CIIR weekly lab meetings, Fall 2006

This page lists IRlab meetings for this semester. Please feel free to edit the wiki to sign up for a meeting.

In the past, a meeting has included two 20-minute talks with 5 minutes Q/A period after each. Ideally, the two talks are somehow connected. The connection could be very strong, in which case the two talks should be prepared with some collaboration.

The talks could be on your own work or any other interesting work that is related to the lab's general research direction. To stimulate new research ideas, please include a slide in the end that addresses future directions and open research questions related to that work.

This semester, meetings are held on Friday mornings in CS 142 - Large Classroom - from 11am-12noon, unless otherwise specified.

September

• 8th. "What I did on my summer vacation." Few minute description of what you worked on over the summer and what you're going to be doing this coming year.

• 15th. Desi Petkova(slides) and Yun Zhou.
• 22nd. GALE research group overview (James, Ao, Mark, and Ben)
• 29th. Hema Raghavan(slides) (I will talk about methods to incorporate term feedback in an SVM framework)

October

• 6th. Ben and Trevor.
• 13th. Xing Yi ( Modeling Relevance in Semi-Structured Database) and Fernando Diaz, "TBD"
• 20th. JJ and Ron "Interactive Clustering of Text Collections According to a User-Specified Criterion"
• 27th. Don and Shaolei Feng.

November - All talks in large classroom - room 142 - unless otherwise specified.

• 3rd. Paul Thomas of ANU - visiting guest speaker (abstract).
• 6th. 10am - Special Guest Speaker Jian-Yun Nie of U. Montreal (abstract) - room 151.
• 10th. UMass Holiday - no meeting
• 17th. Xing Wei and Fernando.
• 24th. Thanksgiving break

December

• 1st. Giridhar (A Case for Shorter Queries, and Helping Users Create Them) and Fernando.
• 8th. Xiaoyong and Ben.
• 15th. Ao and Ron "Web Page Clustering using Heuristic Search in the Web Graph"
• 22nd. unlikely to have a meeting here