CSCI 597 Seminar in Computer Science Research
Mondays, 12:00-12:50pm, OHE-122
Fall 2005: Professor Laurent Itti, itti@pollux.usc.edu
TA: Vidhya Navalpakkam, navalpak@usc.edu
CSCI 597 provides a series of expository lectures to introduce Ph.D. students to the breadth of research topics in CS (and, to some extent, beyond). The idea is to cycle through the subareas of USC research in CS each semester.
First-year Ph.D. Students are required to enroll for 1 unit of CSCI 597 for the first 2 semesters of the Ph.D. Program. (Applicable only to students enrolling in Summer of 2000 or later.)
| Spring 2006 | Speaker | Title of the talk |
|---|---|---|
| 1/9 | Laurent Itti | TBA |
| 1/16 | Holiday | - |
| 1/23 | Laurent Itti | A suprise theory of attention |
| 1/30 | TBA | TBA |
| 2/6 | TBA | TBA |
| 2/13 | Karen Liu | Towards a Generative Model of Natural Motion |
| 2/20 | Holiday | - |
| 2/27 | Wei Min Shen | Can we create a precursor of "T1000" robot and control it with "Digital Hormones"? |
| 3/6 | Debojyoti Dutta | Algorithms for virtual drug screening |
| 3/13 | Holiday | TBA |
| 3/20 | Alexander Egyed | Software Modeling and its traceability to code |
| 3/27 | Stefan Schall | TBA |
| 4/3 | Richard Leahy | TBA |
| 4/10 | Roger Zimmerman | TBA |
| 4/17 | Cyrus Shahabi | TBA |
| 4/24 | Craig Knoblock | Geospatial Data Integration |
- Each talk will be a Tutorial on the given sub area, but may also
serve to frame some specific interest of the presenter. In addition,
some lectures will present other topics of general interest to
Ph.D. students.
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During each lecture, speakers will point the students to a link to a
representative reference (or set of references) that will assist
students in gaining more understanding of the topic discussed in
class.
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NOTE: On-time attendance to the
lectures is required. To pass the class this semester, students
must obtain at least 75% attendance.
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One professor will act as supervisor for a whole year of the course.
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It will be the job of this professor to ensure that a lecturer is signed up for
each class meeting, that materials are posted on the Web, that papers are
submitted and graded, and that a final grade (CR/NCR) is assigned.
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Plagiarism Warning: Any student caught cheating during
any of the quizzes will fail the class and be referred to the
University's student conduct office.