Spring 2013 CS Colloquium

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Thursdays at 4:15pm in B17 Upson (Unless otherwise indicated)

Thursday 01.31.13

Lecture on Dijkstra's Algorithm
Speaker: John Lasseter
Host: K.-Y. Daisy Fan

Tuesday 02.05.13

Stochastic m-Estimators and the Tradeoff Between Statistical Accuracy and Computational Complexity
Speaker: Guy Lebanon
Host: David Shmoys

Thursday 02.07.13

Selling Two Objects (in Three Models)
Speaker: Noam Nisan
Host: Robert Kleinberg

Tuesday 02.12.13

Algorithms for Modern Data Models
Speaker: Ashish Goel
Host: Eva Tardos

Thursday 02.14.13

Leveraging Inexactness For Scalability
Speaker: Suvrit Sra
Host: Charles Van Loan

Tuesday 02.19.13

Lecture
Speaker: Eric Eaton
Host: Walker White

Thursday 02.21.13

Probabilistic Modeling for Large-scale Data Exploration
Speaker: Chong Wang
Host: Thorsten Joachims

Thursday 02.28.13

Securing Digital Democracy
Speaker: Alex Halderman
Host: Andrew Myers

Tuesday 03.05.13

New Algorithms for Nonnegative Matrix Factorization and Beyond
Speaker: Ankur Moitra
Host: Robert Kleinberg

Thursday 03.07.13

Scaling Deep Learning to 10,000 Cores and Beyond
Speaker: Quoc Le
Host: Thorsten Joachims

Tuesday 03.12.13

Making Big Data Analytics Interactive and Real-Time
Speaker: Matei Zahara
Host: E. Gun Sirer

Thursday 03.14.13

Database Cracking and the Path Towards Auto-tuning Database Kernels
Speaker: Stratos Idreos
Host: Johannes Gehrke

Thursday 03.28.13

RSA in the Real World
Speaker: Nadia Heninger
Host: Fred Schneider

Tuesday 04.09.13

Programming and Proving in Homotopy Type
Speaker: Dan Licata
Host: Nate Foster

Thursday 04.18.13

Fast Learning Algorithms for Discovering the Hidden Structure in Data
Speaker: Daniel Hsu
Host: Thorsten Joachims

Tuesday 04.23.13

Big Data: Statistical and Computational Challenges and Opportunities
Speaker: Nando de Freitas
Host: Thorsten Joachims

Thursday 04.25.13

Fine Grained Visual Categorization with Humans in the Loop
Speaker: Serge Belongie
Host: Ramin Zabih

Tuesday 04.30.13

Whither Data Privacy: What Works, What Doesn't, and What Is to Be Done
Speaker: Vitaly Shmatikov
Host: Joseph Halpern

Thursday 05.02.13

Aggregation and Distribution in Cloud Security
Speaker: Ari Juels
Host: Rafael Pass

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