University of Southern California
USC CS Colloquium Series
About the Colloquium
Each colloquium will feature an external speaker from all major CS disciplines. It will center around an informal and interactive talk by the invited speaker, and will be preferably held either Tuesdays or Thursdays between 3:30-5:00 PM. We will serve light refreshments. It will be preceded and/or followed by small-scale meets between the speaker and interested faculty and students.
Current Schedule
Spring 2008
Date Time Location Speaker Host Title
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
# - Distinguished Lecture Series
* - Annual Bekey Keynote Lecture
Contact
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