Piled Higher and Deeper by Jorge Cham, www.phdcomics.com

NaN meeting schedule

Spring 2007

Tuesdays at 4-6pm in Eigenmann 919. Those who forget to send their abstract by Monday night, should bring cookies.

When Who What
1/23 Organizational meeting
1/30 Stephen Simms Data Capacitor update and planning
2/6 Ben Proposal beta (GiveALink.org)
2/13 2/20 Ruj Proposal beta (6S security)
2/20 Le-Shin Proposal beta (6S query routing)
2/27 Mark Standard vs click-weighted PageRank
3/6 Heather, Mike GiveALink.org update
3/13 Spring break
3/20 Todd Collaborative filtering (what I'll do with the Netflix $1M)
3/27 Jacob Proposal alpha (QA/summarization with DOM graph)
4/3 Alejandro Concept extraction from the Web
4/10 Thomas Dissertation defense beta
4/17 Heather (& Mark) Oral beta (& Effects of sampling bias on network structure)
4/24 Bharat, Jacob Dynamics of Web: mining Internet Archive and Wikipedia
5/8 (?) Justin Tutorial on Flash visualization techniques

Fall 2006

Mondays at 11:30am-12:45pm in Eigenmann 919. No pizza this semester, except: if you forget to send your talk reminder/abstract/readings to the NaN list by Thursday midnight, you have to bring a pizza!

When Who What
9/11 Organizational meeting
9/18 Santo Web growth by searching/ranking
9/25 Mark Uncovering functional networks
10/2 Le-Shin 6S prototype update and user study
10/9 Ben and Mike GiveALink.org update
10/16 Ruj Research proposal alpha
10/23 Le-Shin Research proposal alpha
10/30 Heather Oral qual alpha (Fil away at Live Labs)
11/6 Ruj P2PIR talk beta
11/13 Jacob DOMrank
11/20 Mark Click data (to be rescheduled)
11/27 Alejandro Web resources for extracting info from documents (Fil away at WAW)
12/4 Jacob TimeWeb

Spring 2006

Mondays at 1-3pm in Eigenmann 921. Send abstract and possibly reading link(s) to NaN list by Thursday! Pizza is self-organized: presenter or substitute(in charge of pizza) buys and attendees refund $3 each. Those interested can track the pizza fund.

When Who What
1/27 Organizational meeting
1/30 Jacob Phishing on Ebay
2/6 Le-Shinin charge of pizza, Ruj Peer search evaluation framework
2/13 Thomas (in charge of pizzaRuj) Exp. results from user study
2/20 Jacob Prelim. stats on DOM trees
2/27 Gayathriin charge of pizza Defense beta
Vittoria Pandemic flu
3/6 Benin charge of pizza GiveALink visualization
Todd Wikipedia social groups
3/13 No meeting (spring break)
3/20 Tei Defense beta (rescheduled)
3/27 Bruce Herr NetWorkBench
Divyain charge of pizza Defense beta
4/3 Jacobin charge of pizza Managing large graphs (rescheduled)
Alejandro Abstracting knowledge from text
4/10 Tiago Transitivity and topology
Peterin charge of pizza Decision-making in web searches
4/17 Markin charge of pizza Bias in graph sampling
Tei Defense beta
4/24 Fulyain charge of pizza Eval. of semantic similarity measures
Ben Implicit Tagging using Donated Bookmarks
5/1 Jacob Webgraph library and results update

Fall 2005

Thursdays at noon in Eigenmann 921. Ruj is in charge of the projector. We'll have pizza! (in charge of pizza = person in charge; max $30 budget).

When Who What
8/31 Organizational meeting (5pm)
9/8 Fil Social phishing (CACR seminar at Law 335)
9/15 Thomasin charge of pizza Modeling concept importance - Human subjects study
9/22 Santoin charge of pizza Egalitarian effect of search engines
9/29 Le-Shinin charge of pizza, Ruj 6S prototype + semantic locality
10/6 Markin charge of pizza Proposal beta
Gayathri Matabolic networks update
10/13 Jacobin charge of pizza Properties of a large Web graph
10/20 Fulyain charge of pizza Improved(?) content similarity
10/27 Anain charge of pizza Architecture for a recommendation system
Santo Search-driven Web growth model (postponed)
11/3 Tiagoin charge of pizza Mathematical analysis of Amaral et al.'s model for scale free networks
Youngsang A deployable approach to counter spam (postponed)
11/10 Mira, Benin charge of pizza GiveALink 2.0
Divya Protein interation network analysis update
Bruce Herr Intro to Eclipse
11/17 Gayathriin charge of pizza Thesis defense alpha
Bharath Linux help system
11/24 No meeting (Thanksgiving)
12/1 Teiin charge of pizza TBA (postponed)
Thomas Indexing documents with concept maps

Spring 2005

Mondays 11:00 am - 12:45 pm in Eigenmann 921. Bring your lunch! Fulya is in charge of the projector.

When Who What
1/31 Organizational meeting
2/7 Le-Shin and Ruj 6S: Recent simulation results, brainstorming on evaluation
2/14 Ruj and Le-Shin 6S: Implementation of peer servent and user interface
2/21 Mark Recent results from analysis of NetFlow data (Paper)
2/28 Divya and Gayathri Progress on biological (protein and metabolic) networks projects
3/7 Vittoria Epidemic spreading
3/14 No meeting (spring break)
3/21 Fulya Integrated Web similarity
3/28 Mira and Todd GiveALink: Ready for prime time! (special guest: Gary Cottrell)
4/4 YoungSang 6S: Adopting Google as a peer
4/11 Ana Graph similarity (WWW2005 beta)
Mark Web traffic network (WWW2005 beta, redux)
4/18 Thomas Concept map based knowledge management
Jacob Guided auto-summarization for QA
4/25 Tei Selection of agent-based models
5/2 Ana Similarity in MeSH space

Fall 2004

Mondays 11:00-1:00 in the Informatics conference room (232). Bring your lunch!

When Who What
9/6 Organizational meeting
9/13 No meeting
9/20 Andy Anonymity on the Web
9/27 Thomas Semantic Web, concept maps, segmentation, content/link analysis, etc.
10/4 Mark Behavioral analysis of network flow data
10/11 Mira and Ben Bookmark sharing and collaborative filtering
Alia Email cluster bombs
10/18 Ruj JXTA implementation of 6S
Le-Shin Neighbor peer selection algorithms in 6S
10/25 Gayathri A tool to identify metabolic network vulnerabilities
Luis Rocha ARP datasets and open problems
11/1 Ana Semantic similarity
11/8 Heather PageRank improvements
11/15 Divya Protein interaction networks
11/22 Ana Beta-test of PhD defense
11/29 Youngsang Combining hits in 6S
Ben, Mira Givealink.org update
12/6 Tei Eco model complexity
Andy P2P reputation

Spring 2004

Wednesdays 11:30-1:00 in the Informatics conference room (232). Bring your lunch!

When What Who
1/28 Organizational meeting
2/4 6S Le-Shin and Ruj
2/11 MAC-IR Justin
2/18 No meeting
2/25 Comparing spatial decision models Tei
3/3 Web graphs Nihar
3/10 Concept maps Thomas
3/17 No meeting (spring break)
3/24 Biological networks Divya
3/31 P2P security Andy
4/7 Open session everyone
4/14 EXTENDER Ana
4/21 Model complexity Tei
4/28 Robustness and adaptive capacity Marco