2005-06 Seminars

September 23, 2005: Student Research in Robotics and Vision. Anna Blasiak '07, Jeff Wehrwein '08, and Professor Amy Briggs, Middlebury College.

October 7, 2005: A Robot That Solves Rubik's Cube. Professor Daniel Scharstein, Middlebury College, and Felix Scharstein, Independent Artist and Engineer.

October 14, 2005: DP-SLAM: Mapping Dense Environments with Speed and Precision. Ron Parr, Duke University.

October 28, 2005: Waiter, there's a String in my Genome!. Jeff Parker, Middlebury College.

November 11, 2005: Pondering Probabilistic Play Possibilities for Pig.Todd Neller, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Gettysburg College.

November 18, 2005: Unfolding Polyhedra. Robin Flatland, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Siena College.

December 9, 2005: Thesis Talks. Neural Networks for Handwriting Recognition, Niraj Dhungel '06 and MPEG And Beyond: A Look at Video Compression Methods, Duncan Sanford '06.

March 3, 2006: Let's Talk About Hex. Assistant Professor Timothy Huang, Middlebury College.

March 15, 2006: Video-Based Rendering. Richard Szeliski, Interactive Visual Media Group, Microsoft Research.

March 31, 2006: Pattern Matching with Points and Polygons. Professor Matthew Dickerson, Middlebury College.

April 7, 2006: A "Random Chemistry" Algorithm for Detecting Epistatic Genetic Interactions. Dr. Margaret J. Eppstein, Department of of Computer Science, University of Vermont.

April 14, 2006:Parallel Processing and the Mandelbrot Set. Bob Martin, Professor of Computer Science, Middlebury College.

May 5, 2006: Real-World Geographical Information Systems Programming and Applications. David Felcan, Avencia, Inc., Philadelphia, PA.

May 8, 2006: Senior Thesis Presentations. Peter Lubans, Delia Neacsiu, and Timothy Bahls.

May 10, 2006: Senior Thesis Presentations. Mutuku Mulwa and Mihai Azoitei.

May 12, 2006: Senior Thesis Presentations. Anthony Santolupo and Gonzalo Alonso.