| Jan 14 |
10:00 am |
PHE 223 |
Prof. Haym Hirsh(Rutgers) |
Prof. Ramesh Govindan |
Leading and Growing a Successful Computer Science Department |
| Jan 15 |
3:30 am |
SSL 150 |
Prof. Haym Hirsh(Rutgers) |
Prof. Ramesh Govindan |
Bridging the Gap between Problems and Solutions in Machine Learning and Data Mining |
| Jan 17 |
11:00 am |
EEB 248 |
Prof. Shuchi Chawla(Wisconsin) |
Prof. David Kempe |
Bertrand Competition in Networks |
| Jan 17 |
3:30 pm |
SSL 150 |
Prof. Dan Rubenstein(Columbia) |
Prof. Leana Golubchik |
Network Resilience to Attack and Disaster |
| Jan 22 |
3:30 pm |
SSL 150 |
Prof. Reid Simmons(CMU) |
Prof. Sven Koenig |
Social Robots |
| Jan 24 |
3:30 pm |
SSL 150 |
Prof. Shang-Hua Teng(Boston) |
Prof. David Kempe |
Game and Market Equilibria |
| Jan 29 |
3:30 pm |
SSL 150 |
Dr. Jan Vondrak(Princeton) |
Prof. David Kempe |
Approximation algorithms for combinatorial allocation problems |
| Feb 5 |
1:30 pm |
EEB 248 |
Prof. John K. Tsotsos(York) |
Prof. Maja Mataric |
Towards a Visually-Guided Semi-Autonomous Wheelchair for the Disabled |
| Feb 5 |
3:30 pm |
SSL 150 |
Constantinos Daskalakis
(UC Berkeley) |
Prof. David Kempe |
Computing Equilibria in Games |
| Feb 7 |
3:30 pm |
SSL 150 |
Stephen Chong(Cornell) |
Prof. Ramesh Govindan |
Secure Web Applications and Expressive Security Policies |
| Feb 14 |
11:00 am |
SGM 123 |
Prof. Wolfgang Emmerich(UCL) |
Prof. Nenad Medvidovic |
The Impact of Research on the Development of Middleware Technology |
| Feb 19 |
3:30 pm |
SSL 150 |
Dr. Byung-Gon Chun(ICSI) |
Prof. Ramesh Govindan |
New Primitives and Metrics for Distributed Systems |
| Feb 26 |
11:00 am |
GFS 220 |
Prof. Nancy Pollard(CMU) |
Prof. Maja Mataric |
Data-Driven Grasping and Manipulation |
| Feb 26 |
3:30 pm |
SSL 150 |
Pieter Abbeel(Stanford) |
Prof. Stefan Schaal |
Apprenticeship Learning |
| Feb 27 |
3:30 pm |
EEB 248 |
Dr. Jelena Mirkovic(ISI) |
Prof. Ramesh Govindan |
Modeling Human Behavior for Defense against Flash-Crowd Attacks |
| Feb 28 |
11:00 am |
EEB 248 |
Prof. Y.C. Tay(NUS) |
Prof. Leana Golubchik |
Internet Equilibrium Analysis Through Separation of User and Network Behavior |
| Feb 28 |
3:30 pm |
SSL 150 |
Dr. Parikshit Gopalan(Washington) |
Prof. David Kempe |
Fitting Polynomials to Noisy Data |
| Mar 3 |
3:30 pm |
SSL 150 |
Prof. Fabio Pellacini(Dartmouth) |
Prof. Ulrich Neumann |
Interactive and Intuitive Appearance Design |
| Mar 4 |
3:30 pm |
SSL 150 |
Ozgur Simsek(UMASS) |
Prof. Stefan Schaal |
Autonomous Development of Skill Hierarchies |
| Mar 5 |
3:30 pm |
EEB 248 |
Dr. Anton Leuski(ICT) |
Prof. Ramesh Govindan |
Information Retrieval for Virtual Worlds |
| Mar 6 |
1:00 pm |
SSL 150 |
Tsz-Chiu Au(UMD) |
Prof. Milind Tambe |
Synthesis of Strategies for Noisy and Non-Noisy Multi-Agent Environments |
| Mar 6 |
3:30 pm |
SSL 150 |
Maria-Florina Balcan(CMU) |
Prof. David Kempe |
A Theory of Similarity Functions for Learning and Clustering |
| Mar 10 |
11:00 am |
VHE 217 |
Yevgeniy Vorobeychik (UMICH) |
Prof. Milind Tambe |
Mechanism Design and Analysis Using Simulation-Based Game Models |
| Mar 11 |
3:30 pm |
SSL 150 |
Andreas Krause(CMU) |
Prof. Stefan Schaal |
Optimizing Sensing from Water to the Web |
| Mar 12 |
3:30 pm |
EEB 248 |
Dr. Adam Bargteil(CMU) |
Prof. Ulrich Neumann |
Modeling Materials and Visual Detail for Computer Animation |
| Mar 13 |
11:00 am |
SAL 222 |
Prof. Prasun Sinha(Ohio State) |
Prof. Ramesh Govindan |
Rethinking Network Protocol Design for Large Scale Sensor Networks |
| Mar 13 |
3:30 pm |
SSL 150 |
David Brumley(CMU) |
Prof. Ramesh Govindan |
Analysis and Defense of Vulnerabilities in Binary Code |
| Mar 18 |
11:00 am |
EEB 248 |
Dr. Dmitri V. Kalashnikov(UCI) |
Prof. Cyrus Shahabi |
Disambiguation of Textual and Web Data |
| Mar 19 |
3:00 pm |
PHE 223 |
Dr. Thrishantha Nanayakkara(Harvard) |
Prof. Milind Tambe |
Biomimetic Legged Locomotion and Odor Guided Behavior for Humanitarian Landmine Detection |
| Mar 21 |
11:00 am |
VHE 217 |
Chris Kiekintveld(UMICH) |
Prof. Milind Tambe |
Strategy Selection for Noisy Empirical Game Models |
| Mar 25 |
3:30 pm |
SSL 150 |
Prof. Sebastian Thrun(Stanford) |
Prof. Gaurav Sukhatme |
Changing the World with Robotics Cars # |
| Mar 27 |
11:00 am |
RTH 406 |
Prof. Srinivas Akella(RPI) |
Prof. Gaurav Sukhatme |
Coordinating Multiple Moving Objects: From Robots to Microdroplets |
| Mar 27 |
3:30 pm |
SSL 150 |
Brighten Godfrey(UC Berkeley) |
Prof. Ramesh Govindan |
Stabilizing Internet Routing:
or, A Story of Heterogeneity |
| Mar 31 |
3:30 pm |
SSL 150 |
Dr. H. Chad Lane(ICT) |
Prof. Ramesh Govindan |
Intelligent Tutoring for Planning and Reflection |
| Apr 1 |
3:30 pm |
SSL 150 |
Maxwell Krohn(MIT) |
Prof. Ramesh Govindan |
Securing the Web With Decentralized Information Flow Control |
| Apr 2 |
3:30 pm |
SAL 322 |
Dr. Pieter Peers(ICT) |
Prof. Ramesh Govindan |
Acquisition, Compression, and Transfer of Reflectance Fields |
| Apr 3 |
3:30 pm |
SSL 150 |
Jan Allbeck(UPENN) |
Prof. Ulrich Neumann |
Places Everyone: Creating an Animated Tapestry of Human Activity for Virtual Worlds |
| Apr 8 |
3:30 pm |
SSL 150 |
Dr. ByungMoon Kim(GATECH) |
Prof. Ulrich Neumann |
Fluid Simulation With Reduced Diffusion, Dissipation, and Volume Loss |
| Apr 9 |
3:30 pm |
SAL 322 |
Dr. Yu-Han Chang(ISI) |
Prof. Ramesh Govindan |
Learning^3: Multi-Agent, Teacher-Agent, and Tutor-Student |
| Apr 10 |
3:30 pm |
SSL 150 |
Jure Leskovec(CMU) |
Prof. Stefan Schaal |
Dynamics of Real-World Networks |
| Apr 15 |
3:30 pm |
SSL 150 |
Dr. Fei Sha(UC Berkeley) |
Prof. Stefan Schaal |
Learning Low Dimensional Representations of High Dimensional Data |
| Apr 18 |
4:00 pm |
SSL 150 |
Prof. Carlos Guestrin(CMU) |
Prof. Milind Tambe |
Efficient, Adaptive Inference for Distributions on Permutations |
| Apr 22 |
3:30 pm |
SSL 150 |
Dr. Hoeteck Wee(Columbia) |
Prof. David Kempe |
Simple Encryption Schemes Against Sophisticated Attacks |
| Apr 24 |
3:30 pm |
SSL 150 |
Prof. Avrim Blum(CMU) |
Prof. David Kempe |
Semi-Supervised Learning # |
| Apr 29 |
3:30 pm |
SSL 150 |
Prof. Sanjoy Dasgupta(UCSD) |
Prof. David Kempe |
Random Projection Trees and Low Dimensional Manifolds |
| May 1 |
3:30 pm |
SSL 150 |
Radu Marinescu(UCI) |
Prof. Milind Tambe |
AND/OR Search Strategies for Combinatorial Optimization in Graphical Models |
