2nd CS UNM Student Conference (CSUSC 2006)
March 3, 2006
Albuquerque, NM

The CSGSA is pleased to announce the 2nd annual CS UNM Student Conference (CSUSC). The conference will be held on Friday March 3th, 2006 at UNM in the Student Union Building Lobo Rooms A & B. The conference will be composed of research talks, a poster session and a keynote address. (FREE) Lunch and a (FREE) copy of the proceedings will be provided for early registrants (through the gracious support of Sandia National Lab and CSGSA). Note that you do not need to be a UNM student to receive (FREE) lunch and the (FREE) proceedings

The keynote will be given by David Brooks, Assistant Professor at Harvard University. His page at Harvard is here.

The schedule for the conference is given below. Additionally, the original call for abstracts page can be found here.

Information about CSUSC 2005 (last year's conference) can still be found here.

Registration Info: Early registration ends at 5:00pm on Thursday, February 23rd. To register, simply send an email to csusc06@cs.unm.edu with the following information: 1) Your name, 2) Whether you plan on eating lunch, and if so, your preference for vegetarian/vegan 3) Whether you want a copy of the conference proceedings.

We may not be able to provide either lunch or copies of the proceedings to individuals who register after the deadline, so please register via email as soon as possible.


Presentation Schedule

Start Description
08:55am Opening Remarks
09:00am Josh Karlin
"Pretty Good BGP"
09:30am Mark Marron
"Unified Memory Analysis"
10:00am Edgar Leon
"Cache Injection for High-Performance Message-Passing Applications"
10:30am Aaron Clauset
"Maximum Likelihood Models of Networks"
10:55am Coffee break
11:10am Keynote Address:
Prof. David Brooks (CS, Harvard)
12:10pm Lunch
(catered; in the Mirage and Thunderbird Rooms)
01:00pm I-Ching Boman
"Maintaining Connectivity in Compromised Networks"
01:30pm Keith Wiley
"Use of Crossing-State Equivalence Classes for Rapid Relabeling Knot-Diagrams Representing 2 1/2-D Scenes"
02:00pm Vikas Hamine
"A Theoretical and Experimental Evaluation of Augmented Bayesian Classifiers"
02:25pm Poster Session (see below)
03:10pm Bryan Cheng
"Soft Non-executable Memory: Stop Code Injection Attacks with Binary Emulators"
03:40pm Nicholas Pattengale
"A Sublinear-Time Randomized Approximation Scheme for the Robinson-Foulds Metric"
04:10pm M. Venkata
"An Adaptive Protocol Framework for Reconfigurable MPI"
04:40pm Closing Remarks
05:00pm Adjourn

 

The following is a list of posters and their presenters (* indicates an undergraduate submission).

Presenters Poster Title
R. F. Brown*, J. Horey, A. B. Maccabe, A. England and D. O. Natvig "BosqueNet: A Study of a Collaborative Sensor Network Application Deployment"
S. Falke "Simplification in Inductive Theorem Provers"
J. Horey and A. Maccabe "Kensho: A Dynamic Middleware System for Sensor Networks"
M. M. Morin "Simulating Phylogenetic Networks for the Assessment of Reconstruction Techniques"
R. Rammohan and M. R. Taha "Exploratory Investigations for Damage Prognosis using Hidden Markov Models"
R. J. Young and L. R. Williams "Psychophysical Demonstration of (An) isotropy in Illusory Surface Computation"
S. Roy, T. Lane, C. Allen, A. D. Aragon and M. Werner-Washburne "Cell Population Deconvolution using Particle filters"
P. Soltero* and P. Bridges "Phoenix from the Ashes"
K. Swenson and B. Moret "Extending Genomic Comparisons via Inversion Distance"
A. Trehan and W. Hlavacek "Model Checking in Signal Transduction Systems"
J. Sager, M. Young and D. Stefanovic "Characterization of Transverse Channel Concentration Profiles Obtainable with a Class of Microfluidic Networks"
J. Zhang and L. Williams "Markov Random Field Modeling of Spatial Distribution of Proteins on Cell Membrane"

 


 

Senior Program Committee
• Aaron Clauset - General Chair
• Keith Wiley - Proceeedings Chair
• Nick Pattengale - Publicity Chair
• Navin Rustagi - Program Committee (PC) Chair
• Avani Gadani - Area Chair / Vice-PC Chair

Terran Lane, Assistant Professor, UNM - Faculty Advisor

Program Committee
• Kenneth Ingham, Doctoral Candidate, UNM
• Jean-Charles Tournier, Post Doc - Systems Group, UNM
• Jared Saia, Professor, UNM
• Patrick Bridges, Professor, UNM
• Shuang(Sean) Luan, Professor, UNM
• Cindy A Phillips , Discrete Algorithms Group (DAG), Sandia National Laboratory

Judging Committee
• John Cochran, Doctoral Candidate, UNM
• Patrick M. Widener, Post Doc - Systems Group, UNM
• George Luger, Professor, UNM
• Shuang(Sean) Luan , Professor, UNM
• Calogero G. Zarba, Post Doc - Logic/Languages Group, UNM
• Catherine Beauchemin, Post Doc - Complex Systems Group, UNM


   

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