Basser Seminar Series

2009 Seminars

• Mammalian Phylogenomics and Spotting Queer Genes, Dr Peter Waddell, Assistant Professor, Purdue University
• DCBM - A Multipath Routing Algorithm for Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks, Professor Adrian Segall, Department of EE, Technion, IIT, Haifa, Israel and CSIRO ICT Centre (Sydney)
• Approximation algorithms for the link building game using backlinks, Dr Taso Viglas, The School of IT, The University of Sydney
• High-Performance GPU Computing with CUDA and the NVIDIA "Fermi" Architecture, Dr Mark Harris, NVIDIA
• Static program analysis for bug checking of systems code, Dr Bernhard Scholz, The School of IT, The University of Sydney
• Service Science: Conceptual Foundations, Emerging Directions, Associate Professor Joseph G. Davis, The School of IT, The University of Sydney
• Multimedia Retrieval System using new data mining techniques, Dr Vera Chung, The School of IT, The University of Sydney
• Smarter Energy: The Promise of Cyber-Physical Energy Systems, Professor Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, Senior Manager, Next Gen Systems & Smarter Planet Solutions Department, IBM India Research Labs, Bangalore
• Massive Networked Decision Systems, Professor David Hill, Federation Fellow, ANU
• Resource Allocation for Energy Efficient Large-Scale Distributed Systems, Professor Albert Zomaya, School of IT, The University of Sydney
• Business process compliance: Models, semantic annotations and resolution procedures, Professor Aditya Ghose, Director, Decision Systems Lab, School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Wollongong
• Discussion forum: Helping Students and Supervisors Manage PhD Risks (A software engineer's perspective), Dr Keith Nesbitt, The University of Newcastle, Australia
• One Laptop Per Child - the View from 1978, Lee Felsenstein, The Fonly Institute
• AnonySense: Privacy-Aware People-Centric Sensing, Professor David Kotz, Computer Science, Dartmouth College
• Computing for the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder, Dr Tim Cornwell, CSIRO / Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF)
• The ADAGE Approach to User-Driven Large Scale Data Processing, Associate Professor Fethi Rabhi, School of Information Systems, UNSW
• Immortal DB: A Compelling Case for Transaction Time Database Systems, Dr David Lomet, Microsoft Research
• Mathematics of Privacy, Associate Professor Ljiljana Brankovic, The University of Newcastle
• Do we simply accept the Australian Internet filtering scheme or do we need to ask hard questions?, Associate Professor Bjorn Landfeldt, School of Information Technologies, The University of Sydney. Watch this seminar online.
• Quantum computing – information processing and storage in quantum spin systems, Dr Stephen Bartlett, Senior Lecturer in Physics, University of Sydney
• The Claremont Conversation Online and Related Social Software Research, Professor Lorne Olfman, Fletcher Jones Chair in Technology Management, School of Information Systems and Technology, Claremont Graduate University
• Data Quality and Data Provenance Research, Professor Xiaofang Zhou, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland
• More than a thousand words, Professor Stefan Rueger, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University
• Towards a Quiescent World: Local Inference in Complex Systems, Professor Assaf Schuster, The Technion, Haifa, Israel