Rice Computer Science Colloquia

Rice Computer Science Colloquia This is the colloquium schedule for the Department of Computer Science at Rice University.

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Summer 2004

August 2004

Wednesday, August 4 - Master of Science Thesis Defense
Speaker: Jan Hackenberg
Topic: Smooth Subdivision for Mixed Volumetric Meshes
Time and Place: 10:00 a.m. in Duncan Hall 3076

July 2004

Tuesday, July 20 - Master of Science Thesis Defense
Speaker: Ajay Gulati
Topic: Scheduling with QoS in Parallel I/O Systems
Time and Place: 11:00 a.m. in DH 1049

June 2004

Thursday, June 24 - Master of Science Thesis Defense
Speaker: Sumit Mittal
Topic: A Consistent and Transparent Solution for Caching Dynamic Web Content
Time and Place: 11:00 a.m. in Duncan Hall 1049

Spring 2004

May 2004

Friday, May 14 - Master of Science Thesis Defense
Speaker: Xiaoxu Wang
Topic: Analysis on the Assignment Landscape of 3-SAT Problems
Time and Place: 1:00 p.m. in Duncan Hall 2014
Friday, May 7 - Graduation Reception, Sponsored by the George R. Brown School of Engineering
You are cordially invited to attend this reception honoring graduating engineering students.
Senior design projects and posters will be on display. Light refreshments served.
Time and Place: 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Martel Hall in Duncan Hall
Thursday, May 6 - Special Lecture
Speaker: Jim Douglas, Jr.
Topic: "On Transport Dominated Diffusion Processes and an Evolving Family of Numerical Methods"
Time and Place: 4:00 p.m., McMurtry Auditorium, Duncan Hall
A wine and cheese reception in Martel Hall will immediately follow the lecture.
Tuesday, May 4 - Master of Science Thesis Defense
Speaker: Jonathan Bannet
Topic: Soft Boundaries for Statically Enforceable Protection Domains
Time and Place: 1:00 p.m. in DH 1049
Monday, May 3 - Ph.D. Dissertation Oral Defense
Speaker: Tarik Muharemovic - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Topic: Capacity of Low Power Multiuser Systems With Antenna Arrays
Time and Place: 1:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in DH 3092

April 2004

Thursday, April 22 - Master of Science Thesis Defense
Speaker: Paul Willmann
Topic: Simulation-Driven Design of High-Performance Programmable Network Interface Cards
Time and Place: 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. in DH 1049.
Wednesday, April 21 - Master of Science Thesis Defense
Speaker: Shu Du
Topic: Routing in Large Scale Ad Hoc Networks Based on a Self-organizing Coordinate System
Time and Place: 10:00 a.m. in DH 3076
Wednesday, April 21 - Master of Science Thesis Defense
Speaker: John Garvin
Topic: RCC: A Compiler for the R Language for Statistical Computing
Time and Place: 2:00 p.m. in Rayzor Hall room 123
Tuesday, April 20 - Faculty Candidate Reception and Presentation
Speaker: Hao Chen
Topic: Lightweight Model Checking for Improving Software Security
Reception at 3:30 p.m. in third floor seating area by the printer room. Presentation follows at 4:00 p.m. in DH 1070.
Monday, April 19 - Faculty Candidate Reception and Presentation
Speaker: John Mellor-Crummey
Topic: Taming High Performance Computing with Compiler Technology
Reception at 2:30 p.m. in DH 3092. Presentation to follow at 3:00 P.M. in DH 1070.
Monday, April 12 - Faculty Candidate Reception and Presentation
Speaker: Darko Marinov (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Topic: Automatic Testing of Software with Structurally Complex Inputs
Reception at 2:30 p.m. in DH 3092. Presentation to follow at 3:00 p.m. in DH 1070.
Monday, April 5 - Faculty Candidate Reception and Presentation
Speaker: Luay Nakhleh (The University of Texas)
Topic: Reconstructing Phylogenies: Accuracy of Methods and Appropriateness of Models
Reception at 2:30 in DH 1070. Presentation to follow at 3:00 in DH 3092.
Thursday, April 1 - Faculty Candidate Reception and Presentation
Speaker: Rajesekar Krishnamurthy (The University of Wisconsin)
Topic: XML-to-SQL Query Translation
Reception at 3:30 p.m. in DH 1049. Presentation to follow in DH 1070 at 4:00 p.m.

March 2004

Monday, March 29 - Faculty Candidate Reception and Presentation
Speaker: Eugene Agichtein (Columbia University)
Topic: Extracting Relations from Large Text Collections
Reception at 2:30 p.m. in DH 1049. Presentation to follow in DH 1070 at 3:00 p.m.
Monday, March 29 - Master of Science Thesis Defense
Speaker: Atul Singh
Topic: The Eclipse Attack
Location and time: DH 1049 at 9:00 a.m.
Tuesday, March 23 - Faculty Candidate Reception and Presentation
Speaker: Matthias Ruhl
Reception at 2:30 p.m. in DH 1049. Presentation to follow in DH 1070 at 3:00 p.m.
Friday, March 26 at 4:00 p.m. in DH 1070
Speaker: Jie Gao (Stanford University)
Topic: TBA

Friday, March 12 & Sat., March 13
Getting Acquainted Event

January 2004

Friday, Jan. 20 at 2:00 p.m. in DH 3076
Master of Science Thesis Defense
Speaker: Ben McMahan
Topic: Structural Heuristics for Query Optimization

Fall 2003

December 2003

Thurs., Dec. 18 at 11 a.m. in DH 1044
Master of Science Thesis Defense
Speaker: Khaled Elmeleagy
Topic: LAIO: Lazy Asynchronous I/O For Event-Driven Servers

Monday, Dec. 1 at 4:00 p.m. in DH 3076
Speaker: Panagiotis Tsaparas
Topic: Link Analysis Ranking
Host: Lydia Kavraki

Monday, Dec. 1 at 4:00 pm in DH 3092
Master of Science Thesis Defense
Speaker: Atul Singh
Topic: The Eclipse Attack

Monday, Dec. 1 at 11:00 am in DH 3076
Master of Science Thesis Defense
Speaker: Animesh Nandi
Topic: LALA: Location Aware Load Aware Overlay Anycast

November 2003

Wed., Nov. 26 at 10:00 a.m. in DH 3076
Master of Science Thesis Defense
Speaker: Tsuen-Wan "Johnny" Ngan
Topic: Incentives and Fair Sharing in Peer-to-Peer Systems

Mon., Nov. 24 at 3:30 p.m. in DH 1049
Ph.D. Thesis Defense
Speaker: Daniel Chavarria-Miranda
Topic: Advanced Data-Parallel Compilation

October 2003

Research Seminar
Wed., Oct. 22 at 4:00 p.m. in DH 3076
Speaker: Bakhadyr Khoussainov (Univ. of Auckland, New Zealand)
Topic: Automatic Structures

Oct. 8-9
ECE/CS Affiliates Meeting
McMurtry Auditorium
Duncan Hall

September 2003

Tues., Sept. 30 at 3:00 p.m. in DH 1070
Speaker: Olav Beckmann
Topic: Dynamic Code Generation in C++ as a Foundation for Domain-Specific Optimisation
Host: Walid Taha

Fri., Sept. 19 at 3:00 p.m. in DH 1070
Speaker: John McHugh - CERT Coordination Center, CMU
Topic: A New Paradigm for Thinking About Normal Behavior and Outsider Threat
Host: Dan Wallach

Summer 2003

July 2003

Thurs., July 10 at 3:00 p.m. in DH 1049
Ph.D. Thesis Defense
Speaker: Arun Chauhan
Topic: Telescoping MATLAB for DSP Applications

June 2003

Mon., June 9 at 3:00 p.m. in DH 1049
Speaker: John Clements (Northeastern)
Topic: A Tail-Recursive Machine Semantics with Stack Inspection

Mon., June 9 at 1:30 p.m. in DH 3076
Master of Thesis Defense
Speaker: Ping Tao
Topic: Golden-Eye: A Robust Location-Sensing System for Wireless LAN

Spring 2003

May 2003

Wed., May 28 at 3:30 p.m. in DH 1049
Speaker: Edward Fox (Virginia Tech)
Topic: Digital Library Support for Education:
Two Case Studies - CITIDEL and NDLTD
Host: Corky Cartwright

Tuesday, May 20 at 2:00 p.m. in DH 1049
Speaker: Hisham Al-Mubaid (UH-Clear Lake)
Topic: Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing
Host: Walid Taha

Tuesday, May 6 at 11 a.m. in DH 3076
Speaker: Alok N. Choudhary (Northwestern University)
Topic: Compiler/Architecture Techniques for Tunable Software Protection
Host: Center for High Performance Software Research

April 2003

Ken Kennedy

High Performance Computing on the Grid: Is It for You?

Thurs., April 24 at 4pm in DH 1070
Speaker: Aristides Gionis (Stanford)
Faculty Candidate
Topic: Proximity problems for non-Euclidean data

Wed., April 23 at 3pm in DH 3076
Master of Science Thesis Defense
Speaker: Dennis Lu
Topic: Dr. C#: A pedagogic IDE for C# featuring a Read-Eval-Print-Loop

Monday, April 21at 12:30 p.m. in DH 1049
Ph.D. Thesis Defense
Speaker: Tim Harvey
Topic: An Experimental Analysis of a Set of Compiler Algorithms

Monday, April 21at 3:00 p.m. in DH 1070
Speaker: Haixun Wang (UCLA)
Faculty Candidate
Topic: Weighted Sequences: Pattern Discovery and Language Issues

Thurs., April 17at 4:00 p.m. in DH 1070
Speaker: Suman Banerjee (Univ. of Maryland)
Faculty Candidate
Topic: A Cooperative Framework to Scale Multi-Party Applications

Wed., April 16 in DH 1070 at 3:00 p.m.
Master's Thesis Defense
Charles Reis
Topic: A Pedagogic Programming Environment
for Java that Scales to Production Programming

Mon., April 14 at 3:00 p.m. in DH 1070
Speaker: Chandrasekhar Boyapati (MIT)
Faculty Candidate
Topic: Ownership Types for Safe Programming

April 14 at 10:00 a.m. in DH 3076
Master of Science Defense
Speaker: Gabriel Marin
Topic: Automatic Synthesis of Parameterized
Performance Models for Scientific Programs

Friday, April 11 at 11:00 a.m. in DH 3076
Ph.D. Thesis Defense
Speaker: Eric Allen
Topic: A First-Class Approach to Genericity

Thurs., April 10 at 4:00 p.m. in DH 1070
Speaker: Alin Dobra (Cornell)
Faculty Candidate
Topic: Processing Aggregate Queries over Continuous Data Streams

Wed., April 9 at 2:15 p.m. in DH 2014
Master of Science Thesis Defense
Speaker: Romer Gil
Topic: Zero-Copy & Zero-Mapping Asynchronous TCP Send

Tues., April 8 at 3:30 p.m. in DH 3076
Master of Science Thesis Defense
Speaker: Anupam Chanda
Topic: An Efficient Threading Model to Boost Server Performance

Mon., April 7, 2003 at 3:00 p.m. in DH 1070
Speaker: Li-San Wang (UT-Austin)
Faculty Candidate
Topic: Distance-Based Genome Rearrangement Phylogeny

Mon., April 7 at 10:00 a.m. in DH 3076
Ph.D. Thesis Defense
Speaker: Li Xu
Topic: Program Redundancy Analysis and Optimization
to Improve Memory Performance

Thurs., April 3 at 4:00 p.m. in DH 1070
Speaker: Dan Grossman (Cornell)
Faculty Candidate
Topic: Cyclone: Safe Programming at the C Level of Abstraction

March 2003

Mon., March 31 at 3:00 p.m. in DH 1070
Speaker: Indranil Gupta (Cornell)
Faculty Candidate
Topic: Achieving Scale And Reliability in Distributed Systems
A Probabilistic Protocol Methodology

Wed., March 26 at 2:20 p.m. in DH 2014
Master of Science Thesis Defense
Speaker: Hyong-Youb Kim
Topic: Improving Networking Server Performance with Programmable Network Interfaces

Mon., March 24 at 3:00 p.m. in DH 1070
Speaker: T.S. Eugene Ng (CMU)
Faculty Candidate
Topic: Global Network Positioning

Wed., March 19 at 3:00 p.m. in DH 3092
Doctoral Thesis Proposal
Eric Allen
Topic: First-Class Genericity for Object-Oriented Languages
with Nominal Type Equivalence

Scientia Lecture Series
Tues., March 18 at 4pm in Kyle Morrow Rm, Fondren Library
Speaker: Devika Subramanian
Topic: Evolutionary Computation

Tues, March 18 at 3pm in DH 1070
Speaker: John Jannotti (MIT)
Faculty Candidate
Topic: Internet Infrastructure for Efficient Overlays

February 2003

Dean of Engineering New Professors Lecture Series
Monday, Feb. 24 at 4pm in McMurtry Aud.
Speaker: Peter Druschel
Topic: Structured Peer-to-Peer Overlay Networks: A New Foundation for Distributed Systems?

Special Joint CITI/CS/CAAM Lecture
Friday, Feb. 14 at 3pm in McMurtry Aud.
Speaker: Chris Johnson (Univ. of Utah)
Topic: Large-Scale Simulation and Visualization in Medicine:
Applications to Cardiology, Neuroscience, and Medical Imaging

CITI Distinguished Lecture Series
Wednesday, Feb. 5 at 4pm in McMurtry Aud.
Speaker: Jim Gray (Microsoft Research)
Topic: On-line Science: The World-Wide Telescope
as a Prototype for Computational Science

January 2003

Dean of Engineering
University Professor Lecture Series
Thurs., Jan. 30 at 4pm in McMurtry Aud.
Speaker: Ken Kennedy
Topic: Increasing Productivity in Computational Problem Solving

Joint ECE/CS Seminar
Tuesday, Jan. 28 at 4pm in DH 1049
Speaker: Rich Friedrich (HP Labs)
Topic: Toward Planetary Scale Computing:
Next Generation Internet Computing

Monday, Jan. 27 at 3pm in DH 1070
Speaker: Dinesh Pai (Rutgers and Univ. of British Columbia)
Topic: Multisensory Simulation and Interaction
Host: Lydia Kavraki

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