Computer Science Colloquium, 2002-2003

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List of Talks (Semester A)

• Wednesday, October 16, 14:00:
  Jean-Louis Lassez, Department of Computer Science, Coastal Carolina University.
  Asymptotic Behavior of Machine Learning Algorithms.
  Under the auspices of the Caesarea Rothschild Institute and its Symposium on Man versus Machine: the Experiment.
• Wednesday, October 23, 14:00:
  Danny Barash, Department of Chemistry and the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University.
  Multiple Timescale Methods in Biomolecular Simulations and Nonlinear Diffusion of Images.
• Wednesday, October 30, 14:00:
  David Horn, School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University.
  Clustering via Hilbert Space.
• Wednesday, November 6, 14:00:
  Gabriel Mizrahi, Department of Mathematics, University of Haifa (MA thesis seminar).
  The Hashing Approach to the Internet File System Problem.
• Wednesday, November 13, 14:00:
  This talk is canceled! Esti Stein, Department of Computer Science, University of Haifa (PhD thesis seminar).
  Basic Algorithms for the Asynchronous Reconfigurable Mesh.
• Wednesday, November 20, 14:00:
  Ora Israel, Rambam Medical Center, Haifa.
  The Novel Technology of Hybrid Imaging (Combined PET/CT and SPECT/CT) in Cancer - Clinical Applications.
• Sunday, November 24, 14:00 (note the unusual day):
  Michael Elad, The Computer Science Department, Stanford University
  Sparse Representations and the Basis Pursuit Algorithm.
• Wednesday, November 27, 14:00:
  Gideon Weiss, Department of Statistics, University of Haifa
  A simplex algorithm for continuous linear programming
  Jointly hosted by the Caesarea Rothschild Institute.
• Wednesday, December 4, 14:00: No talk.
• Sunday, December 8, 14:00 (note the unusual day):
  Ido Dagan, Bar Ilan University and LingoMotors Inc.
  Unsupervised and Supervised Learning in Natural Language Processing.
• Wednesday, December 11, 14:00:
  Dimitry Giver, Department of Mathematics, University of Haifa (MA thesis seminar).
  HparC: Programming Parallel Applications Over the Internet.
• Wednesday, December 18, 14:00:
  Kobbi Nissim, DIMACS, Rutgers University
  Efficient Oblivious Computation.
• Wednesday, December 25, 14:00:
  Michal Ziv-Ukelson, Department of Computer Science, University of Haifa (PhD thesis seminar).
  A Sub-quadratic Sequence Alignment Algorithm for Unrestricted Scoring Matrices.
• Wednesday, January 1, 14:00: No talk (Akavia Scholarship ceremony).
• Sunday, January 5, 14:00 (note the unusual day):
  Oded Regev, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
  New Lattice Based Cryptographic Constructions.
• Wednesday, January 8, 14:00:
  Gadi Haber, IBM Haifa Labs.
  Post-Link Optimization Technology.
• Wednesday-Thursday, January 8-9:
  Doron Zeilberger, Rutgers University.
  A series of two talks on Computer-Generated Mathematics. Jointly hosted by the Department of Mathematics and the Caesarea Rothschild Institute.

List of Talks (Semester B)

• Wednesday, February 19, 14:00:
  Yossi Levitas, Rafael/Ort Braude Academic College.
  Fuzzy Logic and Systems.
• Wednesday, February 26, 14:00:
  Reuven Bar-Yehuda, Computer Science Department, Technion.
  New Developments in the Local Ratio Technique.
• Wednesday, March 5, 14:00:
  Iris Reinhartz-Berger, Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion.
  Developing Web Applications with UML and Object-Process Methodology (OPM).
• Wednesday, March 12, 14:00:
  Tamir Tassa, Tel Aviv University
  Dynamic Traitor Tracing.
• Wednesday, March 19, 14:00: No talk.
• Wednesday, March 26, 14:00: No talk.
• Wednesday, April 2, 14:00: No talk.
• Wednesday, April 9, 14:00:
  Carmel Domshlak, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University.
  Modeling and Reasoning about User Preferences using CP-networks.
• Wednesday, April 16. Passover.
• Wednesday, April 23. Passover
• Wednesday, April 30, 14:00: No talk.
• Wednesday, May 7. Independence Day.
• Wednesday, May 14, 14:00:
  Shimon Schocken, Efi Arazi School of Computer Science, IDC
  Building a Computer From First Principles.
• Wednesday, May 21, 14:00: No talk: presentation of undergraduate projects.
• Wednesday, May 28, 14:00: Third Haifa Workshop on Interdisciplinary Applications of Graph Theory, Combinatorics and Computing
• Wednesday, June 4, 14:00:
  Yaniv Eytani, Department of Computer Science, University of Haifa
  Heuristics for Finding Concurrent Bugs.
• Wednesday, June 11, 14:00: No talk.