CS Colloquium — Fall 2012

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 6, 2012
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Formulae for Polyominoes on Twisted Cylinders
Speaker: Gil Barequet, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Host: Diane Souvaine
September 13, 2012
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Planning Algorithms: When Optimal Is Just Not Good Enough
Speaker: Wheeler Ruml, University of New Hampshire
Host: Matthias Scheutz
September 20, 2012
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Non-Photorealistic Rendering in Visual Analytics
Speaker: Ross Maciejewski, Arizona State University
Host: Remco Chang
September 27, 2012
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Designing Computational Environments for Mathematical and Scientific Expression
Speaker: Michelle Wilkerson-Jerde, Tufts University Department of Education
Host: Rob Jacob
October 4, 2012
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Designing Visual Text Analysis Methods to Support Sensemaking and Modeling
Speaker: Jason Chuang, Stanford
Host: Remco Chang
October 11, 2012
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
An Empirical Study of Voting Rules and Manipulation with Large Datasets
Speaker: Judy Goldsmith, University of Kentucky
Host: Lenore Cowen
October 18, 2012
Refreshment at 3, Talk at 3:30pm
Burden Lounge / Nelson Auditorium
Special Joint ECE/CS Distinguished Lecture: Title: Teaching Networks via 20 Questions
Speaker: Mung Chiang, Princeton
Host: Lenore Cowen, Valencia Joyner Koomson
October 25, 2012
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
CANCELLED
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October 25, 2012
12n-1p
196 Boston Avenue, 4th Floor
Research Talk: Diffusion State Distance: a better way to understand protein-protein-interaction networks
Speaker: Hao Zhang, Tufts University
Host: Lenore Cowen
October 25, 2012
9:30a-10:30a
196 Boston Avenue, 4th Floor
Research Talk: Measuring Moral Patiency with Near Infrared Spectroscopy
Speaker: Megan Strait, Tufts University
Host: Matthias Scheutz
October 25, 2012
10:30a-11:30a
196 Boston Avenue, 4th Floor
Research Talk: Towards Personalized Visualizations
Speaker: Alvitta Ottley, Tufts University
Host: Remco Change
November 1, 2012
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Toward Human Interaction with Swarm Robots
Speaker: Michael A Goodrich, Brigham Young University
Host: Matthias Scheutz
November 1, 2012
9a-10a
Halligan 127
Research Talk: Remote Homology Detection for Alpha-helical Proteins Using Simulated Evolution
Speaker: Mengfei Cao, Tufts University
Host: Lenore Cowen
November 1, 2012
10a-11a
Halligan 127
Research Talk: Finding structural neighbors in protein space from sequence data
Speaker: Andrew Gallant
Host: Lenore Cowen
November 1, 2012
11a-12n
Halligan 127
Research Talk: Speedy, Safely Small, Simple, Simple Cycle Separators
Speaker: Eli Fox-Epstein, Tufts University
Host: Ben Hescott
November 1, 2012
12:30p-1:30p
Halligan 127
Research Talk: Learning Distance Functions through Interactive Visualization
Speaker: Eli Brown, Tufts University
Host: Remco Chang
November 8, 2012
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
Interfaces and Models for Human-in-the-loop Supervisory Control
Speaker: Jamie Macbeth, MIT, Human Automation Lab (HAL)
Host: Remco Chang
November 15, 2012
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
The Frontiers of Machine Learning in Health and Behavioral Science
Speaker: Benjamin Marlin, UMass Amherst
Host: Carla Brodley
November 26, 2012
12:00pm-1:00pm
Nelson Auditorium
Distinguished Speaker: Transforming the Impossible to the Natural
Speaker: Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Director of Microsoft Research Asia
Host: Carla Brodley
November 29, 2012
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
CANCELLED (moved to Monday)
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December 6, 2012
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111
A Language for Automatically Enforcing Privacy Policies
Speaker: Jean Yang, MIT
Host: Norman Ramsey

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