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Unless otherwise specified, all talks will take place in 220 Deschutes Hall (the CIS department colloquium room) at 3:30, with refreshments following the presentation. Send comments, ideas, and requests to Michel Kinsy.

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August 2013
Colloquium12Towards a principled, data-driven approach for developing and evaluating computational cognitive models: Applying high performance computing and advanced sampling algorithms to cognitive modeling.
Yunfeng Zhang, University of Oregon
Colloquium09Perspectives on Parallel Programming
James Reinders, Director and Parallel Programming Evangelist, Senior Engineer, Intel
Colloquium09Geometric Representations of Graphs: Old Problems, New Approaches, and Vice Versa
Jan Kratochvil, Charles University, Prague
June 2013
Colloquium06Spectral Methods for Detecting Random Link Attacks and Subtle Anomalies in Social Networks
Xintao Wu, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
May 2013
Colloquium30Predicting Clinical Events from Electronic Medical Records (EMR) Data
David Page, University of Wisconsin
Colloquium29Unsolvability & Undecidability in the Diophantine Realm
Martin Davis, Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley
Colloquium28Distinguished Lecture Series: Alan Turing's Computers and Our Computers
Martin Davis, Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley
Colloquium23Turing's Connectionism: A Modern Perspective
Christof Teuscher, Portland State University
Colloquium16From Shell Maps to Zombie Gunship and Beyond
Serban Porumbescu, Hidden Elephant
Colloquium02Hands-On Enigma
Mike Koss
April 2013
Colloquium25Bridging the Gap between Open and Closed Information Extraction
Mathias Niepert, University of Washington
Colloquium23SystemT: an Algebraic Approach to Declarative Information Extraction
Yunyao Li, IBM Almaden Research Center
March 2013
Colloquium12Understanding and Optimizing the Performance of Scientific Software
Boyana Norris, Mathematics & Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Colloquium05Using Architecture Support to make Concurrent and Parallel Software Less Buggy and More Reliable
Brandon Lucia, University of Washington
February 2013
Colloquium21Research Poster Contest Presentation
CIS Graduate Students, University of Oregon, CIS
Colloquium07Recent Advances in Open Information Extraction
Mausam, University of Washington
January 2013
Colloquium24Computational Paleontology
Kent Stevens, University of Oregon
Career Mentorship Colloquium24ACM Student Lecture Series: LaTeX: Durable, Plyable and Extendable
Jim Allen, UO CIS Alum
Colloquium15Resource management in networks: Performance and Security Issues
Srikanth Krishnamurthy, University of California, Riverside
Colloquium10The Parallel BGL: A High-Performance Parallel Graph Algorithms Library
Andrew Lumsdaine, Indiana University
November 2012
Colloquium29Gravitational Interactions Optimization
Juan Flores, Universidad Michoacana, Mexico
Colloquium27RESAR Storage: a System for Two-Failure Tolerant, Self-Adjusting Million Disk Storage Clusters
Darrell Long, University of California, Santa Cruz
Colloquium15The Disruptive Process of Innovation
Ed Colligan
Colloquium09Chasing Telephony Security: Where the Wild Things... Are?
Patrick Traynor, Georgia Tech
Colloquium01The Quest for a Computational Science in Geography
Chris Bone, University of Oregon
October 2012
Colloquium25Machine learning approaches for understanding the genetic basis of complex traits
Su-In Lee, University of Washington
Colloquium18Hilbert's Nullstellensatz and Linear Algebra: An Algorithm for Determining Combinatorial Infeasibility
Susan Margulies, Penn State University
Colloquium12Joint Contour Nets: Theory & Applications
Hamish Carr, University of Leeds, UK
Colloquium04The k-in-a-path problem for claw-free graphs
Jiri Fiala, Charles University, Czech Republic