CS 591C

Research Seminar for Beginning Graduate Students

(Spring 2006)

Objective: Help graduate students identify research areas they are interested in and faculty members they would like to work with. Accelerate students' involvement in research.

Format: There will be 16 lectures, all of which are given before the Spring break. Each lecture will be given by a faculty member and may include descriptions of the faculty member's research interests, projects, groups, and any advice that would be useful for graduate students.

Course policy: A student may register for this course as a one credit pass/fail course. Attendance will be taken at each lecture. In order to pass, students can miss at most 3 lectures. If you have to miss more than 3 due to extreme situations, you should obtain approval from one of the course coordinators before missing the lecture.

Time & Place:

Mondays and Wednesdays, 2:30pm to 3:20pm
CS G066

Coordinators: Cristina Nita-Rotaru and Ninghui Li

Schedule

Jan 9 Monday	Patrick Eugster : Distributed Programming
Jan 11 Wednesday	Cristina Nita-Rotaru :
Jan 16 Monday	No lecture. Martin Luther King day.
Jan 18 Wednesday	Bharat Bhargava : Network Security
Jan 23 Monday	Ninghui Li: The TruSe Lab & Graduate Research in General (Prof. Ahmed Elmagarmid had to cancel for family reasons)
Jan 25 Wednesday	Chris Clifton : New Challenges for Data Mining
Jan 30 Monday	David Yau :
Feb 1 Wednesday	Suresh Jagannathan :
Feb 6 Monday	Dongyan Xu :
Feb 8 Wednesday	Voicu Popescu : Beyond the Pinhole: Camera Design for Solving Hard Graphics Problems
Feb 13 Monday	Mikhail Atallah :
Feb 15 Wednesday	Tony Hosking :
Feb 20 Monday	Daniel Aliaga :
Feb 22 Wednesday	Gopal Pandurangan : Network Algorithms and Analysis
Feb 27 Monday	Aditya Mathur : Feedback control of software processes, or, Dynamics of the auditory pathways in children: a computational perspective
Mar 1 Wednesday	Walid Aref: Under-the-Hood Database Engine Research: In Support of Emerging Applications