2004-05 Distinguished Lecturer Series and Colloquia

Distinguished Lecturer Series

Date	Speaker	Topic
October 7	Pavel Pevzner UC San Diego	Transforming Mice into Men
November 18	Carl Kesselman University of Southern California	The Grid: Reality, Technology, and Applications
February 17	David Tennenhouse Intel Corporation	Proactive Computing
March 31	Dipankar Raychaudhuri Rutgers University	Cognitive Radio Technology: Hardware Platforms, Spectrum Etiquettes and Networking Protocols
April 14	Christopher Johnson University of Utah	Software Environments for Biomedical Computing, Imaging, and Visualization
May 16	Jack Dongarra University of Tennessee	An Overview of High Performance Computing and Self Adapting Numerical Software

Colloquium Speakers

Date	Speaker	Topic
October 21	David Wolpert NASA Ames	Distributed Optimization and Control, Statistical Physics, and Bounded Rationality
October 28	Jonathan Shewchuk UC Berkeley	Star Splaying: An Algorithm for Repairing Nearly-Delaunay Triangulations
November 4	Hao Chen UC Davis	Lightweight Model Checking for Improving Software Security
December 3	Alberto Apostolico Purdue	Pattern Discovery and the Algorithmics of Surprise
January 13	Marshall Bern PARC	De Novo Analysis of Peptide Mass Spectra
January 20	Chandra Krintz UC Santa Barbara	Phase-Aware Software Profiling for Resource-Constrained Devices
January 21	Dave Lowenthal University of Georgia	Client-Centered Energy Savings for TCP Downloads
February 3	Xin Liu UC Davis	Overview of Current Research Efforts in Wireless Communication Networks
February 10,	Gustavo Alonso ETH Zurich	Middleware for Dynamic Software Adaptation
February 24	Yun S. Song UC Davis	Counting Evolutionary Trees
March 3	Barbara Simons	Computerized Voting Machines: Who is Counting your Vote?
March 14	Eric Winfree	Molecular Computation and Construction
March 18	Fabio Pellacini Cornell	Toward Interactive and User-Friendly Digital Lighting
April 7	Peter Winkler Dartmouth/MSRI	Optimality and Greed in Dynamic Allocation
April 19	Matea Ripeanu University of Chicago	Using Peer-to-Peer Experience to Build Large-scale Grid Services
April 21	Rob Pike Google	Interpreting the Data
April 28	Yong (Tom) Cao UCLA	Expressive Speech-driven Facial Animation
May 3	Eli Tilevich Georgia Tech	Enhancing Programs Behind the Scenes
May 5	Zhen Xiao ATT Labs	Optimizing Internet Content Delivery Systems -- A View from the Inside
May 10	Okan Arikan UC Berkeley	Realistic Approximations in Animation and Rendering
May 12	Michael Neff University of Toronto	Tools for Expressive Character Animation
May 17	Krishna Gummadi University of Washington	Measurement-driven Modeling and Design of Internet-scale Systems
June 2	Barry Cohen New Jersey Institute of Technology	Evidence for Natural Selection on Minimum Free Energy of Bacterial mRNA's
June 14	Dimitri DeFigueiredo	TrustDavis: A Non-Exploitable Online Reputation System
June 16	Joel Phillips Cadence Design Systems, Inc.	Principal Components and Automated Nonlinear Modeling
July 14	Dan Quinlan Cadence Design Systems, Inc.	Telescoping Languages: From Domain Specific Libraries to Domain Specific Languages
July 27	Christian Bischof RWTH Aachen University, Germany	Recent Developments in Computational Differentiation