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Today, Wednesday, April 2, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quantum codes as robust phases of matter
Andrew Lucas - University of Colorado, Boulder
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/2821742741?pwd=SWJSRm1DTGFoYUtVMllVSEo5bzdmdz09 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Beyond Scaling: Frontiers of Retrieval-Augmented Language Models
Akari Asai 
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Dissecting "Hidden-State Proofs of Quantumness"
Carl Miller, Konstantina Trivisa, & Daniel Enrique Serrano - University of Maryland
Kirwan 3206
Tomorrow, Thursday, April 3, 2025
2:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: New Efficient Algorithms for Nested Machine Learning Problems
Junyi Li
IRB-4109 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
4:00 pm
- 6:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Gradient-Based Prompt Optimization for LLMs: Progress and Challenges
Sicheng Zhu
IRB-4137 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/7541393444
Friday, April 4, 2025
9:30 am
-11:30 am
CS Department
PhD Defense: Toward Learning Non-Spurious Functions: From Representation to Decision Through Data and Model Design
Xiaoyu Liu
IRB-4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93564298810 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
11:00 am
- 1:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Practical Multiparty Protocols from Lattice Assumptions: Signatures, Pseudorandom Functions, and More
Kamil Doruk Gur
IRB-5105 or https://umd.zoom.us/my/kdgur?pwd=S0ZEWHJWdC94M3RhNXZtK3NFcE41UT09&omn=92635440474
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Complexity-constrained quantum thermodynamics
Anthony Munson - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Next week
Monday, April 7, 2025
1:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Modeling Superconducting Circuits for Quantum Computing and Quantum Sensing Applications
Brittany Richman - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
2:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Applying Policy Gradient Methods to Open-Ended Domains
Ryan Sullivan
IRB-5105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93063337480
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
Towards resource efficient large neural networks
Bryan Plummer
IRB-3137
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
TBA
Mohit Iyyer - University of Maryland
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, April 11, 2025
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Quantum Games, Graphs, and Gödel
Seyed Sajjad Nezhadi - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Quantum Games, Graphs, and Gödel
Seyed Sajjad Nezhadi
ATL 3100A
Further ahead
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Observation of string breaking on a (2+1)D Rydberg quantum simulator
Torsten Zache - University of Innsbruck
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/2821742741?pwd=SWJSRm1DTGFoYUtVMllVSEo5bzdmdz09 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Rapid quantum ground state preparation via dissipative dynamics
Lin Lin - UC Berkeley
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/96428021347?pwd=wAV09WU7OsAy3P8pLoF1wWpirg5AyY.1 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)