Princeton PICASso: Program in Integrative Information, Computer and Application Sciences

These graduate student-oriented seminars provide a forum to present and learn about computationally-oriented research occurring in many different disciplines. Interaction is encouraged with an emphasis on sharing ideas and obtaining feedback regarding issues arising at any stage of the computational pipeline, from applications through models and methods to scalable parallel and distributed computing, storage and visualization. To make these talks accessible to a multi-disciplinary audience of researchers, no prior knowledge of the specific discipline area will be assumed by the speakers.

ALL ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND!

Fall 2008 Schedule

	September 15	Information Extraction from Informal Texts Lyle Ungar, CIS, University of Pennsylvania
	September 22	Thermodynamics of natural images Greg Stephens, Physics, Princeton University
	September 29	The Tradeoffs of Large Scale Learning Leon Bottou, NEC
	October 6	Combining Words & Pictures Tamara Berg, Computer Science, SUNY Stonybrook
	October 13	Coding and computation by neural ensembles in the primate retina Liam Paninski, Statistics, Columbia University
	October 20	Towards digital assays Thierry Emonet, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University
	October 27	*No Seminar --- Fall Break*
	November 3	Sparse spatial sample kernels - An efficient way of measuring remote sequence similarity Vladimir Pavlovic, Computer Science, Rutgers University
	November 10	5-D Plasma Turbulence Bill Dorland, Physics, University of Maryland
	November 17	Learning Predictive Structures from Data using Supervised Dimensionality Reduction and Sparse Graphical Models Irina Rish, IBM
	November 24	What Is a Statistical Model and When Do I Need One? Bill Press, Computer Science, University of Texas
	December 1	Supernova Explosions on the Computer Adam Burrows, Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University
	December 8	Billions of neurons, only hundreds of measurements -- can we possibly make sense of the brain? Carlos Brody, Molecular Biology, Princeton University

MONDAYS, Computer Science Building, Room 302 (unless otherwise noted)

Seminars begin at 12:30 p.m.

These seminars are partially supported by the Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Engineering (PICSciE)

This seminar series consists of three types of talks:

PICASso "Successes" Seminar

Leading researchers are invited to present special sessions about key "Successes of Computational Science" in their field; i.e., areas of success in the science that could not have been (or easily been) achieved without scalable computation.

PICSciE Colloquium

Leading researchers are invited to present accessible overviews of their work, or tutorials on specific methods.

PICASso Research Seminar

Graduate students, post-docs and young faculty present overviews of their research projects and/or tutorials on computational methods they are using.

Interested in presenting a talk?

PICASSO MAILING LIST:
If you would like to be kept informed of computationally-oriented events in (and around) Princeton, please SUBSCRIBE to the PICASso mailing list by visiting https://lists.cs.princeton.edu/mailman/listinfo/picasso. This page also contains information on how to UNSUBSCRIBE.