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Colloquia 2008 - 2009

The Computer Science Department sponsors a colloquium and seminar series during the Fall and Winter semesters on Thursdays at 11:00 a.m. in 1170 TMCB. Please check the calendar below for specific dates and speakers and also note when there are no presentations.

Recordings and slides are often provided for the benefit of those who cannot attend, requested by members of the CS Alumni Association.

DateTitleSpeakerFiles
4 Sep 2008Graduate Student Orientation

Graduate Coordinator & Assistant
11 Sep 2008What is in Common between Evolving Web Clickstreams, Hot Plasma Loops on the Solar Corona, and Contraband Exchange on...

Olfa Nasraoui
Associate Professor, Computer Engineering and Computer Science, University of Louisville
18 Sep 2008Graph Identification

Lise Getoor
Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Maryland, College Park
25 Sep 2008Computational Finance in Investment Management

John Lafare
VP of IT Group and Director of Investment Management Systems at The Capital Group Companies
9 Oct 2008How Epidemiology Got under My Skin and Now I’m Trying to Prevent the Worst Disease You’ve Never Heard Of

Michael J. Cannon
Research Epidemiologist, National Center for Infectious Disease, Center for Disease Control

Video PDF
16 Oct 2008Why You Should Go To Graduate School

Chris Monson
Software Engineer, Google
30 Oct 2008Cutting Edge Genealogy Tool Development

Kevin Ward, Tim Cross, & Gordon Clarke
Family History Department Engineering & Product Managers, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
6 Nov 2008Social Robots and Human Social Development

Brian Scassellati
Associate Professor of Computer Science, Yale University
13 Nov 2008Web 2.0, the Global Village, and the Code of Fair Information Practices

Michael Quinn
Dean of the College of Science and Engineering, Seattle University
20 Nov 2008Computing for Socio-Economic Development

Kentaro Toyama
Assistant Managing Director of Microsoft Research India, Bangalore
4 Dec 2008"A Day in the Life of Video Game Development" (Things You Didn't Know You Wanted To Know About Making Games)

Rob Nelson
Director of Technology, Avalanche Software, Disney Interactive Studios
11 Dec 2008Bargteil: Physics Based Animation; Hall: Autotuning in the Multi-core Era

Adam W. Bargteil
Assistant Professor, Computer Science, U. of Utah
Mary Hall
Associate Professor, Computer Science, U. of Utah
8 Jan 2009Graduate Student Orientation

Graduate Coordinator & Assistant
15 Jan 2009TBA

David Wingate
Postdoctoral research associate, Computational Cognitive Science Group, MIT

22 Jan 2009Field Testing of Utility Robots for Lunar Surface Operations

Terry Fong
Director of the Intelligent Robotics Group, NASA Ames Research Center
29 Jan 2009Proposing a New Design-Science Model-Checking Methodology for the Assurance of Electronic Commerce Processes

Bonnie Anderson
Associate Professor, Department of Information Systems, Marriott School
5 Feb 2009TBA

David Storck
12 Feb 2009TBA

Quinn Snell & Mark Clement
Computational Sciences Lab, Computer Science, BYU
19 Feb 2009TBA

Michael Gamon
Microsoft Research
5 Mar 2009TBA

Jude Shavlik
Professor, Departments of Computer Sciences and Biostatistics & Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
12 Mar 2009TBA

Dan Roth
Professor, Department of Computer Science and The Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
19 Mar 2009TBA

Danielle Tarraf
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University
26 Mar 2009Undergraduate Seminar: TBA

TBA
2 Apr 2009Ph.D. Review

TBA
9 Apr 2009Capstone Demo Day

TBA

BYU Computer Science students and faculty are especially encouraged to attend, and students from other technical programs and BYU alumni are also invited.

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For questions or comments, please contact Eric Ringger

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