Fall 2000 Database Seminar


Invitation

We are soliciting talks from our faculty members, students, and visitors from industry and other institutions. Please consider sharing your interesting research on database systems with us. The dates open are listed below -- but if you happen to be available at some other date than those listed, or at a date that's already taken, please contact me. We are very flexible in moving talks around!
 

Suggested readings

If you would like to present recent publications / advances in the database area or related fields, here is a list of suggested readings to get you started. You can choose one of them to present, or talk about anything in the field that you find more interesting along the way.

Schedule

Unless otherwise announced, this 1-hour seminar is held every Friday of the semester at 1:30pm, in 2310 CS&S.

You can also check out the upcoming talks in the department's event page .

Date Speaker(s) Title/Abstract Slides/Papers Comments
Sept. 8 Raghav Kaushik Set Containment Joins: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly paper
slides
 practice talk for VLDB'00
Sept 15 Prof. Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau and Prof. Miron Livny Meet the Database Faculty(Part I) Remzi's slides
Miron's slides
 Great opportunity to learn about our faculty members' research!
Sept 22 Prof.Jeff Naughton and Prof. Raghu Ramakrishnan Meet the Database Faculty(Part II) Jeff's slides
 Another great opportunity to learn about our professors' research!
Sept 29 Kent Wenger DEVise and the JavaScreen: Visualization on the Web project homepage
slides in HTML
 With a live demo...
Oct. 6 Chun Zhang On the Use of a Relational Database Management System for XML Information Retrieval paper
 slides
 A lot of performance numbers.
Oct. 13 Efstratios Viglas An Algebra for XML slides
 No performance numbers at all :)
Oct. 27 Janet Wiener
wiener@pa.dec.com 		The Connectivity Server: a Database for Urls and Links
Special dbseminar
CS2310, 11:45am
Oct. 27 Neoklis Polyzotis Speculative Query Processing slides
 Modern processors and OS's are the inspiration...
Nov. 1
  1. Efstratios Viglas
    (11:00-11:30)
  2. Raghav Kaushik
    (11:30-12:00)
  3. Neoklis Polyzotis
    (12:00-12:30)
  4. Qiong Luo
    (12:30-13:00)
  5. Feng Tian
    (13:00-13:30)
  6. Chun Zhang
    (13:30-14:00)
  1. An Algebra for XML-QL
  2. On the Complexity of Join Algorithms
  3. Speculative Query Processing
  4. Active Query Caching for Database Web Servers
  5. An Evaluation of Alternative XML Storage Strategies
  6. On the Use of a Relational Database Management System for XML Information Retrieval
Thanks to Professors David DeWitt and Jeff Naughton for coming to the pracitce talks and giving helpful comments. Especially Jeff sat through the whole talk marathon even some of the talks he has heard multiple times!
Nov. 3 Mike Carey
 Toto, We'are Not in Kansas Anymore: On Transitioning from Research to the Real World
(Special Badger Presentation) 		slides
 Special dbseminar
at regular time and place
Nov. 9 Ann Rogers Hancock: A language for computing with large data streams project homepage
Their paper on Hancock won the best paper award at KDD 2000. This talk (CS1325, 4:00pm)is cross-listed with the PL Seminar.
Nov. 10 Prof. David DeWitt The N**3 Project

Nov. 17 Ravishankar Ramamurthy Of Database Queries and Web Searches

Dec. 1 Rajasekar Krishnamurthy XML Schema & RELAX : Two new schema languages for XML slides
Dec. 4 Don Chamberlin Query Languages and XML slides in pdf
Special dbseminar
CS1221, 4:00pm
(Cookies: CS1325, 3:30pm) Monday

This page is created and maintained for the Fall semester 2000 by Qiong Luo
Thanks to Anastassia Ailamaki for providing the HTML template.