January 23 Organizational meeting. Discussion on "The Astonishing
Hypothesis", Francis Crick
January 30 "Cortical activity flips among quasi-stationary states",
M. Abeles et al. - Kee-Eung Kim
February 6 "Multi-Agent path planning based on task-swap negotiation"-
Matteo Golfarelli
February 13 "Planning, Learning and Coordination in Multiagent
Decision Processes" and "The Dynamics of Reinforcement Learning in Cooperative
Multiagent Systems", Craig
Boutilier , "A Generalized Reinforcement Learning Model: Convergence
and Applications", Michael Littman & Csaba Szepesvari - Nicolas
Meuleau & Matteo Golfarelli
February 20 "Learning Dynamical Systems using Temporal Bayesian
Networks" - Luis Ortiz
March 6 Replaced by Faculty Search talk - Michael Black
March 13 Replaced by Faculty Search talk - Shamik Sharma
March 20 "Some recent result on the theory of multiagent reinforcement
learning" - Nicolas Meuleau & Matteo
Golfarelli
March 27 Replaced by Faculty Search talk by Amin Vahdat
April 2 "Active Markov Localization for Mobile Robots" - Dieter
Fox, University of Bonn Robotics group
April 10 Replaced by invited talk - John Crawford, Intel corp.
April 17 "Computational Biology" - Sonia
Leach
April 24 "Recognition of Equations Using a Two-Dimensional Stochastic
Context Free Grammar" by P.A.Chou - Kee-Eung Kim
April 30 "Hierarchical solution of Markov decision processes
using macro-actions" - Milos Hauskrecht
May 1 Replaced by New England Reinforcement Learning Workshop,
U.Mass, Amherst, MA.