Seminars (Spring 2012)

Departmental Seminars (COMP 6911 & COMP 6912) Spring 2012

(Previous Course Codes: COMP 690 & COMP 691)

The regular seminar time slot is Monday, 4-5pm, except as otherwise indicated. These seminars are included in COMP 6911 & COMP 6912. Seminars held in other time slots are listed below in Other Departmental Seminars and are not included in COMP 6911 & COMP 6912.

Date & Time Venue Title Speaker Host
06 Feb 2012, Mon (16:00-17:00)   [Rescheduled to 10 Feb 2012, Fri, 2pm, LTJ]    
10 Feb 2012, Fri (14:00-15:30) LTJ
  1. Photometric 3D Modeling
  2. Text Understanding Using a Probabilistic Knowledgebase
[Joint Seminar]
  1. Dr. Yasuyuki MATSUSHITA
  2. Dr. Haixun WANG
MSRA 		L. Chen
13 Feb 2012, Mon (14:00-15:00) Rm4480 A New Way of Thinking: Infinite Scalability and Rapid Scale Development (- bigger picture for NOSQL?) Dr. Jonas Karlsson
 Q. Luo
13 Feb 2012, Mon (16:00-17:00)   [Rescheduled to 13 Feb 2012, Mon, 2pm, Rm4480]    
20 Feb 2012, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Software Solutions to Hardware Problems in the Billion-Transistor Era Dr. Jae Wook LEE
Sungkyunkwan Univ, Korea		 S. Kim
27 Feb 2012, Mon (10:00-11:00) Rm3494 Towards Design and Implementation of a Secure Middleware for Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing Dr. Sheikh Iqbal AHAMED
Marquette Univ., USA		 S.C. Cheung
27 Feb 2012, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Privacy-Preserving Health Information Sharing and Integration Dr. Patrick HUNG
Univ. of Ontario Institute of Technology		 S.C. Cheung
05 Mar 2012, Mon (14:00-15:00) Rm1511 Modeling 3D Meshes with Planar Faces [Joint Seminar] Prof. Craig GOTSMAN
Israel Institute of Technology		 P. Sander
05 Mar 2012, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Social Engineering Approach to Computer Systems Design Dr. Pan HUI
T-labs, Germany		 D. Papadias
07 Mar 2012, Wed (14:00-15:00) Rm1511 Understanding 3D Shapes Jointly Prof. Leonidas GUIBAS
Stanford Univ.		 S.W. Cheng
12 Mar 2012, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF The Alan Turing Year (2012): Turing Machine - the root of modern computer [Joint Seminar] Cambridge WONG
Wealth Bridge Asia Ltd
HK Computer Society		 R. Wong
13 Mar 2012, Tue (15:00-16:00) Rm2463 Machine Learning In Computational Epigenetics [cancelled] Dr. Youngsook JUNG
Harvard Medical School, USA		 S. Kim
16 Mar 2012, Fri (14:00-15:00) Rm5510 Implicit Trajectory Modeling Using Temporally Varying Model Parameters [Joint Seminar] Dr. Khe Chai SIM
National Univ. of Singapore		 B. Mak
19 Mar 2012, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Architecture Design and Management for Data Center Networks Kai CHEN
Northwestern Univ., USA		 Q. Yang
21 Mar 2012, Wed (15:00-16:00) Rm1504 (opposite to LTG) Challenges and Advances on Graph Mining Prof. Philip YU
Univ. of Illinois at Chicago		 R. Wong
26 Mar 2012, Mon (16:00-17:00)   [Rescheduled to 28 Mar 2012, Wed, 3pm, LTF]    
28 Mar 2012, Wed (15:00-16:00) LTF Multitenant Applications in the Cloud: Continuous Monitoring and Live Database Migration for Autonomic Load Management Prof. Divyakant AGRAWAL
Univ. of California at Santa Barbara		 L. Chen
02 Apr 2012, Mon (16:00-17:00)   [Rescheduled to 21 Mar 2012, Wed, 3pm, Rm1504]    
09 Apr 2012, Mon (16:00-17:00)   No Seminar (Public Holiday)    
16 Apr 2012, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Secure Computation Outsourcing in the Public Cloud Cong WANG
Illinois Institute of Technology, USA		 L. Gu
23 Apr 2012, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Truth Finding on the Deep Web Dr. Luna DONG
AT&T Labs		 L. Chen
30 Apr 2012, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Optimizing Multi-layered Networks with Long Range Dependent Traffic Prof. Moshe ZUKERMAN
City Univ. of HK		 M. Hamdi
07 May 2012, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Privacy Enhancing Technique in Smart Grid Dr. Rongxing LU
Univ. of Waterloo, Canada		 L. Quan
17 May 2012, Thu (14:30-17:30) LTK
  1. Elements of Big Sensor Data and Computing
  2. Software Analytics and its Application in Software Development Practice
  3. Cloud Computing and Big Data: What it means for future scientific research
[Joint Seminar]
  1. Dr. Mike LIANG
  2. Dr. Dongmei ZHANG
  3. Dr. Feng ZHAO
MSRA 		Q. Yang
31 May 2012, Thu (11:00-12:00) Rm2463 Order-optimal compressive sensing for k-sparse signals with noisy tails: O(k) measurements, O(k) steps [Joint Seminar] Prof. Sidharth JAGGI
CUHK		 M. Golin
31 May 2012, Thu (15:00-16:00) LTF Can We Reconcile Privacy and Usability? An Overview of Research at Carnegie Mellon Prof. Norman SADEH
Carnegie Mellon Univ.		 S.C. Cheung
07 Jun 2012, Thu (16:00-17:00) Rm3416 Cloud Data Protection to the Masses Dr. Elaine SHI
Univ. of Maryland, College Park		 K. Yi
18 Jun 2012, Mon (14:00-15:00) Rm3315 Model-based Engineering for Certification of Complex Adaptive Network Systems Prof. Kaliappa RAVINDRAN
City Univ. of New York		 J. Muppala
18 Jun 2012, Mon (16:00-17:00) Rm3416 Atomic Sets-Model and Implementations Julian DOLBY
IBM		 C. Zhang
20 Jun 2012, Wed (10:30-11:30) LTH Era of Customization and Specialization for Energy-Efficient Computing Prof. Jason CONG
UCLA		 M. Hamdi
29 Jun 2012, Fri (11:00-12:00) Rm3416 Low-Rank Mechanism: Optimizing Batch Queries under Differential Privacy Dr. Zhenjie ZHANG
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign		 R. Wong
04 Jul 2012, Wed (15:00-16:00) Rm3416 Behavior Analysis of Internet Traffic Via Bipartite Graphs and One-Mode Projections Dr. Kual XU
Arizona State Univ.		 L. Gu

Other Departmental Seminars Spring 2012

Date & Time Venue Title Speaker Host
17 May 2012, Thu (11:00-12:00) Rm4504 Dynamic Sparse Tracking with Applications in Acoustic Communications [AI Seminar] Dr. Weichang LI
ExxonMobil Corporate Strategic Research		 J. Kwok
23 Jul 2012, Mon (16:00-17:00) Rm3416 Language Model Rest Costs and Space-Efficient Storage [Joint Seminar] Kenneth HEAFIELD
Carnegie-Mellon Univ./Univ. of Edinburgh		 D. Wu
03 Sep 2012, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Testing Evolving Software: Research to Practice Prof. Mary Jean HARROLD
Georgia Institute of Technology		 C. Zhang

Dekai Wu is the seminar coordinator for Spring 2012.

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