CS Colloquium — Fall 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 .

September 7, 2023
3:00pm to 4:15pm ET
JCC 270
Automatic Assessment of Wikipedia Articles and its Information Sources in Different Languages
Speaker: Dr. Włodzimierz Lewoniewski
Host: Liping Liu
September 14, 2023
3:00pm to 4:15pm EST
JCC 270
Data Science is Computer Science in a Funhouse Mirror
Speaker: Anselm Blumer
Host: Liping Liu
September 21, 2023
3:00pm to 4:15pm EST
JCC 270
Constant-Depth Sorting Networks
Speaker: Vladimir Podolskii
Host: Liping Liu
September 28, 2023
3:00pm to 4:15pm EST
JCC 270
[CANCELLED] - Understanding Gradient Descent in Neutral Networks: Mean Field and Beyond
Speaker: Margalit Glasgow
Host: Liping Liu
September 29, 2023
11:30am to 12:30pm
JCC 265
Undetectable Watermarks for Language Models
Speaker: Miranda Christ
Host: Megumi Ando
October 5, 2023
3:00pm to 4:15pm EST
JCC 270
In Search for Usable Universality in Distributed Computing
Speaker: Lewis Tseng
Host: Liping Liu
October 12, 2023
3:00pm to 4:15pm EST
JCC 270
Probabilistic Modeling of Dynamical Systems
Speaker: Dr. Fei Sha
Host: Liping Liu
October 18, 2023
11:30AM to 12:30pm EST
JCC 265
Understanding Gradient Descent in Neutral Networks: Mean Field and Beyond
Speaker: Margalit Glasgow
Host: Liping Liu
October 19, 2023
3:00pm to 4:00pm EST
JCC 270
Supporting Understanding and Appropriate Use for Human-AI Collaborative Systems
Speaker: Michelle Brachman
Host: Liping Liu
October 26, 2023
3:00pm to 4:00pm EST
JCC 270
Multimodal Learning for Interaction in Deeply Sensed Environments
Speaker: Jorge Ortiz
Host: Jivko Sinapov
November 9, 2023
3:00pm to 4:00pm EST
JCC 270
The Hidden Geometry of Particle Collisions
Speaker: Jesse Thaler
Host: Liping Liu
November 16, 2023
3:00pm to 4:00pm EST
JCC 270
Human-centered Approaches in Assistive Robotics
Speaker: Maru Cabrera, PhD
Host: Jivko Sinapov
November 17, 2023
2:15pm EST
JCC 280
Using Fragmentation Graphs for Mass Spectra Annotation
Speaker: Yan Zhou Chen - Quals Talk
Host: Soha Hassoun
November 20, 2023
12:00pm to 1:00pm EST
JCC 280
Characterizing and Improving Mental Models of Secure Communication Tools
Speaker: Omer Akgul
Host: Dan Votipka
November 28, 2023
12:00 pm EST
Cummings 402
Challenges in Machine Learning for Clinical Decision Making
Speaker: Chris Magnano
Host: Richard Townsend
December 1, 2023
12:15-5:45 pm ET
Cummings 280
Quals Research Talk Day!!
Speaker: G.Cicekli, E.Harvey, F.Huston, J.Hu, B.Stubbs, M.Umair
Host: Diane Souvaine
December 6, 2023
12:00pm EST
JCC 140
Sofia Serrano - Demo Class
Speaker: Sofia Serrano
Host: Richard Townsend
December 7, 2023
3:00pm to 4:00pm EST
JCC 270
Towards Adaptive Human-Robot Teams: Workload Estimation
Speaker: Dr. Julie A. Adams
Host: Liping Liu
December 7, 2023
9:30am EST
JCC 170
The Simplest Neural Models, and a Hypothesis for Language in the Brain
Speaker: Daniel Mitropolsky
Host: Vladimir Podolskii
December 7, 2023
12:00pm EST
JCC 402
Elyse Cornwall - Demo Class
Speaker: Elyse Cornwall
Host: Richard Townsend
December 8, 2023
2:30pm EST
Cummings 280
Enriching the Enzymatic Search Space with Structure
Speaker: Mert Erden - Quals talk
Host: Lenore Cowen
December 12, 2023
12:00 pm EST
Cummings 140
Diagnosing Queue-Based Contention with CACTI
Speaker: Tomislav Zabcic-Matic - Quals Talks
Host: Raja Sambasivan
December 12, 2023
11:00am EST
JCC 614
Calculating Sensitivity by Parametricity
Speaker: Alejandro Russo
Host:
December 14, 2023
9:00pm EST
Cummings 402
PADLocal: Privacy-Aware Debugging for Microservices
Speaker: Sarah Abowitz - Quals Talk
Host: Raja Sambasivan
December 15, 2023
11:00 am EST
Updated: Cummings 170
Improving the Performance of Cloud Applications: A Multi-layered Approach
Speaker: Hafiz Mohsin Bashir - PhD Defense
Host: Fahad Dogar
December 15, 2023
11:00 am EST
Cummings 402
Learning and Transferring Implicit Knowledge of Object Properties Across Robots via Interactive Perception
Speaker: Gyan Tatiya - PhD Defense
Host: Jivko Sinapo
December 20, 2023
2:00pm EST
Cummings 402
Investigating The Impact - Use of LLMs in Academic Context
Speaker: Hiba Eltigani - Quals talk
Host: Fahad Dogar

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