TTIC Colloquium Schedule, 2008-2009
The TTIC Colloquium is a forum for talks by invited speakers on work of current relevance and broad interest to the computer science community.
The colloquium is held Mondays at 2pm in the TTIC Conference Room.
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For additional questions, contact Karen Livescu (klivescu@ttic.edu)
Title: |
RTComposer: A Framework for Real-Time Components with Scheduling Interfaces |
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| Date: | Sept. 29, 2008 |
| Speaker: | Gera Weiss, University of Pennsylvania |
| Host: | Ronen Basri (ronen.basri@tti-c.org) |
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Axiomatic view of clustering - overcoming Kleinberg's impossibility result |
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| Date: | Oct. 6, 2008 |
| Speaker: | Shai Ben-David, University of Waterloo |
| Host: | Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu) |
Title: |
A Geometric Perspective on Learning Theory and Algorithms |
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| Date: | Oct. 13, 2008 |
| Speaker: | Partha Niyogi, University of Chicago |
| Host: | Karen Livescu (klivescu@ttic.edu) |
Title: |
Homology Flows |
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| Date: | Oct. 20, 2008 |
| Speaker: | Jeff Erickson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Host: | Benoit Hudson (bhudson@tti-c.org) |
Title: |
There Aren't Any Real Belief-Desire Intention Theories Out There ... But Mine!! (And really, I'm not too sure about mine.) |
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| Date: | Oct. 27, 2008 |
| Speaker: | David Israel, SRI International |
| Host: | David McAllester (mcallester@ttic.edu) |
Title: |
Looking at People |
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| Date: | Nov. 3, 2008 |
| Speaker: | David Forsyth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Host: | Greg Shakhnarovich (gregory@ttic.edu) |
Title: |
Random Features: Replacing Optimization with Randomization in Learning |
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| Date: | Nov. 10, 2008 |
| Speaker: | Ali Rahimi, Intel |
| Host: | Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu) |
Title: |
Community Structure in Large Social and Information Networks |
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| Date: | Nov. 24, 2008 |
| Speaker: | Michael Mahoney, Stanford University |
| Host: | Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu) |
Title: |
Complexity, Learnability, and Constraint-Based Grammars |
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| Date: | Dec. 15, 2008 |
| Speaker: | Jason Riggle, University of Chicago |
| Host: | Karen Livescu (klivescu@ttic.edu) |
Title: |
Computational Awareness |
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| Date: | Jan. 12, 2009 |
| Speaker: | Lance Fortnow, Northwestern U. |
| Host: | Ronen Basri (ronen.basri@tti-c.org) |
Title: |
Large-scale Bayesian regression: A novel prior distribution, with applications to genome wide association studies. |
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| Date: | Feb. 2, 2009 |
| Speaker: | Matthew Stephens, U. Chicago |
| Host: | David McAllester (mcallester@ttic.edu) |
Title: |
Tensors: Theory and Applications |
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| Date: | Mar. 2, 2009 |
| Speaker: | Shmuel Friedland, UIC |
| Host: | Shai Shalev-Shwartz (shai@tti-c.org) |
Title: |
Vox Populi: On Learning from Crowds |
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| Date: | Mar. 9, 2009 |
| Speaker: | Ohad Shamir |
| Host: | Shai Shalev-Shwartz (shai@tti-c.org) |
Title: |
Perception as Bayesian inference about causes |
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| Date: | July 20, 2009 |
| Speaker: | Konrad Koerding, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Northwestern University |
| Host: | Greg Shakhnarovich (gregory@ttic.edu) |
Title: |
An effective belief-propagation algorithm for constrained linear least-squares problems. |
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| Date: | Aug 3, 2009 |
| Speaker: | Jacob Goldberger, Bar-Ilan University, Israel |
| Host: | Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu) |
Title: |
The Dynamics of Equilibria |
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| Date: | Aug 24, 2009 at 4:00pm (Note: This talk is later than most.) |
| Speaker: | Maria Florina (Nina) Balcan, MSR New England and Georgia Tech |
| Host: | Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu) |
Title: |
Constrained Conditional Models: Learning and Inference in Natural Language Understanding |
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| Date: | Sept 21, 2009 |
| Speaker: | Dan Roth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Host: | Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu) |