Category: Talks
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talk: Big Microbiome Data, 10am Tue May 2, UMBC
Information Systems Eminent Scholar Talk Big Microbiome Data Xiaohua Hu, Drexel University 10:00am Tuesday, 2 May 2017, ITE 459, UMBC We know little about the microbial world. Microbiome sequencing (i.e., metagenome, 16s rRNA) extracts DNA directly from a microbial environment without culturing any species. Recently, huge amount of data are generated from many micorbiome projects…
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talk: Practical Introduction to Penetration Testing , 12pm 4/28, ITE227, UMBC
The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab presents A Practical Introduction to Penetration Testing Dr. Arno Wacker University of Kassel, Germany and UMBC 2017 12:00noon Friday, 28 April 2017, ITE 227, UMBC While many students learn the theoretical concepts of cybersecurity and cryptology at universities, their exposure to real life systems and the application of learned theoretical…
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talk: Human-Like Strategies for Language-Endowed Intelligent Agents, 11am Fri 4/48, UMBC
The UMBC Center for Hybrid Multicore Productivity Research (CHMPR) is pleased to present as part of our distinguished lecture series Human-Like Strategies for Language-Endowed Intelligent Agents Dr. Sergei Nirenburg Professor of Cognitive Science Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 11:00am Friday, 28 April 2017, ITE 325b Artificial intelligent agents functioning in human-agent teams must correctly interpret perceptual…
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talk: Resynchronization of circadian neurons, 1pm Fri 4/21
UMBC CSEE Seminar Series Resynchronization of circadian neurons and the east-west asymmetry of jet-lag recovery Zhixin Lu University of Maryland, College Park 1-2pm Friday, 21 April 2017, ITE 231 Cells in the brain’s Suprachiasmatic Nucleus (SCN) are known to regulate circadian rhythms in mammals. We model synchronization of SCN cells using the forced Kuramoto model,…
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talk: Dynamic Causal Modelling of Neuroimaging Time Series and Current Applications in Psychiatric Research
UMBC CSEE Seminar Series Dynamic Causal Modelling of Neuroimaging (hemodynamic) Time Series and Current Applications in Psychiatric Research Eugenia Radulescu The Lieber Institute for Brain Development 1-2pm Friday, 14 April 2017, ITE 231 Abnormal neural processing due to interregional dysconnectivity at brain systems level is widely accepted as a generic mechanism in the etiopathogeny of…
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talk: Stepping Away From the Edge of Illness, 4:30p Thr 4/6
CHMPR Distinguished Lecturer Series Stepping Away From the Edge of Illness Dr. Ancha Baranova, George Mason University 4:30-5:30pm Thursday, 6 April 2017, UC 310, UMBC 3:30-4:30pm Reception, UC 310 The human body may be afflicted by a multitude of chronic diseases. In principle, any chronic ailment develops along with one or more of the four…
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talk: Quantum plane and plucking polynomial of rooted trees, 1pm 4/7
UMBC CSEE Seminar Series Quantum plane and plucking polynomial of rooted trees Józef H. Przytycki George Washington University 1:00-2:00pm, Friday, 7 April 2017, ITE 231 We describe here a new invariant of rooted trees and following up state sum invariant of pointed graphs. We argue that the invariant is interesting on it own, and that…
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talk: Making in the Classroom: Rationale, Challenge & Imperative, 3pm April 6, UMBC
Making in the Classroom: the Rationale, the Challenge and the Imperative Professor Francis Quek Department of Visualization, Texas A&M University 3:00-4:00pm Thursday, 6 April 2017, ITE 217, UMBC Computing is increasingly focused in interaction with the physical world rather than just in the abstract virtual world of screens and pixels. Physical computing combines the…
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talk: Hacking, Security, and Technology In Public Consciousness: The Effects of Myth, 1pm 3/31
An image from Hackers, a 1995 film that followed a group of high school hackers and their involvement in a corporate extortion conspiracy UMBC CSEE Seminar Series Hacking, Security and Technology In Public Consciousness: The Effects of Myth Dr. Richard Forno Assistant Director, UMBC Center for Cybersecurity Director, UMBC Cybersecurity Graduate Program 1-2pm, Friday,…
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talk: Phase synchrony in heart-brain interactions predicts personality and emotions, 1pm 3/17
UMBC CSEE Seminar Series Phase synchrony in heart-brain interactions predicts personality and emotions Ehsan Shokri Kojori NIH, National Institute on Alcoloh Abuse and Alcoholism 1:00-2:00pm Friday, 17 March 2017, ITE 231 Despite the historical interest in the link between brain and heart, it is unknown whether brain and heart interactions provide meaningful information about emotions…