List of qualifying seminars - Spring 2011

1. January 20
   2:00-3:00 pm, ENG-801
   Mike Reiter (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
   Defending Against Client Compromises in Client-Server Applications
2. January 26
   3:00-4:00 pm, ENG-4201
   Walid Taha (Halmstad University, Sweden)
   Mathematical Equations as Executable Models of Mechanical Systems
3. January 27
   3:00-4:00 pm, ENG-4201
   Dino Dai Zovi (Independent Security Consultant) February 17
   3:00-4:00pm, Research1-163
   Karla Hoffman (Systems Engineering and Operations Research Department, GMU)
   Online Auctions: Why They Have Become so Popular and What Do You Need to Know to Participate?
   2010 Outstanding Research Faculty Award Recipient
4. March 8
   10:00-11:00 am, Research1-163
   Justin Cappos (Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Wasihngton)
   Seattle: A Peer-to-Peer platform for Safe Code Execution
   Faculty candidate
5. March 21
   12:00-1:00, ENG-4201
   Yaser Sheikh (Assistant professor, Carnegie Mellon University)
   Visual Representation and 3D Reconstruction of Dynamic Environments
6. March 22
   11:00-12:00 noon, ENG-4201
   Damon McCoy (Computer Innovation Fellow at the University of California, San Diego)
   A Tale of Two Systems: Wireless Privacy and Automotive Security
   Faculty candidate
7. March 24
   1:00-2:00 pm, ENG-4201
   Deepak Garg (Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Cybersecurity Lab (CyLab) at Carnegie Mellon University)
   Enforcement of Privacy Policies: A Logic-Based Approach
   Faculty candidate
8. March 29
   1:00-noon, ENG-4201
   Rajarshi Guha (Research Scientist at the NIH Chemical Genomics Center)
   Structure-Activity Relationships and Networks: A Generalized Approach to Exploring Structure-Activity Landscapes
9. April 5
   10:00-11:00 pm, ENG-4201
   David Cash (Post-Doctoral Researcher in the University of California, San Diego)
   Stronger Foundations for Cryptography: Security Against Related-Key Attacks and New Constructions From Lattices
   Faculty candidate
10. April 8
    1:00-2:00 pm, ENG-4705
    Dr. Paulo Costa
    Probabilistic Ontologies for Complex Systems Integration
11. April 12 --- rescheduled --- new date April 26
    12:00-1:00 pm, ENG-4201
    Sithu D. Sudarsan (Visiting Scientist with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
    Signal Detection using Text Mining in Large Document Repositories
12. April 7
    11:00-12:00 noon, ENG-5117
    Dr. Massimiliano Albanese (University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS))
    A Framework for Scalable Analysis of Attack Scenarios
    Faculty candidate
13. April 25
    11:00-1:00 pm, ENG-4201
    Pu Wang (Computer Science Department, GMU)
    Nonparametric Bayesian Models for Unsupervised Learning
    Dissertation defense
14. April 15
    11:00-noon, ENG-4201
    Young J. Kim (Associate Professor, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea)
    What does it take to write efficient proximity algorithms (for robotics, graphics and CAD)?
15. April 26
    7:00-8:00pm, Research1-163
    Walter Bright
    The D Programming Language
    Joint GMU CS Department and ACM DC Chapter Distinguished Lecture Series
16. April 21
    noon-1:00pm, ENG-4201
    Peter Revesz (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Jefferson Science Fellow U.S. Department of State)
    Classification, Clustering and Data Mining of Biological Data
17. May 6
    1:00-2:00pm, ENG-4705 Jan Allbeck (Department of Computer Science, GMU)
    Places Everyone: Creating an Animated Background of Human Activity