Fall 2011 Seminars Schedule
CISE invites prominent academic and industrial researchers to present their work to the university audience. Seminars are usually held on Friday afternoons. The exact time and location will be announced in September. Refreshments are served 15 minutes before each seminar.
Subscribe to our Google Calendar for up to date information on all our seminars. In Google Calendar “add” using cise@bu.edu. For more events, please see the College of Engineering Calendar.
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Friday, Sept 16
3:00 PM 15 St. Mary’s Street
Room 105
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Carlos Guestrin Carnegie Mellon University Taming Large-Scale Information: Discovering Structure for Human Understanding and Scaling-up Computation with GraphLab |
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Friday, Sept 23
3:00 PM 15 St. Mary’s Street
Room 105
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Alex Dimakis University of Southern California Network Coding for Cloud Storage |
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Tuesday, Sept 27
3:00 PM 8 St. Mary’s Street
Room 404/428
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Aryeh Kontorovich Ben Gurion University Learning in Metric Spaces: Classification, Regression, Anomaly Detection |
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Friday, Sept 30
3:00 PM 15 St. Mary’s Street
Room 105
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Weibo Gong University of Massachusetts, Amherst Are Stochastic Dynamics the Foundation of Intelligence? |
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October |
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Friday, Oct 7
3:00 PM 15 St. Mary’s Street
Room 105
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Piotr Indyk MIT Sparse Recovery Using Sparse Matrices |
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Friday, Oct 14
3:00 PM 15 St. Mary’s Street
Room 105
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Mac Schwager University of Pennsylvania Information Driven Control for Multi-Robot Estimation in Hazardous Environments |
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Friday, Oct 21
3:00 PM 15 St. Mary’s Street
Room 105
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Rajesh Rao Nadakuditi University of Michigan Random Matrix Theory & the Limits of Eigen-analysis Based Weak Signal Detection, Estimation and Classification |
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Friday, Oct 28
3:00 PM 15 St. Mary’s Street
Room 105
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Gene Cooperman Northeastern University Temporal Debugging via Flexible Checkpointing: Changing the Cost Model |
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November |
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Friday, Nov 4
3:00 PM 15 St. Mary’s Street
Room 105
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Bobak Nazer Boston University Exploiting Interference through Algebraic Structure |
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Friday, Nov 11
11:00 AM 15 St. Mary’s Street
Room 105
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Qianchuan Zhao Tsinghua University Overview of joint research on comfort, security and energy savings building control in Tsinghua University |
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Friday, Nov 11
3:00 PM 15 St. Mary’s Street
Room 105
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Tauhid Zaman MIT Information Extraction with Network Centralities: Finding Rumor Sources and Measuring Influence |
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Friday, Nov 18
3:00 PM 15 St. Mary’s Street
Room 105
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Steven Low Cal Tech Optimal Demand Response for Smart Grid |
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December |
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Friday, Dec 2
1:00 PM
8 St. Mary’s Street
Room 404/428
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Jose Fridman Qualcomm Inc. Uplink Interference Management Technique for 3G Femtocells: Challenges and Implementation |
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Thursday, Dec 8
3:00 PM 8 St. Mary’s Street
Room 404/428
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(Samuel) Qing-Shan Jia |
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Friday, Dec 9
3:00 PM 15 St. Mary’s Street
Room 105
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Todd Coleman University of California, San Diego Feedback Information Theoretic Approaches to Active Learning and Causal Inference |
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Tuesday, Dec 20
1:00 PM 8 St. Mary’s St.
Room 339
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Laurent Lessard Lund University, Sweden The Two-Player Problem |
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Information Driven Control for Multi-Robot Estimation in Hazardous Environments