Events & News

Past Events

Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Last Day of Classes

Thursday, May 1, 2008, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Computer Science Colloquium
The iPlant Collaborative: A Cyber-infrastructure-Based Community for a New Plant Biology
Richard Jorgensen, Dept of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona

Thursday, April 24, 2008, 2:00 pm (GS 906)
Computer Science Colloquium
4D Cities: Past, Present, and Future
Frank Dellaert, College of Computing, Georgia Tech

Thursday, April 24, 2008, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Computer Science Awards
Department Awards Ceremony
Rick Mercer

Monday, April 21, 2008, 1:00 pm (GS 701)
Computer Science Colloquium
Activity-Aware Computing: Modeling of Human Activity and Behavior
Fahd Al-bin-ali, Computer Science Dept, University of Arizona

Tuesday, April 15, 2008, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Computer Science Colloquium
Rethinking bulk data transfers for next-generation applications
Himabindu Pucha, Computer Science Dept, Carnegie Mellon University

Monday, April 14, 2008, 10:00 am (GS 701)
Computer Science Colloquium
Stork: Secure Package Management for VM Environments
Justin Cappos, UA, Computer Science Dept

Thursday, April 3, 2008, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Computer Science Colloquium
Effective Provisioning of Consolidated Storage Service Using Machine-Learning Techniques
Song Jiang, Wayne State University

Tuesday, April 1, 2008, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Computer Science Colloquium
Helping Moore's Law: Multilayer Techniques to Address Parameter Variation
Radu Teodorescu, University of Illinois-UC

Thursday, March 27, 2008, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Computer Science Colloquium
Embodying Link-Quality Awareness for QoS-Adaptive Multi-Hop Wireless...
Kyu-Han Kim, University of Michigan

Tuesday, March 25, 2008, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Computer Science Open Forum
Open forum on departmental issues
Xindong Wu, University of Vermont

Monday, March 24, 2008, 10:30 am to 11:30 am (GS 701)
Computer Science Colloquium
Top-10 Algorithms in Data Mining
Xindong Wu, University of Vermont

Saturday, March 15, 2008
Spring Break Begins

Thursday, March 13, 2008, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Computer Science Colloquium
Power Management and Scalability Prediction in High-Performance Computing
David Lowenthal, The University of Georgia

Tuesday, March 11, 2008, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Computer Science Open Forum
Open forum on departmental issues
Paul Cohen

Monday, March 10, 2008, 10:30 am (GS 701)
Computer Science Colloquium
Data Mining in Word Learning and the Internet Classroom
Paul Cohen, Information Sciences Institute, USC

Thursday, March 6, 2008, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Computer Science Colloquium
Characterizing the Impact of Rigidity on the Security of Cellular Networks
Patrick Traynor, Pennsylvania State University

Tuesday, March 4, 2008, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Computer Science Colloquium
When Less is More: Context-Awareness in Constrained Environments
Angela Dalton

Thursday, February 28, 2008, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Computer Science Colloquium
Practical Dynamic Software Updating
Iulian Neamtiu

Friday, February 22, 2008, 2:30 pm (GS 906)
Computer Science Colloquium
Matching Slides to Presentation Videos
Quanfu Fan, Computer Science

Tuesday, February 19, 2008, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Computer Science Colloquium
XML Document Ranking
Rui Zhang, Computer Science

Thursday, February 14, 2008, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Computer Science Colloquium
The iPlant Collaborative: A Cyberinfrastructure-Based Community for a New Plant Biology
Richard Jorgensen, Dept of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona

Thursday, February 7, 2008, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Computer Science Colloquium
The Frobenius Problem and Its Generalizations
Jeffrey Shallit, University of Waterloo

Thursday, January 31, 2008, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Computer Science Colloquium
A Predicate-based Analytical Framework for Managing Multi-faceted Business Process Changes
J. Leon Zhao, Eller Professor and Interim Head, Dept. of MIS, University of Arizona

Tuesday, January 29, 2008, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Computer Science Colloquium
The Topology of Bendless Three-Dimensional Orthogonal Graph Drawing
David Eppstein

Thursday, January 24, 2008, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Computer Science Colloquium
Lossless compression of text and image data
Marek Rychlik

Tuesday, January 22, 2008, 11:00 am (GS 906)
PhD Student Review

Monday, January 21, 2008
Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday

Thursday, January 17, 2008, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Computer Science Colloquium
Three Applications of Circle Packing with 4-sided Gaps
Marshall Bern

Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Spring Classes Begin

Sunday, January 13, 2008
Residence Halls Open

Thursday, January 10, 2008, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Computer Science Colloquium
Drawing Planar Graphs in Small Area
Fabrizio Frati

Wednesday, January 2, 2008
University Reopens

Tuesday, January 1, 2008
New Year's Day

Saturday, December 22, 2007
Winter Closure Begins

Friday, December 14, 2007
Last Day to Return Lab Cards

Friday, December 14, 2007
Finals Exams End

Friday, December 7, 2007
Finals Exams Begin

Thursday, December 6, 2007
Reading Day

Wednesday, December 5, 2007, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Computer Science Colloquium
The Accuracy of Network Visualizations
Dick Klavans, UCSD

Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Last Day of Classes

Thursday, November 29, 2007, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Computer Science Colloquium
Here's What I Say, Now Give Me What I Need
Udi Manber, VP of Engineering, Google

Tuesday, November 27, 2007, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Computer Science Colloquium
Towards a global demography of the human species
Murray P. Cox, Arizona Research Laboratories, U of A

Thursday, November 22, 2007
Thanksgiving Recess

Tuesday, November 20, 2007, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Computer Science Colloquium
Forensic Analysis of Database Tampering
Kyriacos Pavlou, Computer Science

Tuesday, November 13, 2007, 11:30 am (GS 906)
Computer Science Colloquium
Gossamer: A Threading Framework for Multicore Architectures
Joe Roback, Computer Science

Tuesday, November 13, 2007, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Computer Science Colloquium
Automatic Static Unpacking of Malware Binaries
Kevin Coogan, Computer Science

Monday, November 12, 2007
Veteran's Day Holiday

Tuesday, November 6, 2007, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Computer Science Colloquium
New Challenges in Managing Scientific Data
Marianne Winslett, University of Illinois-UC

Tuesday, October 30, 2007, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Computer Science Colloquium
Multidimensional Visualization and its Applications
Alfred Inselberg, Tel Aviv Univ and San Diego SuperComputing Center

Tuesday, October 23, 2007, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Computer Science Colloquium
Towards Regulatory Compliance in Data Management
Radu Sion

Tuesday, October 2, 2007, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Computer Science Colloquium
Disjoint Multipath Routing Using Colored Trees
Srinivasan Ramasubramanian

Monday, October 1, 2007, 4:00 pm (GS 701)
Computer Science Colloquium
Fault Location and Avoidance in Long-Running Multithreaded Applications
Sriraman Tallam, Computer Science

Tuesday, September 4, 2007, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Computer Science Colloquium
The SLIC Video Browsing System Project description and future plans
Kobus Barnard, Alon Efrat, Sandiway Fong, Department of Computer Science

Monday, September 3, 2007
Labor Day

Friday, August 31, 2007, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Computer Science Colloquium
Characterization of Unlabeled Level Planar Graphs with Applications to Level Planarity
Joe Fowler, Department of Computer Science

Monday, August 20, 2007
Fall Classes Begin

Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Last Day of Summer Session

Tuesday, August 7, 2007, 1:00 pm (GS 906)
Computer Science Colloquium
Indexing XML Data for Efficient Twig Pattern Matching
Praveen Rao, PhD Candidate, Department of Computer Science

Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Independence Day Holiday

Monday, June 4, 2007
Summer Classes Begin

Monday, May 28, 2007
Memorial Day Holiday

Saturday, May 12, 2007 (McKale Center)
University Commencement

Thursday, May 10, 2007, 1:10 pm (Centennial Hall)
College Commencement

Friday, May 4, 2007
Final Exams Begin

Thursday, May 3, 2007, 1:00 pm (GS 9th floor)
Dept Awards Reception
Recognizing members of the department

Wednesday, May 2, 2007, 10:30 am (GS 701)
Computer Science Colloquium
Masters Thesis Defense
Milind Chabbi, Master's Candidate, Department of Computer Science

Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Last Day of Classes

Tuesday, May 1, 2007, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Computer Science Colloquium
Geometric and Topological Methods in Molecular Shape Analysis
Yusu Wang, Assistant Professor, Ohio State University

Monday, April 30, 2007, 1:45 pm (GS 906)
Computer Science Colloquium
TXSchema - Support for Data- and Schema-Versioned XML Documents
Shailesh Joshi, Masters Graduate Student, Department of Computer Science

Thursday, April 26, 2007, 11:00 am (GS 9th floor)
Reception for Peter Downey
John Hartman, Computer Science Department

Thursday, April 12, 2007, 11:00 am (GS 906)
PhD Oral Qualifying Exam
Debugging and Fault Avoidance in Multi-threaded Programs
Chen Tian, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Computer Science

Friday, April 6, 2007, 10:45 am (GS 906)
Computer Science Colloquium
A Sequencing Paradigm for XML Twig Pattern Matching
Praveen Rao, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Computer Science

Thursday, March 29, 2007, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Computer Science Colloquium
24-Hour Knowledge Factory
Amar Gupta, Professor, Eller College of Management

Thursday, March 22, 2007, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Computer Science Colloquium
Exploiting Similarity Between Variants to Defeat Malware
Arun Lakhotia

Tuesday, March 20, 2007, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Computer Science Colloquium
E=mc^2: Energising wireless mesh networks with multipath code casting
Wenjun Hu, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory

Saturday, March 10, 2007
Spring Recess Begins

Thursday, March 8, 2007, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Computer Science Colloquium
High-Performance, Power-Aware Computing
Vincent W. Freeh, Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University

Thursday, February 22, 2007, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Computer Science Colloquium
The Genographic Project: Introduction, Early Results and Statistical Challenges
Saharon Rosset, Ph.D., Data Analytics Group, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Friday, February 2, 2007, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Computer Science Colloquium
GENI: Global Environment for Network Innovations
Larry L. Peterson, Professor, Princeton University

Monday, January 22, 2007, 7:00 pm (GS 906)
Microsoft Student Partner Talk
C# for Java Developers
Andrew Lenards

Monday, January 15, 2007
Martin Luther King Holiday

Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Spring Classes Begin

Tuesday, January 9, 2007, 6:30 pm (GS 906)
Tucson Java User Group meeting
Using CSS and Web standards to create great websites that everyone can view
Joseph Sinclair, Google (Phoenix Offices)

Tuesday, January 2, 2007
University Reopens

Saturday, December 23, 2006
Winter Closure Begins

Saturday, December 16, 2006, 9:00 am (McKale Center)
University Commencement
Denise Austin, Fitness Guru

Friday, December 15, 2006, 10:30 am (Centennial Hall)
College Commencement

Friday, December 15, 2006, 9:00 am to 10:00 am (GS 9th Floor)
CS Graduation Reception

Monday, December 11, 2006, 2:00 pm (GS 906)
Computer Science Colloquium
Improving Accessibility to Information in Multimedia
Arnon Amir, IBM Almaden Research Center

Friday, December 8, 2006, 9:30 am (GS 906)
Master's Thesis Defense
A data mining application for the automatic classification of FITS images using metadata information
Pooja Vaswani, Master's Student, Department of Computer Science

Thursday, November 30, 2006, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Computer Science Colloquium
Opportunities and Challenges for Linguistic Theory in Computation
Sandiway Fong, Associate Professor, Linguistics and Computer Science

Tuesday, November 28, 2006, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Computer Science Colloquium
Tracing the Journey: Adventures in interdisciplinary life sciences research
Nirav Merchant, Director, Biotechnology Computing

Friday, November 24, 2006
Friday Holiday