TTIC Colloquium Schedule, 2011-2012
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 11:00 am in the TTIC Conference Room.
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For additional questions, contact Jinbo Xu (j3xu@ttic.edu)
Title: |
Structure from Motion in the Wild: Towards Reconstructing Active 3D Scenes from Moving Cameras |
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| Date: | Sept. 26 |
| Speaker: | Yaser Sheikh, CMU |
| Host: | Raquel Urtasun (rurtasun@ttic.edu) |
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Predicting Beta-Sheet Protein Folding Pathways Using Ensemble Models |
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| Date: | Sept. 30 at 2:00 pm |
| Speaker: | Jerome Waldispuhl, McGill |
| Host: | Jinbo Xu (j3xu@ttic.edu) |
Title: |
Privacy Preserving Speech Processing |
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| Date: | Oct. 17 at 2:00 pm |
| Speaker: | Manas Pathak, CMU |
| Host: | Joseph Keshet (jkeshet@ttic.edu) |
Title: |
Collective Construction by Termites and Other Robots |
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| Date: | Oct. 24 |
| Speaker: | Justin Werfel, Harvard |
| Host: | Karen Livescu (klivescu@ttic.edu) |
Title: |
What is Singular Learning Theory? |
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| Date: | Nov. 7 |
| Speaker: | Shaowei Lin, Berkeley |
| Host: | Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu) |
Title: |
Power-aware Routing and Scheduling |
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| Date: | Nov. 16 |
| Speaker: | Daniel M (Matthew) Andrews |
| Host: | Julia Chuzhoy (cjulia@ttic.edu) |
Title: |
Perfect Matchings in Regular Bipartite Graphs |
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| Date: | Nov. 17 |
| Speaker: | Sanjeev Khanna, University of Pennsylvania |
| Host: | Julia Chuzhoy (cjulia@ttic.edu) |
Title: |
Dimension Reduction in L_1 |
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| Date: | Nov. 18 |
| Speaker: | Moses Charikar |
| Host: | Yury Makarychev (yury@ttic.edu) |
Title: |
Approximation Algorithms for Stochastic Combinatorial Optimization |
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| Date: | Nov. 21 |
| Speaker: | Anupam Gupta, CMU |
| Host: | Julia Chuzhoy (cjulia@ttic.edu) |
Title: |
Learning A Semantic Space: From Image Annotation to Music Similarity |
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| Date: | Nov. 22 |
| Speaker: | Samy Bengio, Google |
| Host: | Joseph Keshet (jkeshet@ttic.edu) |
Title: |
The Peptide Binding Problem |
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| Date: | Nov. 30 |
| Speaker: | Steve Smale, TTIC/City University of Hong Kong |
| Host: | David McAllester (mcallester@ttic.edu) |
Title: |
Algorithms for submodular objectives via continuous extensions and dependent randomized rounding |
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| Date: | Dec. 7 |
| Speaker: | Chandra Chekuri |
| Host: | Yury Makarychev (yury@ttic.edu) |
Title: |
Universal Speech Attribute Characterization for Automatic Speech Recognition and Spoken Language Recognition |
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| Date: | Dec. 8 |
| Speaker: | Torbjørn Svendsen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
| Host: | Karen Livescu (klivescu@ttic.edu) |
Title: |
Nonparametric Bayesian Models for Structured Objects |
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| Date: | Jan. 18 at 10:30 am |
| Speaker: | Zoubin Ghahramani, University of Cambridge |
| Host: | Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu) |
Title: |
Challenges for Machine Learning in Ecological Science and Environmental Management |
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| Date: | Jan. 26 at 1:00 pm |
| Speaker: | Tom Dietterich, Oregon State |
| Host: | Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu) |
Title: |
TTIC Colloquium: Steve Wright |
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| Date: | Feb. 13 |
| Speaker: | Steve Wright |
| Host: | Jinbo Xu (j3xu@ttic.edu) |
Title: |
Challenges for Machine Learning in Ecological Science and Environmental Management |
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| Date: | Feb. 20 at 1:00 pm |
| Speaker: | Dan Roth |
| Host: | Jinbo Xu (j3xu@ttic.edu) |
Title: |
TTIC Colloquium: Andrew McCallum |
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| Date: | Mar. 21 |
| Speaker: | Andrew McCallum |
| Host: | Raquel Urtasun (rurtasun@ttic.edu) |
Title: |
TTIC Colloquium: Kamalika Chaudhuri |
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| Date: | Apr. 9 |
| Speaker: | Kamalika Chaudhuri, UCSD |
| Host: | Anand Sarwate (asarwate@ttic.edu) |