Seminars (Fall 2009)

Departmental Seminars (COMP 690 & COMP 691) Fall 2009

The regular seminar time slot is Monday, 4-5pm, except as otherwise indicated. These seminars are included in COMP 690 & COMP 691. Seminars held in other time slots are listed below in Other Departmental Seminars and are not included in COMP 690 & COMP 691.

Date & Time Venue Title Speaker Host
07 Sep 2009, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF An Axiomatic Theory of Fairness Dr. Mung CHIANG
Princeton Univ.		 G. Chan
14 Sep 2009, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Focus+Context Route Zooming and Information Overlay in 3D Urban Environments Dr. Huamin QU
HKUST		 H. Qu
21 Sep 2009, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Integrating NLP with ASP for Intelligent Service Robots [Joint Seminar] Prof. Xiaoping CHEN
UST of China		 F. Lin
28 Sep 2009, Mon (16:00-17:00)   [Rescheduled to 31 Aug 2009 (PG Orientation)]    
05 Oct 2009, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Social/Human Aspects of Open Source Software Development Prof. Prem DEVANBU
UC Davis		 C. Zhang
12 Oct 2009, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Exploiting structural information to improve the analysis of discrete-state systems Prof. Gianfranco CIARDO
UC Riverside		 J. Muppala
12 Oct 2009, Mon (10:30-11:30) Rm3311 Privacy for Spatial Queries and Data Prof. Christian JENSEN L. Chen
19 Oct 2009, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Spatial Databases and Geographic Information Systems Prof. Hanan SAMET
Univ. of Maryland		 L. Chen
22 Oct 2009, Thu (16:00-17:00) Rm1504 Service-Oriented Computing: Processes, Integration and Testing Prof. Wei-Tek TSAI
Arizona State Univ.		 S.C. Cheung
26 Oct 2009, Mon (16:00-17:00)   No Seminar (Public Holiday)    
02 Nov 2009, Mon (10:30-11:30) Rm2404 Large-scale Data Mining and its Applications to Information Retrieval Prof. Edward CHANG
Google, China		 L. Chen
02 Nov 2009, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Web Search: From Information Retrieval Engines to Task Completion environments [Joint Seminar] Andrei BRODER
Yahoo! Research		 D. Wu
06 Nov 2009, Fri (14:00-15:00) Rm4480 Search Your Memory! - An Associative Memory Based Desktop Search System Dr. Jidong CHEN
EMC Research China		 L. Chen
09 Nov 2009, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF The evolution of computational advertising: from heuristic ad matching to knowledge-based ad retrieval [Joint Seminar] Dr. Evgeniy GABRILOVICH
Yahoo! Research		 Q. Yang
10 Nov 2009, Tue (11:00-12:00) Rm2404 Probabilistic XML: Survey and Challenges [Joint Seminar] Dr. Pierre SENELLART
Télécom ParisTech, France		 R. Wong
12 Nov 2009, Thu (11:00-12:00) Rm2404 New Clustering Approaches for Mining Salient Patterns in High Dimensional Data Dr. Wei WANG
Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill		 L. Chen
13 Nov 2009, Fri (13:30-14:30) Rm5583 Software Variability Management Prof. Kyo-Chul KANG
Postech		 S. Kim
16 Nov 2009, Mon (16:00-17:00)   [Rescheduled to 22 Oct 2009, Thu, 4pm]    
23 Nov 2009, Mon (16:00-17:00)   [Rescheduled to 06 Nov 2009, Fri, 2pm]    
24 Nov 2009, Tue (16:30-17:30) LTH New Directions in Disaster and Emergency Situation Management: Technology and Applications Dr. Gabriel JAKOBSON
Altusys Corp.		 Q. Zhang
27 Nov 2009, Fri (16:30-17:30) Rm2465 Debugging Debugging Prof. Andreas ZELLER
Saarland Univ., Germany		 S. Kim
30 Nov 2009, Mon (16:00-17:00)   [Rescheduled to 27 Nov 2009, Fri, 4:30pm]    
07 Dec 2009, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF SHAGE: Self-managed Software framework for Service Robot Prof. Sooyong PARK
Sogang Univ., Korea		 S. Kim

Other Departmental Seminars Fall 2009

Date & Time Venue Title Speaker Host
14 Oct 2009, Wed (11:00-12:00) Rm3401 Transfer Learning with Application to Multimedia Analysis Dr. Rong YAN
IBM		 Q. Yang
28 Oct 2009, Wed (11:00-12:00) Rm3408 Discriminative Signature Mining - Solving an NP-hard problem by Divide-Conquer Search, with applications to finance, intrusion detection, and bioinformatics Dr. Wei FAN
IBM		 Q. Yang
14 Dec 2009, Mon (15:00-16:00) Rm3412 Supporting Delay-Sensitive Applications in Next-Generation Wireless Networks -- A New Theory Combining Large Deviations with Lyapunov Stability Dr. Xiaojun LIN
Purdue Univ.		 Q. Zhang
17 Dec 2009, Thu (11:00-12:00) Rm3501 Fast Algorithms for Mining and Summarizing Co-evolving Sequences Lei LI
Carnegie Mellon Univ.		 L. Chen
21 Dec 2009, Mon (10:00-11:00) Rm1504 Towards multi-modal extraction and summarization of conversations Prof. Raymond NG
Univ. of British Columbia		 L. Chen
30 Dec 2009, Wed (15:30-16:30) Rm3416 Networked Video Systems: Error-resilience and Interactivity Dr. Gene CHEUNG
National Institute of Informatics, Japan		 G. Chan
06 Jan 2010, Wed (11:00-12:00) Rm3412 Robust Principal Component Analysis: Exact Recovery of Corrupted Low-Rank Matrices via Convex Optimization Dr. Yi MA
Microsoft Research Asia		 L. Quan
07 Jan 2010, Thu (15:00-16:00) Rm3412 Cooperative Interference Management in Multi-Cell Downlink Beamforming Dr. Shuguang CUI
Texas A&M Univ.		 Q. Zhang
08 Jan 2010, Fri (16:00-17:00) LTH Dust to Doctors: Wireless Sensor Networks for Home Medical Care Prof. John STANKOVIC
Univ. of Virginia		 L. Gu
13 Jan 2010, Wed (14:00-15:00) Rm3412 Mining Near-duplicate Graph for Cluster-based Reranking of Web Video Search Results Dr. Hengtao SHEN
Univ. of Queensland		 L. Chen

Dekai Wu is the seminar coordinator for Fall 2009.

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