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.
2009/2010
Season:
Sept 14 |
Pascal Poupart, University of Waterloo,
Explaining Automated Policies for Sequential Decision Making |
Sept 28 |
Fahiem Bacchus, University of Toronto (Sabbatical Visitor at UBC),
Exploiting Decomposition in Backtracking Search |
Oct 19 |
No forum: special department talk today instead. |
Nov 2 |
Michael Chiang, Relational Learning and
Reference Classes |
Nov 16 |
Panu Turcot, Better matching with fewer
features: The selection of useful features in large database recognition
problems |
Nov 30 |
Ben Marlin, Structure Learning for Gaussian
Graphical Models |
Dec 14 |
Mark Crowley, Large Scale Temporal Planning |
|
Winter break |
Jan 11 |
Peter Gorniak, Situated Language, as Easy as the ABC (Affordance-Based
Concept) |
Jan 25 |
Bruno da Silva, Using Spatial Hints to Improve
Policy Reuse in a Reinforcement Learning Agent |
Feb 8 |
Shafiq Joty, "What are they talking about?"
Finding Topics in Email Conversations |
Mar 1 |
James Wright, Beyond Equilibrium: Predicting Human Behavior in Normal
Form Games |
Mar 15 |
Eric Brochu, Interactive Bayesian Optimization
for Animation |
Mar 29 |
LCI Student research mini-talks (3
students; 10 min each) |
Apr 26 |
Ben Marlin,
Alternative Inductive Principles for Learning
Restricted Boltzmann Machines |
May 10 |
Mark Schmidt, Convex Structure Learning in
Log-Linear Models: Beyond Pairwise Potentials |
May 17 |
Nicole Jinn, Diffusion with a State-Dependent Diffusion Coefficient |
May 31 |
David Duvenaud,
Multiscale Conditional Random Fields for
Vision |
Jun 14 |
Dave Tomkins, Dynamic Scoring Functions with
Variable Expressions: New SLS Methods for Solving SAT |
Jun 28 |
Frank Hutter (hutter) |
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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