Department of Physics-Texas A & M University commerce

Date : Feb, 15th, 2007 Time : Thursday, 4.15-5.15pm Place : New Science Building 127

Title :Project Corvus and Computational Science (Students enrolled in PHYS 401 and 501 are required to attend)

Speaker : Dr. Sam Saffer and Dr. Derek Harter

Affiliation :Texas A& M Commerce

Abstraction :Classified

Dr Sam Saffer : Head and Prof. of Computer Science at TAMU-Commerce, B.A. from UT Austin and a Ph.D from SMU in Dallas.

Dr. Derek Harter :He is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at Texas A&M University—Commerce. He received his Bachelors in computer science at Purdue University and Masters in computer science with a concentration in artificial intelligence at Johns Hopkins University. In 2004 he received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Memphis for research on applications of complex systems concepts to understanding intelligence and applying them to autonomous agents and robotic systems.