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Carnegie Mellon Database Seminar

Fall 2007


The CMU database seminar is a gathering of students and faculty interested in database systems, data mining and machine learning. The meetings are hour-long and unless otherwise announced, the seminar is held in Wean Hall 7220 at 5:00-6:00pm every Monday.
Refreshments will be provided!

The schedule below shows the dates currently open. If you would like to schedule your talk at some other date than those listed, or at a date that is already taken, please contact us, and we will work with you to set a convenient date.


Date Speaker(s) Talk Comments
Monday, Jan 28 Hanghang Tong
Center-Piece Subgraphs: Problem Definition and Fast Solutions Practice talk for DAP project of MLD.
Monday, Feb 11 Amit Manjhi
Increasing the Scalability of Data-Intensive Web Applications Practice talk for thesis defense
Monday, Feb 18 George Samaras
DITIS: Digital Collaborative Teams for Home Healthcare Special joint UPitt/CMU seminar
Monday, Feb 18 Jure Leskovec
Network cascades: observations, models and algorithms Job interview practice talk
Monday, Feb 25 Wanhong Xu
Facebook: Statistics, Inference and Application
Monday, Mar 3 Charalampos (Babis) Tsourakakis
Counting Triangles in real networks: algorithms and applications
Friday, Mar 21 Debabrata Dash
Linear Programming-based tool for Automated Physical Design Speaking skill practice talk.
Monday, Mar 31 Fan Guo
C-DEM: Drosophila Embryo Mining Project Practice talk for SDM 2008.
Monday, Apr 7 James McCann
Laziness is a virtue: Motion stitching using effort Eurographics session by Jim and Kensuke
Monday, Apr 7 Kensuke Onuma
FMDistance: A fast and effective distance function for motion capture data Practice talk for Eurographics.
Monday, Apr 14 Leman Akoglu
Mining Sequential Patterns with user-specified constraints Related paper: R. Srikant & R. Agrawal. Mining sequential patterns: Generalizations and performance improvements, EDBT96
Friday, May 2 Data Mining class
Data Mining class project demos The demos will take place at WeH 4615-A from noon till 5:00pm.
Monday, May 5 Gunhee Kim
Unsupervised Modeling of Object Categories Using Link Analysis Techniques



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