CS Colloquium — Fall 2016

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 15, 2016
2:50 - 4pm
Halligan 102
Eclipse Attacks on Bitcoin's Peer-to-Peer Network
Speaker: Ethan Heilman, Boston University
Host: Ming Chow
September 29, 2016
2:50 - 4pm
Halligan 102
Colors---Messengers of Concepts: Visual Design Mining for Learning Color Semantics
Speaker: Ali Jahanian, MIT
Host: Rob Jacob
September 30, 2016
1:45 - 3:00pm
Halligan 102
3D Electroluminescent Living Cellular Devices (ELICD) for Multicellular Systems Biology Research
Speaker: Dr. Nurdan , Tufts University
Host: Prof. Valencia Koomson
October 6, 2016
2:50 - 4pm
Halligan 102
Caught Red Handed: Tracing Information Flows Between Ad Exchanges Using Retargeted Ads
Speaker: Christo Wilson, Northeastern University
Host: Fahad Dogar
October 13, 2016
2:50 - 4pm
Halligan 102
Declarative Network Path Queries
Speaker: Srinivas Narayana, MIT
Host: Fahad Dogar
October 20, 2016
2:50 - 4pm
Halligan 102
Wireless Systems that Extend Our Senses: Seeing Through Walls, Gesture Control, and Vital Sign Monitoring
Speaker: Fadel Adib, MIT
Host: Fahad Dogar
October 21, 2016
4 - 5pm (tea at 3.30pm)
BP 101
Joint CS/Math Colloquium: Reconfiguring chains with discrete moves: flips and pops
Speaker: Perouz Taslakian, ROI
Host: Bruce Boghosian/Greg Aloupis
October 25, 2016
2:00-3:00
Halligan 102
Grad research talk: Heuristic Approaches for Planning in Large Scale MDPs
Speaker: Hao Cui, Tufts University
Host:
October 27, 2016
2:50 - 4pm
Halligan 102
Witnessing the Rise of the Sharing Economy: Empirical Observations of Airbnb
Speaker: John Byers, Boston University
Host: Fahad Dogar
November 2, 2016
12:00-1:00
Halligan 111B
Grad research talk: A Computational Model for Affordance Perception
Speaker: Vasanth Sarathy, Tufts University
Host:
November 3, 2016
2:50 - 4pm
Halligan 102
Rethinking the Role of Security in Education
Speaker: Sarah Zatko, CITL
Host: Ming Chow
November 10, 2016
2:50 - 4pm
Dowling 745A & 745B
Artificial Intelligence: A DARPA Perspective
Speaker: John Launchbury, DARPA
Host: Kathleen Fisher
November 17, 2016
2:50 - 4pm
Halligan 102
Proactive breach detection with security analytics
Speaker: Alina Oprea, Northeastern University
Host: Fahad Dogar
December 1, 2016
2:50 - 4pm
Halligan 102
Combating Dark Silicon with Power-Agile Systems and Many-Accelerator Architectures
Speaker: Mark Hempstead, Tufts University
Host: Fahad Dogar
December 8, 2016
2:50 - 4pm
Halligan 102
Methods for Identifying Combinations of Driver Mutations in Cancer
Speaker: Max Leiserson, Microsoft Research New England
Host: Lenore Cowen

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