RLAI Tea-Time Talks 2010

	Reinforcement Learning and Artificial Intelligence (RLAI)
	Summer Tea-Time Talks 2010

Details

Mondays and Thursdays (2 days a week) this summer:

When: Mondays and Thursdays, 4:00-4:30pm (tea starting at 3:45pm)
Dates: May 3, 2010 to August 26, 2010
Where: CSC 3-33

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Notes:

Everyone is welcome!
You, either RLAI member or visitor, are strongly encouraged to give a talk. Please let us know.
Giving a talk? Please read the Guidelines bellow.

Other talks:

LLL is every Wendesday at noon in CSC 3-33.

Overview

Guidelines

A tea-time talk can either be an overview of a relevant paper or a summary of the presenter's own work
Talks start punctually at 4:00pm, and are limited to 20 minutes + 10 minutes of question time
Presenters should focus on transmitting information as efficiently as possible
It is the presenter's responsibility to pass over disruptive questions if they divert from the talk
It is the listener's responsibility to only ask questions that help clarify rather than disrupt the talk
All subscribers to this list are expected to give one short talk per round.
Short of ideas? Check out the paper suggestions below (see also previous tea talks)

Organization

These web pages are "self-organizing"
For each new round of talks, all subscribers will be randomly assigned a day to present a talk
Please resolve date conflicts by agreeing to swap with someone else, and then edit the table below
If you have difficult constraints, notify the list to find someone to swap with (click on "notify" at foot of page)
Please select a topic for your talk at least one week in advance, and edit it into the table above
If you are presenting a paper, please provide a link to the paper in the table
Reminders of upcoming talks will be sent out on a weekly basis
Editing open pages such as this is easy but requires Mozilla Seamonkey (http://www.seamonkey-project.org/). You really should learn how to do this, but don't let it slow down getting your information in here. If you don't know how to edit yet, then please send your information to Patrick (pilarski@ualberta.ca) for posting. You can also send your information as a comment to this page, by clicking "Extend this page" at the bottom of this page. Note: LLL is ogranized in a different way than TTT; send Gabor a note if you are interested in giving an LLL talk.
One student per week is in charge of making sure that we still have some tea and cookies, that the kettle is hot by 3:45, and clearing away at the end of the talk. This responsibility will rotate through the students in order indicated by the "host" column below. Hosts should see Patrick to pick up their tea for the week.

2010 Schedule

May

Date	Weekday	Time	Location	Speaker	Topic and Comments	Host	Tea of the Day	Type	Temp.	Region of Origin
May 3	Monday	3:30pm (tea at 3:00pm)	CSC B-10	Rich Wolski	Eucalyptus: An Open Source Infrastructure for Cloud Computing (Dist. Lect. Series)	n/a	Red Rose / Lipton / Tazo	Black & Green	Var.	Ceylon, China, Various
May 6	Thursday	4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm)	CSC 3-33	Rich Sutton	Online representation learning in the state update function	Patrick Pilarski	Bukhial TGFOP	Black	200F 93C	Assam, India
May 10	Monday	4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm)	CSC 3-33	Yaoliang Yu	Variable Selection by Nonconcave Penalizers	Patrick Pilarski	Margret's Hope 2nd. Flush	Black	200F 93C	Darjeeling, India
May 12	Wednesday	12:00 noon (LLL)	CSC 3-33	CANCELLED
May 13	Thursday	4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm)	CSC 3-33	Joseph Modayil	Learning grounded knowledge from sensorimotor experience	Patrick Pilarski	Ying Ming Yunnan	Black	200F 93C	Yunnan, China
May 17	Monday	4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm)	CSC 3-33	Patrick Pilarski	Feature and Variable Selection	Mike Delp	Japanese Cherry Sencha	Flavoured Green	175F 80C	Japan
May 19	Wednesday	12:00 noon (LLL)	CSC 3-33	CANCELLED
May 20	Thursday	5:00pm (tea at 4:45pm)	CSC 3-33	Martha White	tba	Mike Delp
May 24	Monday	4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm)	CSC 3-33	CANCELLED	(n.b. Victoria Day Holiday)	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
May 26	Wednesday	12:00 noon (LLL)	CSC 3-33	Michael Joya	Learning a Representation with Separable Maps
May 27	Thursday	4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm)	CSC 3-33	István Szita	(n.b. MITACS/CORS is on this day)	Leah Hackman	Sencha	Green	175F 80C	Japan
May 31	Monday	4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm)	CSC 3-33	Marc Bellemare	Proto-value functions in 19 minutes and one take	Michael Joya	Genmaicha	Green with toasted rice	175F 80C	Japan

June

Date	Weekday	Time	Location	Speaker	Topic and Comments	Host	Tea of the Day	Type	Temp.	Region of Origin
June 3	Thursday	4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm)	CSC 3-33	CANCELLED	(n.b. NIPS deadline on this day)	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
June 7	Monday	4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm)	CSC 3-33	Elliot Ludvig	Learning from imagined experience in spatial navigation	Martha White	Tanzanian CTC	Black	200F 93C	Tanzania
June 9	Wednesday	12:00 noon (LLL)	CSC 3-33	CANCELLED
June 10	Thursday	4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm)	CSC 3-33	Adam White	tba	Martha White	Ceylon CTC	Black	200F 93C	Sri Lanka
June 14	Monday	5:00pm (tea at 4:45pm)	CSC 3-33	Gábor Balázs (bg)	Mathematical background of reward shaping in reinforcement learning	Ashique Mahmood Rupam	Nine Bend Red Dragon	Black	200F 93C	Fujian, China
June 16	Wednesday	12:00 noon (LLL)	CSC 3-33	MOVED
June 17	Thursday	4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm)	CSC 3-33	Chris Rayner	Pattern analysis: a small round trip	Ashique Mahmood Rupam	Lychee Congou	Flavoured Black	200F 93C	Congou, China
June 18	Friday	12:00 noon (LLL)	CSC 3-33	Xinhua Zhang	Distributed Subgradient Methods for Multi-agent Online Optimization
June 21	Monday	4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm)	CSC 3-33	Hengshuai Yao	(n.b. ICML is on this day)	Hengshuai Yao	Houjicha (Roasted Bancha)	Roasted Greeen	175F 80C	Japan
June 23	Wednesday	12:00 noon (LLL)	CSC 3-33
June 24	Thursday	4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm)	CSC 3-33	Mike Delp	(n.b. ICML is on this day)	Hengshuai Yao
June 28	Monday	4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm)	CSC 3-33	Dale Schuurmans		Adam White
June 30	Wednesday	12:00 noon (LLL)	CSC 3-33

July

Date	Weekday	Time	Location	Speaker	Topic and Comments	Host	Tea of the Day	Type	Brewing Temperature	Region of Origin
July 1	Thursday	4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm)	CSC 3-33	Thomas Degris	Why Canada is Awesome: an extended study	Adam White
July 5	Monday	4:00pm (tea at 4:00pm)	CSC 3-33	Hamid Maei	tba	Hamid Reza Maei
July 8	Thursday	4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm)	CSC 3-33	Leah Hackman		Hamid Reza Maei
July 12	Monday	4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm)	CSC 3-33	James Neufeld	(n.b. AAAI is on this day)	James Neufeld
July 15	Thursday	4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm)	CSC 3-33		(n.b. AAAI is on this day)	James Neufeld
July 19	Monday	4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm)	CSC 3-33	Anna Koop		Anna Koop
July 22	Thursday	4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm)	CSC 3-33	Yasin Abbasi		Anna Koop
July 26	Monday	4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm)	CSC 3-33	Ashique Mahmood Rupam		Gábor Bartók
July 29	Thursday	4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm)	CSC 3-33	Csaba Szepesvári		Gábor Bartók

August

Date	Weekday	Time	Location	Speaker	Topic and Comments	Host	Tea of the Day	Type	Brewing Temperature	Region of Origin
Aug. 2	Monday	4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm)	CSC 3-33			Gábor Balázs
Aug. 5	Thursday	4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm)	CSC 3-33			Gábor Balázs
Aug. 9	Monday	4:00pm (tea at 4:00pm)	CSC 3-33	Rob Holte	Learning Search Heuristics and the connection to RL	Yasin Abbasi-Yadkori
Aug. 12	Thursday	4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm)	CSC 3-33			Yasin Abbasi-Yadkori
Aug. 16	Monday	4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm)	CSC 3-33	Xin Xu	Introduction to Xin's RL interests	Marc Bellemare
Aug. 19	Thursday	4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm)	CSC 3-33	CANCELLED	(n.b. cancelled because of iCore banff summit)	Marc Bellemare
Aug. 23	Monday	4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm)	CSC 3-33			Chris Rayner
Aug. 26	Thursday	4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm)	CSC 3-33	Rich Sutton?	Last Tea-Time Talk of Summer 2010	Chris Rayner

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