Home | Contact Info | Directory | About SCS | SCS New Buildings Info |   Giving to SCS   SCS Dean's Advisory Board

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

 Next Week
(Jul 14 - Aug 20)

 Current Week

 Search for Events by Date

  Submit an Event to the SCS Calendar

 CMU Calendar of Events

 Academic Calendar

38 Events for the week of Monday, July 7, 2008
through Sunday, August 13, 2008

Tuesday
July 08
  Special SDI/LCS Seminar
Soyeon Park , Post-doc Researcher
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Fighting with Software Bugs:
Memory Corruptions and Atomicity Violation Bugs
, Abstract
3:30 p.m., 8220 (New Room!) Wean Hall
  * * * * *
   
Wednesday
July 09
  Google Pittsburgh Seminar
Marta C. González
Understanding individual human
mobility patterns
, Abstract
2:30 p.m., Lower Level Collaborative Innovation Center
Space is limited.
RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/5qxx6j
Open to the public.

  * * * * *
   
Thursday
July 10
  Intel Research Pittsburgh Seminar
Darryl Veitch , Principal Research Fellow
Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
University of Melbourne
Probing Convex Networks, Abstract
2:00 p.m.- 3:00 p.m. ,
Suite 410 Collaborative Innovation Center
    SDI/LCS Seminar
Arvind Krishnamurthy , University of Washington
Incentive Mechanisms for Peer-to-Peer Systems , Abstract
12:00 p.m.- 1:00 p.m. , 2101 Collaborative Innovation Center
    Thesis Proposal
Bilge Mutlu , PhD Student
The Design of Gaze Behavior for Social Robots , Abstract
09:00 a.m., 1305 Newell-Simon Hall
    The Works
debuting on The History Channel

Hosted by Daniel Wilson ,
Robotics and Machine Learning Alum!
Abstract
10:00 p.m.
  * * * * *
   
Monday
July 14
  Discovery Science Channel Series:
RoboCars

Abstract
10:00 p.m.Featuring The Tartan Racing Team!

    Intel Research Pittsburgh Seminar
Broadcast

Thomas Karagiannis , Microsoft Research, Cambridge (UK)
HomeMaestro:
Order from Chaos in Home Networks
, Abstract
1:00 p.m.
  * * * * *
   
Thursday
July 17
  Thesis Oral
Philipp Michel , Robotics Institute
Integrating Perception & Planning for
Humanoid Autonomy
, Abstract
09:00 a.m., 1507 Newell-Simon Hall
    History Channel Series:
The Works: Steel

10:00 PM ET/PT
Hosted by SCS Alum: Daniel Wilson

  * * * * *
   
Friday
July 18
  Systems and Verification Seminar (SVC)
Alex Legay CANCELLED , Visiting Post-Doc
from University of Liege, Belgium
Computing Convex Hull by Automata Iteration, Abstract
2:00 p.m., 4625 Wean Hall
    LTI Seminar
Alice Oh , MIT
Generating Multiple Perspectives in Baseball
Summaries by Content Reordering
, Abstract
2:00 p.m., 1305 Newell-Simon Hall
    Special Robotics Seminar
Iskander Umarov , Technical Director
Behavior Capture Technology, Abstract
1:00 p.m., 4201 Newell-Simon Hall
  * * * * *
   
Monday
July 21
  History Channel Series:
The Works: Power Tools

10:00 PM ET/PT
Hosted by SCS Alum: Daniel Wilson

    Thesis Oral
Robert W. Reeder
Expandable Grids: A user interface visualization technique
and a policy semantics to support fast,
accurate security and privacy policy authoring
, Abstract
1:00 p.m., 3305 Newell-Simon Hall

    Special SDI/LCS Seminar
John Wilkes , HP Labs
Delegating Control to Automated Systems, Abstract
1:30 p.m.- 2:30 p.m. , 2101 Collaborative Innovation Center
    FCC Hearing on Broadband and The Digital Future
Abstract
4:00 p.m., McConomy Auditorium University Center
Open to the public

    VASC Seminar
Umberto Castellani , University of Verona
Some Activities at the VIPS Lab:
3D Shape Matching Using Hidden Markov
Models and Geo-located image Analysis
, Abstract
3:30 p.m., 1507 Newell-Simon Hall
    VASC Seminar (continued)
Raffay Hamid , Georgia Institute of Technology
A Computational Framework for Unsupervised
Analysis of Everyday Activities
, Abstract
4:00 p.m., 1507 Newell-Simon Hall
  * * * * *
   
Tuesday
July 22
  Special CERT/Cylab Seminar
Richard Power , CyLab Distinguished Fellow
Cyber Security in the Three Times:
Past, Present, & Future
, Abstract
12:00 p.m., Distributed Education Center
Lobby Level Collaborative Innovation Center
Series Commemorating CERT's 20th Year of Operation

    Thesis Proposal
Stuart O. Anderson
Trajectory Libraries for Policy Generation
in Humanoid Robots
, Abstract
4:00 p.m., 1305 Newell-Simon Hall
    LTI PhD Thesis Defense
Vitor R. Carvalho
Modeling Intention in Email, Abstract
1:00 p.m., 1507 Newell-Simon Hall
  * * * * *
   
Wednesday
July 23
  Fourth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security
SOUPS 2008

Abstract
Carnegie Mellon Campus
Continues through July 25

  * * * * *
   
Thursday
July 24
  Fourth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security
SOUPS 2008

Abstract
Carnegie Mellon Campus
Continues through July 25

    CS4HS 2008
7:00 p.m.- 9:00 p.m. , 1305 Newell-Simon Hall
  * * * * *
   
Friday
July 25
  Fourth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security
SOUPS 2008

Abstract
Carnegie Mellon Campus
    CS4HS 2008
09:00 a.m.- 9:00 p.m. , Newell Simon Hall / Wean Hall
  * * * * *
   
Saturday
July 26
  CS4HS 2008
09:00 a.m.- 9:00 p.m. , Newell-Simon Hall / Wean Hall
  * * * * *
   
Sunday
July 27
  CS4HS 2008
09:00 a.m., Newell-Simon Hall / Wean Hall
  * * * * *
   
Monday
July 28
  History Channel Series:
The Works: Beer

10:00 PM ET/PT
Hosted by SCS Alum: Daniel Wilson

    Thesis Oral
Virginia Panayotova Vassilevska
Efficient Algorithms for Path Problems in
Weighted Graphs
, Abstract
10:00 a.m., 1507 Newell-Simon Hall

  * * * * *
   
Tuesday
July 29
  LTI Seminar
Gideon Borensztajn
Stefan Frank ,
Institute for Logic, Language and Computation
University of Amsterdam
Computational Tools for Cognitive Research
into Linguistic Phenomena
, Abstract
11:00 a.m., 1305 Newell-Simon Hall
  * * * * *
   
Wednesday
July 30
  Thesis Oral
Kristen Stubbs
Robot-Proxy Grounding, Abstract
1:00 p.m., 1305 Newell-Simon Hall
  * * * * *
   
Friday
August 01
  Thesis Oral
David T. McWherter , Computer Science Department
Sharing DBMS among Multiple Users
while Providing Performance
, Abstract
2:00 p.m., 4625 Wean Hall
  * * * * *
   
Thursday
August 07
  Thesis Oral
Himanshu Jain , Computer Science Department
Verification using Satisfiability Checking,
Predicate Abstraction, and Craig Interpolation
, Abstract
3:00 p.m., 5409 Wean Hall
    Systems and Verification Seminar (SVC)
Aarti Gupta , Department Head
NEC Labs America
Software verification without predicate abstraction
and refinement
, Abstract
10:00 a.m.
  * * * * *
   
Friday
August 08
  Thesis Oral
Pratyusa K. Manadhata
An Attack Surface Metric , Abstract
2:00 p.m., 5409 Wean Hall

  * * * * *
   
Wednesday
August 13
  Thesis Oral
Charlie Garrod
Putting the "Scalability" into Database
Scalability Services
, Abstract
3:00 p.m., 4623 Wean Hall