[CCICADA-announce] DIMACS/CCICADA Interdisciplinary Series, Spring 2012

[Linda Casals]

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 DIMACS/CCICADA Interdisciplinary Series, Spring 2012

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Series Description and full calendar listed below

  Dates: Held approximately every other Monday, with 
         additional talks scheduled at other times

  Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm 

  Location: DIMACS, CoRE Bldg. Room 431, Rutgers Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

  Host: James Abello, abello at dimacs.rutgers.edu and
        Fred Roberts, froberts at dimacs.rutgers.edu

  Website: http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Seminars/interseminars.html

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Series Description

A forum for presentation and discussion of mathematical,
computational, and statistical questions of interest to the
DIMACS/CCICADA community and arising from research challenges in a
variety of disciplines. We expect the series to be of interest to
applied mathematicians, computer scientists, and statisticians, as
well as researchers and practitioners in engineering, bioinformatics,
epidemiology, political science, sociology, and the behavioral
sciences. Themes include but are not limited to:

  -  machine learning and its applications
  -  social network analysis
  -  privacy and security
  -  computer, communication and sensor networks
  -  algorithmic analysis and visualization of large-scale,
        unstructured, heterogeneous and/or streaming data
  -  mathematical sciences models for applications of global or national 
        importance such as homeland security, climate change, 
        healthcare, and critical infrastructure.
  -  applications of discrete mathematics/theoretical computer 
        science to the social and behavioral sciences
  -  risk modeling and assessment
  -  information processing in biology
  -  mathematical and computational epidemiology 

Talks will be given by members of the DIMACS/CCICADA community and by outside speakers.

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Spring 2012 Calendar 

Monday, January 30, 2012
    Speaker: Jeffrey Hermann, University of Maryland 
    Title: Operations Research for Public Health Preparedness 
    Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm 
    Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, February 6, 2012
    Speaker: Ankur Moitra, IAS, Princeton 
    Title: Vertex Sparsification 
    Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm 
    Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, February 13, 2012
    Speaker: Boram Park 
    Title: Recent results on competition graphs and competition numbers 
    Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm 
    Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, February 20, 2012
    Speaker: Guy Melancon, Université de Bordeaux & INRIA Bordeaux 
    Title: Relevance feedback index for document visualization 
    Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm 
    Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, March 6, 2012
    Speaker: Endre Boros, Rutcor, Rutgers University 
    Title: TBA 
    Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm 
    Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, March 19, 2012
    Speaker: Sergei Vassilvistskii, Yahoo! Research 
    Title: TBA 
    Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm 
    Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, April 2, 2012
    Speaker: John Krimmel, College of New Jersey 
    Title: The Social Construction of Criminology 
    Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm 
    Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, April 16, 2012
    Speaker: TBA 
    Title: TBA 
    Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm 
    Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Monday, April 20, 2012
    Speaker: TBA 
    Title: TBA 
    Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm 
    Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431 


Recommendations for speakers (and offers to speak) should be directed
to James Abello (abello at dimacs.rutgers.edu) or Fred Roberts
froberts at dimacs.rutgers.edu.