ST: Masters/Doctoral Seminar - CS 6/76995 
FALL 2008

MWF  3:45 - 5:00 PM
MSB   228

 

Instructor
Office Hours
 

Email 
Telephone

Dr. Feodor Dragan 
Room 254 MSB
TR  2:30 - 3:30 PM 
and by appointment 
dragan at cs dot kent dot edu
(330) 672-9058


 
 

 

 

 

Class Schedule

No.

Date

Major Lecture Topics

1

August 25 (M)

Graduate Student Meeting (Dr. Peyravi)

2

August 27 (W)

No Class (FAC meeting)

3

August 29 (F)

Publishing Venues (Dr. Jonathan Maletic)

4

September 1 (M)

No Class (Labor Day)

5

September 3 (W)

Course Introduction (Dr. Dragan)

6

September 8 (M)

Research in Algorithms (Dr. Dragan)

 7

September 10 (W)

Video talk  (Dr. Chepoi)

 8

September 15 (M)

No class (GSC meeting)

 9

September 17 (W)

Succinct Summarization of Transactional Databases: An Overlapped Hyperrectangle Scheme (PhD student Yang Xiang)

 10

September 22 (M)

Research in Data Mining (Dr. Jin)

 11

September 24 (W)

No class (FAC meeting)

12

September 26 (F)

Colloquium Talk (Dr. Victor Marek, University of Kentucky)

13

September 29 (M)

No class

 14

October 1 (W)

Colloquium Talk (Dr. Mehmet Koyuturk, CWRU)

15

October 6 (M)

Using the Second Life virtual world for education of computer science and mathematics (Mr. Dean Zeller, ACM Kent Chapter)

16

October 8 (W)

No class

17

October 13 (M)

Student presentation (Hardas, Manas S.)

18

October 15 (W)

Colloquium Talk (Dr. Martin Matamala, University of Santiago, Chile)

19

October 20 (M)

No class (GSC meeting)

20

October 22 (W)

Student Presentations Scheduling  (here)

21

October 24 (F)

Colloquium Talk (Dr. Andrian Marcus, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan)

22

October 27 (M)

No class

23

October 29 (W)

No class (FAC meeting)

24

October 31 (F)

Lattice Boltzmann Based Simulation in Computer Graphics and Visualization (Dr. Ye Zhao, CS, KSU)

25

November 3 (M)

No class (GSC meeting)

26

November 5 (W)

Colloquium Talk (Dr. Kun Huang, Department of Biomedical Informatics at Ohio State University)

27

November 7 (F)

Student Presentations (Alsakran, Jamal and  M Hoblos, Jalaa)

28

November 10 (M)

Student Presentations (Regan, Patrick M. and Lee, Victor E.)

29

November 12 (W)

Seminar Talk (Automation of Our University, Roberta Sikula-Schwalm, Associate Vice President, Kent State University)

30

November 14 (F)

Student Presentations (Abu-Ata, Muad M. and Alomari, Hakam)

31

November 17 (M)

Student Presentations (Martin, Andrew J. and Malik, Rizwan)

32

November 19 (W)

Colloquium Talk (Dr. Piotr Indyk, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts)

33

November 21 (F)

Student Presentations (Laskar, Pallav and Khasawneh, Samer F)

34

November 24 (M)

Student Presentations (Stewart, Craig R. and Abdullah, Zainatul)

35

November 26 (W)

No class (Thanksgiving)

36

November 28 (F)

No class (Thanksgiving)

37

December 1 (M)

Seminar Talk (Programming Employment Opportunities with the FBI, by Agent Vicki D. Anderson)

38

December 3 (W)

No class (FAC meeting)

39

December 5 (F)

Student Presentations (Canceled)

40

December 8 (M)

Student Presentations (Panchariya, Sagar and Zhuravlyov, Denis  and A Du, Xiaoxi  and  M Hoblos, Jalaa)

All students taking the course for a letter grade must write a research short paper (4-6 pages in IEEE proceedings format). A first draft of the paper is due to the Seminar instructor by 1 December 2008; the final version is due by 9 December 2008.

Resources (Writing Papers)

  • Format
      • Use the IEEE CS 8.5" x 11", Two-Column Format for your 4-6 page class paper
  • Organization
  • Mechanics
  • Ethical Concerns
      • To see a result of plagiarism, go to the ACM Portal and search "The ACM Digital Library" for "plagiarized"

Resources (Giving Presentations)

  • Sample Presentation

15+5 Minute PDCS'06 Talk (Hong Wang, KSU/UToledo)

  • Oganization
  • Mechanics

Resources (General)

 

 

Previous Terms:

 

Fall 2007

Spring 2007

Fall 2006

Spring 2006

Spring 2005

Fall 2004

 



F. F. Dragan
dragan at cs dot kent dot edu
FALL 2008