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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

Keck Center for Computational Biology Seminar
Fri., April 25 at 4:00 p.m. in McMurtry Auditorium
Speaker: Ken Kennedy
Topic: 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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