Computer Science Department
University of Colorado at Boulder
Academic Year 1995/96



Colloquia

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General Information (Please read first)

Most talks are on Thursdays, 3:30pm-5:00pm, in the Engineering Center Classroom Wing (ECCR) on the Boulder Campus.

Refreshments are at 3:30pm; Talks begin at 3:45pm.

Please check the month for up-to-date information. Different times and location are indicated in the specific announcements.

The Engineering Center is at the intersection of Regent and Colorado. Regent is one block west of US 36, the Boulder-Denver Turnpike. Colorado is the first traffic light on US 36 (called 28th St. in Boulder). Metered visitor parking is available just East of the building (about 10 spaces, usually full), along Regent Drive, and in the Visitors' Lot by the Events Center off Regent.


Fall 1995, Schedule: Thursdays, 3:30pm, ECCR 2-26

September

   7        Collaboration Technology: Advances and Apocalypse
                   Clarence (Skip) Ellis, Prof. 
                   CS Dept, University of Colorado at Boulder

   14       No Colloquium Scheduled

   21       High Performance Parallel Runtime Systems
                   Dirk Grunwald, Prof.
                   CS Dept, University of Colorado at Boulder

   28       State-of-The-Art vs. Practice vs. Research 
             in Requirements Engineering
                   Alan M. Davis, Prof.
                   CS Dept, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

October

    5       Listening to Programs: Empiricism and Optimization
                   Benjamin Zorn, Asst. Prof. 
                   CS Dept, University of Colorado at Boulder

    12      Arborescence Packing: A Case Study in Algorithm Design
                   Harold N. Gabow, Prof.
                   CS Dept, University of Colorado at Boulder


    13      Domain Decomposition and Multigrid Algorithms for 
              Elliptic Problems on Unstructured Meshes
                   Tony F. Chan, Prof.
                   Dept of Mathematics
                   UCLA
             NOTE: Different Time/Location for this talk. See Announcement


    19      Discovery and Validation of Engineering Processes
                   Alexander L. Wolf, Asst. Prof. 
                   CS Dept, University of Colorado at Boulder

    26      New Approaches to Engineering Design: 
              Controlled Chaos and Computer Automation
                   Elizabeth Bradley, Asst. Prof. 
                   CS Dept and Electrical and Computer Engineering, 
                   University of Colorado at Boulder
                   
                  

November

    2      Modeling, Learning, And Meaning 
                   Andreas Weigend, Asst. Prof. 
                   CS Dept, University of Colorado at Boulder

    9     Physics and Biology Software:  A Contrast in Styleso
                   Paul Horwitz, Principal Scientist
                   Educational Technologies Department
                   Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc.
                   Cambridge, MA


    16     Efficient Bulk Loading of R-trees
                   Scott Leutenegger, Prof.
                   Computer Science
                   University of Denver


    23    THANKSGIVING



    30      Design Environments in Support of Rethinking, 
              Reinventing and Reengineering Education as a Lifelong Process 
                   Gerhard Fischer, Prof. 
                   CS Dept and Institute of Cognitive Science, 
                   University of Colorado at Boulder

December

    7      Parallel Programming on a Distributed System 
                   Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Prof.
                   Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science
                   Vrije University
                   Amsterdam, The Netherlands


Spring 1996, Schedule: Thursdays, 3:30pm, ECCR 2-28

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JANUARY

   25        Manners in Telecommunication?
                   Gary Marx, Prof. and Chair
                   Department of Sociology
                   University of Colorado at Boulder

FEBRUARY

   1        Splitting and Searching 
                   Harold N. Gabow, Prof. 
                   CS Dept, University of Colorado at Boulder

   8        Shaking the Foundations: Genetic Algorithm and 
              Recent Theory
                   Darrell Whitley, Prof.
                   Computer Science Department
                   Colorado State University
                   Ft. Collins, CO

   15       Environmental Decision Support Systems:
              Software Engineering in a Multi-disciplinary Setting
                   Rene Reitsma, Research Associate
                   CADSWES (Center for Advanced Decisions Support
                             for Water and Environmental Systems)
                   University of Colorado at Boulder

 
   22       Building New Worlds on the Internet: Community,
              Creativity, and the Democratization of Computational Media
                   Amy Bruckman
                   MIT Media Lab
                   Cambridge, MA


   29       Newton's Method for Aerodynamic and Aero-elastic 
              Analysis and Design
                    Dr. D. P. Young
                    The Boeing Company
                    Seattle, WA

MARCH

   7         Understanding Complex Systems
                    Jens H. Timmer
                    Center of Data Center of Data Analysis and Modeling
                    Universitaet Freiburg


   14       Validation of Volatility Models
                   Yaser Abu-Mostafa, Prof.
                   Caltech

   21      Musical Instruments, Models, and Machines
	      Co-Sponsored with the Office of Concerts & Cultural Programs
                   Neil Gershenfeld, Prof.
                   Physics and Media Group
                   MIT Media Lab
                   Cambridge, MA


  28           SPRING BREAK 

APRIL

4 Title/Abstract not available at this time Jens Timmer University of Freiburgx Freiburg, Germany 11 Faculty Recruitment Talk 18 A Statistician's View of Information Retrieval Jan Pedersen XeroxPARC 25 From a Case-Based Reasoning to Scaffolded Electronic Notebooks: A Journey Co-Sponsored with the Institute of Cognitive Science Janet L. Kolodner EduTech Institute College of Computing Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA

MAY

   2        Title/Abstract not available at this time
                   Tim Gill
                   Quark


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