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Time: Monday 14:10 - 15:15 (refreshments at 14:00)
Place: Ross 201, The Edmond J. Safra Campus. Here are maps and directions to the Ross Building.
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Coordinator: Dr. David Hay
Past Years

Future talks

Spring 2012/2013 Semester

Robust Peer Prediction

Mon, 28 May 2012, 14:00
Speaker: David C. Parkes , Harvard University

TBA

Mon, 11 Jun 2012, 14:00
Speaker: Jennifer Rexford , Princeton University

* indicates a special talk, not on the regular time-slot or place

Past talks

Fall 2011/2012 Semester

Polynomial Identity Testing

Mon, 14 May 2012, 14:00
Speaker: Amir Shpilka , Technion

The reordering buffer management problem

Mon, 07 May 2012, 14:00
Speaker: Yuval Rabani , The Hebrew University

Secret, Incoercible and Deniable Bidding Countering Collusions in Auctions

Mon, 23 Apr 2012, 14:00
Speaker: Michael O. Rabin , The Hebrew University

Network Resilience to Geographical Disasters and Attacks

Mon, 16 Apr 2012, 14:00
Speaker: Reuven Cohen , Bar Ilan University

Blind Null-Space Learning for MIMO Underlay Cognitive Radio Networks

Mon, 26 Mar 2012, 14:00
Speaker: Yair Noam , Stanford University

Sentiment Mining from User Generated Content

Mon, 19 Mar 2012, 14:00
Speaker: Ronen Feldman , The Hebrew University, School of Business Administration

From Analog Information to Digital Data - Does Sampling Rate Really Matter?

Mon, 12 Mar 2012, 14:00
Speaker: Hagai Kirshner , EPFL

Polar codes: construction and improved decoding

Mon, 05 Mar 2012, 14:00
Speaker: Ido Tal , U.C. San Diego

Synthesizing Concurrent Relational Data Structures

Mon, 06 Feb 2012, 14:00
Speaker: Roman Manevich , University of Texas at Austin

Computational characterization of motif-mediated interactions

Wed, 01 Feb 2012, 14:30
Speaker: Chen Yanover , Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Comment: Note special time!

Inference and Search for Graphical Models

Mon, 30 Jan 2012, 14:00
Speaker: Rina Dechter , U.C. Irvine

Efficient and Exact Inter-Sentence Decoding for Natural Language Processing

Mon, 23 Jan 2012, 14:00
Speaker: Roi Reichart , MIT CSAIL

Propositional calculus and the nature of reality: what every computer scientist should know about Bell inequalities

Mon, 16 Jan 2012, 14:00
Speaker: Samson Abramsky , University of Oxford

Missing Heritability: New algorithmic and statistical approaches

Mon, 09 Jan 2012, 14:00
Speaker: Or Zuk , Broad Institute

Technological Solutions to Personal Digital Property: Smartphone Virtualization and The Used Music Market

Wed, 04 Jan 2012, 14:30
Speaker: Larry Rudolph , ReDigi Inc & MIT
Comment: Note special time!

Fast Distributed Computing Despite Poor Connectivity

Mon, 02 Jan 2012, 14:00
Speaker: Keren Censor-Hillel , MIT CSAIL

On the existence of universal learners - can one learn without prior knowledge?

Mon, 26 Dec 2011, 14:00
Speaker: Shai Ben-David , University of Waterloo

Machine Learning: Higher, Faster, Stronger

Wed, 21 Dec 2011, 14:00
Speaker: Ohad Shamir , Microsoft Research
Comment: Note special time!

Semantic Model Differencing for Software Evolution

Mon, 19 Dec 2011, 14:00
Speaker: Shahar Maoz , RWTH Aachen University

Challenges in Multi-Agent Systems: Bitcoin, Social Networks, P2P Communities, and Network Protocols

Mon, 12 Dec 2011, 14:00
Speaker: Aviv Zohar , Microsoft Research

From Cryptography to Algorithms and Back Again

Mon, 05 Dec 2011, 14:00
Speaker: Gil Segev , Microsoft Research

Enter the Matrix: How to Choose Terminals in Multicommodity Flow

Mon, 28 Nov 2011, 14:00
Speaker: Michael Schapira , The Hebrew University

Taming Large-Scale Information: Discovering Structure for Human Understanding and Scaling-up Computation with GraphLab

Mon, 21 Nov 2011, 14:00
Speaker: Carlos Guestrin , Carnegie Mellon

Multi-Robot Patrol: From Theory to Reality

Tue, 15 Nov 2011, 14:00
Speaker: Noa Agmon , University of Texas at Austin
Comment: Note special time!

Micro Human Computation for Visual Tasks

Mon, 14 Nov 2011, 14:00
Speaker: Ariel Shamir , The Interdisciplinary Center - Hertzelia

Distributed balls-into-bins

Mon, 07 Nov 2011, 14:00
Speaker: Christoph Lenzen , The Hebrew University

Spring 2010/2011 Semester

Codes for Write-Once Memories

Mon, 27 Jun 2011, 14:00
Speaker: Eitan Yaakobi , U.C. San Diego

From neuromechanics to synthesising robots on-the-fly

Mon, 20 Jun 2011, 14:00
Speaker: Shai Revzen , University of Michigan

Prior-independent Profit Maximization in Unit-Demand Combinatorial Auctions

Mon, 06 Jun 2011, 14:00
Speaker: Anna Karlin , University of Washington

How to win Friends and Influence People, Truthfully

Mon, 30 May 2011, 14:00
Speaker: Yaron Singer , U.C. Berkeley

Finding Incentives to Secure Internet Routing

Mon, 23 May 2011, 14:00
Speaker: Sharon Goldberg , Boston University

Optimal Auctions with Positive Network Externalities

Mon, 16 May 2011, 14:00
Speaker: Nicole Immorlica , Northwestern University

Contention resolution for congestion games

Mon, 02 May 2011, 14:00
Speaker: Elias Koutsoupias , University of Athens

Single Valued Combinatorial Auctions with Budgets

Mon, 11 Apr 2011, 14:00
Speaker: Stefano Leonardi , Sapienza University of Rome

The Price of Anarchy: Out-of-Equilibrium Guarantees, Intrinsic Robustness, and Beyond

Mon, 04 Apr 2011, 14:00
Speaker: Tim Roughgarden , Stanford University

Meta-Algorithmics: Automatic Methods for Algorithmic Design and Analysis

Mon, 28 Mar 2011, 14:00
Speaker: Kevin Leyton-Brown , University of British Columbia

Games, Algorithms, and the Internet

Thu, 24 Mar 2011, 17:15
Speaker: Christos Papadimitriou , U.C. Berkeley
Comment: Special Day and Time! Eilat hall Rationality Center, 2nd floor, Feldman Building

Why Look at Dynamical Systems as Natural Algorithms?

Mon, 14 Mar 2011, 10:00
Speaker: Bernard Chazelle , Princeton University
Comment: Note unusual Time!

Communication with feedback: Fundamental principles and performance gain

Mon, 14 Mar 2011, 14:00
Speaker: Ofer Shayevitz , UC San Diego

In a World of P=BPP

Mon, 07 Mar 2011, 14:00
Speaker: Oded Goldreich , Weizmann Institute
Comment: Special Day and Time!

Time Bounds and the Coordination of Events in a Distributed System

Mon, 21 Feb 2011, 14:00
Speaker: Yoram Moses , Technion

DNS Poisoning - and Antidotes

Mon, 14 Feb 2011, 14:00
Speaker: Amir Herzberg , Bar-Ilan University

Fall 2010/2011 Semester

Network modulation: Simultaneous optimality in multi-user communication

Mon, 31 Jan 2011, 14:00
Speaker: Yuval Kochman , MIT

Task Superscalar Multiprocessors

Mon, 24 Jan 2011, 14:00
Speaker: Yoav Etsion , Barcelona Supercomputing Center

The Role of DNA Sequence and Accessibility in Transcriptional Regulation

Wed, 12 Jan 2011, 13:30
Speaker: Tommy Kaplan , UC Berkeley
Comment: Special Day and Time!

Efficient cloud operations via job-migration and pricing

Mon, 10 Jan 2011, 14:00
Speaker: Ishai Menache , Microsoft Research New England

Breast cancer risk stratification based on resonance-frequency electrical impedance spectroscopy

Thu, 06 Jan 2011, 11:00
Speaker: Dror Lederman , University of Pittsburgh
Comment: Ross 224. Special day, time, and place!

Gene Translation - Computational Modeling and Systems Biology

Mon, 03 Jan 2011, 14:00
Speaker: Tamir Tuller , Weizmann Institute

GraphLab: Asynchronous Graph Computation in the Clouds and Beyond

Sun, 02 Jan 2011, 12:00
Speaker: Danny Bickson , Carnegie Mellon University, Machine Learning Department
Comment: Special Day and Time!

AKVFs - A New Computational Tool for Approximate Shape Isometries

Mon, 27 Dec 2010, 14:00
Speaker: Mirela Ben-Chen , Stanford University

May the optimal candidate win! Optimization under social choice constraints

Mon, 20 Dec 2010, 14:00
Speaker: Ariel Procaccia , Harvard SEAS

Surface Comparison using Conformal Geometry

Mon, 13 Dec 2010, 14:00
Speaker: Yaron Lipman , Princeton University, Computer Science
Comment: The talk will be held in Math 2

Efficient blue-noise sampling using multiscale MCMC sampler

Mon, 06 Dec 2010, 14:00
Speaker: Raanan Fattal , The Hebrew University

Oblivious and cost aware distributed load sharing in the Cloud

Mon, 29 Nov 2010, 14:00
Speaker: Danny Raz , Technion, Computer Science

Retro: an "alway there" and "not in the way" snapshot system

Mon, 22 Nov 2010, 14:00
Speaker: Liuba Shrira , Brandeis University Computer Science Department

Scheduling with Bully Selfish Jobs

Mon, 15 Nov 2010, 14:00
Speaker: Tami Tamir , IDC Hertzelia

Transactional Memory Today

Mon, 08 Nov 2010, 14:00
Speaker: Maurice Herlihy , Brown University Computer Science Department

Caching Search Engine Results over Incremental Indices

Mon, 01 Nov 2010, 14:00
Speaker: Ronny Lempel , Yahoo!

Semi-Supervised Learning in Gigantic Image Collections

Mon, 25 Oct 2010, 14:00
Speaker: Yair Weiss , The Hebrew University

The Turtles Project: Design and Implementation of Nested Virtualization

Mon, 18 Oct 2010, 14:00
Speaker: Muli Ben-Yehuda , IBM Research -- Haifa

TBA

Mon, 11 Oct 2010, 14:00
Speaker: Joseph Keshet , Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago

Spring 2009/2010 Semester

Large scale correlation screening

Mon, 04 Oct 2010, 14:00
Speaker: Alfred O. Hero III , University of Michigan Ann Arbor

The blessing and the curse of the multiplicative updates

Thu, 01 Jul 2010, 14:00
Speaker: Manfred Warmuth , Univ. of California at Santa Cruz

TBA

Mon, 14 Jun 2010, 14:00
Speaker: Sara Cohen , The Hebrew University

TBA

Mon, 07 Jun 2010, 14:00
Speaker: Ron Meir , Technion

TBA

Mon, 31 May 2010, 14:00
Speaker: Leo Joskowicz , The Hebrew University

Price of Anarchy in Adword Auctions

Mon, 24 May 2010, 11:00
Speaker: Eva Tardos , Cornell
Comment: Note special time

TBA

Mon, 17 May 2010, 14:00
Speaker: Kobbi Nisim ,

tba

Mon, 10 May 2010, 14:00
Speaker: Naama Barkai ,

From Philosophical to Industrial Logics

Mon, 03 May 2010, 14:00
Speaker: Moshe Vardi , Rice university

Program Obfuscation: A cryptographic Viewpoint

Mon, 26 Apr 2010, 14:00
Speaker: Ran Canetti ,

TBA

Mon, 12 Apr 2010, 14:00
Speaker: Ronen Basri , Weizmann Institute

Feature-Based Controllers for Physically-Simulated Characters

Mon, 22 Mar 2010, 14:00
Speaker: Aaron Hertzmann , Toronto

Computer Applications in Archaeological Research

Mon, 15 Mar 2010, 14:00
Speaker: Uzy Smilansky , Weizmann Institute

TBA

Mon, 08 Mar 2010, 14:00
Speaker: Yuval Rabani , The Hebrew University

Semantics of Communications Systems

Mon, 22 Feb 2010, 14:00
Speaker: Gideon Ariely , Israeli Ministry of Science

Fall 2009/2010 Semester

A Parallel Repetition Theorem for Any Cryptographic Protocol

Mon, 18 Jan 2010, 14:00
Speaker: Iftah Ilan Haitner , Microsoft research

Side Channels and their Mitigation in Cloud Computing Security

Mon, 11 Jan 2010, 14:00
Speaker: Eran Tromer , MIT

Derandomized Search for Experimental Optimization

Sun, 10 Jan 2010, 14:00
Speaker: Ofer Shir , Princeton
Comment: Talk at Ross 63!

Internet Routing: Foundations, Challenges and Future Directions

Mon, 04 Jan 2010, 14:00
Speaker: Michael Shapira , Yale University and UC Berkeley

Visual Inference by Composition

Mon, 28 Dec 2009, 14:00
Speaker: Michal Irani , Weizmann Institute

Cryptography by Cellular Automata or How Fast Can Complexity Emerge in Nature?

Mon, 21 Dec 2009, 14:00
Speaker: Benny Applebaum , TBA

Google's Auction for TV ads

Mon, 14 Dec 2009, 14:00
Speaker: Noam Nisan , Hebrew University

Learning with Global Cost Functions

Mon, 07 Dec 2009, 14:00
Speaker: Eyal Even-Dar , Google

Phylogenetic Tree Reconstruction with Insertions and Deletions

Mon, 30 Nov 2009, 14:00
Speaker: Avinatan Hassidim , -

Computerizing the Cairo Genizah: Vision, Challenges, Achievements and Research

Mon, 23 Nov 2009, 14:00
Speaker: Yaacov Choueka , Bar-Ilan university

Constrained Conditional Models: Learning and Inference in Natural Language Understanding

Mon, 16 Nov 2009, 14:00
Speaker: Dan Roth , Urbana-Champaign

Exact Capacity of some Two-Dimensional Constrained Systems

Mon, 09 Nov 2009, 14:00
Speaker: Moshe Schwartz , Ben-Gurion university

Robustness and Optimization of Scrip Systems

Mon, 02 Nov 2009, 14:00
Speaker: Joe Halpern , Cornell

Patient-specific digital modeling of endovascular anatomy

Mon, 26 Oct 2009, 14:00
Speaker: Leo Joskowicz , Hebrew University

Reasoning about Online Algorithms with Weighted Automata

Mon, 19 Oct 2009, 14:00
Speaker: Orna Kupferman , Hebrew University

Spring 2008/2009 Semester

Restricting Distributions for Computational Language Learning

Mon, 22 Jun 2009, 14:00
Speaker: Shalom Lappin , King's College London

Cluster-Based Computation of Relational Joins

Mon, 15 Jun 2009, 14:00
Speaker: Jeffrey Ullman , Stanford University

From DNA sequence to gene activation: a quantitative approach

Mon, 08 Jun 2009, 14:00
Speaker: Eran Segal , Weizmann Institute

Iterative Schemes for Lossy Compression of an Unknown Discrete Source

Mon, 01 Jun 2009, 14:00
Speaker: Tsachy Weissman , The Technion and Stanford University

Robust and efficient TCAM-based classification

Mon, 25 May 2009, 14:00
Speaker: David Hay , Politecnico di Torino

How to Solve it: New Techniques in Algebraic Cryptanalysis

Mon, 18 May 2009, 14:00
Speaker: Adi Shamir , Weizmann Institute
Comment: Starts 2:30pm

How hard is it to approximate the best Nash equilibrium?

Mon, 11 May 2009, 14:00
Speaker: Robert Krauthgamer , Weizmann Institute

Dissecting Combinatorial Transcriptional Networks

Mon, 04 May 2009, 14:00
Speaker: Nir Friedman , Hebrew University

* indicates a special talk, not on the regular time-slot or place

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