CS Colloquium — Spring 2023

Seminars are held weekly on Thursdays from 3:00-4:15pm in Joyce Cummings Center 270 and via Zoom, unless otherwise noted. To receive email notification of events and/or Zoom information, please subscribe to the CS colloquium announcements at .

January 11, 2023
2:00 pm ET
Cummings, 280
Designing Immersive Tools for Supporting Remote Scientific Collaboration and Learning
Speaker: Monsurat Olaosebikan
Host: Lenore Cowen
January 19, 2023
3:00-4:15 pm ET
Cummings 270, Zoom
Optimal spanners in Euclidean spaces
Speaker: Csaba D.Toth, California State University Northridge
Host: Diane Souvaine
January 26, 2023
3:00-4:15
JCC 270
Automated analytics systems to navigate the complexity of performance unpredictability in cloud applications
Speaker: Mert Toslali, Boston University
Host: Raja Sambasivan
February 3, 2023
12:00-1:15pm ET
Lincoln-Filene Hall, #201
Modeling Disinformation and How the Models Model Us
Speaker: Nicholas Rabb
Host: Science Technology and Society (STS) Department
February 7, 2023
3:00pm ET
Cummings 601
Reasoning with visual imagery: Research at the intersection of autism, AI, and visual thinking
Speaker: Maithilee Kunda, Vanderbilt University
Host: Donna Slonim
February 8, 2023
12:00pm-1:30pm ET
745A Dowling
Cybersecurity & Public Policy Seminar: A Conversation with Alex Gamero Garrido
Speaker: Alex Gamero Garrido, Northeastern University
Host: CSPP
February 8, 2023
3:00-4:00pm ET
Cummings 402
Optimizing Dynamic-Graph Data Structures on Multicores with the Locality-First Strategy
Speaker: Helen Xu
Host: Diane Souvaine
February 13, 2023
3:00-4:00pm ET
Cummings 601
The price of computational efficiency in modern machine learning
Speaker: Ilias Zadik
Host: Diane Souvaine
February 15, 2023
3:00-4:00pm ET
Cummings #601
Statistical inference with privacy and computational constraints
Speaker: Maryam Aliakbarpour
Host: Diane Souvaine
February 16, 2023
3:00-4:00pm ET
Cummings 270
Towards Building the Mathematical Foundations of Data Science
Speaker: Lev Reyzin
Host: Donna Slonim
February 21, 2023
9:00am ET
Cummings 402
Provable Anonymity for the Real World
Speaker: Megumi Ando
Host: Diane Souvaine
February 23, 2023
3:00-4:00pm ET
Cummings 601
Pseudorandomness and Space Complexity: New Methods, New Insights, and New Milestones
Speaker: William Hoza
Host: Diane Souvaine
February 27, 2023
3:00pm ET
Cummings 601
Applications of topology and geometry to root analysis
Speaker: Erin Chambers
Host: Diane Souvaine
February 28, 2023
3:00pm ET
Cummings 402
Transparency and Security via Algorithmic Economics
Speaker: Matheus Ferreira
Host: Diane Souvaine
March 1, 2023
3:00-4:15 pm ET
Cummings, #601
Building scalable indexes that can be efficiently queried
Speaker: Christina Boucher
Host: Diane Souvaine
March 2, 2023
3:00-4:15 pm ET
Cummings, #601
Scalable Graph Algorithms: Parallel, Dynamic, and Private
Speaker: Quanquan Liu
Host: Diane Souvaine
March 9, 2023
9:00 am ET
Cummings 140, Zoom
Building the Foundations of Explainable and Interpretable Machine Learning
Speaker: Michal Moshkovitz
Host: Diane Souvaine
March 16, 2023
3:00-4:00pm ET
Cummings 270
Human-Centered Design of Private Computation
Speaker: Bailey Kacsmar
Host: Diane Souvaine
March 28, 2023
3:00pm ET
JCC 402
Dynamic Programming
Speaker: Ryan Patrick
Host: Marty Allen
March 29, 2023
3:00pm ET
Cummings 402
Programming Distributed Systems
Speaker: Mae Milano
Host: Jeff Foster
April 5, 2023
4:00 pm ET
Improving Fairness of Recommender Systems
Speaker: Sipei Li - Quals Talk
Host: Alva Couch
April 7, 2023
12:20pm ET
Cummings 160
Speaker: Ethan Harvey - Quals talk
Host: Rob Jacob
April 7, 2023
1pm EST
Cummings 265
Speaker: Margaret Martin - Quals talk
Host: Soha Hassoun
April 7, 2023
11:00 am ET
Cummings 265
Speaker: Ayca Agun - Quals talk
Host: Matthias Scheutz
April 7, 2023
9:00am ET
Cummings 601
Integration of Semantic Information towards Explainable Novelty Detection
Speaker: Sarah Schneider - Quals talk
Host: Matthias Scheutz

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