Colloquia - Spring 2005

Times: Mondays  11am --- or as noted.
Location: Seminar Room, MCS 135 --- or as noted.
Coffee will be served at 15 minutes before the talk in the seminar room.


Friday, January 21, 11:15am in Room MCS 135, 111 Cummington Street

Towards Robust Reputation Systems
Prof. Ashish Goel
Stanford University
Host: John Byers

Monday, January 31, 11am in SAR 102 (Sargent college, building 28 on the BU map )

Data Mining using Fractals and Power Laws
Prof. Christos Faloutsos
Carnegie-Mellon University
Host: George Kollios

Wednesday, February 16, 10am in Room MCS 135, 111 Cummington Street

Exploring networks with traceroute-like probes: theory and simulations
Ignacio Alvarez-Hamelin
Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, Université Paris Sud (XI)
Host: Mark Crovella

Wednesday, February 16, 15:00 in Room MCS 135, 111 Cummington Street

Toward Privacy in Public Databases
Adam D. Smith
Weizmann Institute of Science
Host: Leo Reyzin

Friday, March 18, 14:00 in Room MCS 135, 111 Cummington Street

Query Processing for Large-Scale XML Message Brokering
Yanlei Diao
Computer Science Division, UC Berkeley
Host: George Kollios

Monday, March 21, 9:00 in Room MCS 135, 111 Cummington Street

Load Management and Fault-Tolerance in a Distributed Stream Processing System
Magdalena Balazinska
MIT
Host: George Kollios

Thursday, March 24, 12:30 in Room MCS 135, 111 Cummington Street

Perceptual Organization Using Spectral Clustering Methods
Stella X. Yu
Computer Science Division, UC Berkeley
Host: Margrit Betke

Friday, March 25, 12:15 in Room MCS 135, 111 Cummington Street

Indexing, Searching and Exploring Time-Series Data
Michalis Vlachos
IBM T.M. Watson Research Center
Host: George Kollios

Monday, March 28, 9:00 in Room MCS 135, 111 Cummington Street

Schemas, Heterogeneity, and Matching
Jayant Madhavan
University of Washington
Host: John Byers

Wednesday, March 30, 9:00 in Room MCS 135, 111 Cummington Street

Parameter-Free Spatial and Stream Mining
Spiros Papadimitriou
Carnegie-Mellon University
Host: George Kollios

Friday, April 1, 9:00 in Room MCS 135, 111 Cummington Street

Managing XML Data Effectively in Relational Databases
Yi Chen
University of Pennsylvania
Host: George Kollios

Monday, April 4, 9:00 in Room MCS 135, 111 Cummington Street

Secure Content Distribution using Untrusted Servers
Kevin Fu
MIT
Host: John Byers

Tuesday, April 26, 9:00 in Room MCS 135, 111 Cummington Street

Mesh-based data dissemination
Dejan Kostić
University of California, San Diego
Host: John Byers

Wednesday, April 27, 14:00 in Room MCS 135, 111 Cummington Street

Conditional Complexity of Compression (CCC) application for attributing texts
Mike Malyutov and Irosha Wickromasinghe
Northeastern University
Host: Leonid Levin

Wednesday, May 4, 15:00 in Room MCS 135, 111 Cummington Street

The Emulab Network Testbed: Under the Hood, Problems, and Future Directions
Jay Lepreau
University of Utah
Host: John Byers

Monday, May 16, 11:00 in Room MCS 135, 111 Cummington Street

Intra-Step Interaction
Yuri Gurevich
Microsoft Research
Host: Leonid Levin

Thursday, June 23, 14:30 in Room MCS 135, 111 Cummington Street

Towards Building Robust Mobile Networks: Robust Geographic Routing and Mobility Modeling
Professor Ahmed Helmy
University of Southern California
Host: Ibrahim Matta

Friday, July 22, 11:00 in Room MCS 135, 111 Cummington Street

The Opportunities of Content Addressed Storage
Michael Kilian, Chief Technology Officer
Centera, EMC
Host: Azer Bestavros

Created on: 2002.08.16
Coordinated by: Péter Gács