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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 the 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.

2011/2012 Season:

Sept 12 Beginning of year forum: no scheduled talk, just general discussion and FOOD!
Sept 26 Speaker: Emtiyaz Khan (UBC) Title: Piecewise Bounds for Estimating Discrete-Data Latent Gaussian Models
Oct 17 Speaker: David Poole (UBC) Title: Logic, Probability and Computation: Statistical Relational AI and Beyond
Oct 31 Speaker: David Thompson (UBC) Title: Uncertainty and Learning in Auctions
Nov 14 Speaker: Shama Rashid (UBC) Title: A Visual Interface for Browsing and Summarizing Conversations
Nov 28 Speaker: Mary Muir (UBC) Title: Understanding User Attention to Adaptive Hints with Eye-Tracking
Dec 12 Christmas potluck! (no scheduled talk)
Jan 9 This could be you!
Jan 23 This could be you!
Feb 6 This could be you!
Feb 20 This could be you!
Mar 5 This could be you!
Mar 19 This could be you!
Apr 2 This could be you!
Apr 16 This could be you!
Apr 30 This could be you!
May 14 This could be you!
May 28 This could be you!
June 11 This could be you!
June 25 This could be you!

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 Gabriel Murray. 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.)

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