CS Colloquium — Spring 2017

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 17, 2017
10:00am
Halligan 102
Computing the spherical depth of points in the plane
Speaker: Raoul Shahsavarifar, University of New Brunswick
Host: Diane Souvaine
February 6, 2017
12:00pm
Anderson Hall, Nelson Auditorium
Analyzing text to extract information about gene-drug interactions
Speaker: Russ Altman, Stanford University
Host: Donna Slonim
February 16, 2017
1:00pm
Halligan 209
Situated natural language interaction in uncertain and open worlds
Speaker: Thomas Williams, Tufts University
Host: Matthias Scheutz
March 10, 2017
10:00am
Halligan 102
Discovering molecular mechanisms of human disease through gene sets and networks
Speaker: Jisoo Park, Tufts University
Host: Donna Slonim
March 13, 2017
3-4pm
Halligan 102
Path Detection: A Quantum Computing Primitive
Speaker: Shelby Kimmel, University of Maryland
Host: Rob Jacob
March 16, 2017
3-4pm
Halligan 102
Repurposing relational databases for approximate probabilistic inference
Speaker: Wolfgang Gatterbauer, Carnegie Mellon University
Host: Rob Jacob
March 23, 2017
9:30am
Halligan 111B
A biologically plausible model of speech perception
Speaker: Andrew Valenti, Tufts University
Host: Matthias Scheutz
March 27, 2017
3:00pm
Halligan 111A
Bigtable merge compaction
Speaker: Neal Young, University of California, Riverside
Host: Robert Jacob
March 29, 2017
3:00pm
Halligan 102
Tempo: From Data Streams to Graph Streams, from Searching to Mining
Speaker: Tingjian Ge, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Host: Robert Jacob
April 6, 2017
3:00pm
Halligan 102
Learning-based Data Management Systems in the Big Data Era
Speaker: Olga Papaemmanouil, Brandeis University
Host: Robert Jacob
April 7, 2017
11:45am
Halligan 102
Grad research talk: Methods and Optimizations for Interactive Big Data Exploratory Visualization Systems
Speaker: Marianne Procopio, Tufts University
Host: Remco Chang
April 10, 2017
3-4pm
Halligan 102
Secure Diagnostics and Forensics with Network Provenance
Speaker: Ang Chen, University of Pennsylvania
Host: Rob Jacob
April 13, 2017
3-4pm
Halligan 102
Development of Hybrid Data Mining-Epidemiologic Models to Assess Air Pollution-Associated Impacts on Mortality
Speaker: Helen Suh, Tufts University
Host: Fahad Dogar
April 14, 2017
9:30
Halligan 102
Addressing Bias and Subjectivity in Machine Learning
Speaker: Yijun Zhao, Tufts University
Host: Roni Khardon
April 20, 2017
3-4pm
Halligan 102
Mechanics-Aware Geometry: Designing for Physics and Play in Computational Fabrication
Speaker: Emily Whiting, Dartmouth
Host: Remco Chang
April 27, 2017
3-4pm
Halligan 102
Data science with R and the tidyverse
Speaker: Hadley Wickham, RStudio
Host: Remco Chang
April 28, 2017
10:00am
Halligan 102
Capturing and evaluating higher order relations in word embeddings using tensor factorization
Speaker: Eric Bailey
Host: Shuchin Aeron

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