Database-seminar

DB Seminar is a bi-weekly event organized by the labs DATA (Christoph Koch),  DIAS (Anastasia Ailamaki) and LSIR (Karl Aberer). The scope of this venue is to share database research which is in a mature state in order to follow the latest results of the databases labs. Moreover, in the DB Seminar we will gladly host visitors from the broader area of databases research to present their work.

Seminar coordinators

Adrian Popescu, Milos Nikolic

Mailing List:
The corresponding mailing list is db-seminar@groupes.epfl.ch. If you want to enroll in the mailing list and receive notifications for the talks please send an email to Adrian Popescu or Milos Nikolic.

Schedule:
The meetings take place every other Tuesday at room BC 410 at 16:00 (unless otherwise stated) according to the schedule below.

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Spring 2014
 
Date Speaker Affiliation Inv. by Talk title
May1  Darius Sidlauskas MADALGO DIAS Parallel Processing of Massive Update and Query Workloads in Main Memory
 
 
 
Spring 2013
 
Date Speaker Affiliation Inv. by Talk title
Sept5  Chris Jermaine Rice DIAS Large Scale Bayesian Machine Learning with the SimSQL System
Apr23 Vasilis Vassalos AUEB DATA Score-consistent algebraic optimization of full text queries
Apr9 Lefteris Sidirourgos CWI DIAS Column Imprints: A Secondary Index Structure
Mar5 Lyublena Antova Greenplum DATA Orca: Greenplum's optimizer for big data
 
 
Fall 2012
 
Date Speaker Affiliation Inv. by Talk title
Dec11 Ashwin Machanavajjhala Duke DATA

Pufferfish: A Semantic Approach to Customizable Privacy

Oct23 Thanassis Papaioannou LSIR   Title: Scalia: An Adaptive Scheme for Efficient
Multi-Cloud Storage
Sep25 Stefanie Scherzinger RUAS DATA Tales from Industry: Data Stream Processing in Database
Performance Monitoring
         

 

Spring 2012

Date Speaker Affiliation Inv. by Talk title
Jun26 Stefan Müller ETH DIAS Euclid - A scientific data processing use-case
Jun12 Zhixian Yan LSIR   Energy-Efficient Continuous Activity Recognition on
Mobile Phones
May15 Ioannis Alagiannis DIAS   NoDB: Efficient Query Execution on Raw Data Files
May01 Robert Gwadera LSIR   Multi-Stream Join Answering for Mining Significant
Cross-Stream Correlations
Apr19 Erietta Liarou CWI DIAS MonetDB/DataCell: Online Analytics in a
Streaming Column-store
Apr17 Stratos Idreos CWI DIAS Database Cracking and the Path Towards
Auto-Tuning Database Kernels
Apr12* Daniel Deutch BGU DATA Learning XML Generators
Mar30* Hideaki Kimura Brown DIAS Correlation Aware Optimizations for Analytic Databases
Mar20 Val Tannen UPenn DATA Provisioning for Autonomous Exploration of
Query Answers under What-If Scenarios
Mar06 Farhan Tauheed DIAS   Accelerating Range Queries For Brain Simulations
Feb07 Oliver Kennedy DATA   Database Toasting Made Easy
Jan24 Luke McDowell USNA LSIR Markov Logic Networks for Collective Classification

* Note the difference from the normal schedule.

Talk proposals