Talks

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

More Than Just Words: On Discovering Themes in Online Reviews to Explain Restaurant Closures

Jorge Mejia - University of Maryland

4172 A.V. Williams Building (AVW)

Thursday, March 5, 2015

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Defense: Primal-Dual Techniques for Online Algorithms and Mechanisms

Vahid Liaghat

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Crypto Reading Group

Quantum-Secure Message Authentication Codes

Shih Han Hung

Kurt Luther - Center for Human-Computer Interaction, Virginia Tech

12:30 pm

- 1:30 pm

HCIL

HCIL Brown Bag: Designing Social Technologies for Creativity and Discovery

HCIL (2105 Hornbake Building, South Wing)

1:00 pm

- 2:00 pm

Crypto Reading Group

Inner-Product Functional Encryption from Lattices

Daniel Apon

Bioinformatics happenings on campus

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

HMM-aided assembly of genes from metagenomes (part 2, QuaGGA)

Jeremy Selengut - CBCB

3118 Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CBCB)

Friday, March 6, 2015

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Security Reading Group

GUI-Based Declassification Policies for Mobile Apps

Kristopher Micinski - PLUM

Gary McGraw, Ph.D. - CTO, Cigital

Monday, March 9, 2015

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

MC2 Seminar ⋅ Security Reading Group

Cyber War, Cyber Peace, Stones, and Glass Houses

2460 A.V. Williams Building (AVW)

1:30 pm

- 2:30 pm

PL Reading Group

TBA

Rance Cleaveland - Computer Science Dept., University of Maryland, College Park

Wednesday, March 11, 2015

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Michele Williams - PhD student, Department of Information Systems, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Developing and Using Multilayer Corpora

Amir Zeldes - Georgetown

Thursday, March 12, 2015

12:30 pm

- 1:30 pm

HCIL

HCIL Brown Bag: SWARM: Sensing Whether Affect Requires Mediation

HCIL (2105 Hornbake Building, South Wing)

Friday, March 13, 2015

11:00 am

-11:59 am

MC2 Seminar ⋅ Security Reading Group

Cyber Intelligence: A Discipline Not a Data Feed

Jim Penrose - Darktrace

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

The CHSH inequality: Quantum probabilities as classical conditional probabilities

Andrei Khrennikov - Linnaeus University

Friday, March 20, 2015

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

Quantum voting and violation of Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem

Nicole Yunger Halpern - Caltech

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

TBA

Rolando Somma - Los Alamos National Lab

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Mark Steedman - University of Edinburgh

Semantics for Question-Answering

TBA

12:00 pm

- 1:00 pm

CBG/Computational Biology Seminars

Using large-scale genomic data to learn about human history and variation

Joseph K. Pickrell - New York Genome Center

1103 Biosciences Research Building (BRB)

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Climate Informatics: Recent Advances and Challenge Problems for Machine Learning in Climate Science

Claire Monteleoni - George Washington University

Foteini Baldimtsi - Boston University

Thursday, April 2, 2015

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Crypto Reading Group

Indistinguishable Proofs of Work or Knowledge

Bioinformatics happenings on campus

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

Interactive Visualization of Metagenomic Data

Florin Chelaru - CBCB

3118 Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CBCB)

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Alan Ritter - The Ohio State University

Extracting Knowledge from Informal Text

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Kevin Gimpel - Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago

Neural Models of Compositionality and Paraphrase

Wednesday, April 29, 2015

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Joel Tetreault - Yahoo! Labs

TBA

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

TBA

Keith Lee - University of Toronto

Bioinformatics happenings on campus

Thursday, April 30, 2015

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

Shape analysis of high-throughput genomics data

Kwame Okrah - CBCB

3118 Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CBCB)

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

TBA

Beni Yoshida - Caltech

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

2:00 pm

- 4:00 pm

TBA

Omar Fawzi - ENS Lyon

Friday, June 19, 2015

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

TBA

Steve Flammia - University of Sydney