DyDAn Seminars

DyDAn Homeland Security Seminar and DIMACS Computational and Mathematical Epidemiology Joint Seminar
Speaker: Ronen Feldman, Bar-Ilan University
Title: Link Mining: Current State of the Art
Slides: Link Analysis: Current State of the Art
Time: 12:00-1:30pm
Location: DyDAn Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ
Date: February 19, 2007

DIMACS-CAIT Laboratory for Port Security/Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering/DyDAn Joint Seminar
Speaker: Bethann Rooney, Port Security for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Title: Maritime Security: A Complex Problem
Time: 5:00 - 6:00pm
Location: CoRE Auditorium, CoRE Bldg, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ
Date: February 20, 2007

Library and Information Science (LIS) Department Research Series
Speaker: Jimmy Lin, University of Maryland
Title: Beyond "Bag of Words": Towards a Framework for Conceptual Retrieval
Time: 3:30pm
Location: SCILS Faculty Lounge (4 Huntington, off of College Ave.), Rutgers University
Date: February 22, 2007

DyDAn Homeland Security Seminar
Speaker: Roman Dementiev, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Title: STXXL - Standard Template Library for XXL Data sets
Slides: STXXL - Standard Template Library for XXL Data set
Time: 12:00-1:30pm
Location: DyDAn Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ
Date: March 19, 2007

DyDAn Homeland Security Seminar
Speaker: Andrei Zinovyev, Institut Curie, Paris
Title: Elastic Principal Graphs and Topological Grammars for Data Approximation
Time: 12:00-1:30pm
Location: DyDAn Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ
Date: March 20, 2007

DyDAn Homeland Security Seminar
Speaker: Tina Eliassi-Rad, Lawrence Livermore National Labs
Title: Applications and Algorithms for Dynamic Semantic Graphs
Time: 12:00-1:30pm
Location: DyDAn Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ
Date: March 27, 2007

DyDAn Homeland Security Seminar and DIMACS Computational and Mathematical Epidemiology Joint Seminar
Speaker: Vladimir Gurvich, Rutgers University
Title: On Complexity of Algorithms for Modeling Disease Transmission and Vaccination Strategies
Time: 12:00-1:30pm
Location: DyDAn Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ
Date: April 9, 2007

DyDAn Homeland Security Seminar
Speaker: John Stasko, Georgia Tech
Title: Visual Analytics
Slides: Visual Analytics
Time: 12:00-1:30pm
Location: DyDAn Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ
Date: April 23, 2007

DyDAn Homeland Security Seminar
Speaker: Michael Markov, Markov Processes International LLC (MPI)
Title: Forensic Analysis of Hedge Funds - Detecting Leverage and Fraud
Slides: For permission to access slides, please email Michael Markov
Time: 11:15-12:45pm**
**Please note special time
Location: DyDAn Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ
Date: May 7, 2007

DyDAn Homeland Security Seminar
Speaker: Victor Asal and R. Karl Rethemeyer, Rockefeller College, University at Albany, SUNY
Title: Empirical and Virtual Terrorist Networks
Location: DyDAn Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ
Date: May 10, 2007

DyDAn Homeland Security Seminar and DIMACS Computational and Mathematical Epidemiology Joint Seminar
Speaker: Marcus Felson, Rutgers University
Title: Crime's Ecosystem
Slides: Crime's Ecosystem
Time: 12:00-1:30pm
Location: DyDAn Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ
Date: May 21, 2007

DyDAn Homeland Security Seminar
Speaker: William Ribarsky, Charlotte Visualization Center, SouthEast Regional Visualization and Analytics Center
Title: SouthEast RVAC Research and Its Visual Analytics Vision
Slides: SouthEastRVAC Researchand Its Visual Analytics Vision
Time: 10:30-11:45am**Please note time and room change
Location: DyDAn Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ
Date: July 5, 2007

DyDAn Homeland Security Seminar
Speaker: Walter Willinger, AT&T Labs-Research
Title: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics: Preferential Attachment-Type Network Models of the Internet
Slides: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics: Preferential Attachment-Type Network Models of the Internet
Time: 12:00-1:30pm
Location: DyDAn Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ
Date: September 17, 2007

DyDAn Homeland Security Seminar
Speaker: April Kontostathis, Ursinus College
Title: Latent Semantic Indexing: What can we learn from a close study of the data?
Slides: Latent Semantic Indexing: What can we learn from a close study of the data?
Time: 12:00-1:30pm
Location: DyDAn Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ
Date: October 8, 2007

DyDAn Homeland Security Seminar
Speaker: Jacob Martin, Trinity College Dublin
Title: The Expected Determinant of the Random Gram Matrix and its Application to Information Retrieval Systems
Slides: The Expected Determinant of the Random Gram Matrix and its Application to Information Retrieval Systems
Time: 12:00-1:30pm
Location: DyDAn Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ
Date: October 22, 2007

DIMACS/Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering/DyDAn Joint Seminar
Speaker: Robert Ross, Department of Homeland Security
Title: Managing Homeland Security Risk: A New Approach
Slides: Risk and Decision-Making in Homeland Security
Time: 5:00 - 6:00pm
Location: DyDAn Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ
Date: November 6, 2007

DyDAn Homeland Security Seminar
Speaker: Nabil Adam, Rutgers University
Title: Information Management for Emergency Decision Support (IMEDS)
Time: 12:00-1:30pm
Location: DyDAn Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ
Date: November 12, 2007

DyDAn Homeland Security Seminar
Speaker: Johanna Gold, LAMSADE, Université Paris-Dauphine
Title: Comparison between Logical Analysis of Data and Rough Sets Theory
Slides: Rough Sets Theory Logical Analysis of Data.
Time: 12:00-1:30pm
Location: DyDAn Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ
Date: November 26, 2007

DIMACS/Lab for Port Security/DyDAn Homeland Security Joint Seminar
Speaker: Major John Hunt, Commanding Officer of the Homeland Security Branch of the Special Operations Sector, New Jersey State Police
Title: Managing the Radius of Risk
Time: 3:30-4:30pm with refreshments served at 3:00pm
Location: DyDAn Center, CoRE Bldg, First Floor Auditorium, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ
Date: December 3, 2007

DyDAn Homeland Security Seminar
Speaker: Masoumeh Tabaeh Izadi, McGill University
Title: Using Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Epidemiology Research
Slides: Using Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Epidemiology Research
Time: 12:00-1:30pm
Location: DyDAn Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ
Date: December 10, 2007

DyDAn Homeland Security Seminar
Speaker: Henry Willis, Rand Corporation
Title: Applying Optimal Capital Allocation Methods to Homeland Security Resources:
A Case Study of California's Allocation of the Buffer Zone Protection Program Grants
Slides: Applying Optimal Capital Allocation Methods to Homeland Security Resources:
A Case Study of California's Allocation of the Buffer Zone Protection Program Grants
Time: 12:00-1:30pm
Location: DyDAn Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ
Date: January 28, 2008

DyDAn Homeland Security Seminar
Speaker: Vladimir Batagelj, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Title: Analysis of Large Networks with Pajek
Slides: Analysis of Large Networks with Pajek
Time: 12:00-1:30pm
Location: DyDAn Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ
Date: January 29, 2008

DyDAn Homeland Security Seminar
Speaker: Graham Cormode, AT&T Labs
Title: Approximating the Entropy of a Stream
Slides: Computing the Entropy of a Stream
Time: 12:00-1:30pm
Location: DyDAn Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ
Date: February 11, 2008

DyDAn Homeland Security Seminar
Speaker: Yehuda Koren, AT&T Labs
Title: Chasing $1,000,000: How we Won the Netflix Progress Prize
Slides: Chasing $1,000,000: How we Won the Netflix Progress Prize
Time: 12:00-1:30pm
Location: DyDAn Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ
Date: February 18, 2008

DyDAn Homeland Security Seminar
Speaker: David Ebert, Purdue University
Title: Visual Analytics For Discovery, Exploration, and Decision Making
Time: 12:00-1:30pm
Location: DyDAn Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ
Date: Friday, February 22, 2008
CANCELLED-will be rescheduled

DyDAn Homeland Security Seminar
Speaker: Roman Dementiev, SAP Research
Title: The XtreemOS Project
Time: 12:00-1:30pm
Location: DyDAn Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ
Date: March 10, 2008

DyDAn Homeland Security Seminar
Speaker: Steve Beitzel, Telcordia Technologies Applied Research
Title: On Understanding and Classifying Web Queries
Slides: On Understanding and Classifying Web Queries
Time: 12:00-1:30pm
Location: DyDAn Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ
Date: April 14, 2008

DyDAn Homeland Security Seminar
Speaker: Wassila Ouerdane, LAMSADE, Université Paris Dauphine
Title: Argument Schemes and Critical Questions for Decision Aiding Process
Slides: Argument Schemes and Critical Questions for Decision Aiding Process
Time: 12:00-1:30pm
Location: DyDAn Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ
Date: April 21, 2008

DyDAn Homeland Security Seminar
Speaker: Jon Carnegie, Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center, Rutgers University
Title: Jersey City/Newark UASI Region Evacuation Planning Study
Slides: Jersey City/Newark UASI Region Evacuation Planning Study
Time: 12:00-1:30pm
Location: DyDAn Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ
Date: April 28, 2008

DyDAn Homeland Security Seminar
Speaker: Shmuel Tomi Klein, Bar Ilan University
Title: On the usefulness of Fibonacci compression codes
Slides: On the Usefulness of Fibonacci Compression Codes
Time: 12:00-1:30pm
Location: DyDAn Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ
Date: June 23, 2008

DIMACS/DyDAn Multidisciplinary Seminar Series
Speaker: Bhaskar DasGupta, University of Illinois at Chicago
Title: Synthesizing and Minimizing Signal Transduction (and Social) Networks
Slides: Synthesizing and Minimizing Signal Transduction (and Social) Networks
Time: 12:00-1:30pm
Location: DyDAn Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ
Date: October 6, 2008

University Center for Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Response (UCDPER) Lecture
Speaker: Ram Meir Spira, Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem
Title: Mass Casualty Events: the Israeli Experience at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem
Time: 8:00 - 9:00 am
Location: UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Conference Room 102, 1 Robert Wood Johnson Place, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Date: October 17, 2008

DIMACS/DyDAn Multidisciplinary Seminar Series
Speaker: Steve Reinhardt, Interactive Supercomputing, Inc.
Title: Interactive Knowledge Discovery within Near-Terascale Graphs
Slides: Star-P and the Knowledge Discovery Suite
Time: 11:00-12:00 pm **Note special time
Location: DyDAn Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ
Date: October 20, 2008

DyDAn Student-organized Seminar Series
See: this new seminar series: http://dydan.rutgers.edu/Seminars/2008/studentseminars.html
Speaker: Cong Huang, Columbia University
Title: Penalized Squared Error and Likelihood: Risk Bounds and a Fast Algorithm
Time: 11:00-12:00 pm
Location: DyDAn Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ
Date: October 24, 2008

DIMACS/DyDAn Multidisciplinary Seminar Series
Speaker: Michael R. Greenberg, Rutgers University
Title: Strategic Economic Risk Analysis: Two Suggestions
Slides: Economic Issues in Risk Analysis: Do Strategic Analysis &Planning
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: DyDAn Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ
Date: November 10, 2008

DIMACS/DyDAn Multidisciplinary Seminar Series
Speaker: Bill Pottenger, Rutgers University
Title: Higher Order Learning
Time: 11:00 - 12:00 pm **Note special time
Location: DyDAn Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ
Date: November 24, 2008

DyDAn Student-organized Seminar Series
See: this new seminar series: http://dydan.rutgers.edu/Seminars/2008/studentseminars.html
Speaker: Tina Kohler, Department of Defense
Title: An Overview of Speaker Recognition Technology
Time: 11:00-12:00 pm
Location: DyDAn Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ
Date: December 5, 2008

DIMACS/DyDAn Interdisciplinary Seminar Series
Speaker: Milan Bradonjic, Mathematical Modeling and Analysis Group, and Center for Nonlinear Studies Los Alamos National Laboratory
Title: Models and Tools for Large Graphs with Imposed Structural Properties
Slides: Models and Tools for Large Graphs with Imposed Structural Properties
Time: 11:00 - 12:00 pm
Location: DyDAn Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ
Date: Friday, January 23, 2009

DIMACS/DyDAn Interdisciplinary Seminar Series
Speaker: Michael Markov, Markov Processes International LLC (MPI)
Title: Reverse-Engineering Madoff: Tools and Techniques in Detecting Leverage and Fraud
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Location: DyDAn Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ
Date: Monday, January 26, 2009

DIMACS/DyDAn Interdisciplinary Seminar Series
Speaker: Warren B. Powell, Princeton University
Title: The Knowledge Gradient for Optimal Learning
Time: 11:30 - 12:30 pm
Location: DyDAn Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ
Date: Monday, March 23, 2009

DIMACS/DyDAn Interdisciplinary Seminar Series
Speaker: Jason Perry, Rutgers University
Title: Supporting Cognitive Models of Sensemaking in Visual Analytics
Slides: Supporting Cognitive Models of Sensemaking in Visual Analytics
Time: 11:30 - 12:30 pm
Location: DyDAn Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ
Date: Monday, April 6, 2009

DyDAn Student-organized Seminar Series
Speaker: Jonathan Wintrode, Department of Defense
Title: Speech Recognition and Retrieval in Non-English Languages
Time: 3:30-4:30 pm
Location: DyDAn Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ
Date: April 9, 2009

DIMACS/DyDAn Interdisciplinary Seminar Series
Speaker: Endre Boros, Rutgers University
Title: Mathematical Model for Sensors, Devices and Inspection Policies
Papers: Large Scale LP Model for Finding Optimal Container Inspection Strategies - 2006
Papers: Deceptive Detection Methods for Optimal Security with Inadequate Budgets: The Screening Power Index - 2007
Papers: Optimal Sequential Inspection Policies
Time: 11:30 - 12:30 pm
Location: DyDAn Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ
Date: Monday, April 13, 2009

DIMACS/DyDAn Interdisciplinary Seminar Series
Speaker: Alexander Kister, UMDNJ
Title: Protein Grammars: Strict Regularities in Protein-Sequence Relationships
Slides: Protein Grammar: Strict Regularities in Structure-Sequence Relationship
Time: 11:30 - 12:30 pm
Location: DyDAn Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ
Date: Monday, April 20, 2009

Current DyDAn Seminars:

DIMACS/DyDAn Interdisciplinary Seminar Series
Speaker: Alexei Vasquez, IAS
Title: The Genetics of the p53 Pathway, Apoptosis and Cancer Therapy
Slides: The genetics of the p53 pathway, Apoptosis and Cancer Therapy
Time: 11:30 - 12:30 pm
Location: DyDAn Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 433, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ
Date: Monday, May 4, 2009

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