BU CS Department Colloquia - Fall 2002

Wednesdays  3pm or as noted in red 
Seminar Room / MCS 135

Coffee will be served at 2:45 in the seminar room.




Monday, September 9, 10am

Routing and Path Coloring in All-Optical Networks

Stathis Zachos
Brooklyn College of CUNY and NTUA

Host: George Kollios



Wednesday, September 18, 11am

Master's Thesis Defense:
Landmark Detection in the Chest and Registration of Lung Surfaces with an Application to Nodule Registration

Harrison Hong
Boston University

Host: Margrit Betke



Wednesday, October 9, 11am

Smart Matter: Frontiers of Computation

John R. Gilbert
MIT Lab for Computer Science and UC Santa Barbara

Host: Shang-Hua Teng



Wednesday, October 16, 3pm

Executable Specifications

Yuri Gurevich
Microsoft Research

Host: Leonid Levin



Wednesday, October 23, 3pm

On the composition of authenticated Byzantine Agreement

Anna Lysyanskaya
Brown University

Host: Leo Reyzin



Wednesday, October 30, 3pm

Competitive Buffer Management

Boaz Patt-Shamir
Tel-Aviv University

Host: Ibrahim Matta



Wednesday, November 6, 3pm

The Transparent Cryptographic File System (TCFS)

Luigi Catuogno
Università di Salerno

Host: Gene Itkis



Wednesday, November 13, 11am

Forbidden Information

Leonid Levin
Boston University

Host: Steve Homer



Wednesday, November 20, 3pm

Conflict-Free Colorings of Simple Geometric Regions

Zvika Lotker
Tel-Aviv University

Host: Boaz Patt-Shamir



Monday, December 2, 12 noon

Programmable Molecular Self-Assembly: Theory and Experimental Demonstration

John Reif
Duke University

Host: Shanghua Teng



Wednesday, December 4, 11am

Eye Movements: Models and Applications

Giuseppe Boccignone
Università di Salerno

Host: Stan Sclaroff



Wednesday, December 4, 3pm

Approximate Algorithms for High-Dimensional Geometric Problems

Piotr Indyk
MIT

Host: Leo Reyzin



Wednesday, December 11, 11am

Improving Scalability in Source-Based Multicast

Whay C. Lee
Broadband Networks Research Lab

Host: Ibrahim Matta


Created on: 2002.09.05
Updated on: 2002.10.31
Maintainer: Leonid Reyzin