Database Group Meetings

The purpose of these meetings is to provide a forum where people explore new ideas in databases and information systems.

Fall 2006

Monday, 15:00
101 Lindley Hall

Topics scheduled

Date Topic Speaker
Aug 28 TBA Sriram Mohan
Sept 4 Translating Between Conceptual Systems
Using Internal and External Information
abstract,   project web page
Rob Goldstone
Sept 11 Overview of Database Group Research
for students considering research in databases
All
Sept 18 Results on the Relationships between XML Structural Indices and XPath George Fletcher. Joint work with Van Gucht, Wu, Gyssens, and Paredaens
Sept 25 Analysis of Various Frequent Itemset Mining Algorithms P. Purdom, D. Van Gucht, and N. Dexters
Oct 2 XML Bitmap Index Mike Blandford
Oct 9 My Summer at Google Jon Klinginsmith
Oct 16 postponed Tao Huang
Oct 23 Project Overview I: Generic Model and Metamodel Management - Automated Support for Design Information Framework Sofia Brenes-Barahona
Oct 30 Project Overview II: Generic Model and Metamodel Management - Automated Support for Design Information Framework Sofia Brenes-Barahona
Nov 6 TBA Jon Klinginsmith
Nov 13 papers by Frank Tompa Melanie Wu & Ed Robertson
Nov 17 Frank Tompa
CS/Informatics Colloquim 15:00
 
Nov 20 Thanksgiving Break Tom Turkey
Nov 27 Structured Data Retrieval by Ranking Chengkai Li (UIUC)
Dec 4 Towards large scale information integration on the Web: Finding, understanding and querying Web databases Zhen Zhang (UIUC)
Dec 8    
Dec 11    

Previous Year's Schedules