LASR Easy Mondays

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The LASR Easy Mondays is a group-wide biweekly meeting in which we get together to start a discussion about some topic of (research) interest to us, or a paper. All our meetings occur in the LASR meeting place, on the SE corner of ACES' 6th floor.

Schedule for Summer 2003

When Presenter Scribe What Notes (minutes are UT-only)
June 16, 3pm JP Martin Ravi+Praveen System coding. Read: it can be done comparison of memory checkers
meeting minutes
Example of pseudocode (Mike) and Mike's meta-comments
Useful references at SystemIssues
Thursday June 26, 4-6pm Mike Dahlin + Harrick Vin Ravi+Praveen LIME meeting minutes
June 30, 3:30pm everyone N/A Sergey's birthday!
July 14, 3pm Yin+Sergey JP Coming up with research ideas meeting minutes
Aug 4th, 3pm Rama Kotla Ravi+Kotla OS Issues in future processor architectures SUN : thrusun datasheet
Intel: hyperthread
IBM: power4
meeting minutes
Aug 11, 3pm Praveen Distributed Information Management System
Aug 25, 3pm Ravi What is/are the most important guiding principle(s) that you believe in, in your life as a researcher, as well as in general?

Schedule for Fall 2003

When Presenter Scribe What Notes (minutes are UT-only)
Sept 8, 3pm Mike K. Praveen Wait-Free Synchronization techniques meeting notes
Tuesday, Sept 23, 3pm JP Lei Merging quorum systems and view membership. Read: Malkhi98Bqs (pdf) notes
Oct 5, 4:30pm Taylor Expanding the Shangri-La Paper Repository System
Oct 28, 3pm Sugat Praveen Trust issues in P2P multicast notes
Nov 24, 3pm Amol disseminating dynamic data in replicated web services.

Schedule for Spring 2004

When Presenter What Scribe Notes (minutes are UT-only)
Feb 16, 2004, 3pm Dr Emmett Witchel 2004 Kickoff and welcome to Dr Witchel
March 22nd, 3pm. A6.442 Glenn Nuckolls Maintaining data integrity for databases integrated from multiple sources
April 5th, 3pm Harry Temporal Logic of Actions (TLA)
April 19, 3pm Jiandan the Universal Data Replication Architecture
May 3rd, 3pm Lei Volume Quorum
May 17rd, 3pm Chi Ho Semi-Synchronous Byzantine fault tolerant replication

Schedule for Fall 2004

When Presenter What Scribe Notes (minutes are UT-only)
Aug 9th, 3pm JP + Allen + Amit Peer-to-peer Internet Backup (with demo)

Schedule for Spring 2005

When Presenter What Scribe Notes (minutes are UT-only)
Jan 24, 2005, 3pm Lili Qiu and Yin Zhang Meet the new faculty
Feb 7, 2005, 4pm Emmett Witchel Meet the new faculty
Feb 21, 2005, 3:30pm JP LasrWiki
March 7, 2005, 4:30pm Allen, Amit, JP P2P Internet Backup
April 25, 2005, 3:30pm, A6.116 Jungwoo Navel
May 9, 2005, 4pm, A6.336 Jiandan+Amol Practi
May 23rd, 2005, 3:30pm Ravi ShaRe
June 8, 2005, 2pm JP LASR Publications
June 20, 2005, 3:30pm Emmett Mondrix

Schedule for Fall 2005

When Presenter What Scribe Notes (minutes are UT-only)
Sept. 12, 2005, 1:30pm Arvind Narayanan and Justin Brickell "Fast dictionary attacks on passwords using time-space tradeoff" and "Privacy-preserving graphs algorithms in the semi-honest model"
Oct. 17, 2005, 3:30pm, A6.304 presented by Arvind Narayanan "Obfuscated Databases"
Oct. 31 Prateek Gupta Towards computationally sound symbolic analysis of key exchange protocols
Nov. 14 Group discussion NSF Grand Challenges
Nov. 28 Upendra Shevade Sahyadri: Scalable Run-Time Support for Packet Processing Systems
(Come also to the SOSP series, Fridays at noon)

Schedule for Spring 2006

When Presenter What
Feb. 3   LIME
Feb 13 Taylor Riché Lagniappe
Feb 27 Nalini B. using declarative languages to describe file systems
March 13 Hany R. Web Services: Beyond the Hype
March 20 Allen C. GradFest
April 10 Amit A. Key distribution Postponed to April 24
July 26 JP LIME: LasrWiki's 500th paper
August 7 Rama Kotla Google's BigTable
August 21, 3:30pm Srikanth BGP makes you blue? Go to the BAR


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