DCS Colloquia

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Academic year is from August 1 to July 31 of the next year.

Academic Year 2009-2010
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2/19/2010 02:00 pm	MODELING AND LEARNING USER PREFERENCES OVER SETS OF OBJECTS Colloquium Marie desJardins: University of Maryland, Baltimore County Faculty Host: Michael L. Littman
2/10/2010 11:00 am	A Primal Dual Approach for Online Algorithms Seminar Nikhil Bansal: IBM T.J. Watson Organizer(s): Mario Szegedy
2/8/2010 10:30 am	A Comparative Geometrical Analysis between Quadratic and Linear Programming Support Vector Machines Pre-Defense Jiankuan Ye: Rutgers Univeristy Defense Committee: Prof. Casimir Kulikowski, Prof. Vladimir Pavlovic, Prof. Ahmed Elgammal, Prof. William Pottenger(DIMACS)
2/3/2010 05:00 pm	Object Localization using Bottom-up and Top-down Cues Qualifying Exam Ishani Chakraborty: Rutgers University Examination Committee: Ahmed Elgammal (advisor), Vladimir Pavlovic, Andrew Nealen and Endre Szemeredi
2/3/2010 03:00 pm	The evolution of computational advertising: from heuristic ad matching to knowledge-based ad retrieval Colloquium Evgeniy Gabrilovich: Yahoo! Research, Silicon Valley Faculty Host: Muthu Muthukrishnan
2/3/2010 11:00 am	Predictive Quantum Learning Seminar Dmitry Gavinsky: NEC Laboratories America, Inc., Princeton, NJ Organizer(s): Mario Szegedy
2/2/2010 11:00 am	Analysis of Computer Experiments with Functional Response Colloquium Ying Hung: Rutgers Statistics Faculty Host: Michael L. Littman and Vladimir Pavlovic
1/27/2010 11:00 am	Random Numbers Certified by Bell's Theorem Seminar Mario Szegedy: Rutgers University Organizer(s): Mario Szegedy
1/26/2010 11:00 am	Algorithms for Learning with Partial Labels Colloquium John Langford: Yahoo! Research Faculty Host: Michael L. Littman and Vladimir Pavlovic
1/21/2010 04:00 pm	Spatial and Temporal Pyramids for Grammatical Expression Recognition of American Sign Language Qualifying Exam Nicholas Michael: Rutgers University Examination Committee: Dr. Dimitris Metaxas (chair), Dr. Ahmed Elgammal, Dr. Vladimir Pavlovic and Dr. Alex Borgida
1/14/2010 02:00 pm	Barricade: Defending Systems Against Operator Mistakes Pre-Defense Fabio A. Oliveira: Rutgers University Defense Committee: Prof. Ricardo Bianchini (Chair), Prof. Richard Martin, Prof. Thu Nguyen and Prof. George Candea (EPFL, Switzerland)
12/18/2009 01:00 pm	Hypergraph Based Visual Object Categorization and Segementation Pre-Defense Yuchi Huang: Rutgers University Defense Committee: Prof. Dimitris Metaxas, Prof. Ahmed Elgammal, Prof. Vladimir Pavlovic and Prof. Thomas S. Huang (University of Illinois)
12/18/2009 10:00 am	Dynamic Facial Expression Analysis Pre-Defense Zhiguo Li: Rutgers University Defense Committee: Prof. Dimitris Metaxas ( Adviser), Prof. Vladimir Pavlovic, Prof. Ahmed Elgammal, Prof. Chandra Kambhamettu (University of Delaware)
12/11/2009 04:00 pm	Conditional Models For 3D Human Pose Estimation PhD Defense Atul Kanaujia: Rutgers University Defense Committee: Dimitris Metaxas, Vladimir Pavlovic, Ahmed Elgammal and Dr. Chandra Kambhamettu(University of Delaware)
12/11/2009 11:00 am	Dynamic Factor Graphs for Time Series Modeling Colloquium Piotr Mirowski: Dept. of Computer Science, Courant Institute, New York University Faculty Host: Vladimir Pavlovic
12/11/2009 10:30 am	Partitioning Problems in Discrete and Computational Geometry PhD Defense Jihui Zhao: Rutgers University Defense Committee: William Steiger(chair), Bahman Kalantari, Mario Szegedy and Imre Bárány (University College, London)
12/10/2009 04:00 pm	Embedding Spanning Trees Qualifying Exam Asif Jamshed: Rutgers University Examination Committee: Endre Szemeredi (Chair), Michael Grigoriadis, Naftaly Minsky and William Steiger
12/10/2009 10:00 am	Practical analysis of framework-intensive applications PhD Defense Bruno Dufour: Rutgers University Defense Committee: Prof. Barbara G. Ryder (Chair), Prof. Alex Borgida, Dr. Vinod Ganapathy and Dr. Andy Podgurski (Case Western Reserve University)
12/3/2009 02:30 pm	Biomechanical Modeling and Simulation of Human Eye Movement PhD Defense Qi Wei: Rutgers University Defense Committee: Dinesh Pai (Chair), Peter Meer, Ahmed Elgammal, and Peter Allen (Columbia University)
12/2/2009 01:15 pm	Efficient Learning of Relational Models for Sequential Decision Making Pre-Defense Thomas Walsh: Rutgers University Defense Committee: Michael Littman (chair), Alex Borgida, and Chung-chieh Shan
12/2/2009 11:00 am	The Netflix Prize: Quest for $1,000,000 Distinguished Lecture Series Dr. Yehuda Koren: Yahoo! Research Faculty Host: Michael L. Littman
12/2/2009 11:00 am	Improved Algorithms for Unique Games via Divide and Conquer Seminar William Matthews: University of California, San Diego Organizer(s): Mario Szegedy
12/1/2009 11:00 am	Personalizing Information Retrieval: Discovering Behavioral Correlates of Task Type, Topic Knowledge and Document Usefulness Colloquium Nicholas Belkin: Professor Department of Library and Information Science, School of Communication & Information Faculty Host: Michael Littman
11/30/2009 10:00 am	Advanced Techniques to Detect Kernel-Level Rootkits Research Talk Vinod Ganapathy: Rutgers University Faculty Host: Michael L. Littman
11/24/2009 02:30 pm	Learning in auctions Colloquium Simon Parsons: Department of Computer and Information Science, Brooklyn College Faculty Host: Michael L. Littman
11/23/2009 10:00 am	Video Based Facial Expression Recognition and Expression Intensity Estimation Qualifying Exam Peng Yang: Rutgers University Examination Committee: Dimitris Metaxas (chair), Vladimir Pavlovic, Ahmed Elgammal and Liviu Iftode
11/18/2009 11:00 am	Cryptography with Hardly Any Secrets Colloquium Vinod Vaikuntanathan: IBM T.J.Watson Faculty Host: Mario Szegedy
11/17/2009 11:00 am	BRAIN READING: MULTIVARIATE CLASSIFICATION OF MENTAL STATES Colloquium Stephen Jose Hanson: Psychology, Rutgers, Newark Campus, RUMBA Labs Faculty Host: Michael Littman and Vladimir Pavlovic
11/17/2009 10:30 am	Towards Usable Security Policy Tools Colloquium Prof. Sean Smith: Dartmouth College Faculty Host: Danfeng (Daphne) Yao
11/11/2009 11:00 am	Geometric Partitioning Colloquium William Steiger: Rutgers University Faculty Host: Mario Szegedy
11/10/2009 11:00 am	High Dimensional Nonlinear Learning using Local Coordinate Coding Colloquium Tong Zhang: Rutgers Statistics Faculty Host: Michael Littman and Vladimir Pavlovic
10/30/2009 01:30 pm	Nonparameteric vessel detection with applications to segmentation, registration and visualization of vascular images Colloquium Xenios Papademetris: Depts of Diagnostic Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, Yale University Faculty Host: Dimitris Metaxas
10/30/2009 11:00 am	Refactoring of Statecharts Colloquium Dr. Yishai Feldman: IBM Research Center, Haifa Faculty Host: Naftaly Minsky
10/29/2009 03:30 pm	Meshless Deformable Models for Cardiac Motion Analysis Pre-Defense Xiaoxu Wang: Rutgers University Defense Committee: Dimitris Metaxas, Vladimir Pavlovic and Ahmed Elgammal
10/29/2009 11:00 am	Private Approximation and Streaming Protocols: Theory and Applications PhD Defense Andre Madeira: Rutgers University Defense Committee: S. Muthukrishnan (chair), Rebecca Wright, Danfeng Yao and Moti Yung(Columbia University and Google)
10/28/2009 11:00 am	A Query Efficient Non-Adaptive Long Code Test with Perfect Completeness Colloquium Yuichi Yoshida: Kyoto University Faculty Host: Mario Szegedy
10/28/2009 10:00 am	Exploring the Security and Applications of Client-Side Web Mashups Qualifying Exam Saman Zarandioon: Rutgers University Examination Committee: Vinod Ganapathy (co-advisor) , Danfeng Yao(co-advisor), Badri Nath and L. Thorne McCarty
10/26/2009 09:45 am	Exploring the Human-Input Driven Detection Approach in Identifying Outbound Malware Traffic Qualifying Exam Chih-Cheng Chang: Rutgers University Examination Committee: Prof. Danfeng Yao (advisor), Prof. Rebecca Wright, Prof. Thu Nguyen and Prof. Uli Kremer
10/21/2009 11:00 am	Adiabatic quantum optimization fails for random instances of NP-complete problems Colloquium Jeremie Roland: NEC Faculty Host: Mario Szegedy
10/14/2009 02:00 pm	Of sheep, wolves and reinforcement learning Colloquium Michael Kaisers: Maastricht University, Netherlands Faculty Host: Michael Littman
10/14/2009 11:00 am	``On integer sum of squares'' Colloquium Amir Yehudayoff: IAS Faculty Host: Mario Szegedy
9/30/2009 03:30 pm	Labeling and Privacy Issues in Large Graphs Qualifying Exam Smriti Bhagat: Rutgers University Examination Committee: S. Muthukrishnan (Advisor), Ahmed Elgammal, Amelie Marian and Danfeng Yao
9/24/2009 01:30 pm	Securing untrusted JavaScript content in Web browsers Qualifying Exam Mohan Dhawan: Rutgers University Examination Committee: Prof. Vinod Ganapathy (Advisor), Prof. Liviu Iftode (Co-Advisor), Prof. Ulrich Kremer and Prof. Endre Szemeredi
9/18/2009 02:45 pm	Variance-based Clustering Methods and Higher Order Data Transformations and Their Applications PhD Defense Nikita Lytkin: Rutgers University Defense Committee: Casimir Kulikowski (chair), Ahmed Elgammal, Dimitris Metaxas and Clifford Behrens (Telcordia)
9/18/2009 10:00 am	Towards a Local-Global Visual Feature-Based Framework for Recognition PhD Defense Zhipeng Zhao: Rutgers University Defense Committee: Ahmed Elgammal (chair), Casimir Kulikowski, Vladimir Pavlovic and Vinay Shet
8/25/2009 10:00 am	Sampling Sensitivity Limits on Localization Error Qualifying Exam John Austen: Rutgers University Examination Committee: Dr. Richard Martin (Chair), Dr. Michael Littman, Dr. Wade Trappe, Dr. Gerard Richter
8/14/2009 10:30 am	Wayfinder: A Federated Information Sharing and Management System PhD Defense Christopher Peery: Rutgers Defense Committee: Dr. Thu Nguyen (Chair), Dr. Richard Martin, Dr. Amelie Marian, Dr. Sandhya Dwarkadas (external member from University of Rochester)
8/3/2009 10:30 am	Unified Structure and Content Search for Personal Information Management System Pre-Defense Wei Wang: Rutgers Defense Committee: Amelie Marian (chair), Thu D. Nguyen, Richard Martin, Divesh Srivastava (external member from AT&T Research Labs)

Academic Year 2009-2010