Events & News

Past Events

Friday, November 6, 2009, 12:00 pm (GS 906)
Cog Sci Brown Bag Seminar
A Bayesian Perceptual Explanation for the Tactile Rabbit and Other Curious Cutaneous Illusions
Daniel Goldreich, Professor, Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour McMaster University

Friday, November 6, 2009, 10:00 am to 11:00 am (GS 906)
Security Seminar Series
Integrated Human Decision Making and Planning Model under Extended Belief-Desire-Intention Framework: Emergency Evacuation Applications
Young-Jun Son, SIE, University of Arizona

Friday, October 30, 2009, 10:00 am to 1:30 pm (GS 906 & Atrium Area)
CS Graduate Student Symposium
Announcing the First Annual University of Arizona Computer Science Graduate Student Symposium (GSS)

Thursday, October 29, 2009, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Colloquium
Horrible Code: Adventures in Understanding Malware Programs
Saumya Debray, Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Arizona

Friday, October 23, 2009, 12:00 pm (GS 906)
Cog Sci Brown Bag Seminar
The Neurobiology of Trust
Paul Zak, Professor , Director of the Center for Neuroeconomics Studies, Claremont Graduate University & Loma Linda University Medical Center

Friday, October 23, 2009, 10:00 am to 11:00 am (GS 906)
Security Seminar Series
Dealing with Liars: Misbehavior Identification via Renyi-Ulam Games
Loukas Lazos , ECE, University of Arizona

Friday, October 16, 2009, 12:00 pm (GS 906)
Cog Sci Brown Bag Seminar
Perception and Inference in the Acquisition of Simple Concepts
Iris Oved, Ph.D. , Computer Science - School of Information Sciences, Technology and Arts , University of Arizona

Thursday, October 15, 2009, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Colloquium
Against Sophistication: In Pursuit of Complete Intelligence
Dr. Paul Cohen, Professor and Head - Department of Computer Science, SISTA , University of Arizona

Friday, October 9, 2009, 12:00 pm (GS 906)
Cog Sci Brown Bag Seminar
Social Insects - Social Brains?
Wulfila Gronenberg, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Division of Neurobiology, Arizona Research Labs, University of Arizona

Friday, October 9, 2009, 10:00 am to 11:00 am (GS 906)
Security Seminar Series
Intelligence and Security Informatics: The COPLINK and Dark Web Experience
Hsinchun Chen , Management Information Systems, University of AZ

Tuesday, October 6, 2009, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Colloquium
Resource Management and Distributed Protocals for Cognitive Radio Networks
Marwan Krunz, ECE Professor & Director of Connection One Center , University of Arizona

Friday, October 2, 2009, 3:00 pm (McClelland 132)
MIS Speaker Series
Against Sophistication: In Pursuit of Complete Intelligence
Dr. Paul Cohen, Professor and Head of Department of Computer Science, SISTA , University of Arizona

Friday, October 2, 2009, 10:00 am to 11:00 am (GS 906)
Security Seminar Series
Radical Islam: An Attack from the Past or the Future?
Albert Bergesen, Department of Sociology, University of Arizona

Thursday, October 1, 2009, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Colloquium
Running Trusted Applications on Untrusted Operating Systems
John Hartman, Associate Professor , University of Arizona

Friday, September 25, 2009, 12:00 pm (GS 906)
Cog Sci Brown Bag Seminar
Working Memory in Sentence Production and the Role of Memory Retrievals
William Badecker , Research Professor, Cognitive Science, University of Arizona

Friday, September 18, 2009, 12:00 pm (GS 906)
Cog Sci Brown Bag Seminar
Real-life Speech Processing: Combining Big Picture and Detail
Natasha Warner , Associate Professor, Dept of Linguistics, University of Arizona

Thursday, September 17, 2009, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Colloquium
GMap, Putting Data on the Map
Stephen Kobourov, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science

Friday, September 11, 2009, 12:00 pm (GS 906)
Cog Sci Brown Bag Seminar
The Origin of Concepts
Susan Carey, Professor, Dept of Psychology, Harvard University

Monday, September 7, 2009
Labor Day Holiday

Monday, August 24, 2009
Fall 2009 semester begins

Tuesday, August 18, 2009, 2:00 pm (GS 906)
Colloquium
Efficient Construction of Accurate Multiple Alignments and Large-Scale Neighbor-Joining Phylogenies
Travis Wheeler, PhD Dissertation Thesis Defense, Computer Science Department

Monday, July 13, 2009
Summer Session Two begins

Friday, July 3, 2009
Independence Day Holiday

Monday, June 8, 2009
Summer Session One begins

Monday, May 25, 2009
Memorial Day Holiday

Friday, May 1, 2009, 12:00 pm (GS 906)
Cog Sci Brown Bag Seminar
TBA
Renee Baillargeon, Alumni Professor, Psychology Department, Univ. of Illinois at UC

Thursday, April 30, 2009, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Dept Awards
Dept Awards Ceremony

Thursday, April 30, 2009, 9:00 am (GS 942)
Colloquium
Predicting secondary structure of proteins by linear and dynamic programming
David Perkins, MS Thesis Defense, Computer Science Department

Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 2:00 pm (GS 701)
Colloquium
Supporting the Procedural Component of Query Languages over Time-Varing Data
Dengfeng Gao, PhD Thesis Defense, Computer Science Department

Tuesday, April 28, 2009, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Colloquium
Detecting Large-Scale Route Leak Event
Qing Ju, Computer Science Department, UA

Friday, April 24, 2009, 12:00 pm (GS 906)
Cog Sci Brown Bag Seminar
Causal and Explanatory Pluralism
Tania Lombrozo, Assistant Professor, Dept of Psychology, Univ. California - Berkeley

Friday, April 17, 2009, 12:00 pm (GS 906)
Cog Sci Brown Bag Seminar
Nations and Egos (Nations have their ego, just like individuals. James Joyce)
Jenann Ismael, Associate Professor, Dept of Philosophy, UA

Monday, April 13, 2009, 2:00 pm (GS 906)
Colloquium
Simultaneous Embedding and Level Planarity
Alejandro Estrella Balderrama, PhD Thesis Defense, Computer Science Department

Monday, April 13, 2009, 11:00 am (GS 701)
Colloquium
Unlabeled Level Planarity
Joe Fowler, PhD Thesis Defense, Computer Science Department

Friday, April 10, 2009, 12:00 pm (GS 906)
Cog Sci Brown Bag Seminar
Visual Processing of Faces, Tools and Body Movements in the Absence of Awareness
Sheng He, Professor, Dept of Psychology, University of Minnesota

Wednesday, April 8, 2009, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm (SU 411-A )
Colloquium
Learning to label complex images
Rich Zemel, U. Toronto

Tuesday, April 7, 2009, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Colloquium
Routing Air Traffic Flows: From Continuous to Discrete and Back
Valentin Polishchuk

Friday, April 3, 2009, 12:00 pm (GS 906)
Cog Sci Brown Bag Seminar
How Spatial Attention Affects Visual Performance and Alters Appearance
Marisa Carrasco, Professor, Dept of Psychology, New York University

Friday, April 3, 2009, 10:00 am (GLD-S 701)
ECE/CS Joint Talk
Michael Marcellin, University of Arizona

Friday, March 27, 2009, 12:00 pm (GS 906)
Cog Sci Brown Bag Seminar
Selective Forces Shaping the Evolution of Intelligence
Kay Holecamp, Professor, Dept of Zoology, Michigan State University

Friday, March 27, 2009, 12:00 pm (SU 411-A)
ECE/CS Joint Talk
Russell J. Hamilton, Christopher J. Watchman, University of Arizona

Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Colloquium
Humans and Machines in Multi-Agent Learning
Yu-Han Chang, Research Assistant Professor, University of Southern California, ISI

Tuesday, March 10, 2009, 7:00 pm (Centennial Hall)
CoS Lecture
Really Intelligent Computers
Paul Cohen, Head and Professor, Computer Science Department, UA

Friday, March 6, 2009, 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm (GS 701)
Colloquium
Implementation and Evaluation of Temporal Representations in XML
Stephen Thomas, Computer Science Department

Friday, March 6, 2009, 10:00 am (GS 701)
CS/ECE Joint Talk
Flash Memory Database Systems: Challenges and Opportunities
Bongki Moon, Professor, Computer Science Department, UA

Friday, February 27, 2009, 10:00 am (ECE 530)
Colloquium
Neurorobotics and Walking Machines
Dr. Anthony M. Lewis, Associate Professor, University of Arizona, ECE

Wednesday, February 11, 2009, 9:30 am (GS 906)
Colloquium
The GLOW and OSG experience
Miron Livny, Computer Science Department, Univ. of Wisconsin

Friday, February 6, 2009, 10:00 am (SU Rm 411-A)
CS/ECE Joint Talk
Learning Models for Object Structure
Kobus Barnard, Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, UA

Tuesday, January 20, 2009, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Faculty Meeting
Faculty Meeting

Monday, January 19, 2009
MLK Day

Friday, January 16, 2009, 10:00 am (GS 906)
Computer Science Colloquium
Memory Footprint Reduction of Operating System Kernels
Haifeng He, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Computer Science

Thursday, January 1, 2009
New Year's Day

Friday, December 26, 2008
Winter Closure

Thursday, December 25, 2008
Christmas Recess

Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Christmas

Saturday, December 20, 2008
Winter Commencement/Graduation

Friday, December 19, 2008
Finals Exams End

Thursday, December 18, 2008, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Colloquium
On Channel-Discontinuity-Constraint Routing in Wireless Networks
Swaminathan Sankararaman, Computer Science Department

Friday, December 12, 2008
Finals Exams Begin

Thursday, December 11, 2008
Reading Day

Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Last Day of Classes

Tuesday, December 9, 2008, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Colloquium
High school students’ motivation and engagement with an online tutoring system for SAT-Math problem solving
Carole Beal, Professor, Cognitive Science, University of Arizona

Thursday, December 4, 2008, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Colloquium
Joint Talk
Varun Khare, Computer Science Department

Thursday, December 4, 2008, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Colloquium
Joint Talk
Jie Yao, Computer Science Department

Friday, November 28, 2008
Thanksgiving Recess

Thursday, November 27, 2008
Thanksgiving

Friday, November 21, 2008, 12:00 pm (GS 906)
Colloquium
TBA
Marvin Chun, Professor, Dept of Psychology, Yale University

Friday, November 21, 2008, 10:00 am to 11:00 am (SU 411-A)
Colloquium
Guaranteed Error Correction of LDPC Codes
Prof. Bane Vasic, Electrical & Computer Engineering, UA

Friday, November 14, 2008, 12:00 pm (GS 906)
Colloquium
The Relationship Between Music and Emotion
Vladimir Konecni, Professor, Dept of Psychology, UC-San Diego

Friday, November 14, 2008, 10:00 am to 11:00 am (SU 411-A)
Colloquium
Segmentation and Chunking of Sequences
Prof. Paul Cohen, Professor, Head, Computer Science Department

Thursday, November 13, 2008, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Colloquium
Linking Biological Databases Semantically for Knowledge Discovery
Dr. Sudha Ram, McClelland Professor of MIS, Eller College of Management, University of Arizona

Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Veteran's Day Holiday

Monday, November 10, 2008, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Colloquium
Robust Methods for Mining Interesting Graph Patterns
Dr. Xifeng Yan, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

Friday, November 7, 2008, 12:00 pm (GS 906)
Colloquium
TBA
Thomas G. Bever, and David Medeiros, Professor, and graduate student, Dept of Linguistics, UA

Friday, October 31, 2008, 12:00 pm (GS 906)
Colloquium
TBA
Silvia Bunge, Assistant Professor, Psychology Dept, UC-Berkeley

Tuesday, October 28, 2008, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Colloquium
Credit card transaction fraud detection
Dr. Niall Adams, Dept of Mathematics, Imperial College, London

Friday, October 24, 2008, 12:00 pm (GS 906)
Colloquium
Perception, Attention, and Learning in the Face of Fear
Kevin LaBar, Associate Professor, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University

Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Colloquium
Algorithms for distributed problem-solving: when & how do they work in social insects
Anna Dornhaus, Assistant Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UA

Friday, October 17, 2008, 12:00 pm (GS 906)
Colloquium
Gradient Constituent Structure and Gradual Reanalysis
Joan Bybee, Distinguished Professor, Dept of Linguistics, University of New Mexico

Friday, October 10, 2008, 12:00 pm (GS 906)
Colloquium
How Grammars Leak
Colin Phillips, Professor, Dept of Linguistics, University of Maryland

Friday, October 3, 2008, 12:00 pm (GS 906)
Colloquium
Cognitive Neuroscience of Episodic Memory
Lila Davachi, Assistant Professor, Dept Psychology, New York University

Thursday, October 2, 2008, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Colloquium
Primitives for Forward-scalable Parallel Programming
Mohan Rajagopalan, Senior Research Scientist, Intel, Programming Systems Lab

Monday, September 22, 2008, 10:00 am to 3:00 pm (GS 9th floor atrium)
Industrial Partners Recruiting
Industrial Partners Recruiting Event

Monday, September 1, 2008
Labor Day

Monday, August 25, 2008
Fall 2008 Semester Begins

Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Summer Session Ends

Thursday, August 7, 2008, 11:30 am (GS 906)
Computer Science Colloquium
On Aligning Alignments Exactly
Dean Starrett, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Computer Science

Wednesday, August 6, 2008, 2:00 pm (GS 906)
Computer Science Colloquium
Inverse Parametric Alignment for Accurate Biological Sequence Comparison
Eagu Kim, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Computer Science

Monday, August 4, 2008, 10:00 am (GS 701)
Computer Science Colloquium
Efficient Routing in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Huilong Huang, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Computer Science

Friday, July 4, 2008
Independence Day

Monday, June 9, 2008
Summer Session Begins

Monday, May 26, 2008
Memorial Day Holiday

Saturday, May 17, 2008
Spring Commencement/Graduation

Friday, May 16, 2008
Finals Exams End

Friday, May 16, 2008
Last Day to Return Lab Cards

Thursday, May 15, 2008, 1:10 pm (Centennial Hall)
CoS Commencement Ceremony

Tuesday, May 13, 2008, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Computer Science Colloquium
Camera Calibration with Virtual Alignment for a VR Environment
Ernesto Brau, Computer Science Dept, University of Arizona