Events & News

Past Events

Tuesday, November 22, 2011, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm (Gould-Simpson 906)
Colloquium
Connectivity and Coverage Problems in Emerging Networks
Arun Sen, Computer Science and Engineering Program, Arizona State University

Thursday, November 10, 2011, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm (Gould-Simpson 906)
Colloquium
New Methods for Wormhole Detection, Target Tracking and related problems in Wireless Sensor Networks
Rik Sarkar, Freie University, Berlin, Germany

Monday, November 7, 2011, 2:00 pm (Gould-Simpson 701)
Defense
Efficient Geometric Algorithms for Wireless Networks
Swaminathan Sankararaman, Computer Science Department, University of Arizona

Thursday, April 14, 2011, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm (Gould-Simpson 906)
Colloquium
Throughput Optimization in Wireless Networks via Local Pooling
Gil Zussman, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University www.ee.columbia.edu/~zussman

Friday, March 4, 2011, 9:30 am to 10:30 am (Gould-Simpson 906)
Colloquium
Building a Global Display Network
Nigel Davies, Building a Global Display Network, School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University

Thursday, March 3, 2011, 11:00 am (Gould-Simpson 906)
Colloquium
Characterizing Human Mobility from Cellular Network Data
Ramon Caceres, Lead Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Labs

Thursday, February 24, 2011, 11:00 am (Gould-Simpson 906)
Colloquium
Bounds and Algorithms regarding Obstacle Representations of Graphs
Deniz Sarioz, CUNY Graduate School and University Center

Thursday, January 13, 2011, 11:00 am (Gould-Simpson 906)
Colloquium
The Role of Intermediate Shape Priors in Perceptual Grouping and Image Abstraction
Sven Dickinson, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto

Friday, December 17, 2010, 10:30 am (Centennial Hall)
COS Winter Commencement

Friday, December 10, 2010, 2:00 pm (Gould-Simpson Building, Room 701)
Colloquium
Reproducing Software Experiments
Somasundaram Perianayagam, PhD Final Defense, Computer Science Department

Friday, December 10, 2010, 11:00 am (Gould-Simpson 906)
Colloquium
Recursive Networking
Dr. Joe Touch, Postel Center Director - Univ. Southern California (ISI), Research Associate Professor - USC's CS and EE/Systems Depts.

Friday, December 10, 2010
Fall 10 Final Exams begin

Friday, November 26, 2010
Thanksgiving Recess

Thursday, November 25, 2010
Thanksgiving Recess

Thursday, November 11, 2010
Veteran's Day Holiday

Thursday, October 28, 2010, 11:00 am (Gould-Simpson 906)
Colloquium
Label Placement in Dynamic Maps
Martin Noellenburg, Assistant Professor, Karlsruhe University - Germany

Thursday, October 14, 2010, 11:00 am (Gould-Simpson 906)
Colloquium
On the REALab project: Challenges and Solutions in Remote Lab Access for Distance Learning
Eleri Cardozo, Professor, ECE (FEEC) State University of Campinas (Unicamp)

Tuesday, October 12, 2010, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm (Gould-Simpson 906)
Colloquium
Dynamic State Alteration Techniques for Automatically Locating Software Errors
Dennis Jeffrey-Google, Software Engineer

Monday, October 11, 2010, 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm (Gould-Simpson 906)
Google Tech Talk/Info Session
Getting the Most Out of Your Warehouse-Sized Computer
Justin Moore-Google, Software Engineer, Google

Monday, September 6, 2010
Labor Day Holiday

Thursday, September 2, 2010, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Colloquium
Research on perception, action, and cognition in the CACTUS Lab (Curious Agents: Cognition, Thinking, and Understanding Systems) at the University of Arizona.
Ian Fasel, Assistant Research Professor, Computer Science Department and SISTA - University of Arizona

Monday, August 23, 2010
Fall 2010 semester begins

Tuesday, August 10, 2010, 2:00 pm (GS 906)
Colloquium
Learning to Recognize Agent Activities and Their Intentions
Wesley Kerr, PhD Final Defense, Computer Science Department - University of Arizona

Monday, July 5, 2010
July 4th - Holiday

Tuesday, June 22, 2010, 2:00 pm (GS 942)
Colloquium
Gossamer: A Lightweight Programming Framework for Multicore Machines
Joseph Roback, PhD Final Defense, Computer Science Department

Monday, May 31, 2010
Memorial Day Holiday

Friday, May 14, 2010, 10:00 am (GS 906)
Colloquium
Clone Detection via Structural Abstraction
Will Evans, University of British Columbia

Tuesday, May 11, 2010, 10:00 am (GS 942)
Colloquium
Enhancing Emphasis in a Lecture Video
Qiyam Tung, MS Thesis Defense, Computer Science Department-University of Arizona

Thursday, May 6, 2010, 10:00 am (GS 942)
Colloquium
NAT Traversal through Tunneling
Arun Madhavan, MS Thesis Defense, Computer Science Department-University of Arizona

Wednesday, May 5, 2010, 2:00 pm (GS 942)
Colloquium
Static Detection of Disassembly Errors
Nithya Krishnamoorthy, MS Thesis Defense, Computer Science Department-University of Arizona

Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Last Day of Classes May 5,2010

Tuesday, April 27, 2010, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Colloquium
Energy-Efficient Storage in Virtual Machine Environments
Lei Ye, Oral Qualifying Exam, Computer Science Department-University of Arizona

Friday, April 16, 2010, 2:00 pm (GS 906)
Colloquium
Context-Aware Resource Management
Igor Crk, PhD Final Defense, Computer Science Department

Friday, April 16, 2010, 1:15 pm (GS 701)
Colloquium
DuraBytes - The Smarter Tape
Arnon Amir, Research Staff, Computer Science Department-IBM Almaden Research Center

Friday, April 16, 2010, 10:00 am to 11:00 am (GS 906)
Security Seminar Series
Organizational and National "Security Resilience" underpinning a Cybersecurity Strategy
Chris Demchak, School of Government and Public Policy, University of Arizona

Thursday, April 15, 2010, 10:00 am (GS 942)
Colloquium
Digital Trails
Scott Morris, PhD Final Defense, Computer Science Department

Thursday, April 8, 2010, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Colloquium
What's Worth Watching on TV? -- a Collaborative Filtering Based Recommender for Implicit Feedback Datasets
Yifan Hu, AT&T Research Labs

Thursday, April 8, 2010, 9:00 am (GS 701)
Colloquium
Learning 3-D Models of Object Structure From Images
Joseph Schlecht, PhD Final Defense, Computer Science Department

Thursday, April 1, 2010, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Colloquium
Efficient Statistical Relational Learning
Sriraam Natarajan, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Department of Computer Science-University of Wisconsin-Madison

Tuesday, March 30, 2010, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Colloquium
Bodyguard: Running Protected Applications in Untrusted Operating Systems
Russell Lewis, Master's Thesis Defense, Department of Computer Science-University of Arizona

Saturday, March 13, 2010
Spring Recess March 13-21,2010

Thursday, March 11, 2010, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Distinguished Lecture
Reinventing the Internet
Larry Peterson, Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University

Friday, March 5, 2010, 12:00 pm (GS 906)
Cog Sci Brown Bag Seminar
Perceptive, Information Gathering Autonomous Agents
Ian Fasel, Assistant Research Professor, Department of Computer Science - University of Arizona

Thursday, March 4, 2010, 3:30 pm (GS 942)
Colloquium
Theory and Practice of Dynamic Voltage/Frequency Scaling in the High Performance Computing Environment
Barry Rountree, PhD Final Defense, Computer Science Department

Thursday, March 4, 2010, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Colloquium
Constant-Work-Space Algorithm for Geometric Problems
Tetsuo Asano , School of Information Science , JAIST (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Colloquium
Approximation schemes for the vehicle routing problem with unsplittable demands.
Aparna Das, PhD Student, Brown University - Providence, RI

Friday, February 26, 2010, 12:00 pm (GS 906)
Cog Sci Brown Bag Seminar
Benjamin Kozuch, Dept of Philosophy & Wesley Kerr, Dept of Computer Science, Graduate Student Presentations

Friday, February 26, 2010, 10:00 am to 11:00 am (GS 906)
Security Seminar Series
LOT - Lightweight Opportunistic Tunnels
Amir Herzberg, Dept. of Computer Science, Bar Ilan University

Friday, February 19, 2010, 12:00 pm (GS 906)
Cog Sci Brown Bag Seminar
Bounded Optimality in Language, Thought, and Action: Studies of Adaptation Under Cognitive Constraint
Richard L. Lewis, Professor of Psychology , Department of Psychology - University of Michigan

Friday, February 19, 2010, 10:00 am to 11:00 am (GS 906)
Security Seminar Series
Social Computing and Societal Security: A New Dimension in Information Security
Fei-Yue Wang, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, SIE UofA

Thursday, February 18, 2010, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm (GS 906)
Security Seminar Series
Exploiting Online Games
Gary McGraw, Cigital

Friday, February 12, 2010, 12:00 pm (GS 906)
Cog Sci Brown Bag Seminar
Relating Linguistic Competence and Psycholinguistic Performance in Phonological Encoding through Neural Network Computation
Canceled-Paul Smolensky, Ph.D., Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Cognitive Science , Department of Cognitive Science - Johns Hopkins University

Friday, February 5, 2010, 12:00 pm (GS 906)
Cog Sci Brown Bag Seminar
Expert Performance: From Action to Perception to Understanding
Sian Beilock , Associate Professor, Department of Psychology - The University of Chicago

Friday, February 5, 2010, 10:00 am to 11:00 am (GS 906)
Security Seminar Series
Data Mining for Malicious Code Detection and Security Applications
Bhavani Thuraisingham, School of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas

Friday, January 29, 2010, 12:00 pm (GS 906)
Cog Sci Brown Bag Seminar
The Immutable Nature of Emotional Memories: Emotion-Impaired Memory Updating
Mara Mather, Associate Professor, Gerontology & Psychology - University of Southern California

Friday, January 22, 2010, 12:00 pm (GS 906)
Cog Sci Brown Bag Seminar
Statistical Learning in Language Acquisition: Implications for Moral Psychology and the ŒLinguistic Analogy
Theresa Lopez , Graduate Student Presentation, Dept. of Philosophy

Thursday, January 21, 2010, 11:00 am (Gould Simpson 9th floor atrium)
Farewell Reception

Monday, January 18, 2010
Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday

Thursday, January 14, 2010, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Colloquium
Data Storage, Retrieval and Routing in Sensor Network with Ricci Flow Embedding
Rik Sarkar, Ph.D. Student, Department of Computer Science at Stony Brook University

Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Spring 2010 semester begins

Friday, December 25, 2009
Christmas Recess

Thursday, December 24, 2009
Christmas Recess

Friday, December 18, 2009, 9:00 am (Centennial Hall)
COS Winter Commencement

Friday, December 18, 2009
Final Exams End

Monday, December 14, 2009, 1:30 pm (GS 906)
Colloquium
Solar System Object Searching in "Deep Stacks"
Jonathan Myers, MS Thesis Defense, University of Arizona

Friday, December 11, 2009
Final Exams Start

Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Last Day of Classes

Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Colloquium
Data mining records of an ITS used by English Learners and English Primary Students
Federico Cirett Galan, PhD Student - Oral Qualifying Exam, Computer Science, University of Arizona

Friday, December 4, 2009, 12:00 pm (GS 906)
Cog Sci Brown Bag Seminar
Medial Temporal Lobe Amnesia: A Deficit in Memory, Perception, or Both?
Morgan Barense , Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto

Thursday, December 3, 2009, 11:00 am (GS 906)
Colloquium
Algorithms for Boundary Labeling
Dr. Michael Kaufmann, Professor, University of Tubingen

Friday, November 27, 2009
Thanksgiving Recess

Thursday, November 26, 2009
Thanksgiving Recess

Friday, November 20, 2009, 12:00 pm (GS 906)
Cog Sci Brown Bag Seminar
Two Kinds of Math - and How to Teach Them
Keith Devlin , Executive Director , H-STAR Institute, Stanford University

Friday, November 13, 2009, 12:00 pm (GS 906)
Cog Sci Brown Bag Seminar
Evolution and Analysis of Minimally-Cognitive Behavior in Model Agents
Randall Beer, Professor of Informatics - Cognitive Science, Computer Science, School of Informatics and Computing Indiana University-Bloomington

Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Veteran's Day Holiday

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