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Fall 2009 Seminar Schedule

In collaboration with the Division of Systems Engineering

CISE invites prominent academic and industrial researchers to present their work to the university audience. The public is always welcome.

Unless otherwise noted, seminars are held on Fridays at 2 PM in the Photonics Center Building at 8 St Mary's Street, Room 211.

Schedule for next semester

| Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |

September
September 25 Fumin Zhang, Assistant Professor
Friday, 2:00 pm

8 St. Mary's Street
Room 211
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology

Cyber Physical Systems Theory and Cooperative Exploration

Hosting Professor, Sean Andersson
Student Host, Peter Chang

October
October 2 Michael Margaliot, Professor
Friday, 2:00 pm

8 St. Mary's Street
Room 211
School of Electrical Engineering - Systems
Tel-Aviv University

Stability Analysis of Switched Systems using Variational Principles

Hosting Professor, Christos Cassandras
Student Host, Peter Chang

October 9 Tanya Berger-Wolf, Assistant Professor
8 St. Mary's Street, Room 211, Friday, *3:00 pm NOTE: Time Change
Computer Science
University of Illinois

Computational Analysis of Dynamic Networks (and its applications to social life of zebras)

Hosting Professor, Ari Trachtenberg
Student Host, Ye Wang

October 16 Michael Steele, Professor
Friday, 2:00 pm

8 St. Mary's Street
Room 211
Wharton School of Management
University of Pennsylvania

Stochastic Combinatorial Optimization: From the TSP and MST to Dogapillars

Hosting Professor, Erol Pekoz
Student Host, Ye Wang

October 23 Andrzej Banaszuk,
Friday, 2:00 pm

8 St. Mary's Street
Room 211

United Technologies Research Center

Robust Uncertainty Management methods applied to UAV search and tracking problems

Hosting Professor, Calin Belta
Student Host, Peter Chang

October 30 Adam Kalai,
Friday, 2:00 pm

8 St. Mary's Street
Room 211

Microsoft Research New England

Engineeering Cooperation in Strategic Games with Private Information

Hosting Professor, Venkatesh Saligrama
Student Host, Ye Wang

November
November 6 Sridhar Seshadri, Professor
8 St. Mary's Street, Room 211, Friday, *3:00 pm NOTE: Time Change
IROM Department, McCombs School of Business
University of Texas at Austin

Fixed versus Random Proportion Demand Models for Assortment Planning

Hosting Professor, Erol Pekoz
Student Host, Peter Chang

November 13 Prakash Narayan, Professor
Friday, 2:00 pm

8 St. Mary's Street
Room 211
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Maryland

Omniscience, Secrecy and Tree Packing

Hosting Professor, Venkatesh Saligrama
Student Host, Ye Wang

November 20 Natallia Katenka, Research Associate
Friday, 2:00 pm

8 St. Mary's Street
Room 211
Mathematics and Statistics
Boston University

Tracking Multiple Targets Using Binary Decisions from Wireless Sensor Networks

Hosting Professor, Eric Kolaczyk

December
December 4 Herbert Tanner, Assistant Professor
8 St. Mary's Street, Room 211, Friday, *3:00 pm NOTE: Time Change!
Mechanical Engineering
University of Delaware

Randomized Model Predictive Robot Navigation

Hosting Professor, Calin Belta
Student Host, Peter Chang



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