CPSC 681--Spring 1997
Computer Science Department Graduate Seminar Series

The purpose of the seminar is to introduce our graduate students to the range of research being carried out in Computer Science, particularly in the areas in which our department has strength. The seminar meets every week on Monday and/or Wednesday, from 4:10 pm to 5:00 pm. Seminar speakers include invited speakers from outside the department, augmented with talks from our own faculty and senior graduate students.

Scheduling calendar

Current course announcements

• Next talk: Monday, April 28, 4:10 pm, HRBB 124
  Leonardo Borges, A Parallel Algorithm for a Multiple Eigenvalues Iterative Method (work with Suely Oliveira)
  The talk abstract is available in PostScript
  This is the final talk of the semester.
• Talk summaries: some of the students in the class have departmental mailboxes. For those, I have returned your talk summaries to your mailboxes, if we were able to identify them. If you have a mailbox and did not receive your summaries back, please drop me a note and I will have them delivered. If you do not have a mailbox and want your summaries back, please drop by my office to pick them up.

Also of interest

• A pointer to the form you have to have filled out to receive substitute attendance credit. This requires advance credit from both Dr. Furuta and from the faculty member sponsoring the seminar.

Course materials

• Course syllabus
• A textual record of the course schedule

Past events

• Organizational meeting: Wednesday, January 15, 4:10 pm, HRBB 124 (required attendance)
• Wednesday, January 22, 4:10 pm, HRBB 124
  Dr. Bart Childs, Graduate Advisor
  From the View of the Graduate Advisor
• Monday, January 27, 4:10 pm, HRBB 124
  Dr. Dick Simmons
  Software Innovation and Commercialization Center
• Substitution credit was approved for a presentation on Wednesday, January 29 in the AWICS seminar series.
• Monday, February 3, 4:10 pm, HRBB 124
  Dr. William Blume
  Hewlett Packard, Compiler Development Group, Cupertino, CA
  Optimization for a Superscaler Out-of-Order Machine
• Monday, February 10, 4:10 pm, HRBB 124
  Dr. Ranjan K. Sen
  Louisiana Tech University
  Computing on the Star Interconnection Network
• Wednesday, February 12, 4:10 pm, HRBB 124
  Dr. Nitin Vaidya
  Texas A&M University
  TCP for Mobile Hosts
• Monday, February 17, 4:10 pm, HRBB 124
  Dr. Riccardo Bettati
  Texas A&M University
  Real-Time Communication over Very-High-Speed Networks
• The faculty interview talk by Jim Q. Ning on Monday, February 17, 9-10 AM, was approved for for substitute credit.
• The faculty interview talk by Mr. Candan on Friday, February 21, 9-10 AM, was approved for be attended for substitute credit.
• Monday, February 24, 4:10 pm, HRBB 124
  Dr. Charlie Fly
  Rockwell Title The GRAD System, Legacy Languages and Python OO Language
• Monday, March 3: Kelli Froman of Texas Instruments discussed "Interviewing Tips."
• The faculty interview talk by Dr. Frank Shipman on Friday, March 7, 9-10 AM, was approved for substitute credit. this.
• Monday, March 17, 4:10 pm HRBB 124. D. Sivakumar, University of Houston, Recent Progress on Sparse Hard Sets: The Resolution of a 1978 Conjecture of J. Hartmanis
• Substitution credit was approved for presentation by Exxon representatives on Wednesday, March 19, 1997, 4:10 pm HRBB 124. This is part of the AWICS seminar series. Contact was Prof. Amato.
• Monday, March 24, 4:10 pm, HRBB 124
  Dr. Willy Zwaenepoel
  Department of Computer Science
  Rice University
  TreadMarks: Shared Memory Computing on Networks of Workstations
  
• Monday, March 31, 4:10 pm, HRBB 124
  Dr. Johannes Sametinger
  Johannes Keppler University
  Linz, Austria
  Software Components
• There was no talk the week of April 6
• Monday, April 14, 4:10 pm, HRBB 124
  Dr. Lorenzo Alvisi
  University of Texas
  Title To be announced
• Substitution credit was approved for a presentation on Wednesday, April 16 in the AWICS seminar series. This talk features representatives from TI. Coordinate with Prof. Amato.
• Monday, April 21, 1997, 4:10 pm, HRBB 124
  Dr. John Yen, Texas A&M University