David Blei of Columbia University will be giving a talk in Computer Science 150/151 on Thursday 11/19 from 5 to 6 pm on “Scaling and Generalizing Variational Inference”. He will also give a talk to the Computational Social Science Initiative on Friday 11/20 from 12:30 – 2 in Lederle 1634 on “Probabilistic Topic Models and User Behavior”.