Ahmed Helmy
Associate Professor
Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) Department
Founder and Director: Mobile Networking Laboratory (NOMADS group)
College of Engineering, University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611
email: helmy at ufl.edu

Colloquia and Seminar Series Spring 2011

The requirements for passing the seminar credit course include attendance of seven (7) approved seminars [with submission of the attendance sheet], at most two of which can be Ph.D. defenses. Following is the approved list of planned seminars so far:

1. - Dr. Vladmir Braverman, Jan 28th, University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA).
   Location: CSE 404 conf room, time: 2:30-3:30pm. Title: "Space-efficient algorithms for data streams".
2. - Prof. Andrew Lim, Feb. 4th, City University of Hong Kong.
   Location: CSE 404 conf room, time: 4:00-5:00pm. Title: "The Science of Managing Operations and the Synergy between Research and Industry".
3. - Dr. Saad Sheikh, Feb. 7th, École Polytechnique, Paris.
   Location: CSE 404 conf room, time: 10:40-11:40am. Title: "From Sibling Reconstruction to Protein Folding and beyond".
4. - Prof. Miguel Reyes, Feb. 8th, Univ. of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez.
   Location: CSE 404 conf room, time: 12:00-1:00pm. Title: "Benthic Habitat Mapping using Hyperspectral Remote Sensing".
5. - Dr. Gabriel Ghinita, Feb 17th, Purdue University.
   Location: CSE 404 conf room, time: 3:30-4:30pm. Title: "A Framework for Efficient Data Anonymization under Privacy and Accuracy Constraints".
6. - Prof. Josep Torrellas, Feb. 18th, UIUC.
   Location: Room 0105 of Fine Arts Bldg B, time: 2:00-3:00pm. Title: "Designing Multicores for Programmability: The Bulk Multicore Architecture."
7. - Dr. Bhargav Kanagal, Feb 22nd, University of Maryland.
   Location: CSE 404 conf room, time: 3:00-4:00pm. Title: "Scalable Statistical Modeling and Query Processing Over Large Scale Uncertain Databases".
8. - Dr. Daisy Wang, Feb 28th, University of California - Berkeley.
   Location: CSE 404 conf room, time: 3:00-4:00pm. Title: "Extracting and Querying Probabilistic Information in BayesStore".
9. - Prof. Daniel Cosley, Mar 21st, Cornell University.
   Location: CSE 404 conf room, time: 4:00-5:00pm. Title: "Systems for supporting self-awareness through reflecting on social media".
10. - Prof. Bonnie Dorr, Mar 22nd, University of Maryland.
    Location: CSE 404 conf room, time: 3:00-4:00pm. Title: "Hybrid Linguistic-statistical Natural Language Processing".
11. - Prof. Kui Ren, Apr 4th, Illinois Institute of Technology.
    Location: CSE 404 conf room, time: 11:15-12:30. Title: "Storage Outsourcing Security in Cloud Computing".
12. - Prof. Gul Agha, Apr 18th, UIUC. (Barr Systems Distinguished speaker)
    Location: CSE 119 conf room, time: 4:00-5:00pm. Title: "Actor-based Programming for Scalable Parallel and Distributed Systems".

Please check with Joan Chrisman for an updated list of Ph.D. defenses. Also, re-check for updates and more details.

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The colloquium committee runs the seminar series and the Barr Systems series (and Ohanian Lecture occasionally). We would like to thank the Barr Systems for sponsoring the Barr Systems distinguished lecture series and Prof. Ohanian for sponsoring the Ohanian distinguished lecture series.

For more about the seminar series and past seminars please check http://www.cise.ufl.edu/seminars/.