Chair), Richard Martin, Ahmed Elgammal and Lixin Gao (Umass)
2/6/2008 09:30 am	A Regulatory Architecture for a Digital Enterprise PhD Defense Mihail N. Ionescu : Rutgers University Defense Committee: Naftaly Minsky (chair), Liviu Iftode, Ricardo Bianchini and Dr. Ritu Chadha (Telcordia)
1/28/2008 02:00 pm	Variance-based Criteria For Clustering And Their Application To The Analysis Of Management Styles Of Mutual Funds Qualifying Exam Nikita I. Lytkin: Rutgers University Examination Committee: Dr. Casimir Kulikowski (chair), Dr. Ahmed Elgammal, Dr. Dimitris Metaxas and Dr. Thu Nguyen
12/13/2007 11:00 am	Embedding Languages Colloquium Ken Shan: Rutgers University Faculty Host: Naftaly Minsky
12/11/2007 11:00 am	System Architectures Based on Functionality Offloading PhD Defense Aniruddha Bohra : Rutgers University Defense Committee: Prof. Liviu Iftode (Chair), Prof. Ricardo Bianchini, Prof. S. Muthukrishnan, Prof. Jason Nieh (Columbia University)
12/7/2007 10:30 am	Modeling Correct Behavior in Distributed Systems in the Face of Operator Error Qualifying Exam Andrew Tjang: Rutgers University Examination Committee: Rich Martin (Advisor), Thu Nguyen, Ricardo Bianchini, Mario Szegedy
12/6/2007 02:00 pm	Bootstrapping Location-aware Personal Computing PhD Defense Nishkam Ravi: Rutgers University Defense Committee: Liviu Iftode, Badri Nath, Ahmed Elgammal and Tatsuo Nakajima (Waseda University, Japan)
12/6/2007 01:00 pm	On a network creation game Colloquium Yishay Mansour : Google & Tel Aviv University Faculty Host: Michael L. Littman
12/6/2007 11:00 am	Software Infrastructure for Next Generation Computing Environments Colloquium Tatsuo Nakajima: Waseda University, Japan Faculty Host: Liviu Iftode
12/5/2007 01:00 pm	Advances in Decentralized and Stateful Access Control PhD Defense Constantin Serban: Rutgers University Defense Committee: Naftaly Minsky(chair), Liviu Iftode, Ricardo Bianchini, Angelos D. Keromytis(Columbia University)
12/4/2007 11:00 am	Improving web answers using data corroboration Colloquium Amélie Marian : Rutgers University Faculty Host: Naftaly Minsky
11/29/2007 03:00 pm	Learning in Environments with States, Facts, and Objects Qualifying Exam Tom Walsh : Rutgers University Examination Committee: Michael Littman (advisor), Alex Borgida, Matthew Stone, Ulrich Kremer
11/16/2007 01:30 pm	Linear Prioritized Sweeping Colloquium Alborz Geramifard: University of Alberta Faculty Host: Michael L. Littman
11/15/2007 01:00 pm	Continuous-State POMDPs with Hybrid Dynamics Colloquium Emma Brunskill: MIT Faculty Host: Michael L. Littman
11/9/2007 03:00 pm	Heuristic graph clustering over quasi-concave set function Qualifying Exam Thang Le: Rutgers University Examination Committee: Dr. Casimir Kulikowski (Chair), Dr. Ahmed Elgammal, Dr. Vladimir Pavlovic and Dr. Mario Szegedy
11/5/2007 10:15 am	Improving Software Reliability Using Exception Analysis of Object Oriented Programs PhD Defense Chen Fu: Rutgers University Defense Committee: Dr. Barbara G. Ryder (Chair), Dr. Thu D. Nguyen, Dr. Richard P. Martin and Dr. Phyllis G. Frankl (Polytechnic University)
10/22/2007 01:00 pm	Context-Aware Protocol Adaptation for Vehicular Networks Qualifying Exam Pravin Shankar : Rutgers University Examination Committee: Liviu Iftode (Chair), Rich Martin, Badri Nath, Gerard Richter
10/19/2007 01:00 pm	Software Engineering for Pervasive Computing Distinguished Lecture Series Roy H. Campbell, Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Professor of Computer Science: University of Illinois Faculty Host: Liviu Iftode
10/4/2007 11:30 am	Synchronous Grammars Colloquium Dr. Stuart Shieber: Harvard University, Maxwell-Dworkin Laboratory Faculty Host: Chung-chieh Shan
10/3/2007 03:30 pm	Product rule in Semidefinite Programming Qualifying Exam Rajat Mittal : Rutgers University Examination Committee: Prof. Mario Szegedy (Chair), Prof. Endre Szemeredi, Prof. William Steiger, Prof. Alex Borgida
9/28/2007 11:15 am	Virtualization for embedded systems or the revenge of the microkernel Colloquium Gernot Heiser: Open Kernel Labs and University of New South Wales, Australia Faculty Host: Liviu Iftode
9/28/2007 10:00 am	Understanding and Validating Database System Administration Qualifying Exam Fabio Abreu Dias de Oliveira : Rutgers Examination Committee: Ricardo Bianchini (Chair), Richard Martin, Thu Nguyen, Michael Littman
9/27/2007 02:30 pm	Quantum walks and ground state problems PhD Defense Peter Richter : Rutgers University Defense Committee: Mario Szegedy (chair), Eric Allender, Joe Kilian, and Viv Kendon (University of Leeds, UK)
9/27/2007 12:00 pm	The Marker Level Set method: applications to simulation of liquids PhD Defense Viorel Mihalef : Rutgers University Defense Committee: Dimitris Metaxas(chair), Dinesh Pai, Gerard Richter, Mark Sussman - Florida State University
9/24/2007 01:00 pm	Video-based Facial Expression Analysis Qualifying Exam Zhiguo Li: Rutgers University Examination Committee: Dimitris Metaxas(Chair), Ahmed Elgammal, Vladimir Pavlovic, Michael D. Grigoriadis
9/20/2007 08:30 am	Streaming Techniques for Statistical Modeling PhD Defense Yihua Wu: Rutgers University Defense Committee: S. Muthukrishnan (chair), David Madigan, Richard Martin, and Divesh Srivastava (AT&T Labs --- Research)
9/14/2007 03:00 pm	Privacy in Emerging Wireless Networks PhD Defense Pandurang Kamat: Rutgers University Defense Committee: Wade Trappe, Richard Martin, Naftaly Minsky and Siva Raj Rajagopalan (outside member)
9/14/2007 11:00 am	Recent Advances in Branch Prediction Colloquium Daniel A. Jimenez: Rutgers University Faculty Host: Eric Allender
9/12/2007 10:00 am	Monitoring and Controlling Network File Systems Qualifying Exam Stephen Smaldone: Rutgers University Examination Committee: Liviu Iftode (Chair), Naftaly Minsky, Vinod Ganapathy, Michael Fredman
9/11/2007 11:00 am	Discriminative learning methods for state space models Colloquium Vladimir Pavlovic: Rutgers University Faculty Host: Eric Allender
9/6/2007 11:00 am	The role of Manifold learning in Human Motion Analysis Colloquium Ahmed Elgammal: Rutgers University Faculty Host: Eric Allender
8/21/2007 02:00 pm	Towards Realizing Spatio-Temporal Access Control Qualifying Exam Shu Chen: Rutgers Examination Committee: Wade Trappe (Chair), Richard Martin, Ahmed Elgammal, William Steiger
8/17/2007 10:00 am	Change Impact Analysis for Java Programs and Applications PhD Defense Xiaoxia Ren: Rutgers Defense Committee: Barbara Ryder (chair), Alexander Borgida, Ulrich Kremer, Sebastian Elbaum(University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
8/9/2007 10:00 am	FILTERING TECHNIQUES FOR DATA STREAMS PhD Defense Irina Rozenbaum: Rutgers Defense Committee: S. (Muthu) Muthukrishnan, Amelie Marian, Richard Martin, Divesh Srivastava (outside member)

Academic Year 2007-2008