Computer Science Colloquium, 2004-2005

For more information, including directions, refer to the colloquium homepage. Click on a title to see the abstract.

List of Talks (Semester A)

• Wednesday, October 20, 14:00:
  Boaz Ben-Moshe, Department of Computer Science, Ben Gurion University.
  LSRT: wireless networks; from practice to theory and back.
• Wednesday, October 27, 14:00: No talk.
• Wednesday, November 3, 14:00:
  Michael Birnhack, Haifa Center of Law and Technology, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa
  Privacy Practices of Israeli Public Web Sites.
• Wednesday, November 10, 14:00: No talk.
• Wednesday, November 17, 14:00:
  Michal Stern, Caesarea Rothschild Institute, University of Haifa.
  Variations of the Optimal Clustering Tree Problem.
• Wednesday, November 24, 14:00:
  Ed Hovy, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California
  Ontological Modeling of Information-Rich Organizations by NLP Analysis of Email.
  Jointly hosted by the Caesarea Rothschild Institute.
• Wednesday, December 1, 14:00: No talk.
• Wednesday, December 8, 14:00:
  Michael Langberg, Computer Science Department, California Institute of Technology.
  Worst Case analysis and Combinatorial Optimization in Information Theory.
• Wednesday, December 15, 14:00:
  Orna Raz, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University.
  Helping end users find anomalies in data feeds.
• Wednesday, December 22, 14:00:
  Tsuguya Sasaki, Department of Hebrew and Semitic Languages, Bar-Ilan University.
  Lexical Database and Its Application to the Grammatical Description of Modern Hebrew.
• Wednesday, December 29, 14:00:
  Dan Roth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
  Learning and Inference with Structured Representations.
• Wednesday, January 5, 14:00:
  Dan Pelleg, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University.
  Using Tarjan's Red Rule for Fast Dependency Tree Construction.
• Wednesday, January 12, 14:00:
  Ilan Shimshoni, Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion.
  Robot Visual Navigation and Homing: Theory and Applications.

List of Talks (Semester B)

• Wednesday, February 23, 14:00:
  Danny Hendler, University of Toronto
  A Tight Time Bound for Distributed Counting.
• Wednesday, March 2, 14:00:
  Dorit Aharonov, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  From Quantum Computation to Markov Chains and Lattices.
• Wednesday, March 9, 14:00:
  Dror Rawitz, CRI, University of Haifa
  Using Fractional Primal-Dual to Schedule Split Intervals with Demands.
• Wednesday, March 16, 14:00:
  Yoram Baram, Department of Computer Science, Technion.
  Walking on tiles: from neuronal diffusion to safe and steady motion.
• Wednesday, March 23, 14:00: (room 570, Science and Education Building)
  Richard Stanley, Department of Mathematics, MIT.
  CRI sponsored distinguished lecture in Mathematics and Computer Science, in memory of our late colleague Lev Brutman.
  The RSK algorithm and its applications.
• Wednesday, March 30 no talk:
  CRI Workshop on Pattern Recognition in the Brain and in Computational Sciences.
• Wednesday, April 6, 14:00:
  Adi Rosen, Department of Computer Science, Technion.
  Distributed Online Call Control on General Networks.
• Wednesday, April 13, 14:00:
  Tova Milo, School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University
  Active XML: embedding Web services into XML.
• Wednesday, April 20, 14:00: Passover - no talk.
• Wednesday, April 27, 14:00: Passover - no talk.
• Tuesday, May 3rd, 13:00, Education Building 665
  Dan Vilensky, Chairman, Applied Materials Israel
  A model for successful collaboration between the University of Haifa and the Israeli Industry
• Wednesday, May 4, 14:00:
  Amiram Yehudai, School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University
  Using Aspect Oriented Programming to Support Disciplined Software Construction
• Wednesday, May 11, 14:00: Memorial Day - no talk.
• Wednesday, May 18, 14:00 ( Room 5008 Rabin Building) The Annual Rothschild Distinguished Lecture:
  Michael Rabin, Hebrew University and Harvard University, Turing Award Laureate
  Hyper Encription via Virtual Satelite, A Poor Man's Unbreakable Encription
  As part of the CRI Workshop on Graphs, Combinatorics and Algorithms honoring Michael Rabin.
• Wednesday, May 25, 14:00: No talk.
• Wednesday, June 1, 14:00: Education Building 570
  Roger Schank, Socratic Arts and Carnegie Mellon University
  Figuring out good stuff to do with a computer if you care about AI or education
  Sponsored by the Caesarea Edmond Benjamin de Rothschild Institute for Interdisciplinary Applications of Computer Science at the University of Haifa.
• Wednesday, June 8, 14:00:
  Dov Dori, Technion, Israel institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Object-Process Methodology and its Applications for Complex, Real-Time Systems Modeling.