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2015-2016 Scheduled Seminars


Wednesday June 15, 2016
10:00 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Jidong Zhai, Tsinghua University
Title:"A Scalable Fault Tolerant HPL Implementation to Tolerate Permanent Node Losses"
Host: Frank Mueller, CSC
Location: 1228, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Friday May 27, 2016
09:30 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Santiago Ontanon, Drexel University
Title:"Learning from Demonstration and Adversarial Search to Model Complex Behavior"
Host: Dr. Mladen Vouk, CSC
Location: 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Friday April 22, 2016
09:15 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Chris Martens, Carnegie Mellon University
Title:"Language-Based Abstractions for Systems Understanding"
Host: Dr. Michael Young, CSC
Location: 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Friday April 15, 2016
10:30 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Tamer Özsu, University of Waterloo
Title:"Web Data Management in the RDF Age"
Host: Rada Chirkova, CSC
Location: 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Wednesday April 13, 2016
03:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Irene Muzi, University of Rome
Title:"The 1/p-IntegralLinkage Problem in Directed Acyclic Graphs"
Host: Blair D. Sullivan, CSC
Location: 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Monday April 11, 2016
04:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Onur Mutlu, Electrical and Computer Engineering, CMU
Title:"Rethinking Memory System Design for Data-Intensive Computing"
Host: Xipeng Shen, CSC
Location: 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Friday April 08, 2016
01:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: William Regli, DARPA
Title:"How to Work With DARPA (An Overview of DARPA and working with DARPA and DSO) "
Host: Munindar Singh, CSC
Location: 1025, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Monday April 04, 2016
01:30 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Benjamin Samuel, University of California, Santa Cruz
Title:"Crafting Stories Through Play"
Host: Dr. Michael Young, CSC
Location: 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Monday April 04, 2016
10:00 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Michel Cukier, University of Maryland
Title:"Advanced Cybersecurity Experience for Students (ACES): An Honors Undergraduate Program in Cybersecurity"
Host: Laurie Williams, CSC
Location: 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Friday April 01, 2016
10:30 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Wolfgang Gatterbauer, Business Technologies and Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University
Title:"Linearized and Single-Pass Belief Propagation"
Host: Rada Chirkova, CSC
Location: 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Tuesday March 29, 2016
09:30 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Brian Magerko, Georgia Institute of Technology
Title:"On the Role of Expression in Computation"
Host: Dr. David Roberts, CSC
Location: 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Monday March 28, 2016
11:00 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: David Gleich, Computer Science, Purdue University
Title:"Sparsity and localization in evaluating functions of matrices on modern information networks"
Host: Blair D. Sullivan, CSC
Location: 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Thursday March 24, 2016
09:30 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Shouling Ji, Georgia Institute of Technology
Title:"Evaluating the Security of Anonymized Big Graph/Structural Data"
Host: Dr. Jessica Staddon, CSC
Location: 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Wednesday March 23, 2016
09:00 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Samer Al-Kiswany, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Title:"The Old Systems and the Sea (of Applications and Hardware Changes)"
Host: Dr. Frank Mueller, CSC
Location: 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Tuesday March 22, 2016
06:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Michael DeHaan, Founder, Ansible
Title:"Achieving Massive Open Source Project Adoption"
Host: ,
Location: 1231, EB2,
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Tuesday March 22, 2016
02:30 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Stephen Wicker, ECE, Cornell University
Title:"Smartphones, Cryptography and the Fifth Amendment"
Host: Kathleen Vogel, Department of Political Science
Location: 4106, Hunt Library, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Tuesday March 22, 2016
10:00 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Hung-Wei Tseng, University of California - San Diego
Title:"No-frills computing: rethinking hardware/software interfaces to improve efficiency"
Host: Dr. Xipeng Shen, CSC
Location: 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Monday March 21, 2016
10:00 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Muhammad Naveed, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Title:"Making the World a Better Place with Cryptography"
Host: Dr. William Enck, CSC
Location: 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Friday March 18, 2016
09:30 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Arnav Jhala, Univeristy of California - Santa Cruz
Title:"Computational Metrics of Visual Aesthetics"
Host: Dr. David Roberts, CSC
Location: 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Thursday March 17, 2016
09:30 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Ranjit Kumaresan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title:"Privacy-Preserving Smart Contracts"
Host: Dr. Laurie Williams, CSC
Location: 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Wednesday March 16, 2016
09:00 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Song Jiang, Wayne State University
Title:"Design and Implementation of Effective Key-Value Systems for Large-scale Data Centers"
Host: Dr. Frank Mueller, CSC
Location: 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Monday March 14, 2016
09:30 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Adam Bates, University of Florida
Title:"Designing and Leveraging Trustworthy Provenance-Aware Architectures"
Host: Dr. William Enck, CSC
Location: 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Friday March 04, 2016
09:30 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Min Suk Kang, Carnegie Mellon University
Title:"Non-traditional DDoS Attacks and Defenses"
Host: Dr. Douglas Reeves, CSC
Location: 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Thursday March 03, 2016
09:00 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Patrick Bridges, The University of New Mexico
Title:"Integrating Performance Modeling into Scalable System Software Design"
Host: Dr. Frank Mueller, CSC
Location: 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Wednesday March 02, 2016
09:00 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Xubin (Ben) He, Virginia Commonwealth University
Title:"High Performance and Reliable Flash Storage Support for Big Data"
Host: Dr. Frank Mueller, CSC
Location: 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Monday February 29, 2016
04:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Michael Wellman, CSE Department, University of Michigan
Title:"Artificial Intelligence and Real Economics"
Host: Jon Doyle, CSC
Location: 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Monday February 29, 2016
10:30 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Stratos Idreos, Department of Computer Science, Harvard University
Title:"Data Systems that are Easy to Design, Tune and Use"
Host: Rada Chirkova, CSC
Location: 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Monday February 29, 2016
09:00 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Viet Tung Hoang, University of California - Santa Barbara
Title:"Rethinking Cryptographic Designs: The Case of Authenticated Encryption "
Host: Alexandros Kapravelos, CSC
Location: 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Thursday February 25, 2016
06:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Hal Stern, Executive Director of Applied Technology, Merck
Title:"Big Data, Big Challenges"
Host: ,
Location: 1231, EB2,
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Thursday February 25, 2016
09:30 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Alessandra Scafuro, Boston University & Northeastern University
Title:"Advances in Secure Computation and their Applications to Private Cloud Computing "
Host: Dr. Jessica Staddon, CSC
Location: 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Wednesday February 24, 2016
09:00 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Collin Lynch, NCSU
Title:"Arguments, Augmented Graph Grammars, and Evolutionary Computation"
Host: Dr. Laurie Williams, CSC
Location: 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Monday February 22, 2016
04:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Pieter Abbeel, CS Department, Berkeley
Title:"Making Robots Learn"
Host: George Konidaris, Duke
Location: 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Monday February 22, 2016
11:00 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Aaron Clauset, Computer Science, University of Colorado at Boulder
Title:"Gender, Productivity, and Prestige in Computer Science Faculty Hiring Networks"
Host: Blair D. Sullivan, CSC
Location: 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Monday February 15, 2016
04:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Jon Kleinberg - Talk CANCELED due to weather, Cornell University
Title:"CANCELED - Social Phenomena in Global Networks"
Host: Pankaj Agarwal, Duke
Location: 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Tuesday February 09, 2016
10:00 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Chengkai Li, Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Texas at Arlington
Title:"Tackling Usability Challenges in Querying Massive, Ultra-heterogeneous Graphs"
Host: Rada Chirkova, CSC
Location: 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Monday February 01, 2016
04:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Alex Aiken, Alcatel-Lucent Professor, Stanford University
Title:"Legion: Programming Heterogeneous, Distributed Parallel Machines"
Host: Frank Mueller, CSC
Location: 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Tuesday January 26, 2016
06:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Pete Forsyth, Principal, Wiki Strategies
Title:"Wikipedia - a new era in humanity's curation of knowledge"
Host: ,
Location: 1231, EB2,
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Friday January 15, 2016
01:30 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Arnav Jhala, Department of Computational Media, UC Santa Cruz
Title:"Hierarchical Task Learning and Collaboration in Real-Time Video Game Environments "
Host: R. Michael Young, CSC
Location: 530-1, Venture 2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Monday January 11, 2016
11:00 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Elizabeth Munch, Mathematics, University at Albany, SUNY
Title:"The Reeb graph interleaving distance "
Host: Blair D. Sullivan, CSC
Location: 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Monday November 30, 2015
04:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Jason Eisner, CS Department, Johns Hopkins University
Title:"Probabilistic Inference on Strings"
Host: Alex Berg, UNC
Location: 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Monday November 23, 2015
03:30 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Mahmoud Parsian, Illumina, Inc
Title:"Introduction to Hadoop Map/Reduce and Spark"
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Host: Frank Mueller, CSC
Location: 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Monday November 23, 2015
11:00 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Claire Monteleoni, Computer Science, George Washington University
Title:"Climate Informatics: Algorithms, Advances, and Open Problems"
Host: Blair D. Sullivan, CSC
Location: 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Friday November 20, 2015
11:00 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Nikos Pitsianis, Computer Science, Duke University
Title:"Architectural and Combinatorial Aspects of the Adaptive Fast Multipole Method in its Parallel Versions"
Host: Xipeng Shen, CSC
Location: 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Thursday November 19, 2015
11:00 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Andrew Wilson, Sandia National Laboratory
Title:"Finding Needles in Airborne Haystacks"
Host: Dr. Christopher G. Healey, CSC
Location: 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Tuesday November 17, 2015
05:30 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Vivek Wadhwa, Tech Entrepreneur, Academic, Researcher, and Writer
Title:"Our Star Trek Future and Why it is Time to Become an Entrepreneur"
Host: ,
Location: Auditorium, Hunt Library,
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Monday November 16, 2015
04:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Rajit Manohar, Cornell University
Title:"Large-Scale Neuromorphic Systems"
Host: Montek Singh, UNC
Location: 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Thursday November 12, 2015
10:00 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Adina Crainiceanu, US Naval Academy
Title:"The SQL SELECT statement"
Host: Dr. Mladen Vouk, CSC
Location: 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Wednesday November 11, 2015
09:30 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Jason King, NCSU - CSC
Title:"Improving Student Experience and teaching Staff Efficiency using Innovative Technology"
Host: Dr. Dennis Bahler, CSC
Location: 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Monday November 02, 2015
11:00 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Jeremy Kun, Mathematics, University of Illinois, Chicago
Title:"Resilience and new approaches to approximate graph coloring "
Host: Blair D. Sullivan, CSC
Location: 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Tuesday October 27, 2015
06:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Scot Wingo, Executive Chairman, Chairman of the Board and Co-Founder. ChannelAdvisor
Title:"From Aiken to IPO, the 20 Year Journey of a Serial Entrepreneur"
Host: ,
Location: 1231, EB2,
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Monday October 19, 2015
04:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Vijay Kumar, University of Pennsylvania
Title:"Aerial Robot Swarms"
Host: Ming Lin, UNC
Location: 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Thursday October 15, 2015
11:00 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Mark Hoemmen, Sandia National Laboratories
Title:"Kokkos: Manycore performance portability, for both applications and researchers "
Host: Frank Mueller, CSC
Location: 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Monday October 05, 2015
11:00 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Dana Randall, Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology
Title:"Phase Transitions in Random Structures and Sampling Algorithms"
Host: Blair D. Sullivan, CSC
Location: 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Tuesday September 29, 2015
11:00 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Michael Gaidis, Samsung
Title:"Research at the Samsung Memory Solutions Lab"
Host: Frank Mueller, CSC
Location: 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Monday September 28, 2015
04:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Johannes Gehrke, Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft & Tisch University Professor, Cornell University
Title:"Deferring Transactions for Fun and Profit"
Host: Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Duke
Location: 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Tuesday September 15, 2015
06:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Tim McKnight, Chief Information Security Officer, GE
Title:"The Internet of Things - Place your Bets Now!"
Host: ,
Location: 1231, EB2,
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