CS Colloquium — Spring 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 .

January 20, 2011
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111a
Bioware’s epic style: oral formulaic theory and the recompositional process in three Bioware RPGs
Speaker: Roger Travis, University of Connecticut
Host: Greg Crane
January 27, 2011
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Visual Analytics Research at Tufts
Speaker: Jordan Crouser, Michael Degatano, Samuel Li, Jingjing Liu, Tufts University
Host: Remco Chang
February 3, 2011
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Important Future Research Areas for Information Visualization (and Visual Analytics)
Speaker: Georges Grinstein, UMass Lowell
Host: Carla Brodley
February 10, 2011
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Large-Scale Digital Humanities Scholarship: Some Initial Experiments
Speaker: Dan Cohen, George Mason
Host: Greg Crane
February 17, 2011
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Visualizing Culture
Speaker: Martin Wattenberg, Google, HINT.FM
Host: Lenore Cowen
February 24, 2011
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Multivariate Time Series Analysis of Clinical and Physiological Data
Speaker: Patti Ordonez, UMBC
Host: Carla Brodley
March 3, 2011
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Computationally Generated Biomarkers: Cardiology and Beyond
Speaker: Zeeshan Syed, University of Michigan
Host: Carla Brodley
March 10, 2011
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Socially Intelligent Computing
Speaker: Haym Hirsh, Rutgers
Host: Carla Brodley
March 14, 2011
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Halligan 127
DNA Bending
Speaker: Alexander Vologodskii, New York University
Host: Lenore Cowen
March 17, 2011
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Bayesian Nonparametric Approaches to Reinforcement Learning in Partially Observable Domains
Speaker: Finale Doshi, MIT
Host: Carla Brodley
March 30, 2011
12:00pm-1:00pm
H111B
Techniques for Detecting, Avoiding, and Understanding Concurrency Errors
Speaker: Brandon Lucia , University of Washington
Host: Soha Hassoun
March 31, 2011
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
An Introduction to ParaSail: Parallel Specification and Implementation Language
Speaker: Tucker Taft, SofCheck Inc
Host: Norman Ramsey
April 4, 2011
8:30a-10:30a
Halligan 111B
PhD Research Talk: Through Silicon Via Analysis for the Design of 3-D Integrated Circuits
Speaker: Nauman Khan, Tufts University
Host: Soha Hassoun
April 5, 2011
12:15pm - 1:00pm
Halligan 127
Research Talk: One-Dimensional Staged Self-Assembly
Speaker: Andrew Winslow, Tufts University
Host: Diane Souvaine
April 5, 2011
11:30 am - 12:15 pm
Halligan 111
Facilitating Mental Modeling in Collaborative Human-Robot Interaction through Adverbial Cues
Speaker: Gordon Briggs
Host: Matthias Scheutz
April 6, 2011
9:00a-10a
Halligan 111B
Research Talk: Clustering with Multiple Group Constraints
Speaker: Jingjing Liu, Tufts University
Host: Carla E. Brodley
April 7, 2011
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Untangling Planar Graphs
Speaker: Vida Dujmovic, Carleton University
Host: Diane Souvaine
April 14, 2011
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Bluespec: a Hardware Description Language for High-Level Design
Speaker: Joe Stoy, Bluespec, Inc
Host: Norman Ramsey
April 19, 2011
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Halligan 111
Errors and Explanations in Data Transformations: When Provenance is not Enough
Speaker: Alexandra Meliou, University of Washington
Host: Remco Chang
April 21, 2011
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Can a Tiny Compiler-Compiler Grow Into Something Useful?
Speaker: Bill McKeeman, Tufts University
Host: Norman Ramsey
April 28, 2011
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
A Visualization-Based Framework for Classifier Evaluation
Speaker: Nathalie Japkowicz, University of Ottawa
Host: Carla Brodley
April 28, 2011
4:15pm - 5:15pm
Halligan 111
Technology that Activates: Priming emotions and Achieving goals.
Speaker: Liz Gerber, Northwestern University
Host: Remco Chang
April 29, 2011
12n-1p
Halligan 111b
Undergraduate Thesis Defense: Formatt: Correcting Protein Multiple Structural Alignments by Sequence Peeking
Speaker: Shilpa Nadimpalli, Tufts University
Host: Lenore Cowen
April 29, 2011
1:00p-2:00p
Halligan 111b
Undergraduate Thesis Defense: Inferring Mechanisms of Compensation from E-MAP and SGA Data Using Local Search Algorithms for Max Cut
Speaker: Max Leiserson, Tufts University
Host: Lenore Cowen
May 5, 2011
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Capture and Visualization of 3D Shape and Materials for Understanding Cultural Heritage
Speaker: Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Princeton
Host: Ethan Danahy
May 5, 2011
11:00a-12:00n
Halligan 111a
A Decision-Theoretic Framework for Assistive Technologies
Speaker: Prasad Tadepalli, Oregon State University
Host: Roni Khardon
May 12, 2011
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111a
Synthetic biology: from parts to modules to therapeutic systems
Speaker: Ron Weiss, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Host: Soha Hassoun
May 18, 2011
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Halligan Conference Room
Data Representation Synthesis
Speaker: Peter Hawkins, Stanford University Computer Science Department
Host: Kathleen Fisher

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