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Jun 24 2014

Combinatorial Fusion Algorithm: Figure Skating, Internet Search, and Stress Detection

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Tuesday, June 24, 2014
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Type: Seminars | REU Seminar
Presenter(s): Frank Hsu - Fordham University
Organizer(s): Gene Fiorini
Processing data and analyzing information in order to solve problems , make decisions, or discover knowledge in science, technology, society, medicine , health care, eduction and business often involves fusion
Jun 24 2014

Geometry and Physics of Minimal Surfaces: a Guided Tour

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Tuesday, June 24, 2014
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Type: Seminars | REU Seminar
Presenter(s): Shabnam Beheshti - Rutgers University
Organizer(s): Gene Fiorini
Minimal surfaces arise in a variety of mathematical contexts ranging from variational calculus and classical differential geometry to complex analysis. They also make natural appearances in seemingly disparate physical questions,
Jun 17 2014

A Brief Introduction to Sequences and Recurrence Relations

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Tuesday, June 17, 2014
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Type: Seminars | REU Seminar
Presenter(s): Patrick Devlin - Rutgers University
Organizer(s): Gene Fiorini

Sequences and recurrence relations show up just ALL over the place from complex analysis to algebraic geometry to computer science to insert any branch of math here . But working

Jun 13 2014

HCI Meets Data Mining: Principles and Tools for Big Data Analytics

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Friday, June 13, 2014
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Type: Seminars | REU Seminar
Presenter(s): Polo Chau - Georgia Tech
Organizer(s): Gene Fiorini
Learn key data mining concepts and tools, and how to integrate them with HCI methods for big data analytics, through non-technical introduction and case studies, and technical examples. This two-part
Jun 04 2014

How to Find Who Lives on Your Belly Button: Not Too Short Introduction to Metagenomics

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Wednesday, June 4, 2014
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Type: Seminars | REU Seminar
Presenter(s): Jaroslaw Zola - Rutgers University
Organizer(s): Gene Fiorini
Have you ever wondered how many microorganisms live in an air you breath or a dirt you touch And what about your gut or skin Who are these microorganisms What
Jun 02 2014

Reconnect 2014: Forensics

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Monday, June 2, 2014 - Sunday, June 8, 2014
7:00 PM - 11:30 AM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): Laura Kelleher | Margaret (Midge) Cozzens
Forensics was traditionally described as training in the skills of public advocacy including the development of evidence and thus found one of its important venues in the law courts As such the term forensic has become associated with the art and science of legal evidence and argument Today CSI has
May 20 2014

MPE 2013+ Workshop on Global Change

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Tuesday, May 20, 2014 - Thursday, May 22, 2014
8:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): Steve Sain | Hans Kaper | Holly Gaff | Wayne Getz
The planet is constantly changing but the pace of change has accelerated as a result of human activity Construction and deforestation change habitats fishing affects fish populations fossil fuel combustion leads to atmospheric greenhouse gas buildup commerce and transport introduce non native species We need to monitor global change to
Apr 24 2014

MPE 2013+ Workshop on Sustainable Human Environments

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Thursday, April 24, 2014 - Saturday, April 26, 2014
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): Laura Wynter | Alexis Tsoukiás | Fred Roberts | Lou Gross | Margaret (Midge) Cozzens
In 1900 only 13 of the world s population lived in cities but by 2050 that number will have risen to 70 Rapidly growing urban environments present new and evolving challenges growing needs for energy and water impacts on greenhouse gases public health safety and security As city expansion continues
Apr 11 2014

DIMACS Workshop on Building Communities for Transforming Social Media Research Through New Approaches for Collecting, Analyzing, and Exploring Social Media Data

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Friday, April 11, 2014 - Saturday, April 12, 2014
12:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): Winter Mason | Mor Naaman | Chirag Shah
Social media platforms and services such as Facebook Twitter YouTube FourSquare Flickr WordPress and Tumblr make more data available regarding people s lives intentions thoughts activities and attitudes than ever before As these services are shifting the social and communication infrastructure of our society having proper tools and techniques to
Mar 28 2014

DIMACS Workshop on Secure Cloud Computing

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Friday, March 28, 2014 - Saturday, March 29, 2014
9:00 AM - 2:25 PM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): Vinod Ganapathy | Tom Ristenpart | Ari Juels
Cloud computing holds the promise of simplifying the creation management and deployment of scalable services on the Internet but it raises significant security and privacy concerns related to moving sensitive computation and sensitive data to a cloud provider s computers In addition to all of the security problems that come
Mar 18 2014

DIMACS/CCICADA Workshop on Systems and Analytics of Big Data

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Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - Wednesday, March 19, 2014
8:45 AM - 3:30 PM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): Joseph Gonzalez | Li Erran Li | Daniel Hsu
Tremendous progress has been made in systems and analytics of big data e g Hadoop MapReduce STORM However modern data analytics faces a confluence of growing challenges First the increasing data deluge in social networks online retails web pages mobile data etc creates the need to scale out across hundreds
Feb 06 2014

DIMACS/RUCIA Workshop on Information Assurance in the Era of Big Data

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Thursday, February 6, 2014 - Thursday, February 6, 2014
8:15 AM - 4:30 PM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): Manish Parashar | Thu Nguyen | Hoang Pham | Hui Xiong | Rebecca  Wright

This workshop is designed to provide a forum for Information Assurance researchers and practitioners to share their research experiences and challenges in the Big Data era Complex heterogeneous dynamic big data are generated from the Internet social media retail finance healthcare and more This data carries with it both information

Jan 08 2014

MPE2013+ Workshop: Challenges and Opportunities - Introducing Participants to MPE2013+ Topics

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Wednesday, January 8, 2014 - Saturday, January 11, 2014
6:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): Carlos Castillo-Chavez | Fred Roberts
This workshop will introduce participants to the MPE2013 activity by preparing them to participate in the workshops research and education that we will run The participants will be graduate students postdocs and junior faculty with an emphasis on those in the mathematical sciences and those not yet having prior exposure
Dec 19 2013

DIMACS Workshop on Algorithms for Green Data Storage

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Thursday, December 19, 2013 - Thursday, December 19, 2013
8:50 AM - 4:10 PM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): Emina Soljanin | Stark Draper
Data centers energy requirements have increased massively in the past years A substantial and growing percentage of worldwide electricity is dedicated to cloud computing which motivates the design of energy efficient storage techniques On the other hand consumers of cloud storage and content centric networking demand that their content be
Dec 17 2013

DIMACS Working Group on Algorithms for Green Data Storage

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Tuesday, December 17, 2013 - Wednesday, December 18, 2013
9:00 AM - 6:30 PM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): Stark Draper | Emina Soljanin
Data centers energy requirements have increased massively in the past years A substantial and growing percentage of worldwide electricity is dedicated to cloud computing which motivates the design of energy efficient storage techniques On the other hand consumers of cloud storage and content centric networking demand that their content be
Nov 08 2013

DIMACS Workshop on Statistical Analysis of Network Dynamics and Interactions

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Friday, November 8, 2013 - Saturday, November 9, 2013
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): Andrea Collevecchio | Xiaodong Lin | Edo Airoldi
The analysis and modeling of large and complex real world networks has become indispensable across the diverse set of social technological and natural worlds While the field remains heterogeneous and diverse we have seen emerging signs of convergence There has been growing computer science and statistical literature expounding on topics
Sep 23 2013

DIMACS/CCICADA Workshop on Urban Planning for Climate Events

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Monday, September 23, 2013 - Tuesday, September 24, 2013
9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): Laura Wynter | Alexis Tsoukiás | Fred Roberts | Margaret (Midge) Cozzens

The workshop will investigate sustainable human environments through an emphasis on urban planning for climate events such as storms heat events and floods We will look at algorithmic tools to make better decisions about adaptation and mitigation for climate events We will look at ways to understand a great deal

Sep 20 2013

DIMACS Workshop on Algorithmic Information Fusion and Data Mining (WAIFDM)

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Friday, September 20, 2013 - Saturday, September 21, 2013
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): Frank Hsu | Fred Roberts | Alexis Tsoukiás
The proliferation of sensor technology information appliances and imaging modalities has enabled us to monitor the interconnected physical planet and the interrelated social world Big data with large volumes and wide variety spatial vs temporal and structured vs unstructured are being generated dynamically from monitoring sensors and embedded devices On
Jul 23 2013

Deterministic randomness and unbalanced allocations

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Tuesday, July 23, 2013
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Type: Seminars | REU Seminar
Presenter(s): Amanda Redlich - Rutgers University
Organizer(s): Gene Fiorini
Often making a decision at random leads to a bad decision, but making a decision deterministically takes too long. Recently, there has been much research on algorithms that combine the
Jul 16 2013

Representing Integers ONLY using ONE

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Tuesday, July 16, 2013
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Type: Seminars | REU Seminar
Presenter(s): Edinah Gnang - Rutgers University
Organizer(s): Gene Fiorini
Suppose that you have a Reverse Polish Calculator where the only keys left are the plus , times , and power , 1 , and, of course the Enter key.