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Spring 2007 Seminar Series

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These seminars are open to the public, and a video recording of the seminar is archived in the CLSP library. The talks are held on Tuesdays from 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM in Shaffer Hall, Room 3 on the Homewood Campus of Johns Hopkins University (unless otherwise noted).

Shaffer Hall is located directly across the lower quad from Barton Hall, the building where CLSP is located. Click here for directions to CLSP.


For more information on the Seminar Series, please send your inquiries to clsp@jhu.edu or call at 410-516-4237.


 January 
31st
Title: Learning and exploiting statistical dependencies in networks
Presenter: David Jensen
Affiliation(s): University of Massachusetts Amherst
 February 
6th
Title: Latent factor models for relational data and social networks
Presenter: Peter Hoff
Affiliation(s): University of Washington
Presentation Slides: PDF
13th
Title: Diffusion Kernels on Graphs
Presenter: Bruno Jedynak
Affiliation(s): Johns Hopkins University (CIS)
Presentation Slides: PDF
20th
Title: Exploiting Sparsity and Structure in Parametric and Nonparametric Estimation
Presenter: John Lafferty
Affiliation(s): Carnegie Mellon University
Location: Hodson 110 1pm - 2pm (refreshments @ 12:30)

Other: This is a joint seminar with the JHU Center for Imaging Science (http://cis.jhu.edu/)
27th
Title: Spoken Document Retrieval and Browsing
Presenter: Ciprian Chelba
Affiliation(s): Google Inc.
Presentation Slides: PDF
 March 
6th
Title: The Real Time News Analysis (RTNA) Project
Presenter:Joan E. Forester
Affiliation(s): U.S. Army Research Laboratory
Presentation Slides: PDF
13th NO SEMINAR - SPRING BREAK
20th
Title: Complexity Metrics for Surface Structure Parsing
Presenter: John Hale
Affiliation(s): Michigan State University
27th
Title: A synthesis of logical reasoning and word learning abilities in children and adults
Presenter: Justin Halberda
Affiliation(s): Johns Hopkins University
 April 
3rd NO SEMINAR
10th NO SEMINAR
17th
Title: Protein folding and parsing
Presenter: Julia Hockenmaier
Affiliation(s): University of Pennsylvania
24th NO SEMINAR
 May 
1st
Title: Factoring Speech into Linguistic Features
Presenter: Karen Livescu
Affiliation(s): Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3rd
Title: Should Airplanes Flap Wings?
(Should machine processing of sensory data take inspiration from nature?)

Presenter: Hynek Hermansky
Affiliation(s): IDIAP Research Institute
Location: Barton 117 @ 4pm -- This is an ECE seminar.
8th
Title: Machine Translation = Automata Theory + Probability + Linguistics
Presenter: Kevin Knight
Affiliation(s): USC/Information Sciences Institute
10th
Title: A MULTINOMIAL VIEW OF SIGNAL SPECTRA FOR LATENT-VARIABLE ANALYSES
Presenter: Bhiksha Raj
Affiliation(s): MERL Research Lab
Location: Barton 117 @ 4pm -- This is an ECE seminar.





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