The TTIC Colloquium (weekly talk series) is a forum for talks by invited speakers on work of current relevance and broad interest to the computer science community.
Colloquia are typically held on Mondays at 11:30am in TTIC Room 530.
For additional questions, contact Zhiyuan Li (zhiyuanli@ttic.edu)
Upcoming Talks
Date: January 6, 2025
Speaker: Kaifeng Lyu, UC Berkeley
Date: January 13, 2025
Date: February 10, 2025
Speaker: Katerina Fragkiadaki, CMU
Date: February 17, 2025
Speaker: Shubham Tulsiani, CMU
Date: March 24, 2025
Speaker: Phillip Isola, MIT
Date: March 31,, 2025
Past Talks
- 2024/2025
- 2023/2024
- 2022/2023
- 2021/2022
- 2020/2021
- 2019/2020
- 2018/2019
- 2017/2018
- 2016/2017
- 2015/2016
- 2014/2015
- 2013/2014
- 2012/2013
- 2011/2012
- 2010/2011
- 2009/2010
- 2008/2009
2024/2025 Academic Year
Title: Quasi-Monte Carlo Integration and Discrepancy
Date: December 16, 2024
Speaker: Nikhil Bansal, University of Michigan
Host: Avrim Blum (avrim@ttic.edu)
Video Link: via Panopto
Title: Immunization and Test-Time Augmentation for Pre-Trained Computer Vision Models
Date: December 9, 2024
Speaker: Raymond Yeh, Purdue University
Host: Gregory Shakhnarovich (gregory@ttic.edu)
Video Link: via Panopto
Title: Writing with AI
Date: December 2, 2024
Speaker: Mina Lee, University of Chicago
Host: Karen Livescu (klivescu@ttic.edu)
Video Link: via Panopto
Title: Tilted Empirical Risk Minimization
Date: November 11, 2024
Speaker: Tian Li, University of Chicago
Host: Zhiyuan Li (zhiyuanli@ttic.edu)
Video Link: via Panopto
Title: Online learning in Stackelberg Security Games
Date: October 28, 2024
Special Time: 11:00am
Speaker: Nina Balcan, CMU
Host: Avrim Blum (avrim@ttic.edu)
Video Link: via Panopto
Title: Bacterial Genome Dynamics: A Random Walk Approach
Date: August 16, 2024 (SPECIAL DAY)
Speaker: Sagi Snir, University of Haifa
Host: Avrim Blum (avrim@ttic.edu)
Video Link: via Panopto
2023/2024 Academic Year
Title: On Provable Copyright Protection for Generative Model
Date: October 2, 2023
Speaker: Boaz Barak, Harvard
Host: Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu)
Video Link: via Panopto
Title: Spectral Clustering in High-Dimensional Gaussian Mixture Block Models
Date: October 27, 2023
Speaker: Tselil Schramm, Stanford University
Host: Madhur Tulsiani (madhurt@ttic.edu)
Video Link: via Panopto
Title: Eliciting Information without Verification from Humans and Machines
Date: January 25, 2024 (SPECIAL DAY)
Special Time: 11:00am
Speaker: Yuqing Kong, Peking University
Host: Avrim Blum (avrim@ttic.edu)
Video Link: via Panopto
Title: Hypothesizing about effects in experiment design and interpretation
Date: January 29, 2024
Special Time: 10:00am
Speaker: Jessica Hullman, Northwestern University
Host: Emily Diana (emilydiana@ttic.edu)
Video Link: via Panopto
Title: Algorithms, (Combinatorial) Optimization and Applications
Date: January 30, 2024 (SPECIAL DAY)
Special Time: 11:00am
Speaker: Chandra Chekuri, UIUC
Host: Avrim Blum (avrim@ttic.edu)
Title: On Flase Positive Error
Date: January 31, 2024 (SPECIAL DAY)
Special Time: 10:00am
Speaker: Venkat Chandrasekaran, Caltech
Host: Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu)
Video Link: via Panopto
Title: When Does Allocation Require Prediction?
Date: February 27, 2024 (SPECIAL DAY)
Speaker: Rediet Abebe, Harvard
Host: Avrim Blum (avrim@ttic.edu)
Video Link: via Panopto
Title: Learning features with two-layer neural networks, one step at a time
Date: March 18, 2024
Speaker: Bruno Loureiro, École Normale Supérieure
Host: Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu)
Video Link: via Panopto
Title: Stability and Learning in Strategic Games
Date: March 22, 2024 (SPECIAL DAY)
Special Time: 2:00pm
Speaker: Eva Tardos, Cornell University
Host: Avrim Blum (avrim@ttic.edu)
Video Link: via Panopto
Title: The NASA Volatiles Inspecting Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) Mission
Date: April 8, 2024
Speaker: Terry Fong, NASA
Host: Matthew Turk (mturk@ttic.edu)
Video Link: via Panopto
Title: Causal Agnosticism About Race: Variable Selection Problems in Causal Inference
Date: April 29, 2024
Speaker: Alexander Tolbert, Emory University
Host: Emily Diana (emilydiana@ttic.edu)
Video Link: via Panopto
Title: Solving Games Forwards and Backwards
Date: May 13, 2024
Speaker: Amy Greenwald, Brown University
Host: Avrim Blum (avrim@ttic.edu)
Video Link: via Panopto
2022/2023 Academic Year
Title: Random Separating Hyperplanes and Applications
Date: July 11, 2022
Speaker: Ravi Kannan, Microsoft Research
Host: Avrim Blum (avrim@ttic.edu)
Video Link: via Panopto
Date: September 19, 2022
Speaker: Pragya Sur, Harvard University
Host: Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu)
Video Link: via Panopto
Title: How many labelers do you have? Some perspectives on "gold standard" labels
Date: October 3, 2022
Speaker: John C. Duchi, Stanford University
Host: Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu)
Video Link: via Panopto
Title: Interaction and Natural Language Learning
Date: October 24, 2022
Speaker: Yoav Artzi, Cornell
Host: Karen Livescu (klivescu@ttic.edu)
Video Link: via Panopto
Title: Mitigating Bias in Data Science
Date: November 7, 2022
Speaker: Elisa Celis, Yale
Host: Avrim Blum (avrim@ttic.edu)
Title: Mean Estimation in Low and High Dimensions
Date: November 14, 2022
Speaker: Paul Valiant, Purdue
Host: Madhur Tulsiani (madhurt@ttic.edu)
Video Link: via Panopto
Title: Out-of-distribution generalization, causation, and features
Date: January 9, 2023
Speaker: Leon Bottou, Facebook
Host: Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu)
Video Link: via Panopto
Date: February 27, 2023
Speaker: Tselil Schramm, Stanford
Host: Madhur Tulsiani (madhurt@ttic.edu)
Title: Implicit Bias in Machine Learning
Date: March 27, 2023
Speaker: Ohad Shamir, Weizmann Institute
Host: Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu)
Title: Beyond Supervised Human Action Recognition: Learning with Limited Labels and Privacy Preservation
Date: April 27, 2023
Speaker: Mubarak Shah, University of Central Florida
Host: Matthew Turk (mturk@ttic.edu)
Video Link: via Panopto
Title: Integrating interactive devices with the User’s Body
Date: May 15, 2023
Speaker: Pedro Lopes, University of Chicago
Video Link: via Panopto
2021/2022 Academic Year
Title: Adaptive Attention: Bringing Active Vision into the Camera
Date: August 16, 2021
Speaker: Sanjeev Koppal, University of Florida
Host: Gregory Shakhnarovich (gregory@ttic.edu)
Title: Cascaded Norms in Clustering
Date: August 23, 2021
Speaker: Eden Chlamtáč, Ben Gurion University
Host: Yury Makarychev (yury@ttic.edu)
Title: Developing Robot Teammates that Enhance Social Dynamics and Performance in Human-Robot Teams
Date: October 4, 2021
Speaker: Sarah Sebo, University of Chicago
Host: Audrey Sedal (asedal@ttic.edu)
Title: Advances and Limitations in Generalization via Self-Supervised Pretrained Representations
Date: October 18, 2021
Speaker: Kristina Toutanova, Google
Host: Sam Wiseman (swiseman@ttic.edu)
Title: Speech representation learning with wav2vec
Date: November 29, 2021
Speaker: Michael Auli, FAIR
Host: Kevin Gimpel and Karen Livescu (kgimpel@ttic.edu)
Title: Firm Foundations for Private Machine Learning and Statistics
Date: December 6, 2021
Speaker: Jonathan Ullman, Northeastern University
Host: Avrim Blum (avrim@ttic.edu)
Date: March 14, 2022
Speaker: Raymond Mooney, UT Austin
Host: David McAllester and Matthew Walter (mcallester@ttic.edu)
Title: Modewise Methods for Tensor Compression and Recovery
Date: May 16, 2022
Speaker: Elizaveta Rebrova, Princeton University
Host: Yury Makarychev (yury@ttic.edu)
Title: Learning from Multiple Data Sources
Date: June 3, 2022
Special Time: 12:30 pm
Speaker: Jamie Morgenstern, University of Washington
Host: Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu)
2020/2021 Academic Year
Title: Getting Human-Robot Interaction Strategies to Emerge from First Principles
Date: October 19, 2020
Speaker: Anca Dragan, UC Berkeley
Host: Matthew Walter (mwalter@ttic.edu)
Title: Scaffolding, Abstraction and Learning from Demonstration - A Route to Robot Learning
Date: November 2, 2020
Speaker: Jeannette Bohg, Stanford
Host: Matthew Walter (mwalter@ttic.edu)
Title: From Language Models to Human Brains and Back Again
Date: November 16, 2020
Speaker: Leila Wehbe, Carnegie Mellon University
Host: Allyson Ettinger (aettinger@ttic.edu)
Title: Model-free vs Model-based Reinforcement Learning
Date: November 30, 2020
Speaker: Oriol Vinyals, Google DeepMind
Host: David McAllester (mcallester@ttic.edu)
Title: How Do We Build Models That Learn and Generalize?
Date: December 14, 2020
Speaker: Andrew Gordon Wilson, NYU
Host: D.J. Sutherland (danica@ttic.edu)
Title: Surprises in the Quest for Robust Machine Learning
Date: January 25, 2021
Speaker: Percy Liang, Stanford University
Host: David McAllester (mcallester@ttic.edu)
Title: Rethinking Machine Learning Data
Date: February 1, 2021
Speaker: Emily Denton, Google
Host: D.J. Sutherland (danica@ttic.edu)
Title: Learning and Simulating Atomic-Level Biomolecular Structure
Date: May 10, 2021
Speaker: Ron Dror, Stanford
Host: Karen Livescu (klivescu@ttic.edu)
Title: Hardness of Approximation: From the PCP Theorem to the 2-to-2 Games Theorem
Date: May 24, 2021
Speaker: Subhash Khot, NYU
Host: Madhur Tulsiani (madhurt@ttic.edu)
Title: Characterizing the "value" of information
Date: June 7, 2021
Speaker: Chenhao Tan, University of Chicago
Host: Karen Livescu (klivescu@ttic.edu)
2019/2020 Academic Year
Date: July 29, 2019
Speaker: Hedyeh Beyhaghi, Cornell
Host: Avrim Blum (avrim@ttic.edu)
Title: Building Blocks for Discriminative and Generative Image-Language Tasks
Date: September 11, 2019
Speaker: Lana Lazebnik, UIUC
Host: Gregory Shakhnarovich (gregory@ttic.edu)
Title: Deep Learning for Precision Medicine for Cancer
Date: September 16, 2019
Speaker: Rick Stevens, UofC/Argonne
Host: Jinbo Xu (j3xu@ttic.edu)
Date: September 23, 2019
Speaker: Michael Mahoney, Berkeley
Host: Avrim Blum (avrim@ttic.edu)
Title: Commonsense Intelligence: Cracking the Longstanding Challenge in AI
Date: October 7, 2019
Speaker: Yejin Choi, University of Washington
Host: David McAllester (mcallester@ttic.edu)
Title: Fairness in visual recognition
Date: October 14, 2019
Speaker: Olga Russakovsky, Princeton University
Host: Gregory Shakhnarovich (gregory@ttic.edu)
Title: Sum-of-Squares Meets Nash: Lower Bounds for Finding Any Equilibrium
Date: October 21, 2019
Speaker: Ruta Mehta, UIUC
Host: Madhur Tulsiani (madhurt@ttic.edu)
Title: Structured Prediction for Molecular Inverse Problems
Date: October 28, 2019
Speaker: Eric Jonas, University of Chicago
Host: Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu)
Title: Bayesian Experimental Design in the Physical Sciences
Date: November 4, 2019
Speaker: Yuxin Chen, University of Chicago
Host: Karen Livescu (klivescu@ttic.edu)
Title: Toward Unified Theory for Supervised Inference: The Lessons of Deep Learning
Date: November 11, 2019
Speaker: Misha Belkin, Ohio State University
Host: Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu)
Title: Extending Intrinsic Images with Authorable Image Decompositions
Date: November 18, 2019
Speaker: David Forsyth, UIUC
Host: Avrim Blum (avrim@ttic.edu)
Title: Langevin Monte Carlo Without Smoothness
Date: November 25, 2019
Speaker: Jelena Diakonikolas, Berkeley
Host: Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu)
Title: First-Order Optimization and the Calculus of Variations
Date: December 2, 2019
Speaker: Lorenzo Orecchia, University of Chicago
Host: Madhur Tulsiani (madhurt@ttic.edu)
Title: Expect the Unexpected: Learning to Generalize across Similarly Different Datasets
Date: December 9, 2019
Speaker: Adam Kalai, Microsoft Research
Host: Avrim Blum (avrim@ttic.edu)
Title: Learning about Language with Normalizing Flows
Date: December 16, 2019
Speaker: Graham Neubig, CMU
Host: Kevin Gimpel (kgimpel@ttic.edu)
Title: AlphaGo Zero, Monte Carlo Tree Search and Self-Play: Towards Theoretical Foundations
Date: January 13, 2020
Speaker: Devavrat Shah, MIT
Host: David McAllester (mcallester@ttic.edu)
Title: Scalable Robot Learning in Rich Environments
Date: February 3, 2020
Speaker: Raia Hadsell, Google
Host: Matthew Walter (mwalter@ttic.edu)
Date: February 17, 2020
Speaker: Alberto Bietti
2018/2019 Academic Year
Title: Robot Skill Learning: From the Real World to Simulation and Back
Date: August 27, 2018
Speaker: Peter Stone, UT Austin
Host: Matthew Walter (mwalter@ttic.edu)
Title: Talking about Images
Date: August 29, 2018
Speaker: Gal Chechik, Bar Ilan University/Google
Host: Gregory Shakhnarovich (gregory@ttic.edu)
Title: Learning from Highly Correlated Features using Graph Total Variation
Date: September 17, 2018
Speaker: Rebecca Willett, University of Chicago
Host: Karen Livescu (klivescu@ttic.edu)
Title: Getting Computers to Understand Descriptions of Everyday Events
Date: September 24, 2018
Speaker: Julia Hockenmaier, UIUC
Host: Karen Livescu (klivescu@ttic.edu)
Title: On the Complexity of Clustering Problems
Date: October 1, 2018
Speaker: Anand Louis, IISc
Host: Madhur Tulsiani (madhurt@ttic.edu)
Title: Understanding the User in Socialbot Conversations
Date: October 4, 2018
Speaker: Mari Ostendorf, UW
Host: Karen Livescu (klivescu@ttic.edu)
Title: Learning Adaptive Models for Robot Motion Planning and Human-Robot Interaction
Date: October 15, 2018
Speaker: Tom Howard, U. Rochester
Host: Matthew Walter (mwalter@ttic.edu)
Title: On a Generalization of Iterated and Randomized Rounding
Date: October 22, 2018
Speaker: Nikhil Bansal, Eindhoven University of Technology
Host: Avrim Blum (avrim@ttic.edu)
Title: Deep Learning for Formal Reasoning
Date: October 29, 2018
Speaker: Christian Szegedy, Google
Host: David McAllester (mcallester@ttic.edu)
Title: Multichannel End-to-End Speech Recognition
Date: November 5, 2018
Speaker: Shinji Watanabe, Johns Hopkins University
Host: Karen Livescu (klivescu@ttic.edu)
Title: On Locality-Sensitive Orderings and their Applications
Date: November 12, 2018
Speaker: Sariel Har-Peled, UIUC
Host: Avrim Blum (avrim@ttic.edu)
Title: Scaling Probabilistically Safe Learning to Robotics
Date: November 19, 2018
Speaker: Scott Niekum, UT Austin
Host: Matthew Walter (mwalter@ttic.edu)
Title: “The Curse of Generality”: Deep Reinforcement Learning in the Wild
Date: November 26, 2018
Speaker: Sanjay Krishnan, University of Chicago
Host: Matthew Walter (mwalter@ttic.edu)
Title: Inspecting Word Embeddings with Definition Modeling
Date: December 3, 2018
Speaker: Doug Downey, Northwestern
Host: Kevin Gimpel (kgimpel@ttic.edu)
Title: Deictic Abstractions for Robotic Manipulation
Date: December 10, 2018
Speaker: Robert Platt, Northeastern University
Host: Matthew Walter (mwalter@ttic.edu)
Title: Cooperative and Competitive Machine Learning through Question Answering
Date: December 17, 2018
Speaker: Jordan Boyd-Graber, University of Maryland
Host: Kevin Gimpel (kgimpel@ttic.edu)
Title: On Data & Algorithm: An Artist's View
Date: January 28, 2019
Speaker: Jason Salavon, University of Chicago
Host: Gregory Shakhnarovich (gregory@ttic.edu)
Title: Task-Independent Sentence Understanding
Date: February 11, 2019
Speaker: Sam Bowman, NYU
Host: Kevin Gimpel (kgimpel@ttic.edu)
Title: Fault-tolerant Federated and Distributed Learning
Date: March 4, 2019
Speaker: Sanmi Koyejo, UIUC
Host: Suriya Gunasekar (suriya@ttic.edu)
Title: Learning to Optimize Multigrid PDE Solvers
Date: April 8, 2019
Speaker: Ronen Basri, Weizmann Institute
Host: Gregory Shakhnarovich (gregory@ttic.edu)
Title: Visual Learning with Fewer Labels
Date: April 29, 2019
Speaker: Bharath Hariharan, Cornell
Host: Gregory Shakhnarovich (gregory@ttic.edu)
Title: An Economic Analysis of the Bitcoin Payment System
Date: May 6, 2019
Speaker: Jacob Leshno, University of Chicago
Host: Avrim Blum (avrim@ttic.edu)
Title: Local Algorithms for Sparse Connected Subgraphs
Date: May 20, 2019
Speaker: Ronitt Rubinfeld, MIT
Host: Avrim Blum (avrim@ttic.edu)
Title: Embodied Perception for Open-World Robotics
Date: June 3, 2019
Speaker: Deva Ramanan, CMU
Host: Gregory Shakhnarovich (gregory@ttic.edu)
Title: Sampling-Based Motion Planning: From Manipulators to Intelligent CAD to Protein Folding
Date: June 10, 2019
Speaker: Nancy Amato, UIUC
Host: Avrim Blum (avrim@ttic.edu)
Title: Industrial Scale Brain Mapping
Date: June 17, 2019
Speaker: Narayanan (Bobby) Kasthuri, University of Chicago / Argonne National Laboratory
Host: Michael Yu (mikeyu@ttic.edu)
Title: Human-Interpretable Concept Learning via Information Lattices
Date: June 24, 2019
Speaker: Lav R. Varshney, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Host: Mesrob Ohannessian (mesrob@ttic.edu)
2017/2018 Academic Year
Title: "Blind" Visual Inference
Date: July 11, 2017
Speaker: Michal Irani, Weizmann Institute
Host: Gregory Shakhnarovich (gregory@ttic.edu)
Title: Learning Mixtures of Well-Separated Gaussians
Date: August 7, 2017
Speaker: Aravindan Vijayaraghavan, Northwestern
Host: Yury Makarychev (yury@ttic.edu)
Title: Distribution Alignment for Visual Domain Adaptation
Date: August 31, 2017
Speaker: Kate Saenko, Boston University
Host: Karen Livescu (klivescu@ttic.edu)
Title: Peer Grading and Mechanism Design
Date: September 11, 2017
Speaker: Jason Hartline, Northwestern
Host: Avrim Blum (avrim@ttic.edu)
Title: Biases Beyond Observation
Date: September 25, 2017
Speaker: Moritz Hardt, Berkeley
Host: Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu)
Title: Computational Efficiency and High-Dimensional Robust Statistics
Date: October 2, 2017
Speaker: Ilias Diakonikolas, University of Southern California
Host: Julia Chuzhoy (cjulia.ttic.edu)
Title: Adaptive rates in Active Learning with label noise
Date: October 9, 2017
Speaker: Samory Kpotufe, Princeton University
Host: Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu)
Title: From Naive Physics to Connotation: Modeling Commonsense in Frame Semantics
Date: October 16, 2017
Speaker: Yejin Choi, University of Washington
Host: Kevin Gimpel (kgimpel@ttic.edu)
Title: A New Approach to Approximate Counting and Sampling
Date: October 30, 2017
Speaker: Ankur Moitra, MIT
Host: Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu)
Title: Outranked: Exploiting Nonlinear Algebraic Structure in Matrix Recovery Problems
Date: November 6, 2017
Speaker: Rob Nowak, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Host: Karen Livescu (klivescu@ttic.edu)
Title: The Statistical Foundations of Learning to Control
Date: November 13, 2017
Speaker: Ben Recht, Berkeley
Host: Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu)
Title: Using Simple ML to Model and Mimic Human Behavior
Date: November 20, 2017
Speaker: Ben Zhao, University of Chicago
Host: Karen Livescu (klivescu@ttic.edu)
Title: Moving Away from Big Data
Date: November 29, 2017
Speaker: Regina Barzilay, MIT
Host: David McAllester (mcallester@ttic.edu)
Title: Mobile Sensing at the Edge
Date: December 4, 2017
Speaker: Heather Zheng, University of Chicago
Host: Karen Livescu (klivescu@ttic.edu)
Title: Why and Why Not Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)?
Date: January 22, 2018
Speaker: C.-C. Jay Kuo, University of Southern California
Host: Sadaoki Furui (furui@ttic.edu)
Title: Cs of Computer Vision
Date: February 26, 2018
Speaker: Alexander Schwing
Host: Matthew Walter (mwalter@ttic.edu)
Title: Mathematical Models for Human-Robot Collaboration
Date: March 5, 2018
Special Time: 3:00 pm
Speaker: Sidd Srinivasa, University of Washington
Host: Matthew Walter (mwalter@ttic.edu)
Title: End-to-End Modeling For Automatic Speech Recognition
Date: April 9, 2018
Speaker: Rohit Prabhavalkar, Google
Host: Karen Livescu (klivescu@ttic.edu)
Title: Some Mathematical and Computational Challenges Arising in Structural Molecular Biology
Date: April 23, 2018
Speaker: Bruce Donald, Duke
Host: Mark Hallen (mhallen@ttic.edu)
Title: Using Interaction for Simpler and Better Learning
Date: April 30, 2018
Speaker: Sanjoy Dasgupta, UC San Diego
Host: Avrim Blum (avrim@ttic.edu)
Title: Scaling Up Visual Recognition
Date: May 14, 2018
Speaker: Ross Girschick, Facebook
Host: Michael Maire (mmaire@ttic.edu)
Title: Hand-holding Learning of Latent Structure for Natural Language Processing
Date: June 25, 2018
Speaker: Greg Durrett, UT Austin
Host: Kevin Gimpel (kgimpel@ttic.edu)
Date: July 16, 2018
Speaker: Shang-Hua Teng, USC
Host: Avrim Blum (avrim@ttic.edu)
2016/2017 Academic Year
Title: Towards Joint Understanding of Images and Language
Date: June 26, 2017
Speaker: Svetlana Lazebnik, UIUC
Host: Gregory Shakhnarovich (gregory@ttic.edu)
Title: The Move to Neural Machine Translation at Google
Date: June 19, 2017
Speaker: Mike Schuster, Google
Host: Sadaoki Furui and Karen Livescu (furui@ttic.edu)
Title: Learning by Moving and by Clustering Movie Characters
Date: June 12, 2017
Speaker: Erik Learned-Miller, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Host: Gregory Shakhnarovich (gregory@ttic.edu)
Date: May 22, 2017
Speaker: Aron Culotta, IIT
Host: Kevin Gimpel (kgimpel@ttic.edu)
Title: On Phase Transitions for Spiked Random Matrix and Tensor Models
Date: May 15, 2017
Speaker: Afonso Bandeira, NYU
Host: Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu)
Title: Toward Robots that Understand People and their Environments
Date: May 8, 2017
Speaker: Dieter Fox, U. Washington
Host: Matthew Walter (mwalter@ttic.edu)
Title: Visual People Modeling
Date: May 1, 2017
Speaker: Ira Kemelmacher-Schlizerman, U. Washington/Facebook
Host: Gregory Shakhnarovich (gregory@ttic.edu)
Title: Structured Attention Networks
Date: April 3, 2017
Speaker: Alexander Rush, Harvard
Host: Kevin Gimpel (kgimpel@ttic.edu)
Title: Finding Low-rank Structure in Messy Data
Date: March 13, 2017
Speaker: Laura Balzano, U. Michigan
Host: Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu)
Title: Mixed regression: Fast Algorithms, Optimal Rates, and Multiple Components
Date: January 30, 2017
Speaker: Constantine Caramanis, UT Austin
Host: Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu)
Title: Interactive Dialogue Systems: Challenges and Opportunities for Deep Reinforcement Learning
Date: January 23, 2017
Speaker: Joelle Pineau, McGill
Host: Matthew Walter (mwalter@ttic.edu)
Title: Recent progresses on the optimality of online binary search trees
Date: December 5, 2016
Speaker: Parinya Chalermsook, Aalto University
Host: Julia Chuzhoy (cjulia@ttic.edu)
Title: What would it take for a neuroscientist to understand a microprocessor
Date: November 28, 2016
Speaker: Konrad Kording, Rehabilitation Institute
Host: Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu)
Title: A Non-generative Framework and Convex Relaxations for Unsupervised Learning
Date: November 21, 2016
Speaker: Elad Hazan, Princeton
Host: Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu)
Title: Image reconstruction in computed tomography and multiview computational microscopy
Date: November 14, 2016
Speaker: Patrick La Riviere, U. Chicago
Host: David McAllester (mcallester@ttic.edu)
Title: On the Single-Pass Streaming Complexity of the Set Cover Problem
Date: October 31, 2016
Speaker: Sanjeev Khanna, U. Pennsylvania
Host: Julia Chuzhoy (cjulia@ttic.edu)
Title: Redundancy in Deep Learning
Date: October 24, 2016
Speaker: Kilian Weinberger, Cornell
Host: Greg Shakhnarovich (gregory@ttic.edu)
Title: Computational Complexity of Cosmology in String Theory
Date: October 17, 2016
Speaker: Michael Douglas, Stonybrook U.
Host: David McAllester (mcallester@ttic.edu)
Title: Representation Power of Neural Networks
Date: September 26, 2016
Speaker: Matus Telgarsky, UIUC
Host: Gregory Shakhnarovich (gregory@ttic.edu)
Title: Second Order Optimization for Large Scale Stochastic Programming
Date: September 19, 2016
Speaker: Jorge Nocedal, Northwestern University
Host: Karen Livescu (klivescu@ttic.edu)
Title: Biomedical Big Data Analytics for Outcome-Driven Precision Health
Date: September 12, 2016
Speaker: May Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology
Host: Hammad Naveed (hammad.naveed@ttic.edu)
Title: Robustness and Flexibility in Non-convex Low-rank Estimation
Date: August 22, 2016
Speaker: Yudong Chen, Cornell
Host: Srinadh Bhojanapalli (srinadh@ttic.edu)
Title: Multilingual Neural Machine Translation
Date: August 1, 2016
Speaker: Kyunghyun Cho, New York University
Host: Kevin Gimpel (kgimpel@ttic.edu)
Title: Autoregressive Neural Transducers for Speech Recognition
Date: July 25, 2016
Speaker: Navdeep Jaitly, Google
Host: Karen Livescu (klivescu@ttic.edu)
Title: Hopsets with Constant Hopbound, and Applications to Approximate Shortest Paths
Date: July 21, 2016
Speaker: Michael Elkin, Ben Gurion University
Host: Yury Makarychev (yury@ttic.edu)
Title: Recurrent Networks and Beyond
Date: July 11, 2016
Speaker: Tomas Mikolov, Facebook
Host: Karen Livescu (klivescu@ttic.edu)
2015/2016 Academic Year
Title: Machine learning for Public Policy and Social Good: Case Studies, Challenges, and Opportunities
Date: June 13, 2016
Speaker: Rayid Ghani, University of Chicago
Host: Greg Shakhnarovich (gregory@ttic.edu)
Title: Supervised Machine Learning as an Adversarial Game
Date: June 6, 2016
Speaker: Brian Ziebart, UIC
Host: Karen Livescu (klivescu@ttic.edu)
Title: High-dimensional Permutations and Discrepancy
Date: May 25, 2016
Speaker: Nati Linial, Hebrew University
Host: Julia Chuzhoy (cjulia@ttic.edu)
Title: Privacy Preserving Optics for Miniature Vision Sensors
Date: May 16, 2016
Speaker: Sanjeev J. Koppal, University of Florida
Host: Ayan Chakrabarti (ayanc@ttic.edu)
Title: Learning Image Representations from Unlabeled Video
Date: Apr 18, 2016
Speaker: Kristen Grauman, University of Texas at Austin
Host: Greg Shakhnarovich (gregory@ttic.edu)
Title: Words, Pictures, and Common Sense
Date: Apr 1, 2016
Speaker: Devi Parikh, Virginia Tech
Host: Gregory Shakhnarovich (gregory@ttic.edu)
Title: Towards Transparent Intelligent Systems: Diverse Predictions from Perception Modules
Date: Mar 31, 2016
Speaker: Dhruv Batra, Virginia Tech
Host: Gregory Shakhnarovich (gregory@ttic.edu)
Title: Advances in Solving Structured Optimization Problems
Date: Mar 14, 2016
Speaker: Mark Schmidt, University of British Columbia
Host: Ofer Meshi (meshi@ttic.edu)
Title: Topological Sampling Problems
Date: Feb 29, 2016
Speaker: Shmuel Weinberger, University of Chicago
Host: Sasha Razborov (razborov@math.uchicago.edu)
Title: Mining Gummi Bears in One and Two Jars
Date: Jan 11, 2016
Speaker: Gunnar Klau, CWI Amsterdam
Host: Stefan Canzar (canzar@ttic.edu)
Title: Analysis of Dynamic Interaction Networks
Date: Dec 14, 2015
Speaker: Tanya Berger-Wolf, University of Illinois at Chicago
Host: Hammad Naveed (hammad.naveed@ttic.edu)
Title: Approximate Nearest Neighbor methods in computer vision, beyond L2
Date: Nov 23, 2015
Speaker: Lihi Zelnik-Manor, Technion
Host: Greg Shakhnarovich (gregory@ttic.edu)
Title: False Discovery Rates - a new deal
Date: Nov 16, 2015
Speaker: Matthew Stephens, University of Chicago
Host: Aly Khan (aakhan@ttic.edu)
Title: Single and Multichannel Raw Waveform Neural Network Acoustic Models
Date: Nov 9, 2015
Speaker: Tara Sainath; Google Research
Host: Karen Livescu (klivescu@ttic.edu)
Date: Nov 2, 2015
Speaker: Gordon Kindlmann, University of Chicago
Host: Greg Shakhnarovich (gregory@ttic.edu)
Title: Fast, Approximate and Scalable Geometric Optimization
Date: Oct 5, 2015
Speaker: Chandrajit Bajaj, University of Texas at Austin
Host: Jinbo Xu and Qixing Huang (j3xu@ttic.edu)
Title: Machine Learning Approaches to Speech Enhancement
Date: Sept 28, 2015
Speaker: Paris Smaragdis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Host: Karen Livescu (klivescu@ttic.edu)
Title: Towards Universal Syntactic Processing of Natural Language
Date: Sept 4, 2015
Speaker: Slav Petrov, Google
Host: Mohit Bansal (mbansal@ttic.edu)
Title: Vertex Sparsification of Cuts, Flows, and Distances
Date: Aug 31, 2015
Speaker: Robert Krauthgamer, Weizmann Institute
Host: Julia Chuzhoy (cjulia@ttic.edu)
Title: Sampling Strategies for Feature-Efficient and Active Learning
Date: Aug 17, 2015
Speaker: Lev Reyzin, UIC
Host: Greg Shakhnarovich (gregory@ttic.edu)
Title: Approximate Matchings in Dynamic Graph Streams
Date: Aug 10, 2015
Speaker: Sanjeev Khanna, University of Pennsylvania
Host: Julia Chuzhoy (cjulia@ttic.edu)
Title: Blind deblurring and blind super-resolution using internal patch recurrence
Date: Aug 3, 2015
Speaker: Tomer Michaeli, Technion
Host: Karen Livescu (klivescu@ttic.edu)
Title: What can vectorial representations do? Distributed structure processing in neural networks
Date: July 20, 2015
Speaker: Paul Smolensky, John Hopkins
Host: Kevin Gimpel (kgimpee@ttic.edu)
Title: Unsupervised Word Segmentation and Lexicon Discovery from Speech using Acoustic Word Embeddings
Date: July 17, 2015
Speaker: Sharon Goldwater, University of Edinburgh
Host: Karen Livescu (klivescu@ttic.edu)
Title: Sparse Recovery via Dynamics
Date: July 15, 2015
Speaker: Yuan Yao, Peking University
Host: Jinbo Xu (j3xu@ttic.edu)
2014/2015 Academic Year
Title: Extracting hidden structure from multiple higher order arrays
Date: June 18, 2014
Speaker: Koh Takeuchi, NTT Japan
Host: Ryota Tomioka (tomioka@ttic.edu)
Title: Multiresolution Matrix Factorization
Date: July 14, 2014
Speaker: Risi Kondor, Univ of Chicago
Host: Greg Shakhnarovich (greg@ttic.edu)
Title: Palindrome Recognition In The Streaming Model
Date: July 31, 2014
Speaker: Funda Ergun, Indiana University Bloomington and Simon Fraser University
Host: Jinbo Xu (j3xu@ttic.edu)
Date: August 25, 2014
Speaker: Vassilis Athitsos, Univ of Texas at Arlington
Host: Greg Shakhnarovich (greg@ttic.edu)
Title: Asynchronous Stochastic Optimization for Sequence Training of Deep Neural Networks: Towards Big Data
Date: August 28, 2014
Speaker: Erik McDermott, Google
Host: Karen Livescu (klivescu@ttic.edu)
Title: Semantic Parsing, Latent Variables, and Inference
Date: September 15, 2014
Speaker: Percy Liang, Stanford
Host: Mohit Bansal (mbansal@ttic.edu)
Title: Human-Centered Language Processing: Event Detection and Impaired Speech Recognition
Date: September 22, 2014
Speaker: Bonnie J. Dorr-Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC)
Host: David McAllester (mcallester@ttic.edu)
Title: Graph Grammars and Automata for NLP
Date: September 29, 2014
Speaker: David Chiang, University of Notre Dame
Host: Kevin Gimpel (kgimpel@ttic.edu)
Title: Reverse engineering the neural mechanisms involved in robust speech processing
Date: October 6, 2014
Speaker: Nima Mesgarani, Electrical Engineering Department at Columbia University
Host: Karen Livescu (klivescu@ttic.edu)
Date: October 16, 2014
Speaker: Ruta Mehta, Georgia Institute of Technology
Host: Julia Chuzhoy (cjulia@ttic.edu)
Title: Video-Based Analysis of Human Actions, Interactions and Social Behaviors
Date: October 20, 2014
Speaker: Stan Sclaroff, Boston University
Host: Greg Shakhnarovich (gregory@ttic.edu)
Title: Algorithmic progress on the Lovasz Local Lemma
Date: October 27, 2014
Speaker: Aravind Srinivasan, University of Maryland
Host: Julia Chuzhoy (cjulia@ttic.edu)
Title: Incentives for Collective Behavior: Badges, Procrastination, and Long-Range Goals
Date: November 5, 2014
Speaker: Jon Kleinberg, Cornell
Host: Madhur Tulsiani (madhurt@ttic.edu)
Title: A Framework for Analysis of Computational Imaging Systems
Date: November 17, 2014
Speaker: Oliver Cossairt, Northwestern
Host: Ayan Chakrabarti (ayanc@ttic.edu)
Title: Novel directions for biological network comparison: implications for aging
Date: December 1, 2014
Speaker: Tijana Milenkovic, University of Notre Dame
Host: Jinbo Xu (j3xu@ttic.edu)
Title: What's wrong with convolutional nets?
Date: January 23, 2015
Speaker: Geoff Hinton, University of Toronto & Google
Host: David McAllester (mcallester@ttic.edu)
Title: How Good Is Structured Prediction?
Date: February 23, 2015
Speaker: David Sontag, NYU
Host: Greg Shakhnarovich (gregory@ttic.edu)
Title: Spectral Language Modeling
Date: March 2, 2015
Speaker: Lyle Ungar, University of Pennsylvania
Host: David McAllester (mcallester@ttic.edu)
Title: Do Deep Nets Really Need To Be Deep?
Date: April 30, 2015
Speaker: Rich Caruana, Microsoft
Host: David McAllester (mcallester@ttic.edu)
Title: Robust Camera Location Estimation by Convex Programming
Date: June 4, 2015
Speaker: Amit Singer, Princeton
Host: Nathan Srebro and Qixing Huang (nati@ttic.edu)
Title: Zodiac — A comprehensive depiction of genetic interactions in cancer by integrating TCGA data
Date: June 22, 2015
Speaker: Yuan Ji, University of Chicago, Northshore Hospital
Host: Jinbo Xu (j3xu@ttic.edu)
2013/2014 Academic Year
Title: Optimal Provision-After-Wait in Healthcare
Date: October 3, 2013
Speaker: Mark Braverman, Princeton
Host: Madhur Tulsiani (madhurt@ttic.edu)
Title: Large-Scale Paraphrasing – Extraction and Application
Date: October 7, 2013
Speaker: Juri Ganitkevitch
Host: Kevin Gimpel (kgimpel@ttic.edu)
Title: Completing the noisy circuit: Systems of feedback in models of dysarthria
Date: November 12, 2013
Speaker: Frank Rudzicz, University of Toronto
Host: Karen Livescu (klivescu@ttic.edu)
Title: Predicting Linguistic Structures Accurately and Efficiently
Date: November 26, 2013
Speaker: Franz Kiraly, University College London
Host: Ryota Tomioka (tomioka@ttic.edu)
Title: Predicting Linguistic Structures Accurately and Efficiently
Date: January 17, 2014
Speaker: Hal Daume lll, Univ of Maryland
Host: David McAllester (mcallester@ttic.edu)
Title: Foundations For Learning in the Age of Big Data
Date: January 28, 2014
Speaker: Maria Florina (Nina) Balcan, Georgia Institute of Technology
Host: Julia Chuzhoy (cjulia@ttic.edu)
2012/2013 Academic Year
Title: Mathematical Modeling and Machine Learning in Brain Diffusion MRI
Date: October 23, 2012
Speaker: Thomas Shultz, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
Host: Samory Kpotufe (samory@ttic.edu)
Title: Global and Local Approach of Part-of-Speech Tagging for Large Copora
Date: November 13, 2012
Speaker: Shi Yu, University of Chicago
Host: Kevin Gimpel (kgimpel@ttic.edu)
Title: Automatically Learning the Structure of Spoken Language Without Supervision
Date: November 27, 2012
Speaker: Aren Jansen, Johns Hopkins
Host: Karen Livescu (klivescu@ttic.edu)
Title: Analysis and Modeling of Opinions and Sentiments
Date: December 4, 2012
Speaker: Bing Liu, UIC
Host: Jinbo Xu (j3xu@ttic.edu)
Title: Natural image statistics and image restoration
Date: February 18, 2013
Speaker: Yair Weiss, Hebrew University
Host: Tamir Hazan (tamir@ttic.edu)
Title: Convergence of latent population structures in finite admixture models
Date: March 5, 2013
Speaker: Long Nguyen, Department of Statistics, University of Michigan
Host: Anand Sarwate (asarwate@ttic.edu)
Title: Distributed Hessian-free Optimization for Deep Neural Network Acoustic Models
Date: March 11, 2013
Speaker: Brian Kingsbury, IBM
Host: Karen Livescu (klivescu@ttic.edu)
Title: From Contextual Search to Automatic Content Generation: Scaling Human Editorial Judgment
Date: April 10, 2013
Speaker: Larry Birnbaum, Northwestern University
Host: David McAllester (mcallester@ttic.edu)
Title: Predictions of Structures of Protein Interactions
Date: May 20, 2013
Speaker: Daisuke Kihara, Purdue University
Host: Jinbo Xu (j3xu@ttic.edu)
Title: Integrating Learning in Structured Prediction and Latent Variable Models
Date: June 4, 2013
Speaker: Rich Zemel, University of Toronto
Host: Tamir Hazan (tamir@ttic.edu)
Title: Non-invasive Human-Machine Interfaces for the disabled: rehabilitation, phantom pain and more
Date: June 28, 2013
Speaker: Claudio Castellini, German Aerospace Center
Host: Francesco Orabona (orabona@ttic.edu)
Title: TTIC Colloquium: Flavio Villanustre
Date: July 16, 2013
Host: Jinbo Xu (j3xu@ttic.edu)
Title: Component Analysis for Human Sensing
Date: July 30, 2013
Speaker: Fernando de la Torre
Host: Raquel Urtasun (rurtasun@ttic.edu)
Title: Dense 3D scene flow estimation for locally rigid scenes
Date: July 30, 2013
Speaker: Konrad Schindler, ETH Zurich
Host: Raquel Urtasun (rurtasun@ttic.edu)
Title: Large-Scale Sparse Learning for Biomedical Data
Date: August 14, 2013
Speaker: Jieping Ye, Arizona State University
Host: Jinbo Xu (j3xu@ttic.edu)
2011/2012 Academic Year
Title: Structure from Motion in the Wild: Towards Reconstructing Active 3D Scenes from Moving Cameras
Date: September 26, 2011
Speaker: Yaser Sheikh, CMU
Host: Raquel Urtasun (rurtasun@ttic.edu)
Title: Predicting Beta-Sheet Protein Folding Pathways Using Ensemble Models
Date: September 30, 2011
Speaker: Jerome Waldispuhl, McGill
Host: Jinbo Xu (j3xu@ttic.edu)
Title: Privacy Preserving Speech Processing
Date: October 17, 2011
Speaker: Manas Pathak, CMU
Host: Joseph Keshet (jkeshet@ttic.edu)
Title: Collective Construction by Termites and Other Robots
Date: October 24, 2011
Speaker: Justin Werfel, Harvard
Host: Karen Livescu (klivescu@ttic.edu)
Title: What is Singular Learning Theory?
Date: November 7, 2011
Speaker: Shaowei Lin, Berkeley
Host: Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu)
Title: Power-aware Routing and Scheduling
Date: November 16, 2011
Speaker: Daniel M (Matthew) Andrews
Host: Julia Chuzhoy (cjulia@ttic.edu)
Title: Perfect Matchings in Regular Bipartite Graphs
Date: November 17, 2011
Speaker: Sanjeev Khanna, University of Pennsylvania
Host: Julia Chuzhoy (cjulia@ttic.edu)
Title: Dimension Reduction in L_1
Date: November 18, 2011
Speaker: Moses Charikar
Host: Yury Makarychev (yury@ttic.edu)
Title: Approximation Algorithms for Stochastic Combinatorial Optimization
Date: November 21, 2011
Speaker: Anupam Gupta, CMU
Host: Julia Chuzhoy (cjulia@ttic.edu)
Title: Learning A Semantic Space: From Image Annotation to Music Similarity
Date: November 22, 2011
Speaker: Samy Bengio, Google
Host: Joseph Keshet (jkeshet@ttic.edu)
Title: The Peptide Binding Problem
Date: November 30, 2011
Speaker: Steve Smale, TTIC/City University of Hong Kong
Host: David McAllester (mcallester@ttic.edu)
Title: Algorithms for submodular objectives via continuous extensions and dependent randomized rounding
Date: December 7, 2011
Speaker: Chandra Chekuri
Host: Yury Makarychev (yury@ttic.edu)
Date: December 8, 2011
Speaker: Torbjørn Svendsen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Host: Karen Livescu (klivescu@ttic.edu)
Title: Nonparametric Bayesian Models for Structured Objects
Date: January 18, 2012
Speaker: Zoubin Ghahramani, University of Cambridge
Host: Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu)
Title: Challenges for Machine Learning in Ecological Science and Environmental Management
Date: January 26, 2012
Speaker: Tom Dietterich, Oregon State
Host: Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu)
Title: Packing ellipsoids with overlap
Date: February 13, 2012
Speaker: Steve Wright
Host: Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu)
Title: Combinatorial Hodge Theory and Applications
Date: February 20, 2012
Speaker: Yuan Yao, PKU
Host: Jinbo Xu (j3xu@ttic.edu)
Title: Learning from Natural Instructions
Date: February 21, 2012
Speaker: Dan Roth
Host: Gregory Shakhnarovich (gregory@ttic.edu)
Title: Probabilistic Databases for Large-scale Knowledge-base Construction
Date: March 21, 2012
Speaker: Andrew McCallum
Host: Raquel Urtasun (rurtasun@ttic.edu)
Title: Convex Tensor Decomposition with Performance Guarantee
Date: March 22, 2012
Speaker: Ryota Tomioka, University of Tokoyo
Host: Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu)
Title: Factor Graphs, Bayes Trees, and Preconditioning for SLAM and SFM
Date: May 9, 2012
Speaker: Frank Dellaert, Georgia Tech
Host: Raquel Urtasun (rurtasun@ttic.edu)
Title: Selected Topics from ASR Research for Asian Languages at Tokyo Tech
Date: June 7, 2012
Speaker: Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Host: David McAllester (mcallester@ttic.edu)
Title: How to Modify Bayesian Inference when All Models are Wrong
Date: June 21, 2012
Speaker: Peter Grunwald, CWI Amsterdam
Host: David McAllester (mcallester@ttic.edu)
Title: Phase Transition in Random Integer Programs
Date: June 25, 2012
Speaker: Kathekeyan Chandrasekaran
Host: Madhur Tusiani (madhurt@ttic.edu)
Title: Ensemble image segmentation using efficient integer linear programming
Date: August 6, 2012
Speaker: Jacob Goldberger, Bar-Ilan University
Host: Gregory Shakhnarovich (gregory@ttic.edu)
Title: Statistical Models for Illumination and Geometry Inference.
Date: August 27, 2012
Speaker: Dimitris Samaras, SUNY Stony Brook
Host: Jinbo Xu (j3xu@ttic.edu)
Title: Robust Computation of Linear Models
Date: September 24, 2012
Speaker: Gilad Lerman, Univerity of Minnesota
Host: Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu)
2010/2011 Academic Year
Title: ProbIN: Probabilistic Inertial Navigation
Date: September 20, 2010
Speaker: Joy Zhang, CMU
Host: Jinbo Xu (j3xu@ttic.edu)
Title: Learning with Approximate inference - From LP Relaxations to Pseudo-Max Approaches
Date: September 28, 2010
Speaker: Amir Globerson, Hebrew University
Host: Tamir Hazan (tamir@ttic.edu)
Title: TTIC Colloquium: Azarakhsh Malekian
Date: October 11, 2010
Speaker: Azarakhsh Malekian, Northwestern
Host: Julia Chuzhoy (cjulia@ttic.edu)
Title: Learning Components for Human Sensing
Date: October 18, 2010
Speaker: Fernando De la Torre, CMU
Host: Raquel Urtasun (rurtasun@ttic.edu)
Title: Probabilistic Graphical Models of Protein Sequence and Structure
Date: October 25, 2010
Speaker: Chris Langmead, CMU
Host: Jinbo Xu (j3xu@ttic.edu)
Title: Network based comparison of temporal gene expression patterns
Date: November 1, 2010
Speaker: Sheng Zhong, UIUC
Host: Jinbo Xu (j3xu@ttic.edu)
Title: TTIC Colloquium: Vijay Vazirani
Date: November 10, 2010
Speaker: Vijay Vazirani, Georgia Tech
Host: Sasha Razborov (razboroe@cs.uchicago.edu)
Title: TTIC Colloquium: Vijay Vazirani
Date: November 11, 2010
Speaker: Vijay Vazirani, Georgia Tech
Host: Sasha Razborov (razborov@cs.uchicago.edu)
Title: TTIC Colloquium: Andrew Gallagher
Date: November 15, 2010
Speaker: Andrew Gallagher, Eastman Kodak Company
Host: Dhruv Batra and Devi Parikh (dbatra@ttic.edu)
Title: TTIC Colloquium: Raj Rao Nadakuditi
Date: November 22, 2010
Speaker: Raj Rao Nadakuditi, University of Michigan
Host: Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu)
Title: Physics in Human Motion Estimation and Scene Understanding
Date: January 10, 2011
Speaker: Marcus Brubaker, University of Toronto
Host: Raquel Urtasun (rurtasun@ttic.edu)
Date: February 14, 2011
Speaker: Sabine Suesstrunk, EPFL
Host: Mathieu Salzmann (salzmann@ttic.edu)
Title: What else can we do with more data?
Date: February 15, 2011
Speaker: Shai Shalev-Shwartz, The Hebrew University
Host: Tamir Hazan (tamir@ttic.edu)
Title: Modeling Brain Circuitry using Scales Ranging from Micrometer to Nanometer
Date: February 16, 2011
Speaker: Pascal Fua, EPFL
Host: Mathieu Salzmann (salzmann@ttic.edu)
Title: Rank aggregation via Hodge theory
Date: February 21, 2011
Speaker: Lek-Heng Lim, University of Chicago
Host: Jinbo Xu (j3xu@ttic.edu)
Title: Graph approximation, local clustering, and the solution of systems of linear equations.
Date: March 7, 2011
Speaker: Dan Spielman, Yale
Host: David McAllester (mcallester@ttic.edu)
Title: Text and Other Quantitative Data: Relating What We Say and What We Do
Date: March 9, 2011
Speaker: Noah Smith, CMU
Host: Jinbo Xu (j3xu@ttic.edu)
Title: Detecting High Log-Densities -- an O(n^{1/4}) Approximation for Densest k-Subgraph
Date: March 14, 2011
Speaker: Aravindan Vijayaraghavan, Princeton
Host: Julia Chuzhoy (cjulia@ttic.edu)
Title: Optimal Distributed Online Prediction
Date: March 21, 2011
Speaker: Ohad Shamir, Microsoft Research New England
Host: Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu)
Title: Learning with Exploration
Date: March 22, 2011
Speaker: John Langford, Yahoo Research
Host: Joseph Keshet (jkeshet@ttic.edu)
Title: Entire Relaxation Path for Maximum Entropy Models
Date: March 30, 2011
Speaker: Yoram Singer, Google
Host: Joseph Keshet (jkeshet@ttic.edu)
Title: The Road From DBNs to Image Segmentation is Paved with Submodularity
Date: April 4, 2011
Speaker: Jeff Blimes, University of Washington
Host: David McAllester (mcallester@ttic.edu)
Title: Rational Convex Programs
Date: Apr. 6, 2011
Speaker: Vijay Vazirani, Georgia Tech
Host: Jinbo Xu (j3xu@ttic.edu)
Title: Adaptively Learning the Crowd Kernel
Date: April 8, 2011
Speaker: Adam Kalai, Microsoft Research
Host: David McAllester (mcallester@ttic.edu)
Title: Semi-supervised and unsupervised graph-based learning for natural language processing
Date: April 11, 2011
Speaker: Katrin Kirchhoff, University of Washington
Host: David McAllester (mcallester@ttic.edu)
Title: TTIC Colloquium: Alex & Tamara Berg
Date: April 20, 2011
Speaker: Alex & Tamara Berg, Stony Brook University
Host: Raquel Urtasun (rurtasun@ttic.edu)
Title: Population scale detection of common and rare genomic rearrangements and transcriptomic aberrations
Date: May 6, 2011
Speaker: Cenk Sahinalp, Simon Fraser University
Host: Jinbo Xu (j3xu@ttic.edu)
Title: Integration of Genomic Data for Functional Genomics
Date: May 10, 2011
Speaker: Sayan Mukherjee, Duke University
Host: Jinbo Xu (j3xu@ttic.edu)
Title: Putting humans into the loop for image based modeling
Date: June 17, 2011
Speaker: Adarsh Kowdle, Cornell
Host: Devi Parikh and Dhruv Batra (dparikh@ttic.edu)
Title: Machine Learning for Discovery in Legal Cases
Date: July 11, 2011
Speaker: David Lewis
Host: David McAllester (mcallester@ttic.edu)
Title: Unlabeled Data and Other Marginals
Date: July 13, 2011
Speaker: Mark Hasegawa-Johnson
Host: Joseph Keshet (jkeshet@ttic.edu)
Title: Generalized Agreement Statistics over fixed set of labelings
Date: July 18, 2011
Speaker: Mohak Shah, Accenture Technology Labs
Host: David McAllester (mcallester@ttic.edu)
Title: Lagrangian relaxation for inference in natural language processing
Date: July 21, 2011
Speaker: Michael Collins, Columbia University
Host: David McAllester (mcallester@ttic.edu)
Title: Computational strategies for understanding how biological networks function
Date: Aug. 3, 2011
Speaker: Tamer Kahveci, University of Florida
Host: Jinbo Xu (j3xu@ttic.edu)
Title: FTV (Free-viewpoint TV)
Date: Aug. 12, 2011
Speaker: Masayuki Tanimoto, Nagoya University
Host: David McAllester (mcallester@ttic.edu)
Title: Positive definite matrices and the SB-Divergence
Date: Aug. 16, 2011
Speaker: Suvrit Sra, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
Host: Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu)
2009/2010 Academic Year
Title: On Sparse Rectangular Representations of Matrix Data
Date: Oct. 5, 2009
Speaker: Konstantin Makarychev, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Host: Yury Makarychev (yury@ttic.edu)
Title: A simpler approach to matrix completion
Date: Oct. 26, 2009
Speaker: Ben Recht
Host: Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu)
Title: A Quasi-Newton Approach to Nonsmooth Convex Optimization
Date: Nov. 2, 2009
Speaker: S V N Vishwanathan, Purdue
Host: Karen Livescu (klivescu@ttic.edu)
Title: Reconstructing Deformable Surfaces: A Convex Formulation
Date: Nov. 9, 2009
Speaker: Mathieu Salzmann, ICSI Berkeley
Host: Raquel Urtasun (rurtasun@ttic.edu)
Title: Statistical Models in Computer Vision
Date: Nov. 16, 2009
Speaker: Yali Amit, University of Chicago
Host: David McAllester (mcallester@ttic.edu)
Title: Learning with Annotation Noise
Date: Nov. 23, 2009
Speaker: Beata Beigman Klebanov, Northwestern University
Host: Joseph Keshet (jkeshet@ttic.edu)
Title: Learning from Labeled and Unlabeled Data, Global vs. Multiscale Approaches
Date: Nov. 30, 2009
Speaker: Boaz Nadler, Weizmann Institute
Host: Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu)
Title: Strategic Network Formation and Group Formation
Date: Dec. 14, 2009
Speaker: Elliot Anshelevich, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Host: Julia Chuzhoy (cjulia@ttic.edu)
Title: Semi-Supervised Learning with Measure Propagation
Date: Jan. 4, 2010
Speaker: Amar Subramanya, Google
Host: Karen Livescu (klivescu@ttic.edu)
Title: Bounding Rationality by Computational Complexity
Date: Jan. 11, 2010
Speaker: Lance Fortnow, Northwestern University
Host: Karen Livescu (klivescu@ttic.edu)
Title: Unsupervised Learning of Deep Probabilistic Models
Date: Jan. 19, 2010
Speaker: Ruslan Salakhutdinov, MIT
Host: Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu)
Title: Unsupervised Learning of Natural Language Morphology
Date: Jan. 25, 2010
Speaker: John Goldsmith, University of Chicago
Host: David McAllester (mcallester@ttic.edu)
Title: Statistical inference in high-dimensional settings: A unified analysis of regularized estimators
Date: Feb. 1, 2010
Speaker: Martin Wainwright, U. C. Berkeley
Host: David McAllester (mcallester@ttic.edu)
Title: Optimal Control of Hybrid Systems with Applications to Robotics
Date: Feb. 8, 2010
Speaker: Milos Zefran, UIC
Host: Nathan Ratliff (ndr@ttic.edu)
Title: Geometry and Topology in Statistical Inference
Date: Mar. 8, 2010
Speaker: Sayan Mukherjee, Duke
Host: Andreas Argyriou (argyriou@ttic.edu)
Title: Compressed Counting for Estimating Frequency Moments and Entropy of Data Streams
Date: May 17, 2010
Speaker: Ping Li, Cornell
Host: David McAllester (mcallester@ttic.edu)
2008/2009 Academic Year
Title: RTComposer: A Framework for Real-Time Components with Scheduling Interface
Date: Sept. 29, 2008
Speaker: Gera Weiss, University of Pennsylvania
Host: Ronen Basri (ronen.basri@tti-c.org)
Title: Axiomatic view of clustering - overcoming Kleinberg's impossibility result
Date: Oct. 6, 2008
Speaker: Shai Ben-David, University of Waterloo
Host: Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu)
Title: A Geometric Perspective on Learning Theory and Algorithms
Date: Oct. 13, 2008
Speaker: Partha Niyogi, University of Chicago
Host: Karen Livescu (klivescu@ttic.edu)
Title: Homology Flows
Date: Oct. 20, 2008
Speaker: Jeff Erickson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Host: Benoit Hudson (bhudson@tti-c.org)
Date: Oct. 27, 2008
Speaker: David Israel, SRI International
Host: David McAllester (mcallester@ttic.edu)
Title: Looking at People
Date: Nov. 3, 2008
Speaker: David Forsyth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Host: Greg Shakhnarovich (gregory@ttic.edu)
Title: Random Features: Replacing Optimization with Randomization in Learning
Date: Nov. 10, 2008
Speaker: Ali Rahimi, Intel
Host: Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu)
Title: Community Structure in Large Social and Information Networks
Date: Nov. 24, 2008
Speaker: Michael Mahoney, Stanford University
Host: Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu)
Title: Complexity, Learnability, and Constraint-Based Grammars
Date: Dec. 15, 2008
Speaker: Jason Riggle, University of Chicago
Host: Karen Livescu (klivescu@ttic.edu)
Title: Computational Awareness
Date: Jan. 12, 2009
Speaker: Lance Fortnow, Northwestern U.
Host: Ronen Basri (ronen.basri@tti-c.org)
Date: Feb. 2, 2009
Speaker: Matthew Stephens, U. Chicago
Host: David McAllester (mcallester@ttic.edu)
Title: Tensors: Theory and Applications
Date: Mar. 2, 2009
Speaker: Shmuel Friedland, UIC
Host: Shai Shalev-Shwartz (shai@tti-c.org)
Title: Vox Populi: On Learning from Crowds
Date: Mar. 9, 2009
Speaker: Ohad Shamir
Host: Shai Shalev-Shwartz (shai@tti-c.org)
Title: Perception as Bayesian inference about causes
Date: July 20, 2009
Speaker: Konrad Koerding, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Northwestern University
Host: Greg Shakhnarovich (gregory@ttic.edu)
Title: An effective belief-propagation algorithm for constrained linear least-squares problems.
Date: Aug 3, 2009
Speaker: Jacob Goldberger, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Host: Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu)
Title: The Dynamics of Equilibria
Date: Aug 24, 2009
Speaker: Maria Florina (Nina) Balcan, MSR New England and Georgia Tech
Host: Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu)
Title: Constrained Conditional Models: Learning and Inference in Natural Language Understanding
Date: Sept 21, 2009
Speaker: Dan Roth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Host: Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu)
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