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* News

Colloquia




Spring 2012

The Computer Science Colloquium is scheduled on Thursdays 4:00pm to 5:00pm in Troy 2012, with refreshments at 3:30pm, unless otherwise indicated.

TBA: To be announced.

Thursday, Feb 2, 2012, 4:00 pm

Amir Atiya, Cairo University (Currently on leave at Veros Systems, TX)

Gaussian Processes for Classification
Hosted by: Dr. Malik Magdon-Ismail (x4857)
Administrative support: Christine Coonrad (x8412)
Location: Troy 2012

Thursday, Feb 16, 2012, 4:00 pm

Paul Horn, Harvard University

Distributing Medicine with PageRank
Hosted by: Dr. Mark Goldberg (x2609)
Administrative support: Christine Coonrad (x8412)
Location: Troy 2012

Thursday, Feb 23, 2012, 4:00 pm

Sid Suri, Yahoo! Research

Cooperation in Static and Dynamic Networks
Hosted by: Dr. Elliot Anshelevich (x6491)
Administrative support: Christine Coonrad (x8412)
Location: Troy 2012

Thursday, Mar 29, 2012, 4:00 pm

Yiling Chen, Harvard University

From Prediction Markets to Decision Markets
Hosted by: Dr. Sanmay Das (x2782)
Administrative support: Christine Coonrad (x8412)
Location: Troy 2012

Monday, April 2, 2012, 4:00 pm

Special Joint Colloquium with Union College

Jack Dongarra, University Distinguished Professor - University of Tennessee

On the Future of High Performance Computing: How to Think for Peta and Exascale Computing
Hosted by: Dr. Valerie Barr, Union College
Location Bio Tech Auditorium 4:00 p.m. (refreshments at 3:15 pm)

Thursday, April 5, 2012, 4:00 pm

Haim Avron, IBM Research

Random Sampling Preconditioners
Hosted by: Dr. Petros Drineas (x8265)
Administrative support: Christine Coonrad (x8412)
Location: Troy 2012

Thursday, April 26, 2012, 4:00 pm

Special Joint Colloquium With Center for Financial Studies, Lally School of Management and Technology

Blake LeBaron, Brandeis University

The Survival of Stabilizing Strategies and the Dynamics of Financial Prices
Hosted by: Dr. Sanmay Das (x2782), Dr. Aparna Gupta (x2757)
Administrative support: Christine Coonrad (x8412)
Location: DCC 308

Thursday, May 10, 2012, 4:00 pm

Mark Musen, Stanford University

When Professionals Codify Their Knowledge: Making Biology and Medicine "Computable"
Hosted by: Tetherless World Constellation
Administrative support: Jacky Carley (x4384)
Location: TROY 2012

Fall 2011

Thursday, November 10, 2011, 4:00 pm

Nick Cassimatis, RPI

A Hybrid Inference Approach to Natural Language Understanding
Hosted by: Dr. Elliot Anshelevich (x6491)
Administrative support: Christine Coonrad (x8412)
Location: JEC 3117

Tuesday, November 15, 2011, 4:00 pm

Ron Sun, RPI

The CLARION Cognitive Architecture: Motivation, Personality, and Creativity
Hosted by: Dr. Sanmay Das (x2782)
Administrative support: Christine Coonrad (x8412)
Location: Rensselaer Union, Room 3606 (Shelnutt Gallery)

Thursday, November 17, 2011, 4:00 pm

Tom Wexler, Oberlin College

The Price of Civil Society
Hosted by: Dr. Elliot Anshelevich (x6491)
Administrative support: Christine Coonrad (x8412)
Location: JEC 3117

Thursday, December 1, 2011, 4:00 pm

David Kempe, USC

Topic: Subset Selection for Linear Regression
Hosted by: Dr. Elliot Anshelevich (x6491)
Administrative support: Christine Coonrad (x8412)
Location: JEC 3117


See also:
Seminars
Colloquia Spring 2011
Colloquia Fall 2010
Colloquia Spring 2010
Colloquia Fall 2009
Colloquia Spring 2009
Colloquia Fall 2008
Colloquia Spring 2008
Colloquia Fall 2007
Colloquia Spring 2007
Colloquia Fall 2006
Colloquia Spring 2006
Colloquia Fall 2005



Please send suggestions for speakers, scheduling requests, corrections, or comments to Petros Drineas.

Spring 05 Schedule - Fall 04 Schedule - Spring 04 Schedule

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