Events for September 2011

No Colloquium

Colloquium

Date
Thursday, September 1, 2011

There is no colloquium this week. Students who are enrolled in clinic will be using this time to meet with their teams.

Accessible Aerial Autonomy

Colloquium

Speaker(s)
Zach Dodds, Lilian de Greef, Brad Jensen, and Kim Sheely
Date
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Time
4:15 PM – 5:30 PM
Location
Galileo Pryne

Could the ARDrone (an inexpensive RC quadcopter) serve as a useful robot for autonomous aerial tasks? This summer, we asked this question by experimenting with the drone in a number of such tasks. This talk will describe some of the successful—and the less successful—outcomes of those investigations.

Last day to add courses

Date
Monday, September 12, 2011

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Graduate School

Colloquium

Speaker(s)
Ran Libeskind-Hadas
Date
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Time
4:15 PM – 5:30 PM
Location
Galileo Pryne

Is graduate school right for you? In this colloquium we’ll learn about what graduate school is like, how to decide whether you should go, and how you should go about applying.

Adventures in Computational Biology with Jane 3

Colloquium

Speaker(s)
Ran Libeskind-Hadas, Kevin Black
Date
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Time
4:15 PM – 5:30 PM
Location
Galileo Pryne

Cophylogeny reconstruction is a computational method for testing the likelihood that two species coevolved. In recent years, a number of HMC and other students have worked on a cophylogeny tool called Jane. In this talk, we will describe the problem, the approach, and Kevin’s recent work on extending the features of Jane.

Games, games, and more games

Colloquium

Speaker(s)
Z Sweedyk, Scott Breyfogle, Azubuike Ndefo-Dahl, Elijah Omernick, Natasha Parikh, Sasha Paudel, Emma Taborsky, Russell Transue, Yoyo Zhang
Date
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Time
4:15 PM – 5:30 PM
Location
Galileo Pryne

Prof Z’s summer research students (working with Prof Erlinger, and Prof Steinberg) and refined several of the the games developed in CS121 during Spring 2011. We also developed some new games including a math game for middle school students, a game to teach CS5 students about objects, and a game for Prof. Steinberg on social rules. In this talk we describe our work and demo our games.

Cryptanalysis and side-channel attacks

Colloquium

Speaker(s)
Nadia Heninger
Date
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Time
4:15 PM – 5:30 PM
Location
Rose Hills Theater
More information
Pomona colloquium information

In this talk, we will look at a collection of cryptanalysis problems suggested by side-channel attacks against public key cryptosystems, and how the techniques inspired by this work relate to a variety of different applications. We will learn how encryption keys can be recovered from the memory of a running computer, how to factor with partial information, and what this has to do with the recent development of fully homomorphic encryption.