November

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Systems Lunch-Ben Livshits, Microsoft Research

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Towards Better Performance and Security for AJAX Web Applications
Host: Yannis Smaragdakis

Computer Science Building, Room 150

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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Theory Seminar-Philipp Weis

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

The Power of One Star

Computer Science Department, Room 140

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Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Faculty Business Meeting

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Computer Science Building, Rooms 150 & 151

Thursday, November 5, 2009

UGRAD Counseling

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Machine Learning and Friends Lunch-Daeyoung Kim, UMass Statistics

12:00 pm - 1:15 pm

Selection of consistent roots to the likelihood equation in finite mixtures of location-scale distributions
Sponsored by Yahoo!

Computer Science Building, Room 150

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Friday, November 6, 2009

Fall Faculty Retreat

Willits-Hallowell, Mt. Holyoke College

Monday, November 9, 2009

UG Counseling Meeting

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Registration Counseling for Spring 2010

Computer Science Building, Room 151

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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Theory Seminar-Mark McCartin-Lim

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Algorithms for Finding Low Distortion Bijections

Computer Science Department, Room 140

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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Professionalism Seminar- Job Hunting

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Speakers: Lori Clarke, Andrew McGregor, Gerome Miklau, Brent Heeringa '06 and Jamieson Cobleigh '07

Computer Science Building, Room 151

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Holiday - Veteran's Day

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Registration Begins for SP 2010

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Machinge Learning & Friends Lunch-Lee Spector, Hampshire College, Cognitive Science

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Expressive Languages for Evolved Programs
Sponsored by: Yahoo!

Computer Science Building, Room 150

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Thursday, November 12, 2009

Department Talk-Dr. Alex Rogers, Univ. of Southampton

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

ALADDIN: Autonomous Learning Agents for Decentralised Data and Information Networks
Host: Victor Lesser

Computer Science Building, Room 151

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Friday, November 13, 2009

Lab Description Seminar (LDS)

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Speakers: David Smith and Arun Venkataramani

Computer Science Buildingm, Room 150

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Monday, November 16, 2009

Department Talk-Alexander Ihler, Univ. of CA, Irvine

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Message-passing Algorithms for Continuous Random Variable
Host: Erik Learned-Miller

Computer Science Building, Room 150

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Monday, November 16, 2009

Department Seminar-Sergei Vassilvitskii, Yahoo! Research Labs

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

A Model of Computation for MapReduce
Host: Andrew McGregor

Computer Science Building, Room 151

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Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Systems Lunch-Mike Swift, Univ. of Wisconsin

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Host: Emery Berger

Computer Science Building, Room 150

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Tuesday, November 17, 2009

ACM Event: "Advising: For Students, By Student"

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Computer Science Building, Rooms 150 & 151

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

UGRD Movie Night!

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Watch WarGames! And much more!

Computer Science Building, Rooms 150 & 151

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Machine Learning & Friends Lunch-Rocco Servedio, Columbia

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Learning Halfspaces with Malicious Noise
Sponsored by: Yahoo!

Computer Science Building, Room 150

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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Department Talk-Morgan McGuire, Williams College

3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Image Space Photon Mapping
Host: Rui Wang

Computer Science Department, Room 150

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Friday, November 20, 2009

Lab Description Seminar (LDS)

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Speakers: Brian Levine and Robbie Moll

Computer Science Department, Room 150

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Monday, November 23, 2009

Faculty Business Meeting w/Lunch

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Computer Science Building, Rooms 150 & 151

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Ph.D. Thesis Defense- Timothy Richards

9:00 am - 11:00 am

Generalized Instruction Selector Generation: The Automatic Construction of Instruction Selectors from Descriptions of Compiler Internal Forms and Target Machines

Computer Science Building, Room 151

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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Systems Lunch-William Hesse, Google

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Compiling JavaScript to Fast Executable Code
Host: Emery Berger

Computer Science Building, Room 150

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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Theory Seminar-Jon Machta, UMass Physics

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Title: TBA

Computer Science Building, Room 140

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Thursday, November 26, 2009

Holiday - Thanksgiving

Monday, November 30, 2009

Department Talk-Vivien Quema, CNRS

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

The Next 700 BFT Protocols
Host: Prashant Shenoy

Computer Science Building, Room 151

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