March 2014 - Dm-meeting - mailman.cs.vt.edu

*Reminder* Tomorrow @ 9:30am
by yaozhang 27 Mar '14

27 Mar '14

Hi everyone, Just kindly reminder that we have group meeting TOMORROW AT 9:30AM in the 3160 conference room. Regards, Yao

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Meeting reschedule
by yaozhang 26 Mar '14

26 Mar '14

Hi everyone, Since the meeting room has been booked by other groups, we have to cancel our group meeting tomorrow. Our meeting is rescheduled at FRIDAY 9:30AM in the 3160 conference room. Regards, Yao

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Tomorrow @ 11am
by yaozhang 26 Mar '14

26 Mar '14

Hi everyone, Tomorrow we will meet at 11AM in the 3160 conference room. Yao will present his work published in SDM'14. Regards, Yao

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Meeting Schedule
by yaozhang 17 Mar '14

17 Mar '14

Hi everyone, We will meet with Chris and his group this week (Wednesday 12noon-1pm). Hence, our own bi-week meeting will be postponed to next week (next Thursday). Yao will present his work published in SDM'14 next week. Regards, Yao

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Meeting with Chris North's group
by B. Aditya Prakash 16 Mar '14

16 Mar '14

Hi everyone, (bcc-ed to avoid group-reply avalanches) We (=Chris and I) plan to have a meeting of all the students in 3160 on Wednesday March 19. Which of the following time-slots does NOT work for you? 1. 12noon-1pm 2. 1-2pm 3. 2-3pm Please let me know asap. cheers, - Aditya

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Yao gets a SDM travel award
by B. Aditya Prakash 14 Mar '14

14 Mar '14

Hi everyone, Yao has received a SDM Travel award (=$850) for the SDM conference in Philadelphia next month. This is for his paper 'DAVA: Distributing Vaccines under Prior Information over Large Networks'. Congratulations Yao! cheers, - Aditya

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Meeting Notes (03/06/14)
by yaozhang 07 Mar '14

07 Mar '14

Hi everyone, Yesterday we mainly talked about papers we submitted to KDD. Yao talked about the work about coarsening large networks based on information diffusion. The idea of this work is to contract edges to make the graph much smaller while keeping the properties of information diffusion. Shashi presented his work on finding culprits and missing nodes. The idea is to use MDL principle to indentify the best missing infections and seeds. Liangzhe presented his paper on modeling the flu states using Twitter data. They use HMM model to describe S-E-I states, and predict the infection counts. Sorour and Elaheh introduced themselves. Sorour talked about her project on analyzing topics of tweets and finding influential users for topics. Elaheh talked about her paper on feature reductions. The next meeting will be on March 20th. Yao will present his work published in SDM'14. Regards, Yao

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Thursday, March 6th @ 1pm
by yaozhang 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

Hi everyone, Don't forget the group meeting today at 1pm. Regards, Yao -------- Original Message -------- SUBJECT: [Dm-meeting] Thursday, March 6th @ 1pm DATE: 2014-03-04 00:55 FROM: yaozhang <yaozhang(a)cs.vt.edu> TO: Dm Meeting <dm-meeting(a)cs.vt.edu> Hi everyone, We'll re-start our bi-weekly group meeting from this week. Schedule: Thursday (March 6th) 1pm Location: the 3160 conference room Topic: Everyone will talk about their KDD submissions, and ICWSM paper reviews (whoever did them). Regards, Yao _______________________________________________ Dm-meeting mailing list Dm-meeting(a)cs.vt.edu https://mailman.cs.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/dm-meeting [1] Links: ------ [1] https://mailman.cs.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/dm-meeting

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Thursday, March 6th @ 1pm
by yaozhang 04 Mar '14

04 Mar '14

Hi everyone, We'll re-start our bi-weekly group meeting from this week. Schedule: Thursday (March 6th) 1pm Location: the 3160 conference room Topic: Everyone will talk about their KDD submissions, and ICWSM paper reviews (whoever did them). Regards, Yao

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Attending Faculty Candidate Talks
by B. Aditya Prakash 03 Mar '14

03 Mar '14

Hi everyone, Starting this week, the ML faculty candidates would be visiting VT. Please keep an eye out for their talks and attend them. Firstly they should be interesting technically, and secondly, it will help *you* understand what is a good job-talk, how to interact, what type of questions people ask etc. This week, seems like there might be two talks of interest to us: by Martha White (March 4 9:30am) and by Benjamin Moseley (March 6, 9:30) cheers, - Aditya

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