====== Research Group Presentation Schedule 2008-2009 ======
===== Term 2, Spring 2009 =====

|  Date  ^  **Machine Intelligence**  ^  **Social Computing**  ^
^   5 Jan  |  Mondrian Process and related topics  | |
^   12 Jan   |  Bo Chan\\ {{:rg:sdm08_chenbo.pdf|A semi-supervised Framework for Feature Mapping and Multiclass Classification}} \\ {{:rg:semisupervised_learning_chen_bo.ppt|PPT}}  | |
^   19 Jan   |  Group\\ {{:rg:hongkongust2009_mp.pdf|Mondrian Process PPT}}\\ [[http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jordan/nips-tutorial05.ps|Dirichlet Process, Chinese Restaurant Processes and All That]] \\ [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirichlet_process|Wikipedia Dirichlet process]]  | |
^   26 Jan  |   Public Holiday  |  |
^   2 Feb  |   No meeting  |  |
^   9 Feb  |   Zenglin Xu\\ Gaussian Process\\ [[http://www.gaussianprocess.org/gpml/chapters/RW.pdf| Book: Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning]]\\ [[http://www.gaussianprocess.org/|Gaussian Process website]] \\ [[http://www.gaussianprocess.org/gpml/code/gpml-matlab.zip|GPML Matlab Code]]  | |
^   16 Feb  |  Haiqin Yang\\ [[http://www.di.ens.fr/~fbach/nips2008_mtc.pdf|Clustered Multi-Task Learning: A Convex Formulation]] \\ [[http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.47.3921|Convex analysis on the Hermitian matrices]] \\ [[http://ttic.uchicago.edu/~nati/Publications/AmitEtAlICML07.pdf|Uncovering Shared Structures in Multiclass Classification]]  |  Tom Zhou\\ {{:presentations:discovering_community_user_latent_behavior_comparing_arm_and_lda.pdf|Discovering Community User Latent Behavior Comparing ARM and LDA(WWW 2009)}}\\ {{:presentations:latent_dirichlet_allocation.pdf|Latent dirichlet allocation}} \\ {{:presentations:finding_scientific_topics.pdf|Finding scientific topics.pdf}} \\ {{:presentations:discovering_community_user_latent_behavior_comparing_arm_and_lda_www_2009_.pdf|notes}}   |
^   23 Feb  |   Discussion of IJCAI  |   Hongbo Deng\\ Report on WSDM and Best Papers  |
^   2 Mar  |   Hao Ma\\ TBA  |  Dan Hong\\ {{:presentations:privacy.ppt|Privacy networks}}  | 
^   9 Mar  |   |  Hongbo \\ WSDM'09 Papers \\ [[http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/~fdiaz/fdiaz-wsdm2009.pdf|Aggregation of News Content Into Web Results]] \\ [[http://turing.cs.washington.edu/papers/wsdm09-adar.pdf|The Web Changes Everything: Understanding the Dynamics of Web Content]]  |
^   16 Mar  |   <hi #ffff00>No Meeting</hi>  |   |
^   23 Mar  |   Xin Xin\\ TBA  |  Thomas\\ [[http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1341531.1341558|Can Social Bookmarking Improve Web Search?]] [[http://heymann.stanford.edu/improvewebsearch.html|Supplementary Materials]]  \\ \\  [[http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1458112|Can All Tags be Used for Search?]]  |
^   30 Mar  |    <hi #ffff00>No Meeting</hi>  |    |
^   6 Apr   |                                 | Bo Chen {{:presentations:domain_adaptation.ppt|domain}}{{:presentations:seminar.pdf|seminar}}|
^   13 Apr  |   Zenglin\\ TBA  |  Tom\\ TBA  |