DCS Colloquia

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

Academic Year 2011-2012
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5/17/2012 11:00 am	DMap: A Shared Hosting Scheme for Dynamic Identifier to Locator Mappings in the Global Internet Qualifying Exam Tam Vu: Rutgers University Examination Committee: Marco Gruteser (Chair), Richard Martin, Thu Nguyen, Dipankar Raychaudhuri and Matthew Stone
5/10/2012 01:30 pm	Satellite Image and Stereo-Vision Based Global Vehicle and Robot Localization Qualifying Exam Turgay Senlet: Rutgers University Examination Committee: Ahmed Elgammal (chair), Tina Eliassi-Rad, Richard Martin and Michael D. Grigoriadis
5/9/2012 11:00 am	Minimum Spanning Tree and Connectivity of Large Scale Graphs in MapReduce Seminar Donatella Firmani: Sapienza University of Rome Organizer(s): Eric Allender
5/8/2012 02:00 pm	Fluid Flow Analysis for Cardiovascular Diagnostics Qualifying Exam Scott Kulp: Rutgers University Examination Committee: Dimitris Metaxas (chair), Vladimir Pavlovic, Matthew Stone and Richard Martin
5/2/2012 11:00 am	Online Ad Allocation: Adversarial, Stochastic and Simultaneous Approximations Seminar Vahab Mirrokni: Google Research in New York Organizer(s): Eric Allender
5/2/2012 10:00 am	Applications of Data Buffering and Caching in Online Social Networks Pre-Defense Lu Han: Rutgers University Defense Committee: Dr. Liviu Iftode (Chair), Dr. Badri Nath, Dr. Shan Muthukrishnan and Dr.Sanjeev Kumar (Facebook)
4/30/2012 02:30 pm	Single- and Multi-channel Speech Processing and Applications to ASR Colloquium Dr. Dimitrios Dimitriadis: AT&T Labs Research, Florham Park, NJ Faculty Host: Dimitris N. Metaxas
4/30/2012 02:30 pm	Two basic problems in finite stochastic optimization Colloquium Sébastien Bubeck: Princeton University Faculty Host: Michael Littman
4/30/2012 10:00 am	Assisting Developers in Porting Applications across Platforms Qualifying Exam Amruta Gokhale: Rutgers University Examination Committee: Vinod Ganapathy (Chair), Liviu Iftode, Ulrich Kremer and Dimitris Metaxas
4/30/2012 10:00 am	A Framework for Studying the Impact of Wireless Tracking on Emergency Departments Qualifying Exam Ana Paula Centeno: Rutgers University Examination Committee: Richard Martin (Chair), Rebecca Wright, Ricardo Bianchini and Thu Nguyen
4/27/2012 02:30 pm	Modeling a brain at single cell resolution Colloquium Gavriil Tsechpenakis: Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Faculty Host: Dimitris N. Metaxas
4/26/2012 11:00 am	Teaching Computers to Follow Verbal Instructions Qualifying Exam Monica Babes-Vroman: Rutgers University Examination Committee: Michael Littman(Chair), Smaranda Muresan, Haym Hirsh and Abhishek Bhattacharjee.
4/25/2012 03:00 pm	Data Depth, Centerpoints, and Related Notions Qualifying Exam Mudassir Shabbir: Rutgers University Examination Committee: William Steiger(Chair), Mario Szegedy, S. Muthu Muthukrishnan and Alexander Schliep
4/25/2012 11:00 am	On the Complexity of the Graph Reachability Problem Seminar Vinodchandran Variyam: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Organizer(s): Eric Allender
4/24/2012 11:00 am	Spaghetti, Bugs and Drips Colloquium Ira Greenberg: Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX Faculty Host: Bahman Kalantari
4/18/2012 11:00 am	Unconditionally Differentially Private Mechanisms for Linear Queries Seminar Aditya Bhaskara: Princeton University Organizer(s): Eric Allender
4/18/2012 10:00 am	Enhancing security of modular JavaScript Qualifying Exam Rezwana Karim: Rutgers University Examination Committee: Vinod Ganapathy (Chair), Liviu Iftode, Ulrich Kremer and Haym Hirsh
4/17/2012 10:30 am	Computational Challenges in the Biocatalysis Simulations Colloquium Darrin York: Rutgers University Faculty Host: Michael Littman
4/11/2012 03:20 pm	Interpreting the noisy geological record of ancient sea level changes: What can the past tell us about the future? Seminar Robert Kopp: Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers, Associate Director, Rutgers Energy Institute Organizer(s): Co-Host - Michael Littman
4/11/2012 01:30 pm	What can 20,000 models teach us? Lessons learned from a large-scale empirical comparison of learning algorithms. Colloquium Dr. Alexandru Niculescu-Mizil: NEC Labs America Faculty Host: Tina Eliassi-Rad
4/11/2012 12:00 pm	Building Accurate and Comprehensible Classification Models Colloquium Dr. David Martens: University of Antwerp, Belgium Faculty Host: Tina Eliassi-Rad
4/11/2012 11:00 am	A Characterization Theorem and An Algorithm for A Convex Hull Problem Seminar Bahman Kalantari: Rutgers University Organizer(s): Eric Allender
4/9/2012 01:00 pm	Robust Logistic Regression with Label Outliers Qualifying Exam Mingchen Gao: Rutgers University Examination Committee: Dimitris Metaxas, Ahmed Elgammal, Tina Eliassi-Rad and Michael Fredman
4/9/2012 10:00 am	EXPERIMENT-BASED MANAGEMENT OF DATA CENTERS PhD Defense Wei Zheng: Rutgers University Defense Committee: Ricardo Bianchini, Thu D. Nguyen, Richard Martin and Jason Flinn (University of Michigan)
4/6/2012 11:00 am	Diagnosing Production Failures with Better Logging Support Colloquium Ding Yuan: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Faculty Host: Richard Martin
4/5/2012 11:00 am	Improving the security and usability of cloud services with user-centric security models PhD Defense Saman Zarandioon: Rutgers University Defense Committee: Prof. Danfeng Yao (co-advisor), Prof. Vinod Ganapathy (co-advisor), Prof. Rebecca Wright, Prof. Uli Kremer and Dr. William Horne (HP Lab)
4/4/2012 11:00 am	Opportunistic Information Dissemination in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks: Adaptiveness vs. Obliviousness and Randomization vs. Determinism Seminar Miguel A. Mosteiro: Rutgers University Organizer(s): Eric Allender
4/4/2012 10:00 am	Latent Factor Models for Time Series Analysis Qualifying Exam Chathra Hendahewa: Rutgers University Examination Committee: Prof. Vladimir Pavlovic (Chair), Prof. Tomasz Imielinski, Prof. Tina Eliassi-Rad and Prof. Casimir Kulikowski
4/3/2012 03:00 pm	A Reliable Effective Terascale Linear Learning System Colloquium John Langford: Yahoo! Research Faculty Host: Dimitris N. Metaxas
3/29/2012 03:30 pm	Symantec’s WINE System for Repeatable, Data-Intensive Experiments in Cyber Security Colloquium Tudor Dumitras: Symantec Research Labs (SRL) Faculty Host: Tina Eliassi-Rad
3/29/2012 02:00 pm	Automatic Meshing and Rigging for the Creation and Deformation of 3D Shapes Qualifying Exam Peter Borosan: Rutgers University Examination Committee: Andrew Nealen, Matthew Stone, Ahmed Elgammal and Martin Farach-Colton
3/28/2012 11:00 am	The Method of Multiplicities Seminar Shubhangi Saraf: Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Organizer(s): Eric Allender
3/26/2012 11:00 am	Motion Planning and Optimal Control of Robotic Systems Colloquium Marin Kobilarov: California Institute of Technology Faculty Host: Dimitris N. Metaxas
3/23/2012 11:00 am	Behavior Imaging and the Study of Autism Colloquium James M. Rehg: Georgia Institute of Technology Faculty Host: Dimitris N. Metaxas
3/22/2012 11:00 am	Motion Planning: Progress and Prospects in Robotics, Simulation and Cyber-Physical Systems Colloquium Kostas Bekris: University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) Faculty Host: Dimitris N. Metaxas
3/21/2012 11:00 am	Sparser Johnson-Lindenstrauss Transforms Seminar Jelani Nelson: Princeton and IAS Organizer(s): Eric Allender
3/20/2012 11:00 am	Making Programming Languages more Usable through Optimization Colloquium Ross Tate: University of California, San Diego Faculty Host: Vinod Ganapathy
3/19/2012 11:00 am	Learning from (Almost) Nothing Colloquium Christopher Crick: Brown University Faculty Host: Dimitris N. Metaxas
3/8/2012 11:00 am	Program Verification with Liquid Types Colloquium Patrick Rondon: University of California, San Diego Faculty Host: Badri Nath
3/7/2012 11:00 am	Optimal Private Halfspace Counting via Discrepancy Seminar Aleksandar Nikolov: Rutgers University Organizer(s): Eric Allender
3/6/2012 11:00 am	Transformations and Frontiers in Robotics Colloquium Dmitry Berenson: UC Berkeley in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Faculty Host: Dimitris Metaxas
3/5/2012 11:00 am	Secure Low-Level Programming with Compiler/Hardware Assisted Memory Safety Colloquium Santosh Nagarakatte: University of Pennsylvania Faculty Host: Abhishek Bhattacharjee
2/29/2012 10:00 am	High Dimensional Sequence Classification and Segmental Sequence Alignment Qualifying Exam Shahriar Shariat: Rutgers University Examination Committee: Prof. Vladimir Pavlovic (Chair), Prof. Casimir A. Kulikowski, Prof. Alexander Shliep and Prof. Ricardo Bianchini
2/28/2012 11:00 am	Learning, Inference, and Control for Robotics and Sustainable Energy Colloquium J. Zico Kolter: Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT Faculty Host: Dimitris N. Metaxas
2/27/2012 11:00 am	Dynamic Optimization for Irregular Applications on Many-Core Architectures Colloquium Zheng (Eddy) Zhang: College of William and Mary Faculty Host: Uli Kremer
2/24/2012 11:00 am	Nonlinear binary optimization for computer imaging Colloquium Endre Boros: Director of RUTCOR, the Rutgers Center for Operations Research Faculty Host: Dimitris N. Metaxas
2/23/2012 11:00 am	Autonomous Decision Making for Robotic Information Gathering Colloquium Geoffrey A. Hollinger: University of Southern California Faculty Host: Dimitris N. Metaxas
2/22/2012 11:00 am	A Sharper Local Lemma with Improved Applications Seminar Yixin Xu: Rutgers University Organizer(s): Eric Allender
2/21/2012 11:00 am	Practical Abstractions for Dynamic and Parallel Software Colloquium Umut A. Acar: Max Planck Institute for Software Systems Faculty Host: Ricardo Bianchini
2/15/2012 01:30 pm	Heterogeneity Meets Rarity: Mining Multi-Faceted Diamond Colloquium Dr. Jingrui He: IBM Watson Research Center Faculty Host: Tina Eliassi-Rad
2/15/2012 12:00 pm	Algorithms to Affect Influence Propagation on Large Graphs Colloquium Dr. Hanghang Tong: IBM Watson Research Center Faculty Host: Tina Eliassi-Rad
2/15/2012 11:00 am	Secure Computation on the Web: Computing without Simultaneous Interaction Seminar Benny Pinkas: Bar Ilan University, Israel Organizer(s): Eric Allender
2/13/2012 01:00 pm	Differential Privacy in Various Contexts of Sensitive Data Analysis Qualifying Exam Darakhshan J. Mir: Rutgers University Examination Committee: Rebecca Wright, Tina Eliassi-Rad, Michael Littman and Tomasz Imielinski
2/8/2012 11:00 am	An optimal lower bound for file maintenance Colloquium Michael Saks: Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University Faculty Host: Eric Allender
2/1/2012 11:00 am	Towards Coding for Maximum Errors in Interactive Communication Seminar Mark Braverman: Princeton University Organizer(s): Eric Allender
1/17/2012 01:00 pm	A Framework for Agent-Based Healthcare Simulations Colloquium Gerry Tesauro and colleagues: IBM Research Faculty Host: Michael L. Littman
1/17/2012 10:30 am	Algorithmics for Next Generation Sequencing Colloquium Alexander Schliep: Rutgers University Faculty Host: Michael Littman
1/6/2012 11:00 am	The Beauty and Joy of Computing (BJC), AP CS Principles, and the CS 10K Effort Colloquium Daniel D. Garcia: Lecturer SOE, UC Berkeley EECS Department Faculty Host: Richard Martin
12/23/2011 02:00 pm	Some Problems On Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics PhD Defense Lei Wang: Rutgers University Defense Committee: Mario Szegedy, William Steiger, Bahman Kalantari and Boris Aronov (Polytechnic Institute of NYU)
12/22/2011 11:00 am	Group Activity Analysis in Video Sequences Pre-Defense Xinyi Cui: Rutgers University Defense Committee: Dimitris N. Metaxas (chair), Vladimir Pavlovic, Tina Eliassi-Rad and Xiaolei Huang (Lehigh University)
12/16/2011 02:00 pm	Selection-based Dictionary Learning for Sparse Representation in Visual Tracking Pre-Defense Baiyang Liu: Rutgers University Defense Committee: Prof. Casimir A. Kulikowski (Advisor), Prof. Vladimir Pavlovic, Prof. Ahmed Elgammal and Dr. Dorin Comaniciu(Siemens Corporate Research)
12/16/2011 09:30 am	Making SOA-Based Systems Coherent and Trustworthy PhD Defense Tin Lam: Rutgers University Defense Committee: Professor Naftaly Minsky, Professor Thu Nguyen, Professor Rebecca Wright and Dr. Josephine Micallef (Telcordia)
12/12/2011 04:15 pm	A Face Tracking System for Dynamic Event Recognition: Application to Continuous Recognition of Non-manual Markers of American Sign Language and to Deception Detection by Kinesic Analysis. PhD Defense Nicholas Michael: Rutgers Univeristy Defense Committee: Dimitris N. Metaxas, Vladimir Pavlovic, Tina Eliassi-Rad and Ioannis Stamos (Hunter College of CUNY)
12/12/2011 01:00 pm	Exploiting Phase-Change Technology in Server Memory Systems PhD Defense Luiz Ramos: Rutgers Univeristy Defense Committee: Prof. Ricardo Bianchini (Chair), Prof. Abhishek Bhattacharjee, Prof. Ulrich Kremer and Prof. Bhuvan Urgaonkar (Pennsylvania State University)
12/8/2011 01:00 pm	Structural variation detection using Bayesian Hidden Markov Models and spatial index structures Qualifying Exam Pavel Mahmud: Rutgers University Examination Committee: Alexander Schliep (advisor), Vladimir Pavlovic, William Steiger and Ulrich Kremer
12/8/2011 10:00 am	The Promise of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine for the Treatment of Severe Trauma Colloquium Dr. Joachim B. Kohn: NJ Center for Biomaterials, Rutgers University Faculty Host: Liviu Iftode
12/7/2011 01:00 pm	Autonomous Robot Skill Acquisition Colloquium George Konidaris: MIT Faculty Host: Michael L. Littman
12/6/2011 11:00 am	Algorithms, Graph Theory, and the Solution of Laplacian Linear Equations Distinguished Lecture Series Daniel A. Spielman: Yale University Faculty Host: Eric Allender
12/2/2011 11:00 am	The Aegean Sea and Islands: Biodiversity hotspots Under Threat Colloquium Anastasia Miliou, Institute of Marine Conservation: Charlene Caprio, J.D., Columbia Law School Faculty Host: Dimitris Metaxas
12/1/2011 09:30 am	On Circuit Complexity Classes and Iterated Matrix Multiplication PhD Defense Fengming Wang: Rutgers Univeristy Defense Committee: Eric Allender, Michael Saks, Mario Szegedy and Russell Impagliazzo(University of California, San Diego)
11/29/2011 11:00 am	The Technical and Political Evolution of the Internet -- A Personal Perspective Distinguished Lecture Series Dr. David Farber: Carnegie Mellon University Faculty Host: Prof. Rebecca Wright
11/21/2011 10:30 am	Improving Recommendations and Search over Online Textual Reviews and Forums Qualifying Exam Gayatree Ganu: Rutgers Univeristy Examination Committee: Amelie Marian (advisor), S. Muthukrishnan, Tina Eliasi-Rad and Endre Szemeredi
11/15/2011 01:30 pm	Crowdsourcing: Historical Antecedents and Future Prospects Colloquium David Alan Grier: George Washington University Faculty Host: Haym Hirsh
10/31/2011 10:30 am	3D-Aware Expression Flow for Face Editing Qualifying Exam Fei Yang: Rutgers Univeristy Examination Committee: Dimitris Metaxas (chair), Douglas DeCarlo, Tina Eliassi-Rad and Ulrich Kremer
10/27/2011 10:30 am	Towards a Student/Teacher framework for Reinforcement Learning Tasks Colloquium Matthew Taylor: Lafayette College Faculty Host: Michael L. Littman
10/25/2011 12:00 pm	Multi-Agent Planning and Plan Decomposition Colloquium Ronen Brafman: Ben-Gurion University Faculty Host: Michael L. Littman
10/24/2011 03:30 pm	Deformable Segmentation using Sparse Shape Representation PhD Defense Shaoting Zhang: Rutgers Univeristy Defense Committee: Dimitris Metaxas (chair), Vladimir Pavlovic, Tina Eliassi-Rad and Ron Kikinis ( Harvard University)
10/24/2011 11:00 am	3D Slicer Colloquium Ron Kikinis MD: Harvard Medical School Faculty Host: Dimitris Metaxas
10/21/2011 03:30 pm	A Spectral Theory for Tensors Qualifying Exam Edinah K. Gnang: Rutgers Univeristy Examination Committee: Prof. Ahmed Elgammal (chair), Prof. Vladimir Retakh, Mario Szegedy and Prof. Apostolos Gerasoulis
10/21/2011 02:00 pm	Information theory methods in communication complexity PhD Defense Nikolaos Leonardos: Rutgers Univeristy Defense Committee: Michael Saks (chair), William Steiger, Mario Szegedy, Mark Braverman (Princeton University)
10/19/2011 02:00 pm	Preventing and Diagnosing Software Upgrade Failures PhD Defense Rekha Bachwani: Rutgers Univeristy Defense Committee: Prof. Ricardo Bianchini (Chair), Prof. Thu Nguyen, Prof. Richard Martin and Dr. Dilma Da Silva (IBM Research)
10/19/2011 11:00 am	The National Robotics Initiative Colloquium Richard M. Voyles, PhD: National Science Foundation Faculty Host: Dimitris Metaxas
10/18/2011 10:30 am	Technology for Teaching the Majority about Computer Science Distinguished Lecture Series Mark Guzdial: Georgia Tech Faculty Host: Michael L. Littman
9/27/2011 10:30 am	Three Examples of An Algorithmer's Research Colloquium S Muthukrishnan: Rutgers Univeristy Faculty Host: Michael L. Littman
9/20/2011 01:30 pm	Divide and conquer: Hierarchical reinforcement learning and task decomposition in humans Colloquium Carlos Diuk: Department of Psychology and Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University Faculty Host: Michael Littman (Computer Science) and Randy Gallistel (RUCCS)
9/13/2011 11:00 am	Learning and Mining in Large-Scale Complex Networks Colloquium Tina Eliassi-Rad: Rutgers Univeristy Faculty Host: Michael L. Littman
9/13/2011 09:30 am	Applications of Algorithms to Social Networks, Secretary Problems and Differential Privacy PhD Defense Mangesh Gupte: Rutgers Univeristy Defense Committee: Michael Saks ( Advisor ), S. Muthukrishnan, Rebecca Wright and Vahab Mirrokni (Google Research, NY )
9/12/2011 03:30 pm	Power Management of Online Data-Intensive Services Colloquium David Meisner: University of Michigan Faculty Host: Ricardo Bianchini and Thu D. Nguyen
9/8/2011 11:00 am	Searching data with substance and style Colloquium Amélie Marian: Rutgers Univeristy Faculty Host: Prof. Michael Littman
9/8/2011 09:00 am	Flexible Reinforcement Learning via Linearly Combined Agents Qualifying Exam Vukosi Marivate: Rutgers Univeristy Examination Committee: Prof. Michael Littman (chair), Prof. Tina Eliassi-Rad, Prof Liviu Iftode and Prof. Vladimir Pavlovic
9/2/2011 02:00 pm	Governance-Based Management of Open Distributed Systems PhD Defense Wenxuan Zhang: Rutgers Defense Committee: Dr. Naftaly Minsky, Dr. Alex Borgida, Dr. Manish Parashar, and Dr. Jun-jang Jeng (IBM T.J.Watson Research Center)
8/31/2011 10:00 am	Exploring the Security and Applications of Cloud-based Mashups Pre-Defense Saman Zarandioon: Rutgers Defense Committee: Prof. Danfeng Yao (co-advisor), Prof. Vinod Ganapathy (co-advisor), Prof. Rebecca Wright, Prof. Uli Kremer, Dr. William Horne (HP Lab)
8/17/2011 01:00 pm	A Face Tracking System with Applications to Recognition of Nonmanual Markers of American Sign Language and Deception Detection. Pre-Defense Nicholas Michael: Rutgers Defense Committee: Dimitris N. Metaxas (chair), Vladimir Pavlovic, Tina Eliassi-Rad, Thomas S. Huang (University of Illinois)
8/10/2011 01:00 pm	Advances In Instantaneous and Dynamic Localization In Indoor Environments PhD Defense Begumhan Turgut: Rutgers Defense Committee: Richard P. Martin (Chair), Marco Gruteser, Ahmed Elgammal and Xin Wang (State University of New York at Stony Brook)
8/4/2011 10:30 am	Exploiting Phase-Change Technology in Server Memory Systems Pre-Defense Luiz Ramos: Rutgers Defense Committee: Prof. Ricardo Bianchini (Chair), Prof. Abhishek Bhattacharjee, Prof. Ulrich Kremer, Prof. Bhuvan Urgaonkar (Pennsylvania State University)
8/3/2011 02:00 pm	Clustering by Graph Density Variation Analysis with Density-based Cluster Validity Indices PhD Defense Thang Le: Rutgers Defense Committee: Prof. Casimir Kulikowski (Chair), Prof. Ahmed Elgammal, Prof. Vladimir Pavlovic, Prof. Alexander Statnikov (New York University)

Academic Year 2011-2012