Computer Science Colloquium, 2006-2007

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

List of Talks (Fall semester)

• Wednesday, November 1, 14:00:
  Boaz Patt-Shamir, Tel Aviv University.
  Trust, Collaboration and Recommendations in Peer-to-Peer Systems
• Wednesday, November 8, 14:00:
  Yosi Ben-Asher, University of Haifa.
  Metrical routing in ad hoc networks
• Wednesday, November 15, 14:00:
  Michal Armoni, Weizmann Institute.
  On Computer Science Education: The Case of Reductive Thinking
• Wednesday, November 22, 14:00:
  Yoav Schechner, Technion.
  Statistics in Hybrid Imaging
• Wednesday, November 29, 14:00:
  Original talk was postponed.
• Wednesday, December 6, 14:00:
  Yuval Shavitt, Tel Aviv University.
  DIMES, a distributed Internet measurement infrastructure:rational, architecture, and results
•  Wednesday, December 13, 14:00: 
  Michal Feldman, Hebrew University
  Selfishness and Incentives in Networked Systems
• Wednesday, December 20, 14:00:
  Yaron Kanza, University of Toronto
  Protecting privacy without misleading users, in the realm of XML
• Wednesday, December 27, 14:00:
  Moshe Babaioff, UC Berkeley
  Selfish Agents and Approximation Mechanisms
• Wednesday, January 3, 14:00:
  Talk posponted.
• Wednesday, January 10, 14:00:
  Gal Elidan, Stanford
  Probabilistic Shape for Outlining Objects
• Wednesday, January 17, 14:00:
  Rachel Kolodny, Google Haifa, and Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Columbia University.
  Comparing Protein Structures

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List of Talks (Spring semester)

• Wednesday, February 28, 14:00:
  Avi Wigderson, Institute for Advanced Studies.
  Expander Graphs - Constructions and Applications (part of the CRI Distinguished Lecture Series in Mathematics & Computer Science)
• Wednesday, March 7, 14:00:
  Tzvika Hartman, Bar Ilan University and CRI
  Sorting by Transpositions
• Wednesday, March 14, 14:00:
  Alex Lopez-Ortiz, University of Waterloo
  On the Separation and Equivalence of Paging Strategies: LRU is the sole optimum
• Wednesday, March 21, 14:00:
  Danny Keren, University of Haifa
  Geometric Monitoring
• Wednesday, March 28, 14:00:
  Rob van Stee, Universität Karlsruhe
  On the online unit clustering problem
• Wednesday, April 18, 14:00:
  David Hardoon, University College, London
  Using Image Stimuli to Drive fMRI Analysis
• Wednesday, May 9, 14:00:
  Shaul Markovitch, Technion
  The Knowledgeable Computer: Enhancing Learning Algorithms with Wikipedia-Based Feature Generation
• Wednesday, May 16, 14:00: (a talk in the Seventh Haifa Workshop on Interdisciplinary Applications of Graph Theory, Combinatorics, and Algorithms)
  Baruch Schieber, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
• Wednesday, June 6, 14:00:
  Tal Garfinkel, Stanford
  VMM Based Approaches to Enhancing Security in Commodity Systems
• Wednesday, June 13, 14:00:
  Reuven Granot
  Agent based Human Robot Interaction
• Wednesday, June 27, 14:00:
  Dan S. Nau
  Accident or Intention: That Is the Question (in the Noisy Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma)