CS Colloquium — Spring 2008

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 .

January 10, 2008
4:00 pm- 5:00 pm
Halligan 111A
SLIC: A System for Semantically Linked Instructional Content
Speaker: Quanfu Fan, University of Arizona
Host: Roni Khardon
January 16, 2008
10:00am - 11:00 am
Halligan 111B
Research Talk: Automatic Programming by Example
Speaker: Ben Rubinger, Tufts University
Host: Samuel Guyer
January 16, 2008
9:00am-10:00am
Halligan 111B
Research Talk: Using Real World Knowledge in Computer Interaction
Speaker: Larissa Supnik, Tufts University
Host: Robert Jacob
January 17, 2008
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Defect Tolerance of Molecular Crossbar Architectures
Speaker: Mehdi Tahoori, Northeastern University
Host: Soha Hassoun
January 23, 2008
12:00n-1:00pm
Halligan 111B
Carbon Nanotubes Power Grid: Electrical and Thermal Analysis
Speaker: Nauman Khan, Tufts University
Host: Soha Hassoun
January 24, 2008
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
System-Level Verification of Register-Transfer-Level Designs
Speaker: Pete Manolios, Northeastern University
Host: Soha Hassoun
January 31, 2008
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Dynamics of Multistage Circadian System and Applications to JetLag
Speaker: Hava Siegelmann, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Host: Diane Souvaine
February 7, 2008
3:15 pm
Nelson Auditorium, Anderson Hall
Special Joint CS and Physics Colloquium NOTE TIME AND ROOM: The IIC Time Series Center: How Astronomers, Computer Scientists and Statisticians are working together to tackle hard problems in astronomy
Speaker: Pavlos Protopapas, Harvard University
Host: Carla Brodley
February 8, 2008
10:45 am - 11:45 pm
Halligan 108
The Developmental Organization of Dexterous Robot Behavior
Speaker: Rod Grupen, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Host: Carla Brodley
February 14, 2008
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Social Robots and Human Social Development
Speaker: Brian Scassellati, Yale University
Host: Carla Brodley
February 21, 2008
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
NO COLLOQUIUM-- TUFTS ON A MONDAY SCHEDULE
Speaker:
Host:
February 28, 2008
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
A (research) consumer's view of data integration research
Speaker: Arnon Rosenthal, Mitre Corporation
Host: Diane Souvaine
March 6, 2008
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Developments in Holographic Algorithms
Speaker: Jin-Yi Cai, University of Wisconsin, Radcliffe Institute
Host: Ben Hescott
March 10, 2008
11a - 12n
Halligan 127
Research Talk: Multiscale Shape Priors for 3D Branching Structures in Vasculature Segmentation
Speaker: Amelio Vazquez-Reina, Tufts University
Host: Eric Miller and Sarah Frisken
March 13, 2008
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Comparative Modeling for Protein Structure Prediction
Speaker: Lenore Cowen, Tufts University
Host:
March 27, 2008
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
On building a multilingual Parallel Computing Environment for Python, R, and MATLAB(r)
Speaker: Alan Edelman, MIT
Host: Lenore Cowen
April 2, 2008
9:00 am
Halligan 108
Master's Thesis Defense, A Multiple Target Tracker for Nonlinear Rotational Object Motion Using Range and Range-Rate Measurements
Speaker: Leah Uftring, Tufts University
Host:
April 3, 2008
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Recent Progress in Coevolutionary Learning
Speaker: Jordan Pollack, Brandeis University
Host: Soha Hassoun
April 3, 2008
9:00 am
Halligan 111-A
PhD Thesis Defense - High Resolution Spectroscopy of Environmentally Hazardous Gases at
Speaker: Nawaf Almoayed, Tufts University, PhD student
Host: Prof Afsar
April 9, 2008
1:30p -2:30p
Anderson Hall, nelson Auditorium
Dean's Spring Lecture: Supporting U.S. Innovation and Prosperity in the 21st Century
Speaker: Dr. William A. Wulf, President Emeritus, National Academy of Engineering, AT&T Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Virginia
Host:
April 10, 2008
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Comparative Genomics: Sequence, Structure, Networks
Speaker: Bonnie Berger, MIT Applied Math, MIT CSAIL
Host: Lenore Cowen
April 14, 2008
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Extension Conference Room
Research Talk: An Intersection of Software Engineering and Complexity Theory
Speaker: Chuck Connell, Tufts University
Host:
April 15, 2008
9:00 am - 10:00 am
Halligan 111A
Research Talk - The Hidden Genius of Caterpillars: The Role of Material Properties in the Control of Soft-bodied Organisms / Robots
Speaker: Jesse Craig, Tufts University
Host: Hassoun
April 17, 2008
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Nelson Aud, Anderson Hall
Distributed Processing in Sensor Networks
Speaker: Dr. Jose Moura, Carnegie Mellon Univ
Host: Prof. Eric Miller
April 17, 2008
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Succinter
Speaker: Mihai Patrascu, MIT
Host: Lenore Cowen
April 17, 2008
12n - 1p
Halligan 106
Scientific Volume and Flow Illustration
Speaker: Penny Rheingans, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Host: Diane L. Souvaine
April 24, 2008
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
A Design Language for Interactive Systems
Speaker: Alexandre R.J. Francois, Radcliffe Institute & University of Southern California
Host: Lenore Cowen
April 29, 2008
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Refining Security: Process Control System Proetction, Misuse Detection and Attack Response
Speaker: Robert Cunningham, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Host: Carla Brodley
May 1, 2008
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Scheduling to Minimize Total Response Time
Speaker: Cliff Stein, Columbia University
Host: Lenore Cowen

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