CS Colloquium — Spring 2021

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 22, 2021
10:00-11:00 am ET
Sococo Halligan 102, Zoom
Demo Class Lecture
Speaker: Molly Feldman
Host: Megan Monroe
January 25, 2021
11:00am-12:00pm ET
Sococo Halligan 102, Zoom
Demo Class Lecture
Speaker: Dara Jaiyeola
Host: Megan Monroe
February 4, 2021
3:00-4:00 pm ET
VH Sococo 102; Zoom
Cooperative Robots, Uncooperative People: How Social Appropriateness can help Sustain Human-Robot Teams
Speaker: David Feil-Seifer, University of Nevada-Reno
Host: Elaine Short
February 9, 2021
3:00-4:00 pm ET
Sococo VH 102, Zoom
Architecting Quantum Computing Systems in the Presence of Noise
Speaker: Yongshan Ding
Host: Jeff Foster
February 11, 2021
3:00-4:00 pm ET
Sococo Halligan 102, Zoom
Power of Quantum Computation, Symmetries and Graph Properties
Speaker: Supartha Podder
Host: Jeff Foster
February 18, 2021
3:00-4:00 pm ET
Sococo VH 102, Zoom
Pseudorandomness, average-case complexity and hardness of sampling from small quantum devices
Speaker: Saeed Mehraban
Host: Jeff Foster
February 23, 2021
3:00-4:00 pm EST
Sococo Halligan 102, Zoom
The Foundations of Quantum Computational Advantage
Speaker: Nadish de Silva
Host: Jeff Foster
February 25, 2021
3:00-4:00 pm EST
Sococo Halligan 102, Zoom
On the complexity of quantum many-body systems
Speaker: Anurag Anshu
Host: Jeff Foster
March 18, 2021
3:00-4:00 pm EST
Sococo Halligan 102, Zoom
Developing Robot Teammates that Enhance Social Dynamics and Performance in Human-Robot Teams
Speaker: Sarah Sebo, University of Chicago
Host: Elaine Short
March 25, 2021
3:00-4:00 pm EST
Sococo Halligan 102, Zoom
Routing in Geometric Graphs
Speaker: Jit Bose, Carleton University
Host: Diane Souvaine
April 1, 2021
3:00-4:00 pm EST
Sococo Halligan 102, Zoom
Efficient and Secure Approaches to Investigating System Intrusions
Speaker: Adam Bates, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Host: Dan Votipka
April 8, 2021
3:00-4:00 pm EST
Sococo Halligan 102, Zoom
From Medical Device Cybersecurity to Physics of Embedded Security
Speaker: Kevin Fu
Host: Susan Landau
April 15, 2021
3:00-4:00 pm EST
Sococo Halligan 102, Zoom
Tales of Malicious Online Activity
Speaker: Jeremiah Onaolapo, Research Assistant Professor, University of Vermont
Host: Dan Votipka
April 22, 2021
3:00-4:00 pm EST
Sococo Halligan 102, Zoom
Machine Learning for Molecular Sensing
Speaker: Jennifer Wei, Google Research
Host: Soha Hassoun
April 27, 2021
4:00-5:00 pm ET
Sococo VH 102, Zoom
Verbatim: A Verified Lexer Generator
Speaker: Derek Egolf
Host: Kathleen Fisher, Jeff Foster
April 28, 2021
11:00am-1:00pm ET
Sococo Halligan 102, Zoom
A recommendation system for scientific water data
Speaker: Zhaokun Xue
Host: Alva Couch
April 29, 2021
3:00-4:00 pm ET
Sococo VH 102, Zoom
Knowledge-based, AR-mediated Robot Planning under Uncertainty
Speaker: Shiqi Zhang, SUNY Binghamton
Host: Jivko Sinapov
April 29, 2021
3:00-4:00 pm ET
Sococo VH 402, Zoom
Routing in the Theta-graph
Speaker: Andrew Gonczi
Host: Diane Souvaine
April 29, 2021
4:00-5:00 pm ET
Sococo VH 475, Zoom
Overcoming limited labeled data with semi-supervised learning and data augmentation: Applications in Echocardiography and Brain-Computer Interfaces
Speaker: Zhe Huang
Host: Mike Hughes
April 30, 2021
11:00am-12:00pm ET
Sococo Halligan 102, Zoom
Routing Between Visible Vertices in Constrained Theta Graphs
Speaker: Jonathan Rodriguez
Host: Diane Souvaine
May 5, 2021
10:00-10:40 am ET
Sococo Halligan 102, Zoom
Improved mass-spectra-based molecule identification using graph neural networks
Speaker: Hao Zhu
Host: Soha Hassoun
May 5, 2021
3:00-3:40 pm ET
Sococo VH 102, Zoom
Bridging the Gap between Anomaly Detection and Action with Visual Analytics
Speaker: Brian Montambault
Host: Remco Chang
May 6, 2021
1:00-1:40 pm ET
Sococo Halligan 102, Zoom
Deriving Structure from Graphs for Visual Data Exploration, Analysis, and Knowledge Discovery
Speaker: Ashley Suh
Host: Remco Chang
May 6, 2021
2:00-3:00 pm ET
Sococo VH 475, Zoom
Predicting Individual Treatment Effect from Randomized Clinical Trial Data: A Comprehensive Evaluation Framework based on nested Cross-Validation
Speaker: Yu Liu
Host: Mike Hughes
May 13, 2021
2:00-2:40 pm ET
Sococo VH 302, Zoom
Towards Explainable, Interactive, and Scalable Projection Techniques
Speaker: Gabriel Appleby
Host: Remco Chang

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