Spring 2002 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 Ashraf Aboulnaga. We are very flexible in moving talks around!
 

Schedule

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

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

Date Speaker(s) Title Abstract/Paper Comments
Jan 25 Raghav Kaushik
University of Wisconsin 		Covering Indexes for Branching Path Queries Abstract
Feb 1 Rajasekar Krishnamurthy
University of Wisconsin 		On the Complexity of the Grouping Problem in XML to Relational Mappings Abstract
Feb 8
No seminar

Feb 15 1. Gang Luo
(1:30-2:00)
2. Jianjun Chen
(2:00-2:30)
University of Wisconsin 		1. a) A Non-blocking Parallel Spatial Join Algorithm (25 mins)
1. b) Auxiliary Relations for Join View Maintenance in Parallel RDBMS (5 mins)
2. Design and Evaluation of Alternative Selection Placement Strategies in Optimizing Continuous Queries
 		1. a) Abstract, Paper
1. b) Abstract, Slides
2. Abstract 		Practice talks for ICDE
Feb 22 Chun Zhang
University of Wisconsin 		Relational Databases for XML Indexing Abstract
Mar 1
No seminar

Mar 8 Ashraf Aboulnaga
University of Wisconsin 		On-line Statistics for Database Query Optimization Abstract
Mar 15
No seminar

Mar 22
No seminar

Mar 29 Spring Break No seminar

Apr 5 Nancy Wiegand
University of Wisconsin 		CANCELLED: Database Research for a Wisconsin Land Information System Abstract CANCELLED
Apr 12 Chris Olston
Stanford University 		Approximate Caching Abstract
Apr 19 Nancy Wiegand
University of Wisconsin 		Database Research for a Wisconsin Land Information System Abstract
Apr 26 Neoklis Polyzotis
University of Wisconsin 		XSketch Synopses for XML Abstract
May 3 1. Qiong Luo
(1:30-2:00)
2. Gang Luo
(2:00-2:30)
University of Wisconsin 		1. Middle-Tier Database Caching for e-Business
2. A Scalable Hash Ripple Join Algorithm 		1. Abstract, Paper
2. Abstract, Paper 		Practice talks for SIGMOD
May 10 Stratis Viglas
(1:30-2:00)
University of Wisconsin 		Rate-based Query Optimization for Streaming Information Sources Abstract, Paper Practice talk for SIGMOD
Monday, May 13
(11:00 am, 2310 CS) 		C. Mohan
IBM Almaden Research Center 		Caching Technologies for Web Applications Abstract, Slides Note unusual day and time.
May 17 Neoklis Polyzotis
University of Wisconsin 		Statistical Synopses for Graph-Structured XML Databases Abstract, Paper Practice talk for SIGMOD

This page is maintained for the Spring 2002 semester by Ashraf Aboulnaga