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2009 Spring Colloquium Lecture Series

Our Lectures are held weekly on Tuesday and/or Thursday
Wu and Chen Auditorium
Levine Hall, 3330 Walnut Street
from 3:00 p.m. to 4:15 p.m.
(Unless otherwise noted)

Thursday, January 29, 2009	Colloquium
Ryan MacDonald
Google Research
Talk: Mining and Summarizing Opinions from the Web

Thursday, February 19, 2009	DIstinguished Lecturer This event will be held in Berger Auditorium, Skirkanich Hall 210 South 33rd Street
Moses Charikar
Dept. of Computer Science Princeton University
Talk:New Insights into Semidefinite Programming for Combinatorial Optimization

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

MSSE Speaker

Sharon Goldberg

Electrical Engineering

Princeton University

Thursday, March 5, 2009	DIstinguished Lecturer
Eugene Charniak
Computer Science Department Brown University
Talk: EM Works for Pronoun-Anaphora Resolution

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

MSSE Speaker

Andreas Haeberlen

Computer Science Dept.

Rice University

Thursday, March 19, 2009	DIstinguished Lecturer
Stefan Savage
Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of California, San Diego
Talk:Spamalytics: Exploring the Technical and Economic Underpinnings of Bulk E-mail Scams

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

MSSE Speaker

David Pennock

Yahoo Research

Thursday, March 26, 2009	DIstinguished Lecturer
Ashish Goel
Management Science and Engineering Stanford University
Talk: Algorithms at the Molecular Scale

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

MSSE Speaker

Alan Mislove

Max Planck Institute for Software Systems

Thursday, April 2, 2009	DIstinguished Lecturer
Tom Reps
Computer Sciences Department University of Wisconsin-Madison
Talk: WYSINWYX: What You See Is Not What You eXecute