Computer Science Weekly Colloquium
- 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, Dr. Tommy Kaplan
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Past Years
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Future talks
Spring 2012/2013 Semester
Belief Propagation and Spectral Algorithms
Mon, 27 May 2013, 14:00Speaker: Prof. Elchanan Mossel , University of California, Berkeley
The Evolving Relationship between Queries And Questions on the Web
Mon, 17 Jun 2013, 14:00Speaker: Dr. Yoelle Maarek , Yahoo! Research, Israel
* indicates a special talk, not on the regular time-slot or place
Past talks
Spring 2012/2013 Semester
Molecular Selective Surgery with Non-Thermal Irreversible Electroporation: From a new fundamental concept to wide clinical use
Mon, 20 May 2013, 14:00Speaker: Prof. Boris Rubinsky , University of California, Berkeley
Learning similarity at large scale
Mon, 29 Apr 2013, 14:00Speaker: Dr. Gal Chechik , Bar-Ilan University
Defying Nyquist in Analog-to-Digital Conversion
Mon, 22 Apr 2013, 14:00Speaker: Prof. Yonina Eldar , The Technion
Distributed Graph Coloring
Mon, 08 Apr 2013, 14:00Speaker: Prof. Michael Elkin , Ben-Gurion University
Quantitative Analysis of the Full Bitcoin Transaction Graph
Mon, 18 Mar 2013, 14:00Speaker: Prof. Adi Shamir , The Weizmann Institute
Learning Mixtures of Arbitrary Distributions over Large Discrete Domains
Mon, 11 Mar 2013, 14:00Speaker: Prof. Yuval Rabani , The Hebrew University
On the role of information in sensing, learning, acting and planning
Mon, 04 Mar 2013, 14:00Speaker: Prof. Naftali Tishby , The Hebrew University
Fall 2012/2013 Semester
New Connections Between Distributed Computing and Communication Complexity
Thu, 07 Feb 2013, 10:30Speaker: Dr. Rotem Oshman , University of Toronto
Comment: Note special time!
Coding for Flash and Associative Memories
Mon, 21 Jan 2013, 14:00Speaker: Dr. Eitan Yaakobi , Caltech, and University of California, San Diego
Operating System Support for High-Throughput Processors
Sun, 20 Jan 2013, 14:00Speaker: Dr. Mark Silberstein , University of Texas, Austin
Comment: Note special time!
Semi-Supervised structured prediction in Natural Language Processing through Declarative Knowledge Encoding
Mon, 14 Jan 2013, 14:00Speaker: Dr. Roi Reichart , Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge
Computational Medical Imaging: from Three-Dimensional Anatomy to Quantitative Physiology
Wed, 09 Jan 2013, 14:00Speaker: Dr. Moti Freiman , Computational Radiology Laboratory, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Comment: Note special time!
Perturbation, Optimization and Statistics for Effective Machine Learning and Computer Vision
Mon, 07 Jan 2013, 14:00Speaker: Dr. Tamir Hazan , Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
How Deeply Cells Feel: From Soft Matrices of Controlled Thickness to Nuclear Readout
Sun, 06 Jan 2013, 14:00Speaker: Dr. Amnon Buxboim , University of Pennsylvania - Biophysical Eng. and Nanobiopolymers Lab
Comment: Note special time!
Computational Methods for Microbial Genome Recovery from the Environment and the Study of the Dark Matter of Biology
Wed, 02 Jan 2013, 14:00Speaker: Dr. Itai Sharon , University of California, Berkeley
Comment: Note special time!
Population Recovery and Partial Identification
Mon, 31 Dec 2012, 14:00Speaker: Prof. Avi Wigderson , Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Software-Defined Networking: Introduction and Implications
Mon, 17 Dec 2012, 14:00Speaker: Prof. Scott Shenker , University of California, Berkeley
Long intervening noncoding RNAs: Genomics, evolution and functions in vertebrate embryonic development
Sun, 09 Dec 2012, 14:00Speaker: Dr. Igor Ulitsky , Whitehead Institute, MIT
Comment: Note special time!
Overlook of the Bioengineering Program; Analysis of Flow Irregularities in Microfluidic Systems
Mon, 26 Nov 2012, 14:00Speaker: Dr. Yaakov Nahmias , The Hebrew University
The Use of Mathematics In Software Development
Thu, 15 Nov 2012, 14:00Speaker: Dave Parnas , Middle Road Software, McMaster U. and U. of Limerick
Comment: Note special time!
Participatory Sensing for Health
Mon, 29 Oct 2012, 14:00Speaker: Deborah Estrin , Cornell Tech, NYC and UCLA
Spring 2011/2012 Semester
Probabilistic Reasoning for Robust Autonomy
Thu, 05 Jul 2012, 14:00Speaker: Reid Simmons , Carnegie Mellon University
What Can We Learn from a Reading Tutor that Listens?
Mon, 25 Jun 2012, 14:00Speaker: Jack Mostow , Carnegie Mellon University
Distributed Average Consensus and Coherence in Dynamic Networks
Mon, 18 Jun 2012, 14:00Speaker: Stacy Patterson , Technion
Serval: An End-Host Network Stack for Service-Centric Networking
Mon, 11 Jun 2012, 14:00Speaker: Jennifer Rexford , Princeton University
The reordering buffer management problem
Mon, 07 May 2012, 14:00Speaker: Yuval Rabani , The Hebrew University
Secret, Incoercible and Deniable Bidding Countering Collusions in Auctions
Mon, 23 Apr 2012, 14:00Speaker: Michael O. Rabin , The Hebrew University
Network Resilience to Geographical Disasters and Attacks
Mon, 16 Apr 2012, 14:00Speaker: Reuven Cohen , Bar Ilan University
Blind Null-Space Learning for MIMO Underlay Cognitive Radio Networks
Mon, 26 Mar 2012, 14:00Speaker: Yair Noam , Stanford University
Sentiment Mining from User Generated Content
Mon, 19 Mar 2012, 14:00Speaker: Ronen Feldman , The Hebrew University, School of Business Administration
From Analog Information to Digital Data - Does Sampling Rate Really Matter?
Mon, 12 Mar 2012, 14:00Speaker: Hagai Kirshner , EPFL
Polar codes: construction and improved decoding
Mon, 05 Mar 2012, 14:00Speaker: Ido Tal , U.C. San Diego
Fall 2011/2012 Semester
Synthesizing Concurrent Relational Data Structures
Mon, 06 Feb 2012, 14:00Speaker: Roman Manevich , University of Texas at Austin
Computational characterization of motif-mediated interactions
Wed, 01 Feb 2012, 14:30Speaker: Chen Yanover , Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Comment: Note special time!
Inference and Search for Graphical Models
Mon, 30 Jan 2012, 14:00Speaker: Rina Dechter , U.C. Irvine
Efficient and Exact Inter-Sentence Decoding for Natural Language Processing
Mon, 23 Jan 2012, 14:00Speaker: Roi Reichart , MIT CSAIL
Propositional calculus and the nature of reality: what every computer scientist should know about Bell inequalities
Mon, 16 Jan 2012, 14:00Speaker: Samson Abramsky , University of Oxford
Missing Heritability: New algorithmic and statistical approaches
Mon, 09 Jan 2012, 14:00Speaker: Or Zuk , Broad Institute
Technological Solutions to Personal Digital Property: Smartphone Virtualization and The Used Music Market
Wed, 04 Jan 2012, 14:30Speaker: Larry Rudolph , ReDigi Inc & MIT
Comment: Note special time!
Fast Distributed Computing Despite Poor Connectivity
Mon, 02 Jan 2012, 14:00Speaker: Keren Censor-Hillel , MIT CSAIL
On the existence of universal learners - can one learn without prior knowledge?
Mon, 26 Dec 2011, 14:00Speaker: Shai Ben-David , University of Waterloo
Machine Learning: Higher, Faster, Stronger
Wed, 21 Dec 2011, 14:00Speaker: Ohad Shamir , Microsoft Research
Comment: Note special time!
Semantic Model Differencing for Software Evolution
Mon, 19 Dec 2011, 14:00Speaker: Shahar Maoz , RWTH Aachen University
Challenges in Multi-Agent Systems: Bitcoin, Social Networks, P2P Communities, and Network Protocols
Mon, 12 Dec 2011, 14:00Speaker: Aviv Zohar , Microsoft Research
From Cryptography to Algorithms and Back Again
Mon, 05 Dec 2011, 14:00Speaker: Gil Segev , Microsoft Research
Enter the Matrix: How to Choose Terminals in Multicommodity Flow
Mon, 28 Nov 2011, 14:00Speaker: Michael Schapira , The Hebrew University
Taming Large-Scale Information: Discovering Structure for Human Understanding and Scaling-up Computation with GraphLab
Mon, 21 Nov 2011, 14:00Speaker: Carlos Guestrin , Carnegie Mellon
Multi-Robot Patrol: From Theory to Reality
Tue, 15 Nov 2011, 14:00Speaker: Noa Agmon , University of Texas at Austin
Comment: Note special time!
Micro Human Computation for Visual Tasks
Mon, 14 Nov 2011, 14:00Speaker: Ariel Shamir , The Interdisciplinary Center - Hertzelia
Distributed balls-into-bins
Mon, 07 Nov 2011, 14:00Speaker: Christoph Lenzen , The Hebrew University
Spring 2010/2011 Semester
From neuromechanics to synthesising robots on-the-fly
Mon, 20 Jun 2011, 14:00Speaker: Shai Revzen , University of Michigan
Prior-independent Profit Maximization in Unit-Demand Combinatorial Auctions
Mon, 06 Jun 2011, 14:00Speaker: Anna Karlin , University of Washington
How to win Friends and Influence People, Truthfully
Mon, 30 May 2011, 14:00Speaker: Yaron Singer , U.C. Berkeley
Finding Incentives to Secure Internet Routing
Mon, 23 May 2011, 14:00Speaker: Sharon Goldberg , Boston University
Optimal Auctions with Positive Network Externalities
Mon, 16 May 2011, 14:00Speaker: Nicole Immorlica , Northwestern University
Contention resolution for congestion games
Mon, 02 May 2011, 14:00Speaker: Elias Koutsoupias , University of Athens
Single Valued Combinatorial Auctions with Budgets
Mon, 11 Apr 2011, 14:00Speaker: Stefano Leonardi , Sapienza University of Rome
The Price of Anarchy: Out-of-Equilibrium Guarantees, Intrinsic Robustness, and Beyond
Mon, 04 Apr 2011, 14:00Speaker: Tim Roughgarden , Stanford University
Meta-Algorithmics: Automatic Methods for Algorithmic Design and Analysis
Mon, 28 Mar 2011, 14:00Speaker: Kevin Leyton-Brown , University of British Columbia
Games, Algorithms, and the Internet
Thu, 24 Mar 2011, 17:15Speaker: Christos Papadimitriou , U.C. Berkeley
Comment: Special Day and Time! Eilat hall Rationality Center, 2nd floor, Feldman Building
Communication with feedback: Fundamental principles and performance gain
Mon, 14 Mar 2011, 14:00Speaker: Ofer Shayevitz , UC San Diego
Why Look at Dynamical Systems as Natural Algorithms?
Mon, 14 Mar 2011, 10:00Speaker: Bernard Chazelle , Princeton University
Comment: Note unusual Time!
In a World of P=BPP
Mon, 07 Mar 2011, 14:00Speaker: Oded Goldreich , Weizmann Institute
Comment: Special Day and Time!
Time Bounds and the Coordination of Events in a Distributed System
Mon, 21 Feb 2011, 14:00Speaker: Yoram Moses , Technion
Fall 2010/2011 Semester
Network modulation: Simultaneous optimality in multi-user communication
Mon, 31 Jan 2011, 14:00Speaker: Yuval Kochman , MIT
Task Superscalar Multiprocessors
Mon, 24 Jan 2011, 14:00Speaker: Yoav Etsion , Barcelona Supercomputing Center
The Role of DNA Sequence and Accessibility in Transcriptional Regulation
Wed, 12 Jan 2011, 13:30Speaker: Tommy Kaplan , UC Berkeley
Comment: Special Day and Time!
Efficient cloud operations via job-migration and pricing
Mon, 10 Jan 2011, 14:00Speaker: Ishai Menache , Microsoft Research New England
Breast cancer risk stratification based on resonance-frequency electrical impedance spectroscopy
Thu, 06 Jan 2011, 11:00Speaker: Dror Lederman , University of Pittsburgh
Comment: Ross 224. Special day, time, and place!
Gene Translation - Computational Modeling and Systems Biology
Mon, 03 Jan 2011, 14:00Speaker: Tamir Tuller , Weizmann Institute
GraphLab: Asynchronous Graph Computation in the Clouds and Beyond
Sun, 02 Jan 2011, 12:00Speaker: 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, 14:00Speaker: Mirela Ben-Chen , Stanford University
May the optimal candidate win! Optimization under social choice constraints
Mon, 20 Dec 2010, 14:00Speaker: Ariel Procaccia , Harvard SEAS
Surface Comparison using Conformal Geometry
Mon, 13 Dec 2010, 14:00Speaker: 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, 14:00Speaker: Raanan Fattal , The Hebrew University
Oblivious and cost aware distributed load sharing in the Cloud
Mon, 29 Nov 2010, 14:00Speaker: Danny Raz , Technion, Computer Science
Retro: an "alway there" and "not in the way" snapshot system
Mon, 22 Nov 2010, 14:00Speaker: Liuba Shrira , Brandeis University Computer Science Department
Transactional Memory Today
Mon, 08 Nov 2010, 14:00Speaker: Maurice Herlihy , Brown University Computer Science Department
Caching Search Engine Results over Incremental Indices
Mon, 01 Nov 2010, 14:00Speaker: Ronny Lempel , Yahoo!
Semi-Supervised Learning in Gigantic Image Collections
Mon, 25 Oct 2010, 14:00Speaker: Yair Weiss , The Hebrew University
The Turtles Project: Design and Implementation of Nested Virtualization
Mon, 18 Oct 2010, 14:00Speaker: Muli Ben-Yehuda , IBM Research -- Haifa
TBA
Mon, 11 Oct 2010, 14:00Speaker: Joseph Keshet , Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
Spring 2009/2010 Semester
Large scale correlation screening
Mon, 04 Oct 2010, 14:00Speaker: Alfred O. Hero III , University of Michigan Ann Arbor
The blessing and the curse of the multiplicative updates
Thu, 01 Jul 2010, 14:00Speaker: Manfred Warmuth , Univ. of California at Santa Cruz
TBA
Mon, 14 Jun 2010, 14:00Speaker: Sara Cohen , The Hebrew University
TBA
Mon, 07 Jun 2010, 14:00Speaker: Ron Meir , Technion
TBA
Mon, 31 May 2010, 14:00Speaker: Leo Joskowicz , The Hebrew University
Price of Anarchy in Adword Auctions
Mon, 24 May 2010, 11:00Speaker: Eva Tardos , Cornell
Comment: Note special time
TBA
Mon, 17 May 2010, 14:00Speaker: Kobbi Nisim ,
* indicates a special talk, not on the regular time-slot or place