Class Schedule

No.	Date	Major Lecture Topics
1	January 17 (M)	Holiday
2	January 19 (W)	Course Overview (Dr. Dragan)
3	January 24 (M)	Research in Algorithms (Dr. Dragan)
4	January 28 (F)	Literature Search (Dr. Volkert)
5	January 31 (M)	Research in Networking (Dr. Peyravi)
6	February 2 (W)	Computational Problems in Population Haplotyping (Prof. Alex Zelikovsky, Computer Science Department, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA)
7	February 9 (W)	Research in Algorithms for Wireless Networks (Dr. Dragan)
8	February 18 (F)	Strategyproof Network Protocol Design (Prof. Xiang-Yang Li,  Computer Science Department, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL)
9	February 25 (F)	Algorithms for Universal DNA Tag Array Design and Optimization  (Prof. Ion Mandoiu, Computer Science & Engineering Department, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT)
10	Match 2 (W)	CANCELED (FAC meeting in room 228)
11	March 4 (F)	Network Lifetime and Power Assignment in Ad-Hoc Wireless Networks  (Prof. Gruia Calinescu, Computer Science Department, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL )
12	March 7 (M)	Image Processing Methods For Large-Scale Studies of Neurodegenerative Disease (Dr. Owen Carmichael, University of Pittsburgh, Faculty Candidate)
13	March 9 (W)	Scalable Data Mining: System and Algorithms (Ruoming Jin, Ohio State University, Faculty Candidate)
14	March 11 (F)	Some Issues in the Extreme Scaling of Wireless Sensor Network (Prof. Anish Arora, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH)
15	March 14 (M)	Similarity-Cornerstone of Bioinformatics, or “How One Can Compare Apples to Oranges” (Dr. Mikhail Popescu,  University of Missouri, Columbia, Faculty Candidate)
16	March 16 (W)	Mass Spectrometry Data Analysis for Biomarker Discovery (Dr. Weichuan Yu, the Center for Statistical Genomics and Proteomics at Yale, Faculty Candidate)
17	March 28 (M)	A Benchmark for the Reverse Engineering of UML Class Diagrams from C++ (Andrew Sutton, MS Student)
18	March 30 (W)	SORTING NETWORKS (Dr. Batcher)
19	April 1 (F)	Towards a Framework for Model-to-Model Traceability  (Bonita Simoes, PhD Student)
20	April 4 (M)	Wireless Networking: An Overview (Yasir Drabu, PhD Student)
21	April 6 (W)	On Self-stabilization and Sensor networks  (Prof. Sebastien Tixeuil, Universite Paris Sud, France)
22	April 11 (M)	Branches exhibiting contrary behavior   (Syed Hossain, PhD Student)
23	April 13 (W)	A Comparison of Sequence Alignment Algorithms Measuring Secondary Structure Similarity (Deborah A. Stoffer, MS Student)
24	April 20 (W)	Efficient Associative SIMD Processing for Non-Tabular Structured Data  (Jalpesh K. Chitalia, PhD Student)
25	April 22 (F)	Efficient Algorithms for Exploring Large-Scale Multidimensional Time Series Data  (Prof. Joseph F. JaJa, University of Maryland, College Park, MD)
26	April 27 (W)	On clique separators, nearly chordal graphs and the Maximum Weight Stable Set problem (Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Andreas Brandstädt, Universität Rostock, Rostock, Germany)
27	May 4 (W)	High-Performance Computing for Reconstructing Evolutionary Trees from Gene-Order Data  (David A. Bader, Associate Professor and Regents' Lecturer, Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM)
28	May 6 (F)	Conclusion (Dr. Dragan)