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Fall 2002

December 2002

  • Monday, Dec. 16 at 1:30pm in DH 1044
    Master of Science Thesis Defense
    Guoqiang Pan
    BDD Based Decision Procedures for Modal Logic K
  • Monday, Dec. 16 at 10am in DH 3076
    Master of Science Thesis Defense
    Spiridon Tsavachidis
    Topic: Eliminating Incoherence from Subjective Estimates of Chance
  • Monday, Dec. 16 at 11am in DH 1044
    Master of Science Thesis Defense
    Sameh Elnikety
    Admission Control and Request Scheduling for Dynamic Content Web Servers
  • Monday, Dec. 16 at 2pm in DH 3076
    Master of Science Thesis Defense
    Rajnish Kumar
    Topic: User-Centric Framework for Device Aggregation
  • Friday, Dec. 13 at 2pm in DH 3076
    Ph.D. Thesis Defense
    Cristiana Amza
    Topic: Conflict Aware Replication for Dynamic Content Web Sites
  • Thursday, Dec. 12 at 10am in DH 3092
    Master of Science Thesis Defense
    Demetrios Demopoulos
    Topic: Probabilistic Phenomena in Random Combinatorial Problems
  • Wednesday, Dec. 11 at 10am in DH 3076
    Master of Science Thesis Defense
    Scott Schaefer
    Topic: A Factored, Interpolatory Subdivision Scheme for Surfaces of Revolution
  • Tuesday, Dec. 10 at 10am in Dh 1049
    Speaker: Bill Harrison (OGI School of Science & Engineering, Health & Science University)
    Topic: Slaying the 'Dragon': Prospects for Modular Compiler Construction
    Host: Walid Taha
  • Friday, Dec. 6 at 2pm in DH 3076
    Speaker: Frank Mehnert (Technical Univ. - Dresden, Germany)
    Topic: Cost and benefit of separate address spaces in real-time operating systems
    Host: Peter Druschel
  • Friday, Dec. 6 at 1pm in DH 1049
    Speaker: Hermann Haertig (Technical Univ. - Dresden, Germany)
    Topic: Security Architectures Revisited
    Host: Peter Druschel
  • CITI Luncheon (by invitation only)
    Friday, Dec. 6 at noon in DH 3092
    Speaker: Lydia Kavraki
    Topic: Physical Computing: From Robots to Biomolecules
  • Wednesday, Dec. 4 at 1:30pm in DH 3076
    Master of Science Thesis Defense
    Tao Ju
    Topic: Convex Contouring of Volumetric Data
  • Monday, Dec. 2 at 2pm in DH 1049
    Master of Science Thesis Defense
    Andrew Ladd
    Topic: Analysis of Probabilistic Roadmap Methods for
    Motion Planning and Applications to Polygon Manipulation

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February 2002

  • Wed., Feb. 27 at 3pm in DH 1070
    Gulf Coast Consortium in Bioinformatics Seminar
    Speaker: David Hsu (Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
    Topic: Stochastic Roadmap Simulation: An Efficient Representation
    and Algorithm for Analyzing Molecular Motion

    Host: Lydia Kavraki
  • CANCELLED
    Tuesday, Feb. 26
    CITI Distinguished Lecture Series
    Cosponsor: Center for High Performance Software Research
    Speaker: Kelvin Droegemeir (University of Oklahoma)

  • Wed. Feb. 20 at 3pm in DH 1042
    Master's Thesis Defense
    Speaker: Eric Allen
    Topic: Efficient Implementation of Run-Time Generic Types for Java
  • Tuesday, Feb. 12 at 4pm in DH 1064
    Speaker: Steve Deering (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
    Topic: What's Happening with IPv6?
    Host: David B. Johnson
  • Monday, Feb. 11 at 10am in DH 3076
    MS Thesis Defense
    Speaker: Yuri Dotsenko
    Topic: Extensible Adaptation via Constraint Solving

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January 2001

  • Wednesday, January 24 at 4pm in McMurtry Auditorium
    Dean of Brown School of Engineering
    New Professors Lecture Series
    Speaker: Keith D. Cooper
    Topic: Building 21st Century Compilers
  • Tuesday, January 9 at 3pm in DH 3076
    Speaker: Sitaram Iyer
    Master's Thesis Defense
    Topic: The Effect of Deceptive Idleness on Disk Schedulers

Fall 2000

December 2000

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August 2000

  • Thursday, August 24 @ 4:00 p.m.in DH 1064
    Speaker: Jason N. Flinn (Carnegie Mellon University)
    Topic: Energy-Aware Adaptation for Mobile Applications
    Host: Willy Zwaenepoel
  • Friday, August 18, @ 10:00 a.m. in DH 3076
    Mohit Aron
    Ph.D. Thesis Defense
    Topic: Differentiated and Predictable Quality
    of Service in Web Server Systems
  • Wednesday, August 2 @ 2:00 p.m. in DH 3076
    Shriram Krishnamurthi
    Ph.D. Thesis Defense
    Topic: Linguistic Reuse

Summer 2000

June 2000

  • Wednesday, June 14 at 3:00 p.m. in DH 3076
    Jiangchun "Frank" Luo
    Master's Thesis Defense
    Topic: Part Assembly Using Static and Dynamic Force Field

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Fall 1999

December 1999

  • Friday, December 10 @ 3:00 p.m. in DH 1049
    Nina Bhatti (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories)
    Support for Web Server Quality of Service
  • Thursday, December 9 @ 11:00 a.m. in DH 3076
    Ph.D. Thesis Defense
    Chen Ding

  • Friday, December 3 @ 4:00 p.m. in DH 1064
    Suvas Vajracharya (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
    LACSI Symposia Speaker
    Smarts - Scalable Multithreaded Asynchronous
    Run-Time System for High-Performance Computing

November 1999

October 1999

  • Wednesday, October 13 @ 4:00 p.m. Location to be announced.
    Ambuj Goyal (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)
    Host: CITI

September 1999

  • Tuesday, August 31 @ 1:00 p.m. in Duncan Hall 3076
    Ph.D. Thesis Defense
    Philip John Schielke

  • Friday, August 13 @ 3:00 p.m. in Duncan Hall 3076
    Master of Science Thesis Defense
    Zijiang Yang

Summer 1999

July 1999

June 1999

  • Wednesday, June 16 @ 4 p.m. in DH 1064
    Ph.D. Thesis Defense
    Matthew Flatt

  • Thursday, June 10 @ 3 p.m. in DH 1049
    Master of Science Thesis Defense
    Kai Zhang

Spring 1999

May 1999

April 1999

  • Friday, April 30
    Distinguished Lecture Series
    Tom DeFanti (University of Illinois-Chicago)
    Host: Ken Kennedy
  • Monday, April 26 @ 4 p.m. in Duncan Hall 1064
    Bwolen Po-Jen Yang (Carnegie Mellon University)
    Faculty Candidate
  • Tuesday, April 20 @ 4 p.m. in Duncan Hall 1064
    Jason Hickey (Cornell University)
    Faculty Candidate
  • Monday, April 19 @ 4 p.m. in Duncan Hall 1064
    William Chan (University of Washington)
    Faculty Candidate
  • Monday, April 19 @ 1:30 p.m. in Duncan Hall 1049
    Ph.D. Thesis Defense
    Johnny Chen
  • Thursday, April 8 @ 3 p.m. in Duncan Hall 1064
    Wei Wang (University of California - Los Angeles)
    Faculty Candidate

March 1999

  • Monday, March 29 @ 4 p.m. in Duncan Hall 1064
    Chad Carson (UC-Berkeley)
    Faculty Candidate for CS and ECE
  • Monday, March 22 @ 4 p.m. in Duncan Hall 1064
    Burton Smith (Tera)
    Host: Moshe Vardi
  • COMP 527 Lecture Series
    John McHugh
    Tektronix Professor, Portland State University
    Gypsy and the Verification of Security Properties
    Host: Dan Wallach
  • Thursday, March 18 @ 4 p.m. in Duncan Hall 1064
    Paul Woodward
    Host: Rob Fowler
  • Monday, March 15 @ 4 p.m. in Duncan Hall 1064
    Vikram Adve (Rice University)
    Faculty Candidate
  • Thursday, March 11 @ 4 p.m. in Duncan Hall 1064
    George Varghese (Washington University)
    Faculty Candidate

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February 1998

  • Tuesday, February 3 @ 4 p.m. in Duncan Hall 1064
    Ralph Johnson (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
    Host: Matthias Felleisen
    Patterns: Making the Obvious Profound
  • February 25-26
    Distinguished Lecture Series in CS (Joint with UH)
    Norman I. Badler (University of Pennsylvania)
    Host: Matthias Felleisen

January 1998

  • TALK POSTPONED
    Hans Hagen (University of Kaiserslautern)
    Host: Ron Goldman

Fall 1997

December 1997

  • Wednesday, December 3
    TALK POSTPONED
    Harry Mairson (Brandeis University)
    Host: Moshe Vardi
    Homage to Kurt Godel: His Contribution to Software Engineering
  • Friday, December 5
    CITI Distinguished Lecture Series
    Patrick Hanrahan (Stanford University)
    Graphics & Visualization
  • Wednesday, December 17 @ 2 p.m. in Duncan Hall 1049
    Master of Science Thesis Defense
    Gaurav Banga

November 1997

  • Thursday, November 6
    CITI Distinguished Lecture Series
    Robert Zubrin (President, Pioneer Astronautics)
    Mars Direct: Humans to the Red Planet within a Decade
  • Wednesday, November 12 @ 4 p.m. in Duncan Hall 1070
    Scott Smith (Johns Hopkins University)
    Host: Matthias Felleisen
    Reusable Code Requires Reusable Types
  • November 17-18
    Distinguished Lecture Series in CS (Joint with UH)
    Edmund Clarke (Carnegie Mellon University)
    Host: Moshe Vardi
  • Thursday, November 20 @ 4 p.m. in Duncan Hall 1070
    David Kortenkamp (Texas Robotics and Automation Center/NASA JSC)
    Host: Devika Subramanian
    Integrating Active Perception with an Autonomous Robot Architecture
  • Tuesday, November 25 @ 3:30 p.m. in Duncan Hall 3076
    Thesis Proposal
    Matthew Flatt
  • Wednesday, November 26 @ 2 p.m. in Duncan Hall 1049
    Master of Science Defense
    Mohit Aron

Fall 1997

October 1997

  • Thursday, October 30 @ 4p.m. in Duncan Hall 1064
    CRPC Guest Lecturer
    Michael Mascagni (University of Southern Mississippi)
    Host: Chuck Koelbel

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