Monday
May 12 |
14th Annual CNBC Lecture
Jocelyne Bachevalier, Ph.D.
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Department of Psychology and
Yerkes National Primate Research Center
Emory University
Behavioral Outcomes of Neonatal Orbital
Frontal Lesions in Monkeys
4:00 p.m., 4127 Sennott Square
Martin Colloquium Center Other
Reception to follow.
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CyLab Seminar
Alvaro Cardenas
, Post-Doc
University of California at Berkeley
Statistical Models for Intrusion Detection, Abstract
12:00 p.m., Distributed Education Center
Lobby Level Collaborative Innovation Center
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SCS Faculty Candidate Talk
Stephen McCamant
, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Quantitative Information-flow Tracking
as Maximum Network Flow, Abstract
01:30 a.m.- 03:00 a.m.
, 3305 Newell-Simon Hall
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Thesis Proposal
Dean R. Anderson
Online Adaptive Modeling for Outdoor Mobile Robots
in Rough Terrain, Abstract
10:30 a.m., 3305 Newell-Simon Hall
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Cristen Torrey Thesis Proposal
Cristen Torrey
, PhD Student in HCII
Social Responses to Receiving Verbal Assistance:
A Comparison of, Abstract
1:30 p.m., 1507 Newell-Simon Hall
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ML/Google Seminar
Jason Eisner
, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Weighted Deduction as a Programming Language, Abstract
4:30 p.m.- 5:30 p.m.
, 1305 Newell-Simon Hall
Refreshments at 4:15
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VASC Seminar
Tomasz Malisiewicz
, Robotics Institute
Recognition by Association via Learning
Per-exemplar Distances , Abstract
3:30 p.m., 1507 Newell-Simon Hall
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Tuesday
May 13 |
Joint CMU-Pitt Ph.D. Program in
Computational Biology Seminar
Trey Ideker
, Associate Professor
Department of Bioengineering
Universty of California, San Diego
Mapping gene regulatory pathways by assembly
of physical and genetic interactions, Abstract
11:00 a.m., Conference Room Mellon Institute
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SCS Faculty Candidate Talk
Noah Snavely
, University of Washington
Modeling and Visualizing the World from
Internet Photo Collections , Abstract
10:00 a.m.- 11:30 a.m.
, 3305 Newell-Simon Hall
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Joint SDI and Intelligence Seminar
Feng Zhao
, Principal Researcher
Microsoft Research
Power Management: from tiny embedded
devices to warehouse sized data centers , Abstract
3:30 p.m., 5409 Wean Hall
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Wednesday
May 14 |
LTI PhD Thesis Defense
Yanjun Qi
Learning of Protein Interaction Networks , Abstract
11:00 a.m., 3002 Newell-Simon Hall
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Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Seminar and Technical Session
Mike Agostini
, Senior Applications Engineer
The MathWorks, Inc.
Distributed and Parallel Computing with MATLAB, Abstract
09:00 a.m., PSC Other
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Speaking Skills Talk
Sarah Aboutalib
MCOR: Multiple-Cue Object Recognition, Abstract
3:00 p.m., 4623 Wean Hall
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Thesis Proposal - Architecture
Michael Philetus Weller
Objects-to-Think-Computationally-With:
Posey and Quik Blocks, Abstract
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Thursday
May 15 |
CSD Black Friday
It Begins
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Corporate Talk
Ulas Bardak
, SECOM
Intelligent Systems Lab, Japan
Abstract
3:30 p.m., 3002 Newell-Simon Hall
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LTI Student Talk
Shekar Sivasubramanian
, Self-Defined Ph.D. Student
Abstract
3:00 p.m., 4623 Wean Hall
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LTI PhD Thesis Proposal
Jae Dong Kim
Chunk Alignment for Corpus-Based Machine Translation, Abstract
09:00 a.m., 3002 Newell-Simon Hall
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Friday
May 16 |
CSD Black Friday
It Continues
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LTI Seminar
Jing Jiang
, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Domain Adaptation in Natural Language Processing, Abstract
2:00 p.m.- 3:00 p.m.
, 1305 Newell-Simon Hall
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Saturday
May 17 |
Commencement 2008
SCS Honors Ceremony
10:00 a.m., University Center
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Sunday
May 18 |
Commencement 2008
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Monday
May 19 |
Google Pittsburgh Seminar
Alfred Spector
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Vice President of Research and Special Initiatives
at Google
Research @ Google, Abstract
4:00 p.m., Google Pittsburgh
Lower Level Collaborative Innovation Center
Registration requested.
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VASC Seminar
Onur C. Hamsici
, Ohio State University
Spherical-Homoscedastic Distributions and
the Design of Bayes Optimal Classifiers , Abstract
3:30 p.m., 1507 Newell-Simon Hall
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Wednesday
May 21 |
Thesis Proposal
William Lovas
Refinement Types for LF, Abstract
10:30 a.m., 4615A Wean Hall
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Thursday
May 22 |
Thesis Defense
Aaron Bauer
, PhD Student
Evaluating the Impact of Technology on Note-Taking, Abstract
12:00 p.m., 3305 Newell-Simon Hall
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LTI Seminar
Hassan Sawaf
, Applications Technology
Hybrid Machine Translation of Text
and Speech: A Business Perspective, Abstract
3:00 p.m.- 4:00 p.m.
, 1305 Newell-Simon Hall
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Systems Seminar
Michael Isard
, Microsoft Research
Dryad and DryadLINQ: General-purpose
distributed data-parallel programming
using a high-level language, Abstract
12:00 p.m., Room 2101 Collaborative Innovation Center
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Saturday
May 24 |
RoboCup USOpen
Abstract
Carnegie Science Center
Downtown Pittsburgh Other
Held May 24-27, 2008
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Sunday
May 25 |
RoboCup USOpen
Games/Demos, Abstract
Carnegie Science Center
Downtown Pittsburgh Other
Held May 24-27, 2008
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Monday
May 26 |
RoboCup
Carnegie Science Center
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RoboCup USOpen
Games/Demos, Abstract
Carnegie Science Center
Downtown Pittsburgh Other
Held May 24-27, 2008
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Tuesday
May 27 |
Google Pittsburgh Seminar
Richard Caruana
, Cornell University
Getting the Most from Supervised Learning, Abstract
3:00 p.m., Lower Level Collaborative Innovation Center
Space is limited.
RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/5qxx6j
to guarantee a spot.
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RoboCup
Carnegie Science Center
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CyLab Seminar
Damian Walsh
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Director with responsibility for delivering disaster
recovery, business continuity,
information security and risk-related services
Deloitte
Data Center Resilience, Abstract
12:00 p.m., Distributed Education Center
Lobby Level Collaborative Innovation Center
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Thursday
May 29 |
Thesis Oral
David R. Thompson
Intelligent Mapping for Autonomous Robotic Survey, Abstract
10:00 a.m., 1305 Newell-Simon Hall
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Speaking Skills Talk
Pongsin Poosankam
Automatic Patch-Based Exploit Generation
is Possible: Techniques, Abstract
12:00 p.m., 4623 Wean Hall
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Friday
May 30 |
Special SDI/LCS Seminar
Vasanth Bala and Glenn Ammons
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IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Virtual Machine Images as Data:
the Mirage Project, Abstract
12:00 p.m., 2101 Collaborative Innovation Center
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SCS Faculty Candidate Talk
Bhiksha Raj
, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs
A Multinomial View of Signal Spectra
for Latent-Variable Analyses, Abstract
11:00 a.m., 1305 Newell-Simon Hall
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Monday
June 02 |
Intel Research Pittsburgh Seminar
Haifeng Yu
, Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
National University of Singapore
Defending against Sybil Attacks via Social Networks, Abstract
1:00 p.m., 4720 Forbes Avenue
4th Floor Collaborative Innovation Center
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Faculty Candidate Talk: Florian Metze
Florian Metze
, Deutsche Telekom
Articulatory Features for Discriminative Adaptation, Abstract
11:00 a.m., 1305 Newell-Simon Hall
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Tuesday
June 03 |
Special SDI/LCS Seminar
Heather Zheng
, Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of California, Santa Barbara
Device-centric Spectrum Management for
Pervasive Wireless Systems, Abstract
12:00 p.m.- 1:00 p.m.
, 8220 Wean Hall
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Thursday
June 05 |
Thesis Proposal
Automatic Physical Design of Database Systems:
An Optimization Theory Approach , Abstract
1:30 p.m., 4623 Wean Hall
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Faculty Candidate Talk: Konstantin Markov
Konstantin Markov
, ATR, Japan
Advanced speech models design and
learning techniques, Abstract
11:00 a.m., 1305 Newell-Simon Hall
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Friday
June 06 |
Thesis Oral
Yang Gu
Effective Motion Tracking Using Known
and Learned Actuation Models, Abstract
1:00 p.m., 3002 Newell-Simon Hall
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Thesis Proposal
Deepak Garg
Logic-Based Authorization, Abstract
11:00 a.m., 4623 Wean Hall
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Speaking Skills Talk
Sarah Aboutalib
MCOR: Multiple Cue Object Recognition, Abstract
3:00 p.m., 4623 Wean Hall
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Monday
June 09 |
VASC Seminar
James H. Hayes
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Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon
IM2GPS: Estimating geographic information
from a single image , Abstract
3:30 p.m., 1507 Newell-Simon Hall
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Friday
June 13 |
Google Pittsburgh Seminar
Abraham Flaxman
Trust-Based Recommendation Systems:
An Axiomatic Approach, Abstract
2:00 p.m., 4720 Forbes Avenue
Lower Level Collaborative Innovation Center
Registration required (see abstract)
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POP Seminar
Paul Levy
Nondeterminism: many questions and
(maybe) some answers , Abstract
3:30 p.m.- 5:00 p.m.
, 8220 Wean Hall
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Monday
June 16 |
ML Seminar
Ajit Singh
, PhD Candidate
Efficient Models for Relational Learning , Abstract
3:00 p.m.- 4:00 p.m.
, 3305 Newell-Simon Hall
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Thesis Oral
IL-Chul Moon
, COS PhD Student
Destabilization of Adversarial Organizations with
Strategic Interventions, Abstract
09:30 a.m., 4625 Wean Hall
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Tuesday
June 17 |
SCS Faculty Candidate
Ron Alterovitz
, University of California, Berkeley
Motion Planning and Physically-based
Simulation for Medical Robotics, Abstract
10:00 a.m.- 11:30 a.m.
, 3305 Newell-Simon Hall
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Faculty Candidate
Ron Alterovitz
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Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
University of California, Berkeley
and the University of California, San Francisco
Comprehensive Cancer Center
Motion Planning and Physically-based Simulation
for Medical Robotics, Abstract
10:00 a.m., 3305 Newell-Simon Hall
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Wednesday
June 18 |
POP Seminar
Paul Levy
Call-by-push-value, Abstract
3:30 p.m.- 5:00 p.m.
, 8220 Wean Hall
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