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 Rajasekar Krishnamurthy. We are very flexible in moving talks around!

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 23				No Seminar
Thursday Jan 29 (4:00pm 1221CS)	Chris Clifton Purdue University	Turning Data into Knowledge Without Violating Privacy	Abstract	Note unusual date and time Joint Medical Informatics, AI, and Database Seminar
Jan 30	Rajasekar Krishnamurthy University of Wisconsin-Madison	XML-to-SQL Query Translation	Abstract	Practice Interview Talk
Feb 6	Gang Luo University of Wisconsin-Madison	Toward an Interactive Real-time Data Warehouse	Abstract	Practice Interview Talk
Feb 13	Jignesh M. Patel University of Michigan	Towards Declarative and Efficient Querying on Protein Structures		Postponed to March 26
Feb 20	Muthian Sivathanu University of Wisconsin-Madison	Exploring Partial Availability in Databases with PARAID (or) How a file systems guy got confused with databases!	Abstract
Feb 27	Kristen Lefevre University of Wisconsin-Madison	Limiting Disclosure in Hippocratic Databases	Abstract
Mar 5	VLDB deadline			No Seminar
Mar 12	Leonidas Galanis University of Wisconsin-Madison	The Data Centric Internet	Abstract	Practice Interview Talk
Mar 19	Spring Break			No Seminar
Mar 26 (1:15pm 2310CS)	Jignesh M. Patel University of Michigan	Towards Declarative and Efficient Querying on Protein Structures	Abstract	Note earlier time
Apr 2
Apr 9	Ted Wild University of Wisconsin-Madison	Feature Selection in k-Median Clustering	Abstract	Practice Talk for SDM
Apr 16	Zheng Huang University of Wisconsin-Madison	Towards a cost-based data miner for Spectrum labeling	Abstract
Wednesday Apr 21 (1:30pm)	Shivakumar Vaithyanathan IBM Almaden Research Center	Probabilistic OLAP	Abstract	Note unusual date
Apr 23	Doug Terry Microsoft Research Silicon Valley	The WinFS Replication Protocol	Abstract
Wednesday Apr 28 (1:30pm)	Mukesh Mohania IBM India Research Lab	Self-Maintainable Materialized Views	Abstract	Note unusual date
Apr 30
May 7	Ahmed Ayad Lei Chen	Practice Talks for SIGMOD	Abstracts
May 14
May 21
May 28
June 4	Inderjit S. Dhillon University of Texas, Austin	Information-Theoretic Clustering, Co-clustering and Matrix Approximations	Abstract