BU CS Department Colloquia - Spring 2002

Wednesdays  3pm or as noted 
Seminar Room / MCS 135

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





Friday, April 24, 11pm

Probabilistic Model Structure from Data

Dimitris Margaritis
Carnegie Mellon University

Host:George Kollios



Friday, April 19, 3pm

Streaming Content Delivery Networks

Ramesh K.Sitaraman
Principal Architect, Akamai Technologies Inc.
& Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst




Host:Shang-Hua Teng



Wednesday, April 17,  3pm

Creating Virtual Audio Spaces
via Scientific Computing and Computer Vision

Ramani Duraiswami
Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
University of Maryland, College Park




Host: Margrit Betke



Tuesday, April 16, 12:45pm

Generating realistic BGP traffic

Anja Feldmann, Professor
University of Saarbruecken, Germany






Host: Ibrahim Matta



Wednesday, April 3,  3pm
 
 

Tradeoffs in Probabilistic Packet Marking for IP Traceback

Micah Adler
University of Massachusetts, Amherst





Host: Azer Bestavros and John Byers



Wednesday, March 27,  11am
 
 

Switching Linear Dynamic Models: Learning, Tracking, and Synthesis of
Human Motion

Vladimir Pavlovic
Boston University




Host: Stan Sclaroff



Wednesday, March 13,  3pm
 
 

Randomness Conductors and Constant-Degree Expansion
Beyond the Degree/2 Barrier

Salil Vadhan
Harvard University





Host: Leonid Reyzin



Wednesday, February 20, 11am
 
 

Challenges in the Practical Application of Unsupervised Learning

Prof. Carla E. Brodley
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Purdue University




Host: Azer Bestavros



Wednesday, February 6, 3pm
 
 

Open control systems: architecture, problems and solutions

Peter Wurmsdobler
Open Control Laboratory
Control.com




Host: Richard West



Wednesday, January 23,  3pm
 
 

Systems Biology: Active Learning of Cellular Architectures.

Simon Kasif
Professor of Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering
Boston University





Host: Steve Homer



Friday, January 18, 3pm

Transport-level Protocol Coordination for Cluster-to-Cluster
Applications

Ketan Mayer-Patel
Department of Computer Science
UNC-Chapel Hill

Host: John Byers


Created on: 2001.01.01
Updated on: 2002.01.15
Maintainer: George Kollios
            gkollios@cs.bu.edu