Departmental Seminars (COMP 690 & COMP 691)
Fall 2000

Students registered for COMP 690/691 must attend at least 5 classes to receive a P grade.  Note that seminar normally meets from

16:00-17:00 on Monday afternoons but some special extra seminars might be scheduled at other times.  All seminars listed here
except the orientations count towards fulfilling the COMP 690/691 requirements.

Date and Time Venue Title Speaker Host
04/09/2000(16:00-17:00) Rm4201 CS System Orientation For TAs (in LAb 4) Ms Zina Yung CSD
11/09/2000(16:00-17:15) LTF New PG Orientation Dr M.J. Golin CSD
18/09/2000(16:00-17:00) LTF New results on page replication Dr. Rudolf Fleisher CSD
25/09/2000(16:00-17:00)        
28/09/2000, Thursday (16:00-17:00) 2404 Convergence of Multimedia, Wireless and Internet - A vision for future communications Dr. Ya-Qin Zhang Managing Director Microsoft Research China CSD
09/10/2000(16:00-17:00) LTF VoIP Performance on Differentiated Services Enabled Network Dr. Jogesh Muppala CSD
13/10/2000, Friday (16:00-17:00) 2306 The Benefits of Environment Adaptive Organisations for Agent Coordination and Network Routing Problems Dr. Steven Willmott, Laboratoire d'Intelligence Artificielle, EPFL Lausanne. Dr. Mounir Hamdi
16/10/2000(16:00-17:00)        
19/10/2000, Thursday (16:00-17:00) 3464 Learning Switching Linear Models of Human Motion Dr. Vladimir Pavlovic, Cambridge Research Laboratory Dr. T. C. Pong
23/10/2000(16:00-17:00) LTF Automatic Speaker Authentication Dr. Peter Li, Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs Dr. Brian Mak
30/10/2000(16:00-17:00) LTF Network Computing: Evolution, Trends and Challenges C.-C. Jay Kuo Integrated Media Systems Center and Dept. of Electrical Engineering-Systems University of Southern California Los Angeles, Dr. Ishfaq Ahmad
06/11/2000(16:00-17:00)        
13/11/2000(16:00-17:00)        
17/11/2000, Friday (15:00-16:00) TBA Some Complexity Issues in Parallel Computing Prof. Oscar H. Ibarra, University of California Santa Barbara Dr. T. C. Pong
20/11/2000(16:00-17:00)  LTF  TBA  Dr. Brahim Bensaou   CSD
27/11/2000(16:00-17:00)        
4/12/2000(16:00-17:00)  LTF Folding and Unfolding Linkages, Paper, and Polyhedra  Erik Demaine Department of Computer Science University of Waterloo  Rudolf Fleicher

 

Note: Talks are normally given on Monday from 16:00-17:00. Dates of non-Monday talks are denoted by yellow color.