Reading Groups
These groups meet regularly in our department to discuss papers on a given research area. New students are welcome to attend.
If you would like to add a new reading group to this list please send us an email to gracs@cs.utexas.edu with the group information as shown in the examples below. Alternatively, feel free to add and/or update the information of the currently listed groups by logging in and editing this page.
Currently Updated Groups (as of Spring 2014)
ACL2 Seminar
| Description | The ACL2 seminar focuses on the development and application of automated reasoning tools, especially the ACL2 theorem prover. ACL2 is both a programming language in which you can model computer systems and a tool to help you prove properties of those models, and is part of the Boyer-Moore family of provers, for which its authors have received the 2005 ACM Software System Award. Typically, the seminar begins with a “round table”, which is a free-form discussion based on questions and replies on a variety of topics such as existing work and ACL2 usage questions. A prepared talk is then given. There is a tradition of encouraging questions and welcoming newcomers. |
| Meets | Most Fridays at 10:00–11:45 a.m. in GDC 7.808 |
| Faculty & Research Scientists | Warren Hunt, J Moore, Matt Kaufmann, Sandip Ray, Bill Young |
| More info | https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~moore/acl2/seminar |
| Last Active | Spring 2014 |
Algorithms and Computation Theory Seminar
| Description | Topics covered are recent results in algorithms and complexity theory. Presentations are sometimes by visitors, or faculty as well as students. New students are welcome and can join any time during the semester. |
| Meets | Every Friday at 11 a.m.–noon, in GDC 4.516 |
| Faculty | Anna Gal, Adam Klivans, Greg Plaxton, Vijaya Ramachandran, David Zuckerman |
| More info | Please subscribe to the algorithms@cs mailing list for information on the scheduling of talks as well as for announcements regarding upcoming talks. |
| Last Active | Spring 2014 |
Connecting Language Acquisition with Machine Perception Group
| Description | We explore integrations of various areas of AI such as vision, natural language processing, machine learning, robotics, etc with particular emphasis on language learning with the aid of perceptual data. |
| Meets | Every other Tuesday 10–11 a.m. in GDC 3.816 |
| Faculty | Raymond J. Mooney, Kristen Grauman, Risto Miikkulainen, Benjamin Kuipers, Jason Baldridge, Katrin Erk, Dana H. Ballard |
| More info | https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~ml/clamp/ |
| Last Active | Fall 2013 |
Data Mining Reading Group
Feature Learning and Representation Encoding reading group
| Description | The Feature Learning and Representation Encoding (FLARE) reading group meets biweekly to discuss research papers in the area of deep and feature learning, unsupervised modeling, and representation and encodings. |
| Meets | Every other Friday at 3:00–4:30 p.m., in GDC 4.516 |
| Organizer | Leif Johnson |
| More info | https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ut-flare |
| Last Active | Spring 2014 |
LASR reading group
Natural Language Learning Group
Programming Languages Reading Group
PL Lunch Group
| Description | The Programming Languages lunch offers a chance for current PL students, as well as students interested in PL topics, to discuss current research. Weekly presentations will be on recent papers or ongoing work by students in the department. Occasionally, outside speakers will be invited to present. New students are welcome. Lunch provided. |
| Meets | Every Tuesday at noon–1 p.m., in GDC 6.302 (unless otherwise noted) |
| Faculty | Keshav Pingali, Işıl Dillig, Calvin Lin, William Cook |
| More info | https://www.cs.utexas.edu/events/pl_lunch |
| Last Active | Fall 2015 |
Reinforcement Learning Reading Group
Computer Vision Reading Group
Previous Groups (updated Spring 2010)
Agents that Learn from Humans Reading Group
| Description | This student-run reading group focuses on methods and algorithms that allow computational agents to learn from human teachers via natural modes of communication (“natural” will be more of a goal than a full constraint). Specifically, this can include learning from advice, demonstration, or reinforcement. |
| Meets | Typically every other Wednesday at 3:30–5:00 p.m., in the conference room of ENS 32NE |
| More info | https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~bradknox/ALHReadingGroup |
| Last Active | Spring 2010 |
Computational Geometry Reading Group
| Description | We discuss topics such as convex hull computation, triangulation, voronoi diagrams, arrangements, data structures, art gallery problems, interpolation, etc. |
| Meets | Fridays from 2–3 p.m. in ACES 5.444 |
| Organizer | John Edwards |
| More info | https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~edwardsj/cgrg/ |
| Last Active | Spring 2011 |
Computational Learning Theory Reading Group
| Description | |
| Meets | Every Tuesday at 3:30–4:30 p.m., in ACES 6.256 |
| Organizer | Alex Tang |
| More info | |
| Last Active | Spring 2010 |
Developmental Robotics Reading Group
| Description | We read papers on developmental robotics and bootstrap learning. This reading group is starting this semester, so new people are welcome and encouraged to attend. |
| Meets | Every Tuesday at 2–3 p.m., in ENS 32 |
| More info | http://wiki.cs.utexas.edu/robot/ |
| Last Active | Spring 2010 |
Evolutionary Computation Reading Group
| Description | This is a student-run reading group (with food) aimed at reading current and/or seminal papers about Evolutionary Computation |
| Meets | Every other Thursday at 10:30–11:30 a.m., in ENS 31NM (unless otherwise noted) |
| Organizer | Julian Bishop |
| More info | http://userweb.cs.utexas.edu/~julian/ecrg |
| Last Active | Spring 2010 |
GNOFAI
Graphics Seminar
| Description | We discuss the cutting edge research papers on variety of graphics topics ranging from real-time rendering to physically based simulation, character animation, graphics hardware, modeling, surface representation/acquisition, photorealistic rendering, etc. |
| Meets | Every Friday at 3–4 p.m., in ACES 6.116 |
| Faculty | Don Fussell |
| More info | Our site is http://triangle.csres.utexas.edu/gps/ but the wiki is password protected. |
| Last Active | Spring 2010 |
Linear algebra and Data Mining Reading Group
Machine Reading Project Reading Group
Matrix and Statistical AI Reading Group
Groups that need to be updated or inactive groups
Cognitive Systems Reading Group
| Description | This is a group that aims to develop synergies between Systems and AI with the goal of making computer systems more able to self-configure, self-diagnose failures, self-repair, etc. |
| Meets | Every other Tuesday at 11 a.m.–noon, in ACES 2.404B |
| Faculty | Emmett Witchel, Peter Stone, Ray Mooney, Yin Zhang, Mike Dahlin, Kathryn McKinley, J.C. Browne, Vitaly Shmatikov |
| More info | https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~ml/cogsys |
| Last Active | Fall 2007 |
Debugging Reading Group
| Description | In this reading, we are looking for the current issues and techniques related to the software debugging. At the beginning, we will focus on the concurrency bugs including both data race and atomicity violation. Note that we do not limit our interest to the concurrency problems. |
| Meets | Every other Thursday at 3–4 p.m., in ACES 2.444 |
| Faculty | Kathryn McKinley |
| More info | https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~speedway/meetingwiki/wiki.scgi?DebugReadingGroup |
| Last Active | Spring 2007 |
Knowledge Representation & Reasoning Reading Group
| Description | We read papers on general issues of AI, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, and Natural Language Processing. Newcomers are always welcomed. |
| Meets | Every other Tuesday at 4–5 p.m., location varies |
| Faculty & Research Scientists | Bruce Porter, Ken Barker |
| More info | https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~sudipta/krr |
| Last Active | Fall 2007 |
Machine Learning Group
“Subsumed by the Data Mining group as of Fall 2008.”
Transfer Learning Reading Group
| Description | This is a reading group connected with a DARPA grant on transfer learning. We read papers devoted to this topic. |
| Meets | Every other Friday at 10–11 a.m., in ACES 6.444 |
| Faculty | Peter Stone, Ray Mooney |
| More info | https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~lilyanam/TL/ or email mtaylor |
| Last Active | Spring 2007 |
Theory Student Seminar
| Description | This is a seminar in theoretical computer science run by students. Anyone is welcome to attend the seminar, though the talks will mostly be given by students. |
| Meets | Every Monday at 4–5 p.m. (see Web site for details) |
| Faculty | Adam Klivans, David Zuckerman, Anna Gal |
| More info | Please use this website or subscribe to the algorithms@cs mailing list for information on the scheduling of talks as well as for announcements regarding upcoming talks. |
| Last Active | Spring 2007 |
ITTY Reading Group
