Spring 2005 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, 15 St. Mary’s Street, Room 105, Boston, MA, unless otherwise noted.

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JAN | FEB | MAR | APR | MAY

January
Tuesday, Jan 11 15 St. Mary’s St.	CISE graduate students Organized by Brenda Zhuang First Annual (pilot) CISE Student Workshop

Friday, Jan 21 2 p.m. 15 St. Mary’s St. Room 105	Georgia Perakis Associate Professor Operations Research Center and Sloan School of Management, MIT The “Price of Anarchy” and its Applications

Friday, Jan 28 10 a.m. 15 St. Mary’s St. Room 116	Gad Allon Graduate School Of Business Columbia University Competition in Service Industries

Friday, Jan 28 11 a.m. Joint with AME 110 Cummington St. Room 245	Peter B. Luh Professor Communications & Information Technologies University of Connecticut A Lagrangian Relaxation Based Approach to Schedule Asset Overhaul and Repair Services

Friday, Jan 28 2 p.m. 15 St. Mary’s St. Room 105	Mike Veatch Professor Gordon College Approximate Dynamic Programming for Networks

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February
Friday, Feb 25 2 p.m. 15 St. Mary’s St. Room 105	Sokwoo Rhee, Ph.D. Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer Millennial Net, Inc., Burlington, MA A founding member of the Sensor Network Consortium at Boston University Wireless Sensor Networks Issues and their Applications

Monday, Feb 28 4 p.m. PHO 339 ECE Colloquium	Andreas Savvides Assistant Professor Embedded Networks and Applications Laboratory (ENALAB) Yale University Location Discovery Indoor Ad-Hoc Sensor Networks: Platforms and Services

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March
Friday, Mar 18 Joint with AME 11 am Room 245 – Alumni Conference Room 110 Cummington St	Andrew Odlyzk ADC Professor and Assistant VP for Research Director Digital Technology Center University of Minnesota Victorian railroads, scholarly communications, and the future of ecommerce

Friday, Mar 18 2 p.m. 15 St. Mary’s St. Room 105	Laurent Massoulie, Ph.D. Microsoft Corporation Network Epidemics

Tue, March 29 12 Noon-5 p.m.	Celebrate CISE Student Research In conjunction with Boston University Science and Engineering Day

Wed, Mar 30 4 p.m. Joint with ECE	Vahid Tarokh Professor Electrical Engineering Harvard University Collaboration, Competition and Cognitive Radio Transmission in Wireless Networks: From Theory to Implementation
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April
Friday, Apr 1 2 p.m. 15 St Mary’s Street Room 105	Andrea Goldsmith Associate Professor Electrical Engineering Stanford University Cross-layer design of wireless ad-hoc networks: is it better to be robust, quick, or responsive?

Friday, Apr 8 2 p.m. 8 St. Mary’s St. Photonics Building Room 205	Spyros Vassilaras, Ph.D. Athens Information Technology Cooperation Reinforcement in Wireless Mesh Networks with Centralized Supervision

Friday, Apr 15 2 p.m. 15 St. Mary’s St. Room 105	Vijay Subramanian Motorola Corporation Convergence and Optimality of Opportunistic Scheduling Algorithms

Friday, Apr 22 2 p.m. 15 St. Mary’s St. Room 105	Michael Fu Professor Robert H.Smith School of Business Institute for Systems Research University of Maryland Model Reference Adaptive Search: A New Approach to Global Optimization

Friday Apr 29 2 p.m. 15 St. Mary’s St. Room 105	Azer Bestavros Professor and Chair Computer Science, Boston University Exploiting the Transients of Adaptation for RoQ Attacks on Internet Resources

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May
Monday, May 23 2 p.m. 15 St. Mary’s St. Room 105	Xiaojun Lin, Ph.D. candidate School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Purdue University Cross-Layer Design for Multi-hop Wireless Networks: A Loose-Coupling Perspective

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