TTIC Colloquium Schedule, 2010-2011
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 1pm in the TTIC Conference Room.
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For additional questions, contact Jinbo Xu (j3xu@ttic.edu)
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ProbIN: Probabilistic Inertial Navigation |
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| Date: | Sept. 20, 2010 |
| Speaker: | Joy Zhang, CMU |
| Host: | Jinbo Xu (j3xu@ttic.edu) |
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Learning with Approximate inference - From LP Relaxations to Pseudo-Max Approaches |
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| Date: | Sept. 28, 2010 |
| Speaker: | Amir Globerson, Hebrew University |
| Host: | Tamir Hazan (tamir@ttic.edu) |
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TTIC Colloquium: Azarakhsh Malekian |
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| Date: | Oct. 11, 2010 |
| Speaker: | Azarakhsh Malekian, Northwestern |
| Host: | Julia Chuzhoy (cjulia@ttic.edu) |
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Learning Components for Human Sensing |
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| Date: | Oct. 18, 2010 |
| Speaker: | Fernando De la Torre, CMU |
| Host: | Raquel Urtasun (rurtasun@ttic.edu) |
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Probabilistic Graphical Models of Protein Sequence and Structure |
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| Date: | Oct. 25, 2010 |
| Speaker: | Chris Langmead, CMU |
| Host: | Jinbo Xu (j3xu@ttic.edu) |
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Network based comparison of temporal gene expression patterns |
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| Date: | Nov. 1, 2010 |
| Speaker: | Sheng Zhong, UIUC |
| Host: | Jinbo Xu (j3xu@ttic.edu) |
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TTIC Colloquium: Vijay Vazirani |
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| Date: | Nov. 10, 2010 |
| Speaker: | Vijay Vazirani, Georgia Tech |
| Host: | Sasha Razborov (razborov@cs.uchicago.edu) |
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TTIC Colloquium: Vijay Vazirani |
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| Date: | Nov. 11, 2010 |
| Speaker: | Vijay Vazirani, Georgia Tech |
| Host: | Sasha Razborov (razborov@cs.uchicago.edu) |
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TTIC Colloquium: Andrew Gallagher |
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| Date: | Nov. 15, 2010 |
| Speaker: | Andrew Gallagher, Eastman Kodak Company |
| Host: | Dhruv Batra and Devi Parikh |
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TTIC Colloquium: Raj Rao Nadakuditi |
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| Date: | Nov. 22, 2010 |
| Speaker: | Raj Rao Nadakuditi, University of Michigan |
| Host: | Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu) |
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Physics in Human Motion Estimation and Scene Understanding |
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| Date: | Jan. 10, 2011 |
| Speaker: | Marcus Brubaker, University of Toronto |
| Host: | Raquel Urtasun (rurtasun@ttic.edu) |
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Improving the Visible with the Invisible: Applications of visible/near-infrared imaging in Computational Photography and Computer Vision |
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| Date: | Feb. 14, 2011 |
| Speaker: | Sabine Suesstrunk, EPFL |
| Host: | Mathieu Salzmann (salzmann@ttic.edu) |
Title: |
What else can we do with more data? |
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| Date: | Feb. 15, 2011 |
| Speaker: | Shai Shalev-Shwartz, The Hebrew University |
| Host: | Tamir Hazan (tamir@ttic.edu) |
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Modeling Brain Circuitry using Scales Ranging from Micrometer to Nanometer |
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| Date: | Feb. 16, 2011 |
| Speaker: | Pascal Fua, EPFL |
| Host: | Mathieu Salzmann (salzmann@ttic.edu) |
Title: |
Rank aggregation via Hodge theory |
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| Date: | Feb. 21, 2011 |
| Speaker: | Lek-Heng Lim, University of Chicago |
| Host: | Jinbo Xu (j3xu@ttic.edu) |
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Graph approximation, local clustering, and the solution of systems of linear equations. |
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| Date: | Mar. 7, 2011 at 1:30 pm |
| Speaker: | Dan Spielman, Yale |
| Host: | David McAllester (mcallester@ttic.edu) |
Title: |
Text and Other Quantitative Data: Relating What We Say and What We Do |
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| Date: | Mar. 9, 2011 |
| Speaker: | Noah Smith, CMU |
| Host: | Jinbo Xu (j3xu@ttic.edu) |
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Detecting High Log-Densities -- an O(n^{1/4}) Approximation for Densest k-Subgraph |
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| Date: | Mar. 14, 2011 |
| Speaker: | Aravindan Vijayaraghavan, Princeton |
| Host: | Julia Chuzhoy (cjulia@ttic.edu) |
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Optimal Distributed Online Prediction |
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| Date: | Mar. 21, 2011 at 11:00 am |
| Speaker: | Ohad Shamir, Microsoft Research New England |
| Host: | Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu) |
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Learning with Exploration |
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| Date: | Mar. 22, 2011 |
| Speaker: | John Langford, Yahoo Research |
| Host: | Joseph Keshet (jkeshet@ttic.edu) |
Title: |
Entire Relaxation Path for Maximum Entropy Models |
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| Date: | Mar. 30, 2011 at 11:00 am |
| Speaker: | Yoram Singer, Google |
| Host: | Joseph Keshet (jkeshet@ttic.edu) |
Title: |
The Road From DBNs to Image Segmentation is Paved with Submodularity |
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| Date: | Apr. 4, 2011 at 11:00 am |
| Speaker: | Jeff Blimes, University of Washington |
| Host: | David McAllester (mcallester@ttic.edu) |
Title: |
Rational Convex Programs |
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| Date: | Apr. 6, 2011 |
| Speaker: | Vijay Vazirani, Georgia Tech |
| Host: | Jinbo Xu (j3xu@ttic.edu) |
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Adaptively Learning the Crowd Kernel |
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| Date: | Apr. 8, 2011 at 11:45 am |
| Speaker: | Adam Kalai, Microsoft Research |
| Host: | David McAllester (mcallester@ttic.edu) |
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Semi-supervised and unsupervised graph-based learning for natural language processing |
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| Date: | Apr. 11, 2011 at 11:00 am |
| Speaker: | Katrin Kirchhoff, University of Washington |
| Host: | David McAllester (mcallester@ttic.edu) |
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TTIC Colloquium: Alex & Tamara Berg |
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| Date: | Apr. 20, 2011 2:30 pm |
| Speaker: | Alex & Tamara Berg, Stony Brook University |
| Host: | Raquel Urtasun (rurtasun@ttic.edu) |
Title: |
Population scale detection of common and rare genomic rearrangements and transcriptomic aberrations |
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| Date: | May 6, 2011 at 11:00 am |
| Speaker: | Cenk Sahinalp, Simon Fraser University |
| Host: | Jinbo Xu (j3xu@ttic.edu) |
Title: |
Integration of Genomic Data for Functional Genomics |
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| Date: | May 10, 2011 at 3:00 pm |
| Speaker: | Sayan Mukherjee, Duke University |
| Host: | Jinbo Xu (j3xu@ttic.edu) |
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Putting humans into the loop for image based modeling |
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| Date: | June 17, 2011 |
| Speaker: | Adarsh Kowdle, Cornell |
| Host: | Devi Parikh and Dhruv Batra (dparikh@ttic.edu) |
Title: |
Machine Learning for Discovery in Legal Cases |
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| Date: | July 11, 2011 at 11:00 am |
| Speaker: | David Lewis |
| Host: | David McAllester (mcallester@ttic.edu) |
Title: |
Unlabeled Data and Other Marginals |
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| Date: | July 13, 2011 at 11:00 am |
| Speaker: | Mark Hasegawa-Johnson |
| Host: | Joseph Keshet (jkeshet@ttic.edu) |
Title: |
Generalized Agreement Statistics over fixed set of labelings |
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| Date: | July 18, 2011 at 11:00 am |
| Speaker: | Mohak Shah, Accenture Technology Labs |
| Host: | David McAllester (mcallester@ttic.edu) |
Title: |
Lagrangian relaxation for inference in natural language processing |
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| Date: | July 21, 2011 at 11:00 am |
| Speaker: | Michael Collins, Columbia University |
| Host: | David McAllester (mcallester@ttic.edu) |
Title: |
Computational strategies for understanding how biological networks function |
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| Date: | Aug. 3, 2011 |
| Speaker: | Tamer Kahveci, University of Florida |
| Host: | Jinbo Xu (j3xu@ttic.edu) |
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FTV (Free-viewpoint TV) |
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| Date: | Aug. 12, 2011 |
| Speaker: | Masayuki Tanimoto, Nagoya University |
| Host: | David McAllester (mcallester@ttic.edu) |
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Positive definite matrices and the SB-Divergence |
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| Date: | Aug. 16, 2011 at 11:00 am |
| Speaker: | Suvrit Sra, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems |
| Host: | Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu) |