CS Colloquium — Fall 2014

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 4, 2014
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 102
Faculty introductions
Speaker: Multiple CS faculty; see Abstract, Tufts University, Computer Science department
Host: Remco Chang
September 11, 2014
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 102
Faculty introductions 2
Speaker: Multiple CS faculty; see Abstract, Tufts University, Computer Science department
Host: Remco Chang
September 18, 2014
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 102
Tufts Entrepreneurial Leadership Program
Speaker: Mark Ranalli, Tufts Gordon Institute
Host: Remco Chang
September 25, 2014
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 102
"Say it nicely please!" -- Beyond Command-Based Natural Language Interactions with Robots
Speaker: Matthias Scheutz, Tufts
Host: Remco Chang
October 14, 2014
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 102
Title: Cloud Storage Systems: Latency, Reliability, and Cost
Speaker: Dr. Vaneet Aggarwal, AT&T Research
Host:
October 15, 2014
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 102
CANCELLED! Visual Cognition, Visual Analytics, and National Security Sensemaking: Interdisciplinary Research at Sandia National Laboratories
Speaker: Laura McNamara, Laura Matzen, Sandia National Lab
Host: Remco Chang
October 16, 2014
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 102
Mobile Security and Exploits
Speaker: Nabil Hannan, Cigital, Inc
Host: Ming Chow
October 23, 2014
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 102
Going Big on Big Data
Speaker: Sam Madden, MIT CSAIL
Host: Remco Chang
November 3, 2014
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Halligan 209
Ph.D. Research Talk: Gene Set Temporal Differential Expression in Autism
Speaker: Chris Pietras, Tufts University
Host: Donna Slonim
November 3, 2014
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 209
Ph.D. Research Talk: Analogical Generalization of Activities from Single Demonstration
Speaker: Jason Wilson, Tufts University
Host: Matthias Scheutz
November 4, 2014
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 102
Internet of Things: Evolution and Convergence of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Speaker: Artyom Astafurov
Host: Shuchin Aeron
November 4, 2014
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Halligan 209
PhD Research Talk: Performance Bugs in Critical Sections of Code
Speaker: Michael Shah, Tufts University
Host: Sam Guyer
November 4, 2014
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Halligan 209
Ph.D. Research Talk: Automated Selection Identification for Directed Evolution of Enzymes
Speaker: Neda Hassanpour, Tufts University
Host: Soha Hassoun
November 13, 2014
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 102
Modeling and Optimization of Electricity Markets
Speaker: Michael C. Ferris, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Host: Ben Shapiro
November 20, 2014
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 102
Liquid Types
Speaker: Ranjit Jhala, University of California, San Diego
Host: Kathleen Fisher
December 16, 2014
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Halligan 209
PhD Defense: Computational Methods for Pathway Synthesis and Strain Optimization
Speaker: Mona Yousofshahi, Tufts University
Host: Soha Hassoun

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