EECS Department Colloquium Series

This colloquium is dedicated to hosting presentations at the intersection of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. The colloquium consists of a mix of short faculty presentations presenting their latest research results, with presentations of internationally distinguished speakers who are brought to campus to interact with our department's community.

Wednesdays 4:00-5:00 PM HP Auditorium, 306 Soda Hall (unless otherwise noted)

Spring 2015

January 21	Erasure Coding for Cloud Storage Parikshit Gopalan Microsoft Research
January 28
February 4	*EECS Colloquium* - 3:00-4:00pm, Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall (Refreshments served at 2:30pm in front of the Banatao Auditorium) A Big World of Tiny Motions William T. Freeman Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, MIT *CS Colloquium* - 4:00-5:00pm, HP Auditorium Building a Better Web Browser James Mickens Distributed Systems Group, Microsoft Redmond Lab
February 11	Community Cellular Networks in the Developing World Kurtis Heimerl Postdoc Rearcher, TIER, UC Berkeley
February 18	Tightness of convex relaxations for certain inverse problems on graphs Afonso Bandeira Graduate Student, Princeton University
February 25	Interaction as Manipulation Anca Dragan Carnegie Mellon University
March 4	Hardware and Software for Approximate Computing Adrian Sampson University of Washington
March 11	Preventing Information Leaks with Jeeves Jean Yang Computer Science, MIT
March 18	Chunlei Liu Duke University
March 25	Spring Break
April 1
April 8	Making a Web of Things: A System-of-Systems Perspective Prabal Dutta Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan
April 15
April 22
April 29	Learning Submodular Functions Maria Florina Balcan School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
May 6