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- CMP Seminar: Thierry Giamarhi, University of Geneva, Title TBA
- 12:00 PM to 12:00 PM GMT-5
- Lyman 425
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- Ben Livshits, Microsoft
- 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM US/Eastern
- Maxwell Dworkin G125
- Improving the Performance and Security of AJAX Web Applications
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- Pixar Animation Studios -Presentation and interviews for jobs/summer internships
- 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM GMT-5
- Office of Career Services, Downstairs Conference Room
- PIXAR ANIMATION STUDIOS, the creator of Toy Story, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars, Wall-e, and Up, is coming to Harvard to interview students for jobs and summer internships! Next Monday, November 16th, come and learn about how we artistically ...
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- CRCS Lunch Seminar
- 11:45 AM to 1:15 PM US/Eastern
- Maxwell Dworkin 2nd Floor Lounge Area
- Internet Companions: technical and Social Issues, Yorick Wilks, Oxford Internet Institute
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- Environmental Sci & Eng Seminar
- 11:45 AM to 12:45 PM US/Eastern
- Pierce Hall 114
- Dr. Mikinori Kuwata
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- Wyss Seminar Series
- 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM US/Eastern
- Hugh Herr, MIT
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- A Model of Computation for MapReduce, Sergei Vassilvitskii, Yahoo Research
- 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM GMT-5
- Maxwell Dworkin 319
- In recent years the MapReduce framework has emerged as one of the most widely used parallel computing platforms for processing data on the terabyte and petabyte scales. Used daily at companies such Yahoo!, Google, Amazon, and Facebook and adopted ...
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- Kit Parker: Tales of a Soldier/Engineer
- 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM US/Eastern
- Maxwell Dworkin G115
- Kit Parker, US Army major and Harvard biomedical engineering professor, will discuss his experiences after finishing his second tour in Afghanistan. This event is free and open to all.
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- No More Teachers? No More Books? Higher Ed in the Networked Age
- 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM US/Eastern
- Lowell Lecture Hall
- This panel discussion explores what it means to offer higher education in a world of ubiquitous connectivity and a knowledge base that is hyperlinked and broadly accessible.
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- Veterans' Day
- 12:00 AM to 11:55 PM US/Eastern
- Veteran's Day Holiday
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- Bob Metcalfe "Enernet: Internet Lessons for Solving Energy"
- 3:30 PM to 5:15 PM GMT-5
- Maxwell Dworkin G115
- Bob Metcalfe, Polaris Venture Partners. Abstract: Solving energy is a lot about thermodynamics, but more about networking. Many lessons from 63 years of Internet history apply to meeting needs for cheap and clean energy. If the Internet is any ...
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- Jim Williams, Hewlett's Remarkable Sine Wave Oscillator
- 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM GMT-5
- Maxwell Dworkin G125
- In 1938 a pair of young engineers named Hewlett and Packard began work (in the proverbial "garage") on a commercial product, based on a novel variant of the Wien bridge sinewave oscillator that Hewlett devised as part of his graduate thesis at ...
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- Paul Chaikin, NYU, "Photonic QuasiCrystals and other problems in Experimental Geometry"
- 3:30 PM to 5:15 PM GMT-5
- Pierce 209
- Paul Chaikin, Department of Physics, New York University. Abstract: QuasiCrystals can have symmetries which are forbidden for conventional crystals, e.g. five fold in two dimensions and icosahedral in three dimensions. We thought that this ...
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- Thanksgiving
- 12:00 AM to 11:55 PM US/Eastern
- Thanksgiving Holiday
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- Thanksgiving Recess
- 12:00 AM to 11:55 PM US/Eastern
- Thanksgiving recess for students
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- Thanksgiving Recess
- 12:00 AM to 11:55 PM US/Eastern
- Thanksgiving recess for students
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- SciGPU Seminar
- 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM US/Eastern
- Maxwell Dworkin 319
- GPU-accelerated Correlation of Images from the International Space Station, Peter J. Lu, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Physics, Harvard University
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- Aura: Programming with Authorization and Audit, Jeffrey Vaughan, Harvard CRCS
- 11:45 PM to 1:15 PM GMT-5
- Maxwell Dworkin 119
- Standard programming models do not provide direct ways of managing secret or untrusted data. This is a problem because programmers must use ad hoc methods to ensure that secrets are not leaked and, conversely, that tainted data is not used to make ...
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- Environmental Sci & Eng Seminar
- 11:45 AM to 12:45 PM US/Eastern
- Pierce Hall 114
- Dr. Marcelo Guzman
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- IIC Colloquium
- 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM US/Eastern
- Maxwell Dworkin G115
- Particle-Based Fluid Simulations Using GPU-Accelerated Algorithms, Lorena Barba
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- The Randomized k-Server Conjecture (Online Algorithms meet Linear Programming), Niv Buchbinder, Microsoft Research
- 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM GMT-5
- Maxwell Dworkin 319
- The k-server problem is one of the most central and well studied problems in competitive analysis and is considered by many to be the "holy grail" problem in the field. In the k-server problem, there is a distance function d defined over an n-point ...
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- Angela Belcher "Engineering Organisms as Building Block Materials for Energy and Electronics"
- 3:30 PM to 5:15 PM GMT-5
- Pierce 209
- Angela Belcher, MIT, Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Abstract: Organisms have been making exquisite inorganic materials for over 500 million years. Although these materials have many desired physical properties such as ...
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- Mark Cutosky, Stanford University Applying principles from the biology to the design and operation of bio-inspired robots
- 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM GMT-5
- MD G125
- Mark Cutosky, Stanford University Collaboration between biologists and engineers has resulted in a new generation of bio-inspired robots. Drawing inspiration from the locomotion of animals, these robots are faster, more versatile, more robust and ...
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- Research in Applied Mathematics at Schlumberger-Doll Research
- 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM GMT-5
- MD 119
- Research in Applied Mathematics at Schlumberger The search for oil and gas has three objectives: to identify and evaluate hydrocarbon-bearing reservoirs; to bring hydrocarbons to the surface safely and cost-effectively, without harming the ...
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- Research in Applied Mathematics at Schlumberger
- 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM GMT-5
- MD 119
- Research in Applied Mathematics at Schlumberger The search for oil and gas has three objectives: to identify and evaluate hydrocarbon-bearing reservoirs; to bring hydrocarbons to the surface safely and cost-effectively, without harming the ...
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- Edo Airoldi, Harvard
- 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM US/Eastern
- Maxwell Dworkin G125
- A statistical perspective on cellular growth
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- IIC Colloquium
- 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM US/Eastern
- Pierce Hall, 100F
- Data Is the Network: Link or Die, Joe Futrelle
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- Media Cloud and Quantitative News Media Analysis, Hal Roberts and Ethan Zuckerman (Harvard Berkman Center)
- 11:45 AM to 1:15 PM GMT-5
- Maxwell Dworkin 119
- The rapid rise of participatory media technologies – weblogs, social networks, microblogging, video sharing sites – are transforming the news media landscape, reshaping how ideas are spread. Much of the early research on the influence of ...
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- Kavita Bala, Cornell
- 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM US/Eastern
- Maxwell Dworkin G125
- When is a rendered image good enough? Perceptually-Based Realistic Rendering
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- Thanksgiving Recess
- 12:00 AM to 11:55 PM US/Eastern
- Thanksgiving recess for students
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- Thanksgiving Recess
- 12:00 AM to 11:55 PM US/Eastern
- Thanksgiving recess for students
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