CS Colloquium — Fall 2005

Seminars are held weekly on Thursdays from 3:00-4:15pm in Joyce Cummings Center 270 and via Zoom, unless otherwise noted. To receive email notification of events and/or Zoom information, please subscribe to the CS colloquium announcements at .

September 14, 2005
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Free-Me: Explicit Memory Deallocation for Java
Speaker: Sam Guyer, Tufts University
Host:
September 21, 2005
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
DISTINGUISHED LECTURE: Advanced Reasoning in Graphical Models
Speaker: Rina Dechter, University of California-- Irvine
Host: Lenore Cowen
September 28, 2005
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Appearance Decomposition for Image-based Reconstruction
Speaker: Todd Zickler, Harvard University
Host: Sarah Frisken
October 5, 2005
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Trace Effects and Object Orientation
Speaker: Christian Skalka, University of Vermont
Host: Lenore Cowen
October 12, 2005
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
SPECIAL PANEL ON PhD QUALS-- NO COLLOQUIUM
Speaker:
Host: Soha Hassoun
October 19, 2005
4:00-5:00PM NOTE SPECIAL TIME
Halligan 111
DISTINGUISHED LECTURE:The Thrill of Discovery: Information Visualization for High-Dimensional Spaces AT 4PM (note special time)
Speaker: Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland--College Park
Host: Lenore Cowen
October 26, 2005
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Knowledge Discovery in Networks
Speaker: David Jensen, U Mass--Amherst
Host: Roni Khardon
October 27, 2005
5:30-7:00 pm
Halligan 108
Special Seminar in Computer Graphics: The Challenges of 'The Incredibles'
Speaker: Danielle Feinberg, Pixar Animation Studios
Host: Sarah Frisken
November 2, 2005
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Symbolic Methods for Accurate Timing Analysis
Speaker: R. Iris Bahar, Brown University
Host: Soha Hassoun
November 9, 2005
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Computational genomics in yeast and human: genes, regulation, evolution
Speaker: Manolis Kellis, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Host: Lenore Cowen
November 16, 2005
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
DISTINGUISHED LECTURE: Better than Random: Quasirandomness for Discrete Stochastic Systems
Speaker: Jim Propp, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Host: Lenore Cowen
December 2, 2005
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Halligan 111B
Special Joint Math/CS Colloquium: A Multilinear (Tensor) Framework for Computer Vision and Graphics
Speaker: M. Alex O. Vasilescu, MIT Media Lab
Host: Misha Kilmer
December 5, 2005
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Halligan 102
Computation in Ad-hoc Networks of Very Limited Agents
Speaker: Dana Angluin, Yale University
Host: Carla Brodley
December 7, 2005
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Search Engines for Human Language Technology Applications
Speaker: Jamie Callan, CMU
Host: Carla Brodley
December 12, 2005
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Nelson Auditorium, Anderson Hall - Rm.112
SPECIAL CEEO/DILES/CS EVENT Gender, Lies, and Video Games: The Truth about Females and Computing
Speaker: Maria Klawe, Princeton University
Host: Chris Rogers

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