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* News

Colloquia

Spring 2008

The Computer Science Colloquium is scheduled on Thursdays 4:00pm to 5:00pm in Troy 2018, with refreshments at 3:30pm, unless otherwise indicated.

TBD: To be determined.

Monday, January 7, 2008, 11:00 a.m.

Joerg Hoffmann, University of Innsbruck, Austria

Web Service Composition as Planning: A New Perspective
Hosted by: James Hendler (x4401) and Deborah McGuinness (x4404)
Administrative support: Jacqueline Carley (x4384)
JEC 3117 - 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
(Refreshments at 10:30 a.m.)

Wednesday, January 30, 11:00 a.m.

M. Brian Blake, Ph.D., Georgetown University

Next-Generation Integration of Distributed Software Systems
Hosted by: James Hendler (x4401) and Deborah McGuinness (x4404)
Administrative support: Jacqueline Carley (x4384)
Amos Eaton (AE) 215 - 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
(Refreshments at 10:30 a.m.)

Wednesday, January 30, 2008, 4:00 pm

Jizhong Xiao, City University of New York (CUNY)

Advancing Mobile Robots to 3D
Hosted by: (Joint with CATS) Host: Volkan Isler and John Wen
Administrative support: Shannon Carrothers (x6354)
Sage 3510 - 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
(Refreshments at 3:30 p.m.)

Wednesday, February 20, 2008, 4:00 pm

Andreas Terzis, Johns Hopkins University

Network protocols for ultra-low power wireless sensor networks
Hosted by: Volkan Isler
Administrative support: Shannon Carrothers (x6354)
Location Sage 3510 - 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
(Refreshments at 3:30 p.m.)

Monday, March 17, 2008, 4:00 pm

First Annual Joseph E. Flaherty Lecture

Jack Dongarra, University of Tennesee

An Overview of High Performance Computing and Challenges for the Future
Hosted by: Boleslaw Szymanski
Administrative support: Sharon Simmons (x8291)
Location Bio Tech Auditorium - 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
(Reception at 3:15 p.m.)

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008, 4:00 pm

Himabindu Pucha, Carnegie Mellon University

Rethinking Bulk Data Transfers for Next-Generation Applications
Hosted by: Boleslaw Szymanski (x2714)
Administrative support: Sharon Simmons (x8291)
Location: Low (CII) 3051 - 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
(Refreshments at 3:30 p.m.)

Thursday, March 20th, 2008, 4:00 pm

Shaojie Zhang, University of Central Florida (UCF)

Computational methods for genome-wide non-coding RNA finding and Analysis
Hosted by: Li Ding and Mohammed Zaki
Administrative support: Jacqueline Carley (x4384)
Location: Troy 2018 - 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
(Refreshments at 3:30 p.m.)

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008, 4:00 pm

Wenbo He, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Privacy-Preserving Data Aggregation over Participatory Networks
Hosted by: Boleslaw Szymanski
Administrative support: Sharon Simmons (x8291)
Location: SAGE 4101 - 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
(Refreshments at 3:30 p.m.)

Thursday, March 27th, 2008, 4:00 pm

Michael W. Mahoney, Yahoo Research

Community structure in large social and information networks
Hosted by: Petros Drineas
Administrative support: Chris Coonrad (x8412)
Location: Troy 2018 - 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
(Refreshments at 3:30 p.m.)

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008, 11:00 am

Claire Monteleoni, University of California, San Diego

Efficient Algorithms for Active Learning
Hosted by: Boleslaw Szymanski (x2714)
Administrative support: Chris Coonrad (x8412)
Location: Troy 2018 - 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
(Refreshments at 10:30 p.m.)

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008, 4:00 pm

John Hopcroft, Cornell University

Computer Science in the Information Age
Hosted by: Petros Drineas
Administrative support: Chris Coonrad (x8412)
Location: Troy 2018 - 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
(Refreshments at 3:30 p.m.)

Monday, April 7th, 2008, 4:00 pm

Vartika Bhandari University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Heterogeneous Multi-Channel Wireless Networks: Routing and Scheduling Issues
Hosted by: Boleslaw Szymanski (x2714)
Administrative support: Sharon Simmons (x8291)
The Bruggeman Room, Biotech Building - 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
(Refreshments at 3:30 p.m.)

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Hadas Kress-Gazit, University of Pennsylvania

Specifications to Actions: Creating Autonomous Systems
Hosted by: Boleslaw Szymanski (x2714)
Administrative support: Sharon Simmons (x8291)
Location: Sage 4101 - 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
(Refreshments at 3:30 p.m.)

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Jimeng Sun, IBM TJ Watson

Thinking Sparsely: Scalable Tensor Decompositions for Multi-aspect Data Mining
Hosted by: Petros Drineas (x-8265)
Administrative support: Chris Coonrad (x8412)
Location: Troy 2018 - 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
(Refreshments at 3:30 p.m.)

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008, 4:00 pm

Sanjeev Khanna, University of Pennsylvania

Disjoint Paths in Networks
Hosted by: Volkan Isler
Administrative support: Shannon Carrothers (x6354)
Location: Sage 3510 - 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
(Refreshments at 3:30 p.m.)

Monday, April 21, 2008, Lally 104 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

David M. Nicol , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Analysis of Privacy-preserving Network Traffic Tunneling
Hosted by: Boleslaw Szymanski (x2714)
Administrative support: Chris Coonrad (x8412)
Lally 104 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Refreshments at 10:30 a.m.

Thursday, April 24th, 2008, 4:00 pm

John Spletzer, Lehigh University

Towards Mobility Equality for Wheelchair Users Through Robotics
Hosted by: Volkan Isler
Administrative support: Shannon Carrothers (x6354)
Location: Troy 2018 - 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
(Refreshments at 3:30 p.m.)

Tuesday, April 29th, Amos Eaton 214 - 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Wei Zhao, Effectiveness of Traffic Camouflaging in Internet

Effectiveness of Traffic Camouflaging in Internet
Hosted by: Jeff Trinkle
Administrative support: Chris Coonrad (x8412)
Amos Eaton 214 - 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Wednesday, May 14 2008, 10:00am to 11:00am Lally 102

Peter Fox, National Center for Atmospheric Research

Semantic Data Frameworks: The Ins and Outs of current Earth and Space Science Informatics
Hosted by: Deborah McGuinness (x4404) and Jim Hendler (x4401)
Administrative support: Jacqueline Carley (x4384)
10:00am to 11:00am Lally 102
Refreshments at 9:30




Fall 2007

Friday, September 14, 4:00 p.m.

Jie Gao, Stony Brook University

Landmark-based Routing and Localization for Wireless Sensor Networks
Hosted by: Volkan Isler (x3275)
Administrative support: Shannon Carrothers (x6354)
Location: DCC 337
(Refreshments at 3:30 p.m.)

Thursday, September 20, 4:00 p.m.

Peter Winkler, Dartmouth

Adventures at the Interface of Combinatorics and Statistical Physics
Hosted by: Volkan Isler (x3275)
Administrative support: Shannon Carrothers (x6354)
Location: JEC 3117
(Refreshments at 3:30 p.m.)

Friday, September 21, 4:00 p.m.

Wojciech Matusik, Adobe Systems Inc.

From Images to Insights
Hosted by: Barbara Cutler (x3274)
Administrative support: Shannon Carrothers (x6354)
Location: JEC 3117
(Refreshments at 3:30 p.m.)

Thursday, September 27, 4:00 p.m.

Kostas Daniilidis, University of Pennsylvania

Matching images: rigidity and co-saliency
Hosted by: Volkan Isler (x3275)
Administrative support: Shannon Carrothers (x6354)
Location: Troy 2018
(Refreshments at 3:30 p.m.)

Thursday, October 18, 4:00 p.m.

Tetherless World Constellation Lecture

Tim Clark, MIND Center for Interdisciplinary Informatics

Scientific Communication and the Semantic Web
Hosted by: Jim Hendler (x4401)
Administrative support: Shannon Carrothers (x6354)
Location: JEC 3117
(Refreshments at 3:30 a.m.)

Monday, October 22, 4-5:00 p.m.

Donald H. House, Texas A&M University

The Art and Science of Computer Graphics
Hosted by: Barb Cutler (x3274)
Administrative support: Shannon Carrothers (x6354)
Location: JEC 3117

Friday, October 26, 4:00 p.m.

RPI Computer Science Day 2007

Ronald S. Fearing, UC Berkeley
Oussama Khatib, Stanford University
Vijay Kumar, University of Pennsylvania
Daniela Rus, MIT

Organizing Committee: Srinivas Akella, Volkan Isler, Jeff Trinkle
CS Day 2007
Location: Biotech Auditorium
(Starts at 9:20 a.m.)

Thursday, November 8, 4:00 p.m.

Brian Scassellati, Yale University

Social Robots and Human Social Development
Hosted by: Jeff Trinkle (x8921)
Administrative support: Shannon Carrothers (x6354)
Location: JEC 3117
(Refreshments at 3:30 p.m.)

Thursday, November 15, 4:00 p.m.

Gordon Wilfong, Bell Labs

The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) and Generalizations
Hosted by: Elliot Anshelevich (x6491)
Administrative support: Chris Coonrad (x8412)
Location: AE 214
(Refreshments at 3:30 p.m.)

Thursday, November 29, 4:00 p.m.

John Field, IBM

How Should We Program the Internet?
Hosted by: Carlos Varela (x6412)
Administrative support: Chris Coonrad (x8412)
Location: JEC 3117
(Refreshments at 3:30 p.m.)

Wednesday, December 5, 4:00 p.m.

David P. Williamson, Cornell University

The Rank Aggregation Problem
Hosted by: Elliot Anshelevich (x6491)
Administrative support: Chris Coonrad (x8412)
Location: Ricketts 211
(Refreshments at 3:30 p.m.)

See also:
Seminars
Colloquia Spring 2007
Colloquia Fall 2006
Colloquia Spring 2006
Colloquia Fall 2005



Please send suggestions for speakers, scheduling requests, corrections, or comments to Volkan Isler.

Spring 05 Schedule - Fall 04 Schedule - Spring 04 Schedule

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