Events

Computer Science Department Seminar Series

The department of Computer Science hosts a number of lectures and seminars throughout the semester, bringing in prominent researchers from universities around the country. These lectures are open to everyone.

We have both a regular Lecture Series and a Distinguished Lecture Series, which are typically held on Tuesday or Thursday mornings from 10:45 - 12:00 in Hackerman Hall Rm B17.

2012-2013 Distinguished Lecture Series

The Computer Science Distinguished Lecture Series welcomes these eminent thinkers and innovators from academia and industry to the Homewood Campus. We invite you to hear about their cutting-edge research and to be inspired by how computer science is changing the world.

All lectures will be held in Hackerman Hall Rm B17.

Seminar Calendar - Spring 2013

May 9
Speaker: Christoph Koch, EPFL
Title:  Automatic Synthesis of Out-of-Core Algorithms
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May 8
Speaker: Chong Wang, CMU
Title: Probabilistic Modeling for Large-scale Data Exploration
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May 7
Speaker: Barna Saha, AT&T Research
Title:  Finding Nemo: The Power of Probabilistic Method
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April 25 - Distinguished Lecturer
Speaker: Scott Shenker, University of California, Berkeley
Title:  Software-Defined Networking: Introduction and Implications
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April 19
Speaker: Adam O'Neill, Boston University
Title:  Efficiently Searchable Encryption: A Practical Foundation for Privacy in Outsourced Databases
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April 18
Speaker: James Taylor, Emory University
Title:  Dynamically scalable and visual analysis of high-throughput sequence data

April 16
Speaker: Jimeng Sun, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
Title:  Who is similar to my patient:  Large-scale Patient Similarity Learning for Healthcare Analytics
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April 9 - Distinguished Lecturer
Speaker: Gary Guthart, Intuitive Surgical Inc.
Title:  Technology Innovation in Today's Medical Device Environment: Opportunities and Obstacles
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April 4
Speaker: Zhengyou Zhang, Microsoft Research
Title: Human Body-Language Understanding by Computer
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March 26
Speaker: Xin Li, University of Washington
Title: Randomness Extraction and its Applications in Cryptography
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March 12
Speaker: Moritz Hardt, IBM Research Almaden
Title: When Machines Learn About Humans
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March 7
Speaker: Alexis Battle, Stanford University
Title: Unraveling the genetics of disease using informed probabilistic models
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March 5
Speaker: Michael Dinitz,Weizmann Institute of Science
Title: Approximating Spanners via Convex Relaxations
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February 26
Speaker: Tamir Hazan, University of Chicago
Title: Perturbation, Optimization and Statistics for Effective Machine Learning
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February 21
Speaker: Prateek Mittal, University of California, Berkeley
Title: Trustworthy Communications Using Network Science
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February 19
Speaker: Daniel Hsu, Microsoft Research
Title: Fast learning algorithms for discovering the hidden structure in data

February 14
Speaker: Manos Antonakakis, Damballa Inc.
Title: Improving Internet Security via Large-Scale DNS Monitoring
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February 12
Speaker: Yisong Yue, Carnegie Mellon University
Title: Learning with Humans in the Loop
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February 7
Speaker: Mastooreh (Negin) Salajegheh, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Title: Trustworthy and low-power computing at the limits of digital abstraction

February 5
Speaker: Raman Arora, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
Title: Stochastic approximation algorithms for large-scale unsupervised learning

February 1
Speaker: Jelani Nelson, Harvard University
Title: OSNAP: Faster numerical linear algebra algorithms via sparser subspace embeddings

January 31 - Distinguished Lecturer
Speaker: Moshe Vardi, Rice University
Title: A Logical Revolution
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January 29
Speaker: Philipp Koehn, University of Edinburgh
Title: Aiding Human Translators