Seminars (Fall 2010)

Departmental Seminars (COMP 690 & COMP 691) Fall 2010

The regular seminar time slot is Monday, 4-5pm, except as otherwise indicated. These seminars are included in COMP 690 & COMP 691. Seminars held in other time slots are listed below in Other Departmental Seminars and are not included in COMP 690 & COMP 691.

Date & Time Venue Title Speaker Host
06 Sep 2010, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF PG Orientation Dr. Yunhao LIU
HKUST		 Y. Liu
13 Sep 2010, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF SHOW: Symmetric Design for Hybrid Handoff Scheme in Wireless Networks Dr. Shih Yu CHANG
National Tsinghua Univ.		 L. Gu
20 Sep 2010, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Towards Energy Efficient Database Computing Dr. Stavros HARIZOPOULOS
HP Labs Palo Alto		 D. Papadias
27 Sep 2010, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Wireless Sensors Networks: Current and Future Challenges Prof. Magdy BAYOUMI
Univ. of Louisiana at Lafayette		 M. Hamdi
28 Sep 2010, Tue (16:00-17:00) Rm4472 Advanced Techniques for Searching in Complex-Structured Data Dr. Matthias RENZ
Ludwig-Maximillians Univ. Munich		 L. Chen
04 Oct 2010, Mon (16:00-17:00)   [Rescheduled to 07 Oct 2010, Thu, 2pm]    
07 Oct 2010, Thu (14:00-15:00) Rm3311 IPTV - Transport, Distribution and Quality of Experience Dr. Ali BEGEN
Cisco		 G. Chan
11 Oct 2010, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Turing Test, AI and Computer Security Dr. Jeff YAN
Univ. of Newcastle		 C. Ding
18 Oct 2010, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Distributed Computation of Pi with Apache Hadoop Dr. Tsz-Wo SZE
Yahoo!		 M. Golin
25 Oct 2010, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Maximum Overlap of Convex Polytopes under Translation [Postponed] Prof. Siu-Wing CHENG
HKUST		 S.W. Cheng
25 Oct 2010, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF The Industrial Use of Formal Methods: Experiences of an Optimist Prof. Jonathan BOWEN
London South Bank Univ.		 M. Hamdi
28 Oct 2010, Thu (16:00-17:30) LTC Engineering Advances in Measuring and Using Speech Production Information [Joint Seminar] Prof. Shrikanth NARAYANAN
Univ. of Southern California, USA		 B. Mak
01 Nov 2010, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Corpus Pattern Analysis: New light on words and meanings [Joint Seminar] Patrick HANKS
Charles Univ., Prague		 D. Wu
02 Nov 2010, Tue (11:00-12:00) Rm3301 Manifold Elastic Net via Backward-Forward Least Angle Shrinkage [Joint Seminar] Dr. Dacheng TAO
Nanyang Technological Univ.		 Q. Yang
08 Nov 2010, Mon (16:00-17:00)   [Rescheduled to 09 Nov 2010, Tue, 4pm]    
09 Nov 2010, Tue (16:00-17:00) Rm3311 Orthogonal Range Reporting in 3 and Higher Dimensions Prof. Lars ARGE
Aarhus Univ.		 K. Yi
15 Nov 2010, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Tight Localization of Abstract Memories for Scalable Semantics-based Static Analysis Prof. Kwangkeun YI
Seoul National Univ.		 S.C. Cheung
17 Nov 2010, Wed (16:00-17:00) Rm3315 Planning for Improving Throughput in Autonomous Intersection Management Dr. Tsz-Chiu AU
Univ. of Texas at Austin		 D.Y. Yeung
22 Nov 2010, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Managing and Mining Biological Graphs Dr. Jiong YANG
Case Western Reserve Univ.		 Q. Yang
29 Nov 2010, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Efficient Algorithms for Genome-Wide Computing Mr. Xiang ZHANG C. Ding
02 Dec 2010, Thu (14:00-15:00) LTF Detecting genetic interactions in complex diseases Dr. Xiang WAN
 L. Quan
02 Dec 2010, Thu (16:00-17:00) Rm2306 The Database Research Community: The success of the first 50 years, and some concerns for the future Jeffrey NAUGHTON
Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison		 Q. Luo
06 Dec 2010, Mon (10:00-11:00) Rm2404 The Art of Collecting Bug Reports Dr. Thomas ZIMMERMANN
Microsoft Research		 S. Kim
06 Dec 2010, Mon (16:00-17:00)   [Rescheduled to 06 Dec 2010, Mon, 10am]    

Other Departmental Seminars Fall 2010

Date & Time Venue Title Speaker Host
27 Sep 2010, Mon (10:30-11:30) Rm3598 Visual Event Recognition in Videos by Learning from Web Data [AI Seminar] Prof. Dong XU
Nanyang Technological Univ.		 Q. Yang
10 Dec 2010, Fri (15:00-16:00) LTF Automatic Face Recognition: Challenges and Opportunities [Joint Seminar] Prof. Anil JAIN
Michigan State Univ.		 L. Quan
15 Dec 2010, Wed (10:30-11:30) Rm3412 Distributed XML Query Processing Prof. Tamer ÖZSU
Univ. of Waterloo		 L. Chen
16 Dec 2010, Thu (11:00-12:00) Rm2303 Enabling Green Communication in Future Generation of Cooperative and Cognitive Wireless Systems [Joint Seminar] Prof. Vijay BHARGAVA
Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver		 M. Hamdi
17 Dec 2010, Fri (11:00-12:00) LTH Probabilistic Graphical Model for Protein Structure Prediction Dr. Jinbo XU
Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago		 C. Ding
12 Jan 2010, Wed (15:30-16:30) LTH Vision Realistic Rendering [Joint Seminar] Prof. Brian BARSKY
Univ. of California, Berkeley		 C.L. Tai
21 Jan 2010, Fri (10:30-11:30) Rm3412 Monitoring Near-Duplicate Videos Over Continuous Video Streams Dr. Helen HUANG
Univ. of Queensland		 L. Chen

Dekai Wu is the seminar coordinator for Fall 2010.

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