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Seminars

Fall 2009

Wednesday, December 2, 2009 (Time: 4:00 p.m.)

Boris Galitsky

Exploring autistic reasoning and applying it to multiagent systems
Location: JEC 3117, 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Hosted by: Dr. Josep Lluis de la Rosa
Administrative support: Chris Coonrad (x8412)

Friday, November 20, 2009 (Time: 4:00 p.m.)

Christopher J. Mackie

On the Value of Open-Source, Scholarly Information Technology Designed by and for Scholars
Location: CBIS, Bruggeman Conference Center, 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Hosted by: Dr. Mukkai Krishnamoorthy
Administrative support: Chris Coonrad (x8412)

Wednesday, November 11, 2009 (Time: 4:00 p.m.)

Shabana Shabbeer

Transcriptome Profiling of Epigenetic Modifying Drugs in Prostate Cancer
Location: CII (LOW) 3116, 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Joint Seminar with Biology
Hosted by: Dr. Bulent Yener (x6907)
and Dr. George Plopper (Biology, x8288)
Administrative support: Chris Coonrad (x8412)

Wednesday, November 4, 2009 (Time: 11:00 a.m.)

Ben Shaby

Covariance Tapering for Large Spatial Datasets
Location: JEC 3117, 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Hosted by: Dr. Petros Drineas (x8265)
Administrative support: Chris Coonrad (x8412)

Wednesday, October 28, 2009 (Time: 4:00 p.m.)

Derek Bruening

Dynamic Instrumentation for Application Security and Analysis
Location: CII (LOW) 3051, 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Hosted by: Dr. Ana Milanova (x6887)
Administrative support: Chris Coonrad (x8412)

Summer 2009

Tuesday, August 4, 2009 (Time: 2:30 p.m.)

Serge G. Petiton

On the Road to a Global Exascale Programming Paradigm
CPCN (Center for Pervasive Computing and Networking)
SCOREC (Scientific Computation Research Center)
Location: JEC 3117, 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Spring 2009

Thursday, January 22, 2009 (Time: 5:00 p.m.)

Richard Stallman

The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System
Hosted by: Mukkai Krishnamoorthy (x6911), Badri Roysam (x8067), and Luis Ibanez
Location: DCC 308, 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Fall 2008

Thursday, September 18, 2008 (Time: 3:30 p.m.)

Mohammed J. Zaki, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, RPI

A Walk in the Clouds: Trekking in the Garhwal Himalayas
Administrative support: Chris Coonrad (x8412)
Location: JEC 3117, 3:30 p.m.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008 (Time: 4:00 p.m.)

Michael Tiemann, Red Hat

Exonovation--Leveraging Innovation from the Edge
Hosted by: Mukkai Krishnamoorthy (x6911), and Will Shroeder.
Administrative support: Chris Coonrad (x8412)
Location: DCC 324, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.

Monday, October 6, 2008 (Time: 5:30 p.m.)

Chris DiBona, Google

Open Source Efforts at google
Hosted by: Rensselaer Center for Open Source Software and the Course on Open Source Software Practice and Experience .
Administrative support: Chris Coonrad (x8412)
Location: JEC 3117, 5:30 p.m.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008 (Time: 4:00 p.m.)

Daniel Frye, IBM

IBM's Decade of Participation in Open Source Software
Hosted by: Mukkai Krishnamoorthy (x6911), and Will Shroeder.
Administrative support: Chris Coonrad (x8412)
Location: DCC 337, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.

Spring 2008

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 (Time: 11:00 a.m.)

Paul Horn, Graduate Student, Department of Mathematics, UCSD

The Spectral Gap of a Graph
Hosted by: Mark Goldberg (x2609)
Administrative support: Chris Coonrad (x8412) and Shannon Carrothers (x6354)
Location: Sage 2707, 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Friday, March 28, 2008 (Time: 11:00 a.m.)

Mario Baldi, Politecnico di Torino (Technical University of Turin)
(Currently visiting the PoliTong Research Lab of Computer and Networking Technologies in China)

Title: A Scalable Solution for Supporting Bandwidth-intensive Applications with Strict Service Requirements
Hosted by: Bulent Yener (x6907)
Administrative support: Chris Coonrad (x8412)
Location: DCC 330 - 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Tuesday, March 4, 2008 (Time: 4:00 p.m.)

Fred G. Gustavson, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

The Relevance of New Data Structure Approaches for Dense Linear Algebra in the new Multi-Core / Many Core Environments
Hosted by: Boleslaw K. Szymanski (x2714)
Administrative support: Chris Coonrad (x8412)
Location: Lally 102

Friday, March 28, 2008 (Time: 2:00 p.m.)

Gunes Ercal-Ozkaya, UCLA Computer Science

Routing in Wireless Networks: Random Walks meet Game Theory on Random Geometric Graphs
Hosted by: Boleslaw K. Szymanski (x2714)
Administrative support: Chris Coonrad (x8412)
Location: Troy 2018

Fall 2007

Wednesday, September 19, 2007 (Time: 1 - 3pm)

Paul Murray, Goldman & Sachs

Java In The Real World
Hosted by: Sibel Adali

Matthew Liste, Goldman & Sachs

How to design networks for low latency trading applications
Hosted by: Christopher D. Carothers
Administrative support: Chris Coonrad (x8412)
(Location: Sage 2707)

Monday, September 24, 2007 (Time: 4pm)

Wayne Gray, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

The soft constraints hypothesis: A rational analysis approach to resource allocation for interactive behavior
Hosted by: Volkan Isler (x3275)
Administrative support: Shannon Carrothers (x6354)
(Location: JEC 3117)

Friday October 5th 2007

Bill Cutler, Bill Cutler Puzzles Inc. (Time: 4-5pm)

Designing Puzzles with a Computer (Using a Computer to Design a Puzzle that Can't be Solved with a Computer)
Hosted by: Barb Cutler (x3274)
Administrative support: Shannon Carrothers (x6354)
(Location: CII 3051)

Wednesday, October 10, 2007 (Time: 4pm)

Eugene Eberbach, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Hartford

The $-Calculus Process Algebra for Problem Solving: A Paradigmatic Shift in Handling Hard Computational Problems
Hosted by: Boleslaw K. Szymanski (x2714)
Administrative support: Chris Coonrad (x8412)
(Location: Sage 3510)

Summer 2007

Wednesday, June 20, 2007 11:00 a.m.

Abe Stephens, University of Utah

Finding the Right Type of Parallelism in an "Embarrassingly Parallel" Algorithm
Hosted by: Carlos A. Varela (x6912)
(Amos Eaton 127; Refreshments at 10:30 a.m.)


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



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


Last updated: January 18, 2008


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