Past Colloquia
2005-2006
- June 21, 2006 - at 2:00p.m in Room 241 Hardymon Building
High performance Multimedia service in next generation Networks
Yi Cui (Vanderbilt University)
Hosts: Profs. Zongming Fei and Ruigang Yang
- May 10, 2006 - at 2:00p.m in RGAN 202
Towards Efficient Boolean Circuit Satisfiability Checking
Ilkka Niemelä (Helsinki University of Technology)
Host: Prof. Mirek Truszczynski
- April 5, 2006 - at 4p.m in RMB (CRMS) 323
Software Requirements to Architecture
Jane Cleland-Huang (DePaul University)
Host: Prof. Jane Hayes
- March 27, 2006 - at 4p.m in RMB (CRMS) 323
Discrete Bayesian Network Structure Search
with an Application to Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data
John Burge(University of New Mexico)
Host: Prof. Judy Goldsmith
- March 8, 2006 - at 4p.m in RMB (CRMS) 323
Computational Complexity of Continuous Problems
Henryk Wozniakowski(Columbia University and University of Warsaw)
Host: Prof. Grzegorz Wasilkowski
- March 3, 2006 - at 4p.m in RMB (CRMS) 323
Thacher Lectureship in Computer Science
David Kirk (NVIDIA Corporation)
Host: Prof. Ruigang Yang
- February 8, 2006 - at 4p.m in RMB (CRMS) 323
Understanding the Function and Connectivity of Human Brain
Jun Zhang (University of Kentucky)
- January 23, 2006 - at 11a.m in ASTeCC 149
Introducing Processing into Computer Networks
Tilman Wolf(University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Faculty Candidate
- December 5, 2005 - at 4p.m in RGAN 202
Sensitivity of best recovery in Sobolev spaces
Marek A. Kowalski (Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw)
Host: Prof. Grzegorz Wasilkowski
- November 30, 2005 - at 4p.m Alltel Solutions Center (Hardymon, Room 100)
Finite-State Methods in Natural Language Processing
Lauri Karttunen (Palo Alto Research Center)
Host: Prof. Raphael Finkel
- November 28, 2005 - at 4p.m ASTeCC 149
Crossing Number versus Odd Crossing Number
Mark Schaefer (Depaul University)
Host: Prof. Judy Goldsmith
- November 17, 2005 - at 2:00p.m. in ASTeCC 149
Exploiting Graph Locality in External-Memory Graph Search
Eric Hansen (Mississippi State University)
Host: Prof. Judy Goldsmith
- November 9, 2005 - at 4p.m in RGAN 202
Numerical Integration in Thousands of Dimensions
Frances Kuo (University of New South Wales)
Host: Prof. Grzegorz Wasilkowski
- November 4, 2005 - at 4p.m in RMB (CRMS) 323
Pose Invariant 3D Face Recognition
Andreas Koschan (The University of Tennessee)
Host: Prof. David Nister
- October 31, 2005 - at 4p.m in RGAN 202
Software Engineering Standards: Confusion, confusion, confusion.
Jeffrey M Voas (SAIC)
Host: Prof. Jane Hayes
- September 28, 2005 - at 4p.m in RGAN 202
The Java Eclipse Project
Beth Tibbits (IBM Watson)
Host: Prof. Alex Dekhtyar
- September 19, 2005 - at 4p.m in ASTeCC 149
Designing a Publish-Subscribe Substrate for Privacy/Security in
Pervasive Environments
Lukasz Opyrchal (Miami University, Ohio)
Host: Prof. Jerzy Wl Jaromczyk
- September 8, 2005 - at 3:30p.m in 800 Kentucky Utilities Building
Scaling Up Sensing for Virtual Environments
Greg Welch (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
- August 11, 2005 - at 11a.m in RMB (CRMS) 323
Evidence Centered Design using Bayesian Networks
Russell Almond (Educational Testing Services)
Host: Prof. Judy Goldsmith
2004-2005
- April 13, 2005 - at 4p.m in ASTeCC 149
There and Back Again
Dave Pruett (Geocontrol Systems)
Host: Prof. Jane Hayes
- April 6, 2005 - at 4p.m in Alltel Solutions Center (Hardymon, Room 100)
Thacher Lectureship in Computer Science
Ellen W. Zegura (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Host: Prof. Ken Calvert
- March 7, 2005 - at 10a.m in Alltel Solutions Center (Hardymon, Room 100)
Software Systems To Manage Large Networks:
A Challenge And Opportunity
Douglas Comer (Visiting Faculty, Cisco Systems)
Host: Prof. Jim Griffioen
- February 28, 2005 at 4p.m in ASTeCC 149
Thacher Lectureship in Computer Science
Rina Dechter (University of California at Irvine)
Hosts: Profs. Judy Goldsmith and Mirek Truszczynski
- February 18, 2005 - at 2:00p.m in RMB (CRMS) 323
DETECTING INSIDER THREATS IN TRUSTED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS
Kathryn Blackmond Laskey (George Mason University)
Host: Prof. Judy Goldsmith
- February 4, 2005 - at 2:00pm, in Alltel Solutions Center (Hardymon, Room 100)
Towards a Decision Query Language
Jan Chomicki (University at Buffalo)
Hosts: Profs. Alex Dekhtyar and Judy Goldsmith
- January 21, 2005 - at 2p.m, in RMB (CRMS) 323
Taking the Initiative:
How to Engage a Website in a Dialog
Saverio Perugi (University of Dayton)
Host: Prof. Judy Goldsmith
- November 22, 2004 - at 4p.m. in Alltel Solutions Center (Hardymon, Room 100)
Formal Methods, the Very Idea, Some Thoughts
Daniel M. Berry (University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada)
Hosts: Profs. Alex Dekhtyar and Jane Hayes
- September 24, 2004 - at 4:00p.m. in RMB (CRMS) 323
Art Inspired Computer Graphics and Visualization
Baoquan Chen (University of Minnesota at Twin Cities)
Host: Prof. Ruigang Yang
- September 15, 2004 - at 4:00p.m. in Alltel Solutions Center (Hardymon, Room 100)
An Algebraic Approach to Minimal Cases in Computer Vision
Henrik Stewenius (Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Host: Prof. David Nister
2003-2004
- April 26, 2004 - at 4:00p.m. in RMB (CRMS) 323
LURCHing to find design defects
Tim Menzies (NASA, Portland State University and West Virginia University)
Host: Prof. Jane Hayes
- April 19, 2004 - at 4:00p.m. in RMB (CRMS) 309
AI: The `Wife' of the 21st Century?
Judy Goldsmith (University of Kentucky)
- April 15, 2004 - at 4:00 PM in Alltel Solutions Center
Image Parsing by Data-Driven Markov Chain Monte Carlo
Zhuowen Tu (UCLA)
Faculty Candidate Colloquium
- April 12, 2004 - at 4:00p.m. in RMB (CRMS) 323
Highly-Optimized Provably-Secure Cryptography
John R. Black (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Host: Prof. Andy Klapper
- April 8, 2004 - at 4:00 PM in Alltel Solutions Center
Probabilistic Models and Novel Inference Algorithms for Computer Vision
Romer Rosales (MIT)
Faculty Candidate Colloquium
- April 6, 2004 - at 4:00 PM in Alltel Solutions Center
An Architecture for Tetherless Computing
S. Keshav (University of Waterloo)
Host: Prof. Jim Griffioen
- March 25, 2004 - at 4:00p.m. in ASTeCC 149
Face Processing for Effective Interaction: Face Analysis and Synthesis
Zhen Wen (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Faculty Candidate Colloquium
- March 22, 2004 - at 4:00 PM in Alltel Solutions Center
Request Redirection with Anypoint: Reconciling Anycast with Strong
Transports
Jeffrey S. Chase (Duke University)
Host: Prof. Jim Griffioen
- March 4, 2004 - at 4:00p.m. in ASTeCC 149
Visualization Using O-Buffers
Huamin Qu (Stony Brook University)
Faculty Candidate Colloquium
- February 16, 2004 - at 4:00p.m. in RMB (CRMS) 323
Biomolecular computing
Danny Van Noort (Princeton University)
Host: Prof. Jerzy (Jurek) W. Jaromczyk
- February 2, 2004 - at 4:00p.m. in Alltel Solutions Center (Hardymon, Room 100)
Building Very Large Overlay Networks
Jörg Liebeherr (University of Virginia, Charlottesville)
Host: Prof. Jim Griffioen
- This talk has been Cancelled
Request Redirection with Anypoint: Reconciling Anycast with Strong
Transports
Jeffrey S. Chase (Duke University)
Host: Prof. Jim Griffioen
- January 22, 2004 - at 4:00p.m. in Alltel Solutions Center (Hardymon, Room 100)
Live Image-Based Estimation of Camera
Motion with Applications to Navigation, Scene Reconstruction and Augmented Reality
David Nister (Sarnoff Corporation)
Faculty Candidate Colloquium
- December 10, 2003 - at 4:00p.m. in RMB (CRMS) 323
Thacher Lectureship in Computer Science
Rich Riesenfeld ( University of Utah)
Host: Prof. Fuhua (Frank) Cheng
- November 25, 2003 - at 4:00p.m. in CB 110
Life at Google
Matt Cutts (Google, Inc)
Host: Prof. Brent Seales
- November 14, 2003 - at 4:00p.m. in RMB (CRMS) 323
Circular DNA Algorithms to solve NP-hard Problems
Rani Siromoney (Madras Christian College and
Chennai Mathematical Institute)
Host: Prof. Judy Goldsmith
- November 10, 2003 - at 4:00p.m. in RMB (CRMS) 323
Separation of Complexity Classes,
Universal Languages and Diagonalization
Jeffrey B. Remmel (University of California, San Diego)
Host: Prof. Victor Marek
- October 31, 2003 - at 4p.m. in RMB (CRMS) 323
Solving Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm
Problems Using Weil Descent
Andreas Stein (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Host: Prof. Andy Klapper
- October 22, 2003 - at 4p.m. RMB (CRMS) 323
Using Virtual Pheromones to Disperse a Team of Miniature Robots
Janice Pearce (Berea College)
Host: Prof. Judy Goldsmith
- September 24, 2003 - at 9:30a.m. in Alltel Solutions Center (Hardymon, Room 100)
SCHEDULING IN PACKET RADIO NETWORKS
&
DIGITAL MONEY MODEL AND MICROPAYMENT PROTOCOL
FOR WIRELESS NETWORKS
Jacek Wojciechowski (Warsaw University of Technology)
Host: Prof. Mirek Truszczynski
2002-2003
- May 8, 2003 - at 4:00p.m. in Alltel Solutions Center (Hardymon, Room 100)
Dynamic Scene Analysis and Inference
Amit K. Roy Chowdhury ( University of Maryland)
Hosts: Profs. Chris Jaynes and Brent Seales
- May 2, 2003 - at 4:00p.m. in RGAN 202
Building a 3D Range Capture System
A word document of abstract with pictures is here
Lars S. Nyland (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Hosts: Profs. Chris Jaynes and Brent Seales
- April 25, 2003 - at 4p.m. in RMB 323
Thacher Lectureship in Computer Science
Karem A. Sakallah (University of Michigan)
Host: Prof. Mirek Truszczynski
- April 21, 2003 - at 3:30p.m. in RMB 323
Nonrigid Motion Analysis and Applications
to Interdisciplinary Projects in Medical
Diagnostics and Intuitive Data Exploration
Leonid Tsap (UC Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Hosts: Profs. Chris Jaynes and Brent Seales
- April 18, 2003 - at 4p.m. in ASTeCC 149
Robotic Teaching System: 3D vision model acquisition through human-computer interaction
Yuichi Motai (Purdue University)
Hosts: Profs. Chris Jaynes and Brent Seales
- April 10, 2003 - at 4p.m. in ASTeCC 149
Research Focus on Medical Visualization
and Medical Imaging
Wenli Cai (Viatronix Inc)
Hosts: Profs. Chris Jaynes and Brent Seales
- April 9, 2003 - at 4p.m. in Alltel Solutions Center (Hardymon, Room 100)
3D Tele-Presence: A Research Progress Report
Herman Towles (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill)
Host: Prof. Brent Seales
- March 27, 2003 - at 4p.m. in RMB 323
View-dependent Space Carving C
A Physically-based approach for 2D View Synthesis
Ruigang Yang (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill)
Hosts: Profs. Chris Jaynes and Brent Seales
- March 10, 2003 - at 4p.m. in Alltel Solutions Center (Hardymon, Room 100)
End-User "Software Engineering" in the Spreadsheet Paradigm
Gregg Rothermel (Oregon State University)
Host: Prof. Jane Hayes
- February 11, 2003 - at 4p.m. in ASTeCC 149
Sensitivity of optimal recovery
Marek A. Kowalski (Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw)
Host: Prof. Grzegorz Wasilkowski
- January 31, 2003 - at 4p.m. in ASTeCC 149
Enumeration Of Bipartite Graphs
E. Rodney Canfield (The University of Georgia)
Host: Prof. Victor Marek
- January 17, 2003 - at 4p.m. in RMB 323
Value-Directed Compression of
POMDPs (Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes)
Pascal Poupart (University of Toronto)
Host: Prof. Judy Goldsmith
- December 11, 2002 - at 3:30 p.m. in RMB 323
Bounded Model Checking with Stable Models
Ilkka Niemela (Helsinki University of Technology)
Host: Prof. Mirek Truszczynski
- November 20, 2002 - at 4p.m. in Alltel Solutions Center (Hardymon, Room 100)
Parnas's Criteria for Decomposing Systems into Modules.
A new view on a golden-oldie paper
Daniel M. Berry (University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada)
Host: Prof. Jane Hayes
- November 15, 2002. at 4p.m. in Alltel Solutions Center (Hardymon, Room 100)
Beyond Perspective
Steve Seitz (University of Washington)
Host: Prof. Brent Seales
- October 25, 2002 - at 4p.m. in Alltel Solutions Center (Hardymon, Room 100)
stgui - A Tool for Generating Symbolic Test Cases and Oracles
Duncan Clarke (University of South Carolina)
Host: Prof. Brent Seales
- October 14, 2002.- at 4p.m. in ASTeCC 149
An SVD-Based Phylogenetic Method for Creating Comprehensive Whole
Genomes
Michael W. Berry (The University of Tennessee)
Host: Prof. Jun Zhang
- October 9, 2002.- at 4p.m. in ASTeCC 149
A Stochastic Grammar System to Model RNA Pseudoknotted Structures
Liming Cai (The University of Georgia)
Host: Prof. Judy Goldsmith
- September 9, 2002- at 4p.m. in ASTeCC 149.
Checking Properties of Multi-Agent Systems Behavior
Michael Dekhtyar(Tver State University, Russia)
Host: Prof. Alex Dekhtyar
2001-2002
- April 22, 2002- 4p.m. ASTeCC 149.
Optimal on-line coloring of circular arc graphs.
Professor Maciej Slusarek (University of Kentucky)
- April 12, 2002- 4p.m. Hardymon - Verizon Room
Using Service Specific Proxies to
migrate web services to the "Wireless Web":
an illustrative case study of Adaptive Maintenance
Professor Warren Harrison (Portland State University)
- April 11, 2002 - 11a.m. Hardymon - Verizon Room
Asking the Big Questions
Prof. Greg Speegle (Baylor University)
- March 26, 2002- 4p.m. Hardymon - Verizon Room
Why Testing Under Expected Operational Scenarios is
Not Sufficient
Dr. Jeffrey Voas (Co-founder and Chief Scientist, Cigital)
- February 25, 2002- 4p.m. ASTeCC 149
Thacher Lectureship in Computer Science
Dr. Bart Selman (Cornell University)
- January 30, 2002- 4p.m. ASTeCC 149
Algorithms in Decision-Theoretical Planning
Dr. Weihong Zhang (Washington University in St Louis)
- January 14, 2002- 4p.m. ASTeCC 149
Advanced Query Optimization Techniques for Heterogeneous Databases
Dr. Fatma Ozcan (IBM Almaden Research Cente)
- November 26, 2001- 4p.m. ASTeCC 149
Very Nearly Deterministic Planning
Dr. Terran Lane (MIT)
- November 20, 2001 - 1p.m. Hardymon - Verizon Room
The Network Processing Revolution
Dr. Todd Anderson (Intel Communications Architecture Lab)
- November 19, 2001 - 2:30p.m. Hardymon - Verizon Room
COTS integration models and their empirical validation
Dr. Daniil Yakimovich (University of Maryland)
- November 16, 2001 - 11a.m. Hardymon - Verizon Room
Ubiquitous Network Services
Professor Peter Steenkiste (Carnegie Mellon University)
- November 12, 2001 - 4p.m. ASTeCC 149
An Algebraic Approach to Collision Detection for Moving Ellipses
Dr. Wenping Wang (University of Hong Kong)
- November 5, 2001 - 4p.m. ASTeCC 149
Recognizing primes and RSA moduli
Professor Ian F. Blake (University of Toronto)
- October 26, 2001 - 4p.m. ASTeCC 149
Using XML to Test Web Software Services
Professor Jeff Offutt (George Mason University)
- October 19, 2001 - 11a.m. Hardymon Bldg. Verizon Room
Wireless Networks without infrastructure
Professor Henning G. Schulzrinne (Columbia University)
- September 17, 2001 - 4p.m. ASTeCC 149
High Order Numerical Methods for Hyperbolic Problems
Professor Chi-Wang Shu (Brown University)
2000- 2001
Please send your comments or suggestions to the colloquium chair D. Manivannan.