DIMACS/CCICADA Interdisciplinary Seminar Series, Spring 2014

Dates: Held approximately every other Tuesday, with additional talks scheduled Mondays

Time: Tuesdays from 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Location: DIMACS, CoRE Bldg. Room 431, Rutgers Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

Host: James Abello, abello@dimacs.rutgers.edu and Fred Roberts, froberts@dimacs.rutgers.edu

Series Description

A forum for presentation and discussion of mathematical, computational, and statistical questions of interest to the DIMACS/CCICADA community and arising from research challenges in a variety of disciplines. We expect the series to be of interest to applied mathematicians, computer scientists, and statisticians, as well as researchers and practitioners in engineering, bioinformatics, epidemiology, political science, sociology, and the behavioral sciences.

Recommendations for speakers (and offers to speak) should be directed to James Abello (abello@dimacs.rutgers.edu) or Fred Roberts (froberts@dimacs.rutgers.edu).

Current Schedule

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Speaker: Michael N. Katehakis, Rutgers University

Title: Solutions to two problems on Bandit Models

Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm

Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Speaker: Kunikazu Yoda, CCICADA/DIMACS

Title: Bounds on the Probability of the Union of Events

Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm

Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, February 24, 2014

Speaker: Bireswar Das, IUSSTF Research Fellow-DIMACS

Title: The Isomorphism Problem for k-trees is Complete for Logspace

Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm

Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Speaker: Jaroslaw Zola, Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute

Title: Constructing and Clustering of Similarity Graphs from Large-Scale Metagenomic Collections

Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm

Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Speaker: Vinay Vaishampayan, DIMACS

Title: Distributed Storage Systems: Issues, Performance Analysis and Code Design

Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm

Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Fall 2013 Calendar

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Speaker: Brian Nakamura, Rutgers University

Title: Enumerating permutations with exactly r copies of a pattern

Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm

Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, September 16, 2013

Speaker: Georges Grinstein, University of Massachussets

Title: Measuring Truth in Data Visualizations

Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm

Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, September 30, 2013

Speaker: Philip J. Holmes, Princeton University

Title: The Neural Dynamics of Decision Making: Multiple Scales and a Range of Models

Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm

Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Speaker: Emden R. Gansner, AT&T Labs

Title: Practical Graph Drawing

Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm

Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Speaker: Spiros Papadimitriou, Rutgers University

Title: Graphs and Scalable Analytics

Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm

Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Friday, November 1, 2013

The Command, Control, and Interoperability Center for Advanced Data Analysis (CCICADA), A Distinguished Homeland Security Presentation

Speaker: Erroll G. Southers, Department of Homeland Security National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE)

Title: Homegrown Violent Extremism

Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm

Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Speaker: Brian Ricks, DIMACS

Title: Crowd Simulation on 3D Surfaces

Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm

Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Speaker: Edinah K. Gnang, IAS

Title: Computational aspects of the Combinatorial Nullstellensatz method via a polynomial approach to matrix and Hypermatrix Algebra

Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm

Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

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