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Computer Science Colloquium

Colloquia take place on Wednesdays, 14:15.
Unless specified otherwise, colloquia are held in Room 303 Jacobs Building.
Talks are approximately one hour long, with some additional time for discussion.

Directions: click here for the University transportation pages. You can also consult a campus map (JPG or PDF).

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Wednesday 25/11/2009

Elad Hazan, IBM Almaden CS theory group

Title: Efficient learning algorithms for structured decision-making problems

Wednesday 2/12/2009

Andrei Sharf, Center of Visual Computing, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced
Technology (SIAT), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China,

Title: Recent results in geometric modeling and point processing

Tuesday 22/12/2009 NOTE SPECIAL TIME and PLACE

Elad Michael Schiller , Chalmers University, Sweden

Title: Stabilization in motion

Wednesday 23/12/2009 NOTE SPECIAL LOCATION

Prof. Jeffry Zucker , Department of Computing Software, McMaster University,

Title: Fixed-point Semantics for Analogue Computation on Metric Algebras

Wednesday 30/12/2009

Avinatan Hassidim, MIT/Microsoft Research,

Title: Phylogenetic Tree Reconstruction with Insertion and Deletions

Wednesday 6/1/2010

Orr Dunkelman , Weizmann Institute,

Title: Key Recovery Attacks of Practical Complexity on AES Variants With Up

To 10 Rounds

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Wednesday 13/1/2010

Niv Buchbinder , Microsoft Research, Cambridge, MA,

Title: The Randomized k-Server Conjecture (Online Algorithms meet Linear
Programming)

Wednesday 20/1/2010

Iftach Ilan Haitner , Microsoft Research, Cambridge, MA,

Title: A Parallel Repetition Theorem for Any Cryptographic Protocol

Wednesday 26/1/2010 NOTE SPECIAL TIME and PLACE

Iddo Hanniel , Solidworks Corp.

Title: Applying procedural representations to problems in geometric computing

Wednesday 3/2/2010

Tal Moran , Harvard University,

Title: Cryptography by the People, for the People: How Voting and Cryptography Go Hand-in-Hand

Wednesday 3/3/2010

Title: TBA

Wednesday 10/3/2010

Ilan Shimshoni University of Haifa

Title: Feature curves in range images with application to archaeology

Wednesday 17/3/2010

Inbal Budowski-Tal University of Haifa

Title: FragBag – a method for representing protein structures as a bag-of-words of backbone fragments for fast and accurate filtering of near structural neighbors

Wednesday 24/3/2010

Igor Razgon, Cork University, Ireland

Title: Fixed-parameter algorithms for graph separation problems

Wednesday 21/4/2010

Adi Shraibman, Tel-Aviv University

Title: A deterministic algorithm for matrix completion

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Colloquium Web Pages of Previous Years:

2008-2009 Colloquia

2007-2008 Colloquia

2006-2007 Colloquia

2005-2006 Colloquia

2004-2005 Colloquia

2003-2004 Colloquia

2002-2003 Colloquia

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University of Haifa Computer Science Colloquium, http://cs.haifa.ac.il/colloq/colloq.html
Maintained by Hagit Hel-Or hagit@cs.haifa.ac.il.

Last modified: 24/12/2009.

odified: 24/12/2009.