What is SNRG?
SNRG is a reading group that holds weekly meetings to discuss interesting papers and problems, generally related to social networks. Feel free to attend meetings and participate in discussions. All ideas about problems, papers, talks, etc. are welcome. Meetings usually start with stating an interesting problem without getting into possible solutions, and then following up possible approaches to previously stated problems. An informal talk by a volunteer follows, and attendants discuss about the paper(s) as the speaker proceeds. Finally, possible applications of and extensions to the approach are discussed.
When, where, and how?
Currently, in the second Winter term of 2014/2015, meetings are held on Wednesday 3:00-4:30 pm in ICICS 304 .
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SNRG talks
List of previous and upcoming talks:
| Date | Speaker | Title or Paper Name |
| Jan 14 | Sampoorna | Liang Tang et al., "Automatic Ad Format Selection via Contextual Bandits", CIKM 2013 |
| Jan 21 | Glenn | Yuval Filmus et al., "The Power of Local Search: Maximum Coverage over a Matroid", STACS 2012 |
| Jan 28 | Sampoorna and Sharan | Guy Bresler et al., "A Latent Source Model for Online Collaborative Filtering", NIPS 2014 |
| Feb 4 | Wei | Wei Lu et al., "Optimal Recommendations under Attraction, Aversion, and Social Influence", KDD 2014 |
| Feb 11 | Xin | Xin Huang et al., "Querying K-Truss Community in Large and Dynamic Graphs", SIGMOD 2014 |
| Feb 18 | Cigdem | Erik D. Demaine et al., "How to Influence People with Partial Incentives", WWW 2014 |
| Feb 25 | Yidan | Aristides Gionis et al., "Customized Tour Recommendations in Urban Areas", WSDM 2014. |
| March 4 | James | Andrew Begel et al., "Analyze This! 145 Questions for Data Scientists in Software Engineering", ICSE 2014. |
| March 11 | Sharan | Sharan Vaswani et al., "Influence Maximization with Bandits". |
| March 18 | Glenn | Nan Du et al., "Influence Function Learning in Information Diffusion Networks", ICML 2014. |
| March 25 | (no meeting) | |
| April 1 | Sharan | Bruno Ribeiro et al., "Beyond Models: Forecasting Complex Network Processes Directly from Data", WWW 2015. |
| April 8 | Xin | Maria-Florina Balcan et al., "Finding Endogenously Formed Communities", SODA 2013. |
| April 15 | Cigdem | Yaron Singer, "Budget Feasible Mechanisms", FOCS 2010. |
| April 22 | Cigdem | Yaron Singer, "How to win friends and influence people, truthfully: influence maximization mechanisms for social networks", WSDM 2012. |
| April 29 | (no meeting) |