List of qualifying seminars - Fall 2012

1. Sep 17, noon - 1:00 pm, ENG-4201 --- Note change of date
   Fernando Camelli, Center for Computational Fluid Dynamics, GMU
   Study of Transport and Dispersion of Pollutants using Computational Fluid Dynamics
2. Sep 18, 11:00 am - noon, ENG-4201 --- Note change of time
   Yonghee Shin, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Computer Science, GMU
   Using Traditional Fault Prediction Metrics as Indicators of Software Vulnerabilities
3. Sept 19, 11:00 am - noon, ENG-4201
   Damon McCoy, Computer Science Department, GMU
   Understanding and Intervening on Cybercrime from a Social and Economic Viewpoint
4. Sep 26, 1:00 - 2:00 pm, ENG-4201
   David M. Mount, Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland
   Approximate Nearest Neighbor Searching and Polytope Approximation
5. Oct 1, 11:00 am - noon, ENG 4801
   Darius Burschka, Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing., Telerobotics and Sensor Data Fusion, Technical University Munich, Germany
   Embedded Visual Perception for Navigation and Manipulation
6. Oct 10, 11:00 am - noon, Research Hall 163
   Keith Ross, Leonard J. Shustek Chair Professor in Computer Science, Polytechnic Institute of NYU
   Invasion of Privacy: How Bad will it Get? Note: Computer Science Ditinguished Lecture Series
7. Oct 15, 10:30 - 11:30 am, Johnson Center G19 Gold Room
   Fei Li, Assistant Professor, CS Department, GMU
   Scheduling Algorithms and Their Applications
8. Oct 23, noon - 1:00 pm, ENG-4201
   Patrick Cozzi, Analytical Graphics, Inc., University of Pennsylvania
   Cesium: Geo-Scale Data Visualization in a Web Browser
9. Oct 31, 10:30 - 11:30 am, Research Hall 163
   Jyh-Ming Lien, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, GMU
   Decomposition, Approximation and Reconstruction of Large Geometric Data
10. Nov 5, 9:30 - 10:30 am, Research Hall 163
    Sam Malek, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, GMU
    Engineering Autonomic Software Systems: A Learning-Based Approach
11. Nov 2, 11:00 am - noon, Johnson Center G19 Gold Room
    David Sivakoff, Department of Mathematics, Duke University
    Jigsaw Percolation: Which networks can solve a puzzle?
12. Nov 7, 2:00 - 3:00 pm, Research Hall 163
    Qi Wei, Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering, George Mason University
    Computational Biomechanics for Subject-specific Simulation
13. Nov 16, 2:00 - 3:00 pm, ENG Jajodia Auditorium
    Alexei Efros, Carnegie Mellon University
    Mining Big Visual Data
    Note: Computer Science Ditinguished Lecture Series
14. Nov 15, 3:00 - 4:00 pm, ENG 4801
    Xia Ning, Research staff, Autonomic Management Department, NEC Labs America
    Sparse Linear Methods for Top-N Recommender Systems
15. Nov 20, noon - 1:00 pm, ENG-4201
    Dmitry Berenson, Assistant Professor, Robotics Engineering and Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    Transformations and Frontiers in Robotics
16. Nov 30, 11:00 am - noon, ENG-2901
    Feras A. Batarseh, University of Central Florida
    Incremental Lifecycle Validation of Knowledge-Based Systems through CommonKADS
17. Nov 30, 11:00 am - noon, Johnson Center G19 Gold Room
    Michael Kosorok, Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Recent Developments in Machine Learning and Personalized Medicine
18. Nov 28, 2:00 - 3:00 pm, Research Hall 163
    Robin Hanson, Associate Professor of Economics, George Mason University
    Finding Expected And Minimum Assets In Markov Network Based Combinatorial Prediction Markets
19. Nov 29, 1:00 - 3:00 pm, ENG-1602
    Venkatesh Ramanathan, PhD Candidate, Comnputer Science Department, GMU
    Adversarial Face Recognition and Phishing Detection Using Multi-Layer Data Fusion
    Note: PhD Defense
20. Nov 30, 11:00 am - noon, ENG-2901
    Feras A. Batarseh, University of Central Florida
    Incremental Lifecycle Validation of Knowledge-Based Systems through CommonKADS
    Note: This is a re-listing of Seminar #16 (error)
21. Nov 30, 9:00 - 11:00 am, ENG-3507
    Jeffery K. Bassett, PhD Candidate, Comnputer Science Department, GMU
    Methods for Improving the Design and Performance of Evolutionary Algorithms
    Note: PhD Defense
22. Dec 6, 8:30 - 10:30 am, ENG-3507
    Nadia Basit, PhD Candidate, Comnputer Science Department, GMU
    Computational Mutagenesis Using Transduction, Active Learning, and Association Rule Mining
    Note: PhD Defense
23. Nov 29, 4:00 - 5:00 pm, ENG-4201
    Mukesh Mohania, Senior Technical Staff Member and IBM Master Inventor in IBM Research - India
    Cloud based Active Archiving Solution for Databases
24. Dec 14, 3:00 - 4:30 pm, Research Hall 401
    Zhaohui Wang , PhD Candidate, Comnputer Science Department, GMU
    Securing Smart Mobile Devices: A Data-Centric Approach
    Note: PhD Defense