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Seminars

2012

May 10 Dr. Hanghang Tong: "Algorithms to Affect Influence Propagation on Large Graphs"
May 10 Prof. Robert Haralick: "Relation Decomposition and Estimation of Causal System Structure"
May 9 Math/CS colloquium talk was presented by Joel J. Fleck II from HP Labs entitled "Model-driven Adaptive Management for Highly Distributed Systems"
May 8 Dr. Jingrui He: "Heterogeneity Meets Rarity: Mining Multi-Faceted Diamond"
May 3 Dr. Leonid Gurvits: "The Monomer-Dimer Problem, Stable (a.k.a. hyperbolic) Homogeneous Polynomials, and the Bethe Approximation"
May 1 Dr. Anindya Banerjee: "Experiments in Mechanized Verification"
April 26 Dr. Rosario Gennaro: "Securing Cloud Computing: How to Outsource Computation to Untrusted Workers"
April 24 Dr. Frank Wood: "From the sequence memoizer to the infinite, structured, explicit-duration hidden Markov model: recent developments in expressive, general-purpose, computationally-efficient probabilistic modeling"
April 19 Dr. Itamar Arel: "Breaking the Curse of Dimensionality in Large-scale Decision Making Systems with Deep Reinforcement Learning"
April 3 Dr. Samantha Kleinberg: "Causality, Probability, and Time"
March 15 Math/CS colloquium talk was presented by Dr. Howard Straubing from Boston College entitled "What Can You Say in First-Order Logic? An Algebraic Perspective".
March 13 Dr. Chee Yap from Department of Computer Science and Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of NYU gave a talk on "Theory of Soft Subdivision Search and Motion Planning" (Hosted by Prof. Peter Brass).
March 6 Math/CS colloquium talk was presented by Dr. Azita Mayeli from Queensborough Community College entitled "An introduction to frames and wavelet frames".
February 21 The second Math/CS colloquium talk was presented by Dr. John Iacon from Polytechnic Institute of NYU entitled "The Geometry of Binary Search Trees".
February 14 Math/CS colloquium talk was presented by Dr. Ralph Kopperman from CCNY entitled "Two uses of topology in computing".

2010

November 29 Dr. Jonathan Lenchner: "Practical Geometric Problems with Robotic Mapping and Monitoring of Data Centers
November 23 ACM talk on Cyber Security
October 20 Stephen Linton: "The HPCGAP Project: Towards High Performance Computational Algebra with GAP"
October 5 Applications of Graph Theory to Visual Cryptography. Professor S. Arumugam, Kalasalingam University, India.

2009

November 12 Steps Toward Self-Aware Networks
September 11 Faces of Modern Cryptography
March 12 ACM : Club Talk - Dr. Perlin

2008

June 16 Dr. Jianting Zhang: Data Integration and Visual Analytics in Geospatial Data Processing: Multidisciplinary Research Practices and Prospects
March 13 Dr. Nelly Fazio : Tackling the Content Protection Challenge
March 11 Dr. Umut Topkara : Infusing Usability Into Security Through Natural Language
March 07 Dr. William Skeith : Privacy Preserving Data-Mining
March 04 Joe-Kai Tsay: Cryptographically Sound Analysis of Basic and Public-key Kerberos
February 29 Dr. M. Murat Dundar: Remote Sensing Data Analysis in the Presence of Limited Training Data

2007

November 20 Mr. Abdelmounaam Rezgui: Enable Web-based, Real-time Geographic Information Systems through Service-Oriented Sensor Networks and Semantic Integration of Spatial Data.
November 15 Dr. Wee Keong Ng : A Platform for Secure Data Sharing and Data Mining
November 08 Dr. Robert Pless spoke on Passive Vision: A Year in the Life of 1000 Outdoor Webcams
October 04 Dr. Carola Wenk: Navigating car traffic
May 02 Prof. Xiaolei Huang : Free-form Deformable Shape and Appearance Models.
April 25 Prof. Ben Shneiderman : The Thrill of Discovery: Information Visualization for High-Dimensional Spaces.
February 27 Dr. Greg Arnold and Ms. Olga Mendoza: Challenges in Image Understanding

2006

December 11 Prof Jing Xiao : Contact and Deformation Modeling for Interactive Environments
November 16 Prof. Tetsuo Asano : Aspect-Ratio Voronoi Diagram with Applications.
November 09 Prof. Alexander Mikhalev : Algorithms of Computer Algebra.
November 08 Prof. Oliver Brock : Application of Insights from Robotics to Molecular Biology
October 18 Dr. Ying-Li Tian: A Open and Extensible Framework for Event Based Surveillance
September 14 Prof. Noemie Elhadad: "Automatic Text Summarization."
August 02 Prof. Shmuel Peleg : Video Mosaicing for Non-Chronological Time Editing
June 21 Dr. Firooz Sadjadi : Industrial applications of AI
May 30 Mehrbod Sharifi and Prof. Levin : Evaluation of Usability of LSA for Word Sense Disambiguation
March 21 Yegor Bryukhov : Extending proof assistants with reliable decision procedures
March 15 Professor Gaurav S. Sukhatme : Towards a Networked Robotics Observatory
March 07 Harvey E. Rhody, Ph.D. : Airborne Remote Sensing â€“ Applications, Systems and Algorithms
February 21 Dr. George Havas : More on proofs

2005

November 16 Professor Hairong Qi : Energy-efficient, Fault-tolerant Collaborative Processing in Sensor Networks
November 09 Professor Richard M. Voyles : Embedded, Real-Time Control of a Resource-Constrained CRAWLER Robot
November 02 Sonia Karkare: Navigating through different jobs, cultures, and teams in the information technology field
October 27 Prof. George Wolberg : Reconstructing 3D Models Of Large-Scale Scenes
October 27 ACM Club Meeting, featuring Prof. Abbe Mowshowitz : "The Digital Society: Challenges and Opportunities"
October 24 Dr. Ning Xi : Nano Robotic Manipulation and Assembly Using an Atomic Force Microscope
October 06 Dr. Carola Wenk : Applications of Geometric Shape Matching
September 29 Prof. Vulis: Making TeX WYSIWIG
September 16 Dr. Jerry Ball: Overview of the Performance and Learning Models (PALM) Research Program
September 8 Dr. George Havas: Algorithmic problems dating back to Euclid and Euler
August 1 Dr. Guangyou Xu: HCI in "Physical-Information" Dual Space
May 13 Dr. Roderic A. Grupen: Constraint Maintenance in Adaptive Behavior-Based Robot Systems
May 13 Dr. Allen R. Hanson and Dr. Edward M. Riseman: Computer Vision Research at UMass Amherst
April 15 Dr. Thomas S. Huang: Human Computer Intelligent Interaction
March 16thDr. Owen Rambow: Summarizing Email Threads
March 11th Noemie Elhadad: User-Sensitive Text Summarization
March 9th Dr. Rebecca Passonneau: Pyramid Analysis
March 8th Dr. Nizar Habash: Generation-Heavy Hybrid Machine Tanslation
March 3rd Chung-Chieh Shan: Linguistic Side Effects
March 2nd Dr. Jeffrey Siskind: Stochastic Spatio-Temporal Grammars for Images and Video

2004

Oct 11 Motion Layers Extraxtion in the Presence of Occlusion using Graph Cuts
May 24 Scheduling Techniques for Broadcasting Popular Media
May 20 Biomimetic Ultrasound: A Computational Approach
May 19 From Nucleotide Sequences to Secondary Structures, and Back Again
May 17 Geometric and Photometric Models for Cameras
May 14 The Thinking Machines
May 07 Building Multimodal User Interfaces
May 04 Sequence Assembly and Protein Docking Algorithms
April 28 Gene Networks and Functional Agents
April 22 Correspondence of Stereo Images Using Wavelets
April 21 Partial Trust and Scalable Authorization
April 16 Secure Information Flow and Stack-based Access Control in Java-like Languages
April 15 Name That Tune: Finding a Song from a Sung Query

2003

May 27 HARPS: HAshed Random Preloaded Subset Key Distribution
April 15 Design and Performance Modeling of Wireless Networks
April 14 The Effect of Class Distribution on Classifier Learning
April 8 Engineering ApproacH to Human-Machine Interactions
April 3 Shortest Path Tree Update for Network Routing
April 01 Efficient Oblivious Computation
March 27 Intelligent Computer Systems that Understand Human Languages

2002

April 09 Parallel-Perspective Stereo Mosaics from Real-World Video
April 04 Algorithmic Problems in Point Pattern Matching
April 03 Online Profiling and Optimization of Java
March 21 Software Architecture Extraction and Trade off Analysis
March 19 Querying XML from Mixed and Redundant Storage
March 14 Tabled Resolution with Dynamic Reordering of Alternatives
March 12 Efficient Algorithms for High-Dimensional Clustering
March 07 Evasive Graph Properties & other Hardness Results
March 05 Designing Networks with Demands Uncertainty
February 28 Enabling Agents in E-Business

Conferences

2011

November 4-5 21st Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry
September 9 Faces of Modern Cryptography Conference (FoMC 2011)
May 20 Spring 2011 Security and Privacy Day

2008

April 30 Visualization Day
April 18 Open Problems in Group Theory

2007

September 28 - 29 Group Theory: Generations
April 02 - 04 Trends in Functional Programming Conference

2006

November 10 Various Faces of Cryptography.
May 12 Complexity and Computation.

2005

May 11 Imaging & Visualization Mini-Conference: Bridging the Gap between University Research and Business Applications
April 22 Axiom Conference

2004

September 29 Symposium on Graph Drawing
April 30 The Future of Scientific Computation

2003

September 22 - 25 Computational Group Theory
May 15 - 16, 2003 Software for the Working Mathematician

Workshops

March 4th, 2008 ACM : Second General Meeting
February 14th, 2008 ACM : First General Meeting
Febrary 22, 2007 ACM : First General Meeeting
November 16, 2006 ACM : Cross-Platform Image Processing.
November 09, 2006 ACM : 3D Studio Max Workshop
November 02, 2006 ACM: General Meeting
October 26th, 2006 ACM: The Mysterious Art of Computer Architecture.
October 5th, 2006 ACM: Software Enginnering Demonstration.
September 07, 2006ACM: CCNY Robotics Team.
April 12, 2002 ACM: Advanced Linux.
March 15, 2002ACM: Introduction to Linux

Student Mixers

2015

April 16, 2015 Spring 2015 CS Student/Faculty Mixer

2014

November 13, 2014 Fall 2014 CS Student/Faculty Mixer
March 27, 2014 Spring 2014 CS Student/Faculty Mixer

2013

November 14, 2013 Fall 2013 CS Student/Faculty Mixer
April 18, 2013 Spring 2013 CS Student/Faculty Mixer

2012

October 25, 2012 Fall 2012 CS Student/Faculty Mixer
March 29, 2012 Spring 2012 CS Student/Faculty Mixer

2011

September 22, 2011 Fall 2011 CS Student/Faculty Mixer
April 14, 2011 Spring 2011 CS Student/Faculty Mixer

2010

December 7, 2010 Fall 2010 CS Student/Faculty Mixer
April 8, 2010 Spring 2010 CS Student/Faculty Mixer

2009

December 1, 2009 Fall 2009 CS Student/Faculty Mixer
April 23, 2009 Spring 2009 CS Student/Faculty Mixer

2008

October 23, 2008 Fall 2008 CSc STUDENT/FACULTY MIXER
May 8, 2008 Spring 2008 CSc STUDENT/FACULTY MIXER.

2007

November 08, 2007 FALL 2007 CSc STUDENT/FACULTY MIXER. Dr. Robert Pless spoke on Passive Vision: A Year in the Life of 1000 Outdoor Webcams
April 25th, 2007 Spring 2007 Csc Student/Faculty Mixer.
Ben Shneiderman spoke on Creativity Support Tools: A Grand Challenge