2016-2017 Scheduled Seminars

Wednesday September 28, 2016
07:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Elliot Inman, SAS
Title:"Quantification: The Art of Making Data"
Talk Series: Data Science series
Host: Trey Overman, Data Science Initiative
Location: Mountains Ballroom, Talley Student Union,
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Thursday September 29, 2016
06:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Amit Walia, EVP and Chief Product Officer, Informatica
Title:"Data Drives Business, Data Fuels Careers"
Talk Series: Fidelity Investment Speaker Series
Host: Corporate Relations, CSC
Location: 1231, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Monday October 17, 2016
04:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Raymond Mooney, University of Texas at Austin
Title:"Generating Natural-Language Video Descriptions using LSTM Recurrent Neural Networks"
Talk Series: Triangle Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series
Host: Mohit Bansal, UNC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Tuesday October 18, 2016
11:00 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Raymond Mooney, https://www.cei.ncsu.edu/people/lester/
Title:"Learning Scripts for Text Understanding with Recurrent Neural Networks"
Talk Series: Theory Seminar Series
Host: James Lester, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Tuesday October 18, 2016
06:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Brian Binnie, Test Pilot, SpaceShipOne
Title:"A Tale of Four Spaceships"
Talk Series: Fidelity Investment Speaker Series
Host: Corporate Relations, CSC
Location: 1231, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Tuesday October 18, 2016
07:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Laura Haas, IBM
Title:"The Power Behind The Throne: Information Integration in the Age of Data-Driven Discovery"
Talk Series: Data Science series
Host: Trey Overman, Data Science Initiative
Location: Duke Energy Hall, Hunt Library, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Friday October 21, 2016
11:00 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Theophilus Benson, Duke University
Title:"Reliable Software-defined Networks for Next-Generation Infrastructures"
Talk Series: System Research Seminar series
Host: Guoliang Jin, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Monday October 24, 2016
01:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Emilio Insfran, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Title:"Dynamic Reconfiguration of Cloud Services Architectures"
Talk Series: Nominal Seminar Series
Host: Munindar Singh, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2 , NCSU Centennial Campus
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Wednesday November 02, 2016
07:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Jeff Leek, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Title:"Is Most Published Research Really False?"
Talk Series: Data Science series
Host: Trey Overman, Data Science Initiative
Location: Mountains Ballroom, Talley Student Union,
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Thursday November 10, 2016
06:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Dr. Mark Johnson, Director of the Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO), Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Title:"Advanced Manufacturing Technology Innovations for Energy"
Talk Series: Fidelity Investment Speaker Series
Host: Corporate Relations, CSC
Location: 1231, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Monday November 14, 2016
04:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Jim Kurose, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Title:"An Expanding and Expansive View of Computing"
Talk Series: Triangle Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series
Host: Kevin Jeffay, UNC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Monday December 05, 2016
04:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Ramesh Jain, University of California at Irvine
Title:"Computing Personal Lifestyle for Building Health Models"
Talk Series: Triangle Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series
Host: Munindar Singh, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Monday January 23, 2017
04:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Michael Ernst, University of Washington
Title:"Natural Language is a Programming Language"
Talk Series: Triangle Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series
Host: Kathryn Stolee, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Tuesday January 24, 2017
06:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Kimberly Calhoun, CEO & Founder, Guardianator
Title:"Trade Secrets of a Serial Entrepreneur"
Talk Series: Fidelity Investment Speaker Series
Host: Corporate Relations, CSC
Location: 1231, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Thursday January 26, 2017
11:00 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Wenguang Chen, Tsinghua University
Title:"Big Data Analytics - From scalability to Performance"
Talk Series: System Research Seminar series
Host: Xipeng Shen, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Thursday January 26, 2017
06:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Wushow Chou, NCSU
Title:"Communication Smart"
Talk Series: Other
Host: Leslie Rand-Pickett, CSC
Location: 1231, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Friday January 27, 2017
11:00 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Lawrence Rauchwerger, Texas A&M University
Title:"Parallelism: To extract from old or to create anew?"
Talk Series: System Research Seminar series
Host: Xipeng Shen, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Wednesday February 08, 2017
11:00 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Brendan Murphy, Microsoft Research
Title:"Continuous Deployment and Experimental practices: Benefits and Issues"
Talk Series: Nominal Seminar Series
Host: Laurie Williams, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Thursday February 09, 2017
10:30 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Thyagaraja Nandagopal, National Science Foundation
Title:"Research challenges and funding trends in the IoT/SmartCity space"
Talk Series: Nominal Seminar Series
Host: Rudra Dutta, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Thursday February 09, 2017
05:30 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Emery Brown (TALK WAS CANCELLED), MIT, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital
Title:"The Dynamics of the Unconscious Brain Under General Anesthesia"
Talk Series: Data Science series
Host: Trey Overman, Laboratory for Analytic Sciences
Location: Duke Energy Hall, Hunt Library, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Friday February 10, 2017
11:00 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Barry Rountree, LLNL
Title:"Scaling and power at the threshold of exascale computing"
Talk Series: System Research Seminar series
Host: Frank Mueller, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Monday February 20, 2017
04:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University
Title:"Human Decisions and Machine Predictions"
Talk Series: Triangle Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series
Host: Pankaj Agarwal, Duke
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Tuesday February 28, 2017
03:30 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Steven Estes, MITRE
Title:"Workload Estimates with Cogulator"
Talk Series: Other
Host: Robert St. Amant, CSC
Location: 3300, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Tuesday February 28, 2017
06:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Susan Whittemore, VP of Technology Risk Management, Fidelity Investments
Title:"The Business of Cybersecurity"
Talk Series: Fidelity Investment Speaker Series
Host: Corporate Relations, CSC
Location: 1231, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Friday March 03, 2017
10:30 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Moshe Vardi, Rice University
Title:"The Automated-Reasoning Revolution: From Theory to Practice and Back"
Talk Series: Taming the Data Seminar series
Host: Rada Chirkova, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Friday March 03, 2017
01:30 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Bradley Reaves, University of Florida
Title:"Fixing the Phone: Designing Strong Authentication for Telephony"
Host: Will Enck, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Monday March 06, 2017
04:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Christos Papadimitriou, University of California at Berkeley
Title:"The Algorithm as a Scientific World View"
Talk Series: Triangle Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series
Host: Kamesh Munagala, Duke
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Wednesday March 15, 2017
09:30 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Shomir Wilson, University of Cincinnati
Title:"Natural Language Processing for the Privacy of Internet Users"
Host: Will Enck, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Wednesday March 15, 2017
05:30 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Deen Freelon, American University
Title:"Toward a Framework for Inferring Individual-Level Characteristics from Digital Trace Data"
Talk Series: Data Science series
Host: Trey Overman, Laboratory for Analytic Sciences
Location: Mountains Ballroom, Talley Student Union,
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Monday March 20, 2017
04:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Susan Athey, Stanford University
Title:"Machine Learning for Policy Evaluation: Prediction, Causal Inference, and Personalization"
Talk Series: Triangle Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series
Host: Vincent Conitzer, Duke
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Tuesday March 21, 2017
10:00 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Joseph Henriquez, Vanguard
Title:"Java and Hadoop"
Talk Series: Other
Host: ACM/AITP, CSC
Location: 1231, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Tuesday March 21, 2017
01:30 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Kangjie Lu, Georgia Institute of Technology
Title:"Securing Modern Systems by Preventing Information Leaks"
Host: Will Enck, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Thursday March 23, 2017
10:30 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Arnon Rosenthal, MITRE
Title:"Data Integration Systems and the Plethora of Standards: Joining Research and Pragmatics"
Talk Series: Taming the Data Seminar series
Host: Rada Chirkova, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Thursday March 23, 2017
02:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Arnon Rosenthal, The MITRE Corporation
Title:"Human-in-the-Loop Rulesets for Legalese, Alerts, and Access Control"
Talk Series: Taming the Data Seminar series
Host: Rada Chirkova, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Tuesday March 28, 2017
06:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Dr. Peter Wurman, VP of Engineering, Cogitai
Title:"The Disruptive Power of Robots"
Talk Series: Fidelity Investment Speaker Series
Host: Corporate Relations, CSC
Location: 1231, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Monday April 03, 2017
04:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Title:" Measure, Then Build"
Talk Series: Triangle Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series
Host: Hung-Wei Tseng, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Tuesday April 04, 2017
01:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Dr. Martin Zagar, University of Zagreb
Title:"Multidimensional compression of multimedia data"
Talk Series: Data Science series
Host: Mladen Vouk, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Friday April 21, 2017
11:00 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Yang Jun, Univ of Pittsburgh
Title:"Initial Steps toward Making GPU a First-Class Computing Resource: Sharing and Resource Management"
Talk Series: System Research Seminar series
Host: Xipeng Shen, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Thursday April 27, 2017
04:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: George Kesidis, Penn State
Title:"Using Burstable Instances in the Public Cloud"
Talk Series: Other
Host: Harry Perros, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Wednesday May 10, 2017
10:00 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Ibrahim (Abe) Baggili, University of New Haven
Title:"The Cyber Forensics of Breaking Your Vault, and Finding Your Drone"
Host: Douglas Reeves, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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