8th CS UNM Student Conference (CSUSC 2012)

Centennial Engineering Center Auditorium (CEC 1041), University of New Mexico

April 24th, 2012

Paper abstracts , Conference proceedings


Welcome	8:50
Paper Presentations	9:00	Dewan Ibtesham Shafi	On the Viability of Compression for Reducing the Overheads of Checkpoint/Restart-based Fault Tolerance
	9:15	Antonio M. Espinoza	Work-in-progress : Automated Named Entity Extraction for Tracking Censorship of Current Events
	9:30	Soumya Banerjee	Quantication of Uncertainty in Parameters Characterizing Within-Host West Nile Virus Infection
Short break	9.45
	10:00	Kimberly Kanigel Winner	Ovarian cancer relapse: micro-carcinomas growing from microscopic residual disease vary in form with peritoneal niche
	10:15	Nick Malone	Implementation of an Embodied General Reinforcement Learner on a Serial Link Manipulator
	10:30	Benjamin M. Gordon	Progress in Spoken Programming
Short break	10.45
Faculty candidate talk	11:00	Stephen Checkoway	Motors, Voters, and the Future of Embedded Security
Lunch (Stamm Conference Room)	12:00
CSGSA presentation	1:30	Roya Ensafi	TBA
	1:40	Chayan Chakrabarti	Enriching Chatter Bots With Semantic Conversation Control
Keynote speaker	2:00	Dan Wallach	Security architectures for smartphones
	3:00	Michael Janes	Life Won’t Wait! (On the Slowdown of Asynchronous Automata Networks)
	3:15	Joshua Hecker	Formica ex Machina: Ant Swarm Foraging From Physical to Virtual and Back Again
	3:30	Mahnush Movahedi	Mahnush Movahedi Breaking the O ( nm ) Bit Barrier: Secure Multiparty Computation with a Static Adversary
Short break	3.45
	4:00	Sunny Fugate	These go to eleven: Cranking up the knobs on IDS scaling performance
	4:15	Yaojia Zhu	Oriented and Degree-generated Block Models: Generating and Inferring Communities with Inhomogeneous Degree Distributions
	4:30	Neal Holtschulte	Optimal Population Size in Island Model Genetic Algorithms
Short break	4.45
	5:00	Benjamin Edwards	Internet Topology over Time
	5:15	Jeffrey Knockel	Three Researchers, Five Conjectures: An Empirical Analysis of TOM-Skype Censorship and Surveillance
Closing	5:30