| Date |
Speaker |
| September 5 |
Organizational Meeting [internal] |
| September 12 |
Organizational Meeting [internal] |
| September 19 |
Jason K. Johnson, SSG. Multi-Scale Lagrangian Relaxation for Estimation in Discrete and Gaussian Graphical Models and
Ayres C. Fan, SSG. Geometric Conditional Simulation. |
| September 26 |
O. Patrick Kreidl, SSG. How Do Belief Propagation and Team Decision-Making Relate...and So What? and
Myung Jin Choi, SSG. Labeling Sequential Data Using Local Consistencies. |
| October 3 |
Vincent Y. F. Tan, SSG. Learning Graphical Models for Hypothesis Testing and
Kush R. Varshney, SSG. Bayesian Hypothesis Testing with Prototype Priors. |
| October 10 |
Emily B. Fox, SSG. Augmenting the HDP-HMM to Approximate Semi-Markov Processes and
Michael R. Siracusa, SSG. Dynamic Dependency Tests for Object Interaction Analysis. |
| October 17 |
Dmitry M. Malioutov, SSG. Compressed Sensing with Sequential Observations and
Venkat Chandrasekaran, SSG. Complexity of Inference in Graphical Models. |
| October 24 |
Sujay Sanghavi, SSG. Belief Propagation for Weighted Matching and Independent Set. |
 ctober 31 |
Ya'akov (Kobi) Gal, Harvard University. Reasoning about Rationality and Beliefs. |
| November 7 |
Yair Weiss, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Learning Compressed Sensing. |
November 15
(Thursday) |
Pramod K. Varshney, Syracuse University. Stochastic Resonance in Signal and Image Processing.
NOTE: Held on special day, but normal time: 4:00-5:00. |
| November 21 |
No Meeting [Thanksgiving week] |
| November 28 |
Sekhar Tatikonda, Yale University. Mixing and Clustering in Message-Passing Schemes. |
| December 5 |
No Meeting [NIPS] |
| December 12 |
Group Party [internal] |
