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Events for April 2012

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  1. Week of April 1, 2012

    1. Sunday, April 1, 2012

      1.  PhD students' self-evaluation due

    2. Monday, April 2, 2012

      1.  PhD student evaluations completed by thesis advisor and are committees
      2.  Registration for summer and fall 2012 terms begin
      3. 9:30 amFinal exam of Daniel Ahn
        4102 Siebel Center
      4. 12:00 pmStartup Cafe: Roger Dickey, Founder of Mafia Wars
        EnterpriseWorks Atrium, 60 Hazelwood Drive, Champaign
      5. 1:30 pmRoger Dickey Office Hours
      6. 3:00 pmProfessor David S. Ricketts, Professor of ECE and MSE at Carnegie Mellon University
        Professor David S. Ricketts: RF Devices, Circuits & Systems, from Nanometers to Kilometers
        141 CSL
      7. 3:00 pmDavid S. Ricketts, Carnegie Mellon University
        RF Devices, Circuits & Systems: From Nanometers to Kilometers
        141 Coordinated Science Laboratory
      8. 4:00 pmMahadev Satyanarayanan, Carnegie Mellon University
        Mahadev Satyanarayanan : Mobile Computing: the Next Decade and Beyond
        2405 Siebel Center
      9. 7:00 pmHow to Be a Gaming Entrepreneur: Roger Dickey
        2405 Siebel Center

    3. Tuesday, April 3, 2012

      1.  PhD student evaluations completed by thesis advisor and are committees
      2. 12:00 pmEngineer in Residence: Roger Dickey (Mafia Wars)
        2405 Siebel Center
      3. 1:30 pmRoger Dickey Office Hours (4/3)
      4. 6:00 pmGetco Info Session: Inside Algorithmic Trading & Electronic Market-Making
        2405 Siebel Center

    4. Wednesday, April 4, 2012

      1.  PhD student evaluations completed by thesis advisor and are committees
      2. 12:00 pmImproving the Eclipse Parallel Tools Platform
      3. 4:00 pmMarcus K. Rodgers, Purdue University
        TSS Seminar: Marcus K. Rogers: "The Role of Behavioral Sciences in Information Security and Assurance"
        2405 Siebel Center
      4. 4:00 pmMarcus K. Rodgers, Purdue University
        TSS Seminar: Marcus K. Rogers: "The Role of Behavioral Sciences in Information Security and Assurance"
        2405 Siebel Center

    5. Thursday, April 5, 2012

      1.  PhD student evaluations completed by thesis advisor and are committees
      2. 12:00 pmFinal Exam of Jaesik Choi
        3124 Siebel Center
      3. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm   CDTHyesoon Kim, Georgia Tech
        Illinois-Intel Parallelism Center (I2PC) Distinguished Speaker Series: Hyesoon Kim (Georgia Tech)
        3405 Siebel Center

    6. Friday, April 6, 2012

      1.  PhD student evaluations completed by thesis advisor and are committees
      2. 8:00 am - 1:30 pmShare the Vision 2012: Technology Showcase
        EnterpriseWorks offices and conference rooms
      3.  Last day to take final exam for May doctoral degree
      4. 1:00 pmPete Sauer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, ECE
        Computation of Margins to Power System Loadability Limits Using Phasor Measurement Unit Data
        NCSA Auditorium
      5. 1:00 pmPete Sauer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
        TCIPG Seminar: Pete Sauer: "Computation of Margins to Power System Loadability Limits Using Phasor Measurement Unit Data"
        NCSA auditorium
      6. 2:00 pmIan Endres
        Learning Shared Body Plans
        SC 3405
      7. 3:00 pmFinal Exam of Shu Shi
        3124 Siebel Center

    7. Saturday, April 7, 2012

      1.  PhD student evaluations completed by thesis advisor and are committees

  2. Week of April 8, 2012

    1. Sunday, April 8, 2012

      1.  PhD student evaluations completed by thesis advisor and are committees

    2. Monday, April 9, 2012

      1.  PhD student evaluations completed by thesis advisor and are committees
      2. 11:00 am2012 CS Graduate Symposium
        1st and 2nd Floors of Siebel Center
      3. 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm   CDTBradford Chamberlain, Cray
        Illinois-Intel Parallelism Center (I2PC) Distinguished Speaker Series: Bradford Chamberlain (Cray)
        3405 Siebel Center
      4. 4:00 pmEva Tardos,Cornell University
        Mueller-Thuns Lecture: Eva Tardos: Near-Optimal Greedy Mechanisms
        2405 Siebel Center
      5. 5:30 pmICSSP Scholarship Recruiting & Pizza Event
        3403 Siebel Center

    3. Tuesday, April 10, 2012

      1.  PhD student evaluations completed by thesis advisor and are committees
      2. 4:30 pm - 6:30 pmAnnual Research Park Student Career Fair
        Atkins Building, 1800 S. Oak Street, Research Park
      3. 5:00 pmMary L. Gray, Indiana University and Microsoft Research
        Critical Studies as BIG DATA: Making the Case for Cultural Approaches to Media and Technology Studies
        CSL Auditorium
      4. 5:00 pmLectures in Entrepreneurship: Steve Vivian
        1404 Siebel Center

    4. Wednesday, April 11, 2012

      1.  PhD student evaluations completed by thesis advisor and are committees
      2. 12:00 pmVictor Jongeneel
        Brown Bag: Dealing with Genomics Data
        Room 1040, NCSA Building, 1205 W. Clark St., Urbana
      3. 4:00 pmMaureen Stillman, Mission Critical Wireless, LLC
        ITI TSS Seminar: Maureen Stillman: "LTE Security (4G Security)"
        2405 Siebel Center
      4. 4:00 pmMaureen Stillman, Mission Critical Wireless, LLC
        TSS Seminar: Maureen Stillman: "LTE Security (4G Security)"
        2405 Siebel Center

    5. Thursday, April 12, 2012

      1.  PhD student evaluations completed by thesis advisor and are committees
      2. 12:30 pmBen Taskar, University of Pennsylvania
        ISTC-EC: Geometry of Diversity and Determinantal Point Processes: Representation, Inference and Learning
        2102 SC
      3. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm   CDTUzi Vishkin, University of Maryland
        Illinois-Intel Parallelism Center (I2PC) Distinguished Speaker Series: Uzi Vishkin (University of Maryland)
        3405 Siebel Center
      4. 4:00 pmSolutions and Challenges in Modern Circuit Placement
        151 Everitt Lab

    6. Friday, April 13, 2012

      1.  PhD student evaluations completed by thesis advisor and are committees
      2. 8:00 am - 5:00 pmAbaqus training
        Room 1040, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, 1205 W. Clark St., Urbana, IL
      3.  Last day for doctoral thesis format check by Academic Office
      4.  Last day to drop a semester course without at "W" grade
      5.  Last day to withdraw from spring term without a "W" grade
      6. 2:00 pmTamir Hazan
        Estimating the Partition Function with Random Maximum A-Posteriori Perturbations
        SC 3405

    7. Saturday, April 14, 2012

      1.  PhD student evaluations completed by thesis advisor and are committees
      2. 8:00 am - 5:00 pmVarious (entrepreneurs, professors, etc)
        Invention to Venture: Stay in School Startup, Commercializing your Research
        http://tec.illinois.edu/i2v
      3. 10:00 am - 4:00 pmUrbana-Champaign Mini Maker Faire
        Independent Media Center (202 S. Broadway, Urbana, IL)

  3. Week of April 15, 2012

    1. Sunday, April 15, 2012

      1.  PhD student evaluations completed by thesis advisor and are committees

    2. Monday, April 16, 2012

      1.  PhD student evaluations completed by thesis advisor and are committees
      2. 4:00 pmJim Porell, IBM
        ITI TSS Seminar: Jim Porell: "Lessons Learned from Large-Scale Data Thefts"
        3405 Siebel Center
      3. 4:00 pmPriya Narasimhan, Carnegie Mellon University
        Priya Narasimhan: Automated Problem Diagnosis in Real-World Distributed Systems
        2405 Siebel Center
      4. 4:00 pmJim Porell, IBM
        TSS Seminar: Jim Porell: "Lessons Learned from Large-Scale Data Thefts"
        3405 Siebel Center

    3. Tuesday, April 17, 2012

      1.  PhD student evaluations completed by thesis advisor and are committees
      2. 8:30 amKevin Fu, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Computer Science
        Trustworthy Medical Device Software
        Siebel Center for Computer Science, Room 2405
      3. 12:00 pmHuman Colon Carcinoma Cells on Gels: Spatial Confinement and Mechanosensing
        1000 MNTL
      4. 4:00 pm   Central TimeKevin Fu
        HITC Seminar: Kevin Fu
        2405 Siebel Center
      5. 4:00 pmKevin Fu, University of Massachusetts Amherst
        TSS/HITC Seminar: Kevin Fu: "Trustworthy Medical Device Software"
        2405 Siebel Center
      6. 5:00 pmLectures in Entrepreneurship: Alan Singleton
        1404 Siebel Center

    4. Wednesday, April 18, 2012

      1.  PhD student evaluations completed by thesis advisor and are committees
      2. 12:30 pmLatino Computer Science Club FIESTA
        2405 SC

    5. Thursday, April 19, 2012

      1.  PhD student evaluations completed by thesis advisor and are committees
      2. 12:30 pmPieter Abbeel, University of California, Berkeley
        ISTC-EC: Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Objects
        2103 Siebel Center (via Video Conferencing)

    6. Friday, April 20, 2012

      1.  PhD student evaluations completed by thesis advisor and are committees
      2.  Last day for master's thesis format check by Academic Office
      3.  Last day to deposit May doctoral thesis
      4. 11:00 amDr. Hock Beng Lim
        ADSC Seminar: Transportation Activity Analysis using Smartphones
        Coordinated Science Laboratory - Room 301
      5. 2:00 pmMaxim Raginsky
        Fundamental Limits of Passive and Active Learning
        SC 3405

    7. Saturday, April 21, 2012

      1.  PhD student evaluations completed by thesis advisor and are committees

  4. Week of April 22, 2012

    1. Sunday, April 22, 2012

      1.  PhD student evaluations completed by thesis advisor and are committees

    2. Monday, April 23, 2012

      1.  PhD student evaluations completed by thesis advisor and are committees
      2. 4:00 pmDr. Darko Kirovski, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research
        Dr. Darko Kirovski: Classifying Gestures in Kinect: Emphasis on Dancing
        2405 Siebel Center

    3. Tuesday, April 24, 2012

      1.  PhD student evaluations completed by thesis advisor and are committees
      2. 12:00 pmDennis Beard, EIR Workshop on Working with Angel Investors
        EnterpriseWorks Conference Room 130, 60 Hazelwood Drive, Champaign
      3. 1:00 pmEiman Ebrahimi, University of Texas at Austin
        Fair and High Performance Shared Memory Resource Management for Chip Multiprocessors
        Room B02 CSL
      4. 5:00 pm - 8:00 pmTech Cocktail's Champaign Mixer & Startup Showcase
        Houlihan's (1902 South First Street, Champaign, IL, United States, 61820)

    4. Wednesday, April 25, 2012

      1.  PhD student evaluations completed by thesis advisor and are committees
      2. 11:30 amMicrosoft Study Break
        CS Atrium
      3. 12:00 pmBespoke Innovations Information Session
        163 Everitt Lab
      4. 12:00 pmImproving the Eclipse Parallel Tools Platform
      5. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmHossein Mobahi - UIUC
        Signal Processing Seminar: Seeing Through the Blur
        4269 Beckman Institute
      6. 4:00 pmDarko Kirovski, Microsoft Research
        TSS Seminar: Darko Kirovski: "Optical DNA v2.0: Making Optical Media Impossible to Counterfeit"
        2405 Siebel Center
      7. 4:00 pmDarko Kirovski, Microsoft Research
        TSS Seminar: Darko Kirovski: "Optical DNA v2.0: Making Optical Media Impossible to Counterfeit"
        2405 Siebel Center
      8. 8:00 pmPitchFest Competition

    5. Thursday, April 26, 2012

      1.  PhD student evaluations completed by thesis advisor and are committees
      2. 12:30 pmVishal Gupta, Georgia Institute of Technology
        ISTC-EC: HeteroMates: Providing High Dynamic Power Range on Client Devices using Heterogeneous Core Groups
        2102 Siebel Center
      3. 1:00 pmMichael Ferdman, Carnegie Mellon University
        The Future of Cloud-Server Architecture: Looking at the end of multi-core and beyond
        1000 MNTL
      4. 2:30 pmCS Undergraduate Research Symposium
        2nd Floor Atrium, Siebel Center
      5. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm   CDTJosh Fryman, Intel Corporation
        Illinois-Intel Parallelism Center (I2PC) Distinguished Speaker Series: Josh Fryman (Intel)
        3405 Siebel Center
      6. 5:30 pmSpring 2012 CS Faculty and Student Awards Ceremony
        1404 Siebel Center

    6. Friday, April 27, 2012

      1.  PhD student evaluations completed by thesis advisor and are committees
      2.  Deadline for Office of Registrar to receive final exam certificate results
      3.  Last day to add name to May 2012 degree list. Must use Web Self-Service
      4. 2:00 pmKillian Weinberger
        mSDA: A fast, easy-to-use, universal algorithm to improve bag-of-words features
        SC 3405

    7. Saturday, April 28, 2012

      1.  PhD student evaluations completed by thesis advisor and are committees

  5. Week of April 29, 2012

    1. Sunday, April 29, 2012

      1.  PhD student evaluations completed by thesis advisor and are committees

    2. Monday, April 30, 2012

      1.  PhD student evaluations completed by thesis advisor and are committees
      2. 11:00 amCarl Elks, University of Virginia
        TSS Seminar: Carl Elks: "Cyber and Dependability Assessment Challenges for the Nuclear Power Plant Digital Instrumentation and Control Systems"
        2405 Siebel Center
      3. 11:00 amCarl Elks, University of Virginia
        TSS Seminar: Carl Elks: "Cyber and Dependability Assessment Challenges for the Nuclear Power Plant Digital Instrumentation and Control Systems"
        2405 Siebel Center
      4. 4:00 pmDr. Randy Katz, UC at Berkeley
        Gilles lecturer Professor Randy Katz: Mesos: A Platform for Fine-Grained Resource Sharing in the Data Center
        2405 Siebel Center