Departmental Seminars (COMP 690 & COMP 691)
Spring 2001

Students registered for COMP 690/691 must attend at least 8 classes to receive a P grade. The seminars are normally scheduled on Monday 16:00-17:00, except those shown in yellow. All seminars listed here count towards fulfilling the COMP 690/691 requirements.

Date and Time Venue Title Speaker Host
02/02/2001, Fri, (15:00-16:00) Room 2404 The Ordered Relational Data Model and its Ramifications Wilfred Ng, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Dik Lee 
05/02/2001(16:00-17:00) LTF Dynamic Skin Triangulation Alan Cheng,
Duke University		 C. K. Tang
08/02/2001, Thur, (11:00-12:00) Room 2404 Techniques for Network Management and Planning Christian Frei, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) Mounir Hamdi 
09/02/2001, Fri, (11:00-12:00) Room 1402 Image-based Modelling and Rendering Long Quan, CNRS-INRIA C.K. Tang 
12/02/2001(16:00-17:00) LTF  Digital Special Collections: Preserving, Restoring, and Displaying Damaged Scholarly Texts Michael Brown,
University of Kentucky		 C.K. Tang 
19/02/2001(16:00-17:00) LTF An issue in computer science, a challenge from information technology Y.C. Tay,
National University of Singapore		 H. Lu
23/02/2001, Fri,
(14:00-15:00)		 Room 2304 A Unification of Self-calibration Methods Long Quan
CNRS-INRIA, France		 C.K. Tang
26/02/2001(16:00-17:00) LTF  High-dimensional Indexing  Cui Yu,
National University of Singapore 		 H. Lu 
05/03/2001(16:00-17:20) LG 1332, next to Media Resources  Library Research Workshop      
08/03/2001, Thur, (11:00-12:00) Room 2404 State-Space Approaches to Blind Source Separation Yiu-Ming Cheung,
CUHK		 James Kwok 
09/03/2001, Fri, (16:00-17:00) Room 1403 Distributed Firewalls and Security Agents for Cluster/Grid and Pervasive Computing Kai HWANG,
University of Southern California		 Ishfaq Ahmad 
12/03/2001(16:00-17:00) LTF  Mining Web Access Patterns for Prediction and Document Prefetching  Qiang Yang,
Simon Fraser 		 Derick Wood 
19/03/2001, Mon, (10:30-11:30) Room 1403 Back to Circuit Switching! Malathi Veeraraghavan,
Polytechnic University, New York		 Jogesh Muppala 
19/03/2001(16:00-17:00) LTF  Vascular Reconstruction for Minimally-Invasive Computer-Assisted Intervention Planning   Albert Chung,
Univ. of Oxford 		 Helen Shen 
26/03/2001(16:00-17:00) LTF  Alternative Models of Computation Rudolf Fleischer,
HKUST 		  
29/03/2001, Thur, (14:00-15:00) Room 2404 Clustering in the Presence of Obstacles Anthony Tung,
Simon Fraser		 Hongjun Lu 
02/04/2001(16:00-17:00) LTF  No seminar 
 		  
09/04/2001(16:00-17:00) LTF  No seminar     
17/04/2001, Tue, (15:00-16:00) Room 2406 Medical Digital Library to Support Scenario Specific Information Retrieval Wesley Chu,
UCLA		 Dik Lee 
23/04/2001(16:00-17:00) LTF  Integration Technology: Concepts and Architecture Christoph Bussler,
Oracle Corporation, U.S.A.		 Fred Lochovsky
07/05/2001(16:00-17:00) LTF  A Simple Arithmetic for Fractions with Applications to Classical Physics, Geometric Modeling, and Computer Graphics Ron Goldman
Rice University, USA 		 Chiew-Lan Tai 
14/05/2001(16:00-17:00) LTF  Image Compression Techniques Wayne Brown,
University of Central Arkansas		 Mordecai Golin 

Chiew-Lan Tai is the seminar coordinator for Spring 2001. Please send any comments to .