CS Colloquium — Fall 2013

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 5, 2013
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 102
Welcome and Preview of Fall 2013 Colloquia
Speaker: CS Faculty
Host: Soha Hassoun
September 12, 2013
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 102
Fast Splittable Pseudorandom Number Generators
Speaker: Guy L. Steele, Jr., Oracle Labs
Host: Norman Ramsey
September 19, 2013
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 102
Reality-Based Interaction, Next Generation User Interfaces, and Brain-Computer Interfaces
Speaker: Rob Jacob, Tufts University
Host: Ben Hescott
September 26, 2013
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 102
Going the Distance for Protein Function Prediction: A New Distance Metric for Protein Interaction Networks
Speaker: Ben Hescott, Tufts University
Host: Soha Hassoun
October 3, 2013
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 102
Data-Centric Synchronization
Speaker: Frank Tip, University of Waterloo (joint work with Julian Dolby, Christian Hammer, Daniel Marino, Mandana Vaziri, and Jan Vitek)
Host: Sam Guyer
October 10, 2013
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 102
Programming with People: Integrating Human-Based and Digital Computation
Speaker: Emery Berger, Unviersity of Massachusetts Amherst
Host: Soha Hassoun
October 17, 2013
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 102
Computational methods for meta'omic characterization of the human microbiome
Speaker: Curtis Huttenhower, Harvard University
Host: Donna Slonim
October 17, 2013
12:00n - 1:00p
Halligan 209
Research Talk: Grounding Natural Language References to Unvisited and Hypothetical Locations
Speaker: Tom Williams, Tufts University
Host: Matthias Scheutz
October 17, 2013
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Halligan 209
Research Talk: Capturing Single Item Word Reading ERP Data in a Computational Model
Speaker: Sepideh Sadeghi, Tufts University
Host: Matthias Scheutz
October 24, 2013
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 111a
Computer Science and Engineering at the Nexus of Energy and Environment: A View from UCSD Microgrid
Speaker: Rajesh Gupta, University of California San Diego, Computer Science and Engineering Department
Host: Soha Hassoun
October 25, 2013
11:00a - 12:00n
Halligan 209
Using Evolutionary Conservation and Rigidity Analysis for Protein Docking Refinement
Speaker: Nurit Haspel, Dept of Computer Science, UMass Boston
Host: Lenore Cowen
October 29, 2013
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Halligan 102
PhD Research Talk: Gene Prioritization using Diffusion State Distance
Speaker: Hao Zhang, Tufts University
Host: Lenore Cowen
October 30, 2013
10:30 am - 11:30 am
Halligan 102
PhD Research Talk: Planning under uncertainty: Enhancement of the FODD planner; An integer programming formulation based on Lagrangian dual decomposition
Speaker: Murugeswari Issakkimuthu, Tufts University, Computer Science Department
Host: Roni Khardon
November 1, 2013
9:45 AM - 11:45 AM
Halligan 102
PhD Defense: Staged Self-Assembly and Polyomino Context-Free Grammars
Speaker: Andrew Winslow, Tufts University
Host: Diane Souvaine
November 1, 2013
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Halligan H102
PhD Research Talk: Addressing Human Subjectivity via Transfer Learning: An Application to Predicting Disease Outcome in Multiple Sclerosis Patients
Speaker: Yijun Zhao, Tufts University
Host: Carla E. Brodley
November 1, 2013
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Halligan 111A
PhD Research Talk: Performance Bugs in Critical Sections of Code
Speaker: Mike Shah, Tufts University
Host: Sam Guyer
November 1, 2013
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Halligan 102
PhD Research Talk: Toward Adaptive Brain Computer Interfaces For User Non-Specific Goals
Speaker: Beste Yuksel, Tufts University
Host: Rob Jacob
November 7, 2013
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 102
Inferring Invisible Internet Traffic
Speaker: Mark E. Crovella, Boston University
Host: Ben Hescott
November 14, 2013
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 102
Let's Stop Trusting Software With Our Sensitive Data
Speaker: Srini Devadas, MIT
Host: Soha Hassoun
November 21, 2013
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 102
From cellular networks to biological functioning
Speaker: Mona Singh, Princeton University, Computer Science Department
Host: Lenore Cowen

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