Events Archive: 2011 - Jack Baskin School of Engineering

Label-free DNA Sequencing: Progress Towards the $100 Genome
Dr. Javier Farinas, Caerus Molecular Diagnostics
Thursday, January 6, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM, Physical Sciences Building, Room 240
Confidence distribution and a Frequentist Approach to Incorporate Expert Opinions
Professor Minge Xie, Rutgers University
Monday, January 10, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Patent Fundamentals for Engineers - Transform Your Ideas into Fame and Fortune
Robert Blumberg
Tuesday, January 11, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 215
Zintl Phases as High Temperature Thermoelectric Materials
Susan M. Kauzlarich
Tuesday, January 11, 2011, 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 599
Discriminative Learning for Expert Search
Dr. Luo Si, Purdue University
Tuesday, January 11, 2011, 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 475
Digital, multiplexed measurements using color-coded molecular barcodes: Validation of whole-genome mRNA, miRNA and copy number data.
Dr. Gary K. Geiss, NanoString Technologies
Thursday, January 13, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
The Demand Side: What Behavioral Patterns Stand in the Way?
Jim Sweeney, Stanford University
Tuesday, January 18, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
High Performance Computing Challenges for Magnetic Fusion Simulations
Eric Sonnendrucker, UniversitÃ© de Strasbourg
Tuesday, January 18, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
Google Info-Session on New Mobile Android Development
Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
T cell receptor repertoire profiling identifies a public sequence that correlate with the disease activity in a Multiple Sclerosis mouse model
Dr. Malek Faham, Sequenta
Thursday, January 20, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Noise estimation and removal in MR imaging: the variance-stabilization approach
Alessandro Foi, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Thursday, January 20, 2011, 2:30 PM to 5:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 215
Measuring the Usability of Thermostats and Other Really Annoying Devices
Alan Meier
Friday, January 21, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 553
The Development of High-Order Accurate and Scalable Models for the Atmosphere and Ocean
Prof. Frank Giraldo, Department of Applied Mathematics, Naval Postgraduate School
Monday, January 24, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Patenting at UCSC - Making the UCSC Patenting System Work for You
Robert Blumberg
Tuesday, January 25, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 215
Inventing the Future of IT: Large-Scale Interdisciplinary Projects in Energy, TeleMedicine, Intelligent Infrastructures and New Media
Professor Paul Wright
Tuesday, January 25, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 599
The Impact of Health 2.0
Matthew Holt [Co-Founder of the Health 2.0 Conference]
Wednesday, January 26, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
Ultra-high density multi-dimensional optical data storage
Dr. Xiangping Li, Centre for Micro-Photonics, Swinburne University of Technology
Thursday, January 27, 2011, 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM, Engineering 2, Room 399
Ultra-deep, Ultra-broad Sequencing
Dr. Chunlin Wang, Stanford Genome Technology
Thursday, January 27, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM, Physical Sciences Building, Room 240
CITRIS White Paper Competition
Friday, January 28, 2011, 9:00 AM to 9:00 AM, Engineering 2, Room 595
The role of L1 retrotransposition in human genomic variability
Adam D. Ewing: The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Friday, January 28, 2011, 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM, Engineering 2, Room 599
John Romero talks about Social Game Space
John Romero, Gazillion Entertainment
Friday, January 28, 2011, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Selling Random Energy
Kameshwar Poolla, UC Berkeley
Friday, January 28, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
Global Game Jam Kickoff: Brenda Brathwaite, Graeme Devine, and Tom Lehmann
Brenda Brathwaite, lolapps; Graeme Devine, Independent Developer; Tom Lehmann, Freelance Designer
Friday, January 28, 2011, 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
TBD
Dr. Alexander Braunstein, Google
Monday, January 31, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
The Fifth Sense: Innovation Powered by Purpose
Adam Werbach [Chief Sustainability Officer, Saatchi & Saatchi]
Wednesday, February 2, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
On the Causes of Effects
Professor Stephen E. Fienberg, Dept. of Statistics, and Machine Learning Dept, Carnegie Mellon
Wednesday, February 2, 2011, 2:00 PM to 3:15 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
On the Causes of Effects
Stephen E. Fienberg, Professor of Statistics and Social Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Wednesday, February 2, 2011, 2:00 PM to 3:15 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
The blessing and the curse of the multiplicative updates - discusses connections between in vitro selection, and the multiplicative updates of online learning
Professor Manfred Warmuth, Department of Computer Science, UC Santa Cruz
Thursday, February 3, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM, Physical Sciences Building, Room 240
Plausible Futures for Electric Grid Architecture: A Scenario Planning Exercise
Merwin Brown, CIEE
Friday, February 4, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
Principal Component Analysis in noisy high dimensional settings and applications to signal detection
Boaz Nadler, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Monday, February 7, 2011, 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 280
Bayesian Time Series Analysis of Stock Selection Strategies
Dr. Omar Aguilar, Vice President and Head of Portfolio Management, Financial Engines
Monday, February 7, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Commercializing Your Research - So You've Got Your Idea...Now What?
Bill Richter
Tuesday, February 8, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 215
Cities and Computers: Their Architecture
Forrest Warthman
Wednesday, February 9, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
DISSERTATION DEFENSE: Program Inconsistency Detection: Universal Reachability Analysis and Conditional Slicing
Aaron Tomb
Wednesday, February 9, 2011, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 399
Centromere Satellite Domains: A view from the unassembled edge of the genome
Karen Hayden: Institute for Genome Science and Policy, Duke University
Wednesday, February 9, 2011, 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 599
Cyber Certainty - A glimpse of a secure cyber future
Edward B. Talbot, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore CA
Thursday, February 10, 2011, 10:00 AM to 11:45 AM, Baskin Engineering, Room 165
Electrowetting - Moving droplets for lab-on-a-chip applications
Dr. Peter Griffin, Stanford University
Thursday, February 10, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Physical Sciences Building, Room 240
Synchrophasors: How They Are Making the Grid Smarter
Lloyd Cibulka
Friday, February 11, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
The Future of Our Pasts: A New View of Lifelogging Technology
Professor Steve Whittaker, UCSC Psychology
Monday, February 14, 2011, 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
Earthquakes Triggered by Seismic Waves
Emily E. Brodsky, Associate Professor of Geophysics, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, UCSC
Monday, February 14, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Improving Peoples Behaviors and Body Weight
Gladys Block
Wednesday, February 16, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
Mechanisms Controlling Epigenetic Programming and the Transcriptional Response to Stress
Dr. Beverly Emerson, The Salk Institute
Thursday, February 17, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Physical Sciences Building, Room 240
Detection of copy number variation from targeted next-generation sequencing data
Alex Nord: Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington
Friday, February 18, 2011, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 599
The Demand Side: What Behavioral Patterns Stand in the Way?
Jim Sweeney
Friday, February 18, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
Tech transfer and spinout: Intro to UCSC's new Center for Entrepreneurship
Dan Heller
Tuesday, February 22, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 215
Our Unseen Prison
Theodor Holm Nelson
Wednesday, February 23, 2011, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 599
Towards Digital Medicine: Patient-Specific Models of the Heart
Herve Delingette
Wednesday, February 23, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
Evolution in Cancer
Dr. Carlo C. Maley, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
Thursday, February 24, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM, Physical Sciences Building, Room 240
Policy Analysis
Kathi Fisler, WPI
Friday, February 25, 2011, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 397
Why Fluorescent Lighting Isnt Dead
Francis Rubenstein
Friday, February 25, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
MEAN-SHIFT ALGORITHMS FOR CLUSTERING AND MANIFOLD DENOISING
Dr. Miguel A. Carreira-Perpinan, EECS, UC Merced
Monday, February 28, 2011, 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 215
Ensemble Synthesis of Decentralized Controllers for Large-Scale Multi-Robot Systems
M. Ani Hsieh, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics Department, Drexel University
Monday, February 28, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Ensemble Synthesis of Decentralized Controllers for Large-Scale Multi-Robot Systems
M. Ani Hsieh, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics Department, Drexel University
Monday, February 28, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
DISSERTATION DEFENSE: Indoor/Outdoor Range Measurement and Plane Detection via Active Triangulation
David Ilstrup
Tuesday, March 1, 2011, 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 215
Creating, Maximizing, and Protecting the Value of Your Idea - How to Avoid the Most Common Mistakes and Failures that Affect Startups
Bill Richter
Tuesday, March 1, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 599
The Quantified Self: The Practice of Personal Science
Gary Wolf
Wednesday, March 2, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
Computers as a tool for social change
Professor Manfred Warmuth
Wednesday, March 2, 2011, 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
PeakRanger: A cloud-enabled peak caller for ChIP-seq data
Xin Feng: Ontario Institute of Cancer Research
Thursday, March 3, 2011, 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM, Engineering 2, Room 506
Data management for the first million human genomes
Dr. Andreas Sundquist, CEO and Co-founder of DNAnexus
Thursday, March 3, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Physical Sciences Building, Room 240
A Primer to Competitive Electricity Markets: Smart Markets for a Smart Grid
Shmuel Oren
Friday, March 4, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
ADVANCEMENT TO CANDIDACY: Predicting Variable-Length Functional Outputs for Emulation of a NASA Flight Simulator
Yuning He
Friday, March 4, 2011, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM, Baskin Engineering, Room 330
DISSERTATION DEFENSE: Double-Diffusive Convection at High and Low Prandtl Numbers
Adrienne Traxler
Monday, March 7, 2011, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Baskin Engineering, Room 330
The Future of Disk Drives
Caio Villelo, Google Mountain View
Monday, March 7, 2011, 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 399
CITRIS White Paper Competition DEADLINE
Monday, March 7, 2011, 5:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 595
DISSERTATION DEFENSE: Bayesian Hierarchical Models in Characterizing Molecular Adaptation
Saheli Datta
Tuesday, March 8, 2011, 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM, Engineering 2, Room 215
Industry Funding for Senior Design Projects?
Paul Jones
Tuesday, March 8, 2011, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 599
Engineering Hope with Biomimetic Microelectronic Systems
Wentai Liu
Wednesday, March 9, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics Winter Lab Rotation talks
Andrew Holmes, Ed Liaw, Rob Gravell, Kaleem Khwaja, Sam Vohr, and Evan Paull
Thursday, March 10, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:45 PM, Physical Sciences Building, Room 240
Toward Discovering the 3D Geometrical and Semantic Structure of Objects and Scenes
Dr. Silvio Savarese, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Thursday, March 10, 2011, 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 215
Introduction to Mechatronics (CMPE118) Public Demo
Thursday, March 10, 2011, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM, Media Theater, Theater Arts Center, UC Santa Cruz
The Printing of Energy Scavenging and Storage Devices
James Evans
Friday, March 11, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
CMPS 171 Senior Design Projects
Friday, March 11, 2011, 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Google Innovation: Culture and Practices
Dan Russell
Wednesday, March 16, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
Optofluidics: Directing light for nanoscale transport in fluids
Dr. Allen HJ Yang, Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies, UC Santa Barbara
Thursday, March 17, 2011, 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 215
BME 123B and CMPE 123B Senior Design Projects and Theses
Thursday, March 17, 2011, 4:30 PM to 10:30 PM, Engineering 2, Second Floor Hallway; Engineering 2, Room 180
High Performance Computing Challenges for Magnetic Fusion Simulations
Eric Sonnendrucker, Universite de Strasbourg
Friday, March 18, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
CMPS 191 Introduction/Organization
Professor Marilyn Walker
Wednesday, March 30, 2011, 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Fabricating Organic, Active Matrix Display Backplanes for Paper-like Displays and Flexible Sensors
Ana Arias
Wednesday, March 30, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
Nanopore Analysis of Nucleic Acids
Research Professor David Deamer and Professor Mark Akeson
Thursday, March 31, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:45 PM, Physical Sciences Building, Room 305
Towards Brain Computer Interfacing
Dr. Klaus-Robert Mueller, Technical University Berlin, Bernstein Focus Neurotechnology Berlin
Friday, April 1, 2011, 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 599
California Smart Grid Center: Education Opportunities in Power Engineering and Certificate Programs
Emir Macari and Suresh Vadhva
Friday, April 1, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
Noise Attenuation in Biological Systems
Dr. Qing Nie, Professor, Dept. of Mathematics, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, UC Irvine
Monday, April 4, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Eningeering 2, Room 180
Facing the Machine: Digital Faces and Avatar Computing
Prof. Zhigang Deng, Department of Computer Science, University of Houston
Wednesday, April 6, 2011, 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 399
Speak 4 It
Dr. Patrick Ehlen, AT&T Yellow Pages
Wednesday, April 6, 2011, 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Animating People You Know: Building Character Systems with Personality
Michael Neff
Wednesday, April 6, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
Extremophiles: distribution, evolution and applications in biotechnology
Lynn Rothschild, NASA Ames Research Center
Thursday, April 7, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:45 PM, Physical Sciences Building, Room 305
Quantifying Design: Finding Hard Answers to Soft Problems
Carl Schnurr
Thursday, April 7, 2011, 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM, Natural Science Annex Room 101
Emerging Cyber Security Issues of the Smart Grid
Isaac Ghansah, CSUS
Friday, April 8, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
Banana Slug Lecture
Graham Ruby, University of California, San Francisco
Monday, April 11, 2011, 2:00 PM to 3:10 PM, Physical Sciences Building, Room 305
A Mathematical Framework for Density Dependent Population
Todd L. Parsons, Research Associate, Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania
Monday, April 11, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
The Future of Our Pasts: Abstracting Information From Complete Records of Our Lives
Professor Steve Whittaker, Department of Psychology, UC Santa Cruz
Wednesday, April 13, 2011, 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Integration of Media Content with the Moving Body in Performance
Lisa Wymore
Wednesday, April 13, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
Banana Slug Lecture
Dan Zerbino, UCSC
Wednesday, April 13, 2011, 2:00 PM to 3:10 PM, Physical Sciences Building, Room 305
Viruses at the extreme - a few tales of discovery
Dr. David Bernick, Biomolecular Engineering
Thursday, April 14, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:45 PM, Physical Sciences Building, Room 305
Facebook Talks
Mohan Srinivasan, Facebook; Paddy Ganti, Facebook
Thursday, April 14, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
DISSERTATION DEFENSE: Analysis of Experiment for the Reconstruction of a Bond Potential
Christopher Simon
Friday, April 15, 2011, 8:30 AM to 10:30 AM, Baskin Engineering, Room 330
Entirely New and Better Approaches to Conditioning Buildings
Ed Arens, UC Berkeley
Friday, April 15, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
A Bayesian Approach to Vevea & Hedges' Weight-Function Model for Publication Bias
Dr. Jack L. Vevea, Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, UC Merced
Monday, April 18, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Structuring your scientific paper
Dr. Jean-luc Doumont
Tuesday, April 19, 2011, 10:00 AM to 11:45 AM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Expressive Processing
Associate Professor Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Computer Science Department, UC Santa Cruz
Wednesday, April 20, 2011, 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Technology and Disability in the Developing World: An Urgent Agenda for Low-cost Asssitive Technology
Joyojeet Pal
Wednesday, April 20, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
Non-coding RNA Discovery in Extremophilic Archaea
Dr. Todd Lowe, Associate Professor, Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz
Thursday, April 21, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:45 PM, Physical Sciences Building, Room 305
Exploring the Potential and Contribution of Waste for Reaching Zero Net Energy and Zero Landfill-waste at UC Merced
Gerardo Diaz, UC Merced
Friday, April 22, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
Heat Transport in Crystalline Alloys and Across Graphene Interfaces
Yee Kan Koh from Singapore National University
Monday, April 25, 2011, 1:45 PM to 3:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 280
Likelihood-based Climate Model Evaluation
Dr. Amy Braverman, Senior Statistician, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Monday, April 25, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
SystemT: an Algebraic Approach to Declarative Information Extraction
Dr. Yung Yao Li, IBM Almaden
Wednesday, April 27, 2011, 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Future of Robotics
Rich Mahoney
Wednesday, April 27, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
Relational Databases
Tim Gustafson
Wednesday, April 27, 2011, 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
High-Efficiency Thermoelectric Materials: New Design Strategies, New Applications
Joseph P. Heremans
Friday, April 29, 2011, 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM, Engineering 2, Room 599
Banana Slug Lecture
Janet Leonard and John Pearse
Friday, April 29, 2011, 2:00 PM to 3:10 PM, Physical Sciences Building, Room 305
SortaSQL: A Hybrid Model for Large Scale Databases
Ian Pye, Lead Analytics Engineer, CloudFlare, Inc.
Monday, May 2, 2011, 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 280
Hierarchical Mixtures and Conditional Dependence Models with Applications to Molecular Interrogation Data
Donatello Telesca, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biostatistics, UCLA
Monday, May 2, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Speech and Robotics at Honda Research Institute
Dr. Antoine Raux, Honda Research Institute, Mountain View
Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Fast, Automated, 3D Modeling of Building Interiors
Avideh Zakhor
Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
Arsenic "eating" and "breathing" prokaryotes: from mesophile to extremophile
Chad Saltikov, Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology Dept., University of California, Santa Cruz
Thursday, May 5, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:45 PM, Physical Sciences Building, Room 305
SELF-OPTIMIZING MICROPROCESSORS: A MACHINE LEARNING APPROACH
Professor Jose Martinez,Cornell University
Friday, May 6, 2011, 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 215
Integrating Database Systems and Data Mining Algorithms
Carlos Ordonez, Assistant Professor, University of Houston
Monday, May 9, 2011, 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 599
Density estimation via Quasi-Conformal mapping
Dr. Marc Coram, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Health Research & Policy, Stanford
Monday, May 9, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Two for the Price of One: A Model for Parallel and Incremental Computation
Thomas Ball, Microsoft Research
Tuesday, May 10, 2011, 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 280
Quantifying the uncertainty of pollutant loads in Great Barrier Reef catchments
Dr. Petra Kuhnert, Research Statistician, CSIRO Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics, Australia
Wednesday, May 11, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
An optofluidic chip for portable ultrasensitive virus detection
Dr. Philip Measor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz
Thursday, May 12, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:45 PM, Physical Sciences Building, Room 305
California-Denmark Summer School Research Program on Renewable Energy (LoCal-RE) 2011
Friday, May 13, 2011, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 595H
Mama Ludens vs Fanboi - What is wrong with the Gaming Revolution?
Assistant Professor Jessica Enevold, Lund University, Sweden; Managing Editor, "Game Studies"
Monday, May 16, 2011, 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 599
Fluid Dynamics of Ram and Suction Feeding Fishes
Professor Angela Cheer, Dept. of Mathematics, UC Davis
Monday, May 16, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
DEADLINE for California-Denmark Summer School Research Program on Renewable Energy (LoCal-RE) 2011
Monday, May 16, 2011, 4:00 PM to 4:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 595H
Large-Scale Data Mining Challenge in Facebook
Dr. Rong Yan, Facebook
Monday, May 16, 2011, 8:20 PM to 9:20 PM, Baskin Engineering, Room 156 (telecast); Room 2077, Bldg 19, UCSC Silicon Valley Center at NASA Ames
What will the games business look like in 5 years?
John Davison, VP of programming at CBS Interactive - GameSpot and Metacritic
Tuesday, May 17, 2011, 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM, Media Theater M110
Speech and Language Technologies for Language and Literacy
Dr. Patti Price. PPRICE Speech and Language Technology
Wednesday, May 18, 2011, 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
DISSERTATION DEFENSE: Interactive and Modular Design of Schema Mappings
Bogdan Alexe
Thursday, May 19, 2011, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 215
The chemotaxis signal transduction system of Helicobacter pylori and its role in disease.
Dr. Karen Ottemann, Chair, Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology, UC Santa Cruz
Thursday, May 19, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:45 PM, Physical Sciences Building, Room 305
DISSERTATION DEFENSE: Boosting in Location Space
Damian Eads
Thursday, May 19, 2011, 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 599
Moneta: A Fast Storage Array Architecture for Next-Generation Non-Volatile Memories
Dr. Steven Swanson, Assistant Professor, Deptartment of Computer Science and Engineering, UCSD
Thursday, May 19, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 399
Human Sexuality and Video Games
Damon Brown, journalist for Playboy, New York Post, Family Circle, and others
Friday, May 20, 2011, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Motion Planning for Computer Games, Animation and Beyond
Dr. Marcelo Kallmann
Friday, May 20, 2011, 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 280
Data assimilation and implicit sampling
Professor Alexandre Chorin, Dept. of Mathematics, UC Berkeley
Monday, May 23, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Data Management in the Cloud
Professor Amr El Abbadi, Computer Science Department, UC Santa Barbara
Tuesday, May 24, 2011, 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM, Baskin Engineering Building, Room 330
Diatom Nanotechnology and Nanofluidics
Dr. Richard Gordon University of Manitoba, Canada
Tuesday, May 24, 2011, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 280
GOstruct: Accurate Prediction of Protein Function
Dr. Artem Sokolov, Colorado State University
Wednesday, May 25, 2011, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 599
ADVANCEMENT TO CANDIDACY: Explorations of an Essentially-Nonlinear Dynamo Process
Ben Byington
Wednesday, May 25, 2011, 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 280
Data Science at LinkedIn: Turning Data into Products and Stories
Dr. Monica Rogati, LinkedIn
Thursday, May 26, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Baskin Engineering, Room 330
Solid State Nanopores: A window into the sub-microscopic world
Boaz Vilozny, Biomolecular Engineering, UC Sant Cruz
Thursday, May 26, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:45 PM, Physical Sciences Building, Room 305
DISSERTATION DEFENSE: Statistical Modeling for Dark Energy and Associated Cosmological Constants
Tracy Holsclaw
Friday, May 27, 2011, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
ADVANCEMENT TO CANDIDACY: Managing High-Bandwidth Real-Time Streaming Data
David Bigelow
Tuesday, May 31, 2011, 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 586
Love, Procedurally
Jane Pinckard, Associate Director, UCSC Center for Games and Playable Media
Tuesday, May 31, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Media Theater M110
Trust-based Search and Recommender Systems in a Networked Marketplace
Dr. Neel Sundaresan, EBAY Research
Wednesday, June 1, 2011, 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Systems approach to stem cell biology
Dr. Jun Seita, Institute for Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University
Thursday, June 2, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:45 PM, Physical Sciences Building, Room 305
Limiting Information Leakage in Event-based Communication
Willard Rafnsson
Friday, June 10, 2011, 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM, Engineering 2, Room 397
ADVANCEMENT TO CANDIDACY: Kodu AI Lab: Supporting Middle School Students in Expressing Themselves through Game Making
Teale Fristoe
Monday, June 13, 2011, 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 280
Proteomics: The ENCODE project
Morgan Giddings: Giddings Lab, Boise State
Monday, June 13, 2011, 2:00 PM to 2:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 599
Selection of tumor targeting antibodies from phage libraries and their use to develop targeted nanoparticles for cancer therapy
James Marks: San Francisco General Hospital, UCSF
Wednesday, June 15, 2011, 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 280
Carbon Nanaotube, Nano Composites, and Hybrid Material Systems for Energy Applications
Fernand D.S. Marquis
Thursday, June 16, 2011, 1:45 PM to 3:45 PM, Engineering 2, Room 599
Emerging Clinical Applications of Silica Nanoparticles: Raman-Guided Endoscopy & Stem Cell Imaging with Ultrasound
Jesse V. Jokerst, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Radiology, Stanford University
Monday, June 20, 2011, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Baskin Engineering, Room 330
Revitalizing homogeneous systems theory to develop new approaches for nonlinear controller design
Chunjiang Qian, Associate Professor, University of Texas at San Antonio
Monday, June 27, 2011, 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 215
Multiple Kernel Learning and the SMO Algorithm
S V N Vishwanathan, Department of Statistics, Purdue University
Tuesday, July 12, 2011, 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2 Building, room 399
DISSERTATION DEFENSE: Bayesian nonstationary Gaussian process models via treed process-convolutions
Liang Waley
Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM, Baskin Engineering, Room 330
DISSERTATION DEFENSE: A new framework for Bayesian analysis of dose-response studies through dependent nonparametric modeling for categorical responses
Kassie Fronczyk
Thursday, July 21, 2011, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 215
Bioinformatics and disease in the age of exome sequencing
Rachel Karchin: Department of Biomedical Engineering, John Hopkins University
Wednesday, August 3, 2011, 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM, Engineering 2, 599
Dissertation Defense: Applications of Mobile Vision to Information Access and Computational Imaging
Orazio Gallo
Thursday, August 4, 2011, 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 215
2011 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium
Friday, August 12, 2011, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Baskin Engineering Courtyard
Advancement to Candidacy
Timothy Jay Longson
Tuesday, August 16, 2011, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM, NASA Ames - Building 239, Room 138
Advancement to Candidacy
John St. John
Tuesday, August 16, 2011, 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 599
Advancement: Epigenetic Mechanisms of Cancer Cell Line Drug Resistance
Mia Grifford
Friday, August 19, 2011, 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
DEFENSE: Cooperability: A New Property for Multithreading
Jaeheon Yi
Thursday, August 25, 2011, 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 399
ADVANCEMENT TO CANDIDACY: Re-Did: Recommendation-based De-Identification
Varun Bhagwan
Thursday, August 25, 2011, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 399
Advancement: Modeling cancer through "omics" datasets
Elinor Velasaquez
Monday, August 29, 2011, 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 280
Advancement: Alterations to DNA and RNA in Cancer
Amie Radenbaugh
Wednesday, August 31, 2011, 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 599
Advancement: Pathway-Based Predictors of Cancer Clinical Outcome
Sam Ng
Wednesday, August 31, 2011, 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 599
Advancement: A Novel Assay for Whole-Genome DNA Methylation Profiling Through Bisulfite Sequencing with Instant DNA Barcodes
Wendy Lee
Friday, September 2, 2011, 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 280
Advancement: Performance Analysis of Composite Communication Networks
Mohsen Karimzadeh
Tuesday, September 6, 2011, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 399
Toward a Rapid-Prototyping Environment for Character Behavior
Dr. Ian Horswill
Friday, September 9, 2011, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 399
Advancement: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Marketing Campaigns in Online Display Advertising
Joel Barajas
Tuesday, September 13, 2011, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 280
Advancement: Using Topic Modeling and Reinforcement Learning in Interactive Retrieval and Recommender Systems
Karla Caballero
Tuesday, September 13, 2011, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 280
Advancement: Information Extraction and Retrieval in Complex Heterogeneous Text
Chunye Wang
Wednesday, September 14, 2011, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 280
Defense: High Precision Current Supply for Electron Microscopy
Maryam Motamedi
Friday, September 16, 2011, 9:15 AM to 11:00 AM, Engineering 2, Room 280
Fair Background Data Transfers of Minimal Delay Impact
Professor Costas Courcoubetis, Department of Computer Science, Athens University of Economics and Bu
Friday, September 16, 2011, 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 215
Bionimbus: A cloud-based Infrastructure for managing, analyzing and sharing genomics data
Robert Grossman: Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology, University of Chicago
Wednesday, September 21, 2011, 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 599
Predicting sentence specificity, with applications to news summarization
Dr. Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania
Thursday, September 22, 2011, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 215
Defense: Bayesian Nonparametric Methods for Emulation, Sensitivity Analysis, and Calibration of Computer Simulators
Marian Farah
Friday, September 23, 2011, 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 599
Anti-Jamming Mean Field Games in Cognitive Radio Networks
Assistant Professor Tembine Hamidou, Ecole Superieure d'Electricite, Supelec, France
Monday, September 26, 2011, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 215
AMS Faculty Presentations
Professor Marc Mangel, Professor Bruno Sanso, Professor Nicholas Brummell, and Associate Professor A
Monday, September 26, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Characterizing transcriptomes from high throughput sequencing data: from yeast to mammals
Moran Yassour: Computational Biology, MIT and The Hebrew University
Tuesday, September 27, 2011, 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM, Engineering 2, Room 599
Defense: Computational Natural Language Style Processing
Foaad Khosmood
Tuesday, September 27, 2011, 12:30 PM to 2:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 215
Getting Molecules to "See the Light": Nanostructures and Instruments for Biomedical Detection
Professor Brian Cunningham, ECE and Bioengineering Departments University of Illinois, Urbana‐Champa
Wednesday, September 28, 2011, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Baskin Engineering, Room 330
AMS Faculty Presentations
Professor Herbert Lee, Associate Professor Pascale Garaud, Professor Raquel Prado, and Assistant Pro
Monday, October 3, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
The Beauty of Constraint
Scott Jon Siegel
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Physical Sciences 110 (with CMPS 170)
Building App Store Hits: A Look at Nuts! and Zombie Gunship
Arash Keshmirian and Serban Porumbescu
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180 (Simularium)
Advancement: RNA Processing Machines in Archaea: A Study of the RNA Targets of Archaeal Sm and Kink-Turn Binding Proteins
Lauren Lui
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 12:15 PM to 2:15 PM, Engineering 2, Room 599
CMOS Sensors for Time-resolved Imaging Applications
Dr. David Stoppa, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 215
Things I learned from making LOVE
Eskil Steenberg
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
AMS Faculty Presentations
Professor David Draper, Professor Hongyun Wang, Assistant Professor Abel Rodriguez, and Assistant Pr
Monday, October 10, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
"Womb to Tomb" -- The Do's and Don'ts of Designing Systems for Mass Production
Ken Gudan Ricoh, Research Lab
Tuesday, October 11, 2011, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Transitioning from Games Academia to Indie Games: The Team Krinoid Story
John Peters
Wednesday, October 12, 2011, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Creating a Cross-Disciplinary Games Degree Program - Hosted by CITRIS
Michael Zyda [Director, USC GamePipe Laboratory]
Wednesday, October 12, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2 - Room 506
Mobile Scanning and Mobile Document Viewing: Leveraging Image Analysis and Vision Algorithms
Dr. Patrick Chiu, FX Palo Alto Laboratory
Wednesday, October 12, 2011, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM, Baskin Engineering, Room 330
Integrated, Energy-Efficient Design in Buildings - Hosted by CITRIS
Igor Mezic [UC Santa Barbara]
Friday, October 14, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2 - Room 506
Defense: Efficient, Searchable, Graph-Structured File System Metadata Services
Alexander "Sasha" Ames
Monday, October 17, 2011, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 280
Seminar: Nonlinear Dynamic Spatio-Temporal Statistical Models
Professor Christopher Wikle, University of Missouri
Monday, October 17, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Third Annual SRL/ISSDM Research Symposium: UCSC Systems Oktoberfest
Tuesday, October 18, 2011, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Third Annual SRL/ISSDM Research Symposium: UCSC Systems Oktoberfest
Wednesday, October 19, 2011, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
To Design for Results: Game Prototyping as a Research Method
Mirjam Eladhari
Wednesday, October 19, 2011, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, The Dark Lab (at the New Digital Arts Research Center)
Developing Diagnostic Algorithms from Medical Data
Alan Hubbard [Associate Professor of Biostatistics, UC Berkeley]
Wednesday, October 19, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2 - Room 506
Research Review Day
Thursday, October 20, 2011, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM,
What We Can Learn from Modeling the California Cap-and-Trade Policies in the Electricity Market?
Yihsu Chen [UC Merced]
Friday, October 21, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2 - Room 506
Multilingual Text Analysis on On-Line Text for Early Warning
Philip Kegelmeyer, Sandia National Laboratories
Monday, October 24, 2011, 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM, Engineering 2, Room 599
Seminar: Bayesian Density Estimates in Minimum Hellinger Distance Estimation
Yuefeng Wu, Visiting Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics
Monday, October 24, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Storytelling Through Symbolism: BIT.TRIP and Beyond
Alex Neuse and Mike Roush
Wednesday, October 26, 2011, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Bridging Photonics and Computing
Mario Paniccia, Director of Photonics Technology Lab, Intel
Wednesday, October 26, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2 - Room 506
To the Dark Side: Efficiency and Demand Response Through Commercial Building Lighting Controls
Charlie Huizenga, Adura Technologies
Friday, October 28, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2 - Room 506
Seminar: Predictive Innovation or Innovative Prediction?
Aaron Lai, Senior Manager, Blue Shield of California
Monday, October 31, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Propositions from a Critical Play Perspective
Mary Flanagan
Tuesday, November 1, 2011, 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM, Digital Arts Research Center, The Dark Lab (Room 108)
Speech Interface in Games
Ozlem Kalinli
Wednesday, November 2, 2011, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Whole Systems Design Approach of Cities in China
Harrison Fraker, Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, UC Berkeley
Wednesday, November 2, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2 - Room 506
Image/Video Segmentation
Mei Han, Research Scientist, Google
Wednesday, November 2, 2011, 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 475
Smart, Energy Producing and Healthy Homes: Eight European Experiments
Ellen Kathrine Hansen, VKR Holdings
Friday, November 4, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2 - Room 506
Say Anything: Learning to Tell Stories by Learning and Interacting
Reid Swanson
Monday, November 7, 2011, 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
Say Anything: Learning to Tell Stories by Learning and Interacting
Reid Swanson
Monday, November 7, 2011, 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
Seminar: Population Genetic Inference in the Personal Genome Era
Carlos Bustamante, Professor, Department of Genetics, Stanford University
Monday, November 7, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
For Fun and For Profit: Doing Social Science Research in Online Games
Nic Duchenaut, Senior Scientist, Palo Alto Research Center
Wednesday, November 9, 2011, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180 (The Simularium)
Getting UAVs Off Their Bottoms (with Flexrotor)
Tad McGeer, Founder and President, Aerovel
Wednesday, November 9, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2 - Room 506
Seminar: Automated methods to maintain aircraft separation
Dr. Todd Lauderdale, NASA Ames Research Center
Monday, November 14, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Defense: Low-power low-noise integrated circuits for biomedical applications
Jungsuk Kim
Tuesday, November 15, 2011, 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 215
Dynamics: The State of the Art
Clint Hocking, Creative Director, LucasArts
Wednesday, November 16, 2011, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180 (The Simularium)
The California HealthCare Foundation’s Focus on Innovation and Technology
Margaret Laws, Director of Innovations for the Underserved Program, CHCF
Wednesday, November 16, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2 - Room 506
Advancement: Structural control over the dynamic properties of patterned nanomagnets
Yu Yahagi
Thursday, November 17, 2011, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Baskin Engineering - Room 330
Defense: Retinal implant: system analysis, IC design, and prototype realization
Kuanfu Chen
Thursday, November 17, 2011, 12:30 PM to 2:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 399
Understanding Venture Capital
Chris Rust, US Venture Partners
Thursday, November 17, 2011, 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM, Enginering 2, Room 599
Reducing Peak Load on Campus: Distributed Intelligent Automated Demand Response in Sutardja Dai Hall
Therese Peffer, CIEE
Friday, November 18, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2 - Room 506
A Brief Introduction To Data Domain
Chris Emura
Friday, November 18, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Seminar: Uncertainty in Modeled Upper Ocean Heat Content Change using a Large Ensemble
Robin Tokmakian, Research Associate Professor, Department of Oceanography, Naval Postgraduate School
Monday, November 21, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Beauty and Risk: Emotion, Indie Games and Uncharted
Richard Lemarchand, Lead Game Designer, Naughty Dog, Inc.
Wednesday, November 23, 2011, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180 (The Simularium)
Whole-genome-sequence-based human genetics
Richard Durbin, Joint Head of Human Genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Monday, November 28, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Advancement: Aspects of Consistent Query Answering over Inconsistent Databases
Enela Pema, Graduate Student, Computer Science
Monday, November 28, 2011, 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM, Baskin Engineering, Room 330
Carlos Borges's Seminar
Professor Carlos Borges, Department of Applied Mathematics, Naval Postgraduate School
Monday, November 28, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Crowdsensus: Building reliable Google Maps from data provided by unreliable sources
Ashutosh Kulshreshtha, Google Inc.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, TBA
Defense: Topics in Model Selection: Variable Selection for Computer Experiments and Choosing the Number of Nodes for Neural Networks
Jing Chang
Wednesday, November 30, 2011, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Baskin Engineering, Room 330
Accessibility in AI Design
Borut Pfeifer
Wednesday, November 30, 2011, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180 (The Simularium)
Dataflow Computing for Data-intensive Applications
Oskar Mencer, CEO and Founder, Maxeler Technologies
Wednesday, November 30, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2 - Room 506
The New Patent Reform Act
Rob Brownstein, VP of IP and Innovation, LitePoint
Wednesday, November 30, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 599
The New Patent Reform Act
Rob Brownstein, VP of IP and Innovation, LitePoint
Thursday, December 1, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 599
Advancement: Network Security: An Intruder Classification Game
Lenia Dritsoula
Thursday, December 1, 2011, 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM, Jack Baskin Engineering - Room 318
Renewable Energy Microgrid Testbed at NASA Ames Research Center
Joel Kubby, UC Santa Cruz
Friday, December 2, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2 - Room 506
Maltese archeology, computer graphics and me
Dr. Zoë Wood, Associate Professor, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
Friday, December 2, 2011, 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
Advancement: Time to Retry
Elnaz Ebrahimi
Monday, December 5, 2011, 8:30 AM to 10:30 AM, Engineering 2, Room 599
Defense: Advances in acquisition and rendering of image based digital models
Prabath Gunawardane, Graduate Student, Computer Science
Monday, December 5, 2011, 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 280
Interactive Virtual Cinematography
Marc Christie, Associate Professor, Rennes 1 University
Monday, December 5, 2011, 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 399
Advancement: Integrating Security into Lower Layers After Their Design
DJ Capelis, Graduate Student, Computer Science
Monday, December 5, 2011, 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 475
Advancement: The Promise of Data Grouping in Large Scale Storage Systems
Avani Wildani, Graduate Student, Computer Science
Wednesday, December 7, 2011, 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 280
Saving the World Together, One Server at a Time
Partha Ranganathan, Distinguished Technologist, Hewlett Packard Labs
Wednesday, December 7, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2 - Room 506
Advancement: Speculative Constrained Concurrency
Gabriel Southern
Thursday, December 8, 2011, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM, Engineering 2, Room 599
Investment Trends in Technology
Jeff Bloom, Partner, Corporate Group, Fenwick & West LLP
Thursday, December 8, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 599