Computer Science Colloquium, 2003-2004

For more information, including directions, refer to the colloquium homepage. Click on a title to see the abstract.

List of Talks (Semester A)

• Wednesday, October 29, 14:00: No talk.
• Wednesday, November 5, 14:00: No talk.
• Wednesday, November 12, 14:00:
  Rita Osadchy, NEC Labs America Inc.
  Illumination insensitive methods for visual comparison.
• Wednesday, November 19, 14:00:
  Ariel Pashtan, Aware Networks, Inc.
  Personal service areas for location-based wireless applications.
  Jointly hosted by the Caesarea Rothschild Institute.
• Wednesday, November 26, 14:00:
  Ron Artstein, Department of Computer Science, Technion.
  Quantificational arguments in temporal adjunct clauses .
• Wednesday, December 3, 14:00:
  Amir Shpilka, Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, The Weizmann Institute of Science.
  New Connections Between Coding Theory and Complexity.
• Wednesday, December 10, 14:00:
  Leah Epstein, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya.
  On several scheduling problems.
• Tuesday, December 16, 12:00 (note the unusual time and place: Main Building, room 714):
  Roded Sharan, International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley.
  Algorithmic approaches for analyzing genetic networks.
• Wednesday, December 17, 14:00:
  No talk (the Israeli Seminar on Computational Linguistics).
• Wednesday, December 24, 14:00:
  David Harel, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Weizmann Institute.
  Towards an Odor Communication and Synthesis System.
• Tuesday, December 30, 16:00 (note the unusual time and place: Rabin Building, room 5009):
  Tami Tamir, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington.
  Scheduling Techniques for Broadcasting Popular Media.
• Wednesday, December 31, 14:00:
  No talk (Akavia fellowship ceremony).
• Wednesday, January 7, 14:00:
  Adnan Agbaria, Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
  Building and Validating Intrusion-Tolerant Distributed Systems.
• Wednesday, January 14, 14:00:
  Irad Yavneh, Department of Computer Science, Technion.
  Multigrid Computational Methods with Applications to Image Problems.
• Wednesday, January 21, 14:00: No talk.

List of Talks (Semester B)

• Wednesday, March 3, 14:00:
  Alon Lavie, Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University.
  A Trainable Transfer-based Machine Translation Approach for Languages with Limited Resources.
• Wednesday, March 10, 14:00:
  Mor Peleg, Department of Management Information Systems, University of Haifa
  Modeling Clinical Guidelines: Challenges and Solutions.
• Wednesday, March 17, 14:00: No talk (graduate students meeting).
• Wednesday, March 24, 14:00: No talk.
• Wednesday, March 31, 14:00:
  Edi Shmueli, Department of Computer Science, University of Haifa
  Backfilling with Lookahead to Optimize the Performance of Parallel Job Scheduling.
• Wednesday, April 7, 14:00: Passover - no talk.
• Wednesday, April 14, 14:00:
  Moshe Koppel, Department of Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University
  What can we learn about the author of an anonymous text?.
• Wednesday, April 21, 14:00: No talk (graduate students meeting).
• Wednesday, April 28, 14:00 CRI, Education building fifth floor:
  Jeremy Spinrad, Vanderbilt University
  Confronting Matrix Multiplication
  As part of the France-Israel Expert Workshop on Graph Classes and Graph Algorithms, CRI.
• Wednesday, May 5, 14:00
  Danny Keren, Department of Computer Science, University of Haifa
  The Wondrous World of Quantum Cryptography and Computation..
• Wednesday, May 12, 14:00:
  Henry Fuchs, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Immersive Integration of Physical and Virtual Environments.
• Tuesday, May 18, 12:00, CRI, Education Building 5th floor (notice the special time and location)
  Shalom Lappin, Department of Computer Science, King's College London
  A Machine Learning Approach to Classifying Ellipsis in Dialogue.
• Wednesday, May 19, 14:00:
  Revital Eres, Department of Computer Science, University of Haifa
  Scaled and Permuted String Matching.
• Wednesday, May 26, 14:00: Shavu'ot - no talk.
• Tuesday, June 1, 11:30, CRI, Education Building, 5th floor (notice the special time and location)
  Claudia Goldman Shenhar, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  Decentralized Control of Cooperative Systems.
• Wednesday, June 2, 14:00:
  Dekel Tsur, Caesarea Rothschild Institute, University of Haifa
  Improved Algorithms for the Random Cluster Graph Model.
• Wednesday, June 9, 14:00: This talk is canceled
  Yael Cohen-Sygal, Department of Computer Science, University of Haifa
  Computational Implementation of Non-concatenative Morphology.
• Wednesday, June 16, 14:00: This talk is canceled
  Nadav Efraty, Department of Computer Science, University of Haifa
  TBA.
• Wednesday, June 16, 14:00:
  Michael Langberg, Computer Science Department, California Institute of Technology
  Private codes or Succinct random codes that are (almost) perfect