| We used to meet almost every Saturday at 3 pm in N242 (if it is not in use) on the second floor of Kingsbury Hall for |
| Understanding, Solving, and Constructing Research Ideas and Problems (in computer science) Together, with Energetic Discussion! |
| The meetings were informal with no slides/notes etc. expected. Our goal was to promote a culture of (serious) research, promote collaboration, and build and improve our research skills so that we can do real research when we grow up. |
| All were welcome! |
| Contact: S Bhatia at CS point UNH period edu |
| Date | Discussion topic(s) | Present |
| April 12th, 2009 | First undecidability result (Swapnil) | Swapnil, Justin, Jeff |
| April 5th, 2009 | Defining visualization (and some quivers) | Swapnil, Jeff, (and Justin) |
| March 14th, 2009 | Graph product with stars | Swapnil, Justin, Jeff |
| March 7th, 2009 | Graph product encoding a TM and counting edges | Swapnil, Justin, Jeff |
| February 28th, 2009 | Graph product Post and Wang | Swapnil, Justin, Jeff |
| February 7th, 2009 | Graph product | Swapnil, Justin, Jeff |
| January 31st, 2009 | Defining visualizations | Jeff, Swapnil |
| December 13th, 2008 | Algebras, coalgebras, and beyond: definition of a K-algebra (Justin) | Jeff, Justin, Swapnil |
| December 6th, 2008 | Visualization; integer factoring; introductory discussion of space complexity | Jeff, Justin, Swapnil |
| November 29rd, 2008 |
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| November 22nd, 2008 | Reduction from 3SAT to IND-SET; new Hamming Distance problem | Jeff, Swapnil |
| November 15th, 2008 |
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| November 9th, 2008 (Sunday) | Chapter 2 of Arora's book, revisited | Jeff, Justin, Swapnil |
| November 1st, 2008 | Tilings: infinite and bounded | Jeff, Justin, Swapnil | October 25th, 2008 | Definitions of NP and CoNP, SAT, TAUT, and statement of Cook-Levin | Jeff, Justin, Swapnil |
| March 28th, 2008 |
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| March 21st, 2008 | ? | Swapnil, Jeff, Andy |
| March 14th, 2008 | Credit-market based bandwidth allocation in access networks | Swapnil, Jeff, Andy |
| March 7th, 2008 | Parallelizing image compositing (Thomas); Focused paper reading | Jordan, Jeff, Thomas, Swapnil |
| February 29nd, 2008 | Strips planning; heuristic search; improving the local ACM chapter; version control software; VizIt visualization software | Jordan, Jeff, Andy |
| February 22nd, 2008 | Practice talk on table-based prefetching for storage caches (Mingju) | Swapnil, Jeff, Mingju |
| February 15th, 2008 | Discussion eventually leading to Cantor's brilliant (and valid) diagonalization method (Jeff) | Jordan, Swapnil, Jeff, Andy |
| February 8th, 2008 | Quantifying effectiveness of visualizations; when are two vis. maps inequivalent? (Swapnil, Jeff) | Jordan, Swapnil, Jeff, Sam |
| February 1st, 2008 | General discussion; suboptimal A* (Jordan) | Thomas, Swapnil, Andy, Jordan, Greg, Jeff |
| January 25th, 2008 | General discussion; simplified protein folding problem | Thomas, Swapnil, Andy, Seth |
| December 21st, 2007 | An overview of gene graphs; possibility of pruning tree-space by PoE; what can motifs tell us about consistent and inconsistent trees?; running FANMOD | Thomas, Swapnil |
| December 14th, 2007 | A case for searching statistically/biologically significant structures (motifs) in gene graphs (Thomas) | Jordan, Thomas, Seth, Swapnil, Andy, Ethan |
| December 7th, 2007 | ? | ? |
| November 30th, 2007 | Heuristic search: "difficulty" and phase transitions in SAT, landscape ruggedness and autocorrelation (Swapnil), coarsening/sampling, "beams" (Jordan, Thomas, Swapnil); prefetching and caching (Mingju, Prof. Varki) | Jordan, Thomas, Swapnil, Mingju, Prof. Varki |
| November 23rd, 2007 | (Thanksgiving holidays) |
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| November 16th, 2007 | Performance of new heuristic search algorithms: soln. quality vs. expansions (Jordan); heuristic search with grid coarsening (Thomas/Swapnil); adaptive resolution visualization (Thomas) | Swapnil, Jeff, Andy, Thomas, Jordan |
| November 9th, 2007 | The science in Computer Science | Swapnil, Jeff, Andy |
| November 2nd, 2007 | Visualizing organism-protein matching data (Seth) | Swapnil, Jeff, Andy, Seth, Jordan |
| October 26th, 2007 | Models for wireless sensor networks (Swapnil) | Swapnil, Jeff, Andy |
| October 19th, 2007 | Wireless network with eclipse nodes (Swapnil); Visualization with load balancing (Thomas); Macros in heuristic search, effect of weight on A* (Jordan) | Swapnil, Jeff, Thomas, Jordan |
| October 12th, 2007 | Another formulation of the glycan enumeration problem | Swapnil, Jeff |
| October 5th, 2007 | Jeff's encapsulation "problem" (Jeff); distributed topology formation (Jordan) | Swapnil, Jeff, Jordan |
| September 28th, 2007 | Searching for the longest arithmetic progression in a sequence using a small finite memory; longest sequence without an arithmetic progression | Swapnil, Jeff, Thomas |
| September 21st, 2007 | General discussion about group goals (Swapnil); heuristic search and weighting factor (Jordan) | Swapnil, Jeff, Andy, Seth, Jordan |
| May 18th, 2007 | Hill-climbing for hamming distance problem (Jordan); Flooding/denial-of-service (Jeff); | Swapnil, Jeff, Andy, Jordan |
| May 10th, 2007 | Centralization and decentralization and online payment systems (Jeff) | Swapnil, Jeff, Mingju, Xiaobo, Myung-Sun, Andy, Jordan, Thomas |
| May 4th, 2007 | Tom's heuristic and a density conjecture (Swapnil); Fair/efficient bandwidth allocation for Ethernet Passive Optical Networks (Dmitri) | Swapnil, Jeff, Ravi, Thomas, Jordan, Dmitri |
| April 27th, 2007 | Optimal frame delimiter problem (Swapnil+Tom); Tom's pruning heuristic | Swapnil, Jeff, Ravi, Thomas, Jordan, Xiaobo |
| April 20th, 2007 | Identification of the source of a socket connection despite a chain of intermediate proxies (Ravi); Java applet callback and unique identifier solution (Swapnil); discussion of solutions with sniffers | Swapnil, Jeff, Ethan, Jordan, Ravi, Andy |
| April 13th, 2007 | Discussion about our group's goals; Multi-agent planning and the firemen/police/ambulance game (Jordan); Identification of the source of a socket connection despite a chain of proxies (excerpt) (Ravi) | Swapnil, Jeff, Thomas, Ethan, Jordan, Ravi |
| April 6th, 2007 |
Andy's project about scientific visualization; VisIt demo; User-controlled I/O bandwidth management with seed points and priorities (Swapnil);
mouse-pointed real-time "resolution" control (Jeff); resolution estimation and time-constrained visualization (Xiaobo); iWarp, RDMA, and iSCSI (excerpts) (Ethan) |
Swapnil, Jeff, Andy, Xiaobo, Thomas, Ethan, Jordan |
| March 30th, 2007 | General discussion about group goals; plans for next meeting and other administrivia | Swapnil, Jeff, Andy, Kripa, Ravi, Xiaobo, Thomas |
