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Today, Thursday, October 23, 2025
9:30 am
-11:00 am
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Quantum End-to-end Solvers for Partial Differential Equations
Mahathi Vempati
ATL-3100A https://umd.zoom.us/j/7474810823
9:30 am
-11:00 am
QuICS Seminar
PhD Proposal: Quantum End-to-end Solvers for Partial Differential Equations
Mahathi Vempati - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/7474810823 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
PL Reading Group
Syntactic Completions with Material Obligations
Pierce Darragh
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Tomorrow, Friday, October 24, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Towards Auditory General Intelligence
Ramani Duraiswami
IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93754397716?pwd=GuzthRJybpRS8HOidKRoXWcFV7sC4c.1
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quantum-inspired Benchmark for Estimating Intrinsic Dimension
Aritra Das - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quantum Optical Interconnects
Marco Loncar - Harvard University
Kay Boardrooms (1107/1111) - The Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building - and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/94713331885?pwd=RG3W5dgoeorpYbXfbbgiNSDTrJ7uqL.1 Meeting ID: 947 1333 1885 Passcode: 646883 Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building (KEB)
Next week
Monday, October 27, 2025
11:00 am
- 1:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Empowering Business Professionals with Interactive What-If Analysis: From Conceptual Framework to LLM-Powered Automation
Sneha Gathani
IRB-4105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/9371793618?pwd=OXhhOXFBUG5uU3dUVndSai9mUWtzdz09&omn=98929182380&jst=2
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Powerful Open-Weight AI Models: Wonderful, Terrible, and Inevitable — How Can We Make Them Safer?
Stephen Casper
IRB 4105 or Zoom https://umd.zoom.us/j/2742814228?pwd=MDI4NFRBZXhjNGlCc3RKUThCTTlDUT09&omn=97071787820&jst=2
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
1:30 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Efficient String and Graph Algorithms in Modern Settings
Jacob Gilbert
Iribe-5137 https://umd.zoom.us/j/6248158247?pwd=VnVKQnpYcmhWZnUzVlA4YW9IWjJ5QT09
2:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Towards Safety and Trustworthy in Biomedical AI
Yifan Yang
IRB-4109
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
Rethinking One-Size-Fits-All: Designing Cognitively Accessible Visualizations
Keke Wu - University of Maryland
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Getting to Know QuICS
Various Speakers - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, October 30, 2025
11:00 am
- 1:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Zero-Knowledge Proofs for Large-Scale Deployment
Kasra Abbaszadeh
IRB-5137
1:30 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Studying Tumor Evolution with Emerging Sequencing Technology
Yuelin Liu
IRB-3137 https://umd.zoom.us/j/95969182993?pwd=0hbHY991IvqEDHdKXgmtY8NUe3oQ07.1
Friday, October 31, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Human-Model Interaction in Public Sectors
Fumeng Yang
IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93754397716?pwd=GuzthRJybpRS8HOidKRoXWcFV7sC4c.1
11:00 am
- 1:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Towards Generalist Embodied Agents via Representation Learning
Ruijie Zheng
IRB-4109
11:30 am
- 1:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Semi-Quantum Cryptography: Designing Protocols with Classical Verification
Yusuf Alnawakhtha - University of Maryland
PSC 3150 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/my/nawakhtha?omn=92116776053 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
No-go theorems for logical gates on product quantum codes
Xiaozhen Fu - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Further ahead
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quantum algorithms through graph composition
Arjan Cornelissen - UC Berkeley
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/94466915159?pwd=Vd2kQMT3VdnMrne1ixo670ohuhTapo.1 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
VCAI
Operationalizing Optimism: Defining and Measuring Pro-Social Information Access
Michael Ekstrand - Drexel University
HBK 4115 & Zoom https://umd.zoom.us/j/98406913491?pwd=ggaEPgCQ1b4XWfkO9B8JDbbHLnsPRH.1
Thursday, November 6, 2025
3:00 pm
- 5:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Enhancing Trustworthiness and Safety in Foundation Models
Yihan Wu
IRB-4105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/5482450617
Friday, November 7, 2025
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quantized topological phases beyond square lattices in Floquet synthetic dimensions
Samarth Sriram - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
11:00 am
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: New Directions From Old Codes
Nolan Coble - University of Maryland
3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/95150714511?pwd=0fn2vQPJNZoD7NFihlaxXrn2ipVc0X.1 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
Using LLMs to Measure and Improve the Quality of Open-Ended Survey Responses
Masha Krupenkin - University of Maryland
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Fault-tolerant protocols through spacetime concatenation
Yichen Xu - Cornell University
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: To be announced Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, November 13, 2025
12:30 pm
- 2:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: To be announced
Srilekha Gandhari - University of Maryland
PSC 3150 and Virtual Via Zoom: To be announced Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
Friday, November 14, 2025
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Optimal Distillation of Coherent states with Phase-insensitive operations
Shiv Akshar Yadavalli - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Code-switching revisited: high-fidelity logical magic state preparation using color codes
Lucas Daguerre - University of California, Davis
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/95583554326?pwd=iZC5M9UAO6mTxnqsCq1pHvK2MvFyzz.1 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Wednesday, December 3, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
To be announced
Thomas Barthel - University of Maryland/Duke University
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9893676372?pwd=VVNOd2xNZ3FCblk4aFdTMjkzTllvQT09&omn=91238398672 Meeting ID: 989 367 6372 Passcode: abc123 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Local fault-tolerant error correction with simulated confinement
Ethan Lake - UC Berkeley
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9893676372?pwd=VVNOd2xNZ3FCblk4aFdTMjkzTllvQT09&omn=93545772585 Meeting ID: 989 367 6372, Passcode: abc123 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)