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 More details |
| 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 More details |
| 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 More details |
| 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 More details |
| 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 More details |
| 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 More details |
| 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 More details |
| 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 More details |
| 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 More details |
| 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 More details |
| 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 More details |
| 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 More details |
| 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 More details |
| 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 More details |
| 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, More details |
| 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 More details |
| 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 More details |
| 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 More details |
| 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 More details |
| 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 More details |
| 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 More details |
| 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 More details |
| 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 More details |
| 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 More details |
| 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 More details |
| 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 More details |
| 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 More details |
| 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 More details |
| 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, More details |
| 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 More details |
| 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 More details |
| 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 More details |
| 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 More details |
| 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 More details |
| 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 More details |
| 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 More details |
| 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, More details |
| 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 More details |
| 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 More details |
| 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 More details |
| Monday November 23, 2015 03:30 PM (talk begins) |
Speaker: Mahmoud Parsian,
Illumina, Inc Title:"Introduction to Hadoop Map/Reduce and Spark" Limited Seating! (RSVP via email to compsci-gsa@ncsu.edu)" Host: Frank Mueller, CSC Location: 3211, EBII, NCSU Centennial Campus More details |
| 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 More details |
| 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 More details |
| 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 More details |
| 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, More details |
| 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 More details |
| 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 More details |
| 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 More details |
| 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 More details |
| 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, More details |
| 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 More details |
| 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 More details |
| 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 More details |
| 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 More details |
| 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 More details |
| 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, More details |