Talks

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/5871875361?omn=95212870971 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Optimal spectroscopy via quantum sensing

Leo Liu - MIT

Tuesday, September 15, 2026

12:30 pm

- 1:30 pm

Security Reading Group

Why precision medicine needs AI, PL, formal methods, scientific computing and security

Dr. Matt Might - University of Alabama

4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

PhD Defense: Realizing Conceptual Databases: Query Optimization, Schema Compilation, and Constraint Enforcement

LLM Interpretability

Sarah Wiegreffe - UMD CS

CSI 2120 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93960331973?pwd=tVQ7gtFucJEkSYna38zePzkPpHm3J7.1

Wednesday, September 16, 2026

11:30 am

- 1:00 pm

CS Graduate Office

Hasara Kalumin

IRB-5137 https://umd.zoom.us/j/7123055142

Thursday, September 17, 2026

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9137887602?pwd=ei84WW1MZG9aUWtiempMWVNCWVY3dz09&omn=97860117099 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Exponentially-improved effective descriptions of physical bosonic systems

Varun Upreti - École normale supérieure - Paris

1:30 pm

- 3:00 pm

CS Graduate Office

PhD Defense: Localize, Edit, Unlearn: Structural Interventions and Data-Level Control in Foundation Models

Keivan Rezaei

IRB-4107 https://umd.zoom.us/j/9719759070

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

Nathalie Bonin - Pop Lab, University of Maryland

Caveats of Metagenomic Assembly: The Secret Life of Mobile Genetic Elements

4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Friday, September 18, 2026

12:00 pm

- 1:00 pm

ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

A Monolithic Blade Trap for Quantum Information Processing

Michael Straus - University of Maryland & Duke University

1:30 pm

- 2:30 pm

CS Department

An Anonymous Social Contract: Zero-knowledge proofs for Private Payments, Credentials, and Accountability

Ian Miers

IRB 4105 or Zoom https://umd.zoom.us/j/91267609044?pwd=g4uLkhpH4T8d2Gln0HXg6s4qaxzpbj.1

2:00 pm

- 3:30 pm

CS Graduate Office

PhD Proposal: Segmentation Before Structure: Real-Time Moving-Object Segmentation and Egomotion Estimation with Event Cameras

Zhiyuan Hua

IRB-3137

Tuesday, September 22, 2026

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

TBD

Furong Huang - UMD CS

CSI 2120 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93960331973?pwd=tVQ7gtFucJEkSYna38zePzkPpHm3J7.1

Wednesday, September 23, 2026

9:00 am

-10:00 am

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: To be announced Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

To be announced

Daniel Bulmash - IQM Quantum Computers

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

https://umd.zoom.us/j/5871875361?omn=98865799545 Meeting ID: 587 187 5361 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Exploring Magic in Quantum Computers and Many-Body Systems

Tobias Haug - Technology Innovation Institute

3:00 pm

- 4:00 pm

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/5871875361?omn=94564542716 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

To be announced

Martin Schuetz - Amazon Web Services

Thursday, September 24, 2026

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

Ege Sirvan - STORM Research Group, University of Maryland

TBD

4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Friday, September 25, 2026

12:00 pm

- 1:00 pm

ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

The Pound-Drever-Hall Method for Superconducting-Qubit Readout

Won Chan Lee - University of Maryland

Tuesday, September 29, 2026

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

Like Nailing Jello to the Wall? Challenges for Evaluating Common Sense and Cultural Consensus

Rachel Rudinger - UMD CS

CSI 2120 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93960331973?pwd=tVQ7gtFucJEkSYna38zePzkPpHm3J7.1

Thursday, October 1, 2026

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

Rachel Parsons - Molloy Lab, University of Maryland

TBD

4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Tuesday, October 6, 2026

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

TBD

Sanghamitra Dutta - UMD CS

CSI 2120 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93960331973?pwd=tVQ7gtFucJEkSYna38zePzkPpHm3J7.1

Thursday, October 8, 2026

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

TBD

Michelle Holko

Thursday, October 15, 2026

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

Yun William Yu - Carnegie Mellon University

TBD

4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

TBD

Paola Cascante-Bonilla - Stony Brook University

https://umd.zoom.us/j/93960331973?pwd=tVQ7gtFucJEkSYna38zePzkPpHm3J7.1

Tuesday, October 27, 2026

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

Formal Methods for Safe and Interpretable Reinforcement Learning

Calin Belta - UMD ECE / CS

CSI 2120 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93960331973?pwd=tVQ7gtFucJEkSYna38zePzkPpHm3J7.1

Tuesday, November 3, 2026

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

From Quality to Communication Success: Insights from Recent Research and Open Questions for AI Translation

Marine Carpuat - UMD CS

CSI 2120 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93960331973?pwd=tVQ7gtFucJEkSYna38zePzkPpHm3J7.1

Friday, November 6, 2026

10:00 am

-11:00 am

CS Department

What We Leave Behind: Delegating Sensemaking in the Age of Generative AI

Niklas Elmqvist - Aarhus University

IRB 4105

Tuesday, November 10, 2026

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

Towards Understanding and Post-training LLMs as Decision-Making Agents: A Regret-based Approach

Kaiqing Zhang - UMD ECE

CSI 2120 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93960331973?pwd=tVQ7gtFucJEkSYna38zePzkPpHm3J7.1

Tuesday, November 17, 2026

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

TBD

Ilaria Canavotto - UMD PHIL / AIM

CSI 2120 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93960331973?pwd=tVQ7gtFucJEkSYna38zePzkPpHm3J7.1

Tuesday, November 24, 2026

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

AutoSR: Automatic Symbolic Regression by Searching Research States

Haizhao Yang - UMD Math

https://umd.zoom.us/j/93960331973?pwd=tVQ7gtFucJEkSYna38zePzkPpHm3J7.1

Tuesday, December 1, 2026

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

TBD

Rebecca Hwa - GWU CS

CSI 2120 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93960331973?pwd=tVQ7gtFucJEkSYna38zePzkPpHm3J7.1

Monday, December 7, 2026

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm