Seminars (Spring 2016)

Departmental Seminars (COMP 6911 & COMP 6912) Spring 2016

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
01 Feb 2016, Mon (16:00-17:00) No Seminar
08 Feb 2016, Mon (16:00-17:00) No Seminar (Public Holiday)
15 Feb 2016, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF How to do research in computer science? Prof. Huamin QU; Prof. Mordecai GOLIN; Prof. D.Y. YEUNG; Dr. Sunghun KIM;
HKUST		 H. Qu
22 Feb 2016, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Attacks and Defenses for Website Fingerprinting Dr. Tao Wang
Univ. of Waterloo		 D.Y. Yeung
29 Feb 2016, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Non-traditional DDoS Attacks and Defenses Min Suk Kang
Carnegie Mellon Univ.		 S. Kim
07 Mar 2016, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Believing without Seeing: Cryptographic Integrity Guarantees in Outsourced Computation Dimitrios Papadopoulos
Boston Univ.		 K. Yi
14 Mar 2016, Mon (16:00-17:00) No Seminar
21 Mar 2016, Mon (16:00-17:00) [Rescheduled to 31 Mar 2016, Thu, 4pm in Rm3501]    
28 Mar 2016, Mon (16:00-17:00) No Seminar (Public Holiday)
31 Mar 2016, Thu (16:00-17:00) Rm3501 Learning Clinical information from Medical Images Prof. Daniel Rueckert
Imperial College London		 A. Chung
04 Apr 2016, Mon (16:00-17:00) No Seminar (Public Holiday)
11 Apr 2016, Mon (16:00-17:00) No Seminar
18 Apr 2016, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Making sense of software documentation with natural language processing [Joint Seminar] Dr. Christoph Treude
Univ. of Adelaide		 S. Kim
25 Apr 2016, Mon (10:00-12:00) LTG

The Beauty of Artificial Intelligence Seminar Series

  1. Artificial Intelligence: Recent Advances and Future Trends
  2. DMTK: Making Very Large Scale Machine Learning Possible
  3. Deep Residual Learning in Image Classification and Transfer Learning

(Watch Video Playback)
  1. Dr. Tie-Yan LIU, MSRA
  2. Taifeng WANG, MSRA
  3. Shaoqing REN, USTC
 L. Chen
25 Apr 2016, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF How to Write High-Quality Research Papers in Computer Science Dr. Ke YI; Prof. Huamin QU; Dr. Raymond WONG; Dr. Xiaojuan MA
HKUST		 K. Yi
26 Apr 2016, Tue (15:00-16:30) Rm2405 AI for Automated Educational Assessments and Labor Market Insight [Joint Seminar] Mr. Varun Aggarwal
Aspiring Minds		 P. Fung
02 May 2016, Mon (16:00-17:00) No Seminar (Public Holiday)
09 May 2016, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF IBM Bluemix: The Digital Innovation Platform (Watch Video Playback) C.M. Kwong
IBM		 J. Muppala

Other Departmental Seminars Spring 2016

Date & Time Venue Title Speaker Host
18 Feb 2016, Thu (15:00-16:00) Rm5510 (Min,+)-Convolutions, 3SUM and Additive Combinatorics [Theory Group Seminar] Moshe Lewenstein
Bar-Ilan Univ.		 M. Golin
25 Feb 2016, Thu (11:00-12:00) Rm3494 Birds of a Feather Flock Together [Theory Group Seminar] Yixin Cao
PolyU		 M. Golin
15 Mar 2016, Tue (14:00-15:00) Rm1504 An introduction to Cryptographical Research at the Tokyo Institute of Technology [Theory Group Seminar] Speakers from Tokyo Institute of Technology M. Golin
08 Apr 2016, Tue (11:00-12:00) Rm3501 A Unified Framework for Establishing Error Bounds for Structured Convex Optimization Problems [Theory Group Seminar] Anthony So
CUHK		 M. Golin
22 Apr 2016, Fri (11:00-12:00) Rm3501 Online Submodular Maximization with Free Disposal [Theory Group Seminar] Hubert Chan
HKU		 M. Golin
29 Apr 2016, Fri (14:00-15:00) Rm1504 Interaction Designer: How our role has changed in the last decade, and how we should better prepare ourselves for the future [Joint Seminar] Amy IP
Tencent		 W. Huang
12 May 2016, Thu (15:00-16:00) LTG Using SAT to solve stable matching problems with couples Prof. Fahiem Bacchus
Univ. of Toronto		 Q. Yang
16 May 2016, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF A System for Large Scale Machine Learning [Joint Seminar] Prof. Tong Zhang
Baidu's Big Data Lab		 D.Y. Yeung
03 Jun 2016, Fri (11:00-12:00) Rm3501 Towards a Worst-Case I/O-Optimal Algorithm for Acyclic Joins [Theory Group Seminar] Xiao Hu
HKUST		 M. Golin
15 Jun 2016, Wed (14:00-15:00) Rm1511 Online Learning Algorithms in Machine Learning [AI Group Seminar] Dr. Yiming Ying
State Univ. of New York at Albany		 J. Kwok
15 Jun 2016, Wed (14:30-16:00) Rm5506 Pixels and Patches, Bigger, Faster and Better: PatchTable and Image Perforation Prof. Connelly Barnes
Univ. of Virginia		 P. Sander
30 Jun 2016, Thu (16:00-17:00) Rm3501 Digging deeper into content to improve caching efficiency [Networking Group Seminar] Dr. Lazaros Gkatzikis
Huawei France Research Center		 P. Hui
04 Jul 2016, Mon (11:00-12:00) Rm3501 Graph Minors for Preserving Terminal Distances Approximately [Theory Group Seminar] Yun Kuen Chueng
Univ. of Vienna		 M. Golin
08 Jul 2016, Fri (11:00-12:00) Rm3501 Marrying Generational GC and Region Techniques for High-Throughput, Low-Latency Big Data Memory Management [Software Technologies Group Seminar] Dr. Guoqing (Harry) Xu
Univ. of California, Irvine		 C. Zhang

Dekai Wu is the seminar coordinator for Spring 2016.

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