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Seminars

Fall 2009

• Dr. Xindong Wu, Professor & Chair, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Vermont, "Error-Tolerant Data Mining"
  11-23-2009; 12:50 - 1:40 pm; 367 Votey Hall.
• Dr. Josh Bongard, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Vermont, "Innocent Until Proven Guilty: Reducing Robot Shaping from Polynomial to Linear Time"
  11-09-2009; 12:50 - 1:45 pm; 367 Votey Hall.
• Dr. Peter Lax, Professor Emeritus, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, Burack President's Distinguished Lecture: "John von Neumann: The Most Powerful Mind of the 20th Century"
  10-14-2009; 4:00 - 5:00 pm; Billings North Lounge.
• Dr. Wei Ding, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Boston, "Discriminating Patterns for Surveying and Mapping Geospatial Relationships"
  09-14-2009; 12:50 - 1:40 pm; 361 Votey Hall.

Spring 2009

• Dr. Neil Sarkar, Director of Biomedical Informatics at Center for Clinical and Translational Science, and Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, College of Medicine, University of Vermont, "Biodiversity Informatics: Developing Computational Approaches to Link Knowledge Across the Spectrum of Life"
  04-27-2009; 12:50 - 1:45pm; 207 Votey Hall.
• Dr. Elizabeth Chen, Associate Director of Biomedical Informatics, Center for Clinical and Translational Science, Assistant Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Vermont. "Data, Text, and Web Mining in Healthcare"
  04-13-2009; 12:50 - 1:45pm; 207 Votey Hall.
• Dr. Fumiya Iida, Robot Locomotion Group, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Biologically Inspired Motor Control for Underactuated Robots"
  03-30-2009; 12:50 - 1:45pm; 207 Votey Hall.
• Dr. Kirk Borne, Department of Computational and Data Sciences, George Mason University, " Data Science Challenges from Petascale Astronomical Sky Surveys"
  03-23-2009; 12:50 - 1:45pm; 207 Votey Hall.
• Dr. Tanzeem Choudhury, Computer Science Department, Dartmouth College, "Inferring Social Networks Automatically from Sensor Data"
  03-16-2009; 12:50 - 1:45pm; 207 Votey Hall.
• Benjamin Beckmann, Michigan State University, "Evolving Energy-Conserving Distributed Behavior"
  02-02-2009; 12:50 - 1:45pm; 207 Votey Hall.

Fall 2008

• CANCELLED (due to weather) - Dr. Hava T. Siegelmann, UMass Amherst (Computer Science) and Harvard University (Evolutionary Dynamics), "What Causes Jetlag?"
  12-12-2008; 9:00am; Davis Center, Jost Foundation Rm.
• Dr. George Pinder (speaker) and Ganesh Oka, University of Vermont, "Subsurface Biological System Simulation Using Cellular Automata."
  12-1-2008; 12:20 - 1:15pm; 367 Votey Hall.
• Prof. Alison Pechenick, University of Vermont, "An Introduction to Support Vector Machines, Kernel Methods and Learning Theory."
  11-17-2008; 12:20-1:15pm; 367 Votey Hall.
• Dr. Alan Ling, University of Vermont, "Constructions for Hash families."
  11-3-2008; 12:20-1:15pm; 367 Votey Hall.
  
• Dr. Maggie Eppstein, University of Vermont, "Very Large Scale ReliefF for Genome-Wide Association Analysis."
  10-13-2008; 12:20 - 1:15pm; 367 Votey Hall.
  
• Dr. Austin Troy, University of Vermont, "Implementing an Integrated Land Use, Transportation, and Environmental Quality Simulation Model for Chittenden County."
  10-06-2008; 12:20 - 1:15pm; 367 Votey Hall.
• Dr. Josh Bongard, University of Vermont, "Individualized Modeling of Human Decision Making."
  09-22-2008; 12:20 - 1:15pm; 367 Votey Hall.
• Dr. X. Sean Wang, University of Vermont, "A Dialog on Scientific Ethics."
  09-10-2008; 12:20 - 1:15pm; 367 Votey Hall.

Spring 2008

• Serguei V.S. Pakhomov, University of Minnesota, "Using the Unstructured Text of the Electronic Medical Record to Identify Evidence of Foot Examinations."
  04-23-2008; 12:20 - 1:10pm; 367 Votey Hall.
• Hiroki Sayama, Binghamton University, SUNY, "Self-Organization of Heterogeneous Self-Propelled Particle Swarms."
  03-27-2008; 4:00pm; 101 Perkins Hall.
• Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, "Top-10 Algorithms in Data Mining."
  03-21-2008; 12:20 - 1:10pm; 367 Votey Hall.
• Pedro Felzenszwalb, University of Chicago, "Object Recognition with Deformable Models."
  01-24-2008; 11:00am - 12:00pm; 322 Votey Hall.
• Patrick M. Reed, Pennsylvania State University, "Cyber-Enabled Discovery & Negotiation Given Conflicting Design Objectives."
  02-01-2008; 2:30 - 3:30 pm; 004 Kalkin Hall.

Fall 2007

• Brian D. Fath, Towson University (Maryland) / International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Austria), "Complex Ecological Networks: Structural and Functional Regimes."
  10-29-2007; 12:20 - 1:10 pm; Votey Hall, Rm. 367.
• Abdullah N. Arslan, University of Vermont, "D-Dimensional Common Subsequences of D-Dimensional Strings."
  10-22-2007; 12:20 - 1:10 pm; Votey Hall, Rm. 367.
• Joshua Steinhurst, Bucknell University, "Practical Photon Mapping in Hardware."
  10-15-2007; 12:20 - 1:10 pm; Votey Hall, Rm. 367.
• Guozhu Dong, Wright State University, "Mining Minimal Distinguishing Subsequence Patterns with Gap Constraints."
  10-08-2007; 12:20 - 1:10 pm; Votey Hall, Rm. 367.
• Chris Hancock, Tertl Studos, "An On-Ramp to Computational Fluency."
  09-17-2007; 12:20 - 1:10 pm; Votey Hall, Rm. 367.
• Daniel Ashlock, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Guelph, "What Has Evolved? Sorting Through the Debris of Evolution."
  09-05-2007; 12:20 - 1:10 pm; Votey Hall, Rm. 367.

Spring 2007

• Ferdinando Villa, Department of Plant Biology, University of Vermont, "Ecoinformatics: Knowledge Representation and Machine Reasoning for Sustainable Environmental Research and Decision Making."
  05-04-2007; 12:20 - 1:10 pm; Votey Hall, Rm. 367.
• Murat Demirbas, Computer Science and Engineering Department, SUNY Buffalo, "A Transactional Framework for Programming Wireless Sensor/Actor Networks."
  04-30-2007; 12:20 - 1:10 pm; Votey Hall, Rm. 367.
• Reda Ammar, Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Connecticut, "Scheduling Task Graphs for Efficient Utilization of Cluster Computing Environments."
  04-25-2007; 2:30 - 3:30 pm; Votey Hall, Rm. 322.
• Gregg Morrisett, Division of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University, "Higher Level Languages for Sensor Networks."
  04-09-2007; 12:20 - 1:10 pm; Votey Hall, Rm. 367.
• Andreas Terzis, Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, "Design Tools for Sensor-Based Science."
  04-06-2007; 12:20 - 1:10 pm; Votey Hall, Rm. 367.
• Jason Moore, Genetics Department, Dartmouth Medical School, "Genome-Wide Genetic Analysis Using Genetic Programming: The Critical Need for Expert Knowledge."
  03-26-2007; 12:20 - 1:10 pm; Votey Hall, Rm. 367.
• David C. Krakauer,  Santa Fe Institute, "Theory and Strategy of Coding in Microbe Genomes: Case Studies in Informational Evolutionary Theory."
  02-12-2007; 12:20 - 1:10 pm; Billings North Lounge.

Fall 2006

• Matt Welsh, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, "Monitoring Volcanic Eruptions with a Wireless Sensor Network."
  12-04-2006; 12:20 -1:10 pm; Billings Marsh Lounge (B308).
• Luis Da Costa, Ecole de Technologie Sup´erieure, Montreal, Canada, "3D-Model Synthesis from 2D Partial Information: a Natural Plant Application."
  11-27-2006; 12:20 - 1:10 pm; Votey Hall, Rm. 367.
• Jordan Pollack, Volen Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis University, "Recent Progress in Co-evolutionary Computing."
  11-13-2006; 12:15 - 1:10 pm; 101 Perkins.
• Sergey Krivov, Department of Computer Science and Gund Institute of Ecological Economics, University of Vermont, "From Equations to Patterns: Logic Based Approach to General Systems Theory."
  11-08-2006; 12:20 - 1:10 pm; Votey Hall, Rm. 367.
• Joshua Bongard, Department of Computer Science, University of Vermont, "Active Computation Outperforms the State-of-the-Art Heuristic for Grammatical Inference."
  10-23-2006; 12:20 - 1:10 pm; Votey Hall, Rm. 367.
• Byung S. Lee, Department of Computer Science, University of Vermont, "QoS Driven Aggregation in a Sensor Network."
  10-16-2006; 12:20 - 1:10 pm; Votey Hall, Rm. 367.
• Alex Brodsky, Department of Information and Software Engineering, George Mason University, "CoJava: Optimization Modeling by Nondeterministic Simulation."
  10-09-2006; 12:20 - 1:10 pm; Votey Hall, Rm. 367.
• Margaret Eppstein, Department of Computer Science, University of Vermont, "Data Mining for Epistasic Genetic Interactions using Random Chemistry."
  09-25-2006; 12:20 - 1:10 pm; Votey Hall, Rm. 367.
• Alejo Hausner, Computer Science Department, University of New Hampshire, "Nonphotorealistic Rendering."
  09-18-2006; 12:20 - 1:10 pm; Votey Hall, Rm. 367.

Spring 2006

• Bulent Yener, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Cell-Graphs for Tissue Representation and Quantification.
  04-17-2006; 12:20 - 1:10 pm; Votey Hall, Rm. 367.
• Tim Huang, Middlebury College, Recent AI Approaches to the Games of Hex and Go.
  04-10-2006; 12:20 - 1:10 pm; Votey Hall, Rm. 367. (Sponsored by CSSA.)
• Hod Lipson, Cornell University,  Self-Reproducing Machines.
  04-03-2006; 12:20 - 1:20 pm; Billings North Lounge. (Sponsored by CSSA and CEMS.)
• Josh Bongard, Computational Synthesis Lab, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University,  Active Computation in Artificial Intelligence and Bioinformatics.
  03-16-2006; 11:15am - 12:15pm; Perkins, Rm. 101.
• My Thai, University of Minnesota. Pooling Designs in Molecular Biology.
  03-13-2006; 2:30 - 3:30 pm; Kalkin, Rm. 225.
• Jun (Luke) Huan, UNC Chapel Hill,  Discovering Patterns in Families of Protein Structures.
  03-09-2006; 11:00am - 12:15pm; Perkins, Rm. 101.
• Mathieu Blanchette, McGill University. Reconstructing large regions of an ancestral mammalian genome in silico.
  02-06-2006; 12:20 - 1:10 pm; Votey Hall, Rm. 367.
• Xindong Wu, CS Dept, UVM. How to Write and Publish Top-Quality Research Papers.
  01-30-2006; 12:20 - 1:10 pm; Votey Hall, Rm. 367.
• Chris Skalka, CS Dept, UVM. Logic and Practice of Trust Management.
  01-23-2006; 12:20 - 1:10 pm; Votey Hall, Rm. 367.

Fall 2005

• Justin Werfel, New England Complex Systems Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Collective Construction and Extended Stigmergy.
  12-05-2005; 12:20 - 1:10 pm; Votey Hall, Rm. 367.
• Bulent Yener, Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Cell-Graphics for Tissue-Representation and Quantification.
  11-14-2005; 12:20 - 1:10 pm; Votey Hall, Rm. 367.
• Abdullah Arslan, Department of Computer Science, University of Vermont. Constrained Sequence Alignment.
  11-07-2005; 12:20 - 1:10 pm; Votey Hall, Rm. 367.
• George Pinder, College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, University of Vermont. Decision Analysis in Contaminant Geohydrology.
  10-17-2005; 12:20 - 1:10 pm; Votey Hall, Rm. 367.
• Robert Gezelter, CDP. Architectural Techniques for Interoperability and Coexistence.
  09-27-2005; 12:20 - 1:20 pm; Votey Hall, Rm. 322.
• Richard Metzler, New England Complex Systems Institute and the Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Pattern Formation through Birth and Death — Biological Implications.
  09-19-2005; 12:20 - 1:20 pm; Votey Hall, Rm. 367.
• Paul Bierman, Department of Geology, University of Vermont. A Programming Challenge, Getting the UVM Landscape Change Program off the Dirt Road onto the Information Superhighway.
  09-09-2005; 12:20 - 1:10 pm; Votey Hall, Rm. 367.
• Firooz Sadjadi, Tactical Systems Division, Lockheed Martin, Eagan, Minnesota. Theory of Invariant Algebra and its Applications in Pattern Classification.
  09-07-2005; 12:20 - 1:10 pm; Votey Hall, Rm. 322.
• Jason Moore, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. Computational Human Genetics.
  08-26-2005; 9:00 - 10:00 am; Votey Hall, Rm. 367.