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Events for 2012

JAN
06
2012
Solid-State and Nano Seminar
Infrared Imaging Using Carbon Nanotube (CNT) Based Detectors: From Design to Manufacturing
Professor Ning Xi, Professor, Michigan State University
JAN
09
2012
Other Event
Faculty Seminar Series–On the Rules of Robust Design (and Why You Should Break Them)
Todd Austin, Professor
JAN
09
2012
Systems Seminar – CSE
Visualizing Time and Sequence Data
Graham Wills, Visualization Architect and Principal Software Engineer, IBM
JAN
10
2012
AI Seminar
Developing novel methods of communication for individuals with severe disabilities using patterns of physiological signals
Stefanie Moraes, NIDRR Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan
JAN
11
2012
Other Event
Research Group on Quantum Communication – Planning Session
JAN
16
2012
Solid-State and Nano Seminar
EM.CUBE Workshop
Dr. Kaz Sabet
JAN
18
2012
Other Event
Research Group on Quantum Communication
JAN
20
2012
Solid-State and Nano Seminar
Electrowetting Enables New Capabilities for Lab-On-Chip, Optics, E-Paper, and Beyond… (NIMSA Seminar)
Jason Heikenfeld, Professor, University of Cincinnati
JAN
20
2012
Systems Seminar – CSE
Iago Attacks: Why The System Call API Is a Bad Untrusted RPC Interface
Hovav Shacham, Assistant Professor, University of California, San Diego
JAN
25
2012
Solid-State and Nano Seminar
Circuits and Systems for Real-Time Neurochemical Sensing and Activity-Dependent Intracortical Microstimulation
Professor Pedram Mohseni, Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University
JAN
25
2012
Other Event
Research Group on Quantum Communication
JAN
25
2012
CSE Seminar
Physically Plausible Human Motion Understanding for Human-Robot Teams
Chad Jenkins, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Brown University
JAN
27
2012
Solid-State and Nano Seminar
The Good Life: Senses as Motivators for Technology
Prof. Jasprit Singh, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
JAN
31
2012
AI Seminar
Perspective on Link Prediction
Nitesh Chawla, Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame
FEB
01
2012
Other Event
Research Group on Quantum Communication
FEB
02
2012
CSE Seminar
Coordinating Hundreds of Autonomous Vehicles in Warehouses
Peter Wurman, Chief Technology Officer and Technical Co-Founder, Kiva Systems
FEB
03
2012
Solid-State and Nano Seminar
Semiconductors and the Age of Intelligence
Jasprit Singh, Professor, EECS and Applied Physics
FEB
06
2012
CSE Seminar
The Battle for Control of Online Communications
Nick Feamster, Associate Professor, Georgia Tech
FEB
08
2012
Other Event
Research Group on Quantum Communication
FEB
14
2012
AI Seminar
Energy-Aware Flight Planning for Unattended Unmanned Seaplane Operation
Ella Atkins, Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan
FEB
15
2012
Other Event
Research Group on Quantum Communication
FEB
15
2012
Systems Seminar – ECE
Partial Least Squares Methods: from regularized regression to structural equation models
Laura Trinchera, Professor, AgroParisTech
FEB
17
2012
Computer Engineering Seminar
Its All about the Memory (again)
Christos Kozyrakis, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Stanford University
FEB
17
2012
Control Seminar
Discontinuous Feedback in Nonlinear Control
Yuri Ledyaev, Professor , Western Michigan University – Mathematics Department
FEB
20
2012
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Structure and Randomness in Complex Systems
Shachar Lovett, Post Doc, Institute for Advanced Studies
FEB
21
2012
Dissertation Defense
Systems for Challenged Network Environments
Azarias Reda
FEB
21
2012
Other Event
ISSCC 2012 Alumni and Friends Mixer
FEB
22
2012
Other Event
Research Group on Quantum Communication
FEB
22
2012
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Very Fast Approximation Algorithms for Big Graphs
Krzysztof Onak, Simons Postdoctoral Fellow, CMU, Carnegie Mellon University
FEB
23
2012
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Variational Bayesian Methods for Unsupervised Latent Factor Models of Text and Audio
Matt Hoffman, Postdoctoral Researcher, Columbia University
MAR
05
2012
CSE Seminar
Your Abstractions are Powerless! Perpetual Computation on Intermittently Powered Embedded Systems (Batteries Not Included)
Kevin Fu, Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
MAR
06
2012
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Why and How: A Reverse Perspective on Data Management
Alexandra Meliou, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Washington
MAR
07
2012
CSE Seminar
How Drugs Bind and Control Their Targets: Characterizing GPCR Signaling using Anton, a Special-Purpose Supercomputer for Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Ron Dror, Senior Research Scientist, D. E. Shaw Research
MAR
12
2012
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Deterministic Parallel Java
Robert Bocchino, Post-Doc, Carnegie Mellon
MAR
14
2012
Other Event
Research Group on Quantum Communication
MAR
14
2012
Faculty Candidate Seminar
No Free Lunch in Data Privacy
Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Senior Research Scientist, Yahoo! Research
MAR
15
2012
CSE Seminar
The Critical Role of Programming Models in Future Exascale Systems
Jeffrey Vetter, R&D Staff Member and Group Leader, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
MAR
16
2012
Other Event
Facebook Hackathon
MAR
19
2012
Other Event
Recent work in Audio Source Separation and Adaptive Audio Interfaces
Bryan Pardo, Associate Professor, Northwestern University
MAR
19
2012
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Toward Richer Visual Recognition: Attributes, Visual Phrases, and Sentences
Ali Farhadi, Post-Doc Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University
MAR
20
2012
Other Event
iOS Student Apps Showcase
MAR
21
2012
Other Event
Research Group on Quantum Communication
MAR
21
2012
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Discovering Social Network Structure
Grant Schoenebeck, Simons Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Princeton University
MAR
22
2012
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Crowd-Powered Systems
Michael Bernstein, Ph.D. Candidate, MIT
MAR
26
2012
Distinguished Lecture | Women in Computing
Distributed Algorithms for Wireless Networks
Nancy Lynch, NEC Professor of Software Science & Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MAR
27
2012
Computer Engineering Seminar
Evolving Methodologies in Electronic Design Automation
Prof. Zainalabedin Navabi, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering , Worcester Polytechnic Institute and University of Tehran
MAR
27
2012
Faculty Candidate Seminar
SEEC: A Framework for the Self-aware Management of Goals and Constraints in Modern Computing Systems
Hank Hoffmann, Ph.D. Candidate, MIT
MAR
28
2012
Other Event
Research Group on Quantum Communication
MAR
29
2012
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Expanding Capabilities for Functional Encryption
Allison Bishop Lewko, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Texas at Austin
APR
02
2012
CSE Seminar
Visualization and Interactive Data Analysis
Jeffrey Heer, Assistant Professor, Stanford
APR
03
2012
AI Seminar
From Contextual Search to Automatic Content Generation: Scaling Human Editorial Judgment
Larry Birnbaum, Associate Professor, Knight News Innovation Laboratory, Northwestern University
APR
04
2012
Other Event
Research Group on Quantum Communication
APR
04
2012
Dissertation Defense
Correct Communication in Multi-Core Processors
Andrew DeOrio
APR
10
2012
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Modeling People from Billions of Photos
Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, Post-Doc Researcher, University of Washington
APR
11
2012
Other Event
Research Group on Quantum Communication
APR
13
2012
Dissertation Defense
Characterization and Optimization of Resource Utilization for Cellular Networks
Feng Qian
APR
13
2012
Dissertation Defense
Scalable Interconnect Architectures for Many-Core Systems
Korey LaMar Sewell
APR
13
2012
Dissertation Defense
Discover, Analyze, and Validate Attacks With Introspective Side Channels
Zhiyun Qian
APR
16
2012
Dissertation Defense
Wireless Testing of Integrated Circuits
Dae Young Lee
APR
16
2012
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Scaling Software and Hardware for Thousand-Core Systmes
Daniel Sanchez, PhD Candidate, Stanford University
APR
18
2012
Other Event
Event: 3rd U-M Workshop on Data Mining
APR
18
2012
Other Event
Research Group on Quantum Communication
APR
18
2012
Distinguished Lecture
Statistics and Computation in the Age of Massive Data
Michael I. Jordan, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
APR
24
2012
Dissertation Defense
Effective and Efficient Memory for Generally Intelligent Agents
Nathaniel L. Derbinsky
APR
24
2012
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Whats Wrong with the Program I Havent Written Yet?
Yuriy Brun, Post Doc Fellow, University of Washington
APR
25
2012
Computer Engineering Seminar
Efficient and Predictable Execution of Object-Oriented Code on the SHAP Platform
Thomas Preusser, Researcher and Lecturer, Technische Universitt Dresden
APR
26
2012
AI Seminar
Towards a Graphical Cognitive Architecture for Virtual Humans (and Intelligent Agents/Robots)
Paul S. Rosenbloom, University of Southern California
APR
26
2012
Other Event
Interconnects for Signal Processing
Ernest Kuh, William S. Floyd, Jr. Professor Emeritus, University of California-Berkeley
APR
30
2012
Dissertation Defense
The Analysis, Modeling and Detection of Botnet-based Hosting Services and Future Threats
Matthew S. Knysz
MAY
03
2012
Dissertation Defense
Interface Design Implications for Recalling the Spatial Configuration of Virtual Auditory Environments
Kyla Alanna McMullen
MAY
04
2012
Dissertation Defense
Improving Software Configuration Troubleshooting with Causality Analysis
Mona Attariyan
MAY
07
2012
Dissertation Defense
Speculative Execution Across Layers
Benjamin James Wester
MAY
10
2012
Dissertation Defense
Hardware Mechanisms for Distributed Dynamic Software Analysis
Joseph Lee Greathouse
MAY
16
2012
Other Event
Research Group on Quantum Communication
MAY
18
2012
Other Event
SID MEIER VIDEO GAME SHOWCASE
MAY
23
2012
Other Event
Research Group on Quantum Communication
MAY
25
2012
Systems Seminar – ECE
Sparse image representation in nonlocal transform domain
Alessandro Foi, Professor , Tampere University of Technology, Finland
MAY
28
2012
Dissertation Defense
Provenance in Modifiable Datasets
Jing Zhang
JUN
06
2012
Other Event
Research Group on Quantum Communication
JUN
13
2012
Other Event
Online learning and assessment for mathematics and computer science: the future?
John E. Gilbert, Professor of Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin
JUN
13
2012
Other Event
Research Group on Quantum Communication
JUN
15
2012
Dissertation Defense
Probabilistic Methods for Analyzing and Simulating Digital Circuits
Chien-Chih Yu
JUN
20
2012
Other Event
Research Group on Quantum Communication
JUN
27
2012
Other Event
Research Group on Quantum Communication
JUL
05
2012
Other Event
Research Group on Quantum Communication
JUL
09
2012
Dissertation Defense
MAC/PHY Co-Design of CSMA Wireless Networks Using Software Radios
Xinyu Zhang
JUL
11
2012
Other Event
Research Group on Quantum Communication
JUL
16
2012
Dissertation Defense
Distributed Approaches for Solving Constraint-based Multiagent Scheduling Problems
James C. Boerkoel, Jr.
JUL
18
2012
Other Event
Research Group on Quantum Communication
JUL
20
2012
AI Seminar
Explicit Semantic Analysis: Wikipedia-based Semantics for Natural Language Processing
Shaul Markovitch, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
JUL
20
2012
Dissertation Defense
Graphical Multiagent Models
Quang A. Duong
JUL
20
2012
Dissertation Defense
Using Collective Discourse to Generate Surveys of Scientific Paradigms
Vahed Qazvinian
JUL
30
2012
Other Event
Coding, Complexity and Sparsity Workshop (July 30–August 2)
AUG
03
2012
Dissertation Defense
Power, Interconnect, and Reliability Techniques for Large Scale Integrated Circuits
David Fick
AUG
08
2012
Other Event
Research Group on Quantum Communication
AUG
14
2012
Dissertation Defense
Security and Collaboration Protocols for Mobile and Sensor Networks
Katharine Chang
AUG
15
2012
Other Event
Research Group on Quantum Communication
AUG
16
2012
Dissertation Defense
Multi-objective Placement Optimization For High-performance Nanoscale Integrated Circuits
Myung-Chul Kim
AUG
21
2012
Other Event
CS4HS Summer Workshop for High School Teachers
AUG
22
2012
Other Event
Research Group on Quantum Communication
SEP
07
2012
Theory Seminar
Introductions and organizational meeting
Theory faculty
SEP
11
2012
AI Seminar
New AI student orientation
AI faculty
SEP
12
2012
Other Event
Research Group on Quantum Communication
SEP
12
2012
Other Event
The Power of Examples
Scott Klemmer, Associate Professor, Computer Science, Stanford University
SEP
14
2012
Solid-State and Nano Seminar
Chemically Enhanced Carbon Nanomaterials for Electronics, Energy, and Medicine
Mark C. Hersam, Professor, Northwestern University
SEP
14
2012
Theory Seminar
Introductions, continued
Theory faculty
SEP
18
2012
AI Seminar
Determinantal Point Processes: Representation, Inference, and Learning
Alex Kulesza
SEP
18
2012
MICL Seminar
Beyond the Cloud Key Technologies and Challenges
Ajith Amerasekera, Director of Kilby Labs, Texas Intruments
SEP
19
2012
Other Event
Research Group on Quantum Communication
SEP
21
2012
Theory Seminar
Unconditional hardness results for semi-definite programs: integrality gaps for the Lasserre hierarchy
Grant Schoenebeck, U-M
SEP
24
2012
Systems Seminar – CSE
The Rise of Smart Systems
Dr. Stan Schneider, CEO, Real-Time Innovations (RTI)
SEP
24
2012
Systems Seminar – CSE
The Great Indoors: The Next Frontier in Location-Based Services
Dr. Rajarshi Gupta, Senior Staff Engineer and Manager, Qualcomm Research
SEP
24
2012
Systems Seminar – CSE
Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Info Session
Dr. Rajarshi Gupta, Senior Staff Engineer and Manager, Qualcomm Research
SEP
25
2012
AI Seminar
How should a robot perceive the world?
Ashutosh Saxena, Assistant Professor, Cornell University
SEP
26
2012
Other Event
Research Group on Quantum Communication
SEP
26
2012
MICL Seminar
Wire line channels and equalization techniques for data transmission at speeds 10Gps and above
Dr. Jun Cao, Senior Design Manager, Broadcom
SEP
28
2012
Theory Seminar
TBD–possibly cancelled
SEP
28
2012
Other Event
Event: 48-Hour Mobile Apps Hackathon
OCT
02
2012
AI Seminar
Collaborative Robot Tracking of Geophysical Flows: How Local Measurements Discover Global Structures
M. Ani Hsieh, Assistant Professor, Drexel University
OCT
03
2012
Other Event
Research Group on Quantum Communication
OCT
05
2012
Theory Seminar
Symmetry and Satisfiability: An Update
Karem A. Sakallah, Prof., U-M
OCT
05
2012
Other Event
Barracuda Networks Programming Competition
OCT
09
2012
AI Seminar
Strategic Reasoning about Network Formation Scenarios
Michael Wellman
OCT
10
2012
Other Event
Research Group on Quantum Communication
OCT
11
2012
Other Event
EECS Alumni Career Panel
4 Distinguished Alumni
OCT
12
2012
Distinguished Lecture
Inmates vs Asylum: Overtime
Krisztian Flautner, CSE Merit Award Winner Lecture, Vice President for R&D, ARM, Inc.
OCT
17
2012
Other Event
Research Group on Quantum Communication
OCT
19
2012
Theory Seminar
Bankruptcy in Byzantium
Maxwell Young, U-M
OCT
19
2012
Distinguished Lecture
Computer Science: Past, Present, and Future
Ed Lazowska, Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington and Chair, Computing Community Consortium
OCT
22
2012
Systems Seminar – CSE
The Impact of Big Data and IoT on Service and Network Management
Ammar Rayes, Ph.D., Distinguished Engineer, Sunil Kripalani, Vice President, Cisco Services Technology Group
OCT
23
2012
Dissertation Defense
Zydeco: Exploring How Mobile Technology Can Scaffold Student Multimedia Data Collection and Use for Science Inquiry
Alexander Christopher Kuhn
OCT
24
2012
Other Event
Research Group on Quantum Communication
OCT
24
2012
Distinguished Lecture
Making Parallelism Easy: A 25 Year Odyssey
Kunle Olukotun – Rackham Centennial Lecture, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science & Director, Pervasive Parallelism Laboratory at Stanford University, Stanford University
OCT
26
2012
Theory Seminar
New Approaches to Constructing Locally Decodable Codes
Brett Hemenway, U-M
OCT
30
2012
Dissertation Defense
High-performance Global Routing for Trillion-gate Systems-on-Chips
Jin Hu
OCT
30
2012
AI Seminar
Learning Language from its Perceptual Context
Raymond J. Mooney, Professor, University of Texas at Austin
NOV
02
2012
Computer Engineering Seminar
Disciplined Approximate Computing: From Language to Hardware
ACAL Seminar: Professor Luis Ceze, Associate Professor in Computer Science and Engineering Department , University of Washington
NOV
05
2012
Other Event
Patrick C. Fischer Professorship Symposium
NOV
05
2012
MICL Seminar
Its About Time! (Making Best Use of Information in Time)
Un-Ku Moon, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Oregon State University
NOV
06
2012
AI Seminar
Emotions in Engineering: Methods for the Interpretation of Ambiguous Emotional Content
Emily Mower Provost
NOV
07
2012
Other Event
Research Group on Quantum Communication
NOV
09
2012
Theory Seminar
Constructive Discrepancy Minimization by Walking on the Edges
Hsin-Hao Su, U-M
NOV
09
2012
Other Event
WOWZAPP Worldwide Hackathon for Windows
NOV
12
2012
Systems Seminar – CSE
Modular Programming for Software Defined Networks
Dr. Joshua Reich, Postdoctoral Researcher, Princeton University
NOV
12
2012
Other Event
CSE Graduate Honors Competition
NOV
13
2012
AI Seminar
Learning Invariant and Robust Representations
Honglak Lee
NOV
14
2012
Other Event
Research Group on Quantum Communication
NOV
15
2012
Systems Seminar – CSE
Flat Datacenter Storage
Ed Nightingale, Architect, Online Services Division (OSD) at Microsoft
NOV
19
2012
MICL Seminar
Ubiquity of Wireless Sensor Nodes What are the Practical Challenges to Make it Happen?
Gangadhar Burra, Director of the Sensor Platform Group in Kilby Labs , Texas Intruments
NOV
20
2012
AI Seminar
Max mixtures: from reliable mapping to camera calibration
Edwin Olson
NOV
20
2012
CSE Seminar
Gamification
Sid Meier, Co-Founder and Director of Creative Development, Firaxis Games
NOV
28
2012
Quantum Science Seminar
Multipartite Entanglement: Classification, Quantification, Manipulation, and Evolution
Gilad Gour, University of Calgary
NOV
28
2012
Other Event
The Netflix Content Delivery System
Scott Long, Netflix
DEC
03
2012
Other Event
Computer Science Education Week
DEC
03
2012
Theory Seminar
Locally-Decodable Codes
Brett Hemenway, U-M
DEC
04
2012
AI Seminar
Commitments and Responsibilities in Multiagent Systems
Ed Durfee
DEC
05
2012
Quantum Science Seminar
Research Group on Quantum Communication
DEC
11
2012
AI Seminar
Laplacian Low-Rank Correction: A Generalizable Approach to Incorporating Manifold Regularization Across Applications
Zahi Karam
DEC
12
2012
Quantum Science Seminar
Research Group on Quantum Communication
DEC
14
2012
Other Event
Event: 2012 Computer Games Showcase