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Events for 2015

JAN
08
2015
CSE Seminar
Sloan Foundation Science on Screen Night: The Imitation Game
JAN
12
2015
AI Seminar
Semantic World Knowledge for NLP
Mohit Bansal, Research Assistant Professor, TTI-Chicago
JAN
13
2015
AI Seminar
Human-Centered Computing: Using Speech to Understand Behavior
and
Academic Matchmaking: Pairing Faculty with Graduate Student Applicants
Emily Mower Provost and Rada Mihalcea, University of Michigan
JAN
14
2015
ECE Seminar
Customer Discovery
Viktor Brandtneris, Director of Ann Arbor SPARK's Entrepreneurial Boot Camp, NSF I-Corps Teacher , Brandtneris Consulting
JAN
16
2015
Student Event
MHacks V Hackathon
JAN
16
2015
Student Event
Wolverine Soft 48-Hour Space Jam
JAN
17
2015
Student Event
MHacks V Hackathon
JAN
17
2015
Student Event
Wolverine Soft 48-Hour Space Jam
JAN
18
2015
Student Event
MHacks V Hackathon
JAN
18
2015
Student Event
Wolverine Soft 48-Hour Space Jam
JAN
20
2015
Computer Engineering Seminar
Physically Dense Server Architectures
Anthony Thomas Gutierrez
JAN
20
2015
AI Seminar
On Hold: How Waiting For an Answer Affects the Choice of Question
and
Interactive Task Learning
Ed Durfee and John Laird, University of Michigan
JAN
30
2015
Control Seminar
Legged Locomotion: Analysis, Planning, and Control
Katie Byl, Assistant Professor, University of California Santa Barbara
FEB
04
2015
Quantum Science Seminar
Quantum Research Group
FEB
06
2015
CSE Seminar
Practical Bootstrapping for Fully Homomorphic Encryption
Chris Peikert, Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
FEB
10
2015
AI Seminar
Set-Valued Dynamic Treatment Regimes for Competing Outcomes
Dan Lizotte, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of Western Ontario
FEB
11
2015
Quantum Science Seminar
Quantum Research Group
FEB
12
2015
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Inference Attacks: Understanding Privacy in the Era of &#34Privacy is Dead&#34
Matt Fredrikson, PhD Candidate, University of Wisconsin-Madison
FEB
13
2015
Theory Seminar
Randomized Primal-Dual analysis of Ranking for Online Bipartite Matching
Dawei Huang, University of Michigan
FEB
16
2015
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Hardware and Software for Approximate Computing
Adrian Sampson, PhD Candidate, University of Washington
FEB
17
2015
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Unlocking Cellular Computation and Information Processing through Multidimensional Single-Cell Data
Smita Krishnaswamy, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Columbia University
FEB
17
2015
AI Seminar
Low-Rank Spectral Learning for Predictive State Representations
Alex Kulesza, Postdoc, University of Michigan
FEB
19
2015
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Building an Operating System for the Data Center
Simon Peter, Post Doc, University of Washington
FEB
20
2015
Theory Seminar
Recent Progress on the Sparse Polynomial Factorization Problem
Ilya Volkovich, University of Michigan
FEB
20
2015
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Crowd-Agents: Creating Crowd-Powered Interactive Systems
Walter Lasecki, PhD Candidate, University of Rochester
FEB
20
2015
Control Seminar
Predicting Human Motor Response to Expected and Unexpected Loads
Brent Gillespie, University of Michigan, ME
FEB
23
2015
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Programming using Automata and Transducers
Loris D'antoni, PhD Candidate, University of Pennsylvania
FEB
25
2015
Quantum Science Seminar
Quantum Research Group
FEB
25
2015
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Designing Programming Languages to Build Provably Secure Systems
Danfeng Zhang, PhD Candidate, Cornell
FEB
27
2015
Theory Seminar
The optimal absolute ratio for online bin packing
Sina Shiayan, University of Michigan
MAR
09
2015
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Building a Better Web Browser
James Mickens, Researcher, Microsoft Research
MAR
10
2015
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Learnersourcing: Improving Video Learning with Large-Scale Interaction Data
Juho Kim, PhD Candidate, MIT
MAR
11
2015
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Rise of the Planet of the Apps: Security and Privacy in the Age of Bad Code
Suman Jana, Post Doc, Stanford
MAR
13
2015
Theory Seminar
How to Prove Lower Bounds from the Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis
Seth Pettie, University of Michigan
MAR
13
2015
ECE Seminar
Controls of Vehicle Systems toward Clean, Efficient and Safe Mobility
Junmin Wang, Ph.D., Director, Vehicle Systems and Control Laboratory, Ohio State University
MAR
16
2015
MICL Seminar
Rethinking The Functional Boundaries of Integrated Radio-Frequency Systems Enables New Wireless Communication Paradigms
Harish Krishnaswamy, Associate Professor, Columbia University
MAR
16
2015
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Revealing Reality Through Reverse Engineering
Stephen Checkoway, Asst. Research Professor, Johns Hopkins University
MAR
17
2015
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Towards One-Size-Fits-All Data Systems
Alekh Jindal, Post Doc, MIT
MAR
18
2015
Theory Seminar
Higher lower bounds from the 3SUM conjecture
Tsvi Kopelowitz, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Michigan
MAR
19
2015
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Mending the Application-Network Gap in Big Data Analytics
Mosharaf Chowdhury, PhD Candidate, University of California Berkeley
MAR
20
2015
Control Seminar
Control of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells for Power Tracking
Faryar Jabbari, Professor, University of California, Irvine
MAR
20
2015
Student Event
Wolverine Soft Shammy Jam
MAR
23
2015
Other Event
What the $#@! Is Parallelism? (And Why Should Anyone Care?)
Charles E. Leiserson, Edwin Sibley Webster Professor of EECS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MAR
23
2015
Distinguished Lecture | Women in Computing
Emotion Technology, Wearables, and Surprises
Rosalind Picard, Founder and Director of the Affective Computing Research Group , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MAR
24
2015
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Whats in My Data? Fast, Principled Algorithms for Exploring Large Graphs
Danai Koutra, PhD Candidate, Carnegie Mellon
MAR
25
2015
Quantum Science Seminar
Quantum Research Group
MAR
25
2015
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Structuring Peer Interactions for Learning at Scale
Chinmay Kulkarni, PhD Candidate, Stanford
MAR
26
2015
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Performance and Reliability in Modern Storage Systems
Vijay Chidambaram, PhD Candidate, UW Madison
MAR
27
2015
Control Seminar
Robust and Efficient Real-time Mapping for Autonomous Robots
Michael Kaess, Assistant Research Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
MAR
30
2015
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Building Mobile Technologies for Underserved Communities
Nicola Dell, PhD Candidate, University of Washington
MAR
30
2015
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
On extremal auxiliaries in multiuser information theory
Chandra Nair, Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong
APR
01
2015
Computer Engineering Seminar
Dynamic Hardware Resource Management for Efficient Throughput Processing
Ankit Sethia
APR
02
2015
CSE Seminar
Perception of People and Scenes for Robot Learning from Demonstration
Chad Jenkins, Associate Professor, Brown University
APR
02
2015
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Convergence to pure-strategy Nash equilibria under simple learning rules and selection of resilient pure-strategy Nash equilibria
Richard La, Professor, University of Maryland, ECE Department
APR
03
2015
Theory Seminar
On the equivalence between simulated annealing and Interior Point Methods
Jacob Abernethy, University of Michigan
APR
03
2015
Control Seminar
Infinite Dimensional Optimization for Safety Critical Human-in-the-Loop Systems
Ram Vasudevan, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, Mechanical Engineering
APR
06
2015
CSE Seminar
Problem-Solving with a Nested Loop in an Introductory Programming Course
William Crum, Continuing Lecturer, Purdue University
APR
06
2015
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Making Data Analysis Really About Analysis
Jiannan Wang, Post Doc, University of California Berkeley
APR
08
2015
Other Event
Research that Makes a Difference
P. Anandan, Managing Director, Microsoft Research Outreach
APR
09
2015
Systems Seminar – CSE
Really Catching Click-Fraud
Saikat Guha, Researcher, Microsoft Research, India
APR
13
2015
CSE Seminar
Exploring the Limits of the Efficiently Computable
Scott Aaronson, Associate Professor, MIT
APR
14
2015
CSE Seminar
Hard Problems in Hardness of Approximation: Sharp Thresholds, Parallel Repetition and Unique Games
Dana Moshkovitz Aaronson, Assistant Professor, MIT
APR
15
2015
Quantum Science Seminar
Negative Probabilities
Yuri Gurevich, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
APR
16
2015
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Energy Efficient Architectures Using Three Dimensional Integration and Near-Threshold Computing
Ron Dreslinski, Asst Research Scientist, U of M
APR
16
2015
Systems Seminar – CSE
Internet privacy: Towards more transparency
Balachander Krishnamurthy, Lead Inventive Scientist, AT&T Labs–Research
APR
17
2015
Systems Seminar – CSE
I Don&#39t Want to be the Mitt Romney of Databases
Andy Pavlo, Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
APR
17
2015
Control Seminar
Modeling, Sensing and Control of Unstable Physical Human-Machine Interactions: A Rider-Bicycle Example
Jingang Yi, Professor, Rutgers University
APR
18
2015
Other Event
Michigan Mobile Phone Ensemble Final Class Concert
APR
20
2015
AI Seminar
NLP Driven Models for Automatically Generating Survey Articles for Scientific Topics
Rahul Jha
APR
20
2015
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Power Struggles: Designing Processors In the Energy-Constrained Future
Emily Blem, Software Engineer, Google
APR
20
2015
AI Seminar
Practical Natural Language Processing for Minority Languages
Ben King
APR
21
2015
AI Seminar
Generalizing Inverse Reinforcement Learning for the Real World
Prashant Doshi, Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Georgia
APR
23
2015
CSE Seminar
Programming Abstractions for Large-Scale Parallel Machines
Amir Kamil, Post Doc, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
APR
24
2015
Control Seminar
From Global Properties to Local Rules in Multi-Agent Systems
Magnus Egerstedt, Schlumberger Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
APR
24
2015
Theory Seminar
Quantile Search for Minimum-Time Sampling
Laura Balzano, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan
APR
24
2015
Other Event
EECS 183 Showcase
APR
24
2015
Other Event
Computer Games Showcase
APR
27
2015
CSE Seminar
Hardware Security and C++
Matthew Hicks, Post Doc, U of M
APR
27
2015
AI Seminar
Learning and Searching Methods for Robust, Real-Time Visual Odometry
Andrew Richardson
APR
28
2015
CSE Seminar
Illuminating and Interacting with the Notional Machine in Introductory Programming Courses
James Juett, U of M
APR
28
2015
AI Seminar
Online Mapping and Perception Algorithms for Multi-robot Teams Operating in Urban Environments
Johannes Strom
APR
30
2015
CSE Seminar
On Randomness and Fast Sorting in Theory and Practice
Ilya Volkovich, Post Doc Visiting Scholar and Lecturer, U of M
MAY
01
2015
AI Seminar
Search-based Software Refactoring: Towards Semantics Preservation
Marouane Kessentini, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan-Dearborn
MAY
04
2015
AI Seminar
Learning Better Clinical Risk Models
Alexander Van Esbroeck
MAY
15
2015
CSE Seminar
CSE Lecturer Candidate Seminar: IPv6, IoT and Wireless Body Area Networks for Healthcare Applications
Amitabh Mishra, PhD Candidate, University of Cincinnati
MAY
19
2015
AI Seminar
Learning Intelligent Assistants for Understanding Behavior
Dragos D. Margineantu, Senior Scientist, Boeing Technical Fellow, Boeing Research & Technology
MAY
22
2015
CSE Seminar
CSE Lecturer Candidate Seminar: Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
Jared Oluoch, PhD Candidate, Oakland University
JUN
15
2015
MPEL Seminar
Secure and Stable Operation of Fluctuating Sustainable Power Systems
Hjortur J³hannsson , Senior Scientific Consultant, Technical University of Denmark
JUN
22
2015
Other Event
MiBytes – Tinkering with Mobile Apps Day 1
JUN
23
2015
Other Event
MiBytes – Tinkering with Mobile Apps Day 2
JUN
24
2015
Other Event
MiBytes – Tinkering with Mobile Apps Day 3
JUN
25
2015
Other Event
MiBytes – Tinkering with Mobile Apps Day 4
JUN
26
2015
Other Event
MiBytes – Tinkering with Mobile Apps Day 5
JUL
06
2015
Other Event
MiBytes – Game Design & Development Day 1
JUL
07
2015
Other Event
MiBytes – Game Design & Development Day 2
JUL
08
2015
Other Event
MiBytes – Game Design & Development Day 3
JUL
09
2015
Other Event
MiBytes – Game Design & Development Day 4
JUL
10
2015
Other Event
MiBytes – Game Design & Development Day 5
JUL
13
2015
Other Event
MiBytes – Hacking in a Digital World Day 1
JUL
14
2015
Other Event
MiBytes – Hacking in a Digital World Day 2
JUL
15
2015
Other Event
MiBytes – Hacking in a Digital World Day 3
JUL
16
2015
Other Event
MiBytes – Hacking in a Digital World Day 4
JUL
17
2015
Other Event
MiBytes – Hacking in a Digital World Day 5
JUL
20
2015
Other Event
MiBytes – Hacking in a Digital World Day 6
JUL
21
2015
Other Event
MiBytes – Hacking in a Digital World Day 7
JUL
22
2015
Other Event
MiBytes – Hacking in a Digital World Day 8
JUL
23
2015
Other Event
MiBytes – Hacking in a Digital World Day 9
JUL
24
2015
Other Event
MiBytes – Hacking in a Digital World Day 10
JUL
24
2015
Dissertation Defense
The Logic of Random Pulses: Stochastic Computing
Armin Alaghi
JUL
29
2015
Dissertation Defense
Dependable Computing On Inexact Hardware Through Anomaly Detection
Daya Shanker Khudia
JUL
30
2015
Dissertation Defense
Virtualizing Data Parallel Systems for Portability, Productivity, and Performance
Janghaeng Lee
AUG
07
2015
Other Event
Lunch and Learn: Rocking Drones With Intentional Sound Noise on Gyroscopic Sensors
Yunmok Son, 2nd year PhD student, KAIST
AUG
12
2015
Systems Seminar – ECE
Systems Guest Speaker Seminar
Scott Backhaus, Design of Resilient Electrical Distribution Grids, DOE Office of Electricity and DHS Critical Infrastructure
SEP
08
2015
Other Event
CSE New Graduate Student Welcome and Orientation and Barbeque
SEP
15
2015
AI Seminar
Convex Methods for Latent Representation Learning
Dale Schuurmans, Professor of Computer Science, University of Alberta
SEP
17
2015
Colloquium
Computing for Robots and Biomolecules
Lydia E. Kavraki, Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science and Professor of Bioengineering, Rice University
SEP
18
2015
Theory Seminar
Theory Seminar Fall Kick-off
Theory Group and Friends
SEP
21
2015
MICL Seminar
The Coming Ethernet Revolution
Claude Gauthier, CTO, Co-Founder, OmniPhy
SEP
22
2015
Systems Seminar – CSE
Microsoft Research India Overview
Chandu Thekkath, Sriram Rajamani, Managing Director, Assistant Managing Director, Microsoft Research India
SEP
22
2015
AI Seminar
Towards Encyclopedic Visual Understanding & Improved Perception of People and Scenes for Robots
Jia Deng & Chad Jenkins, Professors of Computer Science, University of Michigan
SEP
22
2015
Student Event
Michigan Hackers: Capital One Coding Interview Workshop
SEP
24
2015
Dissertation Defense
Hardware Support for Unstructured Big Data and Natural Language Processing
Prateek Tandon
SEP
25
2015
Theory Seminar
Streaming Interactive Protocols for Graphs
Amir Abdullah
SEP
29
2015
Natural Language Processing Seminar
Human-Centered Language Processing and Extended Ambient Intelligence at IHMC
Dr. Bonnie Dorr, Associate Director & Senior Research Scientist, Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition
SEP
29
2015
Student Event
Facebook Tech Talk: Moving Fast and Not Breaking Things + Q&A Panel
Andy Modell, Facebook
SEP
30
2015
Distinguished Lecture
The Story Behind the Result
Richard Lipton, Storey Chair of Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology
SEP
30
2015
Distinguished Lecture
The Story Behind the Result
Richard Lipton, Storey Chair of Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology
SEP
30
2015
Student Event
Microsoft Coding Competition Challenge co-hosted with Michigan Hackers
Microsoft
OCT
02
2015
Theory Seminar
Weighted Matching on General Graphs: Faster and Simpler
Seth Pettie, Associate Professor, University of Michigan
OCT
06
2015
AI Seminar
Human-Centered Computing: Using Speech to Understand Behavior & Crowd-Powered Interactive Systems
Emily Mower Provost & Walter Lasecki, Professors of Computer Science, University of Michigan
OCT
08
2015
Systems Seminar – CSE
Supporting Visual Analytics with Scalable Visualization Recommendations
Aditya Parameswaran, Assistant Professor in Computer Science, University of Illinois (UIUC)
OCT
08
2015
CSE Seminar
Focus on Entrepreneurship: Strategies for Launching Successful Mobile Applications
Shirish Nadkarni, Serial Entrepreneur and EECS Alumnus
OCT
08
2015
Other Event
Event: 2015 EECS Alumni Career Panel
OCT
10
2015
Student Event
Local Hack Day
OCT
12
2015
Student Event
Exablox, Cask, & ThinkB1G: Startup Tech Talks and Workshop
OCT
13
2015
AI Seminar
Using Motion to Understand Objects in the Real World
David Held, Computer Science Ph.D. Student, Stanford Univeristy
OCT
13
2015
Systems Seminar – CSE
The journey from faster to better
Mark Callaghan, Facebook
OCT
16
2015
Theory Seminar
Representation power of neural networks
Matus Telgarsky, Postdoc, University of Michigan
OCT
22
2015
Computer Engineering Seminar
Data Storage and Querying for Resource Constrained Computing Devices
Graeme Douglas
OCT
23
2015
Theory Seminar
Peer Prediction and Mechanism Design
Yuqing Kong, PhD Student, University of Michigan
OCT
27
2015
AI Seminar
Interactive Task Learning & Exploring and Understanding Large, Static and Dynamic Graphs
John Laird & Danai Koutra, Professors of Computer Science, University of Michigan
OCT
28
2015
Other Event
Dance and Movement as Drivers for Sustainable E-Textile Innovation
Jeanne Bloch, Independent artist
OCT
30
2015
Theory Seminar
Exploration of Bell test experiments for building an untrusted-device quantum number generator
Wei-Zung Chang, Postdoc, University of Michigan
NOV
02
2015
Systems Seminar – CSE
Some Topics in Model-Data Ecosystems
Peter Haas, IBM Research
NOV
03
2015
AI Seminar
The Dependence of Effective Planning Horizon on Model Accuracy
Nan Jiang, PhD Student, University of Michigan
NOV
06
2015
Distinguished Lecture
Connecting with the Emerging Nervous System of Ubiquitous Sensing
Joseph Paradiso, Alexander W Dreyfoos Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT
NOV
09
2015
Dissertation Defense
Datacenter Design for Future Cloud Radio Access Network
Qi Zheng
NOV
09
2015
Dissertation Defense
Security Hazards When Law is Code
Eric Wustrow
NOV
10
2015
AI Seminar
Increasing the Utility of Machine Learning in Clinical Care & On the Equivalence of Simulated Annealing & Interior Point Path Following for Optimization
Jenna Wiens & Jacob Abernethy, Professors of Computer Science, University of Michigan
NOV
13
2015
Theory Seminar
Impact of community structure on cascades
Mehrdad Moharrami, PhD Student, University of Michigan
NOV
14
2015
Student Event
Facebook + Michigan Hackers Security Capture the Flag
NOV
16
2015
Systems Seminar – CSE
Provisioning Queries and Analytics
Val Tannen, Professor, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania
NOV
17
2015
AI Seminar
Can Robots Behave Well as Members of Society? & Natural Language Processing for Collective Discourse
Benjamin Kuipers & Dragomir Radev, Professors of Computer Science, University of Michigan
NOV
20
2015
Theory Seminar
Popularity Signals in Optimizing Trial-Offer Markets
Pascal Van Hentenryck, Professor, University of Michigan
NOV
23
2015
Other Event
CSE Graduate Student Honors Competition
NOV
24
2015
CSE Seminar
Special Talk by Legendary Game Designer Sid Meier
Sid Meier, Co-Founder and Director of Creative Development, Firaxis Games
DEC
01
2015
AI Seminar
Explorations in Computational Rationality: Explaining Human Behavior via Bounded Utility Maximization
Richard Lewis, Professor of Psychology and Linguistics, University of Michigan
DEC
02
2015
William Gould Dow Distinguished Lecture
Big Data is (at least) Four Different Problems
Michael Stonebraker, Co-Director, Intel Science and Technology Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
DEC
03
2015
Dissertation Defense
Information Extraction on Para-Relational Data
Shirley Zhe Chen
DEC
08
2015
AI Seminar
Evidence-Based Optimization
Pascal Van Hentenryck, Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering and Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
DEC
14
2015
Other Event
Undergraduate Computer Engineering Program Lunch
DEC
14
2015
Dissertation Defense
Energy-Efficient Acceleration of Asynchronous Programs
Gaurev Chadha
DEC
14
2015
CSE Seminar
How Cryptography Fails in Practice
Nadia Heninger, Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania
DEC
15
2015
Dissertation Defense
Using Program Visualization to Illuminate the Notional Machines
James Juett
DEC
18
2015
Dissertation Defense
Maximizing Expected Value of Information in Decision Problems by Querying on a Wish-to-Know Basis
Robert W. Cohn
DEC
18
2015
Other Event
Computer Games Showcase