Swarthmore College Department of Computer Science

2007-08 cs events & talks

event: 2008 spring picnic
date: tuesday, may 6

time: 4 pm
where: sci center courtyard

All CS students are invited and encouraged to come to the spring picnic!

event: ice cream friday
date: friday, april 11

time: 4pm
where: main lab

All CS students are welcome to attend. Please stop by to meet the new CS students and enjoy some tasty ice cream.

event: Doug Turnbull talk
date: Monday March 3

time: 3:00 pm
where: SciCtr 240

Doug Turnbull will talk about Discover the Music You Want: Building a Music Search Engine Using Audio Content and Social Context.

event: Joshua Stough talk
date: Friday February 29

time: 4:00 pm
where: SciCtr 240

Joshua Stough will talk about Image appearance models for automatic medical image segmentation.

event: Aaron Clauset pizza lunch
date: Monday February 25

time: 12:30-1:30 pm
where: SciCtr 240

Come have pizza with Aaron Clauset and hear about grad school at U. New Mexico.

event: Aaron Clauset talk
date: Monday February 25

time: 4:00 pm
where: SciCtr 181

Aaron Clauset will talk about A quantitative evolutionary theory for the distribution of species body size.

event: Maria Klawe talk
date: Wednesday February 20

time: 4:30 pm
where: KINSC - Hilles 109 (Haverford)

Maria Klawe, president of Harvey Mudd College, will talk about Gender and Computing: What are the Issues?. Tea at 4:15pm.

event: Audrey Lee talk
date: Thursday February 7

time: 4:00 pm
where: SciCtr 240

Audrey Lee will talk about Geometric Constraint Systems and Pebble Game Algorithms. Cookies and beverages at 3:45pm.

event: Andy Danner talk
date: Monday February 4

time: 3:45 pm
where: SciCtr 240

Andy Danner will talk about TerraStream: From Elevation Data to Watershed Hierarchies. Cookies and beverages at 3:30pm.

event: Vadim Lyubashevsky talk
date: Monday January 28

time: 4:00 pm
where: SciCtr 240

Vadim Lyubashevsky will talk about Constructing an Efficient, Provably-Secure Digital Signature Scheme. Cookies and beverages at 3:45pm.

event: Janardhan Iyengar talk
date: Wednesday January 23

time: 4:00 pm
where: SciCtr 240

Janardhan Iyengar will talk about Research in Internet Transport Protocols. Cookies and beverages at 3:45pm.

event: Doron Swade talk
date: Wednesday, October 24th

time: 7:30pm
where: Science Center room 101

Doron Swade will present a talk about Charles Babbage and his Difference Engine No. 2 on Wednesday, October 24th, at 7:30pm in the Science Center room 101. All are welcome to this Delaware Valley Distinguished Lecture Series in Computer Science talk.

event: grad school info panel
date: wed, oct 10th

time: 12:25
where: main cs lab (240)

Are you thinking about applying to graduate school in computer science?If so, you should attend the CS Graduate School Information Panel next week on Wednesday Oct 10 at 12:25pm. The CS faculty will give a brief overview of what graduate school in CS is like and how to apply, then open the discussion up to questions. Pizza will also be provided. If you plan to attend, please let us know so we can order the proper amount of pizza. All CS students are welcome.

event: Talk by William J. Rapaport
date: September 19 2007

time: 7:30 pm
where: Thomas Hall 224 (BMC)

William J. Rapaport, from the University at Buffalo (SUNY), will give a talk about the Philosophy of Computer Science. This event is at Bryn Mawr College and is free and open to the public.

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