Seminars (Fall 2008)

Departmental Seminars (COMP 690 & COMP 691) Fall 2008

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
01 Sep 2008, Mon (11:00-12:00) Rm3315 Adding Support for New Hardware in Database System Dr. Stratis VIGLAS
Univ. of Edinburgh		 Q. Luo
01 Sep 2008, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF PG orientation   Q. Yang
01 Sep 2008, Mon (17:00-18:00) LTF Cooperative Content Distribution and Traffic Engineering Mr. Joe JIANG
Princeton Univ.		 G. Chan
08 Sep 2008, Mon (16:00-17:00)   [Rescheduled to 01 Sep 2008, Mon, 11am]    
15 Sep 2008, Mon (16:00-17:00)   No Seminar (Public Holiday)    
22 Sep 2008, Mon (16:00-17:00)   [Rescheduled to 01 Sep 2008, Mon, 5pm]    
29 Sep 2008, Mon (16:00-17:00)   [Rescheduled to 03 Oct 2008, Fri, 2pm]    
06 Oct 2008, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Transfer Learning via Feature Clustering Arthur Wenyuan DAI
Shanghai Jiaotong Univ.		 Q. Yang
13 Oct 2008, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Building Impossible Systems Dr. Lin GU
HKUST		 L. Gu
20 Oct 2008, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF On Pebble Automata Over Infinite Alphabets Tony TAN
Israel Institute of Technology		 S.W. Cheng
27 Oct 2008, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Conceptual Spaces: On the Geometry of Thought Prof. Peter GÄRDENFORS
Lund Univ., Sweden		 F. Lin
03 Nov 2008, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Data Mining for Business Application Dr. Raymond WONG
HKUST		 R. Wong
10 Nov 2008, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF An Optimization Framework for Video Streaming in Distributed Communication Systems Prof. Ling GUAN
Ryerson Univ., Canada		 Q. Zhang
11 Nov 2008, Tue (16:00-17:00) Rm3401 A Bioinformatics Study on Deep Sequenced Small RNAs Dr. Eddy DUAN
Univ. of Massachusetts		 Q. Yang
17 Nov 2008, Mon (16:00-17:00)   [Rescheduled to 11 Nov 2008, Tue, 4pm]    
24 Nov 2008, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Tree-based and Forest-based Translation [Joint Seminar] Dr. Liang HUANG
Univ. of Pennsylvania		 D. Wu
25 Nov 2008, Tue (10:30-12:00) Rm1511 Reinventing Compression: The New Paradigm of Distributed Video Coding [Joint Seminar] Prof. Bernd GIROD
Stanford Univ.		 Q. Zhang
01 Dec 2008, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Weakly-supervised machine-learning techniques for Appraisal analysis [Joint Seminar] Jonathon READ
Univ. of Sussex		 D. Wu

Other Departmental Seminars Fall 2008

Date & Time Venue Title Speaker Host
04 Sep 2008, Thu (11:00-12:00) Rm2404 From Pervasive to Persuasive Computing Dr. Hao-Hua CHU
National Taiwan Univ.		 Q. Yang
03 Oct 2008, Fri (14:00-15:00) Rm4502 Hexastore: Sextuple Indexing for Semantic Web Data Management Dr. Panagiotis KARRAS
National Univ. of Singapore		 D. Papadias
13 Oct 2008, Tue (16:00-17:00) Rm3501 A Perspectives on Topological and Geometric Methods for High Dimensional Data Analysis Dr. Yuan YAO
Stanford Univ.		 N. Zhang
16 Jan 2009, Fri (11:00-12:00) LTG Intelligent Assistance for Desktop User Tasks [Joint Seminar] Dr. Anthony TOMASIC
Carnegie-Mellon Univ.		 M. Golin
16 Jan 2009, Fri (16:00-17:00) LTG The Mondrian Process [Joint Seminar] Dr. Yee Whye TEH
Univ. College London		 D. Wu
19 Jan 2009, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Contrast Pattern Mining and its Applications Prof. Rao KOTAGIRI
Univ. of Melbourne		 L. Chen

Dekai Wu is the seminar coordinator for Fall 2008.

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