University of Southern California
USC CS Colloquium Series (Spring 2007)
About the Colloquium
Each colloquium will feature an external speaker from all major CS disciplines. It will center around an informal and interactive talk by the invited speaker, and will be preferably held either Tuesdays or Thursdays between 3:30-4:50 PM. We will serve light refreshments. It will be preceded and/or followed by small-scale meets between the speaker and interested faculty and students.
Current Schedule
Spring 2007
Date Time Location Speaker Host Title
Jan 11 3:30 pm SSL 150 Dr. Caitlin Kelleher(CMU) Storytelling Alice: Presenting Programming as a Means to the End of Storytelling
Jan 18 3:30 pm SSL 150 Dr. Paul Rothemund(Caltech) DNA Origami
Jan 25 3:30 pm SSL 150 Dr. Magy Seif El-Nasr(Penn State Univ.) Developing Tools that Enhance Interactive Experiences and Their Development Process
Jan 30 3:30 pm SSL 150 Dr. Danny Cohen (SUN Microsystems) Internet Zero#
Feb 6 3:30 pm SSL 150 David Salesin (U. of Washington) Prof. Karen Liu Unleashing the Computer's Potential for Communication #
Feb 22 3:30 pm SSL 150 Julia Chuzhoy Cuts and Flows in Directed Graphs
Feb 26 3:30 pm SAL 101 Richard Stallman Prof. Ramesh Govindan The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System
Feb 27 3:30 pm SSL 150 Mark Riedl Narrative Generation and Interactive Storytelling
Feb 28 12 Noon KAP 163 Marek J. Druzdzel(Univ. of Pittsburgh) Prof. Sven Koenig Graphical Probabilistic Models in Strategic Planning
Mar 2 3:30 pm SSL 150 Alex Orso Prof. Neno Medvidovic Protecting Web Applications Using Positive Tainting and Syntax-Aware Evaluation
Mar 5 3:30 pm SSL 150 Michael Walfish Prof. Ramesh Govindan Defending Networked Resources Against Unwelcome Request Floods
Mar 6 3:30 pm SSL 150 Alice Zheng Prof. Stefan Schaal Statistical Failure Diagnosis in Software and Systems
Mar 20 3:30 pm SSL 150 Michael Goodrich Prof. Leana Golubchik Blood on the Computer: How Algorithms for Testing Blood Samples can be Used for DNA Sequencing, Wireless Broadcasting, and Network Security
Mar 22 3:30 pm SSL 150 Martha Pollack (U. of Michigan) Prof. Maja Mataric Intelligent Assistive Technology: The Present and the Future #
Mar 26 3:30 pm SSL 150 David Woodruff Prof. David Kempe Efficient and Private Distance Approximation
Mar 29 3:30 pm SSL 150 Prof. Rachid Alami (LAAS-CNRS, France) Dr. Adriana Tapus A robot that aims to serve humans and be accepted by them
Apr 5 3:30 pm GER Auditorium Ed Lazowska Computer Science: Past, Present, and Future*
Apr 6 3:30 pm SSL 150 Eyal Even-Dar Prof. David Kempe Limitations and Challenges in No Regret Algorithms
Apr 12 3:30 pm SSL 150 Jim Gray (Microsoft) Prof. Shahram Ghandeharizadeh eScience - Bringing all the world's science data and literature online and cross-indexing it (Cancelled) #
Apr 12 3:30 pm SSL 150 Robert Lucas (ISI/USC) Aiichiro Nakano Parallel Multifrontal Sparse Solvers #
Apr 19 3:30 pm SSL 150 Dan Rubenstein Prof. Leana Golubchik Network Resilience: Improving Survivability, Security, and Robustness of Emerging Network Systems
Apr 24 3:30 pm SSL 150 Jana Kosecka Prof. Gaurav Sukhatme Vision Based Localization
Apr 26 3:30 pm SSL 150 Kevin Lynch Prof. Gaurav Sukhatme Multi-Agent Coordination by Decentralized Estimation and Control
May 3 3:30 pm SSL 150 Yongdae Kim Prof. Ramesh Govindan Securing Peer-to-peer Systems
# - Distinguished Lecture Series
* - Annual Bekey Keynote Lecture
Contact
Questions, suggestions, or comments please email at colloq_admin at vista dot usc dot edu.