Lis Group Meetings

This semester, we're going to alternate STAIR and LIS group meetings, so that either STAIR or LIS happens each week. The day, time, and place is:

Fridays, 3-4:30pm, G4 Lounge

For those new to the LIS list, STAIR stands for STatistical AI Reading group. At each meeting, someone leads a discussion on a paper or two. The website for STAIR is http://projects.csail.mit.edu/stair/. Email Jenny (JLBarry AT mit.edu) if you have a paper you want to talk about!

For group meetings, the plan is to rotate through LIS people, so that at each meeting one person gives an informal talk. "Informal" means that the talks don't need to be long or polished or about important results. We'd like to aim for 20-40 minutes plus questions. You can talk about your latest result, or a crazy idea you just had, or a problem you're stuck on.

To sign up for a slot at a particular meeting, fill in your name below. (Free spots are marked with ---.)

Fall 2009 Schedule

  • October 2 - STAIR
  • October 9
  1. Attend the first Classification and Beyond talk on Oct 6
  2. Sam leads a discussion of the talk during the LIS meeting time
  • October 16 - STAIR
  • October 23 
 Wee Sun - 'An Abstract MDP Solver'
  • October 30 - STAIR
  • November 6 
 Joint meeting with Regina's group to discuss the following papers:
  1. http://web.mae.cornell.edu/hadaskg/Publications/KGFP_ICRA07.pdf
  2. http://web.mae.cornell.edu/hadaskg/Publications/AR2592.pdf
  • November 13 - STAIR
  • November 20 - STAIR again
  • November 27 - THANKSGIVING
  • December 6 - STAIR or TALK 
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  • December 13 - STAIR or TALK 
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