2009 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

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

MSSE Speaker

Andrew Odlyzko

School of Mathematics

University of Minnesota

Thursday, April 9, 2009

MSSE Speaker

Mohammad Mahdian

Yahoo! Research

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

MSSE Speaker

Duncan Watts

Yahoo Research

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

ESE Speaker

Dr.Ramesh Johari 

Stanford University

Talk: The interaction of positive externalities and congestion effects in services

Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Michael Collins
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory MIT
Talk Title: TAG-based Structured Prediction Models for Parsing and Machine Translation

Tuesday, October 6, 2009	Talk has been canceled.
Tom Mitchell
Due to unfortunate circumstance Tom will not be able to visit the Department.

Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Carol O' Sullivan
Computer Science Department Trinity College Dublin
Talk Title: Simulating and Evaluating Virtual Populace

Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Rastislav Bodik
Computer Science Division University of California, Berkeley
Talk Title: Algorithmic Program Synthesis with Partial Programs

Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Lillian Lee
Dept. of Computer Science Cornell University
Talk Title: A tempest: Or, On the flood of interest in sentiment analysis, opinion mining, and the computational treatment of subjective language.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009	Grace Hopper Distinguished Lecture
Elaine J.Weyuker
AT&T Labs–Research                                                                Grace Hopper Distinguished Lecture Series Shannon Laboratory
Talk Title: Bugs - Find Them Before They Find You!

Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Larry Peterson
Dept. of Computer Science Princeton University
Talk Towards the Big "C" Cloud

Thursday December 3, 2009	Location Change: Heilmeier Hall 100 Towne Bldg.
David Culler
Computer Science Dept. University of California, Berkely
Talk Title: LoCal: Rethinking the Energy Infrastructure from an IT Perspective

 

Special Events

Saul Gorn Memorial Lecture

Thursday, April 16, 2009

 

Franklin Institute Symposium

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

 

WICS High School Day

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

 

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