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March 14, 2011
We invite you to join us at one of our Spring 2011 alumni luncheons in March or April. Please come back to campus and join Professor Kumar to learn about some of the innovative research going on in computing today. Lunch will be provided.
Dates: Thursday, March 31, 2011 OR Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Time: Noon-1:30 p.m.
Location: Conference Room 4-192
Keller Hall (formerly the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building)
200 Union Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
RSVP: to Becky Kiefer at kiefe069@umn.edu or 612-625-3767.
Parking: Conveniently located across the street from the building in the Washington Avenue Ramp.
Thursday, March 31, 2011 (RSVP by Friday, March 25)
Topic: Database Support for Discovery-Based Proteomics for Oral Cancer
Professor John Carlis will describe his ongoing interdisciplinary work involving the use of and extensions to DBMS in a project aiming to discover biomarkers for early detection of oral cancer. Carlis and his team use mass spectrometers and computational means to analyze saliva from patients in varying disease stages.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011 (RSVP by Friday, April 15)
Topic: Database Support for Location-based Services
Assistant Professor Mohamed Mokbel will discuss his projects that provide database support for scalability, privacy, and personalization of location-based services, which have become ubiquitous in our daily life use of GPS or WiFi-enabled devices. Mokbel will include his group's most recent project about location-based social networks.
We hope to see you there!
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