CS Colloquium — Fall 2011

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 1, 2011
11a-1p
Halligan 111a
PhD Defense: Finding High-Level Bugs Using Low-Overhead Dynamic Analysis Tools
Speaker: Eddie Aftandilian, Tufts University
Host: Samuel Guyer
September 1, 2011
10:00a-11:00a
Halligan 111a
Robust Optimization of Metabolic Pathways, a Detailed Step-by-Step
Speaker: Renato Umeton, The Medical School, the University of Rome, The University of Rome
Host: Soha Hassoun
September 8, 2011
3pm - 4:15 pm
Nelson Auditorium, Anderson Hall
Customer Centered Design Teams at KAYAK
Speaker: Paul English, Kayak
Host: Carla Brodley
September 15, 2011
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111A
Tools for Improving Software Right Now
Speaker: Sam Guyer, Tufts
Host: Norman Ramsey
September 22, 2011
3:00 pm - 4:15 pm
Nelson Auditorium
Governing Lethal Behavior in Autonomous Combat Robots
Speaker: Ronald Arkin, Georgia Tech
Host: Matthias Scheutz
September 29, 2011
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Witness Proximity Graphs
Speaker: Muriel Dulieu, NYU Poly, Poly Theory
Host: Diane Souvaine
October 6, 2011
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Detection of copy number variation in whole-exome targeted DNA sequencing of schizophrenia patients
Speaker: Menachem Fromer, Broad Institute
Host: Lenore Cowen
October 13, 2011
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Interactive games to understand & augment speech communication
Speaker: Rupal Patel, Northeastern University
Host: Rob Jacob
October 20, 2011
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
PhD Research at Tufts
Speaker: Dan Afergan, Gordon Briggs, Mengfei Cao, Jisoo Park, Raoul Veroy, Tufts University
Host: Remco
October 24, 2011
10a-11a
Conference Room, 196 Boston Avenue, 4th Floor
PhD Defense: Real-time fNIRS Brain Input for Enhancing Interactive Systems
Speaker: Erin Solovey, Tufts University
Host: Rob Jacob
October 27, 2011
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111A
Off-Chip Bandwidth: The New Wall in The Multicore Era
Speaker: Mohamed Zahran, NYU Poly
Host: Carla Brodley
October 31, 2011
11a-12n
Halligan 127
Research Talk: Heap Abstraction for Visualization
Speaker: Raoul Veroy, Tufts University
Host: Sam Guyer
November 3, 2011
5:00p-6:30p
196 Boston Avenue, 4th Floor
Research at The Walt Disney Company
Speaker: Joe Marks, Vice President, Disney Research, Disney Research
Host: Carla E. Brodley
November 3, 2011
3:40-4:30p
Halligan 127
Research Talk: Foundations of revision control systems
Speaker: Brad Larsen, Tufts University
Host: Norman Ramsey
November 3, 2011
2:50 pm - 3:40 pm
Halligan 127
Research Talk: Pointing Performance of Xbox 360 Controller, Wii Remote and Mouse
Speaker: Dan Afergan, Tufts University
Host: Rob Jacob
November 3, 2011
2:00p-2:50p
Halligan 127
Research Talk: Belief-Modeling and Inference in Human-Robot Interaction
Speaker: Gordon Briggs, Tufts University
Host: Matthias Scheutz
November 3, 2011
12:30-1:20p
Halligan 127
Research Talk: Remote Homology Detection for Alpha-helical Proteins Using Simulated Evolution
Speaker: Mengfei Cao, Tufts University
Host: Lenore Cowen
November 10, 2011
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Competitive Routing on a Variant of the Delaunay Triangulation
Speaker: Jit Bose, Carleton University
Host: Diane Souvaine
November 10, 2011
11:30a-12:30p
Halligan 127
Research Talk: Connecting Human Diseases to Specific Gene Sets
Speaker: Jisoo Park, Tufts University
Host: Donna Slonim
November 17, 2011
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Computational Sustainability: Computational Methods for a Sustainable Environment, Economy, and Society
Speaker: Carla Gomes, Cornell University, Radcliffe Advanced Study Institute
Host: Lenore Cowen
December 1, 2011
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Programming Bacteria
Speaker: Christopher Voigt, MIT, UC San Francisco
Host: Soha Hassoun
December 6, 2011
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
196 Boston Ave, Room 4014
Advanced Interaction for Information Visualization
Speaker: Jean-Daniel Fekete, INRIA
Host: Remco Chang
December 8, 2011
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111A
How Social Networks Shape Human Behavior...and Vice Versa
Speaker: Alex (Sandy) Pentland, MIT Media Lab
Host: Soha Hassoun
December 13, 2011
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Prediction of amino acids determinants of trends in viruses and application to the H1N1 and H5N1 influenza virus
Speaker: Nir Ben-Tal, Tel Aviv University, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Host: Lenore Cowen

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