EECS Special Seminar Series 2017

Jamie Morgenstern, University of Pennsylania
EECS/IDSS Special Seminar: Jamie Morgenstern "Towards a Theory of Fairness in Machine Learning"
Speaker(s): Jamie Morgenstern
Date: Thursday, February 16, 2017
Time: 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Location: 34-401 (grier A)
Contact: Alina Mann, 617-258-8773, alinam@mit.edu
Kevin Jamieson, UC Berkeley
EECS Special Seminar: Kevin Jamieson, "Efficient scalable algorithms for adaptive data collection"
Speaker(s): Kevin Jamieson
Date: Thursday, February 16, 2017
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Location: 32-G449
Contact: Roxana Hernandez, 617-253-4602, roxanah@mit.edu
Justin Cheng, Stanford University
EECS/IDSS Special Seminar: Justin Cheng, "Antisocial Computing: Explaining and Predicting Negative Behavior Online"
Speaker(s): Justin Cheng
Date: Tuesday, February 21, 2017
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Location: 32-D463
Contact: Alina Mann, 617-258-8773, alinam@mit.edu
Tengyu Ma, Princeton University
EECS Special Seminar: Tengyu Ma, "Better understanding of non-convex methods in machine learning"
Speaker(s): Tengyu Ma
Date: Thursday, February 23, 2017
Time: 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Location: 34-401A
Contact: Roxana Hernandez, 617-253-4602, roxanah@mit.edu
Irene Zhang, University of Washington
EECS Special Seminar: Irene Zhang, "Towards New Systems for Mobile/Cloud Applications"
Speaker(s): Irene Zhang
Date: Monday, February 27, 2017
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Location: 32-G449
Contact: Roxana Hernandez, 617-253-4602, roxanah@mit.edu
Wyatt Lloyd, Princeton University
EECS Special Seminar: Wyatt Lloyd, "Low Latency and Strong Guarantees for Scalable Storage"
Speaker(s): Wyatt Lloyd
Date: Wednesday, March 01, 2017
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Location: 32-G882
Contact: Roxana Hernandez, 617-253-4602, roxanah@mit.edu
Tim Kraska, Brown University
EECS Special Seminar: Tim Kraska "The Unknown Unknowns in Data Integration"
Speaker(s): Tim Kraska
Date: Monday, March 06, 2017
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Location: 32-G449
Contact: Roxana Hernandez, 617-253-4602, roxanah@mit.edu
Phillip Isola, UC Berkeley
EECS Special Seminar: Phillip Isola, "Learning to see without a teacher"
Speaker(s): Phillip Isola
Date: Thursday, March 09, 2017
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Location: 32-G449
Contact: Roxana Hernandez, 617-253-4602, roxanah@mit.edu
Dorsa Sadigh,
EECS Special Seminar: Dorsa Sadigh, "Towards a Theory of Safe and Interactive Autonomy"
Speaker(s): Dorsa Sadigh
Date: Monday, March 13, 2017
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Location: 32-G449
Contact: Roxana Hernandez, 617-253-4602, roxanah@mit.edu
Luca Carlone, MIT
EECS Special Seminar: Luca Carlone, "Convex Relaxations for Lightweight Peception and Sensing on Micro Aerial Vehicles"
Speaker(s): Luca Carlone
Date: Thursday, March 16, 2017
Time: 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Location: 34-401A
Contact: Roxana Hernandez, 617-253-4602, roxanah@mit.edu
Jacob Eisenstein, Georgia Tech
MIT EECS Special Seminar: Jacob Eisenstein, "Computational Sociolinguistics: Social Networks, Social Media, Social Meanings"
Speaker(s): Jacob Eisenstein
Date: Monday, March 20, 2017
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Location: 32-G449
Contact: Roxana Hernandez, 617-253-4602, roxanah@mit.edu
Shivaram Venkataraman, Computer Science at UC Berkeley
EECS Special Seminar: Shivaram Venkataraman, "Scalable Systems for Fast and Easy Machine Learning"
Speaker(s): Shivaram Venkataraman
Date: Thursday, March 23, 2017
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Location: 32-G449
Contact: Roxana Hernandez, 617-253-4602, roxanah@mit.edu
Amanda Prorok, University of Pennsylvania
EECS Special Seminar: Amanda Prorok, "Diversity and Resilience in Robot Networks"
Speaker(s): Amanda Prorok
Date: Monday, April 03, 2017
Time: 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Location: 34-401 (grier)
Contact: Roxana Hernandez, 617-253-4602, roxanah@mit.edu
Veselin Raychev, ETH, Zurich
EECS Special Seminar: Veselin Raychev, "Machine Learning for Programming"
Speaker(s): Veselin Raychev
Date: Monday, April 03, 2017
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Location: 32-G449
Contact: Roxana Hernandez, 617-253-4602, roxanah@mit.edu
Li-Yang Tan, Toyota Technological Institute in Chicago
EECS Special Seminar: Li-Yang Tan "Computational complexity through the lens of circuits, proofs, and randomness"
Speaker(s): Li-Yang Tan
Date: Thursday, April 06, 2017
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Location: 32-G449
Contact: Roxana Hernandez, 617-253-4602, roxanah@mit.edu
Julian Shun, UC Berkeley
EECS Special Seminar: Julian Shun "Shared-Memory Parallelism Can Be Simple, Fast, and Scalable"
Speaker(s): Julian Shun
Date: Monday, April 10, 2017
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Location: 32-G449
Contact: Roxana Hernandez, 617-253-4602, roxanah@mit.edu
David Held, UC Berkeley
EECS Special Seminar: David Held, "Robots in Clutter: Learning to Understand Environmental Changes"
Speaker(s): David Held
Date: Thursday, April 13, 2017
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Location: 32-G449
Contact: Roxana Hernandez, 617-253-4602, roxanah@mit.edu
Oliver Kroemer, University of Southern California
EECS Special Seminar: Oliver Kroemer, "Learning Robot Manipulation Skills through Experience and Generalization"
Speaker(s): Oliver Kroemer
Date: Wednesday, April 19, 2017
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Location: 32-D463
Contact: Roxana Hernandez, 617-253-4602, roxanah@mit.edu
Arvind Satyanarayanan, Stanford University
EECS Special Seminar: Arvind Satyanarayanan, "Declarative Interaction Design for Data Visualization"
Speaker(s): Arvind Satyanarayanan
Date: Thursday, April 20, 2017
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Location: 32-G449
Contact: Roxana Hernandez, 617-253-4602, roxanah@mit.edu
Justin Hsu, University of Pennsylania
EECS Special Seminar: Justin Hsu, "Randomized Algorithms Meets Formal Verification"
Speaker(s): Justin Hsu
Date: Monday, April 24, 2017
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Location: 32-G449
Contact: Roxana Hernandez, 617-253-4602, roxanah@mit.edu
Le Song, Georgia Tech
EECS Special Seminar: Le Song, "Embedding as a Tool for Algorithm Design"
Speaker(s): Le Song
Date: Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Location: 32-D463
Contact: Roxana Hernandez, 617-253-4602, roxanah@mit.edu
Nadia Polikarpova,
EECS Special Seminar: Nadia Polikarpova, "Type-Driven Program Synthesis"
Speaker(s): Nadia Polikarpova
Date: Thursday, April 27, 2017
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Location: 32-G449
Contact: Roxana Hernandez, 617-253-4602, roxanah@mit.edu