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CS Colloquium 2009-2010 - Fall Semester:

Coordinator: Dr. Julia Kempe
Place: Schreiber 006
Time: 11:00 gathering, cookies and coffee
11:15-12:15 colloquium talk
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Date	Speaker			Title
October 18 11:15-12:15	Ran Canetti School of CS, Tel Aviv University			Program Obfuscation: A Cryptographic Viewpoint
October 25 11:15-12:15	Naftali Tishby School of CSE, Hebrew University			The information-dynamics of autonomous agents in stochastic environments
November 1 11:15-12:15	Joe Halpern Sackler Fellow of the Mortimer and Raymond Sackler Institute of Advanced Studies and Cornell University			Robustness and Optimization of Scrip Systems
November 8 11:15-12:15	Alon Rosen IDC Herzliya			Cryptographic Elections - Challenges and Opportunities
November 11 * special date and time 10:30-11:30	Prabhakar Rhaghavan Yahoo! Research Silicon Valley			Heavy tails and models for the Web and social networks
November 15 11:15-12:15	Noam Nisan School of CSE, Hebrew University and Google RD, Israel			Google's Auction for TV ads
November 22 11:15-12:15	Eyal Even-Dar Google Inc			Learning with Global Cost Functions
November 29 11:15-12:15	Orr Dunkelman Weizmann Institute			Key Recovery Attacks of Practical Complexity on AES Variants With Up To 10 Rounds
December 6 11:15-12:15	Avinatan Hassidim MIT			Phylogenetic Tree Reconstruction with Insertions and Deletions
December 13	Chanukah
December 20 11:15-12:15	Andrei Sharf UC Davis			Recent results in geometric modeling and point processing
December 27 11:15-12:15	Shalom Lappin King's College, London			How Hard is Language Acquisition?: Characterizing the Grammar Induction Task within Computational Learning Theory
January 3 11:15-12:15	Alon Orlitsky ECE and CSE, UCSD			Foreseeing the Unseen: Probability Estimation over Large Alphabets
January 10 11:15-12:15	Scott Aaronson MIT			New Evidence that Quantum Mechanics is Hard to Simulate on Classical Computers
January 17 11:15-12:15	Michael Shapira Yale University and UC Berkeley			Internet Routing: Foundations, Challenges and Future Directions

CS Colloquium 2009-2010 - Spring Semester:

Date	Guest			Title
February 21 11:15-12:15	Ofer Dekel Microsoft Research, Redmont			Learning from Multiple Teachers
February 28	Purim
March 7 11:15-12:15	Yaacov Choueka CS, Bar Ilan University			Computerizing the Cairo Genizah Vision, Challenges, Research and Achievements
March 14 11:15-12:15	Shafi Goldwasser Weizmann and MIT			Proving Security Against Side Channel Attacks: Models and Theorems
March 21 11:15-12:15	Piotr Indyk MIT			Sketching Earth-Mover Distance, with applications
April 11 11:15-12:15	Ehud Lehrer TAU			Approachability and it applications
April 18 11:15-12:15	Moshe Y. Vardi Rice University			From Philosophical to Industrial Logics
Apr 21 * special date and time 15:00-16:00	Ron Rivest Computer Science, MIT			Security of Voting Systems
April 25 11:15-12:15	Shai Ben-David Waterloo			Which clustering algorithm should I use? Towards principled guidelines
May 2 11:15-12:15	Zvi Galil TAU			Return of the Jedi
May 9 11:15-12:15	Anat Bremler-Barr IDC			Advanced Networking: Algorithms for Utilizing New Memory Models
May 16 11:15-12:15	Andrew V.Goldberg Microsoft Research - Silicon Valley			Highway Dimension and Provably Efficient Shortest Path Algorithms
May 23 11:15-12:00	Raimund Seidel Saarland University			Issues in Geometric Rounding
May 30 11:15-12:15	Robert Krauthgamer Weizmann Institute			Polylogarithmic Approximation for Edit Distance and the Asymmetric Query Complexity
Jun 6 11:15-12:15	Eran Halperin TAU			Deciphering the genetic components of human diseases
Jun 13 11:15-12:15	Lior Shapira TAU			On the making of pretty pictures, estimating the volume of a camel (well, not only) and some actual science (ooh)
Jun 20 11:15-12:15 *Schreiber 309	Dorit Hochbaum UC Berkeley			Replacing spectral techniques for expander ratio, normalized cut and conductance by combinatorial flow algorithms
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