Research, Careers, and Computer Science: A Maryland Symposium
November 16-17, 2001

AGENDA:

Friday, November 16

   All events on Friday will be in A.V. Williams Room 2460, except
      Lunch in Room 1152
      Session 2 and 4 in Room 2120

  9:00 -  9:30 Continental Breakfast
  9:30 -  9:45 Welcome:  Larry Davis, Joseph Ja'Ja', Steve Halperin
  9:45 - 10:45 Panel on Academics vs. Industry
               Panelists: Raymond Miller
                          Ashok Agrawala
                          Vic Basili
 10:45 - 11:00 Break
 11:00 - 12:30 Student presentions

               Session 1: Chair: Amitabh Varshney
                    Daniel A. Jiménez
                       Dynamic Branch Prediction with Perceptrons
                    Stephanie Weirich
                       Run-Time Type Analysis for Program Verification
                    Qing Yi
                       Transforming Loop Structures

               Session 2: Chair: Dianne O'Leary
                    King-Shan Lui
                       Spanning Tree Alternate Routing Bridge Protocol
                    Maria Papadopouli
                       Performance of Data Dissemination among 
                       Mobile Devices 
                    Michele Weigle
                       Investigating the Use of Synchronized Clocks 
                       in TCP Congestion Control

 12:30 -  1:30 Lunch.  Faculty invited.
  1:30 -  2:30 How to Get Funded
               Panelists: Caroline Wardle, National Science Foundation
                          Jim Hendler, formerly of DARPA
  2:30 -  4:00 University of Maryland demos and meetings with
               research groups
  4:00 -  5:00 Student presentions 

               Session 3: Chair: Amitabh Varshney
                    Zoë J. Wood
                       Topological Noise Removal
                    Hongjun Zhu
                       Octagons, Octagon Trees, and Moving 
                       Objects Trajectories 

               Session 4: Chair: Leana Golubchik
                    Anna Poplawski
                       Scheduling Logical Processes and Disk Accesses 
                       for Reduced Stall Time 
                    Rachel Pottinger
                       The Merge Operator in Model Management Systems 

  5:30 -       Dinner with University of Maryland faculty

Saturday, November 17

   All events on Saturday will be in A.V. Williams Room 1112, except
      Lunch in Room 1152
      Session 6 and 8 in Room 2120

  9:00 -  9:45 Continental Breakfast
  9:45 - 10:45 Panel on Teaching
               Panelists:  
                           Larry Herman
                           Gwen Kaye
                           Bill Gasarch
 10:45 - 11:00 Break
 11:00 - 12:30 Student presentations
               
               Session 5: Chair: Dana Nau
                    Valentina Bayer Zubek
                       Machine Learning for Diagnosis:  Initial Results
                    Tina Eliassi-Rad
                       Managing Large-Scale Scientific Data
                    Heather Richter
                       Understanding Meeting Capture and Access

               Session 6: Chair: Bonnie Dorr
                    Irene Langkilde-Geary
                       Statistical Sentence Generation
                    Dawn Lawrie
                       Finding Topic Terms for Hierarchical 
                       Summarization 
                    Sheila Denn
                       Making Search Results More Useful: 
                       The Role of Categorization 

 12:30 -  1:30 Lunch.  Faculty and grad students invited.
  1:30 -  2:30 Student presentations
              
               Session 7: Chair: Bonnie Dorr
                    Kiri Wagstaff
                       Constrained Clustering with Background Knowledge
                    Melanie Baljko
                       Computational Simulations of Mediated 
                       Face-to-Face Multimodal Communication 

               Session 8: Chair: Dianne O'Leary
                    Maureen Doyle
                       Barrier Algorithms with Nonlinear Constraints.
                    Michelle Mills Strout
                       Tiling for Iterative Sparse Matrix Computations

  2:30 -  3:30 Panel on Mentoring / Networking / Time Management
               Panelists: Bonnie Dorr  
                          Leana Golubchik
                          Dianne O'Leary
  3:30 -  3:45 Break
  3:45 -  5:00 Panel on Research and Tenure 
               Panelists: Dana Nau
                          Amitabh Varshney
  5:00 -       Evening event, hosted by grad students