CS197: Honors Seminar

 

Instructor: Daniel G. Aliaga

Classroom: LWSN 1106

Time: Tue @ 10:30-11:20am

 

Course Overview

The objective of this course is to focus on research in computer science, including the main research areas of the Purdue CS Department and how to get involved in research. The course also includes research presentations by CS 497 students.

 

Schedule

 

January 12       Organizational Meeting

January 19       Tour of Research Labs

January 26       Scholarship Opportunities and Career Paths (Part 1, Part 2, Part3)

February 2       Research Areas in the Department

February 9       Research Presentation by Daniel G. Aliaga

                                                Capturing, Modeling, and Rendering 3D Objects”

                        Papers: “Shadow Art

                                    Procedural Modeling of Cities

February 16     Research Presentation by Xavier Tricoche:

                                                “Scientific Visualization: Using Images to Understand and Solve Problems in Science, Engineering, and Medicine”

                        Papers: Marching Cubes

Direct Volume Rendering

Line Integral Convolution

Illustrative Visualization

February 23     Research Presentation by Luo Si:

                                                Information Retrieval

                        Papers: “The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual Web search engine

                                    GroupLens: applying collaborative filtering to Usenet news”

March 2           Research Presentation by Bharat Bhargava:

                                                “Collaborative Attacks”

                        Paper: “Developing Attack Defense Ideas for Ad Hoc Wireless Networks

March 9           Research Presentation by Jennifer Neville:

                                                “Data Mining in Networks”

                        Papers: “Using Relational Knowledge Discovery to Prevent Securities Fraud

                                    Network-based Marketing: Identifying Likely Adopters via Consumer Networks

                                    Yes, there is a correlation: - from social networks to personal behavior on the web

                                    Predicting tie strength with social media

March 23         Research Presentation by Mikhail Atallah:

                                                Privacy Techniques for Collaborative Computing

                        Papers: “Secure Multiparty Computation Goes Live

                                    Private Combinatorial Group Testing

                                    Efficient Correlated Action Selection

                                    Efficient Techniques for Realizing Geo-Spatial Access Control

 

Instructions [PDF]

Paper presentation template [PPT] [PDF]

Paper presentation schedule [PDF]

 

March 30         Paper Presentation (CS197 students)

April  6            Paper Presentation (CS197 students)

April 13           Paper Presentation (CS197 students)

April 20           Paper Presentation (CS197 students)

 

April 27           CS497 Demo Day (very tentative)

 

Questions? If you have questions, please contact me, Daniel G. Aliaga (aliaga at cs.purdue.edu). Thank you!