Computer Science Colloquium Series 2007-2008

The Department of Computer Science holds bi-weekly research colloquia and social hours. All university students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend. The full schedule of this year's events is below (check here for last year's events). If you would like to receive notifications about new and upcoming events, please subscribe to our mailing list.

October 1	Yaser Yacoob, University of Maryland Segmentation using Meta-texture
October 22	Larry Bernstein, Stevens Institute of Technology Analytical Requirements Engineering: Using Metrics to Understand User Needs
November 5	James Gee, University of Pennsylvania Symmetric Image Normalization in the Space of Diffeomorphisms
November 12	Chaomei Chen, Drexel University Visual Analysis of Macroscopic Patterns
November 26	Lars Nyland, NVIDIA Corporation Skip Lists, Atomic Operations, and Parallel Sorting
December 3	Markus Pueschel, Carnegie Mellon University Can We Teach Computers To Write Fast Libraries?
February 4	C.J. Taylor, University of Pennsylvania Applying Convex Optimization Techniques to Energy Minimization Problems in Computer Vision
February 11	Robi Polikar, Rowan University Ensemble of Classifiers Approaches for Data Fusion, Incremental Learning, Learning in Nonstationary Environments and Becoming a Millionaire!
February 28	Fusun Yaman, University of Maryland Using WIT and CHARM to Learn Planning Knowledge
February 29	Distinguished Lecture Steven Zucker, Yale University Modeling Visual Computations in Primates
March 3	Janusz Marecki, University of Southern California Towards Conquering Uncertainty in Agent Systems
March 11	Rachel Greenstadt, Harvard University Improving Privacy in Distributed Constraint Information
March 17	E. Vincent Cross II, Auburn University Human Coordination of Robot Teams Using Effective Multimodal Interfaces
March 18	Kobi Gal, Harvard University Effective Computer Agents for Interacting With People
April 7	Yair Amir, Johns Hopkins University SMesh: A Seamless Multi-homed Wireless Mesh Network with Fast Handoff
April 11	Fernando De la Torre, Carnegie Mellon University Learning the Representation for Modeling, Classification and Clustering Problems with Energy-based Component Analysis Methods
April 14	Mark Russo, Bristol-Myers Squibb Automated Laboratory System Design and Analysis Using Petri Nets
April 24	Sven Dickinson, University of Toronto Using Language to Learn Structured Appearance Models for Image Annotation
April 28	Jonathan Aldrich, Carnegie Mellon University Assuring Object-Oriented Architecture
May 5	Manish Parashar, Rutgers University Addressing the Challenges of Adaptivity and Scale in Parallel Scientific Simulations
May 12	Michael Littman, Rutgers University Efficient Model Learning for Reinforcement Learning
May 19	Olga Troyanskaya, Princeton University Building Search and Machine Learning Techniques for Discovery of Novel Biology in the Genomic Era