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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 registering to edit this Wiki.
Currently Updated Groups (as of Spring 2011)
ACL2 Seminar
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 2pm - 3pm in ACES 5.444 |
Organizer | [mailto:edwardsj@cs.utexas.edu John Edwards] |
More info | https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~edwardsj/cgrg/ |
Last Active | Spring 2011 |
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 pm, in the conference room of ENS 32NE |
More info | https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~bradknox/ALHReadingGroup |
Last Active | Spring 2010 |
Algorithms and Computation Theory Seminar
Computational Learning Theory Reading Group
Description | |
Meets | Every Tuesday at 3:30-4:30 pm, in ACES 6.256 |
Organizer | Alex Tang |
More info | |
Last Active | Spring 2010 |
Computer Vision Reading Group
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 Friday at 1:00-2:00 pm, in ACES 5.444 |
Faculty | Raymond J. Mooney], [https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~grauman Kristen Grauman], [https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~risto Risto Miikkulainen], [https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~kuipers Benjamin Kuipers], [http://comp.ling.utexas.edu/jbaldrid/ Jason Baldridge], [http://comp.ling.utexas.edu/erk/ Katrin Erk], [https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~dana Dana H. Ballard |
More info | https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~ml/clamp/ |
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 2:00-3:00 pm, in ENS 32 |
More info | http://z.cs.utexas.edu/wiki/robot.wiki |
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 am, in ENS 31NM (unless otherwise noted) |
Organizer | [mailto:julian@cs.utexas.edu Julian Bishop] |
More info | http://userweb.cs.utexas.edu/~julian/ecrg |
Last Active | Spring 2010 |
GNOFAI
Description | Gnofai is a student reading group where we discuss interesting machine learning concepts and their relevance to research. The format is very informal, with student run discussions on papers and tutorials. |
Meets | Fridays from 1pm - 2pm in ACES 5.444 |
Organizer | [mailto:sanmi.k@mail.utexas.edu] |
More info | https://utlists.utexas.edu/sympa/subscribe/GNOFAI |
Last Active | Fall 2010 |
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 3:00-4:00 pm, 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
Natural Language Learning Group
PL Lunch Group
Programming Languages Reading Group
Reinforcement Learning Reading Group
Description | This is a student-run reading group (with food) aimed at reading current papers on RL. |
Meets | Every other Wednesday or Friday at noon, in ENS 32NEA (unless otherwise noted) |
More info | https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shivaram/rlreadinggroup/ |
Last Active | Spring 2010 |
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 11:00 am-noon, in ACES 2.404B |
Faculty | Emmett Witchel], [https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~pstone/ Peter Stone], [https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~mooney/ Ray Mooney], [https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~yzhang/ Yin Zhang], [https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~dahlin/ Mike Dahlin], [https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~mckinley/ Kathryn McKinley], [https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~browne/ J.C. Browne], [https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/ Vitaly Shmatikov |
More info | https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~ml/cogsys |
Last Active | Fall 2007 |
Data Mining Research Group
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 3:00 pm-4:00 pm, 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
Machine Learning Group
“Subsumed by the Data Mining group as of Fall 2008.”
Transfer Learning Reading Group
Theory Student Seminar
ITTY Reading Group