LCI Forum
What and Why?
The LCI Forum is our biweekly meeting, at which we discuss LCI matters
and group related issues, share AI and other news, and give brief reports
from trips and conferences. An integral part of each LCI Forum is a research talk,
given by LCI members, associate members, or visitors.
Rumor has it, though, that real reason behind their popularity is the food. The
LCI Fora provide a great opportunity for meeting other members of the lab,
hearing about interesting developments, and finally finding out what the person
working at the next desk is really working on ;-) The talks are also great
opportunities to practice for conference presentations. Standard LCI Forum talks
are 30 minutes long, including questions and discussion; we usually try to give
out-of-lab visitors about 45 minutes.
When and Where?
LCI Fora run biweekly throughout the academic year and during most of the summer.
We hold the forum in the
ICICS/CS
building, room 146, the LCI
meeting space, at 12:00 pm.
2008/2009 Season:
|
Sept 8 |
Beginning of year forum: no talk |
|
Sept 22 |
Jan Ulrich, Email Summarization |
|
Oct 6 |
Oliver Schulte (SFU),
Join Bayes Nets: a new model class for
relational data |
|
Oct 20 |
LCI Student research mini-talks (3
students; 10 min each) |
|
Nov 3 |
Yoram Halevy (UBC Economics), Outcomes,
Intentions and Interdependence |
|
Nov 17 |
Elan Dubrofsky,
Combining Line and Point Correspondences
for Homography Estimation |
|
Dec 1 |
Baharak Rastegari, Stepwise Randomized Combinatorial Auctions Achieve
Revenue Monotonicity |
|
Dec 15 |
Ashish Sabharwal (Cornell), A Quest for
Large-Scale Reasoning and Sampling Methods |
|
|
Winter break |
|
Jan 12 |
Marius Muja, Fast Approximate Nearest Neighbors
with Automatic Algorithm Configuration |
|
Jan 26 |
Benjamin Marlin, Collaborative Filtering and the Missing at Random
Assumption |
|
Feb 9 |
Peter Carbonetto, Past and future challenges in probabilistic inference |
|
Feb 23 |
LCI Student research mini-talks (3
students; 10 min each) |
|
Mar 9 |
Frank Hutter, Model-Based Optimization of
Algorithm Parameters |
|
Mar 23 |
Mark Crowley, Seeing the Forest Despite the
Trees: Large Scale Spatial-Temporal Decision Making |
|
Apr 6 |
Bethany Leffler, Using Perceptual Data for More Efficient Reinforcement
Learning |
|
Apr 20 |
Student presentations from CPSC 550
(Machine Learning II); may go a bit longer than the hour |
|
May 4 |
Matt Hoffman, Using inference to solve
reinforcement learning and control problems |
|
May 25 |
Matt Dunham, PMTK: Probabilistic Modeling Toolkit |
|
Jun 8 |
Jacek Kisynski, Lifted Aggregation in Directed First-order Probabilistic
Models |
|
Jun 22 |
Ashiqur KhudaBukhsh, SATenstein: Automatically Building Local Search SAT
Solvers From Components |
Signing up for a slot. If you're interested in giving a forum talk, feel
free to pick any unscheduled time from the list above and contact Kevin Leyton-Brown.
LCI student research mini-talks can also usually be rescheduled if one of those
times works best for you.
See schedules and abstracts from previous LCI Fora:
(LCI Fora were held for years, if not decades, before April 2001 when we started
listing them on the web.)
Frequently Asked Questions
- How do I get an LCI Forum talk scheduled?
Contact Kevin Leyton-Brown and ask for a free slot.
Even if you want to present earlier than a free slot is available,
sometimes it is possible to swap with somebody currently holding an
earlier slot.
- How long should my LCI Forum talk be?
Standard talks should be 30 min, including questions
and discussion. It is possible to schedule longer talks,
but this needs to be done on a case-by-case basis.
- How can I receive emails about LCI Forum announcements? See the
following web page.
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