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Fall 2011

CSE Events of Week 12/12/2011 - 12/16/2011

Monday, December 12

Fall semester final examinations for all students. For more detailed information regarding specific exam times, please visit the Office of the Registrar's web site http://registrar.tamu.edu/General/FinalSchedule.aspx.

Tuesday, December 13

Wednesday, December 14

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, December 15

THE NEXT TRADITION
The Association of Former Students and Texas A&M University will host The Next Tradition graduation party on December 15th from 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m., December 16th from 11:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m., and December 17th from 11:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. at The Clayton W. Williams, Jr. Alumni Center. Please join us either before or after Commencement Convocation, or on your graduation day! The Next Tradition is designed to welcome graduating students into The Association of Former Students, teaching the importance of staying involved beyond your time at Texas A&M University. If you have any questions, please call 845-7514 or visit the Association's website at http://www.aggienetwork.com/Events/tnt.aspx.

COMMENCEMENT CONVOCATION
5:30 p.m., Rudder Auditorium
Speaker: Mr. Andrew H. Card, Jr., Acting Dean, The Bush School of Government and Public Service
Please see the Texas A&M graduation website http://graduation.tamu.edu/ceremon.html for more details.

Friday, December 16

FALL 2011 CSE GRADUATION RECEPTION
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering will host a reception in honor of the department's fall 2011 graduates. The reception is open to family and friends of the fall 2011 graduates as well as department faculty and staff. Enjoy light refreshments, collect a celebratory cup, and be included in a drawing for door prizes! 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., Room 302 HRBB.

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 see the Texas A&M graduation website http://graduation.tamu.edu/ceremon.html for more details.

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

CSE Events of Week 12/5/2011 - 12/9/2011

Monday, December 5

Redefined Day - Students attend their Friday classes.

CSCE 681 OPEN SEMINAR
Dr. Peter Stone
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
The University of Texas at Austin
TITLE: Machine Learning and Multiagent Reasoning: from robot soccer to autonomous traffic
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CSCE 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Yoonsuck Choe (choe@cse.tamu.edu)

Tuesday, December 6

Last day of Fall 2011 semester classes - redefined day students attend their Thursday classes.

Wednesday, December 7

Project Reviews: 12:00 pm - 6:15pm.

Thursday, December 8

Exit interviews for graduating seniors. The department will be hosting an exit interview lunch with graduating seniors to discuss their experiences during their time in the department. The lunch (free pizza!) will take place next Thursday, December 8 from 11:30 am - 1:00 pm in 302 HRBB. RSVP and questions can be sent to Kathy Waskom at k-waskom@tamu.edu.

Friday, December 9

CSE Events of Week 11/28/2011 - 12/2/2011

Monday, November 28

Tuesday, November 29

Wednesday, November 30

CSCE 681 OPEN SEMINAR
Dr. Robin Murphy
Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue
Raytheon Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Texas A&M University
TITLE: TAMU Rescue Robots at Fukushima and Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CSCE 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Nancy Amato (amato@cse.tamu.edu)

This talk is presented as part of the Ethel Ashworth-Tsutsui Memorial Lecture and Awards Ceremony

Thursday, December 1

Friday, December 2

CSE Events of Week 11/21/2011 - 11/25/2011

Monday, November 21

Lunch with a CSE Professor!
Featuring Dr. Dylan Shell
12:00 @ Front of HRBB
12:15 @ Rusty Taco
Sign up: http://www.facebook.com/tamu.csegsa
This is a great chance to socialize with faculty and make new friends.

CSE DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES
Dr. Kunle Olukotun
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences;
Director, Pervasive Parallelism Laboratory
Stanford University
TITLE: Taming Heterogeneous Parallelism with Domain Specific Languages
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CSE Faculty Contact: Dr. Lawrence Rauchwerger (rwerger@cse.tamu.edu)
Open Reception immediately following Dr. Olukotun's presentation.

Tuesday, November 22

Wednesday, November 23

CSEGSA THANKSGIVING POTLUCK
12:00 p.m. in Room 302 HRBB. Bring your favorite food dish and join other students for a traditional Thanksgiving Potluck Feast!

Thursday, November 24

Thanksgiving holiday; University closed

Friday, November 25

Thanksgiving holiday; University closed

CSE Events of Week 11/14/2011 - 11/18/2011

Monday, November 14

CSCE 681 OPEN SEMINAR
Dr. Ravi Sandhu
Executive Director and Chief Scientist
Institute for Cyber Security (ICS)
Lutcher Brown Endowed Chair in Cyber Security
Professor of Computer Science (College of Science)
University of Texas at San Antonio
TITLE: Grand Challenges in Authorization Systems
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CSCE 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Guofei Gu (guofei@cse.tamu.edu)

Tuesday, November 15

COMPUTER ENGINEERING & SYSTEMS GROUP SEMINAR
Dr. Vassos Soteriou
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Informatics
Cyprus University of Technology
TITLE: Fault-Tolerant Microarchitectural Mechanisms and Routing Algorithms to Improve the Reliability and Robustness of Networks-on-Chip
3:55 p.m., Room 103 Zachry
Contact: Carolyn Warzon (carolyn@mail.ece.tamu.edu)

Wednesday, November 16

PARASOL SEMINAR
Dr. Vassos Soteriou
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Informatics
Cyprus University of Technology
TITLE: Building High-Throughput and Congestion-Managed Networks-on-Chip
10:00 a.m., Room 302 HRBB
Contact: Dr. Nancy Amato (amato@cse.tamu.edu)

CSCE 681 TWO-PART OPEN SEMINAR
Dr. Hajime Asama
Professor
The University of Tokyo, Japan
TITLE: Utilization of Remote-Controlled Machine Technology for the Accident of the Nuclear Power Plant

Dr. Satoshi Tadokoro
Professor
Tohoku University
TITLE: Response of Quince to Fukushima-Daiichi

4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CSCE 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Robin Murphy (murphy@cse.tamu.edu)

Thursday, November 17

Friday, November 18

CSE Events of Week 11/7/2011 - 11/11/2011

Monday, November 7

CSCE 681 OPEN SEMINAR
Dr. Aloysius K. Mok
Quincy Lee Centennial Professor in Computer Sciences
University of Texas at Austin
TITLE: CPS Challenges to the Trustworthiness of Systems
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CSCE 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Radu Stoleru (stoleru@cse.tamu.edu)

Tuesday, November 8

COMPUTER ENGINEERING & SYSTEMS GROUP SEMINAR
Dr. Bruno Nardelli
Rice University
TITLE: Experimental Evaluation of Optimal CSMA
3:55 p.m., Room 103 Zachry
Contact: Carolyn Warzon (carolyn@mail.ece.tamu.edu)

Wednesday, November 9

Lunch with a CSE Professor!
Featuring Dr. Riccardo Bettati
11:45 @ Front of HRBB
12:00 @ Fitzwilly's Bar and Grill
Sign up: http://www.facebook.com/tamu.csegsa
This is a great chance to socialize with faculty and make new friends.

CSCE 681 OPEN SEMINAR
Dr. Peter Gottschling
Institute of Scientific Computing
Dresden University of Technology
TITLE: Property-Aware Programming with Semantic C++ Concepts
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CSCE 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Jaakko Järvi (jarvi@cse.tamu.edu)

Thursday, November 10

Friday, November 11

CSE Events of Week 10/31/2011 - 11/4/2011

Monday, October 31

TRICK OR RESEARCH!
The 2nd Annual Trick Or Research event will be held Monday, October 31st and Tuesday, November 1st! Please come and bring your friends. Come learn about all the exciting research in the department from the faculty members themselves. Each faculty member will have 90 seconds to describe their research, so this is a great way to find out how to get involved in research. Snacks will be provided. 4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB. For more information, visit http://awics.cs.tamu.edu.

Tuesday, November 1

TRICK OR RESEARCH CONTINUES
You have heard about their research, now come see their labs and meet their students. The department labs will be open for tours. Students will receive maps and passports to visit all of the labs. Students with a certain number of labs visited will be eligible to win door prizes! 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. For more information, visit http://awics.cs.tamu.edu.

COMPUTER ENGINEERING & SYSTEMS GROUP SEMINAR
Dr. Lei Ying
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Iowa State University
TITLE: Instability of MaxWeight and Scheduling in the Presence of Flow-Level Dynamics
3:55 p.m., Room 103 Zachry
Contact: Carolyn Warzon (carolyn@mail.ece.tamu.edu)

Wednesday, November 2

PARASOL SEMINARS
Roger Pearce, Parasol Laboratory, The Department of Computer Science and Engineering at TAMU
TITLE: Traversing Massive Graphs with NAND Flash
Sam Rodriguez, Parasol Laboratory, The Department of Computer Science and Engineering at TAMU
TITLE: Roadmap-Based Level Clearing of Buildings
4:00 p.m., Room 302 HRBB
Contact: Dr. Nancy Amato (amato@cse.tamu.edu)

Thursday, November 3

INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE (IAMCS) COMMUNITY COFFEE
2:30 p.m., Room 302 HRBB. Come join us in the IAMCS office for an informal meeting and a chance to visit with students and faculty! Dr. Xingfu Wu will present a talk titled "Parallel Finite Element Earthquake Rupture Simulations on Large-scale Multicore Supercomputers." For more information on future IAMCS events, please visit http://iamcs.tamu.edu.

Friday, November 4

Last day to officially withdraw from the University, change Kinesiology 198/199 grade type for 2011 fall in-progress courses, and drop courses with no penalty (Q-drop) for the 2011 fall semester.

CSE Events of Week 10/24/2011 - 10/28/2011

Monday, October 24

Tuesday, October 25

Wednesday, October 26

CSCE 681 OPEN SEMINAR
Dr. James McLurkin
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Rice University
TITLE: Distributed Algorithms for Robot Recovery, Angular Coordinate Systems, and Low-Cost Robots: An Overview of the Rice Multi-Robot Systems Lab
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CSCE 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Dylan Shell (dshell@cse.tamu.edu)

Thursday, October 27

AWICS HALLOWEEN PARTY!
Please come and bring your friends. Details - When 6:00 p.m. Where: Parasol Lounge (HRBB 4th floor). Come enjoy an evening of free food and spooky movies. AWICS will be hosting its annual Halloween party and you, your friends, your mentees, your labmates, everyone is invited! Costumes are optional, but what would a Halloween party be without them? We hope to see you there!

Friday, October 28

COMPUTER ENGINEERING & SYSTEMS GROUP SEMINAR
Dr. Lizy John
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Texas at Austin
TITLE: Multicore System Design and Optimization: LCA Research in Computer Architecture, Performance Evaluation and Workload Characterization
3:55 p.m., Room 1037 ETB (new building, across the street from Zachry)
Contact: Carolyn Warzon (carolyn@mail.ece.tamu.edu)

CSE DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES
Dr. Steve Swanson
Astronaut
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Please join us as Dr. Swanson talks about his adventures as a mission specialist for two shuttle missions, as well as the future of our missions in space.
4:10 p.m.,The Preston M. Geren Auditorium, Langford Architecture Center Building B
CSE Faculty Contact: Tony Okonski (tonyo@cse.tamu.edu)

All are invited to the open reception for Dr. Swanson, which will immediately follow his lecture and will be held in the entrance hall to Geren Auditorium.

ROBOT HALLOWEEN COSTUME PARTY!
When: 6:30 p.m. - ??, Where: HRBB "back porch"
The costume party is open to students, faculty, staff, and their families! Feel free to dress up as your favorite robot! Prizes will be given for: best human as a robot, best costumed robot, and the best human-robot costumed group. Refreshments and Prizes provided by the AI Robotics Laboratories.

CSE Events of Week 10/17/2011 - 10/21/2011

Monday, October 17

CSCE 681 OPEN SEMINAR
Dr. Robert R. Burridge
Senior Scientist, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
TRACLabs Inc.
Houston, Texas
TITLE: Supervising Robots across Time Delay during Recent NASA Field Tests
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CSCE 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Robin Murphy (murphy@cse.tamu.edu)

Tuesday, October 18

COMPUTER ENGINEERING & SYSTEMS GROUP SEMINAR
Dr. Ashutosh Sabharwal
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Rice University
TITLE: tba
3:55 p.m., Room 103 Zachry
Contact: Carolyn Warzon (carolyn@mail.ece.tamu.edu)

SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS MEETING
General meeting; learn how to improve your public speaking and leadership skills. 6:30 p.m. Room 114 Richardson Building. For more information please visit http://swe.tamu.edu/events.

Wednesday, October 19

DISSERTATION DEFENSE OF
SAM RODRIGUEZ
TITLE: Roadmap-Based Multi-Agent Group Behaviors
Advisor: Dr. Nancy Amato
3:00 p.m. Room 302 HRBB

Thursday, October 20

Friday, October 21

CSE Events of Week 10/10/2011 - 10/14/2011

Monday, October 10

DISSERTATION DEFENSE OF
NIKHIL GUPTA
TITLE: Energy Efficient Scheduling for Real Time Systems
Advisor: Dr. Rabi Mahapatra
10:00 a.m. Room 307 HRBB

CSCE 681 OPEN SEMINAR
Dr. Ananth Kalyanaraman
Assistant Professor
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Washington State University
TITLE: Parallel Graph-based Techniques for Clustering Large-scale Metagenomics Datasets
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CSCE 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Tiffani Williams (tlw@cse.tamu.edu)

Tuesday, October 11

THESIS DEFENSE OF
WONSEOK KIM
TITLE: Towards low-cost feature-rich Web User Interfaces
Advisor: Dr. Jaakko Järvi
10:00 a.m. Room 425A HRBB

COMPUTER ENGINEERING & SYSTEMS GROUP SEMINAR
Dr. Constantine Caramanis
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
TITLE: Robustness in High Dimensions - Principal Component Analysis
3:55 p.m., Room 103 Zachry
Contact: Carolyn Warzon (carolyn@mail.ece.tamu.edu)

Wednesday, October 12

Thursday, October 13

TECH TALK WITH MICROSOFT
Come enjoy this special opportunity to hear directly from one of our Microsoft Representatives about innovations at Microsoft. Bring your resume for a chance to win some great prizes! We'll be serving Freebirds! When? Thursday, October 13th at 6:30pm. Where? HRBB (Bright Building) Room 124.

Friday, October 14

2011 FALL PICNIC
All computer science and engineering department current and former students, faculty, staff are invited to the Fall Picnic. There will be food, music, games, and door prizes. Children and guests are welcome. Buses will run at 5:30 p.m. & 6:00 p.m. from the front of HRBB. Buses will leave the park at 8:00 p.m. & 8:30 p.m.

6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the American Pavilion, Veterans Park 3101 Harvey Rd (Hwy. 30) College Station http://www.cstx.gov/index.aspx?page=556.

CSE Events of Week 10/3/2011 - 10/7/2011

Monday, October 3

CSCE 681 OPEN SEMINAR
Dr. Ezekiel Femi Adebiyi
Head & Professor
Computer & Information Sciences
Covenant University
Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria
TITLE: Bioinformatics and Malaria Research: Building Cost Efficient but Effective Antimalaria Drugs
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CSCE 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Nancy Amato (amato@cse.tamu.edu)

Tuesday, October 4

COMPUTER ENGINEERING & SYSTEMS GROUP SEMINAR
Dr. Daniel Jimenez
Department of Computer Science
The University of Texas at San Antonio
TITLE: An Optimized Scaled Neural Branch Predictor
3:55 p.m., Room 103 Zachry
Contact: Carolyn Warzon (carolyn@mail.ece.tamu.edu)

Wednesday, October 5

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FORUM
The IT Forum promotes communication and information sharing across the campus IT community by providing news and updates about IT initiatives and policies; encouraging feedback, comments, and discussion; and supporting responsible practices for all IT services delivered at the university. For more information about this month's program please visit http://itforum.tamu.edu.

CSCE 681 OPEN SEMINAR
Dr. Scott C. Smith
Director of the Asynchronous Digital Design Lab
and Interim Associate Department Head
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Arkansas
TITLE: Ultra-Low Power Asynchronous Digital Circuits
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CSCE 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Tracy Hammond (hammond@cse.tamu.edu)

Thursday, October 6

Dissertation Defense of
Derek Overby
TITLE: View-Dependent Visualization for Analysis of Large Datasets
Advisor: Dr. John Keyser
9:30 a.m. Room 302 HRBB

Friday, October 7

Saturday, October 8

CSE CONTEST: Internet Privacy '11
The 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 University when choosing where to come to college. The contest will be held in the H.R. Bright Building. For more information, please visit http://www.cse.tamu.edu/contest2011.

CSE Events of Week 9/26/2011 - 9/30/2011

Monday, September 26

TEXAS RESEARCH EXCHANGE FEST IN COMPUTING 2011 (TREF-C 2011)

The third Texas Research Exchange Fest in Computing 2011 (TREF-C 2011) is scheduled for September 26th-27th at the Hilton Hotel in College Station, Texas. The purpose of this meeting is to have representatives from different federal agencies discuss the details of their different programs with respect to research in Computer Science and Engineering, and to encourage collaborations among the CS/CE researchers at Texas universities and industry.

The event will include poster sessions and ample time for collaborative discussions in addition to the informational sessions featuring the representatives from different federal agencies, including AFOSR, NSF, DARPA, and SANDIA NATIONAL LAB. The event is being organized to focus on five major areas within computer science: security, software, networks, information, and high performance computing.

The event will start with a reception and poster session on Monday, 26 September 2011, from 6:30 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. at the Hilton Hotel. The presentations will start on Tuesday, September 27 at 9:00 a.m., immediately following continental breakfast at 8:00 a.m. For more details, including speaker information and a schedule of events please visit the TREF-C website.

CSCE 681 OPEN SEMINAR
Dr. Zhiqiang Lin
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Texas at Dallas
TITLE: Reverse Engineering of Data Structures from Binary
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CSCE 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Guofei Gu (guofei@cse.tamu.edu)

CHEVRON EMPLOYMENT INFO SESSION
Come join representatives from Chevron as they discuss employment opportunities for CSCE majors. Free food and giveaways will be provided! 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m., Room 124 HRBB.

Tuesday, September 27

TEXAS RESEARCH EXCHANGE FEST IN COMPUTING 2011 CONTINUES
8:00 a.m., the College Station Hilton.

COMPUTER ENGINEERING & SYSTEMS GROUP SEMINAR
Dr. Gwan Choi
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Texas A&M University
TITLE: Shared Irresponsibility for Power-Performance Gain in Baseband Processing and H.264 Decoding
3:55 p.m., Room 103 Zachry
Contact: Carolyn Warzon (carolyn@mail.ece.tamu.edu)

Wednesday, September 28

Thursday, September 29

Friday, September 30

Last day to apply for all degrees to be awarded in December 2011. Last day for Thesis and Dissertation students to submit request for final examination.

CSE Events of Week 9/19/2011 - 9/23/2011

Monday, September 19

CSCE 681 OPEN SEMINAR
Dr. P. R. Kumar
Professor and College of Engineering Chair
in Computer Engineering & Systems
Texas A&M University
TITLE: Cyberphysical Systems: Foundations and Challenges
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CSCE 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Jennifer Welch (welch@cse.tamu.edu)

VALERO EMPLOYMENT INFO SESSION
Come join representatives from Valero as they discuss employment opportunities for CSCE majors. Free food and giveaways will be provided! 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m., Room 124 HRBB.

Tuesday, September 20

COMPUTER ENGINEERING & SYSTEMS GROUP SEMINAR
Evdokia Nikolova
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Texas A&M University
TITLE: Risk-averse Combinatorial Optimization
3:55 p.m., Room 103 Zachry
Contact: Carolyn Warzon (carolyn@mail.ece.tamu.edu)

Wednesday, September 21

PARASOL SEMINAR
Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi
TITLE: FIRM: Feedback Controller-Based Information-State Roadmap, a Framework for Motion Planning Under Uncertainty
Jory Denny
TITLE: Toggle PRM: Simultaneous Mapping of C-free and C-obstacle - A Study in 2D
Ben Fine
TITLE: Flocking: don't need no stinkin' robot recognition
4:00 p.m., Room 302 HRBB
Contact: Dr. Nancy Amato (amato@cse.tamu.edu)

Thursday, September 22

Friday, September 23

CSE Events of Week 9/12/2011 - 9/16/2011

Monday, September 12

Tuesday, September 13

ENGINEERING CAREER FAIR
The SEC Engineering Career Fair is the premier recruiting event for the Dwight Look College of Engineering. Held at A&M's Reed Arena, the career fair is planned, organized, and staffed by the Student Engineers' Council and is one of the largest student-run career fairs in the nation. This year we will have over 315 companies in attendance! Any student of Texas A&M may attend the career fair. There are no registration or entrance fees of any kind. A free shuttle to Reed Arena will be leaving from the front of Zachry Engineering Building all day on the 13th and 14th. For more information about the fair and to access the company search engine, visit: http://sec.tamu.edu/students/careerfair.

CSE INDUSTRIAL AFFILIATES PROGRAM (IAP) FALL MEETING
Give a hearty Howdy to IAP representatives and guests from who will be visiting the department today and Wednesday. The fall meeting will bring our IAP members up-to-date on department curriculum and research. 9:00 a.m., Room 302 HRBB.

COMPUTER ENGINEERING & SYSTEMS GROUP SEMINAR
Teresa McLaurin (ARM)
TITLE: Design-for-Test (DFT) for Modern System-on-Chip (SoC) Designs
3:55 p.m., Room 103 Zachry
Contact: Carolyn Warzon (carolyn@mail.ece.tamu.edu)

Wednesday, September 14

Engineering Career Fair Continues; visit http://sec.tamu.edu/students/careerfair for info.

Fall IAP Meeting Continues.

Dissertation Defense of
Neal Audenaert
TITLE: CritSpace: An Interactive Visual Interface to Digital Collections of Cultural Heritage Material
Advisor: Dr. Richard Furuta
2:00 p.m. Room 408H HRBB

Thursday, September 15

Friday, September 16

CSE Events of Week 9/5/2011 - 9/10/2011

Monday, September 5

CSCE 681 OPEN SEMINAR
Dr. Evdokia Nikolova
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Texas A&M University
TITLE: Risk-averse Combinatorial Optimization
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CSCE 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Nancy Amato (amato@cse.tamu.edu)

Tuesday, September 6

Wednesday, September 7

Thursday, September 8

Friday, September 9

INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE (IAMCS) WORKSHOP
Ecosystem Modeling, Simulation and Assessment
Assessing Effects of Climate Change and Human Population Growth on Natural Living Resources: The Red Sea as a Model Case Study.
This workshop will bring together researchers working in three different themes: Coral reefs and Oligotrophic Seas: Threats to Ecosystem Health; Fisheries Ecology: Management and Conservation; and Metapopulation Modeling/Data Analysis. It will consist of a number of invited presentations, featuring Stein Kaartvedt, Associate Director of the Red Sea Research Center at KAUST, as a Keynote Speaker, and will also include a poster session. If you have any questions regarding the workshop, please contact Laura Durham at ldurham@stat.tamu.edu or Beatriz Aguilar at beaguilar@stat.tamu.edu. For more information on this and future IAMCS events, please visit http://iamcs.tamu.edu.

Saturday, September 10

INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE (IAMCS) WORKSHOP CONTINUES
If you have any questions regarding the workshop, please contact Laura Durham at ldurham@stat.tamu.edu or Beatriz Aguilar at beaguilar@stat.tamu.edu. For more information on this and future IAMCS events, please visit http://iamcs.tamu.edu.

PYTEXAS 2011 - PYTHON PROGRAMMING CONFERENCE
PyTexas 2011, the fourth annual Python programming conference for Texas and the surrounding region, will take place Saturday September 10 and Sunday September 11, 2011 on the 1st floor of HRBB at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. For more information, and a schedule of events and speakers please visit http://pytexas.blogspot.com.

CSE Events of Week 8/29/2011 - 9/2/2011

Monday, August 29

First day of fall semester classes

Dissertation Defense of
Anna Zacchi
TITLE: Challenges and Techniques for Personal Environment Management
Advisor: Dr. Frank Shipman
2:30 p.m. Room 408 HRBB

CSCE 681 SEMINAR
TITLE: Graduate Orientation I: Overview of Department Resources & Contacts, Honor Code, and Student Organizations
MANDATORY FOR NEW GRAD STUDENTS (but not other CSCE 681 students)
CSCE 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB

Tuesday, August 30

Wednesday, August 31

CSCE 681 SEMINAR
TITLE: Graduate Orientation II: Presentation, Poster Session, & PIZZA!
MANDATORY FOR NEW GRAD STUDENTS and counts towards requirement for CSCE 681 STUDENTS.
CSCE 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB

Thursday, September 1

Friday, September 2

College Colors Day - Wear your maroon and white!
You're invited to wear maroon and white for College Colors Day on Friday, Sept. 2, to show your Aggie Spirit. College Colors Day, in its 7th year, is an annual national celebration dedicated to promote the traditions and spirit that make the college experience great. Be sure to RSVP to the official Texas A&M College Colors Day Facebook event at http://tx.ag/maroon!

Summer 2011

CSE Events of Week 8/22/2011 - 8/26/2011

Monday, August 22

Dissertation Defense of
Omar Alvarez Xochihua
TITLE: A Mixed-response Intelligent Tutoring System Based on Learning from Demonstration
Advisor: Dr. Riccardo Bettati
10:30 a.m. Room 307 HRBB

Tuesday, August 23

Wednesday, August 24

Thursday, August 25

Friday, August 26

CSE NEW GRADUATE STUDENT SOCIAL
All incoming Computer Science and Engineering graduate students are invited to a social Friday, 26 August 2011 at 2:30 p.m. until 4:00 p.m. outside of Room 124 HRBB. Meet the CSE faculty and learn about their research while enjoying ice cream and cobbler!

CSE Events of Week 8/15/2011 - 8/19/2011

Monday, August 15

Tuesday, August 16

Wednesday, August 17

Thursday, August 18

Friday, August 19

CSE Events of Week 8/8/2011 - 8/12/2011

Monday, August 8

Last day of second term and 10-week semester classes.

THESIS DEFENSE OF
SHAYAK LAHIRI
TITLE: Pseudo Functional Delay Tests for High Quality Small Delay Defect Testing
Advisor: Dr. Duncan M. "Hank" Walker
10:00 a.m. Room 516 HRBB

Tuesday, August 9

Final examinations for all students.

Wednesday, August 10

Final examinations for all students.

Thursday, August 11

SUMMER 2011 CSE GRADUATION RECEPTION
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering will host a reception in honor of the department's summer 2011 graduates. The reception is open to family and friends of the summer 2011 graduates as well as department faculty and staff. Enjoy light refreshments, collect a celebratory cup, and be included in a drawing for door prizes! 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., Room 302 HRBB.

COMMENCEMENT CONVOCATION
5:30 p.m., Rudder Auditorium
Speaker: Mike Sherman, Texas A&M Football Coach
Please see the Texas A&M graduation website http://graduation.tamu.edu/ceremon.html for more details.

THE NEXT TRADITION
The Association of Former Students and Texas A&M University will host The Next Tradition graduation celebration on August 11th and 12th at The Clayton W. Williams, Jr. Alumni Center. Please join us either before or after commencement convocation, or on your graduation day! The Next Tradition is designed to welcome graduating students into The Association of Former Students, teaching the importance of staying involved beyond your time at Texas A&M University. Other details can be found on the Next Tradition website http://www.aggienetwork.com/events/tnt.aspx?rt=s.

Friday, August 12

COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY
The Commencement Ceremony for the students of the Dwight Look College of Engineering will take place at 9:00 a.m. at Reed Arena. For more information about this week's commencement ceremonies, please visit http://graduation.tamu.edu/ceremon.html.

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

THE NEXT TRADITION
11:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m., a continuation of the previous day's ceremony at The Clayton W. Williams, Jr. Alumni Center.

CSE Events of Week 8/1/2011 - 8/5/2011

Monday, August 1

Tuesday, August 2

RESEARCH EXPERIENCES FOR UNDERGRADUATES (REU) POSTER SESSION
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Building (ILSB) Lobby

Texas A&M University features REU programs, funded by the National Science Foundation focusing on the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) areas of study. Please stop by to see posters done by the REU students, presenting their research projects carried out during the summer semester at Texas A&M University. Hors d'oeuvres and refreshments will be provided. Hosted by Honors and Undergraduate Research: http://honors.tamu.edu.

Wednesday, August 3

Thursday, August 4

Friday, August 5

REU Engineering Poster Session, 8:00 a.m., Zachry Engineering Building Lobby

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

CSE Events of Week 7/25/2011 - 7/29/2011

Monday, July 25

Tuesday, July 26

Last day for all students to drop courses with no penalty for the second term (Q-drop).

Last day to officially withdraw from the University for second term.

Wednesday, July 27

Thursday, July 28

Friday, July 29

CSE Events of Week 7/18/2011 - 7/22/2011

Monday, July 18

Tuesday, July 19

Wednesday, July 20

Last day for all students to drop courses with no penalty for the 10-week semester (Q-drop).

Last day to officially withdraw from the University for 10-week semester.

Thursday, July 21

CSE REU BROWN BAG LUNCH
Subject: Faculty Research Interests
Presentations by various CSE faculty in regards to their research.
12:00 p.m. to 1:00 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, July 22

CSE Events of Week 7/11/2011 - 7/15/2011

Monday, July 11

Last day for adding/dropping courses for the second term.

Tuesday, July 12

Wednesday, July 13

Thursday, July 14

Friday, July 15

CSE Events of Week 7/4/2011 - 7/8/2011

Monday, July 4

INDEPENDENCE DAY
Faculty and staff holiday.

Tuesday, July 5

First term final examinations, no 10-week semester classes. Last day to register for the second summer term and pay fees.

Wednesday, July 6

First day of second term classes.

Thursday, July 7

CSE REU BROWN BAG LUNCH
Subject: Faculty Research Interests
Presentations by various CSE faculty in regards to their research.
11:45 a.m. to 1:00 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.

PARASOL SEMINAR
Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi
Parasol Laboratory, The Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Texas A&M University
TITLE: FIRM: Feedback Controller-Based Information-State Roadmap, a Framework for Motion Planning Under Uncertainty
4:00 p.m., Room 302 HRBB
Contact: Dr. Nancy Amato (amato@cse.tamu.edu)

Friday, July 8

CSE Events of Week 6/27/2011 - 7/1/2011

Monday, June 27

Tuesday, June 28

Wednesday, June 29

THESIS DEFENSE OF
DANIEL POGUE
TITLE: Teaching in the CVLE of Second Life: Design Considerations for Virtual World Developers
Advisor: Dr. Richard Furuta
1:00 p.m. Room 408H HRBB

Thursday, June 30

Friday, July 1

Last day of first term classes.

CSE Events of Week 6/20/2011 - 6/24/2011

Monday, June 20

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

Tuesday, June 21

Wednesday, June 22

Thursday, June 23

CSE REU BROWN BAG LUNCH
Subject: Informal Student Presentations
An informal meeting where students will discuss their research projects.
12:00 p.m. to 1:00 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.

EYE-TRACKER TRAINING
We have three eye-trackers (suitable for outdoors work too) that you can borrow for your research through our NSF MRI RESPOND-R grant. We will have training next week on Thursday 6/23 from 2:30 to 4:00 in HRBB 333.

Eye-tracker: The IScan Omniview is a lightweight eye-tracker mounted on spectacle frames and is coupled with a digital recorder unit for outdoor usage. Along with this it also has a tethered mode for real time operation in the lab. Eye-tracking allows researchers to track and record participants' eye movements when they look at objects in front of them. After calibration of the system it provides the binocular point of gaze superimposed over the scene image. It also does automatic parallax correction. The eye-tracker tracks the pupil and corneal reflection to determine point of gaze. The positional difference between the pupil and the corneal reflection changes with pure eye rotation but is relatively constant with minor head movements. This positional difference can be directly related to the subject's point of gaze. Please visit their website http://www.iscaninc.com for more information.

Friday, June 24

BIOMETRIC SENSOR TRAINING
We have a suite of biometric sensors that you can borrow for your research through our NSF MRI RESPOND-R grant. We will have training next week on Friday 6/24 from 2:30 to 4:00 in HRBB 333.

The Biopack wearable sensors are the top of the class in measuring ECG, EMG, GSR, Breathing, Pulse, and Temperature parameters in real time. The Emotiv headset has been getting lots of attention in the media for things like driving toy robots by "thought" but is less reliable, it still could be fun for students.

For further descriptions of the devices and their manufacturers, please visit the CSE Calendar.

CSE Events of Week 6/13/2011 - 6/17/2011

Monday, June 13

Tuesday, June 14

Wednesday, June 15

DISSERTATION DEFENSE OF
TIMMIE SMITH
TITLE: Composing Parallel Applications using Task Graphs
Advisor: Dr. Lawrence Rauchwerger
10:00 a.m. Room 302 HRBB

THESIS DEFENSE OF
TANUSHREE MITRA
TITLE: Cost. Precision, and Task Structure in Aggression-based Arbitration for Minimalist Robot Cooperation
Advisor: Dr. Dylan Shell
3:00 p.m. Room 912B RICH

Thursday, June 16

CSE REU BROWN BAG LUNCH
Subject: Graduate School
A Graduate Student panel will discuss information about graduate studies here at Texas A&M.
11:45 a.m. to 1:00 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 17

CSE Events of Week 6/6/2011 - 6/10/2011

Monday, June 6

Tuesday, June 7

Wednesday, June 8

Thursday, June 9

CSE REU BROWN BAG LUNCH
Subject: Resumes and Interviews
Presented by David McMahon from the Career Center
Information about building great resumes and excelling in interviews.
11:45 a.m. to 1:00 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 10

CSE Events of Week 5/30/2011 - 6/3/2011

Monday, May 30

Memorial Day, Faculty and Staff holiday.

3RD ANNUAL IAMCS SPRING SYMPOSIUM
The 3rd Annual Institute for Applied Mathematics and Computational Science (IAMCS) Spring Symposium will be held this coming Monday and Tuesday, May 30th and 31st. The Conference will be held at the Mitchell Physics Building (map) on the campus of Texas A&M University. Dr. Raymond Carroll will open the conference with an introductory talk at 8:50 a.m. There is no cost to attend, but to assist in planning and catering, participants are encouraged to register as soon as possible through the IAMCS registration website. For more information and a schedule of events please visit http://iamcs.tamu.edu.

Tuesday, May 31

First day of Summer Session 1 and 10-week semester classes.

IAMCS Spring Symposium Continues. For more information and a schedule of events please visit http://iamcs.tamu.edu.

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.

THESIS DEFENSE OF
DONGKUN KIM
TITLE: Automatic Seedpoint Selection and Tracing of Microstructures in the Knife-edge Scanning Microscope Mouse Brain Data Set
Advisor: Dr. Yoonsuck Choe
2:00 p.m. Room 302 HRBB

Wednesday, June 1

THESIS DEFENSE OF
HUEI-FANG YANG
TITLE: Reconstruction of 3D Neuronal Structures from Densely Packed Electron Microscopy Data Stacks
Advisor: Dr. Yoonsuck Choe
2:00 p.m. Room 516 HRBB

REU WELCOME BBQ 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m., Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Building (ILSB) Lobby (map).
Welcome BBQ, Welcome Bags, Performance by the Aggie Swing Cats - for Summer Students, Directors & Coordinators

Thursday, June 2

CSE REU BROWN BAG LUNCH
Subject: Grad School
Presented by CSE Department Head Dr. Hank Walker
Information ranging from applying and funding to why you should attend grad school.
11:45 a.m. to 1:00 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 3

CSE Events of Week 5/23/2011 - 5/27/2011

Monday, May 23

Tuesday, May 24

Wednesday, May 25

CSE FACULTY RETREAT BEGINS
The CSE faculty will meet at Astin Mansion in Bryan to discuss department research and curriculum issues. Contact Leah Lewis with any questions. 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

RECEPTION FOR DR. VALERIE TAYLOR
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University will celebrate Dr. Valerie E. Taylor's eight years of service as Department Head on Wednesday, May 25th at 5:30 p.m. at the Astin Mansion in Bryan. The Department would like to extend our sincerest appreciation to Dr. Taylor for her leadership and dedication. Dr. Taylor will remain with the department upon the completion of her tenure as head at the end of May.

Thursday, May 26

CSE Faculty Retreat continues at Astin Mansion. 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Friday, May 27

Last day to register for Summer Session 1 and 10-week semester and pay fees.

CSE Events of Week 5/16/2011 - 5/20/2011

Monday, May 16

Final grades for all students due in Office of the Registrar.

Tuesday, May 17

Wednesday, May 18

Thursday, May 19

Friday, May 20

Spring 2011

CSE Events of Week 5/9/2011 - 5/13/2011

Monday, May 9

Final Exams - Spring semester final examinations continue.

Tuesday, May 10

Final Exams - Spring semester final examinations continue.

Wednesday, May 11

Final Exams - Spring semester final examinations continue.

Thursday, May 12

THE NEXT TRADITION
The Association of Former Students and Texas A&M University will host The Next Tradition graduation party on May 12th from 4:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m., May 13th from 11:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m., and May 14th from 11:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. at The Clayton W. Williams, Jr. Alumni Center. Please join us either before or after Commencement Convocation, or on your graduation day! The Next Tradition is designed to welcome graduating students into The Association of Former Students, teaching the importance of staying involved beyond your time at Texas A&M University. If you have any questions, please call 845-7514 or visit the Association's website at http://www.aggienetwork.com/Events/tnt.aspx.

COMMENCEMENT CONVOCATION
5:30 p.m., Rudder Auditorium
Speaker: Secretary James A. Baker, III
Please see the Texas A&M graduation website http://graduation.tamu.edu/ceremon.html for more details.

Friday, May 13

SPRING 2011 CSE GRADUATION RECEPTION
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering will host a reception in honor of the department's spring 2011 graduates. The reception is open to family and friends of the spring graduates as well as department faculty and staff. Enjoy light refreshments, collect a celebratory cup, and be included in a drawing for door prizes! 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., Room 302 HRBB.

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 SEMESTER!

CSE Events of Week 5/2/2011 - 5/6/2011

Monday, May 2

INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE (IAMCS) SEMINAR
Joel Falcou
Computer Science Laboratory
Universite Paris-Sud XI
TITLE: Modern C++ Design for Modern Computer Architectures: Meta Programming for Higher Performance Computing
3:30 p.m., Room 628 Blocker
Contact: Beatriz Aguilar (beaguilar@stat.tamu.edu)
Abstract: http://iamcs.tamu.edu/seminar_details.php?semid=6

Tuesday, May 3

Redefined day; last day of spring Semester classes - students attend their Friday classes instead of Tuesday classes.

PARASOL SEMINAR: SHORT TALKS ON ROBOTICS
Join us as the Parasol Lab hosts three short talks on Robotics:

Dr. Dylan Shell, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering at TAMU:
An Evaluation of Methods for Modeling Contact in Multibody Simulation

Jory Denny, Parasol Lab, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering at TAMU:
Roadmap-Based Pursuit-Evasion in 3D Structures

Dr. Dezhen Song, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering at TAMU:
Robust Recognition of Planar Mirrored Walls Using a Single View

4:00 p.m., Room 302 HRBB
Contact: Dr. Nancy Amato (amato@cse.tamu.edu)

Wednesday, May 4

Reading day, no classes.

PARASOL SEMINAR: SHORT TALKS ON ROBOTICS CONTINUED
Join us as the Parasol Lab hosts three more short talks on Robotics:

Dr. Dezhen Song, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering at TAMU:
Localization of Multiple Unknown Transient Radio Sources using Multiple Paired Mobile Robots with Limited Sensing Ranges

Lantao Liu, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering at TAMU:
Approximate Characterization of Multi-Robot Swarm

Sam Rodriguez, Parasol Lab, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering at TAMU:
Utilizing Roadmaps in Evacuation Planning

4:00 p.m., Room 302 HRBB
Contact: Dr. Nancy Amato (amato@cse.tamu.edu)

Thursday, May 5

Reading day, no classes.

Friday, May 6

Final Exams - Spring semester final examinations begin for all students.

CSE Events of Week 4/25/2011 - 4/29/2011

Monday, April 25

CSCE 681 OPEN SEMINAR
Dr. Jose Morales
Research Assistant Professor
Institute for Cyber Security
University of Texas at San Antonio
TITLE: Deficiencies and Vulnerabilities in Commercial Anti-Malware Programs
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CSCE 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Valerie Taylor (taylor@cse.tamu.edu)

Tuesday, April 26

Wednesday, April 27

Thursday, April 28

DISSERTATION DEFENSE OF
DANIEL FELPS
TITLE: Articulatory-based Speech Processing Methods for Foreign Accent Conversion
Advisor: Dr. Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna
10:00 a.m. Room 516 HRBB

Friday, April 29

STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT MEETING
9:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m., Room 302 HRBB
CSE Faculty will discuss recent and future department development activities.

RETIREMENT RECEPTION FOR DR. DON FRIESEN and DR. WILLIAM "MAC" LIVELY
Please join the Department of Computer Science and Engineering on Friday, April 29, 2011 in honoring Dr. Donald Friesen and Dr. William "Mac" Lively on the occasion of their retirement. The event will take place from 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. in the University Club Mezzanine at Texas A&M University in Rudder Tower. Students, faculty, and friends are cordially invited to attend the reception celebrating Dr. Friesen's 33 years and Dr. Lively's 39 years of service to the department and Texas A&M University.

CSE Events of Week 4/18/2011 - 4/22/2011

Monday, April 18

CSE DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES
Dr. Dinesh Manocha
Phi Delta Theta/Matthew Mason Distinguished Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill
TITLE: Interactive Sound Rendering
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CSE Faculty Contact: Dr. Scott Schaefer

Tuesday, April 19

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Daniel Jimenez
The University of Texas at San Antonio
TITLE: Reducing Wasted Speculation
3:55 p.m., Room 223C Zachry
Contact: Carolyn Warzon (carolyn@mail.ece.tamu.edu)

COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING 2010 SPRING BANQUET AND AWARDS CEREMONY
Traditions Country Club 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
RSVP registration is closed!
Bus Schedule: Depart from Wisenbaker (WERC) 5:30 p.m. to head to Traditions Club. The bus heading back to Wisenbaker will leave Traditions at 9:00 p.m. For more information please contact Adrienne Krenek at krenek@cse.tamu.edu.

Wednesday, April 20

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FORUM
The next IT Forum is 3:00-4:30pm in Rudder 601. The IT Forum promotes communication and information sharing across the campus IT community by providing news and updates about IT initiatives and policies; encouraging feedback, comments, and discussion; and supporting responsible practices for all IT services delivered at the university. This month's forum will include presentations on hard drive disposal, Microsoft License Agreement updates, and IT risk management and ISAAC. For more information please visit the IT Forum at http://itforum.tamu.edu.

Thursday, April 21

Friday, April 22

CSE Events of Week 4/11/2011 - 4/16/2011

NATIONAL ROBOTICS WEEK
April 9-16 is National Robotics Week. The purpose of National Robotics Week is to celebrate the US as a leader in robotics technology development, educate the public about how robotics technology impacts society both now and in the future, advocate for increased funding for robotics technology research and development, inspire students of all ages to pursue careers in robotics and other Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math-related fields. Robotics technology is a growing industry which creates high-tech jobs, and is helping to improve healthcare, national defense, homeland security, energy, manufacturing, logistics, transportation, agriculture, education, consumer goods, and many other sectors. Robotics provides an exciting, hands-on way for students to learn Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. For more information about National Robotics Awareness Week, please visit http://www.nationalroboticsweek.org.

Monday, April 11

CSCE 681 OPEN SEMINAR
Dr. Cindy L. Bethel
Postdoctoral Associate and Computing Innovation Fellow
Department of Computer Science
Yale University
TITLE: Non-Facial and Non-Verbal Affective Expression for Appearance-Constrained Robots
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CSCE 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Robin Murphy (murphy@cse.tamu.edu)

Tuesday, April 12

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Jasson Casey
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Texas A&M University TITLE: Automated generation, verification, and vulnerability analysis of network protocols: current status and future directions
3:55 p.m., Room 223C Zachry
Contact: Carolyn Warzon (carolyn@mail.ece.tamu.edu)

READING OF THE SCIENCE FICTION PLAY R.U.R. BY KAREL CAPEK
As part of National Robotics Week, please join us as Amy Guerin reads the science fiction play R.U.R. by Karel Capek. The reading will be held from 8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m., Room 140 of the Blocker Building. This play opened in 1921 and is noted for introducing the term "robot."

Wednesday, April 13

CSCE 681 OPEN SEMINAR
David Hanson, Ph.D.
Founder/CTO
Hanson Robotics, Inc.
TITLE: Why Make Robots Humanlike?
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CSCE 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Robin Murphy (murphy@cse.tamu.edu)

ROBOTS@TAMU RECOGNITION BANQUET
We are excited to cap off the National Robotics Week activities with the robots@tamu Recognition Banquet, where will we celebrate the achievements of our robotics faculty and students in all areas and disciplines and be treated to a talk by our distinguished guest speaker Dr. David Hanson, creator of the Einstein robots and many others, aimed for general audiences. The event will begin at 5:30 p.m. There will also be a "Robot Parade" and poster competition at 6:00 p.m. on the patio of the Clayton W. Williams, Jr., Alumni Center with dinner inside at 6:30 p.m. followed by an awards presentation and our guest talk. Students and some of their robots will be at each table as well as on display, giving you a chance to meet the future up close and personal!

Thursday, April 14

Friday, April 15

PARASOL SEMINAR
Haibo Chen
Parallel Processing Institute
Fudan University
TITLE: ORDER: Object centRic DEterministic Replay for Java
4:00 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
Contact: Dr. Nancy Amato (amato@cse.tamu.edu)

BOND NIGHT SPONSORED BY CSEGSA and AWICS
Come pretend to be a secret agent with AWICS and CSEGSA Friday, April 15th! Dress as your favorite James Bond movie character, and generally classy attire is encouraged! There will be James Bond movies playing, FOOD, games, dancing, and lots of fun stuff! Bond Night is open to all CSCE students, faculty, friends, and family! Hope to see you there! 6:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m., Place: TAMU Recreation Center Room 134 (Garden Room).

Saturday, April 16

PARENTS' WEEKEND
Parents' Weekend is a tradition that has existed at Texas A&M University since 1919. Texas A&M University prides itself on making its visitors feel welcome. The University has given parents and guests a special time to feel this warm greeting. Parents' Weekend has become our official "HOWDY!" Please visit http://parentsweekend.tamu.edu for further details.

CSE Events of Week 4/4/2011 - 4/8/2011

Monday, April 4

INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE (IAMCS) SEMINAR
Dr. Ivan Ivanov
Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology
Texas A&M University
TITLE: Pathway Regulatory Analysis and Modeling of Drug Intervention Effects in the Context of Bayesian Networks
3:30 p.m., Room 628 Blocker
Contact: Beatriz Aguilar (beaguilar@stat.tamu.edu)
Abstract: http://iamcs.tamu.edu/seminar_details.php?semid=6

Tuesday, April 5

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Frank Liu
IBM Austin Research Lab
TITLE: Dynamic Simulation of Large Scale River Networks
3:55 p.m., Room 223C Zachry
Contact: Carolyn Warzon (carolyn@mail.ece.tamu.edu)

QUANTUM COMPUTING SEMINAR
Eric Rowell
Department of Mathematics
Texas A&M University
TITLE: The Generalized Yang-Baxter Equation and Braiding Quantum Gates
1:10 p.m., Room 302, HRBB
Contact: Dr. Andreas Klappenecker (klappi@cse.tamu.edu).

Wednesday, April 6

CSCE 681 OPEN SEMINAR
Robert Metzger
Senior Engineer
Convey Computer Corporation
TITLE: Debugging Patterns
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CSCE 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Lawrence Rauchwerger (rwerger@cse.tamu.edu)

Thursday, April 7

INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE (IAMCS) COMMUNITY COFFEE
Dr. Yoonsuck Choe
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Texas A&M University
TITLE: Global Sub-micrometer-level Survey of the Mouse Brain Microstructures Using the Knife-Edge Scanning Microscope
2:30 p.m., Room 302 HRBB
Contact: Beatriz Aguilar (beaguilar@stat.tamu.edu)

Friday, April 8

PARASOL SEMINAR
Habib Talavatifard
Department of Mathematics
Texas A&M University
TITLE: tba
4:00 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
Contact: Dr. Nancy Amato (amato@cse.tamu.edu)

Saturday, April 9

NATIONAL ROBOTICS AWARENESS WEEK
April 9-16 is National Robotics Awareness Week. The purpose of National Robotics Week is to celebrate the US as a leader in robotics technology development, educate the public about how robotics technology impacts society both now and in the future, advocate for increased funding for robotics technology research and development, inspire students of all ages to pursue careers in robotics and other Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math-related fields. Robotics technology is a growing industry which creates high-tech jobs, and is helping to improve healthcare, national defense, homeland security, energy, manufacturing, logistics, transportation, agriculture, education, consumer goods, and many other sectors. Robotics provides an exciting, hands-on way for students to learn Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. For more information about National Robotics Awareness Week, please visit http://www.nationalroboticsweek.org.

CSE Events of Week 3/28/2011 - 4/1/2011

Monday, March 28

INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE (IAMCS) SEMINAR
Victor Calo
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
TITLE: Discontinuous Petrov-Galerking Method for Steady Transport
3:30 p.m., Room 628 Blocker
Contact: Beatriz Aguilar (beaguilar@stat.tamu.edu)
Abstract (pdf): http://iamcs.tamu.edu/file_dl.php?type=seminar_doc&seminar_id=105"

CSCE 681 OPEN SEMINAR
Vitaly Shmatikov
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Texas at Austin
TITLE: The End of Anonymity, The Beginning of Privacy
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CSCE 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Guofei Gu (guofei@cse.tamu.edu)

Tuesday, March 29

THESIS DEFENSE OF
JI ZHANG
TITLE: Two Case Studies on Vision-based Moving Objects Measurement
Advisor: Dr. Dezhen Song
11:00 a.m. Room 307 HRBB

QUANTUM COMPUTING SEMINAR
Sangjun Lee
Texas A&M University
TITLE: Universality of Quantum Gates
1:10 p.m., Room 302, HRBB
Contact: Dr. Andreas Klappenecker (klappi@cse.tamu.edu).

Wednesday, March 30

Thursday, March 31

INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE (IAMCS) COMMUNITY COFFEE
2:30 p.m., Room 513 Blocker Building. Come join us in the IAMCS office for an informal meeting and a chance to visit with students and faculty! For more information on future IAMCS events, please visit http://iamcs.tamu.edu.

Friday, April 1

CSE Events of Week 3/21/2011 - 3/25/2011

Monday, March 21

STUDENT RESEARCH WEEK
Formed in 1994, SRW has transformed from being an one day Poster event to a full week research extravaganza. Not only does it showcase student research at A&M, SRW awards excellence in research giving a huge value booster to a student's career. The mission of Student Research Week (SRW) is to recognize and celebrate student research at Texas A&M University by providing an opportunity for students to present research and to foster an environment for students, faculty, staff and administration to learn about the research occurring at Texas A&M University and the resources available on campus. For more information please visit http://srw.tamu.edu.

Tuesday, March 22

Wednesday, March 23

CSCE 681 OPEN SEMINAR
Dr. Andrei Vladimirescu
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Institut Superieur d'Electronique de Paris
TITLE: Integrated Circuits in 32 nm and Beyond: Fully-Depleted Silicon-on-Insulator (FDSOI) CMOS a Better Option than Bulk CMOS
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CSCE 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Lawrence Rauchwerger (rwerger@cse.tamu.edu)

Thursday, March 24

INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE (IAMCS) COMMUNITY COFFEE
Barbell Janssen
Institut für Angewandte Mathematik
Universität Heidelberg
TITLE: First Steps of Coupling 2d and 3d Models for Lake Simulations
2:30 p.m., Room 628 Blocker
Contact: Beatriz Aguilar (beaguilar@stat.tamu.edu)

Friday, March 25

THE CONFERENCE OF TEXAS STATISTICIANS
The Conference of Texas Statisticians (COTS) offers Texas statisticians the opportunity for social and intellectual exchange on a yearly basis. These meetings also stimulate increased chapter membership as well as visibility of the statistical profession in the state of Texas.

Friday, March 25 — Saturday, March 26, 2011
Rudder Tower, Room 301, Texas A&M University Campus
Hosted by the Department of Statistics

If you need more information, please email Elaine Washington at elaine@stat.tamu.edu or call 979-845-3141.

CSE Events of Week 3/14/2011 - 3/18/2011

Monday, March 14

SPRING BREAK FOR STUDENTS

Have fun and come back safely. We look forward to seeing you again on Monday, March 21!

CSE Events of Week 3/7/2011 - 3/11/2011

Monday, March 7

CSCE 681 OPEN SEMINAR
Dr. Pen-Chung Yew
Professor
Academica Sinica and University of Minnesota at Twin Cities
TITLE: Simulating Multicores on Multicores — A Challenge to Build Fast Parallel Simulators
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CSCE 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Nancy Amato (amato@cse.tamu.edu)
Open Reception immediately following Dr. Yew's presentation

Tuesday, March 8

CSE INDUSTRIAL AFFILIATES PROGRAM (IAP) SPRING MEETING
Give a hearty Howdy to IAP representatives and guests from USAA, Microsoft, Valero, Cisco Systems, Cypress Semiconductor, Reynolds & Reynolds, Improving Enterprises, Marathon Oil Company, Chevron, ExxonMobil, KBSI, National Instruments, Raytheon, Dell, Hewlett Packard, IBM, and Frog Slayer Software who will be visiting the department Tuesday and Wednesday. The spring meeting will bring our IAP members up-to-date on department curriculum and research. 9:00 a.m., Room 307 HRBB.

Wednesday, March 9

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

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Magnus Egerstedt
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
TITLE: Specification and Optimization of Interconnected Switched Systems with Applications to Robotic Marionettes
4:10 p.m., Room 303 Fermier Hall
Contact: Sarah Morgan (sdmorgan@tamu.edu)

Thursday, March 10

INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Jing Li
Industrial Engineering
School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering
Arizona State University
TITLE: Transfer Learning of Exploratory Graphical Models with Application in Alzheimer's Disease
12:00 p.m., Room 233 Zachry
Contact: Dr. Yu Ding (yuding@iemail.tamu.edu)

Friday, March 11

DISSERTATION DEFENSE OF
GANGMAN YI
TITLE: Algorithms for Gene Clustering Analysis on Genomes
Advisor: Dr. Sing-Hoi Sze
9:00 a.m. Room 320 HRBB

CSE Events of Week 2/28/2011 - 3/5/2011

ALL WEEK EVENT: E-WEEK
National Engineers Week, or E-Week, celebrates engineers and all of the cool things they do. Engineers do more than study and work all the time; they love to have fun, too! Here at Texas A&M, we're increasing engineering awareness and breaking common engineering stereotypes. The Student Engineers' Council is hosting many events on the A&M campus February 28 to March 4, 2011 so everyone can see what engineers are really like! For a list of events during E-Week, please visit the Student Engineers' Council website http://sec.tamu.edu.

Monday, February 28

CSCE 681 OPEN SEMINAR
Dr. James C. Dehnert
Google
TITLE: Pregel: A Large-scale Distributed Graph-processing System
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CSCE 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Lawrence Rauchwerger (rwerger@cse.tamu.edu)

Tuesday, March 1

DISSERTATION DEFENSE OF
PU DUAN
TITLE: Oblivious Handshakes and Sharing of Secrets of Privacy-Preserving Matching and Authentication Protocols
Advisor: Dr. Jyh-Charn (Steve) Liu
10:00 a.m. Room 501A HRBB

QUANTUM COMPUTING SEMINAR
Dr. Jorge Seminario
Department of Chemical Engineering
Texas A&M University
TITLE: Moletronics for the post-CMOS era Part 2
1:10 p.m., Room 302, HRBB
Contact: Dr. Andreas Klappenecker (klappi@cse.tamu.edu).

DISSERTATION DEFENSE OF
KEITH BIGGERS
TITLE: Inference-based Geometric Modeling for the Generation of Complex Cluttered Virtual Environments
Co-Advisors: Dr. John Keyser and Dr. Glen Williams
3:00 p.m. Room 302 HRBB

Wednesday, March 2

Thursday, March 3

DISSERTATION DEFENSE OF
ERIC LANDRENEAU
TITLE: Scales and Scale-like Structures
Advisor: Dr. Scott Schaefer
9:00 a.m. Room 302 HRBB

INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE (IAMCS) SPEAKER SEMINAR SERIES
Dr. Scott Dindot
Assistant Professor
The Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
TITLE: tba
2:30 p.m., Room 302 HRBB
Contact: Sheri Stebenne (stebenne@stat.tamu.edu)

STATISTICS DEPARTMENTAL COLLOQUIUM
Boaz Nadler
Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
TITLE: Detection of Signals in Noise, Matrix Perturbation and Random Matrix Theory
3:45 p.m., Room 457 Blocker Building
Contact: Elaine Washington (elaine@stat.tamu.edu)
Abstract (pdf): http://www.stat.tamu.edu/files/abstr-nadler.pdf

Friday, March 4

PARASOL SEMINAR
Simon Peyton-Jones
Microsoft Research Cambridge
TITLE: Classes, Jim, but not as we know them
4:00 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
Contact: Dr. Nancy Amato (amato@cse.tamu.edu)

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Jeffrey Stuecheli
IBM
TITLE: Mitigating DRAM Complexities Through Coordinated Scheduling Policies
4:00 p.m., Room 342 Zachry
Contact: Carolyn Warzon (carolyn@mail.ece.tamu.edu)

CSE Events of Week 2/21/2011 - 2/25/2011

Monday, February 21

INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Gerard P. Cornuejols
IBM University Professor of Operations Research
Tepper School of Business
Carnie Mellon University
TITLE: Multi-row Cuts in Integer Programming
1:45 p.m., Room 203 Zachry
Contact: Katherine Edwards (kedwards@tamu.edu)

Tuesday, February 22

QUANTUM COMPUTING SEMINAR
Dr. Jorge Seminario
Department of Chemical Engineering
Texas A&M University
TITLE: Moletronics for the post-CMOS era
1:10 p.m., Room 302, HRBB
Contact: Dr. Andreas Klappenecker (klappi@cse.tamu.edu).

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Boris Grot
University of Texas at Austin
TITLE: Kilo-NOC: A Network-on-Chip Architecture for Scalability and Service Guarantees
3:55 p.m., Room 223C Zachry
Contact: Carolyn Warzon (carolyn@mail.ece.tamu.edu)

Wednesday, February 23

IAMCS WORKSHOP
Institute for Applied Mathematics and Computational Science (IAMCS) Workshop:
Visualization in Computational Biosciences
February 23-24, in the Hawking Auditorium
of the Mitchell Physics Bldg. at Texas A&M University
Additional info can be found here.

THE AGGIELAND DOTNET USERS GROUP MEETING
The Aggieland DotNet Users Group (DNUG) is having its next meeting this Wednesday, February 23rd at noon at the General Services Complex (GSC) room 101B. Chris Weldon (a current student) and Allen Hurst (a former student) will be giving a presentation on Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD). For those unfamiliar with the topic, we highly encourage participation. The topics are easy to understand and will be worthwhile to any student, staff, faculty, or community member who has never had experience with TDD or BDD.

CSE IAP member Improving Enterprises will be providing pizza and drinks as well as some Microsoft door prizes. This event is open to the community and is COMPLETELY FREE. We encourage everyone who is interested to attend.

For those unfamiliar with the Aggieland DNUG, our mission is to bring Bryan/College Station developers together to share and grow. Membership is free. All are welcome out to a meeting and meet other local B/CS developers and learn more about software development and the Microsoft .NET platform. Feel free to check out our web site http://aggielanddnug.org.

CSE DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES
Dr. Ken Goldberg
The Craigslist Distinguished Professor of New Media
The University of California at Berkeley
TITLE: Power to the People: Robots and Representational Democracy
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CSE Faculty Contact: Dr. Nancy Amato (amato@cse.tamu.edu)

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

Thursday, February 24

IAMCS VISUALIZATION WORKSHOP CONTINUES
info can be found here.

IAMCS WORKSHOP
Institute for Applied Mathematics and Computational Science (IAMCS) Workshop:
Workshop in Large-Scale Inverse Problems and Uncertainty Quantification
February 24-25, in the Hawking Auditorium
of the Mitchell Physics Bldg. at Texas A&M University
Additional info can be found here.

Friday, February 25

IAMCS LARGE SCALE INVERSE PROBLEMS WORKSHOP CONTINUES
info can be found here.

CSE Events of Week 2/14/2011 - 2/19/2011

Monday, February 14

CSCE 681 OPEN SEMINAR
Duncan M. (Hank) Walker
Professor and Graduate Advisor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Texas A&M University
TITLE: Testing High-Performance Integrated Circuits
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CSCE 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Nancy Amato (amato@cse.tamu.edu)
Open Reception immediately following Dr. Walker's presentation

Tuesday, February 15

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Zhuo Li
IBM
TITLE: What Makes a Design Hard to Route
3:55 p.m., Room 223C Zachry
Contact: Carolyn Warzon (carolyn@mail.ece.tamu.edu)

Wednesday, February 16

Thursday, February 17

JOINT INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE (IAMCS) SPEAKER SEMINAR SERIES
AND DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS COLLOQUIUM
Dr. Renato Assuncao
Department of Statistics
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
TITLE: Surveillance for Emerging Space-Time Clusters
2:30p.m., Room 513 Blocker Building
Contact: Sheri Stebenne Abstract (pdf)

Friday, February 18

Saturday, February 19

AGGIELAND SATURDAY
We invite you to Aggieland Saturday, an annual campus-wide open house for prospective students and their families. During this one day, you can meet current students, tour the dorms, visit libraries and computer labs and see what Texas A&M has to offer you. You can also learn more about our colleges and majors, get information about admission and pick up some financial aid and scholarship information, too. Stop by the Zachry Lobby from 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. to learn about the department, meet future students, and tour labs. More information can be found at http://admissions.tamu.edu/aggielandsaturday.

CSE Events of Week 2/7/2011 - 2/11/2011

Monday, February 7

PARASOL SEMINAR
Dr. John Bent
High Performance Computing Division
Los Alamos National Laboratory
TITLE: Peta-Scale FSIO - Are we even there yet?
2:30 p.m., Room 302 HRBB
Contact: Dr. Nancy Amato (amato@cse.tamu.edu)

CSCE 681 OPEN SEMINAR
Dr. David Du
Qwest Chair Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Minnesota
TITLE: A New Era for the Convergence of Network Centric and Data Centric Computing
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CSCE 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Riccardo Bettati (bettati@cse.tamu.edu)
Open Reception immediately following Dr. Du's presentation

Tuesday, February 8

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Gary Grider
Los Alamos National Laboratory
TITLE: Exa Scale File Systems and I/O - Can we get there? Can we afford to?
3:55 p.m., Room 223C Zachry
Contact: Carolyn Warzon (carolyn@mail.ece.tamu.edu)

Wednesday, February 9

CSCE 681 OPEN SEMINAR
Dr. Elizabeth Jessup
Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Colorado
TITLE: Toward Memory-Efficient Matrix Algebra Algorithms and Software
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CSCE 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Nancy Amato (amato@cse.tamu.edu)
Open Reception immediately following Dr. Jessup's presentation

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Mario A. Rotea
Mechanical Engineering
The University of Texas at Dallas
TITLE: Monitoring and Control of Mechanical and Aerospace Systems
4:10 p.m., Room 303 Fermier Hall
Contact: Sarah Morgan (sdmorgan@tamu.edu)

Thursday, February 10

Friday, February 11

CSE Events of Week 1/31/2011 - 2/4/2011

Monday, January 31

Tuesday, February 1

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Paul V. Gratz
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
TITLE: Reducing Network-on-Chip Energy Consumption Through Spatial Locality Speculation
3:55 p.m., Room 103 Zachry
Contact: Carolyn Warzon carolyn@mail.ece.tamu.edu

Wednesday, February 2

CSCE 681 OPEN SEMINAR
Dr. Celine Latulipe
Assistant Professor
Software and Information Systems
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
TITLE: Building and Evaluating Creative Interaction
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CSCE 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Tracy Hammond hammond@cse.tamu.edu

Thursday, February 3

INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE (IAMCS) COMMUNITY COFFEE
As part of our plan to learn more about what people are doing in IAMCS, we will host a weekly informal coffee hour. The coffee hours will take place at 2:30pm. Every other week there will be 30 minute informal talks given by a different IAMCS member following coffee. These sessions will alternate between the Bright Building and Blocker. Please join us this week in room 302 HRBB for a talk by Xingfu Wu. For more information please visit the IAMCS website at http://iamcs.tamu.edu.

Friday, February 4

PARASOL SEMINAR
Soo-Young Lee
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
TITLE: Understanding Human Implicit Intention for Artificial Cognitive Systems
4:00 p.m., Room 302 HRBB
Contact: Dr. Nancy Amato amato@cse.tamu.edu

CSE Events of Week 1/24/2011 - 1/28/2011

Monday, January 24

CSE DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES
Dr. Xavier Leroy
Senior Research Scientist and
Team Leader of Project Gallium
The French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA)
TITLE: The CompCert formally verified compiler
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CSE Faculty Contact: Dr. Gabriel Dos Reis

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

MICROSOFT / AWICS MEETING
TITLE: Women in Technology
Content: ...hear from female Microsoft professionals. Bring your resume for a chance to win some great prizes. Dinner and drinks provided.
6:30 p.m., Room 302 HRBB
Microsoft Contact: Rian Sammy Sacquitne

Tuesday, January 25

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Paul Morton
Monarch Intellectual Property
TITLE: Thinking Outside the Rectilinear Box: A mathematical and algorithmic foundation for electronic circuit layout using nonrectilinear shapes
3:55 p.m., Room 103 Zachry
Contact: Carolyn Warzon

Wednesday, January 26

CSCE 681 OPEN SEMINAR
Dr. Alexander A. Shvartsman
Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
University of Connecticut
TITLE: Electronic Voting Technology and Election Integrity: Landscape and Challenges
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CSCE 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Jennifer Welch

MICROSOFT PRESENTATION
TITLE: How to Rock a Technical Interview
Content: Interview tips that can impact your future. Bring your resume for a chance to win great prizes including an XBOX 360/KINECT BUNDLE.
Refreshments: Freebirds Burritos
6:30 p.m., Room 124 HRBB

Thursday, January 27

Friday, January 28

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If you have news and events you would like to share with students, faculty and staff, please contact Tony Okonski, (979)458-4412.

CSE Events of Week 1/17/2011 - 1/21/2011

Monday, January 17

Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Faculty and Staff holiday.

Tuesday, January 18

First day of the spring semester.

SCIENCE CAFE
The 2011 season of Science Cafe is about to start! We have lots of exciting talks on our calendar! Tuesday, January 18th at 7:00pm at Revolution Cafe in downtown Bryan Dr. Dylan Shell from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering will speak on "Intelligent Robot." Science Cafe started in Fall 2007, and is an effort to bring science back to the public. For more information please visit http://www.sciencecafes.org/event_pages/Bryan.html.

Wednesday, January 19

CSCE 681 OPEN SEMINAR
Dr. Bronis de Supinski
Exascale Computing Technologies (ExaCT) Project Leader
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Texas A&M University
TITLE: Overcoming Exascale Barriers
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CSCE 681 Faculty Contact: Dr. Nancy Amato

Thursday, January 20

INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE (IAMCS) COMMUNITY COFFEE
As part of our plan to learn more about what people are doing in IAMCS, we will host a weekly informal coffee hour. The coffee hours will take place at 2:30pm. Every other week there will be 30 minute informal talks given by a different IAMCS member following coffee. These sessions will alternate between the Bright Building and Blocker. Please join us this week in room 302 HRBB for a talk by Dr. Dimitris C. Lagoudas, the John and Bea Slattery Chair of Aerospace Engineering. For more information please visit the IAMCS website at http://iamcs.tamu.edu.

Friday, January 21

PARASOL SEMINAR
Yiliang Xu
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Texas A&M University
TITLE: Systems and Algorithms for Automated and Collaborative Observation Using Networked Robotic Cameras
4:00 p.m., Room 302 HRBB
Contact: Dr. Nancy Amato

"This Week" News Archive

If you have news and events you would like to share with students, faculty and staff, please contact Tony Okonski, (979)458-4412.

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