CSE Events of Week 11/9/2009 - 11/13/2009
Monday, November 9
INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Deanna M. Kennedy
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Texas A&M University
TITLE: Toward Optimal Team Processes: How Interventions Can Create Process Gains
3:00 p.m., Room 203 Zachry
Contact: Katherine Edwards
Tuesday, November 10
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Andrew Jiang
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Texas A&M University
TITLE: Data Movement and Rewriting in Flash Memories
3:55 p.m., Room 103 Zachry
Contact: Carolyn Warzon
UNIVERSITY DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES
Douglas Melton, Ph.D.
Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences, Harvard University
Co-Director, Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
TITLE: Stem Cells as Tools and Products for Regenerative Medicine
7:30 p.m., Auditorium of the Bush Presidential Conference Center
Contact: Nancy Sawtelle
Wednesday, November 11
BIOINFORMATICS SEMINAR
Guanghua "Andy" Xiao
UT Southwestern
Department of Biostatistics
TITLE: Modeling Three-dimensional Chromosome Structures Using Gene Expression Data
3:00 p.m., Room 457 Blocker Building
Contact: Joyce Sutherland
Webpage: http://www.stat.tamu.edu/train/Andy.htm
CSE DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES
Dr. Brian Marcus
Professor
Department of Mathematics
University of British Columbia
TITLE: Computing the Entropy of Two-dimensional Shifts of Finite Type
4:10 p.m., Room 124 HRBB
CSE Faculty Contact: Dr. Anxiao "Andrew" Jiang
All are invited to the open reception for Dr. Marcus, which will immediately follow the lecture and will be held in the entrance hall to Room 124 HRBB.
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Dr. Peter Lichtner
Earth and Environmental Sciences Division
Los Alamos National Laboratory
TITLE: Field-Scale Model for the Natural Attenuation of Uranium at the Hanford 300 Area using High Performance Computing
4:10 p.m., Room 106 RICH
Contact: Sarah Morgan
ENGINEERING WORKS! RADIO PROGRAM
Listen to Engineering Works! on the radio to learn more about the whimsical, unusual or just little-known sides of engineering. It's broadcast at 7:32 a.m. on Bryan-College Station's KAMU-FM (90.9). Or visit the Engineering Works! web site at http://engineeringworks.tamu.edu.
Thursday, November 12
PARASOL SEMINAR
Dr. Francois Bodin
Co-founder
CAPS enterprise
TITLE: Toward automatic partitioning of C applications for exploiting hardware accelerators such as GPUs
11:00 a.m., Room 302 HRBB
Contact: Dr. Nancy Amato
STATISTICS DEPARTMENTAL COLLOQUIUM
Sanat K. Sarkar
Department of Statistics
Temple University
TITLE: Controlling Different Error Rates in Multiple Testing: Some Recent Developments
11:10 a.m., Room 150 Blocker Building
Contact: Elaine Washington
Abstract (pdf): http://www.stat.tamu.edu/files/abstr-sarkar.pdf
Friday, November 13
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