CALENDAR

Events from Friday, May 09, 2008 through Sunday, May 18, 2008

Friday May 09	SCS Student Seminar Series Robert J. Simmons, Computer Science Department Test The Program, Test The Abstraction, Make It Better, Prove It Right, Abstract 12:00 p.m., 4623 Wean Hall
	Speaking Skills Talk Robert J. Simmons Test The Program, Test The Abstraction, Make It Better, Prove It Right, Abstract 12:00 p.m., 4623 Wean Hall
	Speaking Skills Talk Michael Ashley-Rollman Meld: A Declarative Approach to Programming Ensembles, Abstract 3:30 p.m., 8220 Wean Hall
	VASC Special Seminar Peter Tu and Xiaoming Liu , GE Global Research Discriminative Image Alignment , Abstract 3:00 p.m., 1305 Newell-Simon Hall
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Saturday May 10	15-466: Computer Game Programming Spring 2008 Final Project Demos Abstract 12:00 p.m.- 3:00 p.m. , 1305 Newell-Simon Hall
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Monday May 12	14th Annual CNBC Lecture Jocelyne Bachevalier, Ph.D., Department of Psychology and Yerkes National Primate Research Center Emory University Behavioral Outcomes of Neonatal Orbital Frontal Lesions in Monkeys 4:00 p.m., 4127 Sennott Square Martin Colloquium Center Other Reception to follow.
	CyLab Seminar Alvaro Cardenas , Post-Doc University of California at Berkeley Statistical Models for Intrusion Detection, Abstract 12:00 p.m., Distributed Education Center Lobby Level Collaborative Innovation Center
	SCS Faculty Candidate Talk Stephen McCamant , Massachusetts Institute of Technology Quantitative Information-flow Tracking as Maximum Network Flow, Abstract 01:30 a.m.- 03:00 a.m. , 3305 Newell-Simon Hall
	Thesis Proposal Dean R. Anderson Online Adaptive Modeling for Outdoor Mobile Robots in Rough Terrain, Abstract 10:30 a.m., 3305 Newell-Simon Hall
	Cristen Torrey Thesis Proposal Cristen Torrey , PhD Student in HCII Social Responses to Receiving Verbal Assistance: A Comparison of, Abstract 1:30 p.m., 1507 Newell-Simon Hall
	ML/Google Seminar Jason Eisner, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University Weighted Deduction as a Programming Language, Abstract 4:30 p.m.- 5:30 p.m. , 1305 Newell-Simon Hall Refreshments at 4:15
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Tuesday May 13	Joint CMU-Pitt Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology Seminar Trey Ideker, Associate Professor Department of Bioengineering Universty of California, San Diego Mapping gene regulatory pathways by assembly of physical and genetic interactions, Abstract 11:00 a.m., Conference Room Mellon Institute
	SCS Faculty Candidate Talk Noah Snavely , University of Washington Modeling and Visualizing the World from Internet Photo Collections , Abstract 10:00 a.m.- 11:30 a.m. , 3305 Newell-Simon Hall
	Joint SDI and Intelligence Seminar Feng Zhao, Principal Researcher Microsoft Research Power Management: from tiny embedded devices to warehouse sized data centers , Abstract 3:30 p.m., 5409 Wean Hall
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Wednesday May 14	LTI PhD Thesis Defense Yanjun Qi Learning of Protein Interaction Networks , Abstract 10:30 a.m., 3002 Newell-Simon Hall
	Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Seminar and Technical Session Mike Agostini , Senior Applications Engineer The MathWorks, Inc. Distributed and Parallel Computing with MATLAB, Abstract 09:00 a.m., PSC Other
	Speaking Skills Talk Sarah Aboutalib MCOR: Multiple-Cue Object Recognition, Abstract 3:00 p.m., 4623 Wean Hall
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Thursday May 15	CSD Black Friday It Begins
	Corporate Talk Ulas Bardak , SECOM Intelligent Systems Lab, Japan Abstract 3:30 p.m., 3002 Newell-Simon Hall
	LTI Student Talk Shekar Sivasubramanian , Self-Defined Ph.D. Student Abstract 3:00 p.m., 4623 Wean Hall
	LTI PhD Thesis Proposal Jae Dong Kim Chunk Alignment for Corpus-Based Machine Translation, Abstract 09:00 a.m., 3002 Newell-Simon Hall
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Friday May 16	CSD Black Friday It Continues
	LTI Seminar Jing Jiang , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Domain Adaptation in Natural Language Processing, Abstract 2:00 p.m.- 3:00 p.m. , 1305 Newell-Simon Hall
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Sunday May 18	Commencement 2008