Andrew McNabb will present his MS Thesis Proposal on Wednesday, January 21, 2009 at 2:00 pm in the CS Conference Room.  The title of his proposal is "Large and Parallel Particle Swarms."  Please click more for an abstract of his research.  Andrew's advisor is Dr. Kevin Seppi.

All are encouraged to attend!

Daniel Adams will present his MS Thesis Proposal on Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 3:00 pm in the CS Conference Room.  The title of his proposal is "A Sketch System for Terrain Modeling."  Please click more for an abstract of his research.  Daniel's advisor is Dr. Parris Egbert.

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We will have the pleasure of hearing from two speakers at this week's colloquium.  Please see both posts to read the abstract and bio of each.

Adam W. Bargteil: Physics Based Animation 

Abstract: Physical simulation has been an important part of computational science for fifty years.  It has allowed engineers to determine whether a bridge would collapse or an airplane would fly, facilitating new designs, saving many dollars and potentially many lives.  Over the last decade physical simulation has proved to be an important tool in computer animation, generating a wide variety of extremely realistic motion of complicated, high degree-of-freedom systems... 

We will have the pleasure of hearing from two speakers at this week's colloquium.  Please see both posts to read the abstract and bio of each.

Mary Hall: Autotuning in the Multi-core Era 

Abstract: We are entering an era where every computer, whether embedded,  laptop, desktop, server or supercomputer, is a parallel computer. Technology trends and concerns about both design complexity and power have pushed computer architecture in this direction, but now there is an enormous burden on software developers to exploit this parallelism or risk slowing down yesterday's applications on tomorrow's hardware. This talk will describe autotuning, a new approach to software technology to ease the programming burden in the multi-core era... 

Maria Soledad (Sole) Pera will defend her MS Thesis on Thursday, December 18, 2008 at 10:00 am in the CS Conference Room. The title of her thesis is "Improving Library Searches Using Word-Correlation Factors and Folksonomies." Please click more for an abstract of her thesis. Sole's advisor is Dr. Dennis Ng.

All are encouraged to attend! 

Cui Tao will defend her PhD Dissertation on Monday, December 15, 2008 at 3:00 pm in the CS Library. The title of her dissertation is "Ontology Generation, Information Harvesting and Semantic Annotation for the Hidden Web." Please click more for an abstract of her dissertation. Cui's advisor is Dr. David Embley.

All are invited to attend! 

Terry Wilcox will defend his MS Thesis on Tuesday, December 9, 2008 at 4:00 pm in the CS Conference Room. The title of his thesis is "Dynamic Load Balancing of Virtual Machines Hosted on Xen." Please click more for an abstract of his thesis. Terry's advisor is Dr. Phil Windley.

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Lei Wang will present his PhD Dissertation Proposal on Friday, December 19, 2008 at 9:00 am in the CS Library (3361B TMCB).  The title of his proposal is "End-to-end Performance of Link Layer Fair Rate Control in Wireless Mesh Networks."  Please click more for an abstract of his research.  Lei's advisor is Dr. Daniel Zappala.

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Lei Wang's Research Area Exam will take place on Thursday, December 18, 2008 at 9:00 am in the CS Conference Room (3365 TMCB).  Lei's advisor is Dr. Daniel Zappala.

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Neil Toronto will defend his MS Thesis on Tuesday, December 9, 2008 at 3:00 pm in the CS Conference Room. The title of his thesis is "Super-Resolution via Image Recapture and Bayesian Effect Modeling." Please click more for an abstract of this thesis. Neil's advisor is Dr. Dan Ventura.

All are encouraged to attend!