Computer Science, The College of William & Mary

2003/04 Events

Colloquium Speakers

(3 PM in McGl 020 unless otherwise noted)
  • Poster Session, Advanced Operating Systems Project Poster Session -- Fri, Apr 30

  • Michelle Mills Strout, Performance Transformations for Irregular Applications, Argonne National Lab -- Fri, April 9

  • Moses Liskov, Tweakable Block Ciphers, MIT, Tues, Mar 30, 4 PM, Rogers 100

  • Qun Li, Mobility and Communication in Sensor Networks, Dartmouth College -- Mon, Mar 29, 7:45 AM

  • Henrique Andrade, Time and Space Optimization Techniques for Processing Batches of Multi-Dimensional Scientific Queries, University of Maryland, College Park -- Thu, Mar 4, 4:00 PM, Rogers 100

  • Eugene Agichtein, Extracting Relations from Large Text Collections, Columbia University -- Tue, Mar 2, 4:00 PM, Rogers 100

  • Sencun Zhu, Efficient Security Mechanisms for Distributed Sensor Networks, George Mason University -- Mon, Mar 1, 7:45 AM

  • Jing Li, Efficient Haplotype Inference on Pedigrees and Haplotype Based Disease Gene Mapping, University of California, Riverside -- Fri, Feb 27, 7:45 AM

  • Douglas Thain, Explicit Control in a Batch-Aware Distributed Filesystem, University of Wisconsin - Madison -- Thurs, Deb 19, 4 PM, Rogers 100

  • Michalis Vlachos, Similarity Search and Indexing Techniques for Multidimensional Time-Series, UC Riverside -- Fri, Feb 13 at 7:45 AM

  • Zhiyuan Chen, Optimizing XML-to-Relational Storage Mapping, Microsoft Research -- Wed, Feb 11 at 7:45 AM

  • Niki Trigoni, Energy-Efficient Data Management for Sensor Networks, Cornell University -- Fri, Dec 12, Wash 201

  • Radu Siminiceanu, The Saturation Algorithm for State Space Exploration and its Application, 2003 Steven K. Park Award Presentation -- Fri, Dec 5

  • Tarek Abdelzaher, Analytic Foundations for QoS-Aware Computing in Open Systems, Univ. of Virginia -- Fri, Nov 21

  • Song Jiang, Effective and Low Cost Replacement Algorithms for Data Caching in Computer Systems, 2003 Steven K. Park Award Presentation -- Fri, Nov 14

  • Abhijit Bose, Distributed and Heterogeneous Resource Scheduling on the Grid, University of Michigan -- Fri, Nov. 7

  • John van Rosendale, Coping with the Ultrascale Tsunami of Scientific Data: Visualization and Data Understanding, Dept. of Energy -- Fri, Oct 31

  • Henrique Andrade, Database Support for Scientific Data Analysis Application: Optimizations and Challenges, University of Maryland, College Park -- Fri, Oct 24

  • Cheng Jin, FAST TCP: Motivation, Design, and Evaluation, California Institute of Technology -- Fri, Oct 17


PhD Dissertation Defense

  • Ben Coleman, Lookahead Scheduling in a Real-Time Context: Models, Algorithms and Analysis -- Tuesday, May 4, 1:00PM, McGl 104

  • Kevin J. Barker, Runtime Support for Load Balancing of Parallel Adaptive and Irregular Applications -- Monday, April 12, 1:00PM, McGl 104

  • Radu Siminiceanu, Structural Model Checking -- Mon, Dec 15, 10 AM, McGl 104

  • Serge Hallyn, Domain and Type Enforcement in Linux -- Tues, Sept 30, 11 AM


Masters Thesis and CS 710 Defense

  • Jennifer Haddox-Schatz, Using Formal Specifications to Create Effective Assertions (CS 710) -- Thurs, Feb 12, 10AM

  • Andriy Fedorov, Location Management in a Mobile Object Runtime Environment -- Tue, Nov 25, 12:30 PM

  • Leonidas Linardakis, A Parallel 2-Dimensional Delaunay Decoupling Method -- Fri, Oct 17, 1 PM


Bachelor's Honors Defense

  • Benjamin Cox, ConcernEditor: A Prototype Editor for Software Plans, -- Thu, Apr 29, 4 PM, McGl 104

  • Evan McCreedy -- Friday, Apr 23, 2 PM, McGl 104


Student Research Presentations

(12 PM in McGl 104 unless otherwise noted)

  • Shansi Ren, SAT-Match: a self-adaptive topology matching method to achieve low lookup latency in structured P2P overlay networks -- Mon, Apr 19.

  • Jennifer Haddox-Schatz, Using Formal Specifications to Create Effective Assertions -- Mon, Feb 23

  • Songqing Chen, Design and Implementation of Hyper-Proxy System for High Quality Streaming Media Delivery in Internet -- Mon, Feb 9

  • Song Jiang, FloodTrail: an Efficient File Search Technique in Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Systems -- Mon, Nov 24

  • Robert Marmorstein, Hypatheon: A formal methods database, -- Mon, Nov 10

  • Andriy Fedorov, A Case for System Evolution -- Mon, Oct 20

  • Robert Painter, Toward a Formal General Intermediate Dependability Modeling Language -- Mon, Oct 13

  • Jim Deverick, Transparent Authenticating Firewalls -- Mon, Sept. 15


Professional Development Seminars


The Department of Computer Science
The College of William & Mary
McGlothlin-Street Hall, Room 126