Calendar - September 2007

Thursday, September 6, 2007

Probabilistic Motion Planning Methods and Their Applications
Thursday, September 06, 2006
Noon,  STII Room 430A
Dr. Jyh-Ming Lien, Assistant Professor

GRAND Seminar: Discovering Unusual Patterns in Massive Time Series Data
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Noon
STII Room 430A
Jessica Lin, Assistant Professor, George Mason University

System and Networking Seminar: Intrusion Detection on Rootkit
Friday, September 14, 2007
3:00pm
STII Room 320
Jing Jin, George Mason University

Joint CS / ISE Picnic
Saturday, September 15, 2007
The CS and ISE departments will have a joint picnic at 11 AM in Van Dyck Park. The picnic is for faculty, staff and research students of the two departments. This will be an informal, potluck, event for families. (The location was changed after the previous announcement.)

George Mason University Graduate Showcase
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Time: 6:00 – 8:00pm
Location: Fairfax Campus, Johnson Center, Dewberry Hall (ground level)
For more information and to RSVP: http://admissions.gmu.edu/rsvp/GraduateShowcase/

21st Century Civil Engineering Education
Future of Civil Engineering Education: Various Perspectives
Friday, September  21, 2007
11:00 a.m.
Location: TBA
Speakers: James O’Brien, P.E., ASCE Managing Director for Education Activities

Staff Council Meeting
Thursday September 27th
Time: 9:00-9:30 a.m.
Science and Tech 2, Room 100

GRAND Seminar: Kernel and Spectral Methods for Clustering
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Noon
STII Room 430A
Maurizio Filippone, PhD Student ~ Department of Computer and Information Sciences ~ University of Genova, Italy

Thursday, September 27- Friday, September 28, 2007

2007 - 2008 Department of Statistics Seminar Series
The Interface Among Statistics, IT, and the Life Sciences
Friday, September 28, 2007
1:00pm - 2:00pm
JC, 3rd floor, Meeting Room C
Speaker: R. Clifton Bailey, DHHS

Why Do Bridges Fail? Is Our Infrastructure Crumbling?
Friday, September 28, 2007
11:00am
Johnson Center, Room F
Mr. Charles V. “Casey” Dinges, Dr. Andrew Nowak

A Seminar Sponsored by
Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering,
The Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering

The recent collapse of the I-35W highway bridge in Minneapolis has raised many questions about the safety of our bridges and the general condition of our infrastructure.  It is a critical issue since our built infrastructure creates a physical environment for all our activities, professional and personal, and much of this infrastructure was built more than 50 years ago. Infrastructure failures call into question our commitment as a nation to the proper maintenance and management of these public assets.

The seminar will address two interrelated topics.  First, Charles V. Dinges, the Managing Director for External Affairs of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), will report the ASCE efforts to evaluate the state of the USA infrastructure.  In this context, Andrew S. Nowak, a bridge structural reliability expert of international reputation, will talk about the recent bridge collapse in Minneapolis.  Finally, we will have a short discussion focused on infrastructure reliability and education.

Casey Dinges serves as the Managing Director for External Affairs of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).  This division includes the Government Relations and Communications Departments, along with the Society’s K-12 Outreach and Diversity programs. Mr. Dinges headed the team that developed ASCE’s highly regarded Report Card on America’s Infrastructure program

Andrzej S. Nowak is the Robert W. Brightfelt Professor of Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Prof. Nowak’s area of expertise is structural reliability and bridge engineering. He has made important contributions in the area of bridge diagnostics and evaluation, including analytical load models used for prediction of extreme load events for bridges and buildings.

System and Networking Seminar: Billing Attacks on SIP-Based VoIP Systems
Friday, September 28
3:00pm
STII Room 430A
Dr. Xinyuan Wang, Assistant Professor, George Mason University