CMPE 280N Schedule – Spring 2021

CMPE280N: Seminar on Networks

Spring 2021: Wednesday, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm, Zoom

• March 31 — No meeting
• April 7 — Chris
• April 14 — Andrea and Katia
• April 21
  • Presentation scheduling
  • Lab issues — resuming work on campus
  • inrg web site
• April 28 — Experimental Platforms (Andrea, Daniel, Hari, Kerry, Lakshmi, Shesha)
  • Summarize experience/pros/cons (a couple slides)
  • Group discussion
• May 5 — Guest Speaker: Prof. Kai Zhu from Env Studies (see additional information below)
• May 12 — Li
• May 19 — Kerry
• May 26 — Daniel
• June 2 — Lakshmi & Review Project Pages

Additional Information on May 5 Presentation

Seminar Title: Large-scale ecological responses to climate change in space and time

Seminar Abstract: Recent climate change is posing tremendous impacts on our planet, but how do Earth’s species and ecosystems respond? Here I discuss two aspects of large-scale ecological responses to climate change: geographical range shift in space and phenological shift in time. The biogeographical resurvey analysis suggests widespread upslope species migration in response to warming in North and South Americas. In particular, tropical montane plants and animals were tracking climate more closely than their temperate counterparts. The remote sensing analysis suggests an overall extension of the growing season with concurrent warming across the Northern Hemisphere, with stronger climate tracking at higher latitudes. Phenological shifts outpaced that of temperature change in natural landscapes but lagged behind those in human-dominated landscapes. Examining large-scale responses in space and time may benefit scaling ecological insights into the Earth system.

Short Biography: Dr. Kai Zhu is an assistant professor of environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research areas are global change ecology, ecological modeling, and environmental data science, with a current focus on plant and soil responses to environmental change. Dr. Zhu is a recipient of the Tansley Medal from the New Phytologist Foundation and an elected Early Career Fellow from the Ecological Society of America. He completed his postdoc at Stanford University and received his PhD in ecology and MS in statistics from Duke University.

CV of Prof. Kai Zhu

Winter 2021: Wednesday, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm, Zoom

• January 4 — No meeting
• January 13 — Scheduling
• January 20 — Shesha
• January 27 — Kevin
• February 3 — Barath Raghavan (USC Computer Science)
  • HotNets ’12: https://raghavan.usc.edu/papers/sdia-hotnets12.pdf
  • ICSI Tech Report ’12: https://raghavan.usc.edu/papers/omega12.pdf
  • SIGCOMM ’19: https://raghavan.usc.edu/papers/evolution-sigcomm19.pdf
  • CoNext ’20: https://raghavan.usc.edu/papers/lemur-conext20.pdf
• February 10 — Kai Zhu
• February 17 — Lakshmi
• February 24 — Li
• March 3 — Hari
• March 10 — Katelyn