Seminars (Spring 2010)

Departmental Seminars (COMP 690 & COMP 691) Spring 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
01 Feb 2010, Mon (16:00-17:00)   [Rescheduled to 08 Feb 2010, Mon, 11am]    
08 Feb 2010, Mon (11:00-12:00) Rm2404 Video SnapCut and the stories behind it Dr. Jue WANG
Adobe Systems		 C.K. Tang
08 Feb 2010, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Visual Analytics: Building a Vibrant and Resilient National Science Dr. Pak Chung WONG
PNNL, USA		 H. Qu
11 Feb 2010, Thu (14:00-15:00) Rm3311 Computational Symmetry Dr. Yanxi LIU
Penn Stat Univ.		 L. Quan
15 Feb 2010, Mon (16:00-17:00)   No Seminar (Public Holiday)    
22 Feb 2010, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Location Information Scrambler: for Protection of Smartphone Users' Privacy Prof. Kang SHIN
Univ. of Michigan		 Q. Zhang
01 Mar 2010, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF IT Entrepreneurship Prof. Vincent SHEN, HKUST, and Dr. Shan CHEN, WebNova Ltd. V. Shen
08 Mar 2010, Mon (10:00-11:00) Rm2404 A Heterogeneous Cluster with FPGAs and GPUs Prof. Wayne LUK
Imperial College London		 S.C. Cheung
08 Mar 2010, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Double water exclusion: how graph theory refines the long-standing biological O-ring hypothesis Dr. Jinyan LI
Nanyang Technological Univ.		 S.W. Cheng
15 Mar 2010, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Computing with Private Data Prof. Boi FALTINGS
EPFL, Switzerland		 M. Hamdi
22 Mar 2010, Mon (16:00-17:00)   [Rescheduled to 08 Mar 2010, Mon, 10am]    
29 Mar 2010, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF From Games to Markets: On the Computation of Equilibria Dr. Xi CHEN
Univ. of Southern California		 M. Golin
31 Mar 2010, Wed (16:00-17:00) Rm3416 12 Years of GPGPU and Many-Core Computing: What have we learned! [Joint Seminar] Prof. Dinesh MANOCHA
Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill		 Q. Luo
05 Apr 2010, Mon (16:00-17:00)   No Seminar (Public Holiday)    
12 Apr 2010, Mon (10:30-11:30) Rm3401 Self-similarities in Urban Data Reconstruction [Joint Seminar] Prof. Andrei SHARF
SIAT Institute, China/Ben-Gurion Univ, Israel		 C.L. Tai
12 Apr 2010, Mon (14:00-15:00) Rm3402 Non-rigid structure from locally-rigid motion [Joint Seminar] Prof. Kyros KUTULAKOS
Univ. of Toronto		 L. Quan
12 Apr 2010, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF An Integrated approach using Epigenetic data: Identifying Transcription Factor Binding Sites and Constructing Genome-wide Transcriptional Maps Dr. Kyoung-Jae WON
UC San Diego		 Q. Yang
19 Apr 2010, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Tractable Reasoning for OWL2-DL Dr. Jeff Z. PAN
Univ. of Aberdeen		 F. Lin
26 Apr 2010, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Automate NMR protein structure determination through computations Dr. Xin GAO
Carnegie Mellon Univ.		 C. Ding
03 May 2010, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF A New Era after the Convergence of Network Centric and Data Centric Computing Prof. David DU
Univ. of Minnesota		 S.W. Cheng
10 May 2010, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF User Experience and Technology Acceptance Issues in Recommender Systems Dr. Pearl PU
Swiss Federal Institute of Tech		 V. Shen
12 May 2010, Wed (11:00-12:00) Rm3405 Defending against Sybil Attacks Dr. Haifeng YU
National Univ. of Singapore		 K. Yi
17 May 2010, Mon (16:00-17:00)   [Rescheduled to 12 May 2010, Wed, 11am]    

Other Departmental Seminars Spring 2010

Date & Time Venue Title Speaker Host
5 May 2010, Wed (16:00-17:00) Rm3416 Opportunities in Opportunistic Computing Prof. Mohan KUMAR
Univ. of Texa at Arlington		 Y. Liu
08 Mar 2010, Mon (11:00-12:00) Rm3401 Optimal Solutions for Non-Convex Minimization Problems Arising in Image Processing and Machine Learning [Joint Seminar] Dr. Xavier BRESSON
UCLA		 C.K. Tang
14 May 2010, Fri (13:30-14:30) Rm5583 Aperiodic Pixel Layout for Super-Resolution Dr. Moshe BEN-EZRA
MSRA, Beijing		 L. Quan
20 May 2010, Thu (11:00-12:00) Rm2502 Multigigabit Wireless Multimedia Communications: Future and Core Technologies [Joint Seminar] Prof. Vijay BHARGAVA
UBC, Vancouver		 M. Hamdi
22 June 2010, Tue (14:00-15:00) Rm3412 BTG-based Phrasal SMT: Reordering and Segmentation [Joint Seminar] Dr. Deyi XIONG
Institute for Infocomm Research		 D. Wu
19 July 2010, Mon (15:00-16:00) LTH Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Vision at US National Science Foundation Dr. Almadena CHTCHELKANOVA
National Sci. Foundation, USA		 L. Gu
20 July 2010, Tue (16:00-17:00) Rm5583 Recent Advances in Virtualization and Cloud Computing Prof. Kai HWANG
Univ. of Southern California		 L. Gu
22 July 2010, Thu (15:00-16:00) Rm3311 Character Motion Representation based on Spatial Relationships Dr. Taku KOMURA
Univ. of Edinburgh		 C.L. Tai
26 July 2010, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTH Monalytics: Online Monitoring and Analytics for Managing Large Scale Data Centers Prof. Karsten SCHWAN
Georgia Institute of Technology		 L. Gu

Dekai Wu is the seminar coordinator for Spring 2010.

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