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Past Seminars and Symposia

The Digital Technology Center hosts two regular lecture/seminar series — the DTC Science and Technology Innovators Lecture Series, and the DTC Leading Edge Seminar Series.

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Date
 
Title/Speaker
 
June 15–16, 2013
Darmstadt, Germany
STATOS 2013: Statistics, Optimization, and Signal Processing

May 23–24, 2013
University of Minnesota
Walter Library
2013 Spring I/UCRC Meeting

Wednesday, May 22, 2013
11:00 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
(includes 10 minute break)
402 Walter Library
Georgios B. Giannakis, Vissilis Kekatos, and Nikolaos Gatsis, University of Minnesota, "Monitoring and Optimization for Smart Power Grids, Part II"
DTC Seminar Series

Tuesday, May 21, 2013
5:15 p.m.–7:05 p.m.
402 Walter Library
Georgios B. Giannakis, Vissilis Kekatos, and Nikolaos Gatsis, University of Minnesota, "Monitoring and Optimization for Smart Power Grids, Part I"
DTC Seminar Series

Wednesday, May 15, 2013
3:30 p.m. reception
4:00 p.m. seminar
401/402 Walter Library
Frank Schilder, Thomson Reuters, Ravi Kondadadi, Nuance, "Large scale machine learning at Thomson Reuters"
DTC Leading Edge Seminar Series

Thursday, May 9, 2013
3:30 p.m. reception
4:00 p.m. seminar
401/402 Walter Library
Youngchul Sung, KAIST, Korea, "On Pareto-Optimal Beam Design for Coordinated Beamforming in Next Generation Wireless Networks"
DTC Seminar Series

Thursday, May 2, 2013
8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
402 Walter Library
Workshop on Big Data + Storage Systems

Wednesday, May 1, 2013
11:15 a.m.
402 Walter Library
Bob Baxley, Georgia Tech Research Institute, "Cognitive Spectrum Operations"
DTC Seminar Series

Friday, April 26, 2013
1:30 p.m. reception
2:00 p.m. seminar
401/402 Walter Library
Dimitris A. Pados, State University of New York at Buffalo, "Questions (and some answers) on L1 Subspace Signal Processing"
DTC Seminar Series

Thursday, April 25, 2013
3:30 p.m. reception
4:00 p.m. seminar
401/402 Walter Library
Stella N. Batalama, Department of Electrical Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo, "Data Embedding in Digital Media"
DTC Seminar Series

Wednesday, April 24, 2013
3:30 reception
4:00 seminar
401/402 Walter Library
Sourabh Bhattacharya, Department of Mechanical Engineering , Iowa State University, "Resilience in Networked Cyber Physical Systems"
DTC Seminar Series

Thursday, April 18, 2013
3:30 p.m. reception
4:00 p.m. seminar
401/402 Walter Library
Ioannis Pavlidis, Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, "Fast by Nature — How Stress Patterns Define Human Experience and Performance in Dexterous Tasks"
DTC Seminar Series

Wednesday, April 10, 2013
3:30 p.m. reception
4:00 p.m. seminar
401/402 Walter Library
Thierry Godart, President, Smart Grid Division, Siemens Infrastructure and Cities, "A Smart Grid for Sustainable and Resilient Energy Systems"
Sponsored by:
DTC Leading Edge Seminar Series, and the
TLI Technological Leadership Institute

Tuesday, April 9, 2013
3:30 p.m. reception
4:00 p.m. seminar
401/402 Walter Library
George Michailidis, University of Michigan, "Network Granger Causality with Inherent Grouping Structure"
DTC Seminar Series

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Wednesday, April 3, 2013
3:30-5:00 p.m.
401/402 Walter Library
2013 Digital Technology Initiatives Forum

Tuesday, April 2, 2013
3:30 p.m. reception
4:00 p.m. lecture
401/402 Walter Library
John Leonard, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, "Toward Life-long Visual Localization and Mapping"
DTC Science and Technology Innovators Series

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Wednesday, March 13, 2013
3:30 p.m. reception
4:00 p.m. seminar
401/402 Walter Library
Mike Klemm, Distinguished Engineer, Dell Inc., Enterprise Storage Systems, "Storage Virtualization: Maximizing Efficiency and Flexibility"
DTC Leading Edge Seminar Series

Wednesday, March 6, 2013
3:30 p.m. reception
4:00 p.m. seminar
401/402 Walter Library
Firooz Sadjadi, Senior Staff Engineer, Lockheed Martin Corporation, "Computational Scene Understanding — Using Polarization Diversity"
DTC Leading Edge Seminar Series

Tuesday, March 5, 2013
3:30 p.m. reception
4:00 p.m. lecture
401/402 Walter Library
Tamer Başar, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Multi-Agent Networked Systems with Adversarial Elements"
DTC Science and Technology Innovators Series

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Wednesday, February 20, 2013
3:30 p.m. reception
4:00 p.m. seminar
401/402 Walter Library
Kevin Xu, 3M, "Detecting Anomalies in a Data Set Under Multiple Criteria"
DTC Leading Edge Seminar Series

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Wednesday, February 13, 2013
3:30 p.m. reception
4:00 p.m. seminar
401/402 Walter Library
Ronald Scott, Raytheon BBN Technologies, Information and Knowledge Technologies Group, "Collaborative Automation for Dynamic Re-planning — How to get Humans and Machines to Work Together Towards Better Decisions"
DTC Leading Edge Seminar Series

Tuesday, February 5, 2013
3:30 p.m. reception
4:00 p.m. seminar
401/402 Walter Library
Geert Leus, Delft University of Technology, "Sparsity-Aware Multi-Source TDOA Localization"
DTC Seminar Series

Thursday, January 24, 2013
3:15 p.m.
402 Walter Library
Gabriela Martinez, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, University of Minnesota, "Optimization Problems with Probabilistic Constraints"
DTC Seminar Series

January 8–9, 2013
University of Denver
IUCRC Meeting

Wednesday, December 12, 2012
3:30 p.m. reception
4:00 p.m. seminar
401/402 Walter Library
Mike Edwards, Thomson Reuters, "Big Data Challenges at a Big Company"
DTC Leading Edge Seminar Series

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Tuesday, December 11, 2012
3:30 p.m. reception
4:00 p.m. lecture
401/402 Walter Library
Matthew Mason, Robotics and Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Director of the Robotics Institute, "The Idea of a Hand"
DTC Science and Technology Innovators Series

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Wednesday, December 5, 2012
3:30 p.m. reception
4:00 p.m. seminar
401/402 Walter Library
Dave Lindeman, Lead Research Specialist, 3M Company, "An Overview of Modeling and Simulation at 3M Company"
DTC Leading Edge Seminar Series

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Monday, November 26, 2012
10:30 a.m. reception
11:00 a.m. seminar
401/402 Walter Library
Elias Manolakos, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens, Greece, "SoCs Accelerating Stochastic Simulation of Large-Scale Biomolecular Networks"
DTC Seminar Series

Friday, November 16, 2012
10:30 a.m. seminar
reception following seminar
401/402 Walter Library
Richard M. Voyles, National Robotics Initiative , National Science Foundation, "Innovating Our Future: Robotics and AI at an Inflection Point for Society"
DTC Seminar Series

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Thursday, November 15, 2012
2:00 p.m. reception
2:30 p.m. seminar
401/402 Walter Library
Geert Leus, Delft University of Technology, "Compressive Power Spectrum Sensing"
DTC Seminar Series

Wednesday, November 14, 2012
3:30 p.m. reception
4:00 p.m. seminar
401/402 Walter Library
Jean-Marie Bertoncelli, 3M, Corporate Predictive Analysis Service, "Predictive Analytics and GeoSpatial Applications at 3M"
DTC Leading Edge Seminar Series

Tuesday, November 13, 2012
3:30 p.m. reception
4:00 p.m. seminar
401/402 Walter Library
Erchin Serpedin, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, "Random Subcarrier Allocation in OFDM-Based Cognitive Radio Networks"
DTC Seminar Series

Monday, November 12, 2012
1:00 p.m.
102 Mechanical Engineering
Sangwoo Park, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, "At the Interface Between Information Theory and Signal Processing"
NOTE LOCATION: 102 Mechanical Engineering

Friday, November 9, 2012
3:00 p.m. reception
3:30 p.m. seminar
401/402 Walter Library
Visa Koivunen, Signal Processing, Aalto University , Finland, "Array Processing in The Face of Nonidealities"
DTC Seminar Series

Wednesday, November 7, 2012
3:30 p.m. reception
4:00 p.m. seminar
401/402 Walter Library
Carlos P. Sosa, Cray, Inc., "High-Performance Computing in the Scientific Community: Partnering with Industry"
DTC Leading Edge Seminar Series

Wednesday, October 31, 2012
3:30 p.m. reception
4:00 p.m. seminar
401/402 Walter Library
Tariq Samad, Corporate Fellow, Honeywell Automation and Control Solutions, Minneapolis, U.S.A., "Smart Grid Technologies and Applications for Homes, Buildings, and Industry"
DTC Leading Edge Seminar Series

Wednesday, October 17, 2012
3:30 p.m. reception
4:00 p.m. seminar
401/402 Walter Library
Girija Parthasarathy, Honeywell Automation and Control Solutions, "Getting the Most out of Wind Farms: Role of Data Analysis and Monitoring"
DTC Leading Edge Seminar Series

Thursday, October 11, 2012
3:15 p.m. reception, 358B Physics Building
3:45 p.m. seminar, 210 Physics Building
NOTE LOCATION: Physics Building
Dennis Wei, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, "Adaptive sensing and estimation of sparse signals"
DTC Seminar Series

Wednesday, September 26, 2012
3:30 p.m. Reception
4:00 p.m. Seminar
401/402 Walter Library
Mike Michaud, VP Engineering Juhl WInd Inc., "Wind-Hydrogen Power Plants — Barriers and Opportunities"
DTC Leading Edge Seminar Series

Friday, September 21, 2012
2:00 p.m.
402 Walter Library
Dongping Zhong, Robert Smith Professor of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, "Dynamics and Mechanisms of UV-Damaged DNA Repair by Photolyases"

Tuesday, August 14, 2012
3:00 p.m. reception
3:30 p.m. lecture
401/402 Walter Library
Ami Wiesel, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, "Geodesic convexity and covariance estimation"
DTC Seminar Series

August 8–10, 2012
Walter Library
Technology Day Camp 2012

Thursday, July 12, 2012
10:00 a.m.
405 Walter Library
Mike Kirby, School of Computing, Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah, "Visualization of High-Order Finite Element Methods"
DTC Seminar Series