First Steps in Research

Information

Lectures

Thursday, 13:00-15:00, Shenkar 105

Requirements

Attendance, final research project on one of the course topics.

General Information:

The final grade will be calculated by the advisor with whom you choose to work

Please choose your advisor by the end of semester A

Please choose a tentative project topic at the first week of semester B

Please write a short summary of papers that are the background for your project by the end of week 7 of semester B.

Pleae write a short status update by the end of semester B

Final project submission will be around the end of Auguest or early September

You may work with any faculty member of your choosing, including faculty members that don't teach at this course this year

Course Schedule

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Week	Date	Speaker	Topic
1	18.10.2018	Gil Cohen	Tree Codes
2	25.10.2018	Daniel Cohen-Or students	Deep learning for graphics Short DNA and amino acid sequences (e.g. genes or proteins) have driven early bioinformatics research. Later, however, focus has shifted to more sophisticated objects, such as various kinds of networks, and pure sequences have taken a back seat. The advent of a various high throughput sequencing technologies (aka "new generation sequencing") has given rise to new (or renewed) algorithmic challenges. It has also produced hundreds of complete genome and proteome sequences (with thousands more in the making). In addition to algorithmic questions, we also face many data discovery questions that were inaccessible before. I will describe a number of approaches and results in this area. * "biological sequences", of course (what did you have in mind?)
3	1.11.2018	Shraon Shoham Buchbinder	Verification using Decidable Logic
4	8.11.2018	Amit Bermano	3D Printing and Computational Fabrication in the Computer Graphics field
5	15.11.2018	Daniel Deutch	Explainable Computation
6	22.11.2018	Ori Lahav	Weak Memory Concurrency
7	29.11.2018	Shiri Chechik	Combinatorial Algorithms
8	6.12.2018	Iftach Haitner	TBD
9	13.12.2018	Roded Sharan	Building a Cell Simulator
10	20.12.2018	Elhanan Borenstein	Metagenomics
11	27.12.2018	Eyal Ronen	Breaking Real World Crypto
12	3.1.2018	Adam Morrison	Speculative Execution Attacks and Defenses
13	10.1.2018	Amir Globerson	Deep learning theory and applications

Week

Date

Speaker

Topic

18.10.2018

Gil Cohen

Tree Codes

25.10.2018

Daniel Cohen-Or students

Deep learning for graphics

Short DNA and amino acid sequences (e.g. genes or proteins) have driven early bioinformatics research. Later, however, focus has shifted to more sophisticated objects, such as various kinds of networks, and pure sequences have taken a back seat.

The advent of a various high throughput sequencing technologies (aka "new generation sequencing") has given rise to new (or renewed) algorithmic challenges. It has also produced hundreds of complete genome and proteome sequences (with thousands more in the making).

In addition to algorithmic questions, we also face many data discovery questions that were inaccessible before. I will describe a number of approaches and results in this area.

* "biological sequences", of course (what did you have in mind?)

1.11.2018

Shraon Shoham Buchbinder

Verification using Decidable Logic

8.11.2018

Amit Bermano

3D Printing and Computational Fabrication in the Computer Graphics field

15.11.2018

Daniel Deutch

Explainable Computation

22.11.2018

Ori Lahav

Weak Memory Concurrency