Charles V. Schaefer, Jr.
    School of Engineering and Science
 
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January  
Jan 22
Mon
2:00pm
Babbio 110
Algebra and Cryptography Seminar
Rainer Steinwandt, Florida Atlantic University
On a Modular Approach to (Password-)Authenticated Group Key Establishment
Sponsored by the Algebraic Cryptography Center, the Laboratory for Secure Systems, and the PORTIA project.
Jan 24
Wed
11:00am
Babbio 104
Nanotechnology Seminar
Leonard C. Feldman, Vanderbilt University
Nanoscale Physics and Chemistry
Jan 24
Wed
4:00pm
Peirce 218
Stochastic Systems Seminar
Ioannis Karatzas, Columbia University
Stochastic Differential Games of Control and Stopping
Jan 28
Sun
10:00am--5:00pm
Peirce 220
Asymptotic Subgroups of Groups, and their Application to Cryptography
Speakers: Ben Fine, Alexei Miasnikov, Sasha Ushakov, Jen Taback
Sponsored by the Algebraic Cryptography Center
Jan 29
Mon
11:00am
Lieb 319
Computer Science - Security Seminar
Markus Jakobsson, Indiana University
The Human Factor in Phishing
Jan 31
Wed
3:00pm
Babbio 310
Chemistry & Chemical Biology Seminar
Jiwen Cheng, Clinical Discovery, Bristol-Myers Squibb
Seeing is Believing: Application of Imaging Mass Spectrometry for Drug Discovery
Jan 31
Wed
3:00pm
Burchard 715
Control of Quantum Systems Seminar
Rainer Martini, Dept of Physics & Engineering Physics
Enabling MIR (FIR) through optically-controlled quantum devices
Jan 31
Wed
4:30pm
Kidde 104
Stevens Society of Mathematicians - Seminar
Rishi Nath, York College, CUNY
Recent Refinements of the McKay Conjecture
Jan 31
Wed
4:00pm
Babbio 122
Humanities Forum
Manning Marable
Diversity in Education: How It's Relevant for Everyone at Stevens
February  
Feb 6
Tue
11:00am
Babbio 210
Mathematics Colloquium
Denis Osin, City College of New York
Group theoretic Dehn filling
Feb 7
Wed
1:00pm
Howe Ctr, 3rd Flr
Fielding Room
Humanities Forum
Craig Hanks, Dept of Philosophy
Better Than Before -- Stronger, Faster...: Ethics in Nanotechnology and Transhumanism
Feb 7
Wed
2:00pm
Babbio 321
Chemistry & Chemical Biology Seminar
Malcom MacCoos, Basic Chemistry & Drug Discovery Sciences, Merck
EMEND® (Aprepitant): a potent, orally active Substance P Antagonist for the treatment of Chemotherapy Induced Nausea and Vomiting: from the medicinal chemistry bench to the clinic
Feb 12
Mon
11:00am
Babbio 202
Computer Science - Security Seminar
Jelena Mirkovic, University of Deleware
A Cheap, Practical and Effective IP Spoofing Defense Via Self-Learning Packet Filtering
Feb 14
Wed
1:00pm
Howe Ctr, 3rd Flr
Fielding Room
Humanities Forum
John Horgan, Center for Science Writings
The End of War
Feb 21
Wed
1:00pm
Howe Ctr, 3rd Flr
Fielding Room
Humanities Forum
Harold Dorn, Dept of History
The Biological Roots of Murder
Feb 21
Wed
2:00pm
Babbio 321
Chemistry & Chemical Biology Seminar
Linda Scanlon, S.C. Williams Library
Making Good Use of Library Resources
Feb 21
Wed
3:00pm
Burchard 715
Control of Quantum Systems Seminar
Dwayne Miller, University of Toronto
Do we live in a Quantum World?
Feb 22
Thu
11:00am
Peirce 216
Mathematics Colloquium
Ruchira Datta, University of California at Berkeley
Polynomial Graphs with Applications to Game Theory
Feb 23
Fri
11:00am
Babbio 202
Computer Science - Security Seminar
Prahlad Fogla, Georgia Institue of Technology
Improving the Robustness of Intrusion Detection Systems
Feb 26
Mon
11:00am
Babbio 202
Computer Science - Security Seminar
Reza Curtmola, John Hopkins University
Byzantine-Resilient Routing in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks
Feb 28
Wed
11:00am
Babbio 122
Nanotechnology Seminar
Mark I. Stockman, Georgia State University
Coherent, Nonlinear, and Ultrafast Nanoplasmonics
Feb 28
Wed
1:00pm
Howe Ctr, 3rd Flr
Fielding Room
Humanities Forum
Diana Bush, Dept of Art, Music & Technology
The Dialectical Object: Futurism, Dada, Constructivism
Feb 28
Wed
2:00pm
Babbio 321
Chemistry & Chemical Biology Seminar
Richard Howells, UMDNJ
Regulation of Opioid Receptor Expression and Signaling
March  
Mar 1
Thu
11:00am
Babbio 202
Computer Science - Security Seminar
Angelos Stavrou, Columbia University
An Overlay Architecture for End-to-End Service Availability
Mar 1
Thu
9:00pm
DeBaun
  Auditorium
Department of Literature & Communications
Stevens' 7th Annual V-Day: Reclaiming the Peace 2007
The Vagina Monologues
Mar 5
Mon
11:00am
Babbio 202
Computer Science - Security Seminar
Antonio Nicolosi, Stanford University
When conventional authentication is not enough
Mar 5
Mon
4:00pm
Babbio 210
Stochastic Systems Seminar
Michel Théra, Université de Limoges, France
Continuation Theorems and Periodic Solutions for Evolution Variational Inequalities
Mar 7
Wed
1:00pm
Howe Ctr, 3rd Flr
Fielding Room
Humanities Forum
Leonidas Bouritsas, Dept of Philosophy
Create or Perish: Applied Studies as a Higher Education Model
Mar 7
Wed
2:00pm
Babbio 321
Chemistry & Chemical Biology Seminar
Meena Katdare, Cornell University
Microarrays in Biological Research
Mar 7
Wed
3:00pm
Burchard 715
Control of Quantum Systems Seminar
Vladimir Malinovsky, MagiQ Company
Quantum computation and quantum cryptography
Mar 8
Thu
11:00am
Babbio 202
Computer Science - Security Seminar
Sven Dietrich, Carnegie Mellon University
Malware analysis from DDoS agents to bots and more
Mar 20
Tue
4:00pm
Peirce 218
Stochastic Systems Seminar
Emre Erdogan, ING Investments
Robust Optimization Applied to Portfolio Management with Transaction Costs
Mar 21
Wed
1:00pm
Howe Ctr, 3rd Flr
Fielding Room
Humanities Forum
Carmen Firan, Iilia Motoc, Paul Doru Mugur, Corina Suteu
Contemporary Romanian Culture
Mar 21
Wed
2:00pm
Babbio 321
Chemistry & Chemical Biology Seminar
Sanat Kumar, Columbia University
Minimal Models for Modeling Protein Crystallization
Mar 21
Wed
3:00pm
Howe Ctr, 3rd Flr
Fielding Room
Humanities Forum
Amy Srebnick, Montclair State University
Sex & Culture in 19th-Centry New York: The Mysterious Death of Mary Rogers
Mar 21
Wed
3:00pm
Burchard 715
Control of Quantum Systems Seminar
Christopher Search, Dept of Physics & Engineering Physics
Spin currents from quantum dots embedded in a microcavity
Mar 21
Wed
4:30pm
Howe Ctr, 4th Flr
Bissinger Room
The Center for Science Writings
A debate with bioethicists Thomas Murray and James Hughes
Redesigning humanity: How far can we go?
Mar 28
Wed
11:00am
Babbio 122
Nanotechnology Seminar
Vladimir Torchilin, Northeastern University
Multifunctional Stimuli-Sensitive Pharmaceutical Nanocarriers: Evolution of the Concept
Mar 28
Wed
3:00pm
Howe Ctr, 3rd Flr
Fielding Room
Humanities Forum
Akif Kirecci, Dept of History
Was the Ottoman Empire Islamic?
Mar 28
Wed
3:00pm
Burchard 715
Control of Quantum Systems Seminar
Andreas Hanke, University of Texas, Brownsville and Dallas
Casimir forces in nanoscience and single molecule biophysics
Mar 30-31
Fri & Sat
9:00am
Carnegie Bldg
Room 315
Fourth Rutgers-Stevens Workshop On Optimization of Stochastic Systems
Supported by the Imperatore School of Sciences & Art, Rutgers Business School, and NSF.
April  
Apr 2
Mon
11:00am
Babbio 202
Computer Science - Vision Seminar
Svetlana Lazebnik, University of Illinois
Learning to Recognize Objects and Scenes with Bags of Features and Spatial Pyramids
Apr 4
Wed
11:00am
Babbio 122
Nanotechnology Seminar
Maria C. Tamargo, The City College of New York
Wide Bandgap II-VI Compounds for Mid IR Quantum Cascade Lasers
Apr 4
Wed
2:00pm
Babbio 321
Chemistry & Chemical Biology Seminar
Dr. E. Anagnostou, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Research in the Neurobiology and Treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorders
Apr 4
Wed
3:00pm
Kidde 104
Stevens Society of Mathematicians - Seminar
Rishi Nath, York College, CUNY
Combinatorics and connections between the representation theory of the symmetric and alternating groups
Apr 4
Wed
3:30pm
Babbio 321
Graduate Student Society of Chemistry & Chemical Biology
Dr. John R. Timmer, Weill Cornell Medical College
How scientists' and the public's views on science differ and how we can all begin to speak the same language?
Apr 4
Wed
4:00pm
Howe Ctr, 4th Flr
Skyline Room
Humanities Forum
Jonathan Wharton, Stevens Institute of Technology
Newark Mayor Cory Booker: How Race Influences an Election
Apr 5
Thu
11:00am
Babbio 202
Computer Science - Security Seminar
Hui (Wendy) Wang, University of British Columbia
Secure and Efficient Query Evaluation on XML Databases
Apr 9
Mon
11:00am
Babbio 202
Computer Science - Security Seminar
Benjamin Fung, Simon Fraser University
Privacy-Preserving Data Publishing
Apr 9
Mon
5:00pm
Peirce 218
Financial Engineering Seminar
Sira Suchintabandid, Columbia University
Approximation Methods for Measuring Credit Risk and Pricing Credit Derivatives
Apr 11-12
Wed & Thu
10:00am
Babbio 110
Algebraic Cryptography Center - Workshop
Open problems relating to languages, automata, groups, complexity and cryptography
First of two days.
Apr 11
Wed
1:00--3:00pm
Babbio 122
The Center for Science Writings
Peter Davoren, Turner Corps.
Green Construction
Apr 11
Wed
2:00pm
Babbio 321
Chemistry & Chemical Biology Seminar
George Njoroge, Schering-Plough Research Institute
Challenges & Successes in Discovering Protease Inhibitors for Treatment of Hepatitis C Virus
Apr 11
Wed
3:00pm
Howe Ctr, 3rd Flr
Fielding Room
Humanities Forum
Mary Ann Hellrigel, Dept of History
Manchester Revisited
Apr 12
Thu
10:00am
Babbio 202
Algebraic Cryptography Center - Workshop
Open problems relating to languages, automata, groups, complexity and cryptography
Second of two days.
Apr 14-15
Sat & Sun
8:00am
Burchard Bldg
American Mathematical Society Sectional Meeting
4 Invited talks; 13 sessions of contributed talks.
Directions and Maps.
Apr 16
Mon
11:00am
Lieb 319
Computer Science - Security Seminar
Sasa Radomirovic, University of Luxembourg
Verification of Security Protocols
Apr 17
Tue
11:00am
Peirce 218
Computer Science - Vision Seminar
Silvio Savarese, University of Illinois
3D Reconstruction and Recognition of Reflective Objects
Apr 18
Wed
9:00am--4:00pm
Howe Ctr, 4th Flr
Bissinger Room
6th Annual ISSA Graduate Conference
Keynote Speaker: Wilson Richardson of The Climate Project
3-4pm: Graduate Student Forum     [ Conference proceedings ]
Apr 18
Wed
1:00pm
Howe Ctr, 3rd Flr
Fielding Room
Humanities Forum
Larry Levine, Dept of Mathematical Sciences
Israel Salanter (1810-1883): Revolutionary Rabbi par Excellence
Apr 18
Wed
3:00pm
Babbio 310
Chemistry & Chemical Biology Seminar
Walter A. Korfmacher, Schering-Plough Research Institute
Mass Spectrometry Strategies for Higher Throughput ADME/PK Screening: an Integral Part of the Lead Optimization
Apr 18
Wed
3:00pm
Burchard 715
Control of Quantum Systems Seminar
Robert J. Levis, Temple University
Control of Complex Molecular Processes Using Adaptively-Shaped, Intense Laser Fields
Apr 19
Thu
11:00am
McLean 515
Computer Science - Security Seminar
Shabsi Walfish, New York University
Practical Intrusion-Resilient Security
Apr 23
Mon
11:00am
Babbio 202
Computer Science - Vision Seminar
Greg Slabaugh, Siemens Corporate Research
Applications of Differential Equations in Biomedical Computer Vision
Apr 24
Tue
4:00pm
Peirce 218
Stochastic Systems Seminar
Cristina Comaniciu, Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Cooperative protocols for dynamic wireless networks
Apr 25
Wed
1:00pm
Howe Ctr, 3rd Flr
Fielding Room
Humanities Forum
M.G. Prasad, Dept of Mechanical Engineering
What Is Yoga?
Apr 25
Wed
2:00pm
Babbio 321
Chemistry & Chemical Biology Seminar
Student Thesis Presentations
May  
May 1
Tue
4:00pm
Peirce 218
Stochastic Systems Seminar
Andreas Hamel, Princeton University
A duality theory for set-valued convex functions
May 2
Wed
3:00pm
Burchard 715
Control of Quantum Systems Seminar
Bernard Rosen, Dept of Physics & Engineering Physics
Quantum Controllability
May 9
Wed
4:00--5:30pm
Howe Ctr, 4th Flr
Bissinger Room
The Center for Science Writings
Edward O. Wilson, Harvard University
Conservation: The common ground of science and religion
May 10
Thu
3:00pm
Peirce 220
Stochastic Systems Seminar
Nikolay Strigul, Dept of Mathematical Sciences & Center for Environmental Systems
Macroscopic equations for forest dynamics: scaling up from individual trees to forest.
May 15
Tue
1:00pm
Babbio 202
Computer Science - Security Seminar
Marco Pistoia, IBM Research
Beyond Stack Inspection: A Unified Access-Control and Information-Flow
Jun-Aug  
Jun 22
Fri
11:00am
Babbio 202
Computer Science - Security Seminar
Andrei Sabelfeld, Chalmers University of Technology
Attacker-centric view of declassification
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