Colloquium Spring 2016

Past Events

• APR 15
  9:30AM, Schapiro (CEPSR) Building, Columbia University Davis Auditorium (Room 412)
  New York Area Theory Day
  IBM/NYU/Columbia
• APR 13
  11:30AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  Marginalization is not Marginal: Non-Convex, Bayesian-Inspired Algorithms for Sparse and Low-Rank Estimation
  David Wipf, Microsoft Research Beijing
• APR 8
  11:30AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  Wireless Systems that Extend Our Senses: Seeing Through Walls, Gesture Control, and Vital Sign Monitoring
  Fadel Adib, MIT
• APR 6
  11:30AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  Word meanings and human cognition: A computational perspective
  Yang Xu, University of California at Berkeley
• APR 4
  11:30AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  DeepDive: A Data Management System for Machine Learning Workloads
  Ce Zhang, Stanford University
• APR 1
  11:30AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  Middleboxes as a cloud service
  Justine Sherry, University of California at Berkeley
• MAR 30
  11:30AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  Knowledge Graph Construction using Machine Reading Methods
  Ndapandula Nakashole, Carnegie Mellon University
• MAR 29
  11:30AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  Passwords, keys, and coins: bridging usability and applied crypto
  Joseph Bonneau, Stanford University
• MAR 28
  11:30AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  Building Systems that Query on Compressed Data
  Rachit Agarwal, University of California at Berkeley
• MAR 25
  11:30AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  Accelerating Advanced Analytics
  Arun Kumar, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• MAR 23
  11:30AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  Hardware and Software Techniques to Scale the Memory Wall
  Nathan Beckmann, MIT
• MAR 21
  11:30AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  Exploiting compositionality to explore a large space of model structures
  Roger Grosse, University of Toronto
• MAR 11
  11:30AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  Data-Driven Text Analysis with Joint Models
  Greg Durrett, University of California at Berkeley
• MAR 9
  11:30AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  Automated Discovery and Learning of Complex Movement Behaviours
  Igor Mordatch, University of California at Berkeley
• MAR 8
  12PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  **Special Time 12:00pm** Multi-user, ambulatory, Mixed Reality
  Jaron Lanier, Microsoft Research
• MAR 7
  11:30AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  New machine learning for ubiquitous genomics and beyond
  James Zou, Microsoft Research New England and MIT
• MAR 4
  11:30AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  Unleashing Hardware Potential through Better OS Abstractions
  Adam Belay, Stanford University
• MAR 2
  11:30AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  Improving the Cost and Reliability of Data Center Networks
  Vincent Liu, University of Washington
• FEB 29
  11:30AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  Convolutional Networks against the Curse of Dimensionality
  Joan Bruna, University of California at Berkeley
• FEB 26
  11:30AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  Bayesian Machine Learning for Efficient Optimization of Black-box Functions
  José Miguel Hernández Lobato, Harvard Unviersity
• FEB 24
  11AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  **Special Time 11:00am** Beyond Who and What: Answering How? and Why? by Modeling Large Graphs
  Alex Beutel, Carnegie Mellon University
• FEB 22
  11AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  **Special Time 11:00am** Composing differentiable procedures for modeling, inference, and optimization
  David Duvenaud, Harvard University
• FEB 19
  11:30AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  Event and Pattern Detection at the Societal Scale
  Daniel B. Neill, Carnegie Mellon University
• FEB 12
  11:30AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  Certified Concurrent and Distributed Systems
  Mohsen Lesani, MIT
• FEB 10
  11:30AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  Making the World a Better Place with Cryptography
  Muhammad Naveed, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• FEB 3
  11:30AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  The Stellar Consensus Protocol: A Federated Model for Internet-level Consensus
  David Mazières, Stanford University
• JAN 29
  11:30AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  The Distributional Rank Aggregation Problem, and an Axiomatic Analysis
  Pradeep Ravikumar, University of Texas at Austin
• JAN 26
  11:30AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  Big Data and Dark Silicon: Taming Two IT Inflection Points on a Collision Course
  Babak Falsafi, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne
• JAN 22
  11:30AM, Warren Weaver Hall 102
  Fast Lingustic Information Retrieval from Big Data -- Introducing writing tools Linggle and WriteAhead
  Jason Chang, National Tsing Hua University