Computer Science Colloquium, 2008-2009

Unless specified otherwise, colloquia are held in Caesarea Rothschild Institute, Education Building, 5th floor, room 570 (some talks might take place at the nearby, Jacobs Building, entrance floor, room 303 ).

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

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List of Talks

• Wednesday, November 19, 14:10-15:10
  Nati Linial, Hebrew University
  Title: What is high-dimensional Combinatorics?
  


• Wednesday, November 26, 14:10-15:10
  Esti Yeger Lotem, Whitehead Institute
  Title: Bridging the gap between high-throughput genetic & transcriptional data reveals dramatically enhanced views of cellular response
  


• Wednesday, December 3, 14:10-15:10
  Liran Katzir, Technion
  Title: Computational Analysis and Efficient Algorithms for Micro and Macro > OFDMA Downlink Scheduling
  Place:Jacobs Building, entrance floor, room 303. note special location
  


• Wednesday, December 10, 14:10-15:10
  Michael Werman, Hebrew University
  Title: A Linear Time Histogram Metric for Improved SIFT Matching
  


• Wednesday, December 17, 14:10-15:10
  Esther Ezra, Duke University
  Title: Small-size Epsilon-Nets for Geometric Range Spaces
  
  


• Wednesday, December 24, 14:10-15:10
  Nir Ailon, Google Research
  Title: Algorithmic Advances in the Information Era: Classic Meets Modern
  


• Wednesday, December 31, 14:10-15:10
  Oren Weimann, MIT and CRI/Haifa
  Title: Algorithmic Speedup Techniques
  


• Wednesday, January 7, 14:10-15:10
  Ron Artstein Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California
  Title: Semi-Formal Evaluation of Conversational Characters
  


• Wednesday, January 14, 14:10-15:10
  Hendrik W. Lenstra Department of Mathematics at University of California, Berkeley
  Title: Modelling finite fields
  


• Wednesday, January 21, 14:10-15:10
  Benny Applebaum Princeton University
  Title: Cryptography in Constant Parallel Time and its Applications
  


• Wednesday, January 28, 14:10-15:10
  Gabriel Scalosub, University of Toronto
  Title: Buffer Management, Admission Control, and Scheduling: A Quality-of-Service Perspective
  


• Wednesday, February 11, 14:10-15:10
  Orr Dunkelman Departement d'informatique Ecole normale superieure, Paris, France
  Title: Treatment of the Initial Value in Time-Memory-Data Tradeoff Attacks on Stream Ciphers
  


• Tuesday, February 17, 14:10-15:10
  David Hay, The Electronic Department Politecnico di Torino
  Title: Robust and efficient TCAM-based classification
  


• Wendesday, March 4, 14:10-15:10
  Daphna Weinshall, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  Title: Beyond Novelty Detection: Incongruent Events, when General and Specific Classifiers Disagree
  Place: The Lecture is part of the Haifa Mini-Workshop on Machine Learning: Theory and Practice being held March 3-4, 2009 For more details click here



• Wednesday, March 11, 14:10-15:10
  Shushan Purim (no lecture)
  
  
• Wednesday, March 18, 14:10-15:10
  Amit Kirschenbaum University of Haifa
  Title: Lightly supervised Transliteration for Machine Translation
  This lecture is part of the CRI Doctoral Forum Series
  
  
• Wednesday, March 25, 14:10-15:10
  Nadav Rotem University of Haifa
  Title: System Racer: High-level Synthesis for Variable Pipelined Functional Units
  This lecture is part of the CRI Doctoral Forum Series
  
  
• Wednesday, April 1, 14:10-15:10
  BELA BOLLOBAS University of Cambridge & University of Memphis
  Title: Convergent Sequences of Sparse Graphs
  Place: Room 570 (5th floor), Science & Education Building, University of Haifa
  Note: This lecture is one of three being given a part of the University of Haifa Distinguished Lectures in Mathematics: March 31-April 2,2009 More details
  
  
• Wednesday, April 8, 14:10-15:10
  erev Pesach (no lecture)
  
  
• Wednesday, April 15, 14:10-15:10
  Pesach (no lecture)
  
  
• Wednesday, April 22, 14:10-15:10
  
  
  
• Wednesday, April 29, 14:10-15:10
  Yom Ha'Atzmaut (no lecture)
  
  
• Wednesday, May 6, 14:10-15:10
  Tobias Mueller, Tel Aviv University Title: Colouring Random Geometric Graphs
  
  
• Wednesday, May 13, 14:10-15:10
  
  
  
• Wednesday, May 20, 14:10-15:10
  9th Haifa Workshop on Interdisciplinary Applications on Graph Theory, Combinatorics and Algorithms
  
  
• Wednesday, May 27, 14:10-15:10
  
  
  
• Wednesday, June 3, 14:10-15:10
  
  
  
• Wednesday, June 10, 14:10-15:10
  Daniel Freedman,Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and HP Labs Haifa
  Title: Energy-Based Shape Deformation
  
  
• Wednesday, June 17, 14:10-15:10
  NGITS 2009 in Haifa
  
  
• Tuesday Sept. 1, 14:15
  Speaker: Bernard Ries(Columbia University, soon moving to Univ. of Warwick)
  Title: On graphs that satisfy local pooling
  

  PLEASE NOTE: Although the University is officially closed for the week,showing this announcement will allow you to enter the Education Buildingto attend the events being held at the Caesarea Rothschild Institute --this talk and the Minerva Summer School. (For parking, however, you mustarrange in advance with Danielle Friedlander.)

  
  
• Monday, Sept. 14, 2009 at 12:15
  Speaker: Dr. Assaf Dvorkin(Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago & Northwestern University, Chicago, IL)
  Title: Mapping the neglected space: Assessment and monitoring of recovery within a virtual environment