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Parasol Seminar Fall 2009

 Day  Time  Venue  Speaker  Title
Oct 02
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Gabriel Tanase
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 The STAPL pList
Oct 09
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Yiliang Xu
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Systems and Algorithms for Autonomously Simultaneous Observation of Multiple Objects Using Robotic PTZ Cameras Assisted by a Wide-Angle Camera
 Ji Zhang
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 On the Error Analysis of Vertical Line Pair-based Monocular Visual Odometry in Urban Area
 Ali Agha
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 On the Consistency of EKF-based Simultaneous Localization and Mapping of mobile robots
Oct 16
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Minho Lee
EECS, KNU
 Toward Brain-like Cognitive Systems Based on Attention, Object Perception and Knowledge Representation
Oct 30
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Rahul Shah
CSC, LSU
 Database Support for Uncertain Data
Nov 12
Thursday		11:00 am 302 HRBB
 Francois Bodin
CAPS
 Toward automatic partitioning of C applications for exploiting hardware accelerators such as GPUs
Nov 20
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Bojian Xu
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Sketching asynchronous data streams over sliding windows

Parasol Seminar Summer 2009

 Day  Time  Venue  Speaker  Title
Jun 17
Wednesday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Marc Smith
CS Dept, Vassar
 AiptasiaWiki: Community-Sourced Graphical Pipeline Processing for Bioinformatics
Jun 26
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Dinesh Manocha
Department of Computer Science, UNC
 Interactive Multi-Agent and Crowd Simulation
Aug 07
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Srikanth Sastry
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 The Weakest Failure Detector to Solve Wait-Free Dining Under Eventual Weak Exclusion
Aug 28
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Amitabha Mukerjee
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur
 The build-a-baby enterprise

Parasol Seminar Spring 2009

 Day  Time  Venue  Speaker  Title
Jan 23
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Lydia Tapia
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 From Robots to Molecules: Intelligent Motion Planning and Analysis with Probabilistic Roadmaps
Feb 06
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Yang Liu
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 A Feasible Algorithm for the Deadlock Problem with Parameters
Feb 13
Friday		10:00 am 302 HRBB
 Tsvi Kuflik
MIS Department, University of Haifa
 The Museum as an Arena for Multidisciplinary research: The PIL Museum Visitors’ Guide Project
Feb 13
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Suman Chakravorty
Dept of AE, TAMU
 The Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Problem of Robotics
Feb 20
Friday		4:00 pm 124 HRBB
 Raymond Carroll
Dept of Stat, TAMU
 ABCS Seminar
Feb 27
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Lydia Tapia
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 From Robots to Molecules: Intelligent Motion Planning and Analysis with Probabilistic Roadmaps
Mar 06
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Henri-Pierre Charles
PRiSM, Versailles University
 How to handle code generation on modern processors architectures?
Apr 01
Wednesday		10:00 am 302 HRBB
 Hagit Attiya
Technion
 Algorithmic Aspects of Transactional Memory
Apr 10
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Roger Pearce
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 Structural Improvement Filtering Strategy for PRM
Apr 14
Tuesday		2:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Hans Boehm
HP Labs Palo Alto, HP
 The C++0x concurrency memory model and some of its implications
Apr 17
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Suriya Subramanian
Dept of CS, UT Austin
 Dynamic Software Updates: A VM-centric Approach
Apr 24
Friday		4:00 pm 124 HRBB
 Tahir Cagin
Dept of Chemical Engineering, TAMU
 ABCS Seminar
Apr 27
Monday		2:30 pm 302 HRBB
 Louis-Philippe Morency
ICT, USC
 Computational Study Of Nonverbal Social Communication
May 01
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Lydia Tapia
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 An Unsupervised Adaptive Strategy for Constructing Probabilistic Roadmaps
 Dezhen Song
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Monte Carlo Simultaneous Localization of Multiple Unknown Transient
May 08
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Hyunyoung Lee
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 A Distributed Pool Architecture for Genetic Algorithms
 Srikanth Sastry
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 Detecting Process Crashes in Celerating Environments

Parasol Seminar Fall 2008

 Day  Time  Venue  Speaker  Title
Sep 19
Friday		4:00 pm 124 HRBB
 Edward Dougherty
Dept of ECE, TAMU
 Recommended: ABCS Seminar
Sep 26
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Qing Yi
CS Department, UTSA
 POET: Parameterizing Optimizations and Empirical Tuning
Oct 08
Wednesday		4:00 pm 124 HRBB
 Bonnie Kirkpatrick
EECS, UC Berkeley
 Haplotype Inference in Complex Pedigrees
Oct 10
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Seung-Jin Sul
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Randomized Algorithms for Analyzing Large Collections of Evolutionary Trees
Oct 17
Friday		4:00 pm 124 HRBB
 James Hu
Dept. of Biochemestry, TAMU
 Recommended: ABCS Seminar
Oct 21
Tuesday		9:30 am 124 HRBB
 Christopher Herot
 Is Sketch Recognition (Still) An Issue of Artificial Intelligence?
Oct 31
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Olga Pearce
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
Shawna Thomas
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 From Robots to Molecules: Randomized Motion Planning for Scientific Problems / Load imbalance in multi-physics simulations: Computer Science to the rescue
Nov 18
Tuesday		2:20 pm 104 HRBB
 Satoshi Tadokoro
Tohoku University
 Challenge of Rescue Robotics
Nov 21
Friday		4:00 pm 124 HRBB
 Jeffrey Vitter
Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academics, TAMU
 Recommended: ABCS Seminar
Nov 25
Tuesday		1:30 pm 302 HRBB
 Michael Wong Christian Terboven
RWTH Aachen University
 Using OpenMP with C++ in the Real World
Dec 01
Monday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Cinzia Pizzi
Univ. of Padova
 Compact Approaches for the Discovery of Patterns in Bio-sequences
Dec 03
Wednesday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Lydia Tapia
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 Planning with Reachable Distances
Dec 05
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Greg Hamerly
School of Engineering and Computer Science, Baylor University
 Hypothesis Testing and Model Selection for Clustering

Parasol Seminar Summer 2008

 Day  Time  Venue  Speaker  Title
May 09
Friday		11:00 am 302 HRBB
 Metin Sezgin
Cambridge University
Christine Alvarado
Harvey Mudd College
 Invited Talks in Sketch Recognition
Jun 03
Tuesday		11:00 am 302 HRBB
 Michael Bond
Dept of CS, UT Austin
 Deployed Software: An Ideal Environment for Fixing Bugs?
Jun 11
Wednesday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Mauro Bianco
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 STAPL: A High Productivity Programming Infrastructure for Parallel Computing
Jul 29
Tuesday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Nathan Thomas
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 Design for Interoperability in STAPL

Parasol Seminar Spring 2008

 Day  Time  Venue  Speaker  Title
Jan 10
Thursday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Cinzia Pizzi
INRIA
 Fast Algorithms to Search Weighted Patterns in Bio-sequences
Jan 25
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Konstantinos Bekris
Dept of CS, Rice
 Real-Time Kinodynamic Planning: Physically-Realistic, Fast, Safe and Distributed
Feb 08
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Mark Mathis
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 One Way of Doing Things: A Distributed Architecture for Decision Applications
Feb 22
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Josef Widder
Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Ecole Polytechnique
 Consensus in the Presence of Corrupted Communication
Mar 07
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Sylvain Pion
INRIA Sophia-Antipolis
 A Parallel Delaunay Algorithm for CGAL
Apr 18
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Lydia Tapia
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 Motion Landscapes: Approximation and Analysis

Parasol Seminar Fall 2007

 Day  Time  Venue  Speaker  Title
Sep 07
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Salah Aly
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Network Coding for Wireless Networks
Sep 25
Tuesday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Peter Pirkelbauer
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 Open Multi-Methods for C++ (Preview)
Sep 28
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Frank van der Stappen
Dept of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University
 Output-sensitive computation of grasps and fixtures
Oct 05
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Gabriel Tanase
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 Associative Parallel Containers in STAPL
Oct 12
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Elham Khabiri
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 A Preliminary Study of Correlation between Depth and Path Length of GO Nodes with Gene Sequence Similarity
Oct 19
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Roozbeh Daneshvar
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 Virtual Spring-Based 3D Multi-Agent Group Coordination
Oct 26
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Sam Rodriguez
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 A Framework for Planning Motion in Environments with Moving Obstacles
Nov 13
Tuesday		11:00 am 302 HRBB
 Alexandros Dimakis
EECS, UC Berkeley
 Gossip algorithms for sensor networks
Nov 15
Thursday		4:10 pm 302 HRBB
 Chris Cox
Adobe
 Engineering a High Performance Application: A View from the Frontlines
Nov 16
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Mark Moll
Dept of CS, Rice
 Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction for the Analysis of Protein Motion

Parasol Seminar Summer 2007

 Day  Time  Venue  Speaker  Title
May 15
Tuesday		11:00 am 302 HRBB
 Alexei Khokhlov
Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Univ. of Chicago
 Inherently Parallel Fully Threaded Tree (FTT) and its Application to Mesh Refinement and to Simulations of Thermonuclear Supernova Explosions
Jun 12
Tuesday		11:00 am 302 HRBB
 O. Burchan Bayazit
CSE, WUSTL
 Efficient strategies to Find and Evaluate Association Pathways in Proteins
Jul 09
Monday		2:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Takis Zourntos
Dept of ECE, TAMU
 Synthesis of Cognitive Dynamics for a Target-Seeking Obstacle-Avoiding Autonomous Agent
Jul 16
Monday		2:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Lydia Tapia
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 Kinetics Analysis Methods For Approximate Folding Landscapes
Aug 01
Wednesday		2:00 pm 302 HRBB
 William Jalby
Univ. of Versailles
 Iterative Compilation by Exploration of Kernel Decomposition

Parasol Seminar Spring 2007

 Day  Time  Venue  Speaker  Title
Jan 04
Thursday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Christopher Sewell
Dept. of CS, Stanford University
 Surgical Simulation and Computer Haptics
Jan 19
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Victor Palmer
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Scaling reinforcement learning to the unconstrained multi-agent domain
Jan 26
Friday		11:00 am 302 HRBB
 Fumei Lam
CS Dept., Brown
 Parametric Sequence Alignment and Analysis
Feb 09
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Martin Avendano
Univ. of Buenos Aires
 Factorization of bivariate polynomials
Feb 13
Tuesday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Henri-Pierre Charles
PRiSM, Versailles University
 Reducing code size explosion through low-overhead specialization
Feb 16
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Xinyu Tang
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 Using Motion Planning to Study Molecular Motions
Feb 23
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Marco Morales
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 Metrics for Sampling-Based Motion Planning
Mar 02
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Shawna Thomas
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 From Robots to Molecules: Randomized Motion Planning for Scientific Problems
Mar 07
Wednesday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Timmie Smith
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 Composing Parallel Applications Using Task Graphs
Mar 09
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Nathan Thomas
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 A Framework for Algorithm Selection and Tuning in the STAPL Parallel Library
Mar 23
Friday		2:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Songjian Lu
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Parameterized Algorithms and Pathway Problem in Bioinformatics
Apr 06
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Shawna Thomas
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 ICRA 2007 Preview: Biasing Samplers to Improve Motion Planning Performance
 Roger Pearce
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 ICRA 2007 Preview: Analysis of the Evolution of C-Space Models built through Incremental Exploration
 Shawna Thomas
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 ICRA 2007 Preview: Planning with Reachable Distance: Fast Enforcement of Closure Constraints
Apr 26
Thursday		11:00 am 302 HRBB
 William McLendon
Sandia
 Solving Graph Problems on the Cray MTA-2
Apr 27
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Zhigang Deng
Dept. of CS, U. of H.
 Data-Driven Facial Animation Synthesis and Transferring

Parasol Seminar Fall 2006

 Day  Time  Venue  Speaker  Title
Sep 22
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Suman Chakravorty
Dept of AE, TAMU
 Motion Planning in Uncertain Environments
Oct 20
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Tamás Kalmár-Nagy
Dept of AE, TAMU
 Soccer-Playing, Fire-Fighting, and Space-Exploring Robots: Having Serious Fun with Autonomous Systems and Control Theory
Nov 01
Wednesday		2:00 pm 302 HRBB
 
Magne Haveraaen
 Algebraic specifications: domain engineering, software testing and code optimisation
Nov 10
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Alex Sprintson
Dept of EE, TAMU
 Network Coding: A Computational Perspective
Nov 17
Friday		12:30 pm 106 Richardson
 Kevlin Henney
Curbralan Limited
 Composing Code
Nov 17
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Angela Sodan
U. of Windsor
 Dynamic Job Scheduling for Grids and the Support by Adaptive Middleware
Nov 27
Monday		4:00 pm 124 HRBB
 Russell Gayle
UNC
 Efficient Physically-based Motion Generation
Dec 01
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 
 
Dec 08
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 
 

Parasol Seminar Summer 2006

 Day  Time  Venue  Speaker  Title
May 23
Tuesday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Herb Sutter
Microsoft
 Software and the Concurrency Revolution
Jun 05
Monday		2:30 pm 302 HRBB
 Jacques Richard
Dept of AE, TAMU
 Lattice Boltzmann Model (LBM) of Magneto-Hydro-Dynamic (MHD) Plasma Jet Flows
Jun 27
Tuesday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Mauro Bianco
Univ. of Padova
 A Static Parallel Multifrontal Solver for Finite Element Meshes
Jul 05
Wednesday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Soo-Young Lee
KAIST
 Artificial Brain and OfficeMate based on Brain Information Processing Mechanism
Jul 25
Tuesday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
  Tomoyuki Nishita
Dept. of C.S. and Eng., Univ. of Tokyo
 Rendering Methods for Various Natural Phenomena

Parasol Seminar Spring 2006

 Day  Time  Venue  Speaker  Title
Jan 13
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Christophe Alias
PRiSM Lab, Univ. of Versailles
 Program Optimization by Template Recognition and Replacement
Jan 20
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Faith Fich
Dept. of CS, Univ. of Toronto
 Linear Lower Bounds on Real-World Implementations of Concurrent Objects
Jan 27
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Heejin Lim
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Facilitatory Neural Dynamics for Predictive Extrapolation
Feb 03
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Kreshna Gopal
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 The Relevance of Relevance in Machine Learning
Feb 10
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Joshua Davis
Dept of AE, TAMU
 Motion Planning Using Dynamic Programming for a UAV Helicopter
Feb 17
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Erik Dirkx
Univ. of Brussels
 Scaleable Computer Architecture : a "Natural" Solution
Feb 24
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Fenghui Zhang
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 On the Complexity of Supply Chain Models
Mar 03
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Jyh-Ming Lien
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 Approximation Techniques in Geometric Computing
Mar 07
Tuesday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Yaoxue Zhang
Dept. of C.S., Tsinghua Univ.
 A New Computing Paradigm: Transparent Computing
Mar 10
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Silvius Rus
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 Hybrid Analysis and its Application to Automatic Parallelization
Mar 17
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 
 No Seminar - Spring Break
Mar 24
Friday		10:00 am 302 HRBB
 Lubomir Bourdev
Adobe
 Generic Image Library
Mar 24
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Jingang Yi
Dept of ME, TAMU
 Autonomous Motorcycle: Vision-based Motion Planning and Trajectory Tracking Control
Apr 28
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Dezhen Song
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 ICRA 2006 Preview: A Minimum Variance Calibration Algorithm for Pan-Tilt Robotic Cameras in Natural Environments
 Jingang Yi
Dept of ME, TAMU
 ICRA 2006 Preview: Trajectory Tracking and Balance Stabilization Control of Autonomous
 Jyh-Ming Lien
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 ICRA 2006 Preview: Planning Motion in Completely Deformable Environments
May 12
Friday		4:00 pm 131 HRBB
 Ni Qin
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 ICRA Preview: Aligning Windows of Live Video from an Imprecise Pan-Tilt-Zoom Robotic Camera into a Remote Panoramic Display
 Marco Morales
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 ICRA 2006 Preview: Metrics for Analyzing the Evolution of C-Space Models
 Sam Rodriguez
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 ICRA 2006 Preview: An Obstacle-Based Rapidly-Exploring Random Tree
 Jyh-Ming Lien
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 ICRA 2006 Preview: VIZMO++: a Visualization, Authoring, and Educational Tool for Motion Planning

Parasol Seminar Fall 2005

 Day  Time  Venue  Speaker  Title
Sep 09
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Alethea Bair
VizLab, TAMU
 Perceptually Optimizing Textures for Layered Surface Visualization
Sep 30
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Jyh-Ming Lien
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 Simultaneous Shape Decomposition and Skeletonization
Oct 04
Tuesday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Jie Gao
Dept of CS, SUNY
 Landmark-based routing and information brokerage in sensor networks
Oct 21
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Heejin Lim
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Facilitatory Neural Activity for Delay Compensation in the Nervous System
Oct 28
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Silvius Rus
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 Hybrid Analysis and its Application to Automatic Parallelization
Nov 03
Thursday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Takamichi Nakamoto
gsse, Tokyo IT
 Odor sensing and reproduction technologies
Nov 11
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Vinod Srinivasan
VizLab, TAMU
 Creating a Digital Model of Pointe du Hoc
Nov 18
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Naehyuck Chang
cse, SNU

Joint:
Embedded System Codesign 		 A Cycle-Accurate Energy Measurement Tool and High-Level Power Reduction of FPGA Designs
Nov 25
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 
 No Seminar - Thanksgiving
Dec 02
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Marco Morales
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 Evaluating the quality of motion planning roadmaps

Parasol Seminar Summer 2005

 Day  Time  Venue  Speaker  Title
Jun 10
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Brad Holmes
Dept. of Biochemestry, TAMU
 Characterizing Conserved Structural Contacts by Pair-Wise Relative Contacts and Relative Packing Groups
Aug 01
Monday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Jennifer Welch
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 Applications of Link Reversal Algorithms in Mobile Computing

Parasol Seminar Spring 2005

 Day  Time  Venue  Speaker  Title
Feb 25
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Jyh-Ming Lien
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 Approximate Convex Decomposition
Mar 04
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Konstantinos Bekris
Dept of CS, Rice
 Robot Applications with Minimal Sensing Requirements
Mar 10
Thursday		2:30 pm 302 HRBB
 Christoph Herrmann
Dept. of Inf., Univ. of Passau
 Using MetaOCaml to Implement Skeletons and Domain-Specific Languages
Mar 11
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Albert Cohen
A3 Group, INRIA Futurs
 Facilitating the Search for Compositions of Program Transformations
Mar 24
Thursday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Jennifer Welch
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 Applications of Link Reversal Algorithms in Mobile Computing
Apr 01
Friday		3:30 pm 302 HRBB
 Ronnie Ward
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Representation in an evolved agent
Apr 08
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Rocío Ruiz Rodarte
Dept. of Arch., ITESM Edo. de México
 Virtual Calakmul
Apr 15
Friday		2:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Sam Rodriguez
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 ICRA 2005 Preview: Shepherding Behaviors with Multiple Shepherds
 Lydia Tapia
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
Roger Pearce
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 ICRA 2005 Preview: C-space Subdivision and Integration in Feature-Sensitive Motion Planning
Apr 22
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Takao Yamanaka
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Signal Processing towards Neuromorphic Machine Olfaction
Apr 29
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Erion Plaku
Dept of CS, Rice
 Distributed Sampling-Based Roadmap of Trees for Large-Scale Motion Planning

Parasol Seminar Fall 2004

 Day  Time  Venue  Speaker  Title
Sep 03
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Dezhen Song
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Network human with Robot: Scalable Algorithms and Systems for Collaborative Teleoperation
Sep 17
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Silvius Rus
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 The Value Evolution Graph and its Application to Compiler Analysis of Memory References
Sep 24
Friday		2:30 pm 302 HRBB
 Mark Mathis
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 Performance and Scalability of Particle Transport Calculations
Oct 08
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Greg Schmidt
VR Lab, Naval Research Lab

Joint:
Visualization Laboratory 		 Interaction Techniques for Mobile AR
Nov 05
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Baranidharan Raman
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Sensor-Based Machine Olfaction with Neuromorphic Models of the Olfactory System
Nov 12
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Jack Yang
CCBB, IUPUI
 Sequential Bifurcation Approaches in Genomic Data Mining
Nov 19
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Jaakko Järvi
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 On Subtype-Based Constraints for Generic Programming
Dec 03
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Gabriel Dos Reis
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 On type abstractions, concepts and separate compilation

Parasol Seminar Summer 2004

 Day  Time  Venue  Speaker  Title
Jul 12
Monday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Robert Ward
ccn, Bangor
 Selective attention and action in an artificial, evolved agent: Implications for real agent

Parasol Seminar Spring 2004

 Day  Time  Venue  Speaker  Title
Feb 05
Thursday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Michi Henning
ZeroC

Joint:
Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series 		 A New Approach to Object-Oriented Middleware
Feb 06
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Yu Zhang
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Proactive Communication in Multi-Agent Teamwork
Feb 20
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Xinyu Tang
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 Using Motion Planning to Study RNA Folding Kinetics
Mar 05
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Jennifer Walter
CS Dept, Vassar
 Filling an Obstacle Pocket with Hexagonal Metamorphic Robots
Mar 26
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Gabriel Dos Reis
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 Computer Algebra Software and Generic Programming
Apr 16
Friday		2:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Kreshna Gopal
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Application of Case-Based Reasoning in Protein Crystallography
Apr 23
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Jyh-Ming Lien
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 Shepherding Behaviors
 Roger Pearce
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 Complexity Analysis and Approximate Solutions for Two Multiple--Robot Localization Problems
 Dawen Xie
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 A Kinematics-Based Probabilistic Roadmap Method for High DOF Closed Chain Systems
 
 ICRA 2004 Preview: Three Short Talks

Parasol Seminar Fall 2003

 Day  Time  Venue  Speaker  Title
Sep 05
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Jyh-Ming Lien
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 A General Framework for Sampling on the Medial Axis of the Free Space
 Marco Morales
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 Improving the Connectivity of PRM Roadmaps
 Roger Pearce
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 Extracting Optimal Paths from Roadmaps for Motion Planning
Sep 12
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Sangeeta Bhattacharya
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Randomized Location Service in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Sep 26
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Cheng Shao
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Multi-Writer Consistency Conditions for Shared Memory Objects
Oct 17
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Alexandre Perera Lluna
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 On-line chemical detection by Recursive Dynamic Principal Component Analysis and Gas Sensor Arrays under drift conditions
Nov 07
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Carlos Monroy
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Texts, Images, Knowledge: Visualizing Cervantes and Picasso
Nov 13
Thursday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Yukihiro Matsumoto
netlab.jp
 Ruby, the Object-oriented Programming Language
Nov 21
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Hao Yu
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 Run-time Optimization of Adaptive Irregular Applications
Dec 05
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Ping An
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 Integrated Application Scheduling and Decomposition in Parallel and Distributed Systems
Dec 19
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Sylvain Lazard
Lorrain, Loria, INRIA
 Near-optimal parameterization of the intersection of quadrics

Parasol Seminar Summer 2003

 Day  Time  Venue  Speaker  Title
May 23
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Maria Jesus Garzaran
CS Dept, UIUC
 Tradeoffs in Buffering Memory State for Thread Level Speculation in Multiprocessor
May 26
Monday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Alon Efrat
CS Dept, Arizona
 Touring a Sequence of Polygons
May 30
Friday		10:30 am 302 HRBB
 Cristiana Amza
Dept of CS, Rice
 Conflict-Aware Replication for Dynamic Content Web Sites
Jun 13
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Takao Yamanaka
Dept Phy Ele, Tokyo IT
 Odor Recorder: Odor Reproduction System Using Odor Sensing System
Jun 19
Thursday		2:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Shlomi Dolev
Dept of CS, BGU
 Magnifying Computing Gaps
Jul 21
Monday		2:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Glen Nuckolls
CS Dept, UCDavis
 Certifying Published Data from Single and Multiple Sources
Aug 08
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Jesus Savage Carmona
Dept. of C.E., UNAM
 A System For The Operation Of Virtual And Real Mobile Robots (ViRBot)
Aug 20
Wednesday		2:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Elad Schiller
Dept of CS, BGU
 Self-Stabilizing Group Communication in Directed Networks

Parasol Seminar Spring 2003

 Day  Time  Venue  Speaker  Title
Mar 07
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Cheng Shao
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Deterministic and Randomized Distributed Data Structures
Mar 21
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Andrew Ladd
Dept of CS, Rice
 Bingo Games for Space Covering with PRM
Mar 28
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Libo Yang
Dept of CS, Iowa State
 The Sampling-Based Neighborhood Graph: An Approach to Computing and Executing Feedback Motion Strategies
Apr 04
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Sreekanth Juttu
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 A new matrix based hierarchical algorithm for fast potential evaluation
Apr 11
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Darren Kerbyson
Perf. & Arch. Lab, LANL
 A comparison between the Earth Simulator and other top 5 machines in the Top 500 list
Apr 25
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Ergun Akleman
VizLab, TAMU
 Tiled Textures

AI&Robotics Seminar Spring 2003

 Day  Time  Venue  Speaker  Title
Jan 31
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Hemant Mahawar
Dept of CSE, TAMU
  Novel Algorithms for Inductance Extraction
Feb 07
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 O. Burchan Bayazit
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 Solving Motion Planning Problems by Iterative Relaxation of Constraints
Feb 14
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Guang Song
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 A Motion Planning Approach to Protein Folding
Feb 21
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Hao Yu
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 Adaptive Run-Time Parallelization and Optimization for Irregular Applications
Feb 28
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Guang Song
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 A Motion Planning Approach to Protein Folding

AI&Robotics Seminar Fall 2002

 Day  Time  Venue  Speaker  Title
Sep 20
Friday		3:00 pm 113 HRBB
 Yu Chen
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Self-stabilizing Mutual Exclusion Using Tokens in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
 Eunsun Jung
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 A Power Control MAC Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks
Sep 27
Friday		3:00 pm 113 HRBB
 Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 A biologically-plausible computational architecture for sensor-based machine olfaction
Oct 04
Friday		3:00 pm 113 HRBB
 Mohamad Jaradat
Dept of ME, TAMU
 Line Map Construction Based On Small-Scale Mobile Robot Using Single-Sonar Navigation
Oct 11
Friday		3:00 pm 113 HRBB
 Yoonsuck Choe
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 An Analogical Framework for Understanding Brain and Intelligence
Oct 18
Friday		3:00 pm 113 HRBB
 Jinsuck Kim
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
Roger Pearce
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 Optimal Motion Planning with Constraints and Mobile Robot Navigation
Oct 25
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 
O. Burchan Bayazit Jyh-Ming Lien
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 Better Group Behaviors in Complex Environments
Nov 08
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Haytham Mahmoud
West TAMU
 Mars Assessment Robotic Settlements (MARS)
Nov 15
Friday		3:00 pm 113 HRBB
 Swaroop Darbha
Dept of ME, TAMU
 Motion Planning Algorithms for a Collection of Vehicles
Nov 22
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Agustín Gutiérrez
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Habituation in the KIII olfactory model using gas sensor arrays

Parasol Seminar Spring 2002

 Day  Time  Venue  Speaker  Title
Jan 22
Tuesday		11:00 am 302 HRBB
 Joel Thornton
Honeywell International
  Critical Systems Software Development
Feb 18
Monday		2:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Robert Metzger
HP
 Debugging By Thinking
Feb 19
Tuesday		10:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Robert Metzger
HP
  Debugging By Thinking
Feb 20
Wednesday		10:00 am 302 HRBB
 Robert Metzger
HP
  Debugging By Thinking
Feb 21
Thursday		2:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Robert Metzger
HP
  Debugging By Thinking
Feb 22
Friday		10:00 am 302 HRBB
 Robert Metzger
HP
  Debugging By Thinking

AI&Robotics Seminar Spring 2002

 Day  Time  Venue  Speaker  Title
Jan 25
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Jianer Chen
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Hypercube Network Fault Tolerance: A Probabilistic Approach
Feb 01
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 O. Burchan Bayazit
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Solving Motion Planning Problems by Iterative Relaxation of Constraints
Feb 08
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Gary Greenfield
Dept. of Math & CS, University of Richmond
 An Artificial Life Approach to Computational Aesthetics
Feb 15
Friday		2:00 pm 102 Zachry Engineering Center
 Bjarne Stroustrup
AT&T

Joint:
Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series 		 Multiparadigm Programming in Standard C++
Feb 22
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Christoph Borst
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 A Mixed Reality Approach to Haptic Display
Mar 01
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Zeki Melek
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Interactive Simulation of Fire
Mar 22
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Michael Miller
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Agents Anticipating Human Teamwork
Mar 29
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Chee Yap
CS. Dept., NYU
 Pseudo Approximation Algorithms, with Applications to Optimal Motion Planning
Apr 05
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Hemant Mahawar
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Efficient Inductance Extraction of VLSI circuits
Apr 12
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Sreekanth Sambavaram
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 A high performance algorithm for Incompressible flow problems using local Solenoidal Functions
Apr 19
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Ergun Akleman
VizLab, TAMU
 Two Interactive Methods for Topologically Robust Modeling of Very High Genus Manifold Meshes
Apr 26
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 O. Burchan Bayazit
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Probabilistic Roadmap Motion Planning for Deformable Objects

Parasol Seminar Fall 2001

 Day  Time  Venue  Speaker  Title
Oct 05
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Hujun Wang
Dept of CSE, TAMU

Joint:
AI&Robotics Seminar 		  Execution-Driven Simulation of IP Router Architectures

AI&Robotics Seminar Fall 2001

 Day  Time  Venue  Speaker  Title
Sep 21
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Yoonsuck Choe
Dept of CSE, TAMU
  Perceptual Grouping in a Self-Organizing Map of Spiking Neurons
Sep 25
Tuesday		10:00 am 302 HRBB
 Andrew Lucas
Agent Oriented Software
  JACK - A Tool for Building Distributed Agent Oriented Software
Sep 26
Wednesday		4:10 pm 124 HRBB
 Devika Subramanian
Dept of CS, Rice

Joint:
CPSC 681: Computer Science Graduate Seminar 		 Reinforcement Learning in Non-Stationary Environments and Dynamic Network Routing Algorithms
Sep 28
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Du Li
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Demonstrational Customization of a Shared Whiteboard to Support User-Defined Semantic Relationships among Objects
Oct 05
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Hujun Wang
Dept of CSE, TAMU

Joint:
Parasol Seminar 		  Execution-Driven Simulation of IP Router Architectures
Oct 17
Wednesday		1:30 pm 302 HRBB
 Tomohiro Harayama
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Computer-Aided Proof for Circle Packing Problems
Oct 26
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Lydia Kavraki
Dept of CS, Rice
 Programmable Force Fields for Part Manipulation
Nov 02
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Ryan Rozich
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 FURL - An Algorithm for Learning Fuzzy Rules
Nov 09
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 O. Burchan Bayazit
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Solving Motion Planning Problems by Iterative Relaxation of Constraints
Nov 16
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Wangqi Qiu
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 The Quadratic Steiner Minimum Tree Problem with Application in VLSI Routing
Nov 30
Friday		12:30 pm 302 HRBB
 J. Maurice Rojas
Dept of Math, TAMU
 Recent Progress in Computational Algebraic Geometry
Dec 03
Monday		2:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Denis Gracanin
CS Dept, Virginia Tech
 Modeling Quality of Service (QoS) for Distributed Virtual Environments
Dec 10
Monday		10:30 am 302 HRBB
 Pat Langley
ISLE
 Adaptive User Interfaces for Personalized Services

Parasol Seminar Spring 2001

 Day  Time  Venue  Speaker  Title
Feb 02
Friday		4:00 pm 516 HRBB
 David Wonnacott
CS Dept, Haverford
  Polynomial-Time Array Dataflow Analysis
Feb 12
Monday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Robert Metzger
HP
 Debugging By Thinking
Feb 12
Monday		4:10 pm 124 HRBB
 Robert Metzger
HP
  The Use of XML in System Software
Feb 13
Tuesday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Robert Metzger
HP
 Debugging by Thinking
Feb 14
Wednesday		4:10 pm 124 HRBB
 Neil Pundit
Sandia
  Cplant(tm): World's Largest Linux Cluster
Feb 15
Thursday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Robert Metzger
HP
 Debugging by Thinking
Feb 16
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Robert Metzger
HP
 Debugging by Thinking
Mar 08
Thursday		2:30 pm 302 HRBB
 Jianer Chen
Dept of CSE, TAMU

Joint:
AI&Robotics Seminar 		 Simple Linear Time Approximation Algorithms for Multi-Processor Job Scheduling on Systems with A Small Number of Processors
Mar 26
Monday		4:10 pm 124 HRBB
 Jose Moreira
T. J. Watson

Joint:
CPSC 681: Computer Science Graduate Seminar 		 Blue Gene: A Massively Parallel System

AI&Robotics Seminar Spring 2001

 Day  Time  Venue  Speaker  Title
Feb 09
Friday		4:00 pm 108 Biochemistry
 Lydia Tapia
Dept of CSE, TAMU

Joint:
TAMBUG 		  Protein Structure Determination Through Pattern Recognition
Feb 21
Wednesday		4:30 pm 302 HRBB
 John Keyser
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Using Graphics Hardware for Dynamic Motion Planning
Mar 02
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Devika Subramanian
Dept of CS, Rice
 Tracking the evolution of learning on a visual-motor task
Mar 08
Thursday		2:30 pm 302 HRBB
 Jianer Chen
Dept of CSE, TAMU

Joint:
Parasol Seminar 		 Simple Linear Time Approximation Algorithms for Multi-Processor Job Scheduling on Systems with A Small Number of Processors
Mar 23
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Dianxiang Xu
Dept of CSE, TAMU
  Modeling and Analyzing Agent Teams with Predicate-transition Nets
Apr 27
Friday		4:00 pm C414 Architecture C Bldg. Curved Room
 Ergun Akleman
VizLab, TAMU
 An Interactive Shape Modeling System for Robust Design of Functional 3D Shapes
May 01
Tuesday		3:00 pm 131 HRBB
 Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna
Dept of CS and Eng, WSU
  Sensor-Based Machine Olfaction
May 04
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Sanda Harabagiu
CS and Eng. Dept, SMU
  Data and Knowledge Driven Methods for Natural Language Engineering

Parasol Seminar Fall 2000

 Day  Time  Venue  Speaker  Title
Oct 18
Wednesday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Mark Mathis
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 A General Performance Model for Parallel Sweeps on Orthogonal Grids for Particle Transport Calculations
Nov 20
Monday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Paul Petersen
KAI @ Intel
 The Software Side of Moore's Law
Nov 29
Wednesday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Rick Gibson
Department of Geology & Geophysics, TAMU
 Ray Tracing by Wavefront Construction for Anisotropic Media

AI&Robotics Seminar Fall 2000

 Day  Time  Venue  Speaker  Title
Sep 06
Wednesday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 John Keyser
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Exact Boundary Evaluation of Curved Solids
Sep 11
Monday		10:00 am 702 HRBB
 Hideyuki Takagi
Art&Info, Kyushu Inst.
 Interactive Evolutionary Computation
Sep 22
Friday		4:00 pm C414 Architecture C Bldg. Curved Room
 Clara Chan
VizLab, TAMU
 Two Computational Approaches For Creating Chinese Painting
Sep 29
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Weiping Shi
Dept of EE, TAMU
 Rectilinear Steiner Arborescence, Complexity, Algorithms and Application.
Oct 06
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Oliver Brock
Dept of CS, Rice
 Decomposition-based Motion Planning: A Framework for Real-time Motion Planning in High-dimensional Configuration Spaces
Oct 12
Thursday		1:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Jean-Marc Naud
Virtual Prototypes, Inc. (VPI)
 Virtual Product Engineering of Embedded Systems Using COTS Tools
Oct 13
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Bruce McCormick
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Scanning the Brain Microstructure at a Terabyte/Day
Oct 20
Friday		4:00 pm 108 Biochemistry
 Guang Song
Dept of CSE, TAMU
O. Burchan Bayazit
Dept of CSE, TAMU
Nancy Amato
Dept of CSE, TAMU

Joint:
TAMBUG 		 Using Motion Planning to Study Ligand Binding and Protein Folding
Oct 27
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Reza Langari
Dept of ME, TAMU
 Modeling and Control of Heavy Vehicles with a View to Detection and Prevention of Rollover Conditions
Nov 03
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Lydia Tapia
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Protein Structure Determination Through Pattern Recognition
Nov 17
Friday		4:00 pm C414 Architecture C Bldg. Curved Room
 Ergun Akleman
VizLab, TAMU
 Making Extreme Caricatures with a New Interactive 2D Deformation Technique with Simplicial Complexes
Dec 01
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Bruce McCormick
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Topology, Geometry and Stochastic Generation of Cortical Networks

Parasol Seminar Spring 2000

 Day  Time  Venue  Speaker  Title
Mar 02
Thursday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Robert Metzger
HP
 Current and Future Directions for HP
Apr 21
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Mark Mathis
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU

Joint:
AI&Robotics Seminar 		 Parallel Sweeps on Orthogonal Grids for Particle Transport Calculations
 Jack Perdue
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU

Joint:
AI&Robotics Seminar 		 Predicting Performance on SMPs. A Case Study: The SGI Power Challenge
 

Joint:
AI&Robotics Seminar 		 Two short talks in High-Performance Computing

AI&Robotics Seminar Spring 2000

 Day  Time  Venue  Speaker  Title
Jan 28
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Sooyong Lee
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Two important issues in Autonomous/Non-Autonomous Robot Systems: Localization and Teleoperation
Feb 11
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Lucia Dale
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Optimizing Probabalistic Roadmaps
Feb 18
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Daniel Vallejo
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 An Adaptive Framework for `Single Shot' Motion Planning
Feb 25
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Eli Olinick
CS and Eng. Dept, SMU
 The SONET Edge Partition Problem
Mar 03
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Li Han
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 A Kinematics-Based Probabilistic Roadmap Method for Closed Chain Systems
Mar 10
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Nancy Amato
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Randomized Motion Planning: Algorithms and Applications
Mar 24
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Michael Miller
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Training Teams for Teamwork
Mar 31
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Luis Francisco-Revilla
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Adaptive Medical Information Delivery. Combining User, Task and Situation Models
Apr 07
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Jennifer Walter
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Distributed Reconfiguration of Metamorphic Robot Chains
Apr 14
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 O. Burchan Bayazit
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Choosing Good Distance Metrics and Local Planners for Probabilistic Roadmap Methods
 Li Han
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 The Planning and Control of Robot Dextrous Manipulation
 Sooyong Lee
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Localization based on Visibility Sectors using Range Sensors
 Wookho Son
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 An Interactive Generalized Motion Simulator (I-GMS) in an Object-Oriented Framework
 
 Mini ICRA (Four Short Talks)
Apr 21
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Mark Mathis
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU

Joint:
Parasol Seminar 		 Parallel Sweeps on Orthogonal Grids for Particle Transport Calculations
 Jack Perdue
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU

Joint:
Parasol Seminar 		 Predicting Performance on SMPs. A Case Study: The SGI Power Challenge
 

Joint:
Parasol Seminar 		 Two short talks in High-Performance Computing

AI&Robotics Seminar Fall 1999

 Day  Time  Venue  Speaker  Title
Sep 10
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Wookho Son
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Human Body Simulation
Sep 17
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Brent Dingle
Dept of Math, TAMU
 Odes to Motion Modeling by Forces
Sep 24
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 O. Burchan Bayazit
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Providing Haptic Hints to Automatic Motion Planners
Oct 01
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Li Han
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 The Planning and Control of Robot Dextrous Manipulation
Oct 04
Monday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Rick Lynch
IDA
 Rapid Decisive Operations
Oct 08
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Mike Frazier
Math and CS Dept, Abilene Christian University
 Or For That Matter, What Is I?
Oct 15
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Greg Schmidt
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Model-Based Gesture Recognition
Oct 22
Friday		11:30 am 302 HRBB
 Edgar Ramos
IMPRS-CS
 An Optimal Deterministic Algorithm for Computing the Diameter of a 3-D Point Set
Oct 22
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Scott Arvin
VizLab, TAMU
 Physically Based Space Planning
Nov 05
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Jianwen Yin
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 A Knowledge-Based Approach for Designing Intelligent Team Training Systems
Nov 12
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Ting-Chi Wang
Dept of EE, TAMU
 Feasible Two-Way Circuit Partitioning with Complex Resource Constraints
Nov 19
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Jianer Chen
Dept of CSE, TAMU
Ergun Akleman
VizLab, TAMU
 Guaranteeing Topology for Representing 3D Meshes

AI&Robotics Seminar Summer 1999

 Day  Time  Venue  Speaker  Title
Jul 30
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Steven LaValle
Dept of CS, Iowa State
 Rapidly-Exploring Random Trees: A New Tool for Path Planning

Parasol Seminar Spring 1999

 Day  Time  Venue  Speaker  Title
Jan 25
Monday		4:00 pm 124 HRBB
 Marc Snir
T. J. Watson

Joint:
Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series 		 Scalable Parallel Computers, Symmetric Multiprocessors and Clusters
Mar 05
Friday		11:00 am 302 HRBB
 Gudula Rugner
Dept. of C.S., U. Leipzig
 A Framework for Generating Task Parallel Programs
Mar 10
Wednesday		4:00 pm 124 HRBB
 Francine Berman
UCSD

Joint:
AWICS Distinguished Lecturer Series 		 Achieving Performance on the Computational Grid

AI&Robotics Seminar Spring 1999

 Day  Time  Venue  Speaker  Title
Feb 05
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Jeyakesavan Veerasamy
Dept of CS, UT Dallas
 Approximation Algorithms for Postman Problems
Feb 12
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Nina Amenta
Dept of CS, UT Austin
 The Crust Algorithm for 3D Surface Reconstruction
Feb 18
Thursday		1:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Marjorie Skubic
Dept of CS, MU
 Acquiring Robust Robot Skills from Human Demonstration
Feb 19
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Jianer Chen
Dept of CSE, TAMU
Ergun Akleman
VizLab, TAMU
 Implicit Volume Modeling with Constant Time Updateable Functions
Feb 26
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Lingyu Yang
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Incorporating Qualitative Reasoning in Simplex-GA for supervisory Metabolic Model Optimization
Mar 05
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Bruce McCormick
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 The Search for a Common Cortical Processor in the Human Cerebral Cortex
Mar 12
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Hao-wei Hsieh
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Enabling Direct Manipulation of Structured Data with Two-way mappings
Mar 26
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Reza Langari
Dept of ME, TAMU
 Fuzzy Logic in Control Engineering: Theory and Application
Apr 09
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 John Junkins
Dept of AE, TAMU
 A Novel System For Vision-Based Navigation
Apr 16
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Don House
VizLab, TAMU
 Automatic Construction of Continuous Area Cartograms
Apr 23
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Louis Everett
Dept of ME, TAMU
 Calibration in Robotics and Automation
Apr 30
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Kreshna Gopal
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Case-Based Reasoning Approaches to Symbolic Planning

AI&Robotics Seminar Fall 1998

 Day  Time  Venue  Speaker  Title
Sep 11
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Kyunghwan Kim
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Robot Motion Control without Using Inverse Dynamics: Dual-Arm Manipulation
Oct 02
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Christoph Borst
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Telerobotic Ground Control of a Space Free-Flyer
Oct 09
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Dwi Widyantoro
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Information Broker Agent
Oct 16
Friday		3:00 pm 104 HRBB
 Sooyong Lee
Robotics Center, KIST
 Teleoperation/Virtual Environment Interface
Oct 23
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Kyunghwan Kim
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Training Systems
Nov 06
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Lucia Dale
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Probabilistic Roadmap Methods are Embarrassingly Parallel
Nov 13
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Steve Wilmarth
Dept of Math, TAMU
 MAPRM: A Probabilistic Roadmap Planner with Sampling on the Medial Axis
Dec 02
Wednesday		3:00 pm 126 HRBB
 Juan-Manuel Ahuactzin-Larios
UDLA
 Manipulation Task Planning for Redundant Robots: A Practical Approach
Dec 04
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Li Han
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 An Overview of Robot Manipulation
Dec 11
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Chris Jones
Dept of CSE, TAMU
Daniel Vallejo
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 An Adaptive Framework for `Single Shot' Motion Planning

Parasol Seminar Spring 1998

 Day  Time  Venue  Speaker  Title
Jan 22
Thursday		11:00 am 302 HRBB
 Josep Torrellas
UIUC
 The Illinois Aggressive COMA Multiprocessor Project (I-ACOMA)
Feb 18
Wednesday		4:10 pm 124 HRBB
 Robert Metzger
HP

Joint:
CPSC 681: Computer Science Graduate Seminar 		 Automatic Algorithm Recognition: From Theory to Practice
Mar 05
Thursday		10:30 am 302 HRBB
 John Wilkes
HP Labs Palo Alto, HP
 An Implementation of the Hamlyn Sender-Managed Interface Architecture
Mar 09
Monday		4:10 pm 124 HRBB
 Greg Astfalk
HPSD, HP

Joint:
Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series 		 Scaling up to Very Large Parallel Systems
Mar 23
Monday		4:10 pm 124 HRBB
 Claude Girault
Department of CS, University Paris VI
 Modeling and Model Checking of a Shared Memory Consistency Protocol

AI&Robotics Seminar Spring 1998

 Day  Time  Venue  Speaker  Title
Jan 23
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Jeffrey Trinkle
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Planning In-Hand Reorientation for Dexterous Hands
Feb 06
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Nancy Amato
Parasol Lab, CS, TAMU
 Using Techniques from Computer Science to Help Design Drugs
Feb 13
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Antony Popov
Dept of EE, TAMU
 Set Skeletons and their applications for path planning
Feb 20
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Brent Cox
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Reinforcement learning in AI
Feb 27
Friday		4:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Buck Surdu
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Brooks, Robots, and the Subsumption Architecture
Mar 13
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Daniel Vallejo
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 On Finding Narrow Passages with Probabilistic Roadmap Planners
Mar 27
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Masahito Yashima
Dept. of ME, NDA
 Coordinated Control for Manipulation with Inner Link Contacts of Multifingered Robot Hand
Apr 03
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Magy Seif Elnasr
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Modeling Emotion Dynamics in Intelligent Agents
Apr 24
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Don House
VizLab, TAMU
 Cloth and Clothing in Computer Graphics
May 01
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Steve Wilmarth
Dept of Math, TAMU
 Invariant metrics and motion planning for a rigid body

AI&Robotics Seminar Fall 1997

 Day  Time  Venue  Speaker  Title
Sep 12
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Jeffrey Trinkle
Dept of CSE, TAMU
  Open Questions in Fixture Stability and Planning
Sep 19
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Magy Seif Elnasr
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 An Emotional Intelligent Agent
Sep 26
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Nancy Amato
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Randomized Methods for Motion Planning
Oct 03
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 John Yen
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Intelligent Agents and Fuzzy Logic
Oct 10
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Wookho Son
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Rigid Body Dynamic Simulation
Nov 07
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Thomas Ioerger
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Applications of Machine Learning to Robotics
Nov 14
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 
Liang Wang
 Modeling Nonlinear Systems Using Fuzzy Rule Based Models
Nov 17
Monday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Magy Seif Elnasr
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Socially Intelligent Agents
Nov 21
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 Amos Tiao
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 A Systematic Tradeoff Analysis for Conflicting Imprecise Requirements
Dec 05
Friday		3:00 pm 302 HRBB
 
Stan Swanson Edgar Meyer
Dept. of Biochemestry, TAMU
 Computational Challenges in Structure-Based Drug Design
 Nancy Amato
Dept of CSE, TAMU
 Using Techniques from Computer Science to Help Design Drugs

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