CPDC SEMINAR SERIES

The Center runs a seminar series on Mondays at 11AM-12 noon in L324, the ECE conference room. The speakers and the topics of the seminars that were organized last year are given below.

• Sep. 13, 1997: Victor Kim, ECE Grad Student, Northwestern University, "Parallel Algorithms for Power Estimation."

• Oct. 6, 1997: Dr. David Keyes, Old Dominion University, "Death and Taxes, Nets and Caches: Facing Inevitabilities in Parallel PDE Simulation."

• Oct. 13, 1997: Dr. Bruce Litow, James Cook University, Australia, "Parallel Complexity of Coprimality and related Arithmetic Problems."

• Oct. 20, 1997: Prof. Larry Henschen, Northwestern University, "Distributed Heterogeneous Databases."

• Oct. 27, 1997: Dhruva Ranjan Chakrabarti, ECE Grad Student, Northwestern University, "Evaluation of Compiler and run-time Library Approaches for Supporting Parallel Regular Applications."

• Nov. 3, 1997: Prof. Mark Hill, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, "Tempest: A Substrate for Portable Parallel Programs."

• Nov. 10, 1997: Sachin More, ECE Grad Student, Northwestern University, "I/O Issues in Parallel Object-Relational Databases."

• Nov. 17, 1997: Prof. Shantanu Dutt, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, "Scalable, High-Performance Parallel Computing for Combinatorial Optimization Problems."

• Nov. 24, 1997: Mahmut Kandemir, ECE Grad Student, Syracuse University, "Compiler Algorithms for Optimizing Locality and Parallelism on Shared Memory and Distributed Memory machines."

• Dec. 1, 1997: Prof. Josep Torrellas, University of Illinois at Urbana, "The Illinois Aggressive COMA Multiprocessor Project (I-ACOMA)."

• Feb. 9, 1998: Dr. Doug Burger, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, "Memory Hierarchies for Future Microprocessors."

• Feb. 13: Prof. Krishna Palem, New York University, "RCSP: A Parameterized Reduced Configuration Space Processor and its Programming Environment."

• Feb. 16, 1998: Jethro Greene ECE Grad Student, Northwestern University, "Scalability of a Distributed Memory Finite-Difference Time-Domain Algorithm for the Solution of Maxwell's Equations."

• Feb. 23, 1998: Dr. Shubendu Mukherjee, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, "Design and Evaluation of Network Interfaces for System Area Networks".

• Mar. 2, 1998: Dr. Andreas Moshovos, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, "Memory Dependence Prediction."

• Mar. 9, 1998: Prof. Jorge Nocedal, Northwestern University, "Metacomputing Environments for Optimization."

• Mar. 10, 1998: Dr. Jude Rivers, University of Michigan, "Improving Data Supply for Multi-Issue Processors".

• Apr. 27, 1998: Prof. Prith Banerjee, Northwestern Univ., "MATCH: A Matlab Compilation Environment for Distributed Heterogeneous Adaptive Systems."

• Jun. 1, 1998: Prof. Vijay Chandru, Indian Insitute of Science, "Voxel-based Modeling for Rapid Prototyping."