Rutgers CS Departmental Colloquium Series, Fall 2005. 
Contact:     Dinesh K. Pai

This page is for planning purposes only. See the official colloquium page for scheduled talks.

NOTE to external speakers: See dimacs webpage for travel directions.
Talks are generally held on Mondays and Thursdays at 11am.
The Distinguished Lecture Series is indicated with a color background.

Joint DIMACS/CS talks are indicated with this color background. They are held at 11am in DIMACS.

If you host a speaker, please decide on an appropriate room for the anticipated size of the audience and time, and let Komal Agarwal (kagarwal@cs) know. By default, we will assume that Colloquia are in CoRE A (301), and Distinguished Lectures are in the CoRE Auditorium on the first floor.

You may want to check the ECE colloquium schedule too when planning.

DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE (link to abstracts)	Host, Notes.
Sep 15	Atanas Rountev, Ohio State University	Dataflow Analysis in the Presence of Extensible Libraries	B. Ryder
Oct 4	Kari Pulli, Nokia	Mobile graphics	D. K. Pai
Oct 6	Madhu Sudan, MIT	Modelling errors and recovery in communication	Allender
Oct 19	Christopher F. Codella, IBM	Information Technology Challenges in Defense and Intelligence	S. Venugopal
Oct 27	Wayne Wolf, Princeton University	The Case for Distributed Peer-to-Peer Video Analysis	H. Hirsh
Nov 2	Fernando Fernandez Rebollo, CMU	Probabilistic Policy Reuse in Reinforcement Learning	Littman/Diuk
Nov 7	Michael Cohen, Microsoft	A "Moment" Lasts Forever	D. K. Pai
Nov 8	Sandhya Dwarkadas, Rochester		U. Kremer
Nov 9	Michael Pazzani, Rutgers	Comprehensible Knowledge Discovery From Data	H. Hirsh
Nov 15	Sebastian Thrun, Stanford	Winning the DARPA Grand Challenge	M. Littman
Nov 16	David Andre, BodyMedia	Programmable Reinforcement Learning Agents	M. Littman
Nov 21	Gerald Loeb, USC	Biomimetic Reanimation of Paralyzed Limbs	D. K. Pai CoRE Auditorium
Jan 30	Phillip B. Gibbons, Intel	Five Challenges in Wide-Area Sensor Systems	Muthukrishnan
Jan 31	Cenk Sahinalp	Locally Consistent Parsing with Applications to Approximate String Comparisons	DIMACS/CS
Feb 3	Rebecca Wright	Privacy-preserving data mining in the fully distributed model	DIMACS/CS
Feb 9	Dannie Durand, CMU	Fast Algorithms and Efficient Software for Incorporating Duplications in Evolutionary Trees	Farach-Colton
Feb 13	Kishore Ramachandran, GA Tech	System support for sensor-based distributed computing	L. Iftode
Feb 15	David Stork	Did the great masters "cheat" using optics?	H. Hirsh; Art History
March 2	Christos Papadimitriou, Berkeley	Computing Equilibria ( Leonid G. Khachiyan Memorial Lecture )	Grigoriadis & Steiger
March 10	James S. Duncan, Yale	Computational Platforms for Recovery of LV Deformation from Medical Images	D. Metaxas
March 15 11am	Paul Hohensee, Sun	An Overview of Hotspot, Sun's Java Standard Edition Virtual Machine	U. Kremer
March 15 1:30pm	Chuck Stewart, RPI	Dual-Bootstrap Image Registration	D. Metaxas
March 22	Scott Stornetta	Privacy Unmasked: the Separation of Information from Effect	M. Littman
March 30	Thomas Gross, ETH Zurich		U. Kremer
April 5	Gary Weiss	Utility-Based Data Mining	M. Littman
March 31	Yale Patt, UT Austin	Future Microprocessors: Where do we go from here? (ECE Distinguished Colloquium)	M. Parashar (ECE)
April 13	M. Satyanarayanan, CMU	Towards Seamless Mobility on Pervasive Hardware	L. Iftode