Events Archive: 2011

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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High Performance Computing Challenges for Magnetic Fusion Simulations
Eric Sonnendrucker, Université de Strasbourg
Tuesday, January 18, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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Google Info-Session on New Mobile Android Development
Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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CITRIS White Paper Competition
Friday, January 28, 2011, 9:00 AM to 9:00 AM, Engineering 2, Room 595
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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
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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
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Selling Random Energy
Kameshwar Poolla, UC Berkeley
Friday, January 28, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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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
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TBD
Dr. Alexander Braunstein, Google
Monday, January 31, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Cities and Computers: Their Architecture
Forrest Warthman
Wednesday, February 9, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Improving Peoples Behaviors and Body Weight
Gladys Block
Wednesday, February 16, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Our Unseen Prison
Theodor Holm Nelson
Wednesday, February 23, 2011, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 599
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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
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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
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Policy Analysis
Kathi Fisler, WPI
Friday, February 25, 2011, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 397
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Why Fluorescent Lighting Isnt Dead
Francis Rubenstein
Friday, February 25, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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CITRIS White Paper Competition DEADLINE
Monday, March 7, 2011, 5:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 595
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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
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Industry Funding for Senior Design Projects?
Paul Jones
Tuesday, March 8, 2011, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 599
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Engineering Hope with Biomimetic Microelectronic Systems
Wentai Liu
Wednesday, March 9, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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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
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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
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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
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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
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CMPS 171 Senior Design Projects
Friday, March 11, 2011, 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
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Google Innovation: Culture and Practices
Dan Russell
Wednesday, March 16, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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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
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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
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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
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CMPS 191 Introduction/Organization
Professor Marilyn Walker
Wednesday, March 30, 2011, 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Banana Slug Lecture
Dan Zerbino, UCSC
Wednesday, April 13, 2011, 2:00 PM to 3:10 PM, Physical Sciences Building, Room 305
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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
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Facebook Talks
Mohan Srinivasan, Facebook; Paddy Ganti, Facebook
Thursday, April 14, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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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
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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
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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
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Structuring your scientific paper
Dr. Jean-luc Doumont
Tuesday, April 19, 2011, 10:00 AM to 11:45 AM, Engineering 2, Room 180
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Future of Robotics
Rich Mahoney
Wednesday, April 27, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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Relational Databases
Tim Gustafson
Wednesday, April 27, 2011, 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
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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
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Banana Slug Lecture
Janet Leonard and John Pearse
Friday, April 29, 2011, 2:00 PM to 3:10 PM, Physical Sciences Building, Room 305
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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
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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
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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
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Fast, Automated, 3D Modeling of Building Interiors
Avideh Zakhor
Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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DISSERTATION DEFENSE: Boosting in Location Space
Damian Eads
Thursday, May 19, 2011, 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 599
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Limiting Information Leakage in Event-based Communication
Willard Rafnsson
Friday, June 10, 2011, 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM, Engineering 2, Room 397
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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2011 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium
Friday, August 12, 2011, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Baskin Engineering Courtyard
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Advancement to Candidacy
Timothy Jay Longson
Tuesday, August 16, 2011, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM, NASA Ames - Building 239, Room 138
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Advancement to Candidacy
John St. John
Tuesday, August 16, 2011, 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 599
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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
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DEFENSE: Cooperability: A New Property for Multithreading
Jaeheon Yi
Thursday, August 25, 2011, 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 399
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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
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Advancement: Modeling cancer through "omics" datasets
Elinor Velasaquez
Monday, August 29, 2011, 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 280
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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
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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
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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
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Advancement: Performance Analysis of Composite Communication Networks
Mohsen Karimzadeh
Tuesday, September 6, 2011, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 399
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Defense: Computational Natural Language Style Processing
Foaad Khosmood
Tuesday, September 27, 2011, 12:30 PM to 2:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 215
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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
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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
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The Beauty of Constraint
Scott Jon Siegel
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Physical Sciences 110 (with CMPS 170)
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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)
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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
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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
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Things I learned from making LOVE
Eskil Steenberg
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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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
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Third Annual SRL/ISSDM Research Symposium: UCSC Systems Oktoberfest
Tuesday, October 18, 2011, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
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Third Annual SRL/ISSDM Research Symposium: UCSC Systems Oktoberfest
Wednesday, October 19, 2011, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
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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)
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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
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Research Review Day
Thursday, October 20, 2011, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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Speech Interface in Games
Ozlem Kalinli
Wednesday, November 2, 2011, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
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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
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Image/Video Segmentation
Mei Han, Research Scientist, Google
Wednesday, November 2, 2011, 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 475
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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Understanding Venture Capital
Chris Rust, US Venture Partners
Thursday, November 17, 2011, 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM, Enginering 2, Room 599
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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
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A Brief Introduction To Data Domain
Chris Emura
Friday, November 18, 2011, 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Accessibility in AI Design
Borut Pfeifer
Wednesday, November 30, 2011, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180 (The Simularium)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Advancement: Time to Retry
Elnaz Ebrahimi
Monday, December 5, 2011, 8:30 AM to 10:30 AM, Engineering 2, Room 599
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Advancement: Speculative Constrained Concurrency
Gabriel Southern
Thursday, December 8, 2011, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM, Engineering 2, Room 599
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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