| Date |
Speaker |
| February 6 |
Organizational Meeting [internal] |
| February 13 |
Justin Dauwels, SSG. Machine Learning Techniques for Quantifying Neural Synchrony: Application to the Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease from EEG. |
| February 20 |
Nir Ailon, Google Research. Dimension Reduction Using Rademacher Series on Dual Error Correcting Codes. |
| February 27 |
Polina Golland, CSAIL, MIT. Functional Hierarchy: Representation and Modeling of Spatial Patterns of Activation in fMRI. |
| March 5 |
Shashibhushan P. Borade, LIDS, MIT. When All Information is Not Created Equal. |
| March 12 |
Lang Tong, Cornell University. Distributed Flow Detection via Timing Analysis. |
| March 19 |
Edward Farhi, Department of Physics, MIT. A Quantum Computer Can Determine Who Wins a Game Faster Than a Classical Computer. |
| March 26 |
No Meeting [Spring Break] |
| April 2 |
No Meeting [ICASSP] |
| April 9 |
Jonathan Yedidia, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory. Factor Graph and Optimization Method for a New Phase-Unwrapping Algorithm. |
April 16 (32-G449) |
Geoffrey Hinton, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and University of Toronto. An Efficient Way to Learn Deep Generative Models. NOTE: Held in Room 32-G449 (Patil/Kiva). |
| April 23 |
John Tsitsiklis, LIDS, MIT. Vignettes in Distributed Data Fusion. |
| April 30 |
Zhexu (Michael) Chen, SSG. Efficient Multi-Target Tracking Using Graphical Models and
David Sontag, CSAIL, MIT. Tightening Convex Relaxations for Probabilistic Inference. |
| May 7 |
Michael B. Wakin, University of Michigan. The Geometry of Compressive Sensing. |
| May 14 |
Group Party [internal] |