CS900
Graduate Seminar
Fall 2016
Thursday 12:40-2pm, King N133

Instructor: P. Hatcher
Office: Kingsbury N215B
Phone: 862-2678
E-mail: pjh@cs.unh.edu
Office Hours: by appointment.

This course is the seminar for new graduate students in computer science. The primary goal of the seminar is to introduce the new students to the department and the university, particularly to the research projects that the current students and faculty are engaged in.

Grading for the course is pass/fail and is based simply upon attendance. Students in the course are expected to attend all sessions of the class unless they arrange an excused absence with me in advance.

The class will normally meet on Thursdays in Kingsbury N133. (There are a few exceptions. Please see the schedule below.)

As a courtesy to the speakers, students should keep their laptops and other electronic devices closed during the seminar.

Here is the current, tentative schedule for the seminar sessions (Google calendar):

• Thursday September 1, 12:40pm: informal session to meet faculty and other graduate students; pizza and drinks will be provided.

• Thursday September 8, 12:40pm: Stephanie Whitney, career development and internship counselor, CEPS, UNH, and Bryan Dina, senior software engineer, Dyn, "Finding Jobs and Internships".

• Thursday September 15, 12:40pm: Momotaz Begum, assistant professor, Computer Science, UNH, "Human-Robot Interaction and the Rise of Assistive Robots".

• Thursday September 22, 12:40pm: Marek Petrik, assistant professor, Computer Science, UNH, "Robust and Explainable Reinforcement Learning".

• Thursday September 29, 12:40pm: Loren David Meeker, emeritus professor, Mathematics and Statistics, UNH, and chief mathematician, Loyalty Builders, Inc., "The Challenges of Predicting Buying Behavior of Retail Customers". (This session is in Kingsbury N113.)

• Thursday October 6, 12:40pm: Laura Dietz, assistant professor, Computer Science, UNH, "Retrieving Knowledge from the Web".

• Thursday October 13, 12:40pm: David Noblet, consulting engineer, Deep Information Sciences, Inc., "Index Checkpointing and Recovery in Deep Storage Engine for MySQL".

• Thursday October 20, 12:40pm: Igor Kozlov, MS student, Computer Science and the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping, UNH, "Optimal Acquisition of Imagery for 3D Reconstruction".

• Thursday October 27, 12:40pm: Avinash Chopde, engineer, Google, "The Complexity of Airfare Pricing". (This session is in Kingsbury N113.)

• Thursday November 3, 12:40pm: Bence Cserna, PhD student, Computer Science, UNH, "Real-time Heuristic Search".

• Thursday November 10, 12:40pm: Radim Bartos, associate professor and chair, Computer Science, UNH, "Robustness and Security of Network-based Precise Time Synchronization".

• Thursday November 17, 12:40pm: Christian Muise, research fellow, Model-based Embedded and Robotic Systems Group, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT, "Fully Observable Non-Deterministic Planning (And Beyond!)".

• Thursday November 24: No class. Thanksgiving holiday.

• Thursday December 1, 12:40pm: Colin Ware, professor, and Tom Butkeiwicz, research assistant professor, Computer Science and the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping, UNH, "Research in the Data Visualization Research Lab".

• Thursday December 8, 12:40pm: Rouzbeh Yassini, executive director, Broadband Center Of Excellence, UNH (and founder and CEO of YAS Capital Partners), "Broadband Branches Out".