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Fall 2009

CSE Events of Week 11/16/2009 - 11/20/2009

Monday, November 16

INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. James E. Moore II
Industrial and Systems Engineering, Public Policy and Management,
and Civil Engineering
University of Southern California
TITLE: Quantifying Economic Losses from Travel Forgone Following a Large Metropolitan Earthquake
3:00 p.m., Room 203 Zachry
Contact: Katherine Edwards

CSCE 681 OPEN SEMINAR
Rada Mihalcea
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of North Texas
TITLE: Linking Documents to Encyclopedic Knowledge: Using Wikipedia as a Source of Linguistic Evidence
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CSCE 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Andruid Kerne

Tuesday, November 17

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Paul Gratz
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Texas A&M University
TITLE: Asynchronous Bypass Channels: Improving Power and Performance in GALS and DVFS supporting NoC's
3:55 p.m., Room 103 Zachry
Contact: Carolyn Warzon

Wednesday, November 18

STATISTICS BROWN BAG SEMINAR
Dr. Mikyoung Jun
Assistant Professor
Department of Statistics
Texas A&M University
TITLE: Nonstationary Covariance Models for Processes on a Sphere
11:30 a.m., Room 503, Blocker Building
Contact: Elaine Washington
Abstract (pdf): http://www.stat.tamu.edu/files/brownbag_jun.pdf

CPSC 681 OPEN SEMINAR
Dr. Gene Cooperman
Institute for Complex Scientific Software (ICSS)
Northeastern University
TITLE: Temporal Debugging using URDB
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CPSC 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Gabriel Dos Reis

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Juan P. Pontaza
Shell Global Solutions (US) Inc.
Houston, TX
TITLE: On the numerical simulation of fluid-structure interaction to estimate fatigue life of subsea pipeline spans
4:10 p.m., Room 106 RICH
Contact: Sarah Morgan

ENGINEERING WORKS! RADIO PROGRAM
Listen to Engineering Works! on the radio to learn more about the whimsical, unusual or just little-known sides of engineering. It's broadcast at 7:32 a.m. on Bryan-College Station's KAMU-FM (90.9). Or visit the Engineering Works! web site at http://engineeringworks.tamu.edu.

Thursday, November 19

STATISTICS DEPARTMENTAL COLLOQUIUM
Stephan Morganthaler
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
TITLE: Variance Stabilized Statistical Tests
11:10 a.m., Room 150 Blocker Building
Contact: Elaine Washington
Abstract (pdf): http://www.stat.tamu.edu/files/abstr-morganthaler.pdf

Friday, November 20

PARASOL SEMINAR
Bojian Xu
Senior Research Associate
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Texas A&M University
TITLE: Sketching asynchronous data streams over sliding windows
4:00 p.m., Room 302 HRBB
Contact: Dr. Nancy Amato

CSE Events of Week 11/9/2009 - 11/13/2009

Monday, November 9

INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Deanna M. Kennedy
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Texas A&M University
TITLE: Toward Optimal Team Processes: How Interventions Can Create Process Gains
3:00 p.m., Room 203 Zachry
Contact: Katherine Edwards

Tuesday, November 10

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Andrew Jiang
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Texas A&M University
TITLE: Data Movement and Rewriting in Flash Memories
3:55 p.m., Room 103 Zachry
Contact: Carolyn Warzon

UNIVERSITY DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES
Douglas Melton, Ph.D.
Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences, Harvard University
Co-Director, Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
TITLE: Stem Cells as Tools and Products for Regenerative Medicine
7:30 p.m., Auditorium of the Bush Presidential Conference Center
Contact: Nancy Sawtelle

Wednesday, November 11

BIOINFORMATICS SEMINAR
Guanghua "Andy" Xiao
UT Southwestern
Department of Biostatistics
TITLE: Modeling Three-dimensional Chromosome Structures Using Gene Expression Data
3:00 p.m., Room 457 Blocker Building
Contact: Joyce Sutherland
Webpage: http://www.stat.tamu.edu/train/Andy.htm

CSE DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES
Dr. Brian Marcus
Professor
Department of Mathematics
University of British Columbia
TITLE: Computing the Entropy of Two-dimensional Shifts of Finite Type
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CSE Faculty Contact: Dr. Anxiao "Andrew" Jiang

All are invited to the open reception for Dr. Marcus, which will immediately follow the lecture and will be held in the entrance hall to Room 124 HRBB.

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Peter Lichtner
Earth and Environmental Sciences Division
Los Alamos National Laboratory
TITLE: Field-Scale Model for the Natural Attenuation of Uranium at the Hanford 300 Area using High Performance Computing
4:10 p.m., Room 106 RICH
Contact: Sarah Morgan

Thursday, November 12

PARASOL SEMINAR
Dr. Francois Bodin
Co-founder
CAPS enterprise
TITLE: Toward automatic partitioning of C applications for exploiting hardware accelerators such as GPUs
11:00 a.m., Room 302 HRBB
Contact: Dr. Nancy Amato

STATISTICS DEPARTMENTAL COLLOQUIUM
Sanat K. Sarkar
Department of Statistics
Temple University
TITLE: Controlling Different Error Rates in Multiple Testing: Some Recent Developments
11:10 a.m., Room 150 Blocker Building
Contact: Elaine Washington
Abstract (pdf): http://www.stat.tamu.edu/files/abstr-sarkar.pdf

Friday, November 13

CSE Events of Week 11/2/2009 - 11/6/2009

Monday, November 2

CHEVRON RECEPTION
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering is hosting a reception on Monday, November 2 to thank representatives from Chevron for donating three quarters of a million dollars in computer equipment to the department. The reception will be held at 10:00 a.m., in Room 302 HRBB. Dr. Karan Watson, interim provost and executive vice president for academics is scheduled to be in attendance. Come join us in thanking Chevron for their generous donation! Light refreshments will be served.

10:00am - 11:30am, Room 302 HRBB

PHD PRELIM EXAM FOR
JOSHUA JOHNSTON
Advisor: Dr. Tracy Hammond
10:00 a.m., Room 912B RICH

INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Alan T. Murray
Professor
GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation
School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning
Arizona State University
TITLE: Geographic Information System (GIS) Relevance in Optimization
3:00 p.m., Room 203 Zachry
Contact: Katherine Edwards

CSCE 681 OPEN SEMINAR
Peter Robinson
Embedded Computing Systems Group
Institute of Computer Engineering
Vienna University of Technology
TITLE: Achieving Timeliness Without Clocks
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CSCE 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Jennifer Welch

Tuesday, November 3

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Samuel Palermo
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Texas A&M University
TITLE: An Overview of High-Speed I/O Design
3:55 p.m., Room 103 Zachry
Contact: Carolyn Warzon

Wednesday, November 4

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Mark Stremler
Department of Engineering Science & Mechanics
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
TITLE: Mixing Fluids with Chaos: Stirring Topology, Ghost Rods, and Almost Invariant Sets
4:10 p.m., Room 106 RICH
Contact: Sarah Morgan

Thursday, November 5

STATISTICS DEPARTMENTAL COLLOQUIUM
Dr. Hwan-Sik Choi
Department of Economics
Texas A&M University
TITLE: Model Selection Testing for Diffusion Processes with Applications to Interest Rate and Exchange Rate Models
11:10 a.m., Room 150 Blocker Building
Contact: Elaine Washington
Abstract (pdf): http://www.stat.tamu.edu/files/abstr-choi.pdf

Friday, November 6

ABCS SEMINAR
Dr. Mark Lenox
Imaging Group
The Texas A&M Institute for Preclinical Studies (TIPS)
TITLE: Improving Animal and Human Health by Accelerating Drug and Device Development
4:00 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
ABCS Faculty Contact: Dr. Nancy Amato

CSE Events of Week 10/26/2009 - 10/30/2009

Monday, October 26

INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Pitu Mirchandani
Professor
School of Computation, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering
Arizona State University
TITLE: OR-IE-SE Models in Transportation and Traffic
3:00 p.m., Room 203 Zachry
Contact: Katherine Edwards

CSCE 681 OPEN SEMINAR
Dr. Yonggao Yang
Associate Professor & Interim Department Head
Department of Computer Science
Prairie View A&M University
TITLE: Physics-Based Animation and Modeling: Spider Web, Raindrop Behavior, and Polyhedra
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CSCE 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Nancy Amato

Tuesday, October 27

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Yiyu Shi
University of California (UCLA)
TITLE: Statistical Load Current Profiling for Power Integrity Driven Design Methodologies
3:55 p.m., Room 103 Zachry
Contact: Carolyn Warzon

Wednesday, October 28

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FORUM
The next IT Forum is Wednesday, October 28th from 3:00-4:30pm in Rudder 601. In recognition of National Information Security Awareness month, Chet Wisniewski will present the Anatomy of an Attack. The presentation will include a live malware attack demonstration, details about current security threats, and specific examples of social engineering and other malicious activity. The presenter, Chet Wisniewski, is a Senior Security Advisor for Sophos with 15 years of network security consulting experience. He works with the SophosLabs to develop in-depth analyses of network security threats. There will also be short announcements by Willis Marti on PGP Encryption, 802.11n wireless and CAS 3. Attend the IT Forum in person to get the full effect of this unique presentation. For more information please visit the IT Forum website.

BIOINFORMATICS SEMINAR
Josue Martinez
Department of Statistics
Texas A&M University
TITLE: Use of Multiple Singular Value Decompositions to Analyze Complex Calcium Ion Signals
3:00 p.m., Room 457 Blocker Building
Contact: Joyce Sutherland
Webpage: http://www.stat.tamu.edu/train/josue.html

CPSC 681 OPEN SEMINAR
Dr. Bronis de Supinski
Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) Program
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
TITLE: Can We Really Use 1.5 Million Cores Effectively?
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CPSC 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Nancy Amato

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Erian Armanios
Professor and Chair
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of Texas at Arlington
TITLE: The Challenge of Achieving Hygrothermal Stability in Composite Structures with Couplings
4:10 p.m., Room 106 RICH
Contact: Sarah Morgan

Thursday, October 29

STATISTICS DEPARTMENTAL COLLOQUIUM
Dr. Michael G. Akritas
Department of Statistics
Penn State University
TITLE: Fully Nonparametric Mixed Effects Models: Testing for the Fixed Main Effect
11:10 a.m., Room 150 Blocker Building
Contact: Elaine Washington
Abstract (pdf): http://www.stat.tamu.edu/files/abstr-akritas.pdf

Friday, October 30

PARASOL SEMINAR
Dr. Rahul Shah
Assistant Professor
Deptartment of Computer Science
Louisiana State University
TITLE: tba
4:00 p.m., Room 302 HRBB
Contact: Dr. Nancy Amato

CSE Events of Week 10/19/2009 - 10/23/2009

Monday, October 19

INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Alexandra Newman
Associate Professor
Division of Economics and Business
Colorado School of Mines
TITLE: A Medley of Operations Research Mining Applications
3:00 p.m., Room 203 Zachry
Contact: Katherine Edwards

CSCE 681 OPEN SEMINAR
Dr. Dan Wallach
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Rice University
TITLE: Adventures in Electronic Voting Research
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CSCE 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Guofei Gu

Tuesday, October 20

STATISTICS BROWN BAG SEMINAR
Dr. Samiran Sinha
Assistant Professor
Department of Statistics
Texas A&M University
TITLE: Analysis of Cohort Studies with Multivariate, Partially Observed Disease Classification Data
11:30 a.m., Room 503, Blocker Building
Contact: Elaine Washington

Wednesday, October 21

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Roger Schonewald
GE Energy
TITLE: Wind Energy Today, Opportunities and Challenges for the Future
4:10 p.m., Room 106 RICH
Contact: Sarah Morgan

Thursday, October 22

STATISTICS DEPARTMENTAL COLLOQUIUM
Dr. Victor De Oliveira
Associate Professor
Department of Management Science and Statistics
The University of Texas at San Antonio
TITLE: Optimal Predictive Inference in Log-Gaussian Random Fields
11:10 a.m., Room 150 Blocker Building
Contact: Elaine Washington
Abstract (pdf): http://www.stat.tamu.edu/files/abstr-oliveira.pdf

Friday, October 23

CSE Events of Week 10/12/2009 - 10/16/2009

Monday, October 12

CSCE 681 OPEN SEMINAR
Dr. Sandra Cairncross
Dean & Senior Teaching Fellow
Faculty of Engineering Computing & Creative Industries
Edinburgh Napier University
TITLE: Researching Engineering Education: Some Philosophical Considerations
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CSCE 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Tracy Hammond

DISSERTATION DEFENSE OF
JACOB SMITH
TITLE: Techniques in Active and Generic Libraries
Advisor: Dr. Jaakko Järvi
3:00 p.m. Room 302 HRBB

Tuesday, October 13

WORKSHOP ON INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH
The Office of the Dean of Faculties and Associate Provost will host a workshop presented by Stephanie Pfirman, Hirschorn Professor and Department Chair, Department of Environmental Science, on "Making Interdisciplinary Work" from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in Rudder 501. New pioneers in emerging interdisciplinary research areas face many challenges and have many new opportunities for breakthroughs. Therefore, organizers say the academic community can benefit from scholars who have traversed similar paths. Pfirman http://www.barnard.edu/envsci/dept/pfirman/pfirman.html has both practiced interdisciplinary research in her studies on the Arctic and written about its philosophy and practice. She will share her insights to support interdisciplinary scholars at Texas A&M in their own ground-breaking initiatives. To register online, visit http://dof.tamu.edu/develop or call the Office of the Dean of Faculties and Associate Provost at 979-845-4274.

UNIVERSITY DISTINGUISHED LECTURE
Rebecca Richards-Kortum Ph.D.
Stanley C. Moore Professor of Bioengineering
Rice University
TITLE: From Cell Phones to Cell Biology: High Tech, Low Cost Solutions for Global Health
7:30 p.m., Auditorium, Annenberg Presidential Conference Center, Texas A&M University

Wednesday, October 14

BIOINFORMATICS SEMINAR
Dr. Olga Vitek
Department of Statistics &
Department of Computer Science
Purdue University
TITLE: tba
3:00 p.m., Room 457 Blocker Building
Contact: Joyce Sutherland
Webpage: http://www.stat.tamu.edu/train/seminars.html

Thursday, October 15

THESIS DEFENSE OF
ABHINAV MATHUR
TITLE: Meta-Metadata: An Information Semantics Language and Software Architecture for Collection Visualization Applications
Advisor: Dr. Andruid Kerne
10:00 a.m. Room 302 HRBB

STATISTICS DEPARTMENTAL COLLOQUIUM
Dr. Zhaohai Li
Professor
Department of Statistics
George Washington University
TITLE: Potential Impact of Population Structure on Population-Based Case-Control Association Studies
11:10 a.m., Room 150 Blocker Building
Contact: Elaine Washington
Abstract (pdf): http://www.stat.tamu.edu/files/abstr-zli.pdf

DISSERTATION DEFENSE OF
THOMAS GEORGE
TITLE: A Recommendation System for Preconditioned Iterative Solvers
Advisor: Dr. Vivek Sarin
2:00 p.m. Room 302 HRBB

Friday, October 16

PARASOL SEMINAR
Dr. Minho Lee
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Kyungpook National University
TITLE: Toward Brain-like Cognitive Systems Based on Attention, Object Perception and Knowledge Representation
4:00 p.m., Room 302 HRBB
Contact: Dr. Yoonsuck Choe

CSE Events of Week 10/5/2009 - 10/9/2009

Monday, October 5

INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Stephen W. Searcy
Professor and Associate Head
Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering
Texas A&M University
TITLE: Logistics Systems for a Nascent Biofuels Industry: Challenges and Opportunities
3:00 p.m., Room 203 Zachry
Contact: Katherine Edwards

CSCE 681 OPEN SEMINAR
Dr. Jian Li
Novel Systems Architecture Group
IBM Austin Research Laboratory
TITLE: Wavefront Power Shifting via Thrifty Interconnection Network
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CSCE 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Lawrence Rauchwerger

THESIS DEFENSE OF
CHIAO-FANG HSU
TITLE: Predicting Community Preference of Comments on the Social Web
Advisor: Dr. James Caverlee
2:00 p.m. Room 408H HRBB

Tuesday, October 6

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Frank Liu
IBM Austin Research Lab
TITLE: Information Management in DFM
3:55 p.m., Room 103 Zachry
Contact: Carolyn Warzon

Wednesday, October 7

NSF AND NIH GRANT WRITING WORKSHOP
A grant writing workshop with National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) breakout sessions will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 7, from 1:30 to 5 p.m. in 601 Rudder Tower. The first half of workshop, 1:30 to 3:45 p.m., will be the Competitive Grant Writing Strategies for junior faculty, post-docs, advanced graduate students and research and professional staff. The two simultaneous breakout sessions will include an overview of research and educational funding at the National Science Foundation (NSF breakout) from 4 to 5 p.m. in 601Rudder and an overview of research funding at the National Institutes of Health (NIH breakout) from 4 to 5 p.m., 301 Rudder. This workshop is presented by the Office of Proposal Development. Registration is free and the seminar is encouraged but not required. To register, email opd@tamu.edu with subject line "Grant Writing Workshop" and include in the body of the email your name, department and the breakout session you are interested in. For more information see this link. For any questions, contact Libby Pasciak at libbyp@tamu.edu or call 845-1811.

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. K. W. Wang
Department Chair and Stephen P. Timoshenko Collegiate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Michigan
TITLE: Multi-Field Tailoring in Adaptive Structural Systems
4:10 p.m., Room 106 RICH
Contact: Sarah Morgan

Thursday, October 8

STATISTICS DEPARTMENTAL COLLOQUIUM
Dr. Zhaosong Lu
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics
Simon Fraser University
TITLE: An Augmented Lagrangian Approach for Sparse Principal Component Analysis
11:10 a.m., Room 150 Blocker Building
Contact: Elaine Washington
Abstract (pdf): http://www.stat.tamu.edu/files/abstr-lu.pdf

Friday, October 9

CSE FORMER STUDENT PICNIC AND LAB TOURS
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering invites its former students to attend the 7th Annual Computer Science and Engineering Former Student Picnic and Lab Tours from noon to 4:00 p.m. The picnic will begin at noon on the lawn between the Langford Architecture and O&M Buildings, behind the Administration building on the Texas A&M campus in College Station. Lab tours are scheduled from 1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the H. R. Bright Building. It's not too late to register online at http://www.cse.tamu.edu/fspicnic, or call Adrienne Krenek at (979) 845-6176. Registration ends Wednesday, October 7, 2008.

PARASOL SEMINAR
Yiliang Xu, Ji Zhang, and Ali Agha
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Texas A&M University
TITLE: Systems and Algorithms for Autonomously Simultaneous Observation of Multiple Objects Using Robotic PTZ Cameras Assisted by a Wide-Angle Camera
TITLE: On the Error Analysis of Vertical Line Pair-based Monocular Visual Odometry in Urban Area
TITLE: On the Consistency of EKF-based Simultaneous Localization and Mapping of Mobile Robots
4:00 p.m., Room 302 HRBB
Contact: Dr. Nancy Amato

CSE Events of Week 9/28/2009 - 10/3/2009

Monday, September 28

INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Natarajan Gautam
Associate Professor
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Texas A&M University
TITLE: Optimizing Energy Consumption in Data Centers
3:00 p.m., Room 203 Zachry
Contact: Katherine Edwards

CSCE 681 OPEN SEMINAR
Dr. Eric Frew
Assistant Professor
Research and Engineering Center for Unmanned Vehicles (RECUV)
University of Colorado at Boulder
TITLE: Control of Unmanned Aircraft Systems for Communication and Atmospheric Sensing Applications
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CSCE 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Dezhen Song

Tuesday, September 29

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Juergen Hahn
Associate Professor
Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering
Texas A&M University
TITLE: Developing Improved Models of Signal Transduction Pathways via Systems Biology
3:55 p.m., Room 103 Zachry
Contact: Carolyn Warzon

TEXAS A&M COMPUTING SOCIETY MEETING
TACS will be hosting representatives from Pariveda Solutions, and they will be presenting a talk titled "Introduction to Technology Consulting." The talk will introduce attendees to what it would be like to work in the field of Technology Consulting. They will be accepting resumes and offering free food. 7:00 p.m., Room 110 CE. For more information please contact Kyle Willimon at tacs-pres@cse.tamu.edu.

Wednesday, September 30

BIOINFORMATICS SEMINAR
Dr. Scott C. Schmidler
Department of Statistics
Comp. Biology & Bioinformatics; Structural Biology & Biophysics
TITLE: tba
3:00 p.m., Room 457 Blocker Building
Contact: Joyce Sutherland

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Henry A. Sodano
Assistant Professor
School of Mechanical, Aerospace, Chemical and Materials Engineering
Arizona State University
TITLE: Multifunctional Composites with a Piezoelectric Interphase
4:10 p.m., Room 106 RICH
Contact: Sarah Morgan

Thursday, October 1

STATISTICS DEPARTMENTAL COLLOQUIUM
Dr. Alexander Aue
Assistant Professor
Department of Statistics
University of California, Davis
TITLE: A Point Precess Model for Transactional Level Asset Prices
11:10 a.m., Room 150 Blocker Building
Contact: Elaine Washington
Abstract (pdf): http://www.stat.tamu.edu/files/abstr-aue.pdf

Friday, October 2

PARASOL SEMINAR
Gabriel Tanase
Parasol Laboratory
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Texas A&M University
TITLE: The STAPL pList
4:00 p.m., Room 302 HRBB
Contact: Dr. Nancy Amato

Saturday, October 3

CSE CONTEST: COMPUTATIONAL THINKING 2009
The main purpose of this contest is to encourage high school students to consider pursuing further computer science related studies, e.g., as computer science or computer engineering majors in college. We want to hold a contest that will be fun, while exposing students to aspects of computing that they might not have previously considered. We also hope students will consider Texas A&M when choosing where to come to college!

The focus of this year's contest will be on computational thinking. More specifically, it will be on the application of computational thinking to solving simple real-life problems. The term "computational thinking" refers to a general attitude that enables the application of computer science concepts in all aspects of human life. Observing and analyzing physical, biological, societal, and other complex systems to derive abstractions, to model, and to simulate, while using concepts from computer science can be broadly considered computational thinking. In this year's contest, teams will "design" a solution to a simple computational task by putting together everyday objects in a certain arrangement to perform that specific function. 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. HRBB.

CSE Events of Week 9/21/2009 - 9/25/2009

Monday, September 21

INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Gary M. Gaukler
Assistant Professor
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Texas A&M University
TITLE: Detecting Nuclear Materials Smuggling: Using Radiography to Improve Container Inspection Policies
3:00 p.m., Room 203 Zachry
Contact: Katherine Edwards

CSCE 681 OPEN SEMINAR
Dr. Allan Branch
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Denning Branch International
TITLE: The 15 Year Cycle of Robotics: Commercializing Robots
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CSCE 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Robin Murphy

Tuesday, September 22

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Sani Nassif
Manager, Tools and Technology Department
IBM Austin Research Laboratory
TITLE: Future Technology Challenges: Variability and Resilience
3:55 p.m., Room 103 Zachry
Contact: Carolyn Warzon

Wednesday, September 23

ELECTRONIC RESOURCES FAIR
The University Libraries is hosting an Electronic Resources Fair. Students, faculty and researchers in science and engineering are encouraged to visit with librarians and vendors. Food and prizes provided. 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m., Zachry Engineering Center Lobby. Contact: Pauline Melgoza p-melgoza@tamu.edu.

CSE GRAPHICS SEMINAR
Dr. Ron Goldman
Professor
Rice University
TITLE: Bezier and B-spline Curves with Knots in the Complex Plane
2:45 p.m., Room 302 HRBB
Contact: Dr. Scott Schaefer

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FORUM
The next IT Forum is Wednesday, September 23rd from 3:00-4:30pm in Rudder 601. Tom Golson will present an update on the switch from CAS 2 to CAS 3. Willis Marti and Alison Winslow will discuss TAC 216, a state law that establishes standards and requirements for project management, and the development of the new Texas A&M project management office. Venesa Flores will demonstrate class roster functions and grade entry in http://howdy.tamu.edu, both new features launched this fall. For more information please visit the IT Forum website.

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Olimpia Salas
Professor
Mechanical Engineering Department
Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey-Campus Estado de Mexico
TITLE: Protection of High Temperature Alloys Against Metal Dusting
4:10 p.m., Room 106 RICH
Contact: Sarah Morgan

Thursday, September 24

STATISTICS DEPARTMENTAL COLLOQUIUM
Dr. Anindya Roy
Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
TITLE: Predicting False Discovery Proportion Using Mixture Models
11:10 a.m., Room 150 Blocker Building
Contact: Elaine Washington
Abstract (pdf): http://www.stat.tamu.edu/files/abstr-andrei.pdf

DISSERTATION DEFENSE OF
DAMIAN DECHEV
TITLE: A Concurrency and Time Centered Framework for Certification of Autonomous Space Systems
Advisor: Dr. Bjarne Stroustrup
2:00 p.m., Room 302 HRBB

Friday, September 25

CSE Events of Week 9/14/2009 - 9/18/2009

Monday, September 14

INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Robert L. Smith
Program Director for Operations Research
National Science Foundation (NSF)
TITLE: A Fictitious Play Approach to Complex Systems Optimization
3:00 p.m., Room 203 Zachry
Contact: Katherine Edwards

CSCE 681 OPEN SEMINAR
Dr. Jeffrey S. Vitter
Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Texas A&M University
TITLE: Searching String Collections for the Most Relevant Documents
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CSCE 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Nancy Amato

Tuesday, September 15

CSE INDUSTRIAL AFFILIATES PROGRAM (IAP) FALL MEETING
Give a hearty Howdy to IAP representatives and guests from ConocoPhillips, Cypress, ExxonMobil, HP, IBM, Improving Enterprises, Intel Corporation, KBSI, McAfee, Microsoft, NetQoS, Raytheon, Reynolds & Reynolds, Schlumberger, SunGard, Union Pacific Railroad, and USAA who will be visiting the department today and tomorrow. The fall meeting will bring our IAP members up-to-date on department curriculum and research. 9:00 a.m., Room 302 HRBB

ENGINEERING CAREER FAIR
The Fall 2009 Engineering Career Fair exhibition will be held at Reed Arena on September 15th and 16th, from 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.. Come out, meet some company representatives, and look for full time, internship, and co-op positions for all majors!

IAP DISTINGUISHED LECTURER
Jim Crompton
Manager of Upstream Architecture and Technology
Chevron Global Upstream Capabilities
Houston, Texas
TITLE: How Information Technology Enables the Digital Oil Field
2:30 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
Contact: Kay Jones

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Alex Sprintson
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Texas A&M University
TITLE: Wireless Network Coding for Cooperative Data Exchange
3:55 p.m., Room 103 Zachry
Contact: Carolyn Warzon

Wednesday, September 16

CSE IAP FALL MEETING CONTINUES
9:00 a.m., Room 302 HRBB

ENGINEERING CAREER FAIR CONTINUES
10:00 a.m. - 5 p.m. Reed Arena

BIOINFORMATICS SEMINAR
Yuliya Karpievitch
Department of Statistics
Texas A&M University
TITLE: Statistical Approaches to Protein Quantitation in Bottom-Up MS-based Proteomics
3:00 p.m., Room 457 Blocker Building
Contact: Joyce Sutherland

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Kenneth Hall
Associate Dean, Dwight Look College of Engineering
Deputy Director, TEES
Texas A&M University
TITLE: Conventional Transportation Fuels from Biomass
4:10 p.m., Room 106 RICH
Contact: Sarah Morgan

Thursday, September 17

STATISTICS DEPARTMENTAL COLLOQUIUM
Adin-Cristian Andrei
Department of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
TITLE: A Novel Pseudo-Observations-Based Modeling Approach for Interval-Censored Data
11:10 a.m., Room 150 Blocker Building
Contact: Elaine Washington
Abstract (pdf): http://www.stat.tamu.edu/files/abstr-andrei.pdf

Friday, September 18

TOWN HALL MEETING WITH DR. REGINA DUGAN, DIRECTOR OF DARPA
There will be a presentation and a town hall meeting with Dr. Regina Dugan, Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on Friday, September 18, 2009 from 1:00 - 2:15 p.m. in Rudder Tower, room 601. DARPA currently funds research in a wide variety of scientific disciplines - biology, medicine, computer science, chemistry, physics, engineering, mathematics, material sciences, social sciences, neuroscience and more.

CSE Events of Week 9/7/2009 - 9/11/2009

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Monday, August 7

TEXAS RESEARCH EXCHANGE FEST 2009
Monday, September 7: Opening Reception, Hilton Ballrooms 1 & 2, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

The Texas Research Exchange Fest 2009 will be held September 7th - 8th at the Hilton located near the campus of Texas A&M University in College Station. The purpose of this meeting is to have various representatives from federal agencies discuss the details of their different research programs and to encourage collaborations among the researchers at Texas Universities and Industry.

The event includes poster sessions and collaborative discussions in addition to the informational sessions featuring the representatives from different federal agencies. The event is organized to focus on five major areas within computer science: security, software, networks, information, and high performance computing.

Representatives from The National Science Foundation, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and The United States Department of Energy will give lectures and help to facilitate discussion.

The registration fee for this event is $100 per person. To register for this event please follow this link. The link will also provide the means to register for the poster session, which will be held during a reception Monday evening. Senior graduate students are strongly encouraged to attend this meeting. For more details, including speaker information and a schedule of events please visit the TREF website.

INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Liqing Zhang
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Texas A&M University
TITLE: Stochastic Dynamic Inventory Problem Under Inbound Cargo Costs
3:00 p.m., Room 203 Zachry
Contact: Katherine Edwards

CSCE 681 OPEN SEMINAR
Dr. Dylan Shell
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Texas A&M University
TITLE: Macroscopic Modeling for Robot Swarms
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CSCE 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Nancy Amato

Tuesday, September 8

TEXAS RESEARCH EXCHANGE FEST 2009 CONTINUES
8:30 a.m. Ballrooms 1 and 2, the College Station Hilton.

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Gwan Choi
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Texas A&M University
TITLE: Low-Power Embedded Codec Architecture for Mobile Multimedia Devices
3:55 p.m., Room 103 Zachry
Contact: Carolyn Warzon

Wednesday, September 9

Thursday, September 10

STATISTICS DEPARTMENTAL COLLOQUIUM
Deepak Agarwal
Yahoo! Research
TITLE: Recommender System for Web Applications
11:10 a.m., Room 150 Blocker Building
Contact: Elaine Washington
Abstract (pdf): http://www.stat.tamu.edu/files/abstr-agarwal.pdf

Friday, September 11

Last day to apply for all degrees awarded in December.

CSE Events of Week 8/31/2009 - 9/4/2009

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Monday, August 31

1st Day of fall semester classes; good luck to all students, faculty, and staff!

CSCE 681 SEMINAR
TITLE: Graduate Orientation I: Overview of Department Resources & Contacts, Honor Code, and Student Organizations
CSCE 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Hank Walker
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB

Tuesday, September 1

Wednesday, September 2

CSCE 681 SEMINAR
TITLE: Graduate Orientation II: Current Grad & Faculty Panels, Poster Session, & PIZZA!
CSCE 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Hank Walker
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB

Thursday, September 3

CSCE INVITED SEMINAR
Dr. Najib Abusalbi
Director of University Collaborationr
Schlumberger
TITLE: Energy in the 21st Century: Building a Brighter Future!
5:30 p.m., Room 124 HRBB

Friday, September 4

Last day for adding and dropping courses for the fall semester.

CSE FALL PICNIC
CSGSA, UPE, TACS, TAGD, and AWICS invite all computer science and engineering department students, faculty, and staff to the CSE Fall Picnic. There will be food, music, games, and door prizes. Children and guests are welcome.

When: Friday September 4, 2009; from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Where: Veterans Park

Summer 2009

CSE Events of Week 8/24/2009 - 8/28/2009

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Monday, August 24

Tuesday, August 25

Wednesday, August 26

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FORUM
The next IT Forum is Wednesday, August 26th from 3:00-4:30pm in Rudder 601. The program will include an identity management panel discussion. The members of this panel are listed below.

Andy Bland, Executive Director of IT Service for DOF
Cheryl Cato, Associate Director over Infrastructure Services
Carl McKneely, Director of Business Computing Services
Susan Neitsch, Lead Software Applications Developer
DeAnna White, Assistant Director of HR

The panel will be answering questions about identity management, what it includes, and how it is being implemented at Texas A&M. We look forward to hearing your questions, comments, and feedback. Feel free to ask questions at the IT Forum, or send suggested discussion questions to mosterholm@neo.tamu.edu. The IT Forum program will also include updates on IronPort/SMTP relay, the vendor access policy and PGP encryption. For more information please visit the IT Forum website.

Thursday, August 27

PARASOL SEMINAR
Dr. Amitabha Mukerjee
Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
TITLE: The Build-a-baby Enterprise
4:00 p.m., Room 302 HRBB
Contact: Dr. Yoonsuck Choe

Friday, August 28

Last day to register for fall semester classes and pay fees

DISSERTATION DEFENSE OF
LYDIA TAPIA
TITLE: Intelligent Motion Planning and Analysis with Probabilistic Roadmap Methods for the Study of Complex and High-Dimensional Motions
Advisor: Dr. Nancy Amato
10:30 a.m. Room 302 HRBB

OPEN ACCESS LAB DEDICATION & RECEPTION
Join us in thanking representatives from Hewlett-Packard for donating equipment to the department! Light refreshments will be served. This event will also showcase our new open access labs in Room 111 of the Reed McDonald Building. 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Room 111 RDMC (Reed-McDonald Building).

CSE Events of Week 8/17/2009 - 8/21/2009

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Monday, August 17

THESIS DEFENSE OF
GUATAM ROY
TITLE: A Distributed Pool Architecture for Genetic Algorithms
Advisor: Dr. Jennifer Welch
1:00 p.m. Room 302 HRBB

Tuesday, August 18

Wednesday, August 19

Thursday, August 20

Friday, August 21

CSE Events of Week 8/10/2009 - 8/14/2009

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Monday, August 10

2nd term and 10-week semester final examinations begin.

Tuesday, August 11

Final exams continue.

INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Sunderesh S. Heragu
Mary Lee and George F. Duthie Chair
Department of Industrial Engineering
University of Louisville
TITLE: Analytical Models for Design, Planning and Operation of Manufacturing Systems
11:00 a.m., Room 233 Zachry
Contact: Katherine Edwards

Wednesday, August 12

Thursday, August 13

SUMMER 2009 CSE GRADUATION RECEPTION
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering will host a reception in honor of the department's summer 2009 graduates. The reception is open to family and friends of the summer 2009 graduates as well as department faculty and staff. Enjoy light refreshments, collect a celebratory cup, and be included in a drawing for door prizes! 10:30 a.m. to 12 noon, Room 302 HRBB

COMMENCEMENT CONVOCATION
5:30 p.m., Reed Arena
Speaker: Regent Gene Stallings
Please see the Texas A&M graduation website for more details.

THE NEXT TRADITION
The Association of Former Students will be hosting The Next Tradition graduation party on Thursday, August 13 at The Clayton W. Williams, Jr. Alumni Center immediately following Commencement Convocation at Reed Arena. The Next Tradition is designed to welcome graduating seniors into The Association of Former Students and to teach them the importance of staying involved beyond their time at Texas A&M University. Furthermore, students and their family and friends will be invited to come enjoy free hamburgers, pick up their former student decals, and win door prizes. If you have any questions, please call 845-7514 or the Association's website.

Friday, August 14

COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY
The Commencement Ceremony for the students of the Dwight Look College of Engineering will take place at 2:00 p.m. at Reed Arena. For more information about this week's commencement ceremonies, please visit the Texas A&M graduation website.

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL GRADUATING DEGREE CANDIDATES AND TO ALL WHO MADE IT SUCCESSFULLY THROUGH THIS SUMMER!

CSE Events of Week 8/3/2009 - 8/7/2009

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Monday, August 3

Tuesday, August 4

SUMMER RESEARCH EXPERIENCES FOR UNDERGRADUATES (REU) POSTER EXHIBIT
Our CSE summer REU participants will be exhibiting their research at the Office of Undergraduate Research's annual Poster Board Presentation/Reception. Refreshments will be served and the dress is business casual. For more information, call the Office of Undergraduate Research at (979)458-0039, or visit http://ugr.tamu.edu. 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., lobby of the Zachry Building.

Wednesday, August 5

Thursday, August 6

CSE REU BROWN BAG LUNCH
CSE REU Pizza Party! For information on the Research Experiences for Undergraduates Brown Bag Lunch, contact CSE Program Assistant Theresa Roberts at theresa@cse.tamu.edu. 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m., Room 302 H. R. Bright Building.

Friday, August 7

Last Day of the second term and the 10-week semester classes.

REU Engineering Poster Session, 9:00 a.m., Zachry Engineering Building Lobby

REU Engineering Poster Session Closing & Awards Ceremony, 12:30 a.m. Zachry 102

CSE Events of Week 7/20/2009 - 7/24/2009

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Monday, July 20

Last Day for students to drop courses with no penalty or withdraw from the 10-week semester.

Tuesday, July 21

Wednesday, July 22

Thursday, July 23

CSE REU BROWN BAG LUNCH
Student presentations continue. Please note the time change to 11:30 a.m. for the start time. For information on the Research Experiences for Undergraduates Brown Bag Lunch, contact CSE Program Assistant Theresa Roberts at theresa@cse.tamu.edu. 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m., Room 302 H. R. Bright Building.

The First Workshop on Genome Bioinformatics: Exploring the Current Landscape of High-Throughput DNA Sequencing and Analysis

This workshop will be held every Thursday from May 28 to July 30, 2009. A small group of scientists is being organized at Texas A&M University to explore the current computational landscape for Genome Bioinformatics from a life scientist's perspective. The goal is to form a small and dynamic learning group that will share and spread critical expertise in these areas. Initially, we will emphasize all aspects related to next-generation DNA sequencing technologies such as the Illumina and the Roche 454. For this, we will: 1) Test drive commercial and Open-Source software. 2) Report and discuss what we like and dislike about the software. 3) Review Unix commands and "pipelines" related to data manipulation and analysis. 4) Review and test a series of other "Open Source" genomic software solutions like Galaxy. For a detailed schedule please visit this link.

Friday, July 24

Last Day for students to Q-drop, change KINE 198/199 grade for the second term, or officially withdraw from the University for the second term.

CSE Events of Week 7/13/2009 - 7/17/2009

Monday, July 13

Tuesday, July 14

THESIS DEFENSE OF
SONGJIAN LU
TITLE: Parameterized Algorithms and their Applications in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Dr. Jianer Chen and Dr. Sing-Hoi Sze
10:00 a.m. Room 307 HRBB

Wednesday, July 15

Parking Permit Registration ends.

Thursday, July 16

CSE REU BROWN BAG LUNCH
Student presentations begin. Please note the time change to 11:30 a.m. for the start time. For information on the Research Experiences for Undergraduates Brown Bag Lunch, contact CSE Program Assistant Theresa Roberts at theresa@cse.tamu.edu. 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m., Room 302 H. R. Bright Building.

Friday, July 17

CSE Events of Week 7/6/2009 - 7/10/2009

Keep up to date with events at the University, College, and Department level with the Texas A&M University Calendar System:

http://calendar.tamu.edu (University-wide calendar)
http://calendar.tamu.edu/engineering (Dwight Look College of Engineering Calendar)
http://calendar.tamu.edu/cse (Computer Science and Engineering Calendar)

Please note that you can subscribe to the calendar by copying the ICS attachment link in the Upcoming Events tab to your favorite calendar application. If you would like to submit any calendar items to the CSE calendar please contact Tony Okonski via email.

Monday, July 6

First day of 2nd term classes.

Tuesday, July 7

INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Richard T. Stone
Assistant Professor
Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
Iowa State University
TITLE: Augmented Reality Devices for Enhanced Human Performance in Tele-robotic Landmine Detection
11:00 a.m., Room 233 Zachry
Contact: Katherine Edwards

Wednesday, July 8

1st term final grades due in the office of the Registrar.

Thursday, July 9

Last day for adding/dropping courses for the 2nd term.

CSE REU BROWN BAG LUNCH
Dr. Nancy Amato and Dr. Jianer Chen will speak about their research interests. For information on the Research Experiences for Undergraduates Brown Bag Lunch, contact CSE Program Assistant Theresa Roberts at theresa@cse.tamu.edu. 12:30 to 1:45 p.m., Room 302 H. R. Bright Building.

Friday, July 10

Last day to apply for degrees to be awarded for students completing degree requirements in the 2nd term or 10-week semester.

CSE Events of Week 6/29/2009 - 7/3/2009

Monday, June 29

INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Brian Sauser
Assistant Professor
School of Systems & Enterprises
Stevens Institute of Technology
TITLE: A Review of Frameworks and Models from Maturity to Collaboration in Systems and System of Systems Engineering
11:00 a.m., Room 233 Zachry
Contact: Katherine Edwards

Tuesday, June 30

STATISTICS DEPARTMENTAL COLLOQUIUM
Ms. Mandy Hering
Department of of Statistics
Texas A&M University
TITLE: Comparing Accuracy of Spatial Forecasts
11:10 a.m., Room 411 Blocker Building
Contact: Elaine Washington
Website: http://www.stat.tamu.edu

Wednesday, July 1

Last Day of 1st term classes.

Thursday, July 2

1st term final exams, no 10 week classes.

CSE REU BROWN BAG LUNCH
Dr. Frank Shipman will speak about technical and scientific writing. For information on the Research Experiences for Undergraduates Brown Bag Lunch, contact CSE Program Assistant Theresa Roberts at theresa@cse.tamu.edu. 12:30 to 1:45 p.m., Room 302 H. R. Bright Building.

Friday, July 3

Faculty and staff holiday.

Last day to rent and order cap and gown online at graduation.tamu.edu.

CSE Events of Week 6/22/2009 - 6/26/2009

Monday, June 22

Tuesday, June 23

Wednesday, June 24

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FORUM
The next IT Forum is Wednesday, June 24th from 3:00-4:30pm in Rudder 601. Several topics will be covered in the meeting. Victor Frysinger will discuss the time line for ending SIMS access. Willis Marti will discuss the status of Social Security number scanning and the availability of the Identity Finder Console. Tom Golson will provide the latest information on Shibboleth and the Enterprise Directory. Bryan Sartin, Director of investigative response for Verizon Business Security Solutions, will present on understanding security threats. This presentation will provide an overview of the 2008 and 2009 Data Breach Investigations Reports, and valuable information on preventing data breaches. Mr. Sartin will be available for questions after the presentation. Visit http://www.verizonbusiness.com/products/security/risk/databreach for more information.

Thursday, June 25

CPSC INVITED SEMINAR
Dr. Kiyoung Choi
Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Seoul National University
TITLE: Communication Architecture and Memory Interface for Many-Core SoC
11:00 a.m., Room 302 HRBB
Contact: Dr. Eun Jung Kim

CSE REU BROWN BAG LUNCH
Cody Blair will speak about preparing for the GRE (Graduate Record Examination). For information on the Research Experiences for Undergraduates Brown Bag Lunch, contact CSE Program Assistant Theresa Roberts at theresa@cse.tamu.edu. 12:30 to 1:45 p.m., Room 302 H. R. Bright Building.

Friday, June 26

PARASOL SEMINAR
Dr. Dinesh Manocha
Phi Delta Theta/Matthew Mason Distinguished Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
TITLE: Interactive Multi-Agent and Crowd Simulation
3:00 p.m., Room 302 HRBB
Contact: Dr. John Keyser

CSE Events of Week 6/15/2009 - 6/19/2009

Monday, June 15

Tuesday, June 16

Wednesday, June 17

PARASOL SEMINAR
Dr. Marc L. Smith
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Vassar College
TITLE: AiptasiaWiki: Community-Sourced Graphical Pipeline Processing for Bioinformatics
4:00 p.m., Room 302 HRBB
Contact: Dr. Tiffani Williams

Thursday, June 18

CSE REU BROWN BAG LUNCH
Dr. Jennifer Welch, Dr. James Caverlee, and Dr. Scott Schaefer will speak about CSE faculty research interests. For information on the Research Experiences for Undergraduates Brown Bag Lunch, contact CSE Program Assistant Theresa Roberts at theresa@cse.tamu.edu. Noon to 1:15 p.m., Room 302 H. R. Bright Building.

Friday, June 19

Last day to officially withdraw from the University for first term. Last day for all students to drop courses with no penalty for the first term (Q-drop). Last day to change Kinesiology 198/199 grade type for first term.

CSE Events of Week 6/8/2009 - 6/12/2009

Monday, June 8

Tuesday, June 9

Wednesday, June 10

Thursday, June 11

CSE REU BROWN BAG LUNCH
Dr. Hank Walker
Professor and Graduate Advisor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Texas A&M University
Noon to 1:15 p.m., Room 302 H. R. Bright Building
For information on the Research Experiences for Undergraduates Brown Bag Lunch, contact CSE Program Assistant Theresa Roberts at theresa@cse.tamu.edu.

Friday, June 12

CSE Events of Week 6/1/2009 - 6/5/2009

Monday, June 1

First day of 1st term and 10-week semester classes

CSE@TAMU SUMMER PROGRAMS BEGIN
The department of computer science and engineering welcomes undergraduate research students participating in the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU@CSE), Undergraduate Summer Research Grants (USRG), and the Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (DREU) programs at Texas A&M.

Tuesday, June 2

Wednesday, June 3

Thursday, June 4

Last day to add or drop courses for summer 1 and the 10-week semester.

CSE REU BROWN BAG LUNCH
Subject: Graduate Student Panel
CSE Graduate Students will discuss what it takes to succeed in grad school.
Noon to 1:15 p.m., Room 302 H. R. Bright Building
For information on the Research Experiences for Undergraduates Brown Bag Lunch, contact CSE Program Assistant Theresa Roberts at theresa@cse.tamu.edu.

BIOLOGY AND ENGINEERING INTERFACE
BEI is a series of information exchanges and socials between the Department of Biology and the Dwight Look College of Engineering with the goal of promoting collaboration in teaching and research. Participation is open to faculty, staff, postdocs, graduate, and undergraduate students. Appetizers and drinks will be provided. For more information please visit the event website.

3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. at the University Club in Rudder Tower. Please RSVP to Lieu Jean By June 1.

Friday, June 5

Last day to apply for degrees to be awarded in August.

CSE Events of Week 5/25/2009 - 5/22/2009

Monday, May 25

Memorial Day
Faculty and staff holiday.

Tuesday, May 26

CSE FACULTY RETREAT BEGINS
The CSE faculty will meet at Camp Allen to discuss department research and curriculum issues. Contact Leah Lewis with any travel arrangement questions. 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Transfer Student Conference begins. For more information please visit this website.

Wednesday, May 27

CSE Faculty Retreat continues at Camp Allen. 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Transfer Student Conference continues.

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FORUM
We invite you to join us for the May IT Forum on Wednesday, May 27th from 3:00-4:30pm in Rudder 601. We will announce some important information about the Code Maroon vendor change, and how to prepare for the conversion. Willis Marti will discuss a proposal to make UIN's directory information. We will also discuss the transition from CAS 2 to CAS 3 including the differences between the systems and the time frame for CAS 3 deployment. Finally we will also review the Texas A&M Google Search Appliance, how it is different from the alternatives, and some of its more specialized features. We will also answer any questions about this resource. For more information please visit the IT Forum website.

Thursday, May 28

The First Workshop on Genome Bioinformatics: Exploring the Current Landscape of High-Throughput DNA Sequencing and Analysis

This workshop will be held every Thursday from May 28 to July 30, 2009. A small group of scientists is being organized at Texas A&M University to explore the current computational landscape for Genome Bioinformatics from a life scientist's perspective. We aim at forming a small and dynamic learning group that will both share and spread critical expertise in these areas. Initially, we will emphasize all aspects related to next-generation DNA sequencing technologies such as the Illumina and the Roche 454. For this, we will: 1) Test drive commercial and Open-Source software. 2) Report and discuss what we like and dislike about the software. 3) Review Unix commands and "pipelines" related to data manipulation and analysis. 4) Review and test a series of other "Open Source" genomic software solutions like Galaxy. For a detailed schedule and registration information please visit this link.

Friday, May 29

Last day to register for 1st term and 10-week semester.

Spring 2009

CSE Events of Week 5/18/2009 - 5/22/2009

Monday, May 18

Final grades for all students due in the Office of the Registrar by 12 p.m. (noon)

Tuesday, May 19

Wednesday, May 20

Thursday, May 21

Friday, May 22

CSE Events of Week 5/11/2009 - 5/15/2009

Monday, May 11

Spring semester final examinations

Tuesday, May 12

Spring semester final examinations

Wednesday, May 13

Spring semester final examinations

THESIS DEFENSE OF
LUKE WAGNER
TITLE: Traversal, case analysis, and lowering for C++ program analysis
Advisor: Dr. Bjarne Stroustrup
10:00 a.m., Room 425A HRBB

DISSERTATION DEFENSE OF
ZHONGMEI YAO
TITLE: Understanding Churn in Decentralized Peer-to-Peer Networks
Advisor: Dr. Dmitri Loguinov
1:00 p.m., Room 501A HRBB

RETIREMENT RECEPTION FOR DR. UDO POOCH
Please join the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in honoring Dr. Udo Pooch on the occasion of his retirement. The event will take place from 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. in the Forsyth Gallery at Texas A&M University in the Memorial Student Center. Students, faculty, and friends are cordially invited to attend the reception celebrating Dr. Pooch's many years of service to the department and Texas A&M.

Thursday, May 14

SPRING 2009 CSE GRADUATION RECEPTION
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering, will host a reception in honor of the department's spring 2009 graduates. The reception is open to family and friends of the spring 2009 graduates as well as department faculty and staff. Enjoy light refreshments, collect a celebratory cup, and be included in a drawing for door prizes! 10:30 a.m. to 12 noon, Room 302 HRBB

DISSERTATION DEFENSE OF
XIAOMING WANG
TITLE: Robust and Scalable Sampling Algorithms for Network Measurement
Advisor: Dr. Dmitri Loguinov
2:00 p.m., Room 516 HRBB

COMMENCEMENT CONVOCATION
5:30 p.m., Reed Arena
Speaker: Maj. Gen. Charles F. Bolden, Jr. (Ret. USMC)
Please see the Texas A&M graduation website for more details.

THE NEXT TRADITION
The Association of Former Students will be hosting The Next Tradition graduation party on Thursday, May 14 from 6:30 p.m. until 9:30 p.m. at The Student Rec Center immediately following Commencement Convocation at Reed Arena. The Next Tradition is designed to welcome graduating seniors into The Association of Former Students and to teach them the importance of staying involved beyond their time at Texas A&M University. Furthermore, students and their family and friends will be invited to come enjoy free hamburgers, pick up their former student decals, and win door prizes. If you have any questions, please call 845-7514 or the Association's website.

Friday, May 15

COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY
The Commencement Ceremony for the students of the Dwight Look College of Engineering will take place at 7:00 p.m. at Reed Arena. For more information about this week's commencement ceremonies, please visit the Texas A&M graduation website.

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL GRADUATING DEGREE CANDIDATES AND TO ALL WHO MADE IT SUCCESSFULLY THROUGH THIS SPRING SEMESTER.

CSE Events of Week 5/4/2009 - 5/8/2009

Monday, May 4

Dead day, classes meet but no major exams

INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Aysegul Toptal
Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering
Bilkent University
TITLE: An Integrated Model for Transportation And Production Scheduling
3:00 p.m., Room 203 Zachry
Contact: Katherine Edwards

Tuesday, May 5

Last day of spring semester classes; redefined day, students attend their Friday classes; dead day, classes meet but no major exams

Wednesday, May 6

Reading day; no classes

BIOINFORMATICS SEMINAR
Thomas Taverner
Bio Separations and Mass Spect
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
TITLE: Collaborations in statistical proteomics between PNNL and Texas A&M
3:00 p.m., Room 457 Blocker Building
Contact: Joyce Sutherland

Thursday, May 7

Reading day; no classes

Friday, May 8

Spring semester final examinations begin

CSE Events of Week 4/27/2009 - 5/1/2009

Monday, April 27

AGGIE WOMEN IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (AWICS) 5TH ANNUAL LEADERSHIP WORKSHOP
The Aggie Women in Computer Science (AWICS) will hold their fifth annual Leadership Workshop on Monday April 27. The workshop examines and promotes excellence and leadership among women in computing and in all aspects of life. The workshop includes panel sessions featuring women from both industry and academia who have excelled in leadership positions. Scheduled panelists include Dr. Robin Murphy, Ms. Lise B Hvatum, Dr. Karen Butler-Purry, Ms. Danna Rother, and Ms. Jacqueline Fisher. This event will be moderated by Dr. Nancy Amato. The workshop will have morning and afternoon panel discussions focusing on the how, what, and why of leadership and how to create and sustain diverse and supportive work environments. The Workshop includes lunch and is open to all who are interested in attending. The event begins at 11 a.m. in Room 302 HRBB. For more information please visit the AWICS website.

PARASOL SEMINAR
Dr. Louis-Philippe Morency
Research Assistant Professor
Institute for Creative Technologies
University of Southern California
TITLE: Computational Study Of Nonverbal Social Communication
2:30 p.m., Room 302 HRBB
Contact: Dr. Nancy Amato

INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Warren Adams
Professor of Mathematical Sciences
Clemson University
TITLE: Strategic Linear Formulations and the Quadratic Assignment Problem
3:00 p.m., Room 203 Zachry
Contact: Katherine Edwards

CPSC 681 OPEN SEMINAR
Dr. Mikhail Moshkov
Professor
Applied Mathematics and Computational Science
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
TITLE: Decision Trees, Reducts and Rules - Theoretical and Applied Questions
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CPSC 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Nancy Amato

This lecture is also a part of The Institute for Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences (IAMCS) and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Lectures.

Tuesday, April 28

DWIGHT LOOK COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING SEMINAR SERIES
Dr. Josep Torrellas
Professor and Willett Faculty Scholar
Computer Science Department
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
TITLE: An Agenda for Parallel Computer Architecture and Parallel Computing
Reception: 9:30 a.m.; Presentation: 10:00 a.m., Room 342 Zachry
Contact: Carolyn Warzon

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Takis Zourntos
Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M University
TITLE: Synthesis of Lightweight Cybernetic Mobile Agents
3:55 p.m., Room 103 Zachry
Contact: Carolyn Warzon

Wednesday, April 29

CPSC 681 OPEN SEMINAR
Dr. Dan Wallach
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Rice University
TITLE: Adventures in Electronic Voting Research
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CPSC 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Guofei Gu

MAXON LECTURE SERIES
Dr. Madhu Sudan
Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
TITLE: List-decoding of Reed Solomon Codes
4:00 p.m., Room 117 Blocker

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Steve Engelstad
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Advanced Development Program
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company
TITLE: Robust Design of Composite Bonded Pi-Joints
4:10 p.m., Room 106 RICH
Contact: Sarah Morgan

Thursday, April 30

STATISTICS DEPARTMENTAL COLLOQUIUM
Dr. Pierre Pinson
Associate professor
Department of Informatics and Mathematical Modeling
Technical University of Denmark
TITLE: Regime-switching Dynamics of Short-Term Wind Power Fluctuations
11:10 a.m., Room 150 Blocker Building
Contact: Elaine Washington
Website: http://www.stat.tamu.edu

MAXON LECTURE SERIES CONTINUES
Dr. Madhu Sudan
Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
TITLE: Probabilistically Checkable Proofs
4:00 p.m., Room 117 Blocker

Friday, May 1

DISSERTATION DEFENSE OF
YANG LIU
TITLE: Measure-driven Algorithm Design and Analysis: A New Approach for Solving NP-hard Problems
Advisor: Dr. Jianer Chen
9:00 a.m., Room 302 HRBB

THESIS DEFENSE OF
CHANDAN REDDY
TITLE: Capacity-Proportional Unstructured P2P Networks
Advisor: Dr. Dmitri Loguinov
3:00 p.m. Room 501A HRBB

PARASOL SEMINAR
Lydia Tapia
Parasol Laboratory
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Texas A&M University
TITLE: An Unsupervised Adaptive Strategy for Constructing Probabilistic Roadmaps
4:00 p.m., Room 302 HRBB
Contact: Dr. Nancy Amato

PARASOL SEMINAR
Dr. Dezhen Song
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Texas A&M University
TITLE: Monte Carlo Simultaneous Localization of Multiple Unknown Transient
4:30 p.m., Room 302 HRBB
Contact: Dr. Nancy Amato

CSE Events of Week 4/20/2009 - 4/24/2009

Monday, April 20

INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Seong Dae Kim
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Michigan Technological University
TITLE: Roads or Radar: Investment Decision between Infrastructure and Forecasting When Facing Natural Disaster Risk
3:00 p.m., Room 203 Zachry
Contact: Katherine Edwards

Tuesday, April 21

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Nigel Paver
ARM Corporate R&D Group
TITLE: Modeling and analyzing high performance system on a chip architectures
3:55 p.m., Room 103 Zachry
Contact: Carolyn Warzon

Wednesday, April 22

COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING 2009 SPRING BANQUET AND AWARDS CEREMONY
Pebble Creek Country Club
6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
RSVP registration closed as of 17 April 2009
Bus Schedule: Depart from Wisenbaker (WERC) at 5:15 p.m. & Depart from Pebble Creek at 9:00 p.m. to return back to Wisenbaker (WERC)
For more information please contact Adrienne Krenek

This event is sponsored by the CSE Industrial Affiliates Program and is hosted by the Computer Science and Engineering Graduate Students Association (CSGSA) with assistance provided by Aggie Women in Computer Science (AWICS), Texas A&M Computing Society (TACS), and the Texas Aggie Game Developers (TAGD).

CPSC 681 OPEN SEMINAR
Dr. Henry Lieberman
Research Scientist
MIT Media Laboratory
TITLE: Drawing on Sketchy Knowledge
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CPSC 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Tracy Hammond

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Scott Stephens
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Kentucky
TITLE: Modeling issues for Radial Lip Seals with Deterministic Surface Features on the Shaft
4:10 p.m., Room 106 RICH
Contact: Sarah Morgan

Thursday, April 23

STATISTICS DEPARTMENTAL COLLOQUIUM
Dr. Emanuel Parzen
Distinguished Professor, Department of Statistics
Texas A&M University
TITLE: A Last Lecture 1949-2009: Quantiles are "Optimal"
11:10 a.m., Room 150 Blocker Building
Contact: Elaine Washington
Website: http://www.stat.tamu.edu

Friday, April 24

ABCS SEMINAR
Dr. Tahir Cagin
Professor, Artie McFerrrin Department of Chemical Engineering, &
Chair, Interdisciplinary Materials Science and Engineering Texas A&M University
TITLE: Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Structure, Assembly, Thermo-mechanical Properties and Transport in Cyclic Peptide Nanotubes
4:00 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CPSC Faculty Contact: Dr. Nancy Amato

CSE Events of Week 4/13/2009 - 4/17/2009

Monday, April 13

Tuesday, April 14

PARASOL SEMINAR
Dr. Hans Boehm
HP Laboratories
Palo Alto, California
TITLE: The C++0x concurrency memory model and some of its implications
2:00 p.m., Room 302 HRBB
Contact: Dr. Nancy Amato

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Brian Mulvaney & Ben Gu
Freescale Semiconductor
TITLE: Overview of SPICE Development in Freescale
3:55 p.m., Room 103 Zachry
Contact: Carolyn Warzon

Wednesday, April 15

STATISTICS BROWN BAG SEMINAR
Dr. Huiyan Sang
Assistant Professor
Department of Statistics
Texas A&M University
TITLE: Bayesian Hierarchical Models: Two Case Studies
11:30 a.m., Room 503, Blocker Building
Contact: Elaine Washington

BIOINFORMATICS SEMINAR
Dr. Martin Dickman
Professor, Plant Pathology and Microbiology
Director of Institute for Plant Genomics and Biotechnology
Texas A&M University
TITLE: Fungal genomics, death and next generation sequencing
3:00 p.m., Room 457 Blocker Building
Contact: Joyce Sutherland

CPSC 681 OPEN SEMINAR
Dr. Jeffery von Ronne
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Texas at San Antonio
TITLE: Safe, Staged Static Analysis of Java Programs
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CPSC 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Lawrence Rauchwerger

Thursday, April 16

Preregistration for the 2009 fall semester.

STATISTICS DEPARTMENTAL COLLOQUIUM
Dr. Hira L. Koul
Department of Statistics and Probability
Michigan State University
TITLE: Model Diagnosis via Khmaladze's Martingale Transform
11:10 a.m., Room 150 Blocker Building
Contact: Elaine Washington
Website: http://www.stat.tamu.edu

Friday, April 17

Preregistration for the 2009 fall semester.

CSE Events of Week 4/6/2009 - 4/10/2009

Monday, April 6

Last day for all students to drop courses with no penalty (Q-drop).
Last day to change Kinesiology 198/199 grade type.
Last day to officially withdraw from the University.

Tuesday, April 7

ACADEMIC MASTER PLAN UNIVERSITY WIDE RETREAT
We hope you will join us on April 7, 2009, for the University-wide retreat to showcase potential Landmark Research areas. Hosted by the Academic Master Plan Research Roadmap committee, the all-day event will include both general sessions and breakout groups in Rudder Tower and the Memorial Student Center. Breakout groups will have an opportunity to view videotaped presentations by each of the white paper finalist teams and to engage in a live Q&A with the presenters. Participants will provide crucial feedback to the Research Roadmap committee as it forms recommendations for landmark areas to the Steering committee.

Pre-online Registration is required. Please note there is no cost to attend the retreat and lunch is provided. Pre-online registration deadline is today Friday, April 3.

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Lei Ying
Assistant Professor
Iowa State University
TITLE: On Combining Shortest-Path and Back-Pressure Routing
3:55 p.m., Room 103 Zachry
Contact: Carolyn Warzon

Wednesday, April 8

BIOINFORMATICS SEMINAR
Dr. Zhao-Bang Zeng
Professor, Department of Statistics & Department of Genetics Bioinformatics Research
Director, Bioinformatics Research Center
NC State University
TITLE: Use Score Statistic to Aid Model Selection for Mapping Multiple QTL
3:00 p.m., Room 457 Blocker Building
Contact: Joyce Sutherland

CPSC 681 OPEN SEMINAR
Dr. Paul V. Gratz
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Texas A&M University
TITLE: The TRIPS Processor Architecture and Microarchitecture
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CPSC 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Nancy Amato

Thursday, April 9

STATISTICS DEPARTMENTAL COLLOQUIUM
Dr. Kate Calder
Assistant Professor of Statistics
Ohio State University
TITLE: Kernal-based Models for Space-time data
11:10 a.m., Room 150 Blocker Building
Contact: Elaine Washington
Website: http://www.stat.tamu.edu

Friday, April 10

Reading day, no classes.

CSE Events of Week 3/30/2009 - 4/3/2009

Preregistration for the 2009 first term, second term, and 10-week summer semester continues until Friday, April 3.

Monday, March 30

CPSC 681 OPEN SEMINAR
Dr. Carola Wenk
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
The University of Texas at San Antonio
TITLE: Frechet Distance Variants for Curves and Surfaces
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CPSC 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Nancy Amato

Tuesday, March 31

SUN MICROSYSTEMS OPEN SOURCE UNIVERSITY MEETING
Charles Lively III
Campus Ambassador
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Texas A&M University
TITLE: Overview of the Sun Academic Initiative and using OpenSolaris
Food, drinks, and giveaways provided
11:30am, Room 302 HRBB
Contact/RSVP: Charles Lively

STATISTICS BROWN BAG SEMINAR
Dr. Mohsen Pourahmadi
Professor
Department of Statistics
Texas A&M University
TITLE: Modeling Correlation in Longitudinal Data
11:30 a.m., Room 503, Blocker Building
Contact: Elaine Washington

Wednesday, April 1

PARASOL SEMINAR
Hagit Attiya
Technion
TITLE: Algorithmic Aspects of Transactional Memory
10:00 a.m., Room 302 HRBB
Contact: Dr. Nancy Amato

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Xin Liu
Assistant Professor
University of California, Davis
TITLE: Optimal Opportunistic Access Strategies in Cognitive Radio Networks
11:00 a.m., Room 213C Zachry
Contact: Carolyn Warzon

Thursday, April 2

STATISTICS DEPARTMENTAL COLLOQUIUM
Dr. David Stoffer
Professor of Statistics, University of Pittsburgh &
Program Director, Probability and Statistics Program, National Science Foundation
TITLE: Spectral Magic
11:10 a.m., Room 150 Blocker Building
Contact: Elaine Washington
Website: http://www.stat.tamu.edu

Friday, April 3

CSE Events of Week 3/16/09 - 3/27/09

Monday, March 16

Have Fun and come back safely. We look forward to seeing you again on Monday, March 23!

ABCS WORKSHOP

The Alliance for Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Systems Biology at Texas A&M is organizing the second annual Workshop on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Systems Biology on March 26-27, 2009 at Texas A&M University. The workshop is sponsored by the Vice President for Research at Texas A&M University. The workshop will be held at the Donald L. Houston Center in Texas A&M's Research Park.

The workshop program will consist of keynotes by Ronald Levy, James Sacchettini, and Shankar Subramaniam, several technical sessions organized by TAMU researchers, and poster sessions during the reception on Thursday and the lunch on Friday. The technical sessions and the poster sessions will present current research at Texas A&M and nearby institutions. The event will provide networking opportunities and allow researchers to showcase their work to each other.

Participation at the workshop is open to all. All participants are encouraged to contribute to the poster sessions that will be held on Thursday afternoon during the reception and Friday during lunch. The contact author (only one) for each poster will be eligible for complimentary (free) registration. The deadline for poster submissions will be Tuesday March 24, 2009; poster submission will be handled through the workshop registration site. More information is available on the ABCS website.

CSE Events of Week 3/9/2009 - 3/13/2009

Monday, March 9

DISSERTATION DEFENSE OF
YOONJIN KIM
TITLE: Designing Cost-Effective Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Architecture
Advisor: Dr. Rabi Mahapatra
10:00 a.m., Room 501A HRBB

INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Roshan M. D'Souza
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Michigan Technological University
TITLE: Exploring Data-Parallel Architectures for Simulating Large-Scale Agent-Based Models
3:00 p.m., Room 203 Zachry
Contact: Katherine Edwards

CPSC 681 OPEN SEMINAR
Dr. Marvin L. Adams
Professor, Department of Nuclear Engineering
Associate Vice President for Research
Texas A&M University
TITLE: The CRASH project -- How well do scientific simulations predict reality?
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CPSC 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Nancy Amato

Tuesday, March 10

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Jian Li
Novel Systems Architecture Group
IBM
TITLE: Hybrid Cache Architecture
3:55 p.m., Room 103 Zachry
Contact: Carolyn Warzon

Wednesday, March 11

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Partha Mukherjee
Los Alamos National Laboratory
TITLE: Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells - Transport and Materials Design
4:10 p.m., Room 106 RICH
Contact: Sarah Morgan

Thursday, March 12

STATISTICS DEPARTMENTAL COLLOQUIUM
Petros Dellaportas
Department of Statistics
Athens University of Economics and Business
TITLE: Control Variates for Reversable MCMC Samplers
11:10 a.m., Room 150 Blocker Building
Contact: Elaine Washington
Website: http://www.stat.tamu.edu

Friday, March 13

THESIS DEFENSE OF
JOHN SYERS III
TITLE: State of the Art Botnet-Centric Honeynet Design
Advisor: Dr. Udo Pooch
1:00 p.m., Room 516 HRBB

CSE Events of Week 3/2/2009 - 3/6/2009

Monday, March 2

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Nancy Amato
Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Texas A&M University
Title: Randomized Motion Planning: From Intelligent CAD to Computer Animation to Protein Folding
12:30 p.m., Room 203 Zachry

INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Birsen Donmez
Postdoctoral Associate
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
TITLE: Mitigating Driver Distraction with Real-time and Post-drive Feedback
3:00 p.m., Room 203 Zachry
Contact: Katherine Edwards

CPSC 681 OPEN SEMINAR
Catherine C. Marshall
Senior Researcher, Microsoft Corporation &
Center for the Study of Digital Libraries
Texas A&M University
TITLE: A Pragmatic Look at Personal Digital Archiving
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CPSC 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Frank Shipman

Tuesday, March 3

CSE INDUSTRIAL AFFILIATES PROGRAM (IAP) SPRING MEETING
Give a hearty Howdy to IAP representatives and guests from ExxonMobil, HP, Lockheed Martin, Reynolds & Reynolds, Schlumberger, Valero Energy Corporation, KBSI, Raytheon, ConocoPhillips, NetQoS, Inc., Improving Enterprises, Chevron, IBM, and FrogSlayer Software Company who will be visiting the computer science department today and tomorrow. The spring meeting will bring our IAP members up-to-date on department curriculum and research. 9:00 a.m., Room 307 HRBB

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Bao Liu
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Texas at San Antonio
TITLE: Towards Robust, High Performance and Low Power Nanoelectronic Circuits
3:55 p.m., Room 103 Zachry
Contact: Carolyn Warzon

Wednesday, March 4

CSE IAP SPRING MEETING CONTINUES
9:00 a.m., Room 307 HRBB

DISSERTATION DEFENSE OF
DAVID MEYERICH
TITLE: Imaging and Computational Methods for Exploring Subcellular Anatomy
Advisor: Dr. John Keyser
10:15 a.m., Room 516 HRBB

BIOINFORMATICS SEMINAR
Dr. Christina Kendziorski
Associate Professor
Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
University of Wisconsin - Madison
TITLE: Statistical Methods to Map the Genetic Basis of Gene Expression Networks
3:00 p.m., Room 457 Blocker Building
Contact: Joyce Sutherland

CPSC 681 OPEN SEMINAR
Shoudan Liang
Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
TITLE: Bioinformatics of Ultra-high Throughput DNA Sequencing
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CPSC 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Sing-Hoi Sze

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Avram Bar-Cohen
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Maryland
TITLE: Thermally-Enhanced Polymer Heat Exchangers for Seawater Applications
4:10 p.m., Room 106 RICH
Contact: Sarah Morgan

Thursday, March 5

STATISTICS DEPARTMENTAL COLLOQUIUM
Madan L. Puri
University of Texas, Arlington
TITLE: Conditional U-Statistics with Applications in Discriminant Analysis, ARMA Processes and Hidden Markov Models
11:10 a.m., Room 150 Blocker Building
Contact: Elaine Washington
Website: http://www.stat.tamu.edu

Friday, March 6

CSE Events of Week 2/23/2009 - 2/27/2009

Monday, February 23

Tuesday, February 24

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Vivek Sarin
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Texas A&M University
TITLE: Support Graph Preconditioners and their Application to Circuit Analysis
3:55 p.m., Room 103 Zachry
Contact: Carolyn Warzon

Wednesday, February 25

CSE DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES
Dr. Peter A. Freeman
Emeritus Dean and Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, and (Former) Assistant Director, National Science Foundation
TITLE: Science, Computational Science, and Computer Science
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CSE Faculty Contact: Dr. Robin Murphy

All are invited to the open reception for Dr. Freeman, which will immediately follow the lecture and will be held in the entrance hall to Room 124 HRBB.

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Andrew Duggleby
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Texas A&M University
TITLE: Computational Fluid Dynamics: More than Just Pretty Pictures
4:10 p.m., Room 106 RICH
Contact: Sarah Morgan

Thursday, February 26

STATISTICS DEPARTMENTAL COLLOQUIUM
Joseph Tadjuidje Kamgaing
University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
TITLE: Switching Regimes Autoregressive Driven Processes Versus Hidden Markov Models
11:10 a.m., Room 150 Blocker Building
Contact: Elaine Washington
Website: http://www.stat.tamu.edu

Friday, February 27

PARASOL SEMINAR
Lydia Tapia
Parasol Laboratory
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Texas A&M University
TITLE: From Robots to Molecules: Intelligent Motion Planning and Analysis with Probabilistic Roadmaps
4:00 p.m., Room 302 HRBB
Contact: Dr. Nancy Amato

AGGIE NIGHTS
International Variety Show!
For Details, please visit the Aggie Nights website. As usual we will have FREE food, games, bowling, billiards, and prizes! Bring your Usual Suspects card for the chance to win $200 gift card at the end of the semester.

CSE Events of Week 2/16/2009 - 2/20/2009

Monday, February 16

INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Taraneh Sowlati
Assistant Professor
Department of Wood Science
University of British Columbia
TITLE: Operations Research Applications in Forestry: Emerging Issues and New Directions
3:00 p.m., Room 203 Zachry
Contact: Katherine Edwards

CPSC 681 OPEN SEMINAR
Dr. Marc Riedel
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Minnesota
TITLE: Computing with Things Small, Wet, and Random: Design Automation for Nanoscale Technologies and Biological Processes
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CPSC 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Anxiao (Andrew) Jiang

Tuesday, February 17

CSE FACULTY CANDIDATE SEMINAR
Dr. Dylan Shell
Robotics Research Lab
University of Southern California
TITLE: Macroscopic Modeling for Robot Swarms, Human Crowds and Ant Colonies
2:00 p.m., Room 302 HRBB
Contact: Dr. Robin Murphy

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Paul Gratz
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Texas A&M University
TITLE: Improving Synthetic Workloads for Networks-on-Chip Design and Analysis Through Realistic Workload Characterization
3:55 p.m., Room 103 Zachry
Contact: Carolyn Warzon

Wednesday, February 18

BIOINFORMATICS SEMINAR
Dr. Xiaoning Qian
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Statistics
Texas A&M University
TITLE: Analysis and Control for Gene Regulatory Networks
3:00 p.m., Room 457 Blocker Building
Contact: Joyce Sutherland

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Julie Linsey
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Texas A&M University
TITLE: Enhancing Engineering Innovation and Creativity
4:10 p.m., Room 106 RICH
Contact: Sarah Morgan

Thursday, February 19

STATISTICS DEPARTMENTAL COLLOQUIUM
Lue Ping Zhao
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
TITLE: From Genes, to Genome, and to Sequences - A Statistician's Perspective
11:10 a.m., Room 150 Blocker Building
Contact: Elaine Washington

Friday, February 20

ABCS SEMINAR
Dr. Raymond J. Carroll
Distinguished Professor of Statistics, Nutrition, and Toxicology
Texas A&M University
TITLE: Robust Powerful Methods for Understanding Gene-Gene and Gene-Environment Interactions
4:00 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CPSC Faculty Contact: Dr. Nancy Amato

BOOK SIGNING AND RECEPTION FOR DR. BJARNE STROUSTRUP
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering invites you to join us for a book signing and reception honoring Dr. Bjarne Stroustrup on the release of his new book, "Programming Principles and Practice Using C++." The reception will be held from 3-5pm on Friday February 20, 2009 at the J. Wayne Stark University Center Galleries on the campus of Texas A&M University. Dr. Stroustrup is the designer and original implementer of C++ and is the College of Engineering Chair in Computer Science at Texas A&M University. He is also a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, an AT&T Fellow, and is the founding member of the ISO C++ standards committee.

AGGIE NIGHTS
Karaoke Night
Channel your favorite pop-star with the hottest karaoke experience out there: Lips for XBox 360. Sing alone or with a partner for a chance to win an XBox 360. The party starts at 8pm and the raffle is at midnight in the MSC Flag Room. As usual we will have FREE food, games, bowling, billiards, and prizes! Bring your Usual Suspects card for the chance to win $200 gift card at the end of the semester.

CSE Events of Week 2/9/2009 - 2/13/2009

Monday, February 9

INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Melissa A. Kenney
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
TITLE: Coupling Scientific Predictions with Decision Analysis: A New Method to Develop Nutrient Criteria
3:00 p.m., Room 203 Zachry
Contact: Katherine Edwards

Tuesday, February 10

STATISTICS BROWN BAG SEMINAR
Suhasini Subba Rao
Department of Statistics
Texas A&M University
TITLE: What to do when the Standard Assumptions in a Multiple Linear Regression Are Not Satisfied
11:30 a.m., Room 503, Blocker Building
Contact: Elaine Washington

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Dr. Charles (Chuck) J. Alpert
Manager, Design Productivity Group
IBM Austin Research Lab
TITLE: Physical Synthesis: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
3:55 p.m., Room 103 Zachry
Contact: Carolyn Warzon

RESUME WRITING WORKSHOP
Workshop participants will learn to distinguish several types of resumes and will be given guidelines for writing top-quality resumes for both electronic databases and conventional uses. 5:00 p.m. Room 111 Koldus. To learn more about this event please visit the Career Center website.

Wednesday, February 11

CPSC 681 OPEN SEMINAR
Dr. Ann McNamara
Assistant Professor
Department of Visualization
Texas A&M University
TITLE: Subtle Gaze Direction
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CPSC 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. John Keyser

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Uwe Kortshagen
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Minnesota
TITLE: Plasma Synthesis of Nanomaterials for Renewable Energy Applications
4:10 p.m., Room 106 RICH
Contact: Sarah Morgan

Thursday, February 12

STATISTICS DEPARTMENTAL COLLOQUIUM
Dr. Akihiko Inoue
Department of Mathematics
Hokkaido University
TITLE: Dynamics of Indifference Prices Derived from Optimal Intertemporal Risk Allocations
11:10 a.m., Room 150 Blocker Building
Contact: Elaine Washington

CSE FACULTY CANDIATE SEMINAR
Sonia Chernova
Department of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
TITLE: Confidence-based Robot Policy Learning from Demonstration
2:00 p.m., Room 302 HRBB
Contact: Dr. Robin Murphy

Friday, February 13

AGGIE NIGHTS
Dancing with the Aggie Stars
Event information to be updated. As usual we will have FREE food, games, bowling, billiards, and prizes! Bring your Usual Suspects card for the chance to win $200 gift card at the end of the semester.

CSE Events of Week 2/2/2009 - 2/6/2009

Monday, February 2

CSE DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES
Dr. Jim Larus
Director of Software
Data Center Futures Project, Microsoft Research
TITLE: Spending Moore's Dividend
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CSE Faculty Contact: Dr. Lawrence Rauchwerger

All are invited to the open reception for Dr. Larus, which will immediately follow the lecture and will be held in the entrance hall to Room 124 HRBB.

INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Emmett J. Lodree
Assistant Professor
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Auburn University
TITLE: A Bayesian Decision Model with Hurricane Forecast Updates for Emergency Supplies Inventory Management
3:00 p.m., Room 203 Zachry
Contact: Katherine Edwards

Tuesday, February 3

SILVER TAPS
By far, one of Texas A&M's most honored traditions is Silver Taps. Silver Taps is held for a graduate or undergraduate student who passes away while enrolled at A&M. This final tribute is held the first Tuesday of the month when a student has passed away the previous month.

STATISTICS DEPARTMENTAL COLLOQUIUM
Ms. Olga Savchuck
Department of Statistics
Texas A&M University
TITLE: Choosing a Kernel for Cross-validation
2:30 p.m., Room 521, Blocker Building
Contact: Elaine Washington

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Srinivas Shakkottai
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Texas A&M University
TITLE: Targeted Coupon Distribution Using Social Networks
3:55 p.m., Room 103 Zachry
Contact: Carolyn Warzon

Wednesday, February 4

BIOINFORMATICS SEMINAR
Ilya Shmulevich
Institute for Systems Biology
Seattle, Washington
TITLE: Modeling and Inference of Transcriptional Regulatory Networks
3:00 p.m., Room 457 Blocker Building
Contact: Joyce Sutherland

CPSC 681 OPEN SEMINAR
Dr. Kathryn S. McKinley
Professor
Department of Computer Sciences
University of Texas at Austin
TITLE: Compiling for EDGE Architectures: The TRIPS Prototype Compiler
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CPSC 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Lawrence Rauchwerger

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Antonio Ferreira Avila
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Universidade Federal of Minas Gerais, Brazil
TITLE: From Nano to Macro Mechanics: An Investigation on Nanoclay Effects into Porosity and Strength of Laminated Composites
4:10 p.m., Room 106 RICH
Contact: Sarah Morgan

Thursday, February 5

Friday, February 6

AGGIE NIGHTS
Night Concert featuring Cruiserweight!!
Aggie Nights and MSCC Town Hall present a night concert featuring the female-fronted pop/punk band Cruiserweight from Austin, TX at Rudder Fountain. Admission is FREE!

CSE Events of Week 1/26/2009 - 1/30/2009

Monday, January 26

Last day for adding or dropping courses for the spring semester; 5:00pm.

CSE DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES
Dr. Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos
Distinguished McKnight University Professor, IEEE Fellow, Director of the Center for Distributed Robotics and SECTTRA
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
The University of Minnesota
TITLE: Camera Networks for Security Applications
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CPSC 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Dezhen Song

All are invited to the open reception for Dr. Papanikolopoulos, which will immediately follow the lecture and will be held in the entrance hall to Room 124 HRBB.

INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Shahzeen Attari
Graduate Research Assistant
Civil and Environmental Engineering; Engineering and Public Policy
Carnegie Mellon University
TITLE: Preferences for Change: Do individuals prefer voluntary actions, soft regulations, or hard regulations to decrease fossil fuel consumption?
3:00 p.m., Room 203 Zachry
Contact: Katherine Edwards

Tuesday, January 27

CSE FACULTY CANDIDATE SEMINAR
Mr. Alan Wagner
School of Interactive Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
TITLE: Relationships and Trust in Human-Robot Interaction
CSE Faculty Contact: Dr. Robin Murphy
2:00 p.m., Room 302 HRBB

Wednesday, January 28

CPSC 681 OPEN SEMINAR
Dr. Raymond J. Mooney
Professor of Computer Sciences
University of Texas at Austin
TITLE: Learning Language from its Perceptual Context
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CPSC 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Yoonsuck Choe

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. K. R. Rajagopal
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Texas A&M University
TITLE: Art, Craft and Philosophy of Science
4:10 p.m., Room 106 RICH
Contact: Sarah Morgan

Thursday, January 29

CSE FACULTY CANDIDATE SEMINAR
Dr. Patrick Beeson
Department of Computer Science
University of Texas at Austin
TITLE: From Sensors to Symbols: Building Cognitive Maps for Mobile Robots
CSE Faculty Contact: Dr. Robin Murphy
2:00 p.m., Room 302 HRBB

Friday, January 30

Last day to apply for all degrees to be awarded in May; 5:00pm.

AGGIE NIGHTS
A Tour of the Impact of Blacks in Music
Aggie Nights, MSCC Town Hall, and Black Student Alliance Council (BSAC) present Black History Month Kickoff Showcase featuring Choral Activities.

CSE Events of Week 1/19/2009 - 1/23/2009

Monday, January 19

Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Faculty and Staff holiday

Tuesday, January 20

First day of spring semester classes.

Wednesday, January 21

BIOINFORMATICS SEMINAR
Vincent Van Buren
Texas A&M HSC College of Medicine
TITLE: New Visual Data Mining Tools for Systems Biology
3:00 p.m., Room 457 Blocker Building
Contact: Joyce Sutherland

CSE DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES
Dr. Ben Shneiderman
Professor & Founding Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab
Department of Computer Science
The University of Maryland
TITLE: Information Visualization for Knowledge Discovery
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CPSC 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Andruid Kerne

All are invited to the open reception for Dr. Shneiderman, which will immediately follow the lecture and will be held in the entrance hall to Room 124 HRBB.

Thursday, January 22

Friday, January 23

AGGIE NIGHTS
NPHC Yard Show & Black Violin!
This week, we are celebrating Campus with a Dream 2009! Aggie Nights, MSCC WBAC, MSCC Town Hall, and the National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) are hosting a night of music and culture as our guests, Black Violin merge classical violin and hip-hop. They will perform throughout the NPHC Yard Show. Tickets are FREE at the MSCC Box Office with a Texas A&M ID. Tickets for individuals without a Texas A&M ID are $3.

FACULTY OPENINGS

• Tenure-Track Faculty Positions

• In House Postings