University of Southern California
USC CS Colloquium Series (Fall 2006)
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 3:30-4:50 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
Fall 2006
Date Time Location Speaker Host Title
Aug 22 2:00-3:30 PM SSL 150 Prof. Makoto Yokoo (Kyushu University) Prof. Milind Tambe Theory of Internet Auctions
Sep 14 3:30 - 4:50 pm SSL 150 Prof. Jerome A. Feldman (UC, Berkeley) Prof. Michael Arbib From Molecule to Metaphor: Towards an Integrated Cognitive Science
Sep 19 3:30 - 4:50 pm SSL 150 Prof. Bobby Kleinberg (UC Berkeley/Cornell) Prof. David Kempe Competitive Collaborative Learning
Sep 26 3:30 - 4:50 pm SSL 150 Sumana Srinivasan Prof. Gaurav Sukhatme Contour Estimation Using Mobile Sensors
Sept 29 11:00-12:30 a.m. EEB 248 Christophe Diot (Thomson) Prof. Ramesh Govindan Packet forwarding in Pocket Switched networks: an empirical characterization of human mobility
Oct 5 3:30-4:50 p.m. SSL 150 Tanya Berger-Wolf (UI, Chicago) Prof. David Kempe A Framework for Analysis of Dynamic Social Networks
Oct 10 3:30-4:50 p.m. SSL 150 Victor Zordan (UC, Riverside) Prof. Karen Liu Animating characters using motion capture and simulation
Oct 12 3:30 - 4:50 p.m. SSL 150 Prof. Trevor Darrell (MIT) Prof. Gerard Medioni Visual Recognition and Tracking for Perceptive Interfaces
Oct 26 3:30 - 4:50 p.m. SSL 150 David Johnson (AT&T Labs) Prof. David Kempe Compressing Rectilinear Pictures and Minimizing Access Control Lists #
Nov 2 3:30-5:00 p.m. SSL 150 Prof. Ahmed Elgammal(Rutgers University) Prof. Gerard Medioni The role of Manifold learning in Human Motion Analysis
Nov 6 3:30-5:00 p.m. HNB 107 Dr. Jose Luis Ambite(ISI) Data Integration and Planning Techniques for Automatic Web Service Composition
Nov 9 3:30-5:00 p.m. SSL 150 Brad Karp Prof. Ramesh Govidan Evolution in Action: Worms and Worm Defenses
Nov 14 3:30-5:00 p.m. SSL 150 Prof. John P. Wilson(USC) Prof. Cyrus Shahabi Fusing Computer Science and Geography: Research Advances and Opportunities in Geographic Information Science
Nov 16 3:30-5:00 p.m. SSL 150 Peter Norvig (Google) Prof. Ram Nevatia Theorizing from Data: Avoiding the Capital Mistake #
Nov 17 2:00-3:30 p.m. GFS116 Rina Dechter (UC-Irvine) Prof. Milind Tambe Advanced Reasoning in Graphical models
Nov 21 3:30-5:00 p.m. SSL 150 David Chiang(ISI) Prof. Neno Medvidovic Finding Structure in Statistical Machine Translations
Nov 21 1:30-2:30 p.m. HNB 15 Leonid Perlovsky(AFOSR, Hanscom Field, Massachusetts) Prof. Michael Arbib Topics in language evolution
Dec 5 3:30-5:00 p.m. SSL 150 An Zhu (Google) Prof. David Kempe Towards Achieving Anonymity
# - Distinguished Lecture Series
Contact
Questions, suggestions, or comments please email at colloq_admin at vista dot usc dot edu.