2017-2018 Scheduled Seminars

Tuesday August 15, 2017
01:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Emily Collins, University Of Sheffield
Title:"Towards Robot-Assisted Therapy: Identifying Mechanisms of Effect in Human-Biomimetic Robot Interaction"
Talk Series: Other
Host: David Roberts, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Thursday August 17, 2017
02:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Daniel Král', University of Warwick
Title:"Large networks and graph limits"
Talk Series: Theory Seminar Series
Host: Blair D. Sullivan, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Thursday September 14, 2017
04:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Hamid Krim, ECE Department
Title:"Convexity, Sparsity, Nullity and all that in Machine Learning "
Talk Series: Data Science series
Host: Joseph Hart, SIAM Student Chapter Data Science Lecture Series
Location: 322, Daniels Hall, NCSU Main Campus
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Thursday September 14, 2017
06:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Jennifer Shevach, Dude Solutions
Title:"Intro to Kafka with Dude Solutions"
Talk Series: Other
Host: David Sturgill, CSC
Location: 1231, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Tuesday September 26, 2017
06:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: John Pence, President & CEO, Sunrise Technologies
Title:"ERP: The Backbone of Modern Business"
Talk Series: Fidelity Investment Speaker Series
Host: Corporate Relations, CSC
Location: 1231, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Tuesday October 10, 2017
05:30 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Ingrid Daubechies, Duke University
Title:"Mathematicians helping Art Historians and Art Conservators"
Talk Series: Data Science series
Host: Jamie V. Roseborough, DSI
Location: Mountains Ballroom, Talley Student Union, NCSU Main Campus
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Monday October 16, 2017
12:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Helen Zhao, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Title:"Cognitive Tutoring for English as a Second Language: Connecting Applied Linguistics with Learning Sciences"
Talk Series: Other
Host: Collin Lynch, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Friday October 20, 2017
11:00 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Jin Wang, NVIDIA
Title:"LSTM Optimizations on GPUs with Software and Hardware Scheduling"
Talk Series: System Research Seminar series
Host: Xipeng Shen, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Tuesday October 24, 2017
06:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Mike Walsh, CEO, LexisNexis Legal & Professional
Title:"Advancing the Rule of Law"
Talk Series: Fidelity Investment Speaker Series
Host: Corporate Relations, CSC
Location: 1231, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Thursday November 09, 2017
06:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Donna Lewis, DELL EMC
Title:"DD BOOST: A Distributed Deduplication API"
Talk Series: Other
Host: David Sturgill, CSC
Location: 1231, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Friday November 10, 2017
11:00 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Jack Davidson, University of Virginia
Title:"A League of Extraordinary Machines"
Talk Series: System Research Seminar series
Host: Xipeng Shen, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Tuesday November 14, 2017
01:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Kristina Kzuchlewski, Sandia National Laboratories
Title:"New Horizons in Geospatial Analytics"
Talk Series: Data Science series
Host: Joey Hart, SIAM Student Chapter Data Science Lecture Series
Location: 210, Park Shops, NCSU Main Campus
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Thursday November 16, 2017
11:15 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Dave Schrader, Teradata University Network
Title:"Entering the Golden Age of Sports Analytics "
Talk Series: Taming the Data Seminar series
Host: Ed Gehringer, CSC
Location: 3002, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Monday November 20, 2017
04:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Dr. Maria Klawe, President, Harvey Mudd College
Title:"Broadening Participation in Computing"
Talk Series: Fidelity Investment Speaker Series
Host: Corporate Relations, CSC
Location: Auditorium, Hunt Library,
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Monday November 20, 2017
04:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Maria Klawe, Harvey Mudd College
Title:"Broadening Participation in Computing"
Talk Series: Triangle Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series
Host: Blair D. Sullivan, CSC
Location: Auditorium, Hunt Library, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Monday November 27, 2017
02:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Yiran Chen, Duke University
Title:"Running sparse and low-precision neural networks: when algorithm meets hardware"
Talk Series: System Research Seminar series
Host: Xipeng Shen, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Monday January 22, 2018
04:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Moshe Y. Vardi, Rice University
Title:"Humans, Machines, and Work: The Future is Now"
Talk Series: Triangle Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series
Host: Sudeepa Roy, Duke
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Monday January 29, 2018
04:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Avrim Blum, Professor and Chief Academic Officer, Toyota Technical Institute at Chicago
Title:"Learning about Agents and Mechanisms from Opaque Transactions"
Talk Series: Triangle Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series
Host: Kamesh Munagala, Duke
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Tuesday January 30, 2018
06:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Opal Perry, VP and Divisional CIO for Claims Technology Services, Allstate
Title:"Digital Forces for Good: Tying Purpose to Action"
Talk Series: Fidelity Investment Speaker Series
Host: Corporate Relations, CSC
Location: 1231, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Wednesday January 31, 2018
11:00 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Dean Tullsen, University of California, San Diego
Title:"Architecting More Cooling-Efficient Datacenters By Removing the Peaks"
Talk Series: System Research Seminar series
Host: Hung-Wei Tseng, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Monday February 05, 2018
09:30 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Thomas Steinke, Faculty Candidate
Title:"Protecting Privacy and Guaranteeing Generalization with Algorithmic Stability"
Host: Alessandra Scafuro, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Tuesday February 06, 2018
11:45 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Ruchir Shah, Sciome
Title:"Bioinformatics in Industry and Government"
Talk Series: Bioinformatics Seminar Series
Host: Dana Ripperton, Bioinformatics Department
Location: 336, Ricks Hall, NCSU Main Campus
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Thursday February 08, 2018
03:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Eric Chi, NCSU Statistics Department
Title:"Getting Arrays in Order with Convex Fusion Penalties"
Talk Series: Other
Host: Joey Hart, SIAM Student Chapter
Location: 322, Daniels Hall, NCSU Main Campus
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Wednesday February 14, 2018
09:30 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Rishab Nithyanand, Data & Society Research Institute
Title:"Tussling with Anonymity and Privacy on the Internet"
Host: Alexandros Kapravelos, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Friday February 16, 2018
11:30 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Marcin Pilipczuk, University of Warsaw
Title:"Recent progress in distance and cut sparsifiers"
Talk Series: Theory Seminar Series
Host: Blair D. Sullivan, CSC
Location: 1005, EB1, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Monday February 19, 2018
11:30 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Thomas Price, NCSU
Title:"Reimagining How Programming Environments can Support Learning"
Host: James Lester, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Tuesday February 20, 2018
11:00 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Michael Eagle, Carnegie Mellon University
Title:" Deriving Meaningful Insight from Data in Interactive Educational Environments"
Host: James Lester, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Thursday February 22, 2018
09:15 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: George Ligler, GTL Associates
Title:"Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B)"
Talk Series: Other
Host: Dan Stancil, ECE
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Monday February 26, 2018
09:30 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Xi He, Duke University
Title:"Moving with Provable Privacy Guarantees"
Host: Alessandra Scafuro, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Tuesday February 27, 2018
11:45 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Jason Belsky, OmicSoft
Title:"Bioinformatics in Industry & Government (OmicSoft)"
Talk Series: Bioinformatics Seminar Series
Host: Dana Ripperton, Bioinformatics Research Center, NCSU
Location: 336, Ricks Hall, NCSU Main Campus
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Tuesday February 27, 2018
06:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Stacy Joines, IBM Fellow & CTO, Watson Implementations, IBM
Title:"Practical AI: Experiences on the New Frontier"
Talk Series: Fidelity Investment Speaker Series
Host: Corporate Relations, CSC
Location: 1231, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Wednesday February 28, 2018
09:30 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Anupam Das, Carnegie Mellon University
Title:"Every Move You Make: Mitigating Privacy Risks in the Connected World"
Host: Brad Reaves, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Thursday March 01, 2018
09:30 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Roghayeh (Leila) Barmaki, John Hopkins University
Title:"Immersive Technologies and Interactive Games: Applications in Education and Healthcare Systems"
Host: James Lester, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Tuesday March 20, 2018
11:45 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Joel Gottlieb, D-Wave
Title:"Introduction to the Physics of D-Wave and Comparison To Gate Model"
Talk Series: Nominal Seminar Series
Host: Frank Mueller, CSC
Location: 1010, EB1, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Wednesday March 21, 2018
09:30 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Mohammed Seyam, Virginia Tech
Title:"Pair Programming for Teaching Mobile Software Development"
Host: Linda Honeycutt, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Monday March 26, 2018
09:30 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Noboru Matsuda, Texas A & M
Title:"Evidence-based Learning Engineering Methods for Adaptive Online Courseware"
Host: Linda Honeycutt, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Monday March 26, 2018
04:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Richard Szeliski, Research Scientist and Director of the Computational Photography Group, Facebook Research
Title:"Visual Reconstruction and Image-Based Rendering"
Talk Series: Triangle Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series
Host: Xiaobai Sun, Duke
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Wednesday March 28, 2018
09:30 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Adam Gaweda, NCSU
Title:"Teaching Computer Science with Practice and 'Beginner's Mind'"
Host: Linda Honeycutt, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Wednesday March 28, 2018
03:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Shaina Race, NCSU Institute for Advanced Analytics
Title:"Central Themes: Summarizing Text Using Network Centrality"
Talk Series: Data Science series
Host: Joey Hart, SIAM Student Chapter
Location: 216, Mann, NCSU Main Campus
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Thursday March 29, 2018
10:00 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Peter Ulbrich, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Title:"Whole-system WCET Analysis: From Static to Dynamic Real-Time Systems"
Talk Series: System Research Seminar series
Host: Frank Mueller, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Thursday March 29, 2018
02:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Cynthia Rudin, Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, Duke University
Title:"On the Solutions of Some Discrete Optimization Problems in Statistics: Optimal Sparse Decision Trees and Matching in Causal Inference"
Talk Series: Bioinformatics Seminar Series
Host: Yi-Hui Zhou, NCSU Biological Sciences
Location: 4101, Talley Student Union, NCSU Main Campus
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Monday April 02, 2018
09:30 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Ivan Sekyonda, Binghamton
Title:"Engaging Each Student: A Teaching Philosophy"
Host: Linda Honeycutt, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Thursday April 05, 2018
06:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Thomas Triumph, Executive Advisor, Business & Technology Partner
Title:"The Call To Innovate"
Talk Series: Fidelity Investment Speaker Series
Host: Corporate Relations, CSC
Location: 1231, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Friday April 06, 2018
11:00 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: David Kempe, University of Southern California
Title:"A Framework for Interactive Learning"
Talk Series: Theory Seminar Series
Host: Blair D. Sullivan, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Monday April 09, 2018
04:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Polina Golland, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title:"Image Imputation"
Talk Series: Triangle Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series
Host: Marc Niethammer , UNC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Tuesday April 10, 2018
06:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Troy Rosenberg, ROI Revolution
Title:"Build a Serverless function with TypeScript"
Talk Series: Other
Host: ACM/AITP, CSC
Location: 1231, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Thursday April 12, 2018
10:00 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Rachel Pottinger, University of British Columbia
Title:"Improving Understanding and Exploration of Data by Non-Database Experts"
Talk Series: Taming the Data Seminar series
Host: Rada Chirkova, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Friday April 13, 2018
12:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Susan Fisk, Kent State University
Title:"Nevertheless, She Persisted: An exploration of interventions to increase women's persistence in STEM fields"
Talk Series: Other
Host: Kathryn Stolee, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Monday April 16, 2018
04:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Christopher Manning, Thomas M. Siebel Professor in Machine Learning and Professor of Linguistics and of Computer Science, Stanford University
Title:"Building Neural Network Models That Can Reason"
Talk Series: Triangle Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series
Host: Mohit Bansal, UNC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Monday April 30, 2018
02:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Dimitris Nikolopoulos, Queen's University Belfast
Title:"Using Approximate and Trans-Precision Computing as Resilience Tools"
Talk Series: System Research Seminar series
Host: Xipeng Shen, CSC
Location: 3300, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Wednesday May 02, 2018
09:30 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Jamie Jennings, IBM
Title:"On the Notion that Undergraduates are Actual Human Beings -- Implications for the Academy"
Host: Linda Honeycutt, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Wednesday May 02, 2018
02:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Russ Wolfinger, SAS
Title:"Becoming a Data Science Wolf"
Talk Series: Bioinformatics Seminar Series
Host: Yi-Hui Zhou, NCSU Bioinformatics
Location: 325, Riddick Hall, NCSU Main Campus
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Thursday May 10, 2018
11:45 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Jungsang Kim, Duke University
Title:"Progress in Trapped Ion Quantum Computers"
Talk Series: Nominal Seminar Series
Host: Frank Mueller, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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