Seminars (Fall 2013)

Departmental Seminars (COMP 6911 & COMP 6912) Fall 2013

(Previous Course Codes: COMP 690 & COMP 691)

The regular seminar time slot is Monday, 4-5pm, except as otherwise indicated. These seminars are included in COMP 6911 & COMP 6912. Seminars held in other time slots are listed below in Other Departmental Seminars and are not included in COMP 6911 & COMP 6912.

Date & Time Venue Title Speaker Host
02 Sep 2013, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Quantum Information Flow made Classical: New Mathematics for Natural Language Compositionality [Joint Seminar] Dr. Edward Greffenstette
Oxford Univ.		 D. Wu
09 Sep 2013, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF PG Orientation S.W. Cheng
12 Sep 2013, Thu (15:00-16:00) LTH Improving tools for JavaScript programmers - and other research at Aarhus University Dr. Anders Moller
Aarhus Univ.		 S.C. Cheung
16 Sep 2013, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Orientation and anisotropy of multi-component shapes Dr. Jovisa Zunic
Exeter Univ.		 A. Chung
23 Sep 2013, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Facilities Orientation Workshop   Q. Luo & Z. Yung
26 Sep 2013, Thu (14:30-15:30) LTH Machine Translation in Macau: Development and Research Challenges (Joint Seminar) Dr. Derek Wong
Univ. of Macau		 D. Wu
30 Sep 2013, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Leveraging Crowds to Bridge Communication Barriers Dr. Xiaojuan Ma
Huawei Noah's Ark Lab		 Q. Yang
07 Oct 2013, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF A Foundation Ontology for Global City Indicators Prof. Mark Fox
Univ. of Toronto		 F. Lochovsky
14 Oct 2013, Mon (16:00-17:00)   No Seminar (Public Holiday)    
21 Oct 2013, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Klee's Measure Problem Made Easy Prof. Timothy Chan
Univ. of Waterloo		 S.W. Cheng
28 Oct 2013, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Making sense in translation: Addressing lexical choice errors when translating across domains [Joint Seminar] Dr. Marine Carpuat
National Research Council, Canada		 D. Wu
29 Oct 2013, Tue (11:00-12:00) LTH Video-based Behavior Analysis and Action Recognition Prof. Ying-Li Tian
The City College / City Univ. of New York, USA		 L. Quan
30 Oct 2013, Wed (15:00-16:00) Rm1504 Exploiting content, structure, and communities in recommender systems Dr. Julian McAuley
Stanford Univ.		 P. Hui
04 Nov 2013, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Automated Unit Testing of Large Industrial Embedded Software using Concolic Testing Prof. Moonzoo Kim
KAIST		 S. Kim
11 Nov 2013, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Local Search for Constraint Satisfaction Prof. Abdul Sattar
Griffith Univ., Australia		 F. Lin
18 Nov 2013, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Virtual Cityscapes: Challenges, Recent Advances, and Opportunities (IAS / School of Engineering Joint Lecture) Prof. Ming C. Lin
Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill		 H. Qu
25 Nov 2013, Mon (16:00-17:00)   [Rescheduled to 29 Nov 2013, Fri, 2pm in Rm1504]    
29 Nov 2013, Fri (14:00-15:00) Rm1504 From Vectors Representing Speech to Graphs Representing Corpora: Reconciling how far we've come with how far we still have to go [Joint Seminar] Stephen Shum
MIT		 B. Mak

Other Departmental Seminars Fall 2013

Date & Time Venue Title Speaker Host
21 Nov 2013, Thu (16:00-17:00) Rm1504 Partial Sum Minimization of Singular Values in RPCA for Low-Level Vision [Graphic Group Seminar] Dr. Yu-Wing Tai
KAIST		 C.K. Tang
05 Dec 2013, Thu (11:00-12:00) Rm1504 Memory System Parallelism for Data-intensive and Data-driven Applications Prof. Xian-He Sun
Illinois Institute of Technology
USA		 Q. Luo
05 Dec 2013, Thu (14:00-15:30) LTF Estimating Heights from Photo Collections: A Big Data Approach Prof. Keith Ross
NYU Shanghai/NYU-Poly		 A. Chung
11 Dec 2013, Wed (16:00-17:00) LTF Portage: A high-performing SMT system that is pure phrase-based (almost) [Joint Seminar] Dr. Roland Kuhn
NRC, Canada		 D. Wu
12 Dec 2013, Thu (14:00-15:30) LTF Big Data, Lifelong Machine Learning and Transfer Learning Prof. Qiang Yang
HKUST		  
16 Dec 2013, Mon (11:00-12:00) Rm3402 Network Design in the Big-Data Age Prof. Xia Zhou
Dartmouth College		 P. Hui
16 Dec 2013, Mon (14:00-15:30) LTF Data Mining with Big Data Prof. Xindong Wu
Univ. of Vermont		 F. Lochovsky
17 Dec 2013, Tue (15:00-16:00) Rm4505 Declarative, optimizable data-driven specifications of web & mobile reports & applications [DB Seminar] Prof. Yannis Papakonstantinou
Univ. of California at San Diego		 D. Papaidas
18 Dec 2013, Wed (16:00-17:00) LTH From Cloud to Fog [Joint Seminar] Prof. Mung Chiang
Princeton Univ.		 G. Chan
19 Dec 2013, Thu (11:00-12:00) Rm5619 On The Algorithmic and System Interface of BIG LEARNING [AI Group Seminar] Dr. Eric Xing
Carnegie Mellon Univ.		 J. Kwok
20 Dec 2013, Fri (14:00-15:00) Rm1504 Adaptable Resource Allocation in Cloud Computing Systems Albert Zomaya
Univ. of Sydney		 B. Bensaou
06 Jan 2014, Mon (16:00-17:00) Rm4472 Warehouse-scale Computers: Opportunities and Challenges Prof. Mary Lou Soffa
Univ. of Virginia		 C. Zhang
09 Jan 2014, Thu (14:00-15:30) LTG Research on Small Data for Locality of References and on Big Data for Wisdom of Crowds Prof. Xiaodong Zhang
The Ohio State Univ.		 S.C. Cheung

Dekai Wu is the seminar coordinator for Fall 2013.

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