Cornell University Computer Science Department Distinguished Lecture Series Fall 2001

Meets Thursdays at 4:15PM in B17 Upson unless otherwise indicated. More talks will be added to this page as the semester progresses. back to SEMINARS page
Thursday January 24th	Daniela Pucci de Farias PhD Candidate, Management Science and Engineering Stanford University Host: David Shmoys	The Linear Programming Approach to Approximate Dynamic Programming This will be a joint colloquium of the Computer Science and OR&IE departments.
Thursday January 31	Martin Burtscher Cornell Computer Systems Laboratory Host: Johannes Gehrke	Designing a Small, High-Performing Load-Value Predictor
Thursday February 7	Shimon Edelman Cornell Psychology	Neural Spaces as a General Framework for the Understanding of Cognition
Thursday February 14	John Lafferty Carnegie Mellon- Computer Science	New Ensemble and Kernel Methods for Machine Learning
Tuesday February 19	Kavita Bala Cornell Program of Computer Graphics	Interactive High-Quality Rendering
Thursday February 21	Steve Marschner Stanford University Graphics	Measuring and Modeling the Appearance of Materials for Computer Graphics
Tuesday February 26	Ravi Ramamoorthi PhD Candidate, Stanford University Graphics Host: Charles Van Loan	A Signal-Processing Framework for Forward and Inverse Rendering
Thursday March 7	Rob Schapire AT&T Research Labs Hosts: David Shmoys and Rich Caruana	The Boosting Approach to Machine Learning This will be a joint colloquium of the Computer Science and OR&IE departments.
Tuesday March 12	Mike Collins AT&T Research Labs Host: Lillian Lee	Statistical Methods for Natural Language Processing
Tuesday March 26	Michael Jordan UC Berkeley- Statistics Host: Bart Selman	Algorithms for Probabilistic Inference and Learning on Graphs
Thursday March 28	Emil Praun Princeton University	Local Surface Parameterizations
Tuesday April 2	Chris Umans Microsoft Corporation Host: Jon Kleinberg	Derandomization: Constructions and Applications
Thursday April 4	Omer Reingold	The Zigzag Graph Product and Constant-Degree Lossless Expanders
Tuesday April 9	Alex Snoeren MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Host: Andrew Myers	Session-Based Mobility: An End-to-End Approach
*Monday April 15	Peter Druschel Rice University	Exploiting Network Proximity In Peer-to-Peer Overlay Networks location: 5130 Upson Hall
Thursday April 25	Wang-Chiew Tan University of Pennsylvania Host: Johannes Gehrke	Where did my data come from? Annotating and Archiving Databases
Thursday May 2	Matthew Frank MIT	SUDS: Thread Level Speculation with Minimal Hardware Support

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