ST: Masters/Doctoral Seminar - CS 6/76995 
Fall 2004

MWF  3:15 - 4:20 AM
MSB   228
Instructor
Office Hours
 

Email 
Telephone

Dr. Feodor Dragan 
Room 254 MSB
MW  12:15 - 2:00 PM 
and by appointment 
dragan@cs.kent.edu
(330)672-9058

 
 

 

Class Schedule
No.
Date
Major Lecture Topics
1
August 30 
Course Overview (Dr. Dragan)
 2
 September 1
 Research in Algorithms (Dr. Dragan)
 3
 September 8
 New Graduate Curriculum (Dr. Lu and Dr. Maletic)
 4
 September 15
 Green's functions for singularly perturbed problems (Dr. Torsten Linss, Technical University of Dresden, Germany; joint Math/CS Colloquium)
 5
 September 20
 Interactive Voice Modifiable 3D Dynamic Object Based Movies over the Internet (Bonita Simoes, PhD Student)
 6
 September 22
 Effective Network Monitoring (Hassan Gobjuka, PhD Student) 
 7
 September 29
 Collective Tree Spanners in Graphs (Chenyu Yan, PhD Student)
 8
 October 6
 Some algorithmic problems in Cellular and Sensor Networks (Dr. Dragan)
 9 
 October 22
 Midterm Meeting 
 10
 October 29 
 Metric Methods: Algorithms and Applications (Dr. Anupam Gupta, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA)
 11
 November 3
 CPT/OPT guidelines (Charles Nieman, director of KSU International Student and Scholar Services (ISSS), Deb Lyons and Kelly Mata, Foreign Student Advisors)
12
November 5
CANCELED
Literature Search (Dr. Volkert)
13
November 8 
Volume rendering for massive datasets (Rohit Chhabra, MS Student)
14
November 10 
Identification of  class stereotypes (N. Dragan, MS Student)
15
November 12
Computational Geometry and Biology (Dr. Sergey (Bereg) Bespamyatnikh, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 
16
November 15
MOVED TO NOV. 17
Branches Exhibiting Contrary Behavior (Syed Hossain, MS Student)
17
November 17
Branches Exhibiting Contrary Behavior (Syed Hossain, MS Student)
Discretization of continuous attributes (Olena Andriyevska, MS Student)
18
November 19
Research in routing protocols for Mobile Ad hoc wireless Networks (Yang Xiang, PhD Student)
19
November 22
Approximate String Matching in the ASC Model (Shannon Steinfadt, PhD Student) and 
Shortcut detection and route repair in Ad Hoc Networks (Gaurav Saxena, MS Student)
20
November 24
CANCELED (Thanksgiving) and MOVED to Dec. 3rd 
Testing Sensor Networks  (Abhishek Asokan, MS Student)
 21
 November 29
 TBA (Dr. Atanas (Nasko) Rountev, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH )
22
December 1
A Theoretical and Applied Program to Simulate Very Large Social and Infrastructure Systems (Dr. Madhav Marathe, Basic and Applied Simulation Sciences (CCS-5), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM , USA)
23 
December 3 
Testing Sensor Networks  (Abhishek Asokan, MS Student)
24
December 6
Incorporating Virtual Tape into Disaster Recovery Plans (Bernard Survoy, MS Student)
 25
 December 8
CANCELED
Efficient Algorithms for Exploring Large-Scale Multidimensional Time Series Data (Prof. Joseph F. JaJa, University of Maryland, College Park, MD)


F. Dragan
dragan@cs.kent.edu
Fall 2004