CPSC 681 - Spring 2003

Time: Mon & Wed, 4:10-5:25
Place: 124 H.R. Bright Bldg.
Instructor: Dr. Thomas R. Ioerger
Course Web Page: https://people.engr.tamu.edu/ioerger/cs681


Course Goals: The purpose of the course is to expose you to a broad range of current research topics in computer science and related fields.

Course Content and Schedule: This course consists of seminars which will be presented roughly once a week, on a monday and/or a wednesday. Generally, after the speaker is finished, there will be a question and answer period where the audience can ask any questions they might have that were not answered during the seminar.

You are responsible for checking the seminar schedule on the web (http://www.cs.tamu.edu/reserach/seminars/681seminar) and your email (announcements will be sent to csgrads@cs.tamu.edu) for up to date information (be sure to check each monday and wednesday as sometimes seminars will be announced at the last moment).

Mechanics and Grading: All registered students who miss at most 2 seminars presented in this class during the semester will receive credit for this course. Students will be allowed to make-up for missed seminars by attending other relevant seminars. Seminars which are automatically approved are listed below. For other seminars, please see (or email) the instructor for approval.

To receive credit for attending a seminar, students must prepare a short summary of the seminar on a form (provided here). For seminars presented in this course, the completed forms are due at the conclusion of the seminar and will be collected in HRBB 124.

This form must also be completed for make-up seminars. In this case, the students should print out a copy of the form and should return the completed forms to the Instructor or can slip them under his office door (328C HRBB). These reports are due within 3 days of the seminar (e.g., on Monday for a seminar on Friday).

Students who miss more than two seminars, after accounting for make-ups, will not receive credit for this course.

You are expected to arrive before the seminar starts and stay until it is over (including the question-answering period at the end, regardless of the time), and to pay attention. Unprofessional behavior (talking, doing other work, arriving late or leavning early, etc.) will result in loss of credit for seminar attendance.


Speakers

(This list was put together by Ms. Kathy Flores. Thanks Kathy!)

February 2003

3 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Vivek Sarin Texas A&M University
Multipole-Based Hierarchical Techniques and Their Applications

12 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Dirk Helbing Dresden University of Technology
Traffic Simulation and Route Choice Behavior

17 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Jennifer Welch Texas A&M University
Random Walk for Self-Stabilizing Group Communication in Ad-Hoc Networks

March 2003

3 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Samuel P. Midkiff Purdue University
The Pensieve Project: Compiling for Multiple Memory Models

19 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Marc Najork Microsoft Research Silicon Valley
High-Performance Web Crawling

24 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Dimitrios S. Nicolopoulos The College of William & Mary
Building Adaptive Programs with Local Sensing of Execution Conditions

26 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Stefan Szeider University of Toronto
Parameterized SAT: Solving the Satisfiability Problem by the Slice

April 2003

2 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Alexander Stepanov Adobe Systems, Inc.
Distinguished Lecturer
20th Anniversary: Greatest Common Measure: The Last 2500 Years

7 Mon. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Dr. Keshav Pingali Cornell University
Distinguished Lecturer
20th Anniversary: Intelligent Software Systems

16 Wed. 4:10pm (Rm 124 HRBB)
Mike Perez Compaq Computer Corporation (VP of Engineering and General Manager, retired)
Leadership Roles for Today's High-Tech Engineers