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Dr. Greg Shakhnarovich hosted a regional computer vision meeting, the 3rd Illinois Vision Workshop, on Tuesday, December 1. About fifty people from the Midwest and farther away participated. Among the institutions and companies represented, in addition to TTIC, were the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, the University of Illinois Chicago, Northwestern, the University of Michigan, University of Missouri, UC Berkeley, Microsoft Research, Carnegie Mellon, Eastman Kodak, and Cornell.


Karen Livescu is the recipient of a grant funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), on which she is the Principal Investigator (PI). The grant is in collaboration with co-PIs Jeff Bilmes (University of Washington) and Eric Fosler-Lussier (Ohio State University). The award covers three years and focuses on statistical models of speech based on articulatory features (such as locations of the tongue, lips, and so on).


TTIC's Julia Chuzhoy is the recipient of the prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant. The grant is awarded by the National Science Foundation to support junior faculty in their research and educational activities. The NSF website states, "The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations".

Julia's project focuses on the development of approximation algorithms and lower bounds for network optimization problems.


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TTIC Colloquium Schedule, 2009-2010

The TTIC Colloquium is a forum for talks by invited speakers on work of current relevance and broad interest to the computer science community.

The colloquium is held Mondays at 1pm in the TTIC Conference Room.

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For additional questions, contact Raquel Urtasun (rurtasun@ttic.edu)

Title:

A simpler approach to matrix completion

Date: Oct. 26, 2009
Speaker: Ben Recht
Host: Nati Srebro (nati@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:

Semi-Supervised Learning with Measure Propagation

Date: Jan. 4, 2010
Speaker: Amar Subramanya, Google
Host: Karen Livescu (klivescu@ttic.edu)

Title:

Unsupervised Learning of Deep Probabilistic Models

Date: Jan. 19, 2010 1:00 pm (NOTE UNUSUAL TIME)
Speaker: Ruslan Salakhutdinov, MIT
Host: Nati Srebro (nati@ttic.edu)

Title:

TTIC Colloquium: Martin Wainwright

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:

TTIC Colloquim: Sayan Mukherjee

Date: Mar. 8, 2010
Speaker: Sayan Mukherjee, Duke
Host: Andreas Argyriou (argyriou@ttic.edu)