Basser Seminar Series
Upcoming Seminars
Refreshments are available from 3:30pm before each seminar, unless otherwise stated.
- Trees, Enzymes, Computers: Challenges in Bioinformatics
Professor Greg Butler, Computer Science and Enginnering, Concordia University
Friday 10 September 2010, 4:00-5:00pm
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Rob Pike, Distinguished Engineer, Google
Friday 17 September 2010, 4:00-5:00pm
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Other seminars
- Accountability as a Service for the Cloud
Jinhu Yao, School of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of Sydney
Recipient of the best paper award from the Australian Academy for Technological Sciences and Engineering's working Group on Cloud Computing at Peta-scale
Tuesday 7 September 2010, 4:00-5:00pm
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About the Basser Seminar Series
The Basser Seminar Series held at the School of Information Technologies provides an opportunity for IT academics and representatives from industry to present and discuss their current work. The seminars offer a glimpse at the cutting-edge of IT research.
For further information on the Basser Seminar Series, or would like to subscribe to our Seminar announcements, please contact Lavy Libman.
When
The seminars are held fortnightly on Friday, beginning with refreshments at 3:30pm. The seminars will begin at 4:00pm, unless specified otherwise.
New Venue
Lecture Theatre Room 123, Level 1, School of IT Building, The University of Sydney. Please click here for location details.
Duration
One hour, including a 15 minutes period for questions and discussion.
Postgraduate Research Seminar Series
The School of Information Technologies also runs a new 'Postgraduate Research Seminar Series' as part of the Basser Seminar Series. The intention is to give an overview of the current research activities at our School.
Recent Seminars
- CSHelp: Automatic Self-healing for Multiple Application Instances in a Virtual Machine Environment, Associate Professor Bing Bing Zhou, School of IT, University of Sydney
- Combinatorial Rigidity: Theory, Algorithms and Applications, Professor Naoki Katoh, Kyoto University
- Dynamics of Network Structure and Content in Social Media, Professor Ramayya Krishnan, School of Information Systems and Management Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University
- The Anatomy of a Graph Visualization System, Professor Giuseppe Liotta, University of Perugia
- Learning Local Lessons in Software Engineering, Dr Tim Menzies, West Virginia University, Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
- SGViewer: a faceted search interface that blends aggregate views with point distributional views that reveal clusters and outliers, Dr Mark Sifer, University of Wollongong
- Places & Spaces: Mapping Science, Professor Katy Börner, Victor H. Yngve Professor of Information Science and Director of the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, USA
- The "Physics" of Notations: Towards a Scientific Basis for Constructing Visual Notations in Software Engineering, Dr Daniel Moody, Senior Consultant, Ajilon Australia
- Power Allocation and Task Scheduling on Multiprocessor Computers with Energy and Time Constraints, Professor Keqin Li, SUNY Distinguished Professor, Department of Computer Science, State University of New York
- iTCM: IT meeting TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine), Dr Josiah Poon, School of IT, The University of Sydney
- Data Cleansing as a Transient Service, Dr Mukesh Mohania, STSM and Senior Manager, IBM Research, India
- Advances in Digital Business Service Ecosystems, Associate Professor Youakim Badr, French National Institute for Applied Sciences (INSA)
- Feature Selection and Caching: Extensions of the Relevant-Set Correlation Model, Professor Michael E. Houle, Visiting Professor, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan
- Build intelligence from the physical world, Dr Xing Xie, Web Search and Mining Group, Microsoft Research Asia
- Practical and Effective symbolic analysis for buffer overflow detection, Dr Lian Li, Sunlabs, Oracle
- Aspects of research in VANETS: Information dissemination and Next Generation Mobile Networks: Cooperative Interactions, Professor Andreas Pitsillides, University of Cyprus
- The Cyborg Experiments, Professor Kevin Warwick, University of Reading, UK
- Algorithmic Turán-type Problems and Graph Drawing, Professor Peter Eades, School of Information Technologies, The University of Sydney
- Who ‘Dat? Identity resolution in large email collections, Associate Professor Douglas W. Oard, University of Maryland, USA
- Ruminations about the US Smart Grid project, Len Bass, Senior Member of Technical Staff,
Software Engineering Institute (SEI), Carnegie Mellon University - Information Technology Workforce Skills for the Future, Dr Kate M Kaiser, Marquette University
- e-Science Central - Science as a Service, Professor Paul Watson, Professor of Computer Science, Newcastle University UK