selman@CS.BUFFALO.EDU (Alan Selman) (02/21/91)
This annual conference is organized by graduate in computer science at SUNY at Buffalo. All speakers other than the keynote speakers are graduate students. Conference proceedings will be available. There is no registration fee and all are welcome to attend. -------------------------------------------------------------------- T h e S i x t h A n n u a l U N I V E R S I T Y a t B U F F A L O G r a d u a t e - C o n f e r e n c e o n C o m p u t e r S c i e n c e M o n d a y, M a r c h 1 8 t h, 1 9 9 1 C e n t e r F o r T o m o r r o w Schedule of Presentations 8:00 Registration 8:30 Welcome Address - Thomas George, Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, SUNY at Buffalo A I S e s s i o n 8:35 Keynote Address - Dana Ballard, University of Rochester 9:15 Richard Fenrich, SUNY at Buffalo ``Segmentation of Diverse Quality Handwritten Digit Strings'' 9:40 Juergen Haas, SUNY at Buffalo ``Automatic Synthesis of Semantics for Context-Free Grammars: An Incremental Approach'' 10:05 Geetha Srikantan, SUNY at Buffalo ``Multigrid Estimation of Motion in Artificial and Echocardiographic Imagery'' 10:30 Break 10:45 Jonas Karlsson, University of Rochester ``A Motion Planner for Checkers'' 11:10 Stephen Lam, SUNY at Buffalo ``A Model-Based System for Form Layout Analysis'' 11:35 David Traum, University of Rochester ``The Discourse Reasoner of the TRAINS Conversation System'' 12:00 Peter Heeman, University of Toronto ``Collaborative Referring Expressions'' 12:25 Lunch S y s t e m s / T h e o r y S e s s i o n 1:30 Introduction - Alan Selman, Chairman, Department of Computer Science, SUNY at Buffalo 1:35 Keynote Address - Alan Borodin, University of Toronto 2:15 Luke O'Connor, University of Waterloo ``Nondegenerate Permutations'' 2:40 Mark Crovella, University of Rochester ``Scheduling for Synchronization Intensive Parallel Applications'' 3:05 Alex Lopez-Ortiz, University of Waterloo ``Guessing vs. Coin Tossing: Probabilities as an Aid to Solve Problems'' 3:30 Break 3:45 David Penny, University of Toronto `Formal Methods For Guaranteeing Operating Systems Portability'' 4:10 Andrew Rau-Chaplin, Carleton University ``A Parallel Frame-Based Knowledge Representation System'' 4:35 Naji Mouawad, University of Waterloo ``On the Nature of Visibility Graphs'' 5:00 Pamela Thuman, SUNY at Buffalo ``Parallel Minimization Techniques for the Phase Problem in X-Ray Crystallography'' 5:25 Reception LOCATION: Center for Tomorrow, Amherst Campus SUNY at Buffalo Buffalo, NY REGISTRATION: Free LUNCH: optional, $5 (US) Payment may be made at the door but advance payment is preferred - make checks payable to: UB Graduate Student Association Send registration, lunch requests (advance payment also) to UBG-CCS '91 Department of Computer Science 226 Bell Hall Buffalo, NY 14226 or email registration, lunch (no payment) requests to: millerkj@cs.buffalo.edu (subject: UBG-CCS '91) SPONSORS: Computer Science Graduate Student Association, SUNY at Buffalo University at Buffalo Center for Cognitive Science Department of Computer Science, SUNY at Buffalo Graduate Student Association, SUNY at Buffalo Calspan Corporation, Buffalo, NY Computer Task Group, Buffalo, NY