Computer Science Colloquium, 2005-2006

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

List of Talks (Semester A)

• Wednesday, November 2, 14:00:
  No talk.
• Wednesday, November 9, 14:00:
  Bill Silvert, Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
  The Inescapable Fuzziness of Being - can something so simple be useful?
• Wednesday, November 16, 14:00:
  Ran Wolff, Computer Science Department, University of Maryland at Baltimore County
  A Privacy Model for Data Mining
• Wednesday, November 23, 14:00:
  Hagit Hel-Or, Department of Computer Science, University of Haifa
  Reducing Color and Noise Artifacts in Digital Cameras, OR Can We Get a Better Picture?
• Wednesday, November 30, 14:00:
  Ron Lavi, California Institute of Technology
  Truthful and Near-Optimal Mechanism Design via Linear Programming
• Wednesday, December 7, 14:00:
  Guy Kindler, Microsoft Research
  On Gallager's problem: new lower-bounds for noisy communication
• Wednesday, December 14, 14:00:
  Gill Bejerano, University of California Santa Cruz
  The Human Genome: Solving a Million Mysteries
• Tuesday, December 20, 12:00, Education 566 (note the sepcial day, time and place):
  Ingrid Zukerman, School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Monash University
  A Probabilistic Approach to Argument Interpretation
• Wednesday, December 21, 14:00:
  Oren Kurland, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University
  Inter-document similarities, language models, and ad hoc information retrieval
• Wednesday, December 28, 14:00:
  Alon Rosen, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Harvard University
  Zero-Knowledge and Cryptography in Complex Environments
• Wednesday, January 4, 14:00:
  Adnan Agbaria, Information Sciences Institute (ISI) University of Southern California
  Compiler-Driven Distributed Checkpointing
• Wednesday, January 11, 14:00:
  No talk (Akavia ceremony)
• Wednesday, January 18, 14:00:
  Gregory Chockler, IBM Haifa Research Laboratory
  Robust Coordination in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
• Wednesday, January 25, 14:00:
  Zach Solan, School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel-Aviv University
  Unsupervised learning of natural languages

List of Talks (Semester B)

• Wednesday, March 8, 14:00:
  Eitan Bachmat, Department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University
  Causal sets and their applications
• Wednesday, March 15, 14:00:
  Oren Etzioni, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington
  All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Google
• Wednesday, March 22, 14:00: No talk.
  
• Wednesday, March 29, 14:00:
  Ayellet Tal, Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion
  Shape analysis in computer graphics
• Wednesday, April 5, 14:00: No talk.
  
• Wednesday, April 26, 14:00:
  Ziv Bar-Yossef, Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion
  Random Sampling from a Search Engine's Index
• Wednesday, May 10, 14:00:
  Shalom Lappin, Department of Philosophy, King's College London
  Expressive Completeness and Computational Efficiency for Underspecified Scope Representations
• Wednesday, May 17, 14:00:
  no talk.
• Wednesday, May 24, 14:00:
  no talk.
• Wednesday, May 31, 14:00:
  no talk.
• Wednesday, June 7, 14:00:
  Golan Yona, Department of Computer Science, Technion
  The Biozon system for complex analysis of heterogeneous interrelated biological data and discovery of emergent structures
• Wednesday, June 14, 14:00:
  Hovav Shacham, Weizmann Institute of Science
  New paradigms in signature schemes
• Wednesday, June 21, 14:00:
  no talk.