Immigration Course (IC) August 21-September 12, 2002

• International Student Orientation is August 12 - 14.
  
• CMU Grad Student Orientation is Thursday, August 22.
• LTI classes will start on Monday, August 26.
  

LTI IC Welcome Reception Tuesday, August 20th, 4:30-6:30pm Newell Simon Hall atrium (All LTI faculty, staff and students are invited to attend)

Wednesday, August 21

Time	Event	Location
8:30am	Breakfast	1507 NSH
9:30	Welcome to SCS (Jim Morris, Dean of SCS, & Jeannette Wing, Assoc. Dean of Academic Affairs)	7500 Wean
10:00	SCS Environment	7500 Wean
	* Career Centers (Catherine Copetas)
	* Ergonomics, Keys, Offices, etc. (Jim Skees)
	* SCS Computing Environment (Bob Cosgrove)
	* Libraries (Missy Harvey)
11:30	BREAK
12:00pm	Lunch	1507 NSH
1:30	Welcome to LTI (Jaime Carbonell, Director)	4615A Wean
2:00	LTI Academic Programs (Bob Frederking, Grad Program Chair)	4615A Wean
3:00	LTI Support Staff Introductions (Radha Rao, Business Manager)	4615A Wean
3:30	New Student Information (Chris Koch, Program Coordinator)	4615A Wean

This is a series of talks about faculty research interests, scheduled after class on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays during the first weeks of the semester.

Attendence for all research talks is mandatory for new students.

Week 1

Thursday, August 22

Time	Event	Location
8:30am	Breakfast	1507 NSH
11:00	Information Retrieval (Jaime Carbonell)	4615A Wean
11:30	Text Mining & Summarization (Jaime Carbonell)	4615A Wean
12:00pm	LUNCH
1:30	Machine Translation (Bob Frederking)	4615A Wean
2:00	Speech Technology (Alan Black)	4615A Wean
2:30	CMU Grad Orientation: Resource Fair - Services, resources, and information from within and beyond CMU - a one stop fair to help you prepare for the coming year	Rangos Ballroom University Center
3:30	CMU Grad Orientation: Campus and City Tours (meet at UC circle). Guided bus tours of the city or leisurely walking tour of campus	Front of University Center
5:00	CMU Grad Orientation: Graduate Student Assembly Happy Hour (Skibo Coffeehouse) Come meet fellow grad students at the first (of many) GSA happy hours	Skibo Coffeehouse University Center

Time	Event	Location
8:30am	Breakfast	1507 NSH
11:00	Fluency: A Foreign Language Pronunciation Trainer (Maxine Eskenazi)	4615A Wean
11:30	Computer Assisted Language Learning (Maxine Eskenazi)	4615A Wean
12:00pm	LUNCH
1:30	Speech Graffiti (Roni Rosenfeld)	4615A Wean
2:00	Biological Language Modeling (Roni Rosenfeld)	4615A Wean

Week 2
Date	Time	Research Talk	Presentor(s)
Mon, Aug 26	12:00p	What is Research? (Alex Waibel)	4601 Wean Hall
Mon, Aug 26	1:00p	Speech Translation (Alex Waibel)	4601 Wean Hall
Tues, Aug 27	5:00p	Machine Learning and Language Processing (John Lafferty)	4623 Wean Hall
Tues, Aug 27	5:30p	Speech Synthesis (Alan Black)	4623 Wean Hall
Wed, Aug 28	5:00p	Controlled Language Checking and Machine Translation (Teruko Mitamura & Eric Nyberg)	4623 Wean Hall
Wed, Aug 28	5:30p	Open Domain Question Answering (Eric Nyberg)	4623 Wean Hall
Thurs, Aug 29	5:00p	EBMT Research (Ralf Brown)	4623 Wean Hall
Thurs, Aug 29	5:30p	EBMT Research (Ralf Brown)	4623 Wean Hall
Fri, Aug 30	1:30p	Next Steps in Distributed Information Retrieval (Jamie Callan)	4623 Wean Hall
Fri, Aug 30	2:00p	Informedia Digital Video Library Project (Alex Hauptmann)	4623 Wean Hall
Week 3
Date	Time	Research Talk	Presentor(s)
Mon, Sep 2		LABOR DAY UNIVERSITY HOLIDAY - NO CLASSES
Wed, Sep 4	5:00p	Spoken Language Dialogue (Alex Rudnicky)	4623 Wean Hall
Wed, Sep 4	5:30p	Multilingual Speech Recognition (Tanja Schultz)	4623 Wean Hall
Thurs, Sep 5	5:00p	Interlingua-based Speech-to-Speech Translation (Alon Lavie & Lori Levin)	4623 Wean Hall
Thurs, Sep 5	5:30p	Machine Translation for Minority Languages with Limited Resources (Ralf Brown, Jaime Carbonell, Alon Lavie & Lori Levin)	4623 Wean Hall
Fri, Sep 6	2:00p	LTI Seminar 2:00pm, 1305 Newell Simon Hall	4623 Wean Hall
Week 4
Date	Time	Research Talk	Presentor(s)
Mon, Sep 9	5:00p	Research Talk (William Cohen)	4623 Wean Hall
Mon, Sep 9	5:30p		4623 Wean Hall
Wed, Sep 11	5:00p		4623 Wean Hall
Wed, Sep 11	5:30p	A Multilingual Universal Library (Michael Shamos)	4623 Wean Hall
Thurs, Sep 12	11:00a	Talk (Maxine Eskenazi)	4513 NSH
Thurs, Sep 12	5:00p	Computational learning and discovery in the study of proteins (Judith Klein-Seetharaman)	4623 Wean Hall
Thurs, Sep 12	5:30p		4623 Wean Hall