CSAIL Event Calendar
CS Special Seminar Series 2011/2012Specific Mondays/Thursdays as listed; at 4:00pm (refreshments at 3:45pm) in 32-D449, Patel/Kiva. Please see individual contact listed for specific seminar with any questions. Carlos Guestrin, Carnegie Mellon University GraphLab: A Distributed Abstraction for Machine Learning Date: Monday, February 13 2012 Time: 4:00PM to 5:00PM Refreshments: 3:45PM Location: 32-G449 Contact: Francis Doughty, 253-4602, doughty@mit.edu Zeeshan Syed, University of Michigan Matching Patients to Therapies: Markers, Models & Medications Date: Monday, February 27 2012 Time: 4:00PM to 5:00PM Refreshments: 3:45PM Location: 32-G449 Contact: Francis Doughty, 253-4602, doughty@mit.edu Keren Censor-Hillel, M.I.T. - CSAIL Fast Distributed Computing Despite Poor Connectivity Date: Tuesday, February 28 2012 Time: 4:00PM to 5:00PM Refreshments: 3:45PM Location: 32-G449 Contact: Francis Doughty, 253-4602, doughty@mit.edu Dirk Englund, Columbia University Special EECS Seminar: Semiconductor Quantum Optics: New Frontiers for Information Processing and Precision Measurements Date: Monday, March 5 2012 Time: 3:00PM to 4:00PM Refreshments: 2:45PM Location: GRIER A CONFERENCE ROOM: 34-401A Contact: Albert Carter, 617-258-8773, arcarter@mit.edu Anima Anandkumar, UC Irvine High-Dimensional Estimation via Graphical Approaches: Methods and Guarantees Date: Monday, March 12 2012 Time: 3:00PM to 4:00PM Refreshments: 2:45PM Location: 34-401a Contact: Francis Doughty, 253-4602, doughty@mit.edu Prateek Saxena, UC Berkeley Securing The Next Generation Web Platform Date: Monday, March 12 2012 Time: 4:00PM to 5:00PM Refreshments: 3:45PM Location: 32-G449 Contact: Francis Doughty, 253-4602, doughty@mit.edu Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Stanford University and UC Berkeley Multiplying matrices faster Date: Thursday, March 15 2012 Time: 4:00PM to 5:00PM Refreshments: 4:45PM Location: 32-G449 Contact: Francis Doughty, 253-4602, doughty@mit.edu Ben Taskar, University of Pennsylvania Geometry of Diversity and Determinantal Point Processes: Representation, Inference and Learning Date: Monday, March 19 2012 Time: 4:00PM to 5:00PM Refreshments: 3:45PM Location: 32-G449 Contact: Francis Doughty, 253-4602, doughty@mit.edu Kaushik Sengupta, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena From ‘DC to Daylight’: Reunifying the Electro-magnetic Spectrum in Silicon and the Opportunities it Opens up Date: Thursday, March 22 2012 Time: 3:00PM to 4:00PM Refreshments: 2:45PM Location: 34-401a Contact: Francis Doughty, 253-4602, doughty@mit.edu John (Jack) Sampson, University of California, San Diego Conservation Cores: Architectures for a Future of Dark Silicon Date: Thursday, March 22 2012 Time: 4:00PM to 5:00PM Refreshments: 3:45PM Location: 32-G449 Contact: Francis Doughty, 253-4602, doughty@mit.edu Alekh Agarwal , UC Berkeley Computation meets Statistics: Trade-offs and fundamental limits for large data sets Date: Monday, April 2 2012 Time: 4:00PM to 5:00PM Refreshments: 3:45PM Location: 32-G449 Contact: Francis Doughty, 253-4602, doughty@mit.edu Aditya Parameswaran, Stanford University Optimizing Human Computation Date: Thursday, April 5 2012 Time: 4:00PM to 5:00PM Refreshments: 3:45PM Location: 32-G449 Contact: Francis Doughty, 253-4602, doughty@mit.edu Daniel Sanchez, Stanford University Scaling Software and Hardware for Thousand-Core Systems Date: Monday, April 9 2012 Time: 4:00PM to 5:00PM Refreshments: 3:45PM Location: 32-G449 Contact: Francis Doughty, 253-4602, doughty@mit.edu Theophilus Benson, University of Wisconson - Madison Towards Networks without Management Complexity Date: Tuesday, April 10 2012 Time: 4:00PM to 5:00PM Refreshments: 3:45PM Location: 32-G449 Contact: Francis Doughty, 3-4602, doughty@mit.edu Ohad Shamir, Microsoft Research New England Machine Learning: Higher, Faster, Stronger Date: Thursday, April 12 2012 Time: 4:00PM to 5:00PM Refreshments: 3:45PM Location: 32-G449 Contact: Francis Doughty, 253-4602, doughty@mit.edu Changhoon Kim, Microsoft Windows Azure Network Virtualization for Large Data Centers and Enterprises Date: Tuesday, April 17 2012 Time: 4:00PM to 5:00PM Refreshments: 3:45PM Location: 32-G449 Contact: Francis Doughty, 253-4602, doughty@mit.edu Erez Lieberman Aiden, Harvard University and Google Zooming Out: New tools for probing the human genome and the historical record Date: Monday, April 30 2012 Time: 4:00PM to 5:00PM Refreshments: 3:45PM Location: 32-G449 Contact: Francis Doughty, 253-4602, doughty@mit.edu  
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