Spring 2010 Seminar Schedule

CISE invites prominent academic and industrial researchers to present their work to the university audience. Seminars are usually held on Fridays at 3:00 PM in the Photonics Center, 8 St. Mary’s Street, Room 205, Boston, MA, unless otherwise noted.

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January
Jan 15, Friday 3:00 PM 8 St. Mary’s St Room 205	Vijay Kumar, University of Pennsylvania Architectures, abstractions, and algorithms for large teams of robots
Jan 22, Friday 3:00 PM 8 St. Mary’s St Room 205	Xu Chu Ding Boston University Real-time Optimal Control of Autonomous Switched Systems
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February
Feb 5, Friday 3:00 PM 8 St. Mary’s St Room 205	Jiri Barnat, Assistant Professor Masaryk University (Brno, Czech Republic) Parallel LTL Model Checking with Divine
Feb 12, Friday 3:00 PM 8 St. Mary’s St Room 205	Ness B. Shroff, Ohio Eminent Scholar in Networking and Communications, Chaired Professor of ECE and CSE, The Ohio State University Retransmissions and Power Laws: A New Perspective on System Performance
Feb 19, Friday 3:00 PM 8 St. Mary’s St Room 205	Frederick Daum Raytheon Particle flow for nonlinear filters
Feb 26, Friday 2:00 PM 8 St. Mary’s St Room 339	Junshan Zhang Arizona State University Fundamental Tradeoffs between Probing and Channel-aware Scheduling in Future Wireless Networks
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March
Mar 5, Friday 3:00 PM 8 St. Mary’s St Room 205	Vijay Gupta Assistant Professor Department of Electrical Engineering University of Notre Dame Distributed estimation and communication across networks
Mar 26, Friday 3:00 PM 8 St. Mary’s St Room 205	Mario Sznaier Northeastern University Compressive Dynamical Information Extraction
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April
Apr 2, Friday 3:00 PM 8 St. Mary’s St Room 205	Assaf Zeevi Columbia University Dynamic Learning and Customization in Display-based Online Advertisement
Apr 5, Monday 4:00 PM 8 St. Mary’s St Room 339	Andreas Savvides Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Departments, Yale University Estimating Consumption Breakdowns through Binary Sensing of ON/OFF States
Apr 9, Friday 3:00 PM 8 St. Mary’s St Room 205	Nuno Martins University of Maryland Certifying the Optimality of a Distributed State-estimation System, in the Presence of Communication Costs
Apr 14, Wednesday 3:00 PM 15 St. Mary’s St Room 105	Vineet Goyal Massachusetts Institute of Technology On the Power of Robust and Affine Solutions in Dynamic Optimization
Apr 16, Friday 3:00 PM 8 St. Mary’s St Room 205	Yigal Bejerano Bell Labs Building Robust Nomadic Wireless Mesh Networks Using Directional Antennas
Apr 23, Friday 3:00 PM 8 St. Mary’s St Room 205	Panos M. Pardalos, Distinguished Professor and University of Florida Research Foundation Professor Director, Center for Applied Optimization Industrial and Systems Engineering Department University of Florida The Critical Nodes Detection Problem in Networks
Apr 30, Friday 3:00 PM 15 St. Mary’s St Room 105	Shane Henderson, Professor School of Operations Research and Information Engineering, Cornell University Ambulance Redeployment
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May
May 7, Friday 2:00 PM 8 St. Mary’s St Room 205	Roch Guerin University of Pennsylvania Roch Guerin
May 20, Thursday 2:00 PM 8 St. Mary’s St Room 211	Alessandro Pinto United Technologies Research Center, Inc. Model-Based Tool Chains for the Probabilistic Analysis of Complex Systems
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